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New Music Releases Thread

I know the writer of the Holly Humberstone album (no not Holly herself…) He’s amazingly talented so will probably listen at one point although I don’t think it would but my usual taste. Boygenius songs are nice but in the most case I see why they didn’t make the album. Just a little more removed from the flow of The Record. Still nice though. I really like powers
 

John Strohm (guitarist from Blake Babies and early Lemonheads) has an album out - Rough Trade says today but looks like a couple of weeks ago, so maybe that lag between streaming and physical product. Singer-songwriter, laid back Americana, some lightly country tinged. Quite liking it so far.
 
Thirty seconds into this new Streets album and the lyrics I'm listening to are

Weyyooooo
Too much yayo
Weyyooooo
Too much yayo

Wasn't expecting much but christ it's absolutely dreadful. Seems to be getting decent enough reviews so fair enough, worst album I've listened to this year though.
 
I seem to get a lot more music listened to on international weekends so my review of the week:

Geese: an EP which takes them further down the Stones gone soul path the latest album hinted at. Really good.
The Streets: the opening track is awful. After that, it gets better. The closing 'Good Old Daze' is very good. Better than I expected.
Flamingods: psychedelia from the UK. It's pretty good.
boygenius: four nice songs, obviously things that didn't make the cut for the album for whatever reason. Good.
Squirrel Flower: singer-songwriter. As before, reminds me a little of Sharon van Etten and Angel Olsen. I like it.
Margo Price: companion tracks to Strays. Nine songs which all work well. No idea why they aren't on the original album.
The Mary Wallopers: you know the deal. They're new Pogues but actually all from Ireland. Excellent songs, mostly traditional but some of their own in there.
Mike Donovan: the singer from Sic Alps solo. This is pretty good but also pretty weird. Influenced by Tom Waits and Sonic Youth in equal measure.
Jeff Moller: solo debut but he's been working with a lot of bands over the years. Slacker indie rock, which is very well done.
The Vacant Lots: synthy indie rock. Very upbeat, slightly sleazy, quite brief, pretty good.
Land of Talk: their fifth album. More indie rock with psychedelic touches, quite gentle and reflective at times, epic at others.
Goat: again, you know what you're getting with Goat. Psych rock excellence, chanted vocals etc. Very good.
Kacey Johansing: ornate singer-songwriter stuff. This has been out digitally for a while. She's good.
CMAT: witty, wry, excellent. She's moved a little away from the countrish songs on her debut.
Allah-Lahs: this is better than I remember them being previously. Good songs which deviate from the Byrdsy jangle of earlier albums.
Metric: companion pieces to earlier releases seem to be a running theme this week. This is Formentera II. It's a good solid album that sounds a lot like, well, Metric.
Daniel Villareal: instrumental Latin rock, slightly jazzish. Pretty good.

Album of the week: I think I'm enjoying The Mary Wallopers most. CMAT, Goat anf Jeff Moller also very good.
 
There are new albums tomorrow from Blink 182 (one for @Mickdundee), Bombay Bicycle Club, Chris Shiflett, Dhani Harrison, Duff McKagan, Dylan LeBlanc, Emma Anderson, Forest Swords, Knuckle Puck,Lee Gamble, Lost Girls, Naomi Sharon, Pip Blom, Radar Peak, Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter, Sampha, Sun June, The Rolling Stones, the compilation International Anthem vol XII (a tribute to Michael Chapman), Hauschka, Dirt Buyer, Marta Del Grandi, Sparkle Division, Nitin Sawhney, Israel Nash and Crime & the City Solution.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Blink 182 (one for @Mickdundee), Bombay Bicycle Club, Chris Shiflett, Dhani Harrison, Duff McKagan, Dylan LeBlanc, Emma Anderson, Forest Swords, Knuckle Puck,Lee Gamble, Lost Girls, Naomi Sharon, Pip Blom, Radar Peak, Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter, Sampha, Sun June, The Rolling Stones, the compilation International Anthem vol XII (a tribute to Michael Chapman), Hauschka, Dirt Buyer, Marta Del Grandi, Sparkle Division, Nitin Sawhney, Israel Nash and Crime & the City Solution.
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Skinny Lister missing from your list as well.

Blink, Chris Shiflett and Skinny Lister for me this week!
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Blink 182 (one for @Mickdundee), Bombay Bicycle Club, Chris Shiflett, Dhani Harrison, Duff McKagan, Dylan LeBlanc, Emma Anderson, Forest Swords, Knuckle Puck,Lee Gamble, Lost Girls, Naomi Sharon, Pip Blom, Radar Peak, Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter, Sampha, Sun June, The Rolling Stones, the compilation International Anthem vol XII (a tribute to Michael Chapman), Hauschka, Dirt Buyer, Marta Del Grandi, Sparkle Division, Nitin Sawhney, Israel Nash and Crime & the City Solution.
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As @Mickdundee has already pointed out you have omitted the highly anticipated album from the mighty Skinny Lister from your list which will undoubtedly be my 'Album of the Year'.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Blink 182 (one for @Mickdundee), Bombay Bicycle Club, Chris Shiflett, Dhani Harrison, Duff McKagan, Dylan LeBlanc, Emma Anderson, Forest Swords, Knuckle Puck,Lee Gamble, Lost Girls, Naomi Sharon, Pip Blom, Radar Peak, Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter, Sampha, Sun June, The Rolling Stones, the compilation International Anthem vol XII (a tribute to Michael Chapman), Hauschka, Dirt Buyer, Marta Del Grandi, Sparkle Division, Nitin Sawhney, Israel Nash and Crime & the City Solution.
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first Bathers album for 20 or so years out tomorrow:cool:
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Slightly late this week, for various reasons, my review of the new stuff I've been listening to this week:

Pale Saints: 30th anniversary expanded reissue of their second album. Still very good. By this point. they'd gone from hot new things to "another band" as far as the press were concerned. Includes demos etc. plus a couple of their tracks recorded by a brass band, given away as a 7" with initial vinyl pressings of the album (I have the 7" somewhere).
Ruth Mascelli: the keyboard player in Special Interest solo. They do a mix of electronica and, well, electronic balladry. Pretty good.
La Force: coffee table folk. Lovely voice, well arranged just a tad bland at times.
Flat Worms: pretty good, Ty Segall produced indie rock.
Jeremy Dutcher: he's an indigenous Canadian whose debut won the Polaris Prize (their Mercury) a few years back. His second album mixes songs in English and his native language. He's got a cracking voice. At times, it's like Anohni fronting Foreigner.
The Drums: weird cover photo. The tunes are kind of Smithsian indie with electronic twists. Some very good songs, some not so good. Decent.
David Eugene Edwards: the 16 Horsepower front man solo. It's good. I'd describe it as kind of ornate, gothic folk rock.
The Orb & David Gilmour: remixes of an album they released together several years ago. I'm not sure how much resemblance there is to the original. The first half is the kind of trippy dubtronica you associate with The Orb, the second half more abstract electronica, moon landing clips etc.
Forest Swords: mostly instrumental, abstract electronica, with occasional largely wordless vocals. Decent.
Bombay Bicycle Club: pleasantly entertaining indie pop, much like mother used to make. Damon Albarn appears on the best track, as is his thing.
Skinny Lister: nautically themed folk punk is the order of the day this time round. It's good. I still much prefer the songs Dan sings to the songs Lorna sings.
Imaginational Anthems Vol XII: a lovingly prepared tribute album to Michael Chapman made by fellow Yorkshire people. Some of it stays faithful to his originals, others take his music in drastically different directions. All exceptionally good though.
Dylan Leblanc: ostensibly a concept album about an old time character called Coyote and his adventures. Essentially, it's another very good Leblanc album of polished Americana.
Marta Del Grandi: second album, I think, from the Italian singer-songwriter. She's jazz trained but record sort of west coast folk rock meshed with indiepop and eastern influences. Altogether, it sounds quite Lynchian. Very good.
Lost Girls: album 2 from Jenny Hval and her mate Havard. It's more electronica with Hval's vocals over the top. Very good again, although I'm not sure what differentiates it from a Jenny Hval solo record, form a listening point of view.
Israel Nash: another very good album. His Springsteen influences are fairly clear on this, although his voice is markedly different from Bruce's.
Crime & the City Solution: good. The long running, line up mutatinig, originally Aussie, originally knocking about with the Bad Seeds band return. Cinematic alt balladry is the order of the day.
Pip Blom: melodic post-punk-pop. Very engaging. One song sounds so much like Franz Ferdinand that they've got Alex Kapranos to do co-lead vocals on it.
Emma Anderson: the solo debut from the one time Lush co-lead. Quite 90s shoegaze/indie. Nice enough.
The Rolling Stones: TBH, this is an absolute cracker of an album. Really very good.

Album of the week: Mick, Keith and Ron have it.
 
Arkle said:
Skinny Lister: nautically themed folk punk is the order of the day this time round. It's good. I still much prefer the songs Dan sings to the songs Lorna sings.
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As a general rule, I prefer the songs where Dan does the lead vocals but 'Mantra' is an absolute belter of a song and a slightly different style to anything else which they have released.
 
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