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New Music Releases Thread

Three great albums ive been enjoying from this week’s releases..

Kevin morby, sundowner, return to form after the average oh my god album.

Matt berninger, suspect this will be one of the years best, class songs throughout.

Tom petty, wildflowers is my favourite album of his, great to hear extra tracks and the alt. versions, excellent.
 

buckowski said:
Three great albums ive been enjoying from this week’s releases..

Kevin morby, sundowner, return to form after the average oh my god album.

Matt berninger, suspect this will be one of the years best, class songs throughout.

Tom petty, wildflowers is my favourite album of his, great to hear extra tracks and the alt. versions, excellent.
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I couldn't get away with the Morby record on first listen. I really enjoyed Oh My God though, liked the theme of it.
 
Arkle said:
Part 1 of this week's new and newish stuff...

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - I think this has been out for a while but, being a dafty, I''ve chosen a week when loads of other stuff is out to give it a listen. Marvellous! It's a bit Anthony and the Johnsons/Benjamin Clementine. Essentially, a compilation of highlights from albums that should have sold more, live tracks etc.
Drew Citron - @Crayola-Kid mentioned this last week, I think. She's formerly of both Beverly and Public Practice and has been a touring guitarist for Frankie Rose and touring member of The Pains of Being Pure of Heart (if you saw them a few years back, she was the looker). It's a really good album of alt guitar goodness.
Jennifer Castle - the Canadian singer songwriter, not the Oxford academic. This is very fragile and very beautiful! Recorded solo in lockdown, I believe so a tad lo-fi but beneficial for that.
Sam Roberts Band - interesting. An album of very British but very international alt-rock. Good songs, potentially mainstream.
Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler - Catherine Anne Davies is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, known for recording as The Anchoress. She's played with the Manics and Simple Minds. She's clearly been hiding a hell of a voice. This is great. It's Bernard Butler doing what he does with quality vocals (see also McAlmont and Butler).
Matt Berninger - just excellent. As @James has said, it's a lovely album. He writes songs that few other people would be capable of writing. Lyrically tremendous and musically great.
Kevin Morby - Morbo gets a bit more low key and intimate than before. I think there are lockdown elements here. I came into this thinking it could be his first mis-step but it's actually rather wonderful! Haway, the Morbo!
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Part2:

Beabadoobee - good fun kind of pre-grunge early 90s indie guitar stuff. She seems pretty talented.
Blue Note Re:imagined - 16 tracks originally released on Blue Note covered by artists from the current UK jazz scene. Some of it is great, some is a bit winkly-wankly.
Autechre - there's a warmth here you don't usually get with an Autechre album. It's still not as melodic as many of their electronic contemporaries but enjoyable.
Cordovas - this is a very nice, very 70s Americana album. Quite sing-a-longy at times. Worth investigating.
Bahamas - the solo project of Afie Jurvanen, who plays guitar in Feist's band. It's sort of weird easy listening wonky pop and very enjoyable.
The Green Child - synths, flecks of guitar, deadpan female vocals. They're a duo, I think. It's vaguely toward the more electronic end of shoegaze/dreampop. Pretty good!
Quintron and Miss Pussycat - Quintron plays his own musiical inventions, Miss Pussycat does some vocals and plays maracas and, by day, is a puppeteer. All very eccentric! All very good as well. They've been given a kind of garage rock makeover by The Oblivians and come over like early B52s.
William Elliott Whitmore - he's not reinventing the wheel here. It's still deep voiced country blues. Still very good as always!
The Phoenix Foundation - New Zealand's sixth best band are still doing their guitars plus synths thing here but have added string arrangements and guest vocalists. Enjoyable!
Mav Karlo - this is excellent! Indie rock with clever lyrics and pop hooks. It recalls Paul Westerberg's post-Replacements solo stuff for me, melodic, sardonic and fun!
Sturgill Simpson - this is advertised as a bluegrass album but is more of an old school country thing with bluegrass twists. He mixes songs from his back catalogue with others. It's good and a distinct sidestep from his general career trajectory.
Osees - 2 minute thrashes check, 15 minute stoner rock instrumental check, 22 minute jam with repetitive vocals check. Osees doing what they do best, probably. One of their less commercially viable albums but tremendous fun.

Album of the week: strong competition but I'll say it's taken jointly by Mav Karlo, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Matt Berninger and Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler. It might well be Beverly Glenn-Copeland but that's a compilation rather than new material.
 
Wanted to add a couple more from last week before we get the Thursday list.

Gen Pop - good solid post-punk. Liked it
Dead Famous People - indie guitar pop. Decent tunes, nice enough, but I found it a bit too sweet
Floodlights - pretty standard Aussie guitar indie without the pull of Rolling Blackouts
Lawn - real scattergun of an album. Punk, indie, art-punk, psychedlia, Americana - all manner of stuff, but it worked for me
Woodkid - not sure what this is - possibly electronic indie with a bit of a crooner? Meh
Tobin Sprout - folkie Americana from Guided By Voices gadgy. Found it pleasant enough

There were quite a few female solo artists with stuff out. In order of preference - Deep Sea Diver (indie - previously guitarist for people like Beck and The Shins), Helena Deland, and Sasha Sloan (both singery-songwritery gubbins) - HD was my pick of those two. There was another called something Eisenberg but the name escapes...didn't give it much of a go but sounded a bit alt/electronic from the little I did listen - helpful, right?

Same - Gum Shop single. Very Pavement
 
This week's new releases in full. There are albums from Actress, Adrienne Lenker, Becky Warren, Bruce Springsteen, clipping., Faithless, Fuzz, Greg Puciato, Jeff Tweedy, John Frusciante, JunglePussy, Keaton Henson, Laura Veirs, Loma, Pallbearer, Plants and Animals, The Mountain Goats, Gorillaz, Michael J. Sheehy, Magick Mountain, Ben Harper, Sam Amidon, Ela Minus, Magik Markers, This Is The Kit, Songhoy Blues and Sparkle Division.
 
Arkle said:
This week's new releases in full. There are albums from Actress, Adrienne Lenker, Becky Warren, Bruce Springsteen, clipping., Faithless, Fuzz, Greg Puciato, Jeff Tweedy, John Frusciante, JunglePussy, Keaton Henson, Laura Veirs, Loma, Pallbearer, Plants and Animals, The Mountain Goats, Gorillaz, Michael J. Sheehy, Magick Mountain, Ben Harper, Sam Amidon, Ela Minus, Magik Markers, This Is The Kit, Songhoy Blues and Sparkle Division.
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Another big week this week. Those in bold for me, with priority given to Veirs and Harper.
 
Arkle said:
This week's new releases in full. There are albums from Actress, Adrienne Lenker, Becky Warren, Bruce Springsteen, clipping., Faithless, Fuzz, Greg Puciato, Jeff Tweedy, John Frusciante, JunglePussy, Keaton Henson, Laura Veirs, Loma, Pallbearer, Plants and Animals, The Mountain Goats, Gorillaz, Michael J. Sheehy, Magick Mountain, Ben Harper, Sam Amidon, Ela Minus, Magik Markers, This Is The Kit, Songhoy Blues and Sparkle Division.
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It’s Jeff, Adrienne, Bruce, Laura, the Gerts and the lads from Mali for me Jeff
 
made some recent purchases-
bright eyes- not what was epxecting , not immediate but getting there.
future islands- same as it ever was.
pacific range- 50 years too late, but very buffalo springfield/crosby stills and nash /hourglass and enjoyable because of that.
 
Arkle said:
This week's new releases in full. There are albums from Actress, Adrienne Lenker, Becky Warren, Bruce Springsteen, clipping., Faithless, Fuzz, Greg Puciato, Jeff Tweedy, John Frusciante, JunglePussy, Keaton Henson, Laura Veirs, Loma, Pallbearer, Plants and Animals, The Mountain Goats, Gorillaz, Michael J. Sheehy, Magick Mountain, Ben Harper, Sam Amidon, Ela Minus, Magik Markers, This Is The Kit, Songhoy Blues and Sparkle Division.
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I'll take a Mountain Goats, a Faithless, and a Springsteen please Bob. Might also give Gorillaz a go - the Robert Smith single was interesting enough for me to try. Also the Jeff T. Don't know much else from the list.
 
Crayola-Kid said:
I'll take a Mountain Goats, a Faithless, and a Springsteen please Bob. Might also give Gorillaz a go - the Robert Smith single was interesting enough for me to try. Also the Jeff T. Don't know much else from the list.
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Fuzz are Ty Segall's heavy/sludge rock trio.
Laura Veirs is a folkish singer-songwriter. She's very good!
Songhoy Blues are Malian desert rock.
This Is The Kit kind of folkie indie. Exceptionally good songs...
 
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