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New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
My review of the week's new stuff, starting with a review of stuff that's new to me because the albums where physical releases only and I've just picked them up.

The Coral: 'Holy Joe's Coral Island Medicine Show' is a companion both to Sea of Mirrors (released on the same day) and Coral Island (thematically). It's good, some excellent songs on here, alongside short spoken word bits.
Latin Freestyle - New York/ Miami 1983 - 1992: a Pete wiggs and Bob Stanley compilation of, well, Latin freestyle from that decade. Good stuff, if a bit samey over the full set.
Bobby Gillespie Presents • I Still Can't Believe You're Gone: I think the idea is that it's chilled out tracks that Bobby G plays before going on stage. Big names (Dylan, Cave, Al Green etc.), terrific tunes.
The Auteurs: the motherload really, the complete EMI recordings box. Six discs of all the albums (including Baader Meinhof) plus B-sides, demos, live tracks etc. Superb stuff.

None of them are really valid for album of the week, however so on to the contenders...

Matmos: over the years, Matmos have made some terrific experimental records. This isn't one of them. Sounds like a ZX81 game loading mostly.
Jockstrap: more a reimagining than a remix album. This is pretty terrific, again. Very little relationship to the original album.
Viji: as recommended by @chunkyshanhawk53 last week. I like this. Slacker indie rock singersongwriter type stuff.
bar italia: good but not as good as their previous album. I still like the vocal interchanges but some of the slower songs drag a little.
Laura Veirs: very simple instrumentation, good songs, good album.
Robert Finley: held over from last week (i.e. I forgot to listen to him). A very good blues album, essentially.
New Age Doom & Tuvaband: as also recommended by @chunkyshanhawk53 last week. Proggy, post-rocky, spacey. My only previous experience of New Age Doom was their Lee 'Scratch' Perry thing. I like this.
Marnie Stern: she's back. Guitars are shredded, there's weird girly vocals, sounds like nobody else really. Very good but all too brief.
King Creosote: he's back. Cracking folkie songs leading up to an epic almost closer that leads to an even more epic 36 minute actual closer. Cracking album!
Danielle Howle: I like this a lot. Americana, basically, very good songs.
Drop Nineteens: they're back. 30 years after splitting here's album number 3 for the once hotly tipped indie rock band. Excellent, it is, as well.
Sarah Davachi: four tracks of neo-classical brilliance. Drones and strings, drones and strings, drones and strings
Jeffrey Martin: apparently recorded in his shed. There's nowhere to hide in a shed. This is an album of quite lovely songs, just Jeff and his guitar mostly.
Half Stack: more slacker indie rock. Very good, chufs away nicely.
Empty Country: indie rock with space in it. I need to check out their debut. Very good1
Kevin Drew: the Broken Social Scene main man is back. Likeable enough.
Jacknife Lee, Budgie & Lol Tolhurst: very good indeed. Guest heavy (Bobby G appears a lot), quite percussive. I like a lot.

Album of the week: I think King Creosote pips it for me.
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I’m gagging to listen to the new King Creosote record but I can’t stop listening to the lol Tolhurst / jacknife Lee record at the minute.
 

mad cyril said:
Glad you agree. Even on first listen I was still half expecting a duff track to appear but it never did. Superb from start to finish and yeah, I can’t think of a better record this year.
I actually had no idea Lol Tolhurst was in the Cure :oops:
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He was still in em when I saw them with the associates and the passions. When pushing the 17 secs album at NCH anarl supported by a fillum about a meccanno robot……..cue a mass rush to the bar. Its only a few years back that I found out he’d been given the push.

Im gonna give this post punk supergroup album a go mesel.
Billy Batts said:
Looking forward to Black Pumas album.
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On the first few listens I’m not loving it as much as the debut and liveish ones. But it’s getting better. The start of Mrs Postman is straight from the blaxploitation soundtrack era.
 
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Arkle said:
There are new albums tommorrow from Aesop Rock. Art Feynman, Beirut, Cat Power, Chris Stapleton, Cold War Kids, Johnny Flynn & Robert McFarlane, Pinkpantheress, Scream, Chartreuse, Niecy Blues, Alternative TV, Togo All Stars, David Holmes, John Francis Flynn, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Sunwatchers and Bas Jan.
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Just Aesop Rock there for me I think, probably Cat Power too.

One that appears to have slipped under the radar last week is the new album from Jaime Wyatt -“Feel Good”. Motown influenced Americana, I’m enjoying it a lot.
 
only just discovered Youth Lagoon and the album he put out this summer. Its really decent.
Mickdundee said:
One that appears to have slipped under the radar last week is the new album from Jaime Wyatt -“Feel Good”. Motown influenced Americana, I’m enjoying it a lot.
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listening on your recomendation and really enjoying it! Love Is A Place is a sensational song!
 
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Shambo said:
only just discovered Youth Lagoon and the album he put out this summer. Its really decent.

listening on your recomendation and really enjoying it! Love Is A Place is a sensational song!
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I’d never heard of her until January when she came over to the U.K. with the Dropkick Murphy’s. Bizarrely (or not since she’s a completely different style of music) she wasn’t on the bill, they just brought her out to sing on “The Dirty Glass”.

I never actually got around to checking out her stuff until I saw the album had been released.
 
Listened to the first half of the new David Holmes record out today, Its long at over an hour but was very very good. His usual style that he does very well.
 
Sipho album was released the other week (26th) and just got round to listening to it. It’s good.

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jacko100 said:
Tour announced too
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They could have easily fitted a nice little gig at the sage in there, unfortunately can’t afford to fork out for the travel and accommodation for manc, Glasgow or London at the moment :(
 
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