As ever, there are plenty of tempting albums to dig your teeth into this week. With fewer big-name releases, it could be a good week for discovering a new favourite.
Nifty debut collection of snappy tunes from energetic garage rock, post-punk Australian group.
Bar Italia – Tracey Denim
London post-punk influenced trio recently signed to Matador Records who have already appeared at some of the best boutique festivals like End of the Road & Le Guess Who?
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – The Nation’s Most Central Location
Electronica exploring themes such as the North-South divide from brilliant radiophonic workshop style project with political overtones.
Hannah Rose Platt – Deathbed Confessions
Twelve poetic ghost stories from the mind of Hannah Rose Platt. A concept album inspired by classic horror like Rod Serling’s ‘The Twilight Zone’, the BBC’s ‘Inside No 9’ and the balladeer categories of Samuel Pepys. Produced by Ed Harcourt.
Roman Angelos – Supermarkets, Underwater
A fully reimagined remix of his Music for Underwater Supermarkets, a sleeper hit that combines electronica and exotica, painting a sonic dreamscape transposing the mundane act of grocery shopping to an aquatic utopian landscaping.
Dan Croll – Fools
An album that sonically it spreads its net wider with country, disco and woozy psychedelics joining the Carole King and James Taylor nods on Grand Plan.
Sarabeth Tucek back under a new moniker with her first album in 10 years, a double, from the former Smog collaborator.
Temps – Party Gator Purgatory
40-strong international music collective devised, curated and produced by James Acaster.
Justin Rutledge – Something Easy
10th album from the Juno Award for Roots Album of the Year 2014 winner.
Eyes of Others – Eyes of Others
Marrying the anything-goes, freestyle magpie tendencies of Beck and The Beta Band to the electronic stylings of primetime 80s New Order by way of the spacious moods conjured by King Tubby.
Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen a Way
Recorded in caves, crypts and shopping malls, it draws on a broad sonic palette of experimental noise and industrial electronics.
Station 17 – Oui Bitte
Dense interplay between driving, elegiac rhythms and a flowing, aesthetic stream of consciousness.
Bad//Dreems – Hoo Ha!
Picture Jackson Pollock’s version of a WWF ‘Royal Rumble’ with Mötorhead and Sleaford Mods on the soundtrack, an intriguing jumble.
ABC – The Lexicon of Love
Marking the 40th anniversary of the album with a previously unreleased recording of a gig at Sheffield City Hall with the accompaniment of a full symphonic orchestra, it also includes an opening set of hits from across the band’s career.
The Telescopes – Of Tomorrow
A complete change in dynamics from the band. Here we have the poetry of motion, solid grooves to the fore, leaving crystallised trails across a fluttering undercurrent of uplifting rhythm and hooks.
Matt Espy – Hawksworth
In the field of solo drumming albums, it’s an avian psychedelic percussion trip all of its own. A dialogue between birds, electronics, and drums
Leith Ross – To Learn
Singer-songwriter with raw, vulnerable & cathartic songs.
Ellen Zweig – Fiction of the Physical
Combines experimental spoken word with ambient, fourth world minimalism.
Moor Mother – Jazz Codes Deluxe
Deluxe digital version of album from composer, poet, vocalist and educator
Andy Bell & Masal – Tidal Love Numbers
Ride songwriter & guitarist collaborating on an album of ambient, astral jazz.
Feral Family – Playtest EP
Debut five track EP from Yorkshire noise merchants, the band making their mark with a dark, brooding collection of songs that meld the gothic with the euphoric.