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New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
My usual weekly review of the new stuff I've been listening to over the weekend:

Birthmark: this is tremendous. A liottle bit electronic, a little bit funky, pop hooks all over the place. Not sure of the best reference points.
Slift: France's top psych-progonauts return with a terrific slab of rock. Excellent.
Yin Yin: a good album, but maybe not a great one. They don't quite hit the heights of their debut here.
Conchur White: I like this. Upbeat Sufjan is the obvious comparison. A very good debut.
Brittney Spencer: debut album of very good country/Americana. Well worth a listen.
Sleater-Kinney: the return continues. This is maybe a little more downbeat than its predecessors but still very good.
Brown Horse: terrific Americana from, er, Norwich. This is an excellent debut.
Keyon Harrold: this is good. Jazz with flourishes of hip-hop and funk.
Mary Halvorson: more traditional, largely instrumental jazz from Scandinavia. Pretty good.
Black Grape: they're nothing if not entertaining. There's a groove to this and Ryder's usual lyrics.
Affection Place: French post-punk veterans return with a very listenable album. Quite rocky (a tad Killoing Joke).
Victoria Hume: weird electro-folk from the excellent Lost Map Records. More of a mini-album than full album.
Don Leisure & Amanda Whiting: they said that trip-hop beats and the harp didn't go together. They were wrong. A lovely album of chill out type stuff.
Abstract Concrete: the latest album from Charles Hayward of This Heat. This starts superbly but doesn't quite last the pace.
Daniel Donato: Driving Americana. It's good if a little overlong (15 tracks and just over an hour). Still, worth a listen.

Album of the week: Birthmark shade Slift and Brown Horse. All three are exceptionally good though.
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Birthmark was the other half of Mike Kinsella (American football) who released LIES (self titled album) last year. Glad it got some praise this week as I thought it was great. Challenging at times but real moments of genius and clarity.
 

Obviously not new but I was looking for "tales from the Thames Delta" by the Milk on Tidal (can't find it?) but playing an album called The Milk, by another Milk. Bloody confused but it's not bad.
 
I've just clocked that Tapir! are releasing their debut tomorrow. Really looking forward to that.

I see Fat White Family have announced their next album as well, due out in April.
 
There are new albums tomorrow from Alkaline Trio, Chatham County Line, Courting, Frank Cater & the Rattlesnakes, Future Islands, Gruff Rhys, Katy Kirby, Kula Shaker, Lyrical Lemonade, The Smile, The Umbrellas, Torres, Ty Segall, Cabane, Tapir!, William Elliott Whitmore, the compilation Fantastic Voyage, Early Life Forms, Elena Setien, Office Dog, NewDad, Nehan, Sarah Jarosz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Chemtrails, Thomas Bush, Cabane, The Fallen Leaves and Cary Morin.

Quite a lot there!
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Alkaline Trio, Chatham County Line, Courting, Frank Cater & the Rattlesnakes, Future Islands, Gruff Rhys, Katy Kirby, Kula Shaker, Lyrical Lemonade, The Smile, The Umbrellas, Torres, Ty Segall, Cabane, Tapir!, William Elliott Whitmore, the compilation Fantastic Voyage, Early Life Forms, Elena Setien, Office Dog, NewDad, Nehan, Sarah Jarosz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Chemtrails, Thomas Bush, Cabane, The Fallen Leaves and Cary Morin.

Quite a lot there!
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just ordered future islands, got a very good review in sunday times.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Alkaline Trio, Chatham County Line, Courting, Frank Cater & the Rattlesnakes, Future Islands, Gruff Rhys, Katy Kirby, Kula Shaker, Lyrical Lemonade, The Smile, The Umbrellas, Torres, Ty Segall, Cabane, Tapir!, William Elliott Whitmore, the compilation Fantastic Voyage, Early Life Forms, Elena Setien, Office Dog, NewDad, Nehan, Sarah Jarosz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Chemtrails, Thomas Bush, Cabane, The Fallen Leaves and Cary Morin.

Quite a lot there!
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First “proper” week of releases this year - Alkaline Trio, Gruff Rhys, William Elliot Whitmore and Ty Segall for me
 
Skylon said:
Hope gruff is back to form. His last release didn't really do it for me. Love him though, still look forward to every new thing he does
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I thought his last one was excellent, although I have weird taste when it comes to the SFA stuff (Lovekraft is in my top 3 SFA albums) so it might just be me 😂
 
Mickdundee said:
I thought his last one was excellent, although I have weird taste when it comes to the SFA stuff (Lovekraft is in my top 3 SFA albums) so it might just be me 😂
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I love lovekraft n'all!.Seen them live down Liverpool when they toured it, and it's the best gig I have ever been to.They burst through some doors and onto stage in a little beach buggy thing to the a team theme tune.A massive screen in the background, the visuals for Zoom! and atomik lust were mindblowing. And it was like a rave at the end of the man don't give a fuck at the end.
 
Skylon said:
I love lovekraft n'all!.Seen them live down Liverpool when they toured it, and it's the best gig I have ever been to.They burst through some doors and onto stage in a little beach buggy thing to the a team theme tune.A massive screen in the background, the visuals for Zoom! and atomik lust were mindblowing. And it was like a rave at the end of the man don't give a fuck at the end.
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I saw them at an intimate gig (it’s about a 300 - 400 capacity venue) the springtime before Lovekraft came out and they were previewing some of the songs. I think that’s partly where my fondness for LK comes from.
 
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Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Alkaline Trio, Chatham County Line, Courting, Frank Cater & the Rattlesnakes, Future Islands, Gruff Rhys, Katy Kirby, Kula Shaker, Lyrical Lemonade, The Smile, The Umbrellas, Torres, Ty Segall, Cabane, Tapir!, William Elliott Whitmore, the compilation Fantastic Voyage, Early Life Forms, Elena Setien, Office Dog, NewDad, Nehan, Sarah Jarosz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Chemtrails, Thomas Bush, Cabane, The Fallen Leaves and Cary Morin.

Quite a lot there!
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Ooosh what a lineup. I’m being determined this year with at least a new album a week and I’ve had to add at least 4 from just to the list glance and then god knows what from peoples’ verdicts!
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Alkaline Trio, Chatham County Line, Courting, Frank Cater & the Rattlesnakes, Future Islands, Gruff Rhys, Katy Kirby, Kula Shaker, Lyrical Lemonade, The Smile, The Umbrellas, Torres, Ty Segall, Cabane, Tapir!, William Elliott Whitmore, the compilation Fantastic Voyage, Early Life Forms, Elena Setien, Office Dog, NewDad, Nehan, Sarah Jarosz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Chemtrails, Thomas Bush, Cabane, The Fallen Leaves and Cary Morin.

Quite a lot there!
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The Smile, Torres, Ty Segall, Gruff, Katy Kirby for me

Will listen to NewDad, Courting, Tapir and Future Islands probably. Bet Future Islands sounds like all the other records
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
The Smile, Torres, Ty Segall, Gruff, Katy Kirby for me

Will listen to NewDad, Courting, Tapir and Future Islands probably. Bet Future Islands sounds like all the other records
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I loved Future Islands when they first come out but last few records have been just them churning out the same stuff. I dont expect anything different tomorrow
 
New Model Army have a new album tomorrow, for the old crusties like my good self. (I guess today UK time)

@Mickdundee A3 is certainly solid enough - pretty much what you’d expect. Preorder came a couple days early so given it a spin or two but S-K has been bullying it off the turntable so far. If you like them you’ll like it but I didn’t notice any boundaries pushed!
 
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