A busy week full of top-quality releases. Here is our round up.
Goddess Goddess
A new collaborative project curated by Fay Milton, drummer with Savages. It an epic 10-track opus of post-punk, electronica, dream-pop and indie-rock, the album is performed by a revolving cast of vocalists, bringing their own unique flavour and flair to each individual track.
Kathryn Joseph We Were Made Prey
Glasgow based singer-songwriter’s fourth album is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. The record is simultaneously raw yet melodic.
Sally Shapiro Ready To Live A Lie
Made up of producer Johan Agebjörn and an anonymous female vocalist who uses the pseudonym Sally Shapiro; the duo is known for their dreamy, melancholic sound and nostalgic homage to 1980s Italo disco. Although it has comforting familiarity provided by a cover of the Pet Shop Boy’s ‘Rent’, it may be their darkest record yet.
Lavinia Blackwall The Making
Classically trained soprano and former Trembling Bells frontperson with a rich tapestry of folk, rock and psych-power pop.
Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles
It is a record exactly as its name implies: a collective, communal, fraternal and empathetic record, recorded with the assistance of long-time friends and fellow Minnesotans, Trampled by Turtles.
Faun Fables Counterclockwise
Their timeless “songtelling” practice is entwined with a holistic view of a life in music — celebrating the mundane details of home and family, elevated by a mystical and fantastical perspective.
Ben Kweller Cover the Mirrors
An album marking the death of his 16-year-old son, the 12-song collection features guest performances by an array of friends and fellow musicians including Waxahatchee (“Dollar Store”), MJ Lenderman (“Oh Dorian”), The Flaming Lips (“Killer Bee”), and Jason Schwartzman’s highly acclaimed mid-aughts musical project Coconut Records (“Depression”).
Jacob Alon In Limerence
They bring a fresh, unconventional energy to British contemporary folk, blending traditional elements like fingerpicked guitar and ethereal vocals with darkly poetic lyrics and haunting storytelling
Ty Sygall Possession
On his sixteenth album, there are invigorated new sounds around every bend – glittering rhythm arrangements feature more of Ty’s own piano woodshedding than ever, joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns. Rife with singing guitar leads and banks of Ty’s vocal harmonies.
Caroline Caroline 2
A record drawing on the “melodies and saccharine sweetness” of Petal Supply and Himera and the ever-shifting nature of Seth Graham and More Eaze’s hypnotic The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid, Danny Brown and Jpegmafia’s frantic Scaring The Hoes LP and Mirror Guide by Giant Claw as a big influence on the overall vision.”
Matthew Young Undercurrents
An album that ranges from heady synthesiser experiments to earthy dulcimer meditations; although unique enough to be called outsider, it occupies a musical world accessible to fans of many genres.
Anderson East Worthy
A 10-track collection is inspired by a pure love of song and sound. Dripping with Muscle Shoals radiance and soulful horns.
North Sea Radio Orchestra Special Powers
Band that incorporates double bass, bassoon, flutes, hurdy gurdy, bass clarinet and organs into its sound.
Yoga Nugraha Usmad Gurnida
Through looping bamboo flutes, reflective harmonics, undulating drones, and nocturne synthesis, the music of Gurnida speaks not only of physical loss but also of the fading spiritual and ecological bonds between humans and nature.
Heavy Wild Death Dreams EP
Inspired by the golden age of lo-fi music with output from bands like Wavves, Beach Fossils, Small Black, Girls and Crocodiles as a big influence.
Pry Wrapped in Plastic
A body of work that is sonically driven by soft and powerful vocals, hardcore guitar licks, and clean, jangly tones that evoke a nostalgic, vintage feel with a distorted and gritty energy.
Shura I Got Too Sad For My Friends
Featuring collaborations with Cassandra Jenkins, Becca Mancari and Helado Negro, it retains Shura’s usual crystalline sound and precision while introducing a different kind of warmth and earthiness.
Rivers of Nihil Rivers of Nihil
Fifth album from the progressive death metallers.
Demise of Love Demise of Love
Debut EP from a collaboration between Daniel Avery, Working Mens Club and Ghost Culture.
Clamm Serious Acts
An album that exemplifies the band’s signature, no-nonsense lyricism, while also pushing into new sonic territory with the inclusion of synths and horns.
Yeule Evangelic Girl is a Gun
The record sees them putting their own “cyborgian” spin on Bristol trip-hop and ‘90s gothic.
New Candys The Uncanny Extravaganza
The album blends their psych-rock roots with fresh electronic influences and cutting-edge production by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher).
Lea Sen Levels
A blend of experimental pop with slinky R&B, woozy trip-hop, and warm, smudged guitars refracted through a deeply immersive journey through memory, self-discovery, and emotional growth.
Planning For Burial It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
Combining vast heaviness and delicate ambience, he weaves a densely textured sonic palette where thick swathes of sound crash and roar, giving way to shimmers of celestial bliss.
Civic Chrome Dipped
“We’d been pushing a sort of ’70s Australian punk sound with our first two records, but I think we wanted to take it in a different direction,” says guitarist Lewis Hodgson. “I think it was all starting to feel a bit stale.”
The Haunted Songs of Last Resort
Tenth studio album from the Swedish death metal band.
Grin Acid Gods
Psych doom duo strip their sound down to fuzzed-out bass, pounding drums, and layered vocals.
Obongjayar Paradise Now
The 15-track album is a Trojan horse of some of his most intimate storytelling yet, candy-coated in electro-pop synths, soaring strings and ever contagious percussion.
Sarah Mary Chadwick Take Me Out To A Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
This new collection pivots like a broken lullaby around stop-you-in-your-tracks lyrics and a low-lit bar.
Will Varley Machines Will Never Learn To Make Mistakes Like Me
Lyrical tales that speak of hard touring, relationships on the rocks and the rebuilding of minds. Featuring some very special guest appearances including Billy Bragg, Eleni Drake & Bastille’s Dan Smith.
Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge Neue Kreise
This 11-track outing dives headfirst into the deep blues and sunset hues of yacht rock and groove-laden jazz fusion, all while retaining their signature lyrical bite.
Obstruktion The End Takes Form
If you like your riffs heavy, your breakdowns unrelenting, and your worldview just a little bit darker, this one’s for you.
