Guided by Voices release an album every 3 weeks I think
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New Music Releases Thread
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They do. Basically, they're the only band who release albums as frequently as King Gizzard do.
I missed the new album from The Lilac Time from my list. Also, got a gallon of albums I'd missed or ignored that I'm working through courtesy of the new Uncut's review section. You'll like the Ricardo Dias Gomes album. He seems to be a 1 man tropicalia Yo La Tengo.
herra soul mob
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could be interesting week for me, lilac time and mull historical society. I await reviews
could be interesting week for me, lilac time and mull historical society. I await reviews
The Mull Historical Society album appears to be a co-write with various (mostly Scottish) authors and poets. Val McDiarmid, Ian Rankin and (non-Scot) Nick Hornby are all involved.
3.5/4 on the repechage albums (as I'm calling them) so far. The aforementioned Ricardo Dias Gomes is superb, Daniel O'Sullivan very good and Sally Potter very good (she's made her debut album at the age of 73). Electric Sufi, I can take or leave. They sound like their name (kind of spiritual trip-hop).
Halfway through first listen of Blur, and it’s really very good indeed
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Brett
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Will be my morning work music today I think
FlyingLotus
Midfield
Really looking forward to it, been going through their back catalogue recently.
FlyingLotus
Midfield
Ha, yes got very strong AM vibes on that track.
Enjoyed the album on first listen, looking forward to hearing it more.
herra soul mob
Striker
first Bathers album( Sirenesque ) for 20 years to be released on 14th October.
The Music Man
Midfield
A few listens in to the new PJ Harvey album and really enjoying it now. Not sure how it'll come across in some of the venues she's playing but going to Barrowlands so will find out.
The Great MES
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A new single from Lol Tolhurst (ex Cure), Budgie (ex Banshees) featuring James Murphy (LCD) out tomorrow. Album to follow, be interesting to hear how it sounds.
My bumper, blow up review of new stuff I've listened to this week, some of which came out on Friday and some of which came out earlier...
Electric Sufi: this is like one of those mid 90s albums made by hippies who'd discovered dance music and the music of Asia, Africa and Latin America at the same time. Decent enough but there's no "Templehead" by Transglobal Underground here.
Ricardo Dias Gomes: as mentioned above, exceptional. A 1 man tropicalia Yo la Tengo.
Daniel O'Sullivan: this operates on the border between modern classical music and post-rock. It's very engaging and very good!
Sally Potter: she's a 73 year old film director/screenwriter (best known for Orlando), who has made her debut album. It's pretty good. Nuanced, francophone slightly retro indie is the name of the game (as Abba didn't sing).
Marcel: noisy, highly promising post-punk from Belgium. There's a lot to like here.
Soccer Committee: more an EP than an album (5 songs, 21 minutes). Fragile, folkish tunes, very good songs.
Mama Terra: jazz from Glasgow encompassing a lot of sub and micro genres. Promising.
Bobby Lee: the Sheffield guitarist (not the band The Bobby Lees). Marvellous panoramic instrumental tunes, ideal for a train journey.
Boris & Uniform: the Japanese noise masters meet the US industrial metalists. If you like loud things, this is pretty good and zips along.
Blue Lake: more instumental pieces. Quite introspective with a meshing of guitars with drones, woodwind and, probably, zithers. Good.
L.A. Edwards: very good, engaging Americana, clearly influenced by both Petty and Springsteen.
Irma Ferreira: the sound of the Candomble religion of Brazil. This is, I guess a fusion of African and Latin influences. Very light on instrumentation and big on voice (and what a voice Irma Ferreira has). It's bloody marvellous TBH!
Blake Mills: the producer and sideman goes solo again with an album of rich, understated songs which seems likely to improve with multiple listens.
Domenico Lancelotti: synths and samba in unison. The aforementioned Ricardo Dias Gomes produces. Good.
Youth Lagoon: not sure how I missed this when it came out, as it was in my weekly list. Lyrically complex tales of middle America with androgynous vocals.
Joanna Sternberg: enjoyable, slightly ramshackle, eccentric singer-snogwriter stuff. Sounds like something from the anti-folk movement of days gone by. Reminds me variously of Jeffrey Lewis, early Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor. Impressive.
James & the Giants: the new name for Wooden Wand, seemingly. Excellent, chugging Americana that reminds me of Teenage Fanclub and Neil Young.
Oxbow: big, hooky noise rock sounds, with thread fave Kristin Hayter, of Lingua Ignota, involved in a duet. I can see a lot of people liking this. Their 8th album over 25 years or so but a new name to me.
Mull Historical Society: Scottish indie, all co-writes with authors, some of whom are pretty famous. Really good, literate (as expected) songs.
Wren Hinds: nowt to do with Hinds. Quiet, summery introspection is the name of the game here. A little bit Jose Gonzales.
Cut Worms: retro, melodic indie rock/pop. The Lemon Twigs are mates of his (Cut Worms are, essentially, Max Clarke). Good.
Blur: very, very good, as always. Mostly the quieter side of Blur but they do get upbeat at times. A national treasure etc.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: excellent bluegrass/Americana. She's developing quite the catalogue of albums.
Half Japanese: eccentric American indie which kind of flirts with something that's heard of the mainstream but moves away from it. Surprisingly catchy throughout.
The Holy Family: as with their earlier work, largely instrumental rock (the vocals are generally wordless), which is hard to pin down. Interesting.
Andrew Bird: an instrumental companion piece to last year's "Inside Problems". Enjoyable.
Guided By Voices: their 800th album, or something. It doesn't break the mold. Very good alt-rock/powerpop.
The Lilac Time: indie folk type stuff from the now veteran Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy. Low key but enjoyable.
Album(s) of the week: this is trickt but I'm going to go for a three way tie between Ricardo Dias Gomes, Irma Ferreira and Oxbow. Massive nods to Blur, Mull Historical Society, Joanna Sternberg and Bobby Lee as well though...
Electric Sufi: this is like one of those mid 90s albums made by hippies who'd discovered dance music and the music of Asia, Africa and Latin America at the same time. Decent enough but there's no "Templehead" by Transglobal Underground here.
Ricardo Dias Gomes: as mentioned above, exceptional. A 1 man tropicalia Yo la Tengo.
Daniel O'Sullivan: this operates on the border between modern classical music and post-rock. It's very engaging and very good!
Sally Potter: she's a 73 year old film director/screenwriter (best known for Orlando), who has made her debut album. It's pretty good. Nuanced, francophone slightly retro indie is the name of the game (as Abba didn't sing).
Marcel: noisy, highly promising post-punk from Belgium. There's a lot to like here.
Soccer Committee: more an EP than an album (5 songs, 21 minutes). Fragile, folkish tunes, very good songs.
Mama Terra: jazz from Glasgow encompassing a lot of sub and micro genres. Promising.
Bobby Lee: the Sheffield guitarist (not the band The Bobby Lees). Marvellous panoramic instrumental tunes, ideal for a train journey.
Boris & Uniform: the Japanese noise masters meet the US industrial metalists. If you like loud things, this is pretty good and zips along.
Blue Lake: more instumental pieces. Quite introspective with a meshing of guitars with drones, woodwind and, probably, zithers. Good.
L.A. Edwards: very good, engaging Americana, clearly influenced by both Petty and Springsteen.
Irma Ferreira: the sound of the Candomble religion of Brazil. This is, I guess a fusion of African and Latin influences. Very light on instrumentation and big on voice (and what a voice Irma Ferreira has). It's bloody marvellous TBH!
Blake Mills: the producer and sideman goes solo again with an album of rich, understated songs which seems likely to improve with multiple listens.
Domenico Lancelotti: synths and samba in unison. The aforementioned Ricardo Dias Gomes produces. Good.
Youth Lagoon: not sure how I missed this when it came out, as it was in my weekly list. Lyrically complex tales of middle America with androgynous vocals.
Joanna Sternberg: enjoyable, slightly ramshackle, eccentric singer-snogwriter stuff. Sounds like something from the anti-folk movement of days gone by. Reminds me variously of Jeffrey Lewis, early Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor. Impressive.
James & the Giants: the new name for Wooden Wand, seemingly. Excellent, chugging Americana that reminds me of Teenage Fanclub and Neil Young.
Oxbow: big, hooky noise rock sounds, with thread fave Kristin Hayter, of Lingua Ignota, involved in a duet. I can see a lot of people liking this. Their 8th album over 25 years or so but a new name to me.
Mull Historical Society: Scottish indie, all co-writes with authors, some of whom are pretty famous. Really good, literate (as expected) songs.
Wren Hinds: nowt to do with Hinds. Quiet, summery introspection is the name of the game here. A little bit Jose Gonzales.
Cut Worms: retro, melodic indie rock/pop. The Lemon Twigs are mates of his (Cut Worms are, essentially, Max Clarke). Good.
Blur: very, very good, as always. Mostly the quieter side of Blur but they do get upbeat at times. A national treasure etc.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: excellent bluegrass/Americana. She's developing quite the catalogue of albums.
Half Japanese: eccentric American indie which kind of flirts with something that's heard of the mainstream but moves away from it. Surprisingly catchy throughout.
The Holy Family: as with their earlier work, largely instrumental rock (the vocals are generally wordless), which is hard to pin down. Interesting.
Andrew Bird: an instrumental companion piece to last year's "Inside Problems". Enjoyable.
Guided By Voices: their 800th album, or something. It doesn't break the mold. Very good alt-rock/powerpop.
The Lilac Time: indie folk type stuff from the now veteran Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy. Low key but enjoyable.
Album(s) of the week: this is trickt but I'm going to go for a three way tie between Ricardo Dias Gomes, Irma Ferreira and Oxbow. Massive nods to Blur, Mull Historical Society, Joanna Sternberg and Bobby Lee as well though...
There are new albums this week from Bethany Cosentino, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bush Tetras, CHIKA, Dexys, Fly Anakin, Georgia, Jessy Lanza, Joni Mitchell (live at Newport Folk Festival), Kacy Johansing, Post Malone, Seven Dust, Ten Tonnes, The Clientele, Travis Scott, FFA Coffi Pawb (re-release of an album by the proto-SFA), William the Conqueror, Daniel Rossen (live album), Jessy Lanza, High Pulp, The Budos Band, Mutoid Man, Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek and Dot Allison.
Don'tListenToTheHat
Striker
An Aphex Twin EP was also released yesterday. Not listened yet but suppose I will at some point…
My usual weekly review...
Paris Texas: out last week. Operates somewhere on the rap/rock interface, rather good.
Lifeguard: the sound of young America part 78632. They've releases 2 EPs (one last year, one a couple of weeks back) and The Observer gave them a glowing write up recently. They sound heavily influenced by Sonic Youth. Promising.
FFA Coffi Pawb: pre-SFA band. Sounds like a very early Welsh language Super Furries, if I'm honest.
Bush Tetras: veteran US post-rockers return. It's very good.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland: really excellent. His first properly new album in a long time. Swooping vocals, lovely percussion.
The Clientele: the, er, veteran indie poppers return with a lovely album. Quite ambient in a way. Way beyond jangle.
Dexys: reasonably good. The folkiness of late has gone replaced by something closer to soul.
Bethany Cosentino: the Best Coast singer solo. It's decent enough indie rock with some country twang.
Dot Allison: quite haunting. She's gone ambient, like an interesting Enya.
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek: sci-fi out there hip-hop/jazz interface. Very good.
Georgia: pop done quite well. Reminds me of last year's Lets Eat Grandma album only not quite as good.
Mutoid Man: old school metal. Some of it is good.
High Pulp: jazz, reasonably good.
Jessy Lanza: sophisticated electonica/pop. Pretty good.
Daniel Rossen: a live album from the Grizzly Bear man. It's good.
William the Conqueror: enjoyable folk influenced rock.
Balimaya Project: African influenced jazz. A good listen.
Album of the week: probably The Clientele.
There are new albums tomorrow from Art School GIrlfriend, Beth Bombara, Girl Ray, Mammoth WVH, Miles Kane, Quavo, Rick Springfield, Emil Amos, Go By Ocean and Holy Wave.
Paris Texas: out last week. Operates somewhere on the rap/rock interface, rather good.
Lifeguard: the sound of young America part 78632. They've releases 2 EPs (one last year, one a couple of weeks back) and The Observer gave them a glowing write up recently. They sound heavily influenced by Sonic Youth. Promising.
FFA Coffi Pawb: pre-SFA band. Sounds like a very early Welsh language Super Furries, if I'm honest.
Bush Tetras: veteran US post-rockers return. It's very good.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland: really excellent. His first properly new album in a long time. Swooping vocals, lovely percussion.
The Clientele: the, er, veteran indie poppers return with a lovely album. Quite ambient in a way. Way beyond jangle.
Dexys: reasonably good. The folkiness of late has gone replaced by something closer to soul.
Bethany Cosentino: the Best Coast singer solo. It's decent enough indie rock with some country twang.
Dot Allison: quite haunting. She's gone ambient, like an interesting Enya.
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek: sci-fi out there hip-hop/jazz interface. Very good.
Georgia: pop done quite well. Reminds me of last year's Lets Eat Grandma album only not quite as good.
Mutoid Man: old school metal. Some of it is good.
High Pulp: jazz, reasonably good.
Jessy Lanza: sophisticated electonica/pop. Pretty good.
Daniel Rossen: a live album from the Grizzly Bear man. It's good.
William the Conqueror: enjoyable folk influenced rock.
Balimaya Project: African influenced jazz. A good listen.
Album of the week: probably The Clientele.
There are new albums tomorrow from Art School GIrlfriend, Beth Bombara, Girl Ray, Mammoth WVH, Miles Kane, Quavo, Rick Springfield, Emil Amos, Go By Ocean and Holy Wave.
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Old Prestonian
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New album tomorrow from The Sherlocks as well. Independent release so probably not mentioned in your usual places.
The Music Man
Midfield
Julian Cope has a new album out, although it's not credited to anyone. It's called Robin Hood.
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Pretty average few weeks, and nowt much coming up either aside from Osees on 18/8
This week's weekly review comes to you from Slim Pickens, as that's what we have at the moment...
Floodlights: not particularly new, just a band who are playing Green Man, who I liked the sound of. Aussies, who get compared to The Triffids (early Triffids really). They're highly promising.
Girl Ray: they've gone full on disco. Very good at points, maybe a bit samey over all.
Beth Bombara: solid Americana, a decent album.
Go By Ocean: enjoyable, laidback alt-rock. Pretty good.
Holy Wave: indie rock, slightly psychedelic, reasonable.
Emil Amos: instrumental pieces, neither really rock nor jazz, quite soundtrack-ish.
Art School Girlfriend: vaguely toward the clubland end of shoegaze. Reminds me of The XX, very good.
Album of the Week: discounting Floodlights, it's easily Art School Girlfriend.
Floodlights: not particularly new, just a band who are playing Green Man, who I liked the sound of. Aussies, who get compared to The Triffids (early Triffids really). They're highly promising.
Girl Ray: they've gone full on disco. Very good at points, maybe a bit samey over all.
Beth Bombara: solid Americana, a decent album.
Go By Ocean: enjoyable, laidback alt-rock. Pretty good.
Holy Wave: indie rock, slightly psychedelic, reasonable.
Emil Amos: instrumental pieces, neither really rock nor jazz, quite soundtrack-ish.
Art School Girlfriend: vaguely toward the clubland end of shoegaze. Reminds me of The XX, very good.
Album of the Week: discounting Floodlights, it's easily Art School Girlfriend.
