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New Music Releases Thread


The usual weekly review, bolstered by things picked up on the basis of reviews in the new Uncut:

Thom Yorke: it's a soundtrack so we get a couple of lovely tracks with vocals, some lovely electronica, cacophonous orchestral stuff and a surprisingly faithful cover of "Zoom" by Fat Larry's Band.
Owen: elegant, excellent alt rock. Very, very good.
Justice: pretty good, a bit more poppy than their last couple of albums and a little more guest heavy.
St Vincent: her most obviously rock album, lots of riffs, cracking tunes. Excellent.
Neil Young & Crazyhorse: a live album, it's very good but not sure it's necessary.
Six Organs of Admittance: one of their song albums. Gentle psych-folk. Good.
Fat White Family: I'm not sure it's their best album but it's still very good. Maybe lacks the sense of sleaze and danger their used to be.
Iron & Wine: excellent as always, folkie American. Lovely.
The Woodentops: their first in a decade. It's nowhere near as good as Giant but still very good.
Daisy Rickman: Cornish folk, part of a burgeoning scene. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Charley Crockett: proper old school country. Absolutely tremendous.
Dawn Chorus & the Infallible Sea: lovely ambient synth stuff.
FYEAR: angry, politicised, jazz flecked spoken word. Think Moor Mother. Rather brilliant.
Dark Light: pretty good. Female fronted dreampop, toward the rockier end of the genre.
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin: a companion piece to their previous album. Four long tracks of ambient-ish jazz. Very good.
Ana Lua Caiano: an intriguing mix of Latin folk and electronica. Reminds me a little of Joana Molina.
John Canning Yates: 20 years back, Ella Guru were a young band from Liverpool playing quiet folk tinged Americana. John Canning Yates was their singer. Now he's back with an absolutely tremendous album of, well, quiet folk tinged Americana. Superb.
The KVB: this came out 3 weeks ago. Synthy, rocky, motorik, pretty good as always.
Ian Lynch: the Lankum man's first soundtrack. This is very good. Maybe a bit more gentle than Lankum.

Album of the week: Ultimately, it comes to four: St VIncent, Charley Crockett, FYEAR and John Canning Yates. John Canning Yates just shades it.
 
Crayola-Kid said:
Cheers. I know it’s an odd request :lol: but there’s no track listing on it, it’s not on any streaming service, no copies on Discogs, and even Googling the lyrics gives me nothing! I got the other 5 figured out.
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Have you tried sending them a message on Instagram or anything, presuming you have an account?
 
Can't get away with that Still House Plants album mentioned a page or so back like.

Had Virgins - nothing hurt and everything was beautiful on repeat since it came out on 11/04, seems to have gone under the radar a bit.

Cracking bit of dream pop, reminds me of the band Alison's Halo a bit if anyone knows them.

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Loving this track released last week by Alex Spencer who is only 17. I saw him as one of the support acts for Seb Lowe a couple of weeks ago.

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Crayola-Kid said:
Yes, that was my next course of action after seeing if you had it. I’ve exchanged emails with Aaron a while back about getting merch to the US, so I can do that as well.
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Sounds like a plan, mate. Yes, my thought was they’re quite a personable bunch so wouldn’t mind the interaction.
My mate doesn’t know either I’m afraid. Good luck!
 
The Music Man said:
Hector Gannett are the support band at a very small gig I'm at tomorrow. Never heard anything by them. @Crayola-Kid Is that the band you have the question for as I may be able to ask them?
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It is, yes, and thanks much for the offer, but I wouldn't want you or them to have to interrupt the gig night enjoyment for my personal admin. I can reach out to them online for them to respond in their own time. If you have time, give Big Harcar a listen and try and get in early to see them - nice modern folk with references to the NE and Northumberland.
 
Crayola-Kid said:
It is, yes, and thanks much for the offer, but I wouldn't want you or them to have to interrupt the gig night enjoyment for my personal admin. I can reach out to them online for them to respond in their own time. If you have time, give Big Harcar a listen and try and get in early to see them - nice modern folk with references to the NE and Northumberland.
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Will try and give that a listen before I go. I should get there in time to catch them. Not sure if it'll be a full band gig as it's in a Launderette. I once had to reach out to the band Clinic in similar circumstances. I'd bought a CD at one of their gigs that was all obscurities. The tracklist clearly was jumbled up. I was able to work out the correct titles for most of the songs. I contacted the band by email and they asked me to send mp3s of the songs I couldn't identify. They (keyboard player I think) were very helpful. Turned out I'd bought a CD from a second batch and the running order had gone to pot without them realising.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Camera Obscura, Charlotte Day Wilson, Dua Lipa, Hana Vu, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jessica Pratt, John Carpenter, Kamasi Washington, Mdou Moctar, P.O.D., Sia, The Lemon Twigs, Jon McKiel, Emily Barker, Mammoth Penguins, Broadcast (Collected Demos), Karate Boogaloo and Kee Avil.
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Nothing particularly exciting there but plenty to tick over. Kamasi, Mdou Moctar and Broadcast probably my picks
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Camera Obscura, Charlotte Day Wilson, Dua Lipa, Hana Vu, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jessica Pratt, John Carpenter, Kamasi Washington, Mdou Moctar, P.O.D., Sia, The Lemon Twigs, Jon McKiel, Emily Barker, Mammoth Penguins, Broadcast (Collected Demos), Karate Boogaloo and Kee Avil.
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Frank Turner is also out tomorrow, it’s all about Frank for me!
 
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