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New Music Releases Thread

There are new albums tomorrow from Enumclaw, Galliano, John~Legend, Jon Hopkins, Jonsi, Laurie Anderson, Los Bitchos, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, RZA, Tycho, Why Bonnie, Zedd, Lee Scratch Perry & Youth, Bug Club, Steve Wynn and Amy Rigby.
Used to love galliano. Interested to see how their sound has evolved. The plot thickens album was a whole new sound for them( about 30 years ago)now. Brilliant album. Just read somewhere they have done an Eddie chacon song on new album. Hope they have been working with him, he is brilliant.
 

Another October 4th release, Public Service Broadcasting album about aviator Amelia Earhart

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I'm a big fan, the first two tracks are good but I was mildly worried they're just rehashing the same sound over again. Bright Magic benefited from his time at Hansa in Berlin with a new direction of sound.
 
EOTR mini review as had to skip the Sunday. As usual, drinking in fields was better than bands

Bonnie Prince Billy - didn’t work. Maybe was too far back, but meh
Holiday Ghosts - fun. Will change no one’s life ever. Have irrational dislike of the guitarist.
King Hannah - spellbinding brilliance
Bill Ryder Jones - euphoric
Jockstrap - read EOTR review
IDLES - emperors new clothes
Lankum - very good, should have been louder
Julia Jacklin - surprising
Still House Plants - still absolutely dreadful
Sprints - absolutely magnificent, she’s the queen
Sextile - not for me. At all
Jellyskin - a band invented to play the Folly at EOTR
10mins of CMAT - super
 
EOTR mini review as had to skip the Sunday. As usual, drinking in fields was better than bands

Bonnie Prince Billy - didn’t work. Maybe was too far back, but meh
Holiday Ghosts - fun. Will change no one’s life ever. Have irrational dislike of the guitarist.
King Hannah - spellbinding brilliance
Bill Ryder Jones - euphoric
Jockstrap - read EOTR review
IDLES - emperors new clothes
Lankum - very good, should have been louder
Julia Jacklin - surprising
Still House Plants - still absolutely dreadful
Sprints - absolutely magnificent, she’s the queen
Sextile - not for me. At all
Jellyskin - a band invented to play the Folly at EOTR
10mins of CMAT - super
Why only 10 mins of cmat mate? Overlap?
 
Left BRJ, went for a piss and a pint, and then was so far back it wasn’t worth it.

I love the festival. It’s the best

The Indonesian curry place is the absolute bollocks

Was that the Indonesian coconut curry place (same one as Green Man)? If so, I thought it was pretty good.

My only issue with End of the Road was always that the Woods stage only really works if you're quite near the front. On the other hand, the Garden stage is probably my favourite festival stage.
 
Was that the Indonesian coconut curry place (same one as Green Man)? If so, I thought it was pretty good.

My only issue with End of the Road was always that the Woods stage only really works if you're quite near the front. On the other hand, the Garden stage is probably my favourite festival stage.
It was.

And I agree fully with your assessment.
 
Weekly review time:

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: stunningly good. The last few years have brought some of his/their best work.
Jonsi: I'm really liking this. It's kind of like a Sigur Ros album without vocals.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Youth: enjoyable if overlong album of spacedub.
Los Bitchos: instrumental party tunes. Very, very good throughout.
The Bug Club: their first for Sub Pop. They're great. This is witty, intelligent punky alt pop from Wales. They remind me a little of Brakes (who were tremendous).
Steve Wynn: a solo outing from the Dream Syndicate man. It's good. The songs are a little more focussed and shorter than Dream Syndicate songs can be.
Jon Hopkins: drone based ambi-ravew tunes. Nominally 9 tracks but they tend to merge together.
Galliano: good fun. The spoken word delivery makes me think of Ian Dury, althoughh musically there's little in common.
Laurie Anderson: a concept album about Amelia Earhart. Essentially diary entires over ambient(ish) music. Fascinating in terms of subject matter and really enjoyable.
Amy Rigby: very good, alt-rock/pop. Plenty of hooks and wit.
Enumclaw: excellent slacker alt-rock with all the right influences (Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth etc.)

Album of the week: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds easily, even in a strong week.
 
EOTR mini review as had to skip the Sunday. As usual, drinking in fields was better than bands

Bonnie Prince Billy - didn’t work. Maybe was too far back, but meh
Holiday Ghosts - fun. Will change no one’s life ever. Have irrational dislike of the guitarist.
King Hannah - spellbinding brilliance
Bill Ryder Jones - euphoric
Jockstrap - read EOTR review
IDLES - emperors new clothes
Lankum - very good, should have been louder
Julia Jacklin - surprising
Still House Plants - still absolutely dreadful
Sprints - absolutely magnificent, she’s the queen
Sextile - not for me. At all
Jellyskin - a band invented to play the Folly at EOTR
10mins of CMAT - super
Do you know if Katie Malco was playing or just there watching like your good self? She posted pics of her camping but wasn't clear if she'd also played
 
No love for the Wunderhorse album in here? Got the sound to be a darling of the SMB New Music Releases thread.

Thought they built on their debut really well, gig up here at NX at the end of October's already sold out so must be doing pretty well.
 
There are new albums released tomorrow by David Gilmour, Fred Again, George Strait, Hinds, HONNE, Max Richter, Mercury Rev, Midwife, MJ Lenderman, Paris Hilton, Shovels & Rope, Suuns, Tender, The The, Three Quarter Skies, Toro y Moi, Fat Dog, Jon Spencer, Laurence Pike, Nala Sinephro, Molchat Doma, Callahan & Witscher, Pale Jay, Party Dozen and Masayoshi Fujita.
 
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