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New Music Releases Thread


Arkle said:
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.
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Looks like I will be buying The Bad Seeds record then.
 
The The album is very The The-ish. No stand out tracks for me yet though. They normally have at least 3 or 4 per album, nothing has grabbed me yet. Will probably grow on me more after a few listens? Anyone listened to mercury revs yet? Will have a listen over the weekend
 
Skylon said:
The The album is very The The-ish. No stand out tracks for me yet though. They normally have at least 3 or 4 per album, nothing has grabbed me yet. Will probably grow on me more after a few listens? Anyone listened to mercury revs yet? Will have a listen over the weekend
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Listenened to The The last night and Mercury Rev this morning. I think The The will grow on me although agree nothing really stood out. Found Mercury Rev quite boring and initially I'm not keen on the spoken vocals, but not dismissing it already. Will listen again.
 
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Weekly review time:

Toro y Moi: good album, his usual mix of R'n'B, alt rock and shoegaze. Some very good songs.
The Heavy Heavy: debut full album from them. A bit trad rock but good songs.
Fat Dog: enjoyable, kind of Fat White Lite.
Three Quarter Skies: solo album from Simon Scott of Slowdive. It's good. A little more obstuse than Slowdive,
The The: it's okay. Matt Johnson has a great voice still, just not sure the songs are that great.
Jon Spencer: back to basics blues'n'roll. Only 19 minutes long and the time flies by.
Max Richter: modern classical as per. Very good as per.
Laurence Pike: a mix of ambient electronica, jazz and psychedelia from an Australian drummer. Very impressive!
Nala Sinephro: Belgian jazztronica, her second album. It's excellent.
Molchat Doma: the Belarusian Depeche Mode, now resident in LA, return with an album that sounds like Depeche Mode but sung in Belarusian (or maybe Russian?). Very good.
Hinds: really enjoyable Spanish indie rock, as expected.
David Gilmour: the first in a long time from the Pink Floyd man. Enjoyable, probably a grower.
Callahan & Witscher: this is marvellous. Not sure how to describe it except fun, experimental, poppy, rocky.
Pale Jay: excellent retro soul, terrific voice, great songs.
Party Dozen: Australian noise rockers. Largely instrumental, very good, sound like they would be excellent live.
MJ Lenderman: he is a proper talent, great songs, a lovely album.
Masayoshi Fujita: Japanese electronica. Really lovely.
Shovels & Rope: rollicking country rock as always. Excellent!
Mercury Rev: interesting. Not sure what to make of the use of spoken word but some of it is lovely.
Suuns: the masters of downbeat indie rock are back. Really good.

Album of the week: I'm going for a pairing of Callahan & Witscher and MJ Lenderman this week. Both exceptional.
 
Arkle said:
Weekly review time:

Toro y Moi: good album, his usual mix of R'n'B, alt rock and shoegaze. Some very good songs.
The Heavy Heavy: debut full album from them. A bit trad rock but good songs.
Fat Dog: enjoyable, kind of Fat White Lite.
Three Quarter Skies: solo album from Simon Scott of Slowdive. It's good. A little more obstuse than Slowdive,
The The: it's okay. Matt Johnson has a great voice still, just not sure the songs are that great.
Jon Spencer: back to basics blues'n'roll. Only 19 minutes long and the time flies by.
Max Richter: modern classical as per. Very good as per.
Laurence Pike: a mix of ambient electronica, jazz and psychedelia from an Australian drummer. Very impressive!
Nala Sinephro: Belgian jazztronica, her second album. It's excellent.
Molchat Doma: the Belarusian Depeche Mode, now resident in LA, return with an album that sounds like Depeche Mode but sung in Belarusian (or maybe Russian?). Very good.
Hinds: really enjoyable Spanish indie rock, as expected.
David Gilmour: the first in a long time from the Pink Floyd man. Enjoyable, probably a grower.
Callahan & Witscher: this is marvellous. Not sure how to describe it except fun, experimental, poppy, rocky.
Pale Jay: excellent retro soul, terrific voice, great songs.
Party Dozen: Australian noise rockers. Largely instrumental, very good, sound like they would be excellent live.
MJ Lenderman: he is a proper talent, great songs, a lovely album.
Masayoshi Fujita: Japanese electronica. Really lovely.
Shovels & Rope: rollicking country rock as always. Excellent!
Mercury Rev: interesting. Not sure what to make of the use of spoken word but some of it is lovely.
Suuns: the masters of downbeat indie rock are back. Really good.

Album of the week: I'm going for a pairing of Callahan & Witscher and MJ Lenderman this week. Both exceptional.
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That’s great, but Midwife and Jon Hopkins?

Edit: Hopkins was last week.

But what about Party Dozen and knitting?
 
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Going early with the week's new releases as I'm flying to Kenya tomorrow (ooh, look at me etc.). This also means that this week and next I won't get a lot of new music listened to. Anyway, enough of me and on with the good stuff. On Friday, we have new albums from Allegra Krieger, Chastity, Cursive, Dale Crover, Floating Points, Fozing, Jade Hairpins, John Early, Jule Dawson (NewDad singer), London Grammar, Loveless, Miranda Lambert, Nada Surf, Nick Lowe, Nilufer Yanya, Porches, Snow Patrol, Suki Waterhouse, The Jesus Lizard, Tindersticks, TR/ST, Trentemoller, We Are Winter's Blue and Radiant Children, Andrew Tuttle & Michael Chapman, Willie Watson, Chilly Gonzales, Faust, Sarah Davachi, Mermaid Chunky, Colin Stetson and El Khat.
 
Arkle said:
Going early with the week's new releases as I'm flying to Kenya tomorrow (ooh, look at me etc.). This also means that this week and next I won't get a lot of new music listened to. Anyway, enough of me and on with the good stuff. On Friday, we have new albums from Allegra Krieger, Chastity, Cursive, Dale Crover, Floating Points, Fozing, Jade Hairpins, John Early, Jule Dawson (NewDad singer), London Grammar, Loveless, Miranda Lambert, Nada Surf, Nick Lowe, Nilufer Yanya, Porches, Snow Patrol, Suki Waterhouse, The Jesus Lizard, Tindersticks, TR/ST, Trentemoller, We Are Winter's Blue and Radiant Children, Andrew Tuttle & Michael Chapman, Willie Watson, Chilly Gonzales, Faust, Sarah Davachi, Mermaid Chunky, Colin Stetson and El Khat.
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I'm still waiting for the Paris Hilton review tbh!
 
Arkle said:
Going early with the week's new releases as I'm flying to Kenya tomorrow (ooh, look at me etc.). This also means that this week and next I won't get a lot of new music listened to. Anyway, enough of me and on with the good stuff. On Friday, we have new albums from Allegra Krieger, Chastity, Cursive, Dale Crover, Floating Points, Fozing, Jade Hairpins, John Early, Jule Dawson (NewDad singer), London Grammar, Loveless, Miranda Lambert, Nada Surf, Nick Lowe, Nilufer Yanya, Porches, Snow Patrol, Suki Waterhouse, The Jesus Lizard, Tindersticks, TR/ST, Trentemoller, We Are Winter's Blue and Radiant Children, Andrew Tuttle & Michael Chapman, Willie Watson, Chilly Gonzales, Faust, Sarah Davachi, Mermaid Chunky, Colin Stetson and El Khat.
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Have a good trip sir.

Find us some Kenyan jazz
 
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