7.4.23 A good Friday for new music 🎧🩞

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Two records I’m quite excited about:

Wednesday - Rat Saw God

Southern fried grunge

Bruiser and Bicycle - Holy Red Wagon

9 tracks over an hour, brimming with ideas. FFO early Animal Collective, Of Montreal

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Blondshell s/t

Really liked the early singles for this, some of which have been around for a long time. Sadly, they make up most of the album.

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Madlib, Meyhem Lauren, DJ Muggs - Champagne for Breakfast

Meyhem Lauren taps up two legendary producers on new collaboration album.

Tim Hecker - No Highs

New one from ambient legend

Yaeji - With a Hammer

Visionary hyperpop-star with features from Loraine James, Nourished By Time, K Wata. FFO Charli XCX I guess?

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Will start with these four artists who I was very pleased to see new albums from today:

Spinvis - Be-Bop-A-Lula
Dutch musician/singing. I loved his/their last album, and this sounds great as well. Chamber/baroque pop, with lovely instrumentation and tunes.

Dom La Nena - Leon
Brazillian cellist and composer. A bit disappointed to see that it won’t have any singing like her last album, but the first track sounds quite beautiful so far.

Josephine Foster - Domestic Sphere
Ethereal/ghostly singing and guitar with field recordings and found sounds.

Jana Horn - The Window Is The Dream
Delicate skeletal folk-pop songs.

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HMLTD - The Worm

They’ve gone from catchy 80s influenced art pop to a concept album about worms for some reason. Of the three tracks they released before one was really good.

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New Darlene Love live album

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New VHS Head album ‘Phocus’ is out today:

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American Grandma - Rare Knives Of Light
Friends/collaborators with Midwife. “Cyclical, chimelike guitars, airy synths and tape sound swirl around Keller’s clear and candid voice, recalling early Hood and early Dave Fischoff”

Ben Gregory - Episode
Ex-Blaenavon singer, solo album of electronics, lo fi acoustics, indie rock
 Detailing his recovery from a breakdown, it sounds quite good. Tempted to investigate Blaenavon (although I probably won’t in the end
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Benjamin Fincher - L’uomo Meccanico
Orchestral pop / lo-fi folk / electronic instrumental tracks.

Oracle Sisters - Hydranism
Psychedelic indie from France/Finland, maybe for fans of Plastic Mermaids or Edward Sharpe.

Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Heaving
They’re apparently an art pop ambient noise band. Maybe only the first part is true, unless there are surprises later in the album (or in their previous releases). Sounds interesting so far.

Olivier Alary - Apparitions Vol. 1)
Orchestral tunes. The first is for 3 violas, the second is for 4 vibraphones and marimba, and the third is for 3 bassoons, in case there are any fans of those instruments here.

Jim E. Brown - This Is Jim E. Brown
Will be playing at The Great Escape. Don’t think I will actually recommend it to anyone, as it’s kind of bad speaking singing in a vague comedy way, but I might check him out live if there aren’t any clashes. Then I can hear songs such as I Just Finished an Online Course and Now I’m a Professional Yoga Instructor, I’m Screaming Aloud at the Car Park at Tesco on Chorlton Rd., and I’ve Been Barred from the Henry Tate Wetherspoons in Chorley

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Haven’t listened to them for ages, but will give the new Daughter a spin.

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Emma Tricca - Aspirin Sun
Psych-folk singer songwriter’s fourth album, first on Bella Union.

Shizuka - Heavenly Persona
Reissue of the 1994 album by Tokyo underground band featuring Shizuka Miura and Maki Miura (Fushitsusha, Les Rallizes DĂ©nudĂ©s). “By turns haunting and ferocious, fragile and harrowing, the album veers from Shizuka’s barely captured whispers to all-out onslaughts of feedback from Maki’s guitar, a mix of cobwebs and magma”.

Various Artists - Your Face Is A Mess (Best Of Rebels Vol. 4)
Latest in the underground garage compilation series from Bristol label Raving Pop Blast

Mediocre - To Know You’re Screwed EP
Boston indie/power pop EP by duo Piper Torrison and Keely Martin.

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Jana Horn should be well good

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Oh nice, they should have put their Cranberries cover on to round things out

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Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity
Alt-rock. 11th studio album from Sub Pop legends.

Blood Moon Wedding - An American Nightmare
“Trans-Atlantic Art-Punk-Noir. Legendary English punk rocker, Steve Lake of Zounds, teams up with American opera singer, Mia Dean, in a multidimensional project. Blood Moon Wedding is a road trip of horrors through a twisted, alternate reality”.

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Ah Blood Moon Wedding is my friends’ band!

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One of my all time top tracks. A must for any fans of slowcore or psych.

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Oh nice! I enjoyed the pre-released tracks; looking forward to the rest.

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Backwoodz compilation with Armand Hammer, AKAI Solo, Breezly Brewin


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I didn’t know them until this reissue. This really is a great track.

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Wednesday & Daughter top of my list (Hot Rotten Grass Smell is an excellent song title), but currently getting some lovely laid back vibes from this gorgeous record.

Organic folk/country/drone mainly built around acoustic guitar, synth and lap steel from what I’ve heard so far:

North Americans - Long Cool World

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I had no idea they had a new one out, loved the last two albums. Definitely FFO Six Organs of Admittance, Alexander Tucker etc

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