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New Music Releases Thread


top 10 2023

1. Baxter Dury - I thought I was better than you
2. Jason Isbell - Weathervanes
3.Drive by truckers - the complete dirty south
4. Kevin morby - more photographs
5. Beirut - hadsel
6. Palehound - eye on the bat
7. Gaz Coombes - turn this car around
8.Kurt vile - back to moon beach
9. Munya- Jardin
10. Free range - practice

also liked

Anna st. Louis, Wilco, Hurry, Steve mason, Chemical brothers, Billy nomates, Teenage fanclub, Drop nineteens, Bonny Doon, Romy, Indigo de souza, Esther rose, Vagabon, The National, Far from saints, Sofia kourtesis
 
Here we go. The top 10

Slowdive - Everything is Alive
bdrmm - I Don’t Know
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
boygenius - The Record
bar italia - Tracey Denim
Blondshell - Blondshell
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
Vulture Feather - Liminal Fields
Sparklehorse - Bird Machine
Wednesday - Ray Saw God

Glad I decided to give this a listen, fantastic stuff.
 
I've tried to get a top 10. Had to settle for a top 20. There's so little between many of them.

1. H. Hawkline - Milk For Flowers
2. King Krule - Space Heavy
3. PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying
4. The Declining Winter - Really Early, Really Late
5. Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
6. Daniel Blumberg - GUT
7. The WAEVE - The WAEVE
8. Modern Cosmology - Modern Cosmology
9. Modern Nature - No Fixed Point In Space
10. Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
11. Ulrika Spacek - Compact Trauma
12. Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around
13. Shida Shahabi - Living Circle
14. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard
15. Swans - The Beggar
16. LYR - The Ultraviolet Age
17. James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven
18. Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
19. Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever
20. Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance
 
We still have a trickle of new releases. This week there are albums from full of Hell and Nothing, Love Minus Zero,Peter Gabriel, We Owe, Jonathan Rado, Moping in Style (A Tribute to Adam Green), Trevor Horn, Harp (Tim Smith of Midlake's new band) and Lenhart Tapes.
 
This year I’ve probably listened to the least amount of new music in decades. My top 8…

1. M83 - Fantasy
2. Lanterns on the Lake - Versions of Us
3. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
4. Hector Gannet - The Land Belongs to Us
5. Slowdive - Everything is Alive
6. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
7. Gabriel’s - Angels and Demons
8. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard
 
Possibly my final weekly summary of the year but it's actually fortnightly anyway... I've been listening to:

Guided By Voices: Power pop, indie rock, cracking songs, great!
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: the kind of psych rock that King Gizz used to do. Decent.
Trampolene: an extended re-release of their 2017 debut. A bit early Manics, some poetry, the Radio X session tracks added on rock like wet badgers.
Jonathan Rado: Foxygen man solo. Pretty good, sounds like a Foxygen album TBH.
The Still Brothers: an EP. Not our possible new manager and his siblings. Enjoyable, a little bit post-trip hop.
Raze Regal & White Denim: technically excellent, kind of enjoyable.
Pete Molinari: soulful, stylish Kentish singer-songwriter. Very good album of soulful, stylish pop.
Ghost Woman: doomy psych/garage rock. Very enjoyable.
Lawrence English/Werner Dafeldecker: two ambient pieces, interesting.
Kirk Barley: young looking ambient electronica type makes interesting electronica.
Harp: ex-Midlake man makes quite British folkie rock type stuff. Very good.
Peter Gabriel: Two different versions of the album. I like this a lot, I like Peter Gabriel. There, I've said it.
Lenhart Tapes: now this is proper good. Asian and eastern European vocals over proper grooves. Cracking.
Daniel Bachman: banjo, violin, sampling. Very Bachman, very good.

Album of the fortnight: I like Lenhart Tapes most.
Possibly my final weekly summary of the year but it's actually fortnightly anyway... I've been listening to:

Guided By Voices: Power pop, indie rock, cracking songs, great!
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: the kind of psych rock that King Gizz used to do. Decent.
Trampolene: an extended re-release of their 2017 debut. A bit early Manics, some poetry, the Radio X session tracks added on rock like wet badgers.
Jonathan Rado: Foxygen man solo. Pretty good, sounds like a Foxygen album TBH.
The Still Brothers: an EP. Not our possible new manager and his siblings. Enjoyable, a little bit post-trip hop.
Raze Regal & White Denim: technically excellent, kind of enjoyable.
Pete Molinari: soulful, stylish Kentish singer-songwriter. Very good album of soulful, stylish pop.
Ghost Woman: doomy psych/garage rock. Very enjoyable.
Lawrence English/Werner Dafeldecker: two ambient pieces, interesting.
Kirk Barley: young looking ambient electronica type makes interesting electronica.
Harp: ex-Midlake man makes quite British folkie rock type stuff. Very good.
Peter Gabriel: Two different versions of the album. I like this a lot, I like Peter Gabriel. There, I've said it.
Lenhart Tapes: now this is proper good. Asian and eastern European vocals over proper grooves. Cracking.
Daniel Bachman: banjo, violin, sampling. Very Bachman, very good.

Album of the fortnight: I like Lenhart Tapes most.

Still a trickle of new releases this week. There are albums from Alison Golodfrapp, Atreyu, Car Seat Headrest (a live album), Neil Young, Nicki Minaj, Tate McRae, Michael Nau, Philip Selway & Elysian Collective (a live album), The Jasmine Minx and James Elkington.
 
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If I was picking out three for 2023 I’d settle with…

Allison Russell - The Returner (had never heard of her before this thread mentioned this album, it’s gems like this that makes this place)

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (got a lot of likes here at the start of the year, but it wasn’t until I saw them on the Glastonbury coverage that it clicked for me)

Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable… (the bairns been playing this a lot which got me onto this album)
 
for me-
The Bathers- Sironesque - would say its up there with Moondance, an absolute work of art
Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings- bought on strength of review on here and in media- wow, superb.
The Bluebells - In the 21st Century- who'd have thought, I remained sceptical when read reviews, I was wrong.
 
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