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New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
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.
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Annie Hart probably worth a peruse
 

Arkle said:
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...
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Molly Tuttle, thanks marra!
 
Okay then, tomorrow we have new albums from Andrew Hung, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, G Flip, Jungle, Neil Young (Chrome Dreams, unreleased from 1977), Public Image Ltd., The Band CAMINO, The Hives, 'Tell Everybody' (a compilation produced by Dan Auerbach), Oiro Pena and Les Imprimes.
 
Arkle said:
Okay then, tomorrow we have new albums from Andrew Hung, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, G Flip, Jungle, Neil Young (Chrome Dreams, unreleased from 1977), Public Image Ltd., The Band CAMINO, The Hives, 'Tell Everybody' (a compilation produced by Dan Auerbach), Oiro Pena and Les Imprimes.
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It’s better but still not great!
 
Arkle said:
Okay then, tomorrow we have new albums from Andrew Hung, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, G Flip, Jungle, Neil Young (Chrome Dreams, unreleased from 1977), Public Image Ltd., The Band CAMINO, The Hives, 'Tell Everybody' (a compilation produced by Dan Auerbach), Oiro Pena and Les Imprimes.
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The hives will be worth a listen as will pil
 
Arkle said:
Okay then, tomorrow we have new albums from Andrew Hung, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, G Flip, Jungle, Neil Young (Chrome Dreams, unreleased from 1977), Public Image Ltd., The Band CAMINO, The Hives, 'Tell Everybody' (a compilation produced by Dan Auerbach), Oiro Pena and Les Imprimes.
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I’ve just discovered that Lucy Spraggan has released an album today as well.
 
My usual review of the week, somewhat influenced by things mentioned in the new Uncut:

Dustin Wong: experimental guitarist who is experimenting with electronica and new sounds. Kind of like Flying Lotus with added guitars.
Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire: laidback Americana from the former Replacement. Pretty good.
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: listened to this as they were recommended in Uncut by the bloke in charge of End of the Road. It's experimental/alt hiphop and it's pretty much excellent throughout. Came out last year.
Charlotte Cornfield: again a recommendation of the EotR man. She does, I guess, alt-folk. It's her 4th or 5th album and is very good. You'll probably like this if you like Courtney Barnett or The Magnetic Fields.
Oiro Pena: if you only listen to one Finnish jazz album this year, make it this one. It's sax fronted and pretty decent TBH.
Jungle: enjoyable enough. Doesn't really deviate from the previous three albums much.
Nicky Wire: this came out as a Bandcamp only release last month. It's very good, certainly better than some recent Manics releases.
Neil Young: one of the mythical lost albums. A fair few of the songs have come out in different forms on other albums. High quality and interesting.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: very good indeed. One of his quieter albums.
Kara Jackson: this came out earlier in the year. She's the former US youth laureate so lyrically very good. It's essentially folk with some experimentation. Tracy Chapman is the obvious, if decidedly lazy, comparison.
Tell Everybody!: a Dan Auerbach helmed blues(ish) compilation. Generally very good.
Natalie Rose LeBrecht: cosmic, meditative ambience with added vocals. Excellent TBH.
Gunn-Trucinski-Nace: experimental, instrumental guitar pieces. Gunn and Nace provide the guitars and Trucinski does drums and synths.
Andrew Hung: driving electronica, which works well but I find his vocals a tad annoying.
The Hives: massive amounts of fun to be had here. Sounds like peak period Rocket From the Crypt. Some bands get better with age.
Les Imprimes: excellent retro soul from, er, Kristiansand in Norway (the new Detroit?). Very highly recommended!
PiL: patchy but excellent at its best (Northwest Passage, Hawaii, Penge).

Album of the week: discounting Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals as it's from 2022, I'll say Les Imprimes. Charlotte Cornfield, BPB, Natalie Rose LeBrecht and The Hives come close though.
 
Arkle said:
My usual review of the week, somewhat influenced by things mentioned in the new Uncut:

Dustin Wong: experimental guitarist who is experimenting with electronica and new sounds. Kind of like Flying Lotus with added guitars.
Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire: laidback Americana from the former Replacement. Pretty good.
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: listened to this as they were recommended in Uncut by the bloke in charge of End of the Road. It's experimental/alt hiphop and it's pretty much excellent throughout. Came out last year.
Charlotte Cornfield: again a recommendation of the EotR man. She does, I guess, alt-folk. It's her 4th or 5th album and is very good. You'll probably like this if you like Courtney Barnett or The Magnetic Fields.
Oiro Pena: if you only listen to one Finnish jazz album this year, make it this one. It's sax fronted and pretty decent TBH.
Jungle: enjoyable enough. Doesn't really deviate from the previous three albums much.
Nicky Wire: this came out as a Bandcamp only release last month. It's very good, certainly better than some recent Manics releases.
Neil Young: one of the mythical lost albums. A fair few of the songs have come out in different forms on other albums. High quality and interesting.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: very good indeed. One of his quieter albums.
Kara Jackson: this came out earlier in the year. She's the former US youth laureate so lyrically very good. It's essentially folk with some experimentation. Tracy Chapman is the obvious, if decidedly lazy, comparison.
Tell Everybody!: a Dan Auerbach helmed blues(ish) compilation. Generally very good.
Natalie Rose LeBrecht: cosmic, meditative ambience with added vocals. Excellent TBH.
Gunn-Trucinski-Nace: experimental, instrumental guitar pieces. Gunn and Nace provide the guitars and Trucinski does drums and synths.
Andrew Hung: driving electronica, which works well but I find his vocals a tad annoying.
The Hives: massive amounts of fun to be had here. Sounds like peak period Rocket From the Crypt. Some bands get better with age.
Les Imprimes: excellent retro soul from, er, Kristiansand in Norway (the new Detroit?). Very highly recommended!
PiL: patchy but excellent at its best (Northwest Passage, Hawaii, Penge).

Album of the week: discounting Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals as it's from 2022, I'll say Les Imprimes. Charlotte Cornfield, BPB, Natalie Rose LeBrecht and The Hives come close though.
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I'm doing the new releases a day early this week as I'm off to Green Man first thing tomorrow and my time on the board will be limited. There are albums on Friday from Caroline Cotter, Cautious Clay, DeYarmond Edison (the band that spawned Bon Iver and Megafaun), Dizzy, Genesis Owusu, Giggs, Hozier, Jon Batiste, Margaret Glaspy, Osees, Renee Rapp, Rhiannon Giddens, The Xcerts, Gregory Alan Isakov, Arnold Dreyblatt & Orchestra of Excited Strings, Enji, Shamir, Pale Jay and Stephen Steinbrink,
 
Nice little half hour record from earlier in the year for anyone who'd be interested, bit of a blend of house and shoegazey stuff. Very fun.

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Arkle said:
I'm doing the new releases a day early this week as I'm off to Green Man first thing tomorrow and my time on the board will be limited. There are albums on Friday from Caroline Cotter, Cautious Clay, DeYarmond Edison (the band that spawned Bon Iver and Megafaun), Dizzy, Genesis Owusu, Giggs, Hozier, Jon Batiste, Margaret Glaspy, Osees, Renee Rapp, Rhiannon Giddens, The Xcerts, Gregory Alan Isakov, Arnold Dreyblatt & Orchestra of Excited Strings, Enji, Shamir, Pale Jay and Stephen Steinbrink,
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The View are back as well - them and Rhiannon Giddens for me tomorrow, maybe Osees if I have time.
 
That Fat Dog single is canny enough, bit of a viagra boys feel to it. Mind the lyrics are utter shite haha

Got tickets to see them at the cluny 2
 
James said:
They're absolutely shite like. :lol:
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:lol: I’ve had a feeling it can be 50/50 good or epically shite watching their live clips on insta

I’ve missed a few chances to see them so thought I’d tick them off. They seem to have quite a backing like even though the lack of actual releases. Seems they’re now with Domino.
 
Arkle said:
I'm doing the new releases a day early this week as I'm off to Green Man first thing tomorrow and my time on the board will be limited. There are albums on Friday from Caroline Cotter, Cautious Clay, DeYarmond Edison (the band that spawned Bon Iver and Megafaun), Dizzy, Genesis Owusu, Giggs, Hozier, Jon Batiste, Margaret Glaspy, Osees, Renee Rapp, Rhiannon Giddens, The Xcerts, Gregory Alan Isakov, Arnold Dreyblatt & Orchestra of Excited Strings, Enji, Shamir, Pale Jay and Stephen Steinbrink,
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how was green man, you see Lankum?
 
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