Quite a quiet week, although it seems that Endless Boogie have put out a quadruple album of older previously unreleased material on Bandcamp, which I need to check out. Beyond that, the stuff I've been listening to:
Jason Molina - beautiful, fragile, brief (25 minutes). Exceptionally good really!
Jaga Jazzist - a very good album of, I guess post-jazztronica from the Norwegian collective. From memory, they're at their best live.
Vintage Crop - top notch lo-fi post-punk from the Aussies. Witty, cracking choruses, quite addictive.
Billy Nomates - the Sleaford Mods comparisons definitely hold true (Jason WIlliamson is on the album), not so sure there's a Suzi Quatro vibe going on. Some songs miss the mark but, generally, a very promising and interesting debut.
Willie J Healey - I quite like him. A decent singer songwriter who'll do well at festivals.
The Microphones - hold the front page, the back page and all the pages in between, we're in potential album of the year territory here! One long track (almost 45 mins) from Phil Elverum, reverting to the name he initially recorded under before being Mount Eerie. It flows brilliantly and TBH doesn't seem like it's 44 mins and 44 seconds long.
Album of the week: Much as the Jason Molina, Jaga Jazzist and Vintage Crop are great, there is only one candidate this week, The Microphones in 2020.