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New Music Releases Thread

Too Much Joy - throwback punky power pop. A couple nudge up against Gaslight (ish), one has a bit of a celtic vibe, some a bit tongue in cheek. @Mickdundee a couple of these might be up your alley (only might though)

Robyn Hitchcock - Shufflemania. Couldn't find it on Spotify but I'm listening to it on Bandcamp. Quite upbeat stuff. Various guests, incl J Marr

Oh and the previously mentioned Sleater-Kinney covers album is out
 
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Might have missed it on here but Tove Lo has somehow managed to outdo herself with 'Dirt Femme'. The shy, retiring Swede has added to her impressive catalogue with her best album yet.
 
A quieter week this week. My breif reviews:

The Soft Pink Truth: one half of Matmos does slightly more mainstream electronic psychedelia. Quite chilled out and pretty good.
Dry Cleaning: I'm enjoying it. Musically, they've diversified a bit from the post-punk of album 1. Vocally, still stream of consciousness part sung part spoken.
Goat: pretty much Goat as you'd expect. Psychedelic with chanted vocals, very good but no great leap from previous albums.
Archers of Loaf: the Pavementisms of their albums first time round are replaced by a more muscular power-pop sound. Early impressions are that it's very good. Their first in 20 years or so.
Arctic Monkeys: their most croonery album thus far. Songs are good but not sure where I'd place it in my big list of best Arctic Monkeys albums.
Souad Massi: the ALgerian singer returns with an album mixing western styles with more traditional stuff. It's very good.
Lucretia Dalt: Latin influenced electronic music. Quite abstract at times.
Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier vol 2: a compilation of late 70s to early 80s German synthpop and post-punk (primarily the former). Interesting and mostly fun.
Witch Fever: hard rocking women. It's good but not sure it's quite as good as their earlier mini-album.
Frankie Cosmos: indiepop. Pretty good without making me think it's the greatest thing ever.
Taylor Swift: a move back, a bit, toward a more poppy sound. Enjoyable.
Julian Cope: more politically charged weirdness. Porbably not his best work, if I'm honest, but kind of fun.

Album of the week: probably Archers of Loaf, although Souad Massi runs them close. Not a great week, compared to the last two or three.
 
There are new albums this week from Babyface, Benjamin Clementine, Blessed, Dan Mangan, Dead Cross, Devin Towbsend, Dragonette, Drugdealer, Junior Boys, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Show Me The Body, One Leg One Eye, Skinshape, The Leaf Library, Abraxas, Aoife Nessa Frances, Martha, Wand (a live album), Sylvie, Luke Haines & Peter Buck and Diamanda Galas.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums this week from Babyface, Benjamin Clementine, Blessed, Dan Mangan, Dead Cross, Devin Towbsend, Dragonette, Drugdealer, Junior Boys, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Show Me The Body, One Leg One Eye, Skinshape, The Leaf Library, Abraxas, Aoife Nessa Frances, Martha, Wand (a live album), Sylvie, Luke Haines & Peter Buck and Diamanda Galas.
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Not the greatest week. Wand is about it for me
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums this week from Babyface, Benjamin Clementine, Blessed, Dan Mangan, Dead Cross, Devin Towbsend, Dragonette, Drugdealer, Junior Boys, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Show Me The Body, One Leg One Eye, Skinshape, The Leaf Library, Abraxas, Aoife Nessa Frances, Martha, Wand (a live album), Sylvie, Luke Haines & Peter Buck and Diamanda Galas.
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Martha - really looking forward to this. Best band on our region and the recent releases have been great.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums this week from Babyface, Benjamin Clementine, Blessed, Dan Mangan, Dead Cross, Devin Towbsend, Dragonette, Drugdealer, Junior Boys, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Show Me The Body, One Leg One Eye, Skinshape, The Leaf Library, Abraxas, Aoife Nessa Frances, Martha, Wand (a live album), Sylvie, Luke Haines & Peter Buck and Diamanda Galas.
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They seem to be releasing an album nearly every week!
 
chunkyshitehawk53 said:
Not the greatest week. Wand is about it for me
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There's a few for me but I suspect we're past the year's peak for new music.
Mickdundee said:
3 albums in October (although one of them is 2x 15min tracks and Apple Music is calling it a single - KGLW have called it an album on all their social media)
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I've seen it described as a single, an EP and an album depending on where I've looked.
 
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