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New Music Releases Thread


Arkle said:
Metacritic's music pages all seem to be down currently so not sure how complete this list of releases will be, as I' ve switched to Pitchfork for now, but tomrrow we have albums from Alan Palomo, Baroness, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eli Escobar, Explosions in the Sky, Killer Mike, Kip Stone, Mitski, Nation of Language, Octa Octa, Pharoah Sanders (2 albums), Piotr Kurek, Purelink, Raphie Choo, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Sextile. Tomb Mold, Vagabon, Will Johnson, Willie Nelson, Woods, Parchman Prison Prayer, Ash, Luluc, C.O.F.F.I.N and Margo Cilker.
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Excited for Tomb Mold , love their other releases. Heavy shit , gonna be epic. 20 Buck Spin is a fine label
 
Went to see Geese the other night in Manchester. They were absolutely brilliant and I was blown away by the singers voice, it's so unique! Seems to be able to go from the lowest of notes to the highest within the same breath. Definitely catch them live if you can.

Saw Fat Whites again the other week as well, debuting new material. Sounded pretty good but the sound quality in the venue was crap, really muddy, vocals all over the place. Spoiled it a bit. But the sounds of things they'll be announcing a new album in the next month or so.

I've struggled to get into anything new over the last few months though, feel like it has been a pretty quite year. Enjoyed the Slowdive record, Romy was okay but nothing more, Sparklehorse great as you'd expect. The new Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan EP is a nice change as well.
 
Bam with the spice weasel, here's my summing up of the new stuff I've listened to over the last few days...

Nation of Language: a good start. Poppy, synthy, maybe a bit more forward looking than the last couple
Bombino: desert blues as ever. A very good album
Mitski: excellent songs, a thing of great beauty, a little brief maybe?
Iraina Mancini: rather decent, a little retro. a bit Winehouse influenced.
Corinne Bailey Rae: she's gone a bit psychedelic. This is really good. There's a lot of guitars and some cracking choruses. Unexpected.
Woods: more ornate and maybe a bit gentler than their previous albums. Very good though.
Willie Nelson: a mix of old and new songs done in a bluegrass style. Enjoyable.
Belbury Poly: they're on Ghost Box Records (their main man runs the label), which is a good recommendation. There's a mix of ana;logue electronica and prog with occasional motorik sounds and spoken word vocals. Quite intoxicating. I need to investigate the back catalogue if I get time.
Kofi Flexxx: the jazz interlude begins. This is forward thinking hip-hop influenced jazz, quite possibly made by Shabaka Hutchings. It's good anyway.
Irreversible Entanglements: more jazz, this time from the US and fronted by Moor Mother. I prefer her sinister hip-hop but this is still decent.
Yussef Dayes: solo debut from the young drummer, although he's got a substantial back catalogue with others. It's very good, if, at 19 tracks, a tad long.
Will Johnson: a veteran American who was lead singer of Centro-Matic and is one of the 400 Unit. This is terrific Americana influenced indie rock.
Logan Ledger: extremely, extremely good, kind of country, folk rock, sounds like it could have been released any time between 1972 and now.
Parchman Prison Prayer: the prison interlude begins. This is (mostly) gospel recorded in Parchman Prison (the only maximum security prison for men in Mississippi state, fact fans). It's terrific!
Prison: not, to my knowledge, recorded in a prison. This lot are a sort of jam band featuring members of Endless Boogie and Silver Jews, amongst others. Liss rifftastic than Endless Boogie but still well worth a listen.
Dengue Fever: their first release in 8 years. Cambodian psych pop (that ain't changed). It's pretty good.
Vagabon: the Afrobeat and folk influences have gone, replaced by something much more dance floor oriented. The songs are still good but I maybe preferred her earlier releases.
Explosions in the Sky: their first non-soundtrack release in 7 years (they were never that prolific). Chimey post-roci, as ever, with tinges of electronica. All rather good.
Margo Cilker: incredibly engaging Americana. This is the kind of album that seems familiar, in a good way, although you've not listened to it before. Sh's a talent!
Luluc: Australians in America. They're also very, very good. Think a more folky Beach House and you're part way there.
C.O.F.F.I.N: they're Australian and their full name is Children of Finland Fighting in Norway. Raucous garage rock is what you get. At times, they're like a male fronted Amyl & the Sniffers. Great fun!
LYR: the bandcamp only release mentioned up the thread. It's terrific,possibly the best thing they've done. Our Poet Laureate is on tremendous form. Seems to be themed around Barnsley and, in particular, Eldon Street, as part of a project based around said street.
The National: the surprise release, written at the same time as FIrst Two Pages of Frankenstein. It's good and builds to a tremendous climax with Smoke Detector, which may be one of the songs of the year.

Album of the week: good grief this is tricky. Could be any of several. I'll just about go with Margo Cilker, although that could easily change to LYR or WIll Johnson or Logan Ledger or Parchman Prison Prayer or Mitski or Corinne Bailey Rae or Belbury Poly or The National or....
 
There are new albums tomorrow from Arkells (nowt to do with me), Cannibal Corpse (also, nowt to do with me), CHAI, Devendra Banhart, Doja Cat, Grails, Grrrl Gang, Jenny Owen Youngs, Kylie Minogue, Loraine James, Lydia Loveless, Postdata, Slaughter Beach Dog, Teenage Fanclub, WIll Butler & Sister Squares, yeule, Laurel Halo, Idrissa Soumaoro, Russell Haswell, Benet, Buffalo Nichols, Das Koolies, Brent Cobb, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids and Asha Wells.
 
Genuinely think there’s a chance there’s been more good music released in the last three weeks than the rest of the year combined, seems to have exploded into life with some of the releases recently. Nas, Chemical Brothers, Mitski, Roisin Murphy, Diddy, Sparklehorse, Jeff Rosenstock, James Blake, Slowdive, Victoria Monet, Olivia Rodrigo, Corinne Bailey Rae, Explosions in the Sky, Romy & Vagabon all very fun.

Doja Cat be joining that list tomorrow from the sound of her recent stuff as well.
 
Canadian punky-indie-rock/pop-punk types Pkew Pkew Pkew have a new album out today as well.

I’ve listened to Lydia Loveless this morning and have enjoyed it. More of the usual alt-country type stuff from her.
 
My usual weekly review...

Idrissa Soumaoro: the veteran Malian singer/guitarist isn't exactly prolific when it comes to recording. This is only his third album of a 50+ year career. It's very good. Features Amadou (but not Mariam).
Laurel Halo: ambient (ish) electronic excursions. Pretty good.
Follakzoid: I hadn't realised this was out until Rough Trade mentioned it. Very good. Four long tracks, maybe aimed more obviously at the dancefloor than earlier releases.
Grails: more instrumental stuff. This verges on post-rock with orchestral overtones. I like it.
Buffalo Nichols: the promising young blues songwriter returns with quite a short album. Good songs though.
Das Koolies: essentially the Super Furries minus Gruff. This sounds like SFA's more dancefloor oriented motorik output essentially. It's high quality stuff right through.
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Space oriented afro-jazz with strong Ethiopian influences. Bloody marvellous!
Teenage Fanclub: they're back like the comfortable cardigan you thought was lost but then found again. Excellent chugging melodies, great harmonies, cracking songs.
Devendra Banhart: Cate Le Bon produces and influences. The sound is now a distance away from his lo-fi psych-golk beginnings. Intriguing.
Asha Wells: singer-songwriter influenced by Joni Mitchell and others. This is a debut which has a real warmth to it. Very good!
Brent Cobb: somewhere on the border between country and Americana but firmly on the country side. This is a good solid album.
Benet: souful singer-songwriter stuff which is good but doesn't grab me as much as some other releases this week.
Will Butler & Sister Squares: former Arcade Fire man makes an album which, well, sounds a lot like Arcade Fire did once. It's good.
Russel Haswell: bleepy electronica, some of which is excellent. The closing track,''Turn the Tapes Off', reminds me of the rave episode of Spaced, which is a good thing!
Slaughter Beach, Dog: one of the many projects of Modern Baseball co-frontman, Jake Ewall, this is their fifth album and sounds, to me, like early Wilco or Hiss, Golden Messenger. Both of those are good things and this is a very good album.
Lydia Loveless: enjoyable alt-country/Americana. Not a lot more to say really.
Loraine James: urban electronica with fractured vocals. It's good.

Album of the week: there are 5 or 6 contenders but, in the end, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids shade it.
 
I found the Das Koolies album a bit of a slog, but I'll give it another go at some point. Teenage Fanclub is way better than I was expecting. I'm looking forward to seeing them in November. I've been waiting for this Devendra Banhart album due to Cate Le Bon's involvement. My copy should arrive this week, so I'm going to wait until then to listen properly but the 'singles' were promising.
 
There are new albums this week from Andrew Cushin, Animal Collective, Armand Hammer, Black Stone Cherry, Blonde Redhead, Cherry Glazerr, Code Orange, Del Water Gap, Ed Sheeran, Jorja Smith, La Force, LP, Molly Burch, Oneohtrix Point Never, Slow Pulp, Wilco, Sven Wunder, Steven Wilson, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, Datarock, Melenas, Matana Roberts, Say She She, Islet, Setting and Jlin.
 
errant said:
think this is the first album of this year that i've really took a shine to, had never heard of her before your review & this is my most favourite go-to listen in a very long time.
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The album before the current one is a cracker as well.
Arkle said:
There are new albums this week from Andrew Cushin, Animal Collective, Armand Hammer, Black Stone Cherry, Blonde Redhead, Cherry Glazerr, Code Orange, Del Water Gap, Ed Sheeran, Jorja Smith, La Force, LP, Molly Burch, Oneohtrix Point Never, Slow Pulp, Wilco, Sven Wunder, Steven Wilson, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, Datarock, Melenas, Matana Roberts, Say She She, Islet, Setting and Jlin.
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Wilco for me.

Missed out on seeing them (with Courtney Marie Andrews supporting) in Edinburgh at the start of the month because I already had tickets for Blink 182 the same night 😂 If that wasn’t bad enough, Blink 182 went and cancelled the day before the gig but by that point I was too late to make arrangements.
 
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Mickdundee said:
The album before the current one is a cracker as well.

Wilco for me.

Missed out on seeing them (with Courtney Marie Andrews supporting) in Edinburgh at the start of the month because I already had tickets for Blink 182 the same night 😂 If that wasn’t bad enough, Blink 182 went and cancelled the day before the gig but by that point I was too late to make arrangements.
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Sorry, what? You skipped Wilco for blink 182?

Good lord man
 
Arkle said:
Cherry Glazerr
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i think album art in the digital download age is a lost "art", i don't think you'll see a storm thorgerson in the future. just seen that cherry glazerr album, quite the album cover... i'd post an image of it here but will get a week on the naughty step from the mods...
 
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