My usual weekly review. There's quite a lot here as the new Uncut had some interesting stuff reviewed:
Master Peace: good album, a bit genre hopping. Rough Trade shops and NME both seem to live him. Not sure where to start as a description, some of it's a bit pop punk, other stuff gets a bit funky. There's a touch of early Jamie T on a couple of tracks.
Mannequin Pussy: listened to because people in this thread like them. Again, good album, the opening track is the stand out.
BryhM: a collaboration between Bruce Hornsby and yMusic. Kind of orchestrated chamber pop, high quality songs. Excellent.
Pregoblin: as mentioned immediately above, a really good debut. Dances around styles. I think they have some sort of Fat White connection so some tracks have that sleazy vibe to them.
Sheherazaad: Middle Eastern stuff, a little bit classical with vocals. Very, very good.
Credit Electric: low key, woozy country, a bit electronic at times. Highly intriguing. I've not checked but I probab ly said similar about their last album.
Yova: London based but the singer is from Macedonia. Quite nice, indie pop-ish, maybe a bit polite.
Dez Dare: this is excellent, sort of pychedelic punk. A new name to me.
Shooting Daggers: angry, female fronted rock which flys by (at 21 minutes, it should do).
Madi Diaz: countryish singer-songwriter who moonlights as part of Harry Styles' touring band. A very good album.
Cosmic Analog Ensemble: retro loungey exotica from Lebanon. Apparently, he's made a ton of albums. A lot of the vocals are in French. The best tracks are the more Middle Eastern ones.
Daniel Romano: not clear if this is solo or by Daniel Romano's Outfit as it varies from place to place. Anyway, it's a cracking album of slightly retro glam rock inflected songs. Terrific, basically.
Ben Frost: doomy guitar-tronica (is that a thing?). Very high quality stuff. Probably the album your mam will like least of this lot.
Bingo Fury: The Observer's one to watch from a couple of weeks back. Intriguing piano ballads with deep vocals. He's young and ginger and has made a good album here. I hope Bingo Fury is his real name but doubt it. (actually, he's called Jack Ogborne)
Pissed Jeans: angry alt rock. They're a very Sub Pop band. Pretty good as usual.
The Pheromoans: experimental psych rock from the home counties. There's a woozy, poppy feel to some of this. Good.
Faye Webster: laid back slacker country vibes, as usual. Vaguely reminiscent of Courtney Barnett, only not really. The track with Lil Yachty sharing vocals is a gem!
Amaro Freitas: He's a Brazilian jazz pianist.This explores indigenous rhythms and crescendoes in something terrific. Quite esoteric but very good.
Shaina Hayes: Canadian singer-songwriter A little bit folky. This is a very good album.
Liam Gallagher & John Squire: the lower Gallagher and the chipshop Hendrix get together to create something they probably shouldn't have made. Fair enough, Squire can play the guitar but Gallagher's voice isn't what it was and, good grief, the lyrics (written by Squire) are woeful.
Everything Everything: business as usual, as they make another albuym of very good slightly pychedelic electro-pop, which garnes enough interest for them to make their next album.
Yard Act: I think this is a real step forward from their debut (which I liked). Much more musically diverse and in Blackpool Illuminations, they have a gem of a song.
Sheer Mag: punky, soulful, generally excellent. I can't see why you wouldn't like thi (band name aside).
Aziza Brahim: protest songs from North Africa (she was born in a refugee camp in Algeria and is Sahwari). She takes traditional North African rhythms and infuses them with Spanish and Cuban sounds to make something pretty special.
Hannah Frances: folk with jazzy undertones. This is a good album.
Tra Phaidin: they're Irish, much liked by Lankum and I'm probably a bit late coming to them. There's something quite GSBYE! about this album, although they seem a little less apocalyptic. Really very good.
Album of the week: I think probably Daniel Romano, although several others run him close (Tra Phaidin, Yard Act, Sheer Mag, Bingo Fury, Aziza Brahim, Master Peace, Dez Dare, Pregoblin amongst others). It's fairly obvious who the pairing at the bottom of the class are (those lyrics!).
