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New Music Releases Thread

James said:
Really enjoying the Orchid Mantis record. It's lo-fi bliss.

The Hovvdy new one is decent as well but it's a good 20 mins too long though, just doesn't need to be that length and would benefit from a trim.

I've tried a few times but the new Lemon Twigs isn't working for me. It's too 60s, if that's even possible for them. Not a patch on Everything Harmony.

The Big Special record is crap. They're a pound shop Yard Act. Flat.

It's not particularly new, think it came out in March time, but that Vegyn record is very good. I've been addicted to that for weeks now. Not seen it mentioned on here.
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I thought the same of the new Lemon twigs albums but persevered and while not as good as the last one there are some cracking tunes on there.
 

There are new albums tomorrow from Aaron Carter, Bess Atwell, Diiv, Kim Richey, La Luz, Lenny Kravitz, Old Man Luedecke, RM, Twenty One Pilots, Wallows, Adam Ross, Mui Zyu, Finom (formerly Ohmme), Rowena Wise, Normil Hawaiians, Sean Khan & the Modern Jazz & Folk Ensemble, Bill MacKay, Paul Weller, Isobel Campbell and Aluminum.
 
Arkle said:
There are new albums tomorrow from Aaron Carter, Bess Atwell, Diiv, Kim Richey, La Luz, Lenny Kravitz, Old Man Luedecke, RM, Twenty One Pilots, Wallows, Adam Ross, Mui Zyu, Finom (formerly Ohmme), Rowena Wise, Normil Hawaiians, Sean Khan & the Modern Jazz & Folk Ensemble, Bill MacKay, Paul Weller, Isobel Campbell and Aluminum.
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not much there. DIIV are good
 
Will definitely give La luz a listen. By the way, listened to Lovely Eggs's album this morning, and think it's great.Daft In places, but some excellent tunes in there.I kinda love there daftness n'all.
 
Franc Moody, Kavinsky, and Jungle are the most recent additions to my good mood playlist! don't crank up Kavinsky behind the wheel, though; it's too easy to step on the pedal :lol:
 
My toundup of the previous two weeks as I'm still in catch up mode... (this week will follow at some point)

Orville Peck: duets with a variety of artists. Some tracks are ace, some a tad unneeded (I can see why he and Elton might do Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting together live, not sure it needs recording).
Big Special: well, I really like them. I see more Sleaford Mods, or even Bob Vylan, in them than Yard Act.
Kaia Kater: as usual, really very good indeed. Banjo led folk. Listen if you like Rhiannon Giddens or Alison Russell.
Les Savy Fav: it's great that they're back. Not sure this hits earlier heights but still highly enjoyable taut post-punk with hooky choruses.
Of Montreal: it's a decent Of Montreal album but not their best, Skewed indiepop as usual. Listenable.
Chanel Beads: as mentioned by @James a week or two back. Slightly odd and covers a lot of ground stylistically. Quite laidback
Lip Critic: this is excellent. The vibe reminds me of Crack Cloud crossed with Atari Teenage Riot. Essentially, people ranting over a drum machine, guitars and keys.
Kncoked Loose: proper screamo metal but there are choruses and hooks. Not my usual thing but enjoyable. Got a 5/5 from The Guardian.
Dehd: Excellent, Slacker indie-rock. Reminds me a little of Pavement at times.
Villagers: enjoyable singer-songwriter stuff. Quite ballady.
Mick Harvey: Bad seeds alumnus one for the week. Cracking stuff. There's a Cave vibe. Very much the quiet storm. Lyrically excellent and a marvellous cover of "Like a Hurricane".
Myriam Gendron: folkie French Canadian singer-songwriter. Excellent songs and well worth checking out.
Keeley Forsyth: stark electronic music and operatic vocals. Quite a challenging album, may need a few listens.
Josienne Clark: this is nice. Folk vibes again, good voice, good songs.
The Avett Brothers: country brothers get a Rick Rubin production. Pretty good.
Barry Adamson: Bad Seeds alumnus two. More of an upbeat thing going on. Very, very good.
Beth Gibbons: I have to agree with all of the reviews, this is tremendous. More organic than Portishead, tremendous songs at its heart.
The Crumbs: boy/girl vocal indie pop. Very enjoyable. Not to be confused with Crumb whose album is out soon.
Unwed Sailor: instumental indie rock, vaguely attuned to post-rock. Very good indeed.
The Lovely Eggs: great as always. Skronky, indie pop/rock. They're ace.
Jess Ribeiro: this is very good. I got drawn in by the semi-spoken word opener and was properly immersed. Vague folk/psych vibes.
Blitzen Trapper: country affiliated indie rock. Pretty enjoyable. They do their thing well.
Bab L'Bluz: Moroccan Gnawa blues. They're an excellent band. Give them a listen.
Amen Dunes: excellent, not sure of a direct comparison. Electronic stuff, almost pop.
Pokey LaFarge: another episode of his strange country. There are more danceable vibes here, might be his best album.
Arab Strap: their second career is eclipsing the first. This may be the best thing they've done. Superb!
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: lovely songs, great lyrics. The biggest star this country doesn't have.
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall: black female artists doing, well, the sonfs of Alice Ranfdall. Extremely high quality throughout. Some of the singers have been mentioned/praised in this thread, others less well known.
The Power of the heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed: a patchy but well meaning tribute album. Established names abound.

Albums of the Fortnight: strong competition but if I had to pick two then Beth Gibbons and Arab Strap. Mick Harvey, Dehd, Lip Critic, Michael Head, Jess Ribeiro, Amen Dubes and Pokey all close.
 
Arkle said:
My toundup of the previous two weeks as I'm still in catch up mode... (this week will follow at some point)

Orville Peck: duets with a variety of artists. Some tracks are ace, some a tad unneeded (I can see why he and Elton might do Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting together live, not sure it needs recording).
Big Special: well, I really like them. I see more Sleaford Mods, or even Bob Vylan, in them than Yard Act.
Kaia Kater: as usual, really very good indeed. Banjo led folk. Listen if you like Rhiannon Giddens or Alison Russell.
Les Savy Fav: it's great that they're back. Not sure this hits earlier heights but still highly enjoyable taut post-punk with hooky choruses.
Of Montreal: it's a decent Of Montreal album but not their best, Skewed indiepop as usual. Listenable.
Chanel Beads: as mentioned by @James a week or two back. Slightly odd and covers a lot of ground stylistically. Quite laidback
Lip Critic: this is excellent. The vibe reminds me of Crack Cloud crossed with Atari Teenage Riot. Essentially, people ranting over a drum machine, guitars and keys.
Kncoked Loose: proper screamo metal but there are choruses and hooks. Not my usual thing but enjoyable. Got a 5/5 from The Guardian.
Dehd: Excellent, Slacker indie-rock. Reminds me a little of Pavement at times.
Villagers: enjoyable singer-songwriter stuff. Quite ballady.
Mick Harvey: Bad seeds alumnus one for the week. Cracking stuff. There's a Cave vibe. Very much the quiet storm. Lyrically excellent and a marvellous cover of "Like a Hurricane".
Myriam Gendron: folkie French Canadian singer-songwriter. Excellent songs and well worth checking out.
Keeley Forsyth: stark electronic music and operatic vocals. Quite a challenging album, may need a few listens.
Josienne Clark: this is nice. Folk vibes again, good voice, good songs.
The Avett Brothers: country brothers get a Rick Rubin production. Pretty good.
Barry Adamson: Bad Seeds alumnus two. More of an upbeat thing going on. Very, very good.
Beth Gibbons: I have to agree with all of the reviews, this is tremendous. More organic than Portishead, tremendous songs at its heart.
The Crumbs: boy/girl vocal indie pop. Very enjoyable. Not to be confused with Crumb whose album is out soon.
Unwed Sailor: instumental indie rock, vaguely attuned to post-rock. Very good indeed.
The Lovely Eggs: great as always. Skronky, indie pop/rock. They're ace.
Jess Ribeiro: this is very good. I got drawn in by the semi-spoken word opener and was properly immersed. Vague folk/psych vibes.
Blitzen Trapper: country affiliated indie rock. Pretty enjoyable. They do their thing well.
Bab L'Bluz: Moroccan Gnawa blues. They're an excellent band. Give them a listen.
Amen Dunes: excellent, not sure of a direct comparison. Electronic stuff, almost pop.
Pokey LaFarge: another episode of his strange country. There are more danceable vibes here, might be his best album.
Arab Strap: their second career is eclipsing the first. This may be the best thing they've done. Superb!
Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: lovely songs, great lyrics. The biggest star this country doesn't have.
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall: black female artists doing, well, the sonfs of Alice Ranfdall. Extremely high quality throughout. Some of the singers have been mentioned/praised in this thread, others less well known.
The Power of the heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed: a patchy but well meaning tribute album. Established names abound.

Albums of the Fortnight: strong competition but if I had to pick two then Beth Gibbons and Arab Strap. Mick Harvey, Dehd, Lip Critic, Michael Head, Jess Ribeiro, Amen Dubes and Pokey all close.
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Another good round up, always find something new

With try Lip Critic today, before Wide Awake festival
 
Not keen on the Avett Brothers album. No Hard Feelings was one of my favourite songs from 2016, and have enjoyed their other stuff. But this just seems a bit odd tbh
 
The new record from Memorial is really lovely. Nice track on here with Lomelda as well.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Dehd record too. They've mostly passed me by but this is well worth a listen.

Britpop by A.G Cooke is a cracking listen as well for the electronic fans on here.
 
My usual weekly review (spent a long time on a train yesterday so catching up with stuff):

Adam Ross: a nice album of folk aligned Scottish indiepop. Worth a listen.
Finom: good in places, dual vocals, indie rock. Not as good as some of the stuff they recorded as Ohmme.
Rowena Wise: Australian singer songwriter, good album, kind of indie folk.
Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: I like this. Two folk voices combining to good effect. A little Belle & Sebastian at times.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: a psychedelic soundtrack to an imaginary Italian film. This is exceptionally good. They've gone the whole hog with clips of dialogue from the "film". A long way on from the Black Sabbathisms of their early recordings.
Dele Sosimi & the Estuary 21: Sosimi was part of Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 and has had a long career playing keys. This is a quite lovely mini-album of Afro-jazz made with, slightly oddly, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly.
Normil Hawaiians: Kent based post-punks return with their first album in a long time. It's very good, marrying post-punk with spoken word and ambient sounds.
Sean Khan & the Modern Jazz & Folk Emsemble: jazzed up versions of folk songs. Pretty good.
Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements: harp and electronics, very good.
La Luz: very good, reminiscent of Breeders at times. Good band.
Bibi Club: this is lovely. A little bit dreampop, a little bit Stereolab. Vocals in both English and French.
Bill MacKay: guitar to the fore as usual but vocals as well. This is a nice album.
BMX Bandits: the indie jangle pop of yore is gone to be replaced by something a little more reflective. A little Belle & Sebastian at times.
Alessandro "Asso" Stefana: psych folk from Italy, executive produced by PJ Harvey, whatever that means. Ends with a long electronic drone track.
Paul Weller: he's been on a good run of albums, this one isn't quite up there. Less rocky than recent albums, some tracks resemble The Style Council.
Diiv: good as has been mentioned. Reminiscent of early Ride at times.
Bess Atwell: third album from the singer-songwriter. It gets a Dessner production. A little Boygenius. Very good.
Jo Bartlett: the Jo of It's Jo and Danny (whose song Arkle is the main reason for my username). This is very good, as I expected, a mix of electronica, sunny pop and post-punk.
Joe Gideon: still minus The Shark. Really good, as usual, dark almost pop.
Huun-Huur-Tu, Carmen Rizzo & Dhani Harrison: Tuuvan throat singing at its finest with George's lad overseeing. Very good.
Young Jesus: very impressive, reminds me of Jeff Buckley a little at times.
Memorial: lovely, delicate indiepop/rock. Very good.

Album of the week: strong competition but I'll just about give it to Bibi Club. About 8 others close.
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
It’s not my thing at all usually, but Billie Eilish is actually pretty darn good

Beth Gibbons is very good
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Billie Eilish’s album is superb. Beth Gibbons took a couple of listens but I really like it. I see she’s playing a few dates with Bill Ryder-Jones too but dates and locations don’t fall well for me, otherwise pretty great double header
 
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