New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
Margo Price and Michael Head are the two I'm really looking forward to. I'll also give Bill & Ryley, Destroyer and Lindstrom a listen or two.
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Any of them my cup of tea? Margo is my only choice so far this week, although I’m still working through last week’s 5 so it’s not the end of the World if I don’t pick another.
 


Mick Dundee said:
Any of them my cup of tea? Margo is my only choice so far this week, although I’m still working through last week’s 5 so it’s not the end of the World if I don’t pick another.
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Lindstrom is electronica, can be a bit proggy, long tracks usually.
Michael Head is something of a veteran and a bit of a hard luck story, he was the main man in both The Pale Fountains (early 80s) and Shack (late 80s to late 90s), both of whom should have been much bigger than they were. A bit late 60s influenced (primarily Love) along with the 80s Liverpool scene.
Destroyer are the main band of Dan Bejar, who's also part of The New Pornographers. Not usually quite as upbeat as TNP.
Bill & Ryley - I'm assuming this will be primarily instrumental guitar duets as that's what they do as a pairing.
 
Arkle said:
Lindstrom is electronica, can be a bit proggy, long tracks usually.
Michael Head is something of a veteran and a bit of a hard luck story, he was the main man in both The Pale Fountains (early 80s) and Shack (late 80s to late 90s), both of whom should have been much bigger than they were. A bit late 60s influenced (primarily Love) along with the 80s Liverpool scene.
Destroyer are the main band of Dan Bejar, who's also part of The New Pornographers. Not usually quite as upbeat as TNP.
Bill & Ryley - I'm assuming this will be primarily instrumental guitar duets as that's what they do as a pairing.
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I knew I recognised the Destroyer name from somewhere, I think I’ll check it out. I discovered the New Pornos through Neko Case so although I was aware they were a “supergroup” of sorts I only really knew much about her about Carl Newman’s other projects.
 
Really looking forward to tomorrow.

Can't wait for Destroyer, lindstrom and mick head. They're singles have all been great.

Got a 3 hour train journey also tomorrow so timing is perfect.
 
I think I’m a little bit in love with Margo Price - I’m on my 4th listen now and it gets better every time.

Musically it’s nothing groundbreaking (although the title track is interesting) but what a lyricist/storyteller she is! I can’t believe someone with her talent didn’t get signed to a label until after she was 30!
 
Mick Dundee said:
I think I’m a little bit in love with Margo Price - I’m on my 4th listen now and it gets better every time.

Musically it’s nothing groundbreaking (although the title track is interesting) but what a lyricist/storyteller she is! I can’t believe someone with her talent didn’t get signed to a label until after she was 30!
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Isn't that down to her being in bands rather than solo until quite recently?
 
Arkle said:
Isn't that down to her being in bands rather than solo until quite recently?
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From what I understood it was local bands that were active around the Nashville area at the time rather than any active recording bands, although she’s played as part of Sturgill Simpson’s band in the past IIRC. I was reading an interview the other day and it mentioned working as a waitress so I assumed she’d been largely unnoticed (although I’m aware there are plenty of bands who have to have “day jobs”, even the Descendents did back in the day - Tony Lombardo left because he was earning more as a postie).
 
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Mick Dundee said:
From what I understood it was local bands that were active around the Nashville area at the time rather than any active recording bands, although she’s played as part of Sturgill Simpson’s band in the past IIRC. I was reading an interview the other day and it mentioned working as a waitress so I assumed she’d been largely unnoticed.
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I think Buffalo Clover, the band she formed with her husband released two or three albums (not sure how widely distributed they were but they have three albums on bandcamp, $8.99 apiece or $21.58 for the lot.).
 
mad cyril said:
I would have been there but unfortunately working away at moment. Enjoy it and be good to read a quick review on here mate
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The Horrors were really good last night. They played a 70 minute set (12 songs). They ignored the first album as expected as their sound is so different now, did 3 from Primary Colours (still their best album imo), 2 from Skying, 1 from Luminous and 6 from V. Faris is a compelling front man and along with the bass player and guitarist it was entertaining to watch their silhouettes go mad to the music. They're a very slick live act and the bass was fantastic. The support band, Baba Naga were incredibly loud, reminded me a bit of Dead Meadow but not as good.
 
Arkle said:
Lindstrom is electronica, can be a bit proggy, long tracks usually.
Michael Head is something of a veteran and a bit of a hard luck story, he was the main man in both The Pale Fountains (early 80s) and Shack (late 80s to late 90s), both of whom should have been much bigger than they were. A bit late 60s influenced (primarily Love) along with the 80s Liverpool scene.
Destroyer are the main band of Dan Bejar, who's also part of The New Pornographers. Not usually quite as upbeat as TNP.
Bill & Ryley - I'm assuming this will be primarily instrumental guitar duets as that's what they do as a pairing.
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HMS Fable is still in my top 10 of all time...
 
The Music Man said:
The Horrors were really good last night. They played a 70 minute set (12 songs). They ignored the first album as expected as their sound is so different now, did 3 from Primary Colours (still their best album imo), 2 from Skying, 1 from Luminous and 6 from V. Faris is a compelling front man and along with the bass player and guitarist it was entertaining to watch their silhouettes go mad to the music. They're a very slick live act and the bass was fantastic. The support band, Baba Naga were incredibly loud, reminded me a bit of Dead Meadow but not as good.
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Cheers mate. Glad you enjoyed it. Good to see them do a good spread of their back catalogue.
 
So, in summary:

Michael Head: quite, quite marvellous as expected.
Margo Price: very strong second album. Still country but moving sound and diversifying things a bit.
Lindstrom: cosmic disco with added female vocals. Highly entertaining and pretty much the perfect length for the journey to work (well, my journey to work).
Destroyer: first listen suggests its decent but it's no Kaputt or Destroyer's Rubies.
Bill & Ryley: quite short. Instrumental guitar duets. Pleasant enough, won't change the universe.
Dan Deacon: the one I missed. Soundtrack album for 'Rat Film' which is a Baltimore based feature length documentary about rats. Not his usual stuff but intriguing.
 
Arkle said:
So, in summary:

Michael Head: quite, quite marvellous as expected.
Margo Price: very strong second album. Still country but moving sound and diversifying things a bit.
Lindstrom: cosmic disco with added female vocals. Highly entertaining and pretty much the perfect length for the journey to work (well, my journey to work).
Destroyer: first listen suggests its decent but it's no Kaputt or Destroyer's Rubies.
Bill & Ryley: quite short. Instrumental guitar duets. Pleasant enough, won't change the universe.
Dan Deacon: the one I missed. Soundtrack album for 'Rat Film' which is a Baltimore based feature length documentary about rats. Not his usual stuff but intriguing.
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Really enjoying Michael Head. Hopefully a tour to support. Saw him in the tiny social in London and was great. Would love to see again In support of this album.
Fully agree on lindstrom. Really good length with vocals nicely breaking up the instrumentals. Very good.
Destroyer is my slight disappoint of the three. Some of it I love, think the singles, in particular Tinseltown are fantastic. However a couple of the more jazz tracks in the middle really let it down.
 
The Music Man said:
The Horrors were really good last night. They played a 70 minute set (12 songs). They ignored the first album as expected as their sound is so different now, did 3 from Primary Colours (still their best album imo), 2 from Skying, 1 from Luminous and 6 from V. Faris is a compelling front man and along with the bass player and guitarist it was entertaining to watch their silhouettes go mad to the music. They're a very slick live act and the bass was fantastic. The support band, Baba Naga were incredibly loud, reminded me a bit of Dead Meadow but not as good.
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I was there as well mate, great night. Must have seen them well into double figures now and Mirrors Image is definitely their best song, I think Machine is the best song on the new album and seemed that way live as well.
 

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