Tesseract - War of Being
Anyone remotely interested in heavy music should give this a go. Djent-y metal-y experimental British band with first album since 2018. Bound to be one of my AOTYs, the vocals are so so good. Definitely worth a listen.
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Woods - Perennial
Sweet psych folk goodness
Nas - Magic 3
It’s Nas
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Go Deo
Deluxe version of last year’s album - features a cover of Whipping Boy’s ‘Twinkle’, an Orbital remix of the opening track, and versions from the original sessions.
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Could do with the nation of language album having a couple bangers on it.
Ruby Haunt - Between Heavens
Prolific hazy melancholic slowcore band release this year’s offering,. The slowjams seem very slightly more jumped up with each album. (This was actually out a couple of days ago, but seemed a waste to put it in last week’s thread)
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Delmer Darion - Tall Vision-of-the-Voyage
Written in the spirit of scientific romance, by way of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires, it’s an album of two divergent halves. The first half swans through dizzying tales of human achievement backed up by hypnotic blends of shoegaze, ambient, industrial alt-rock and doom-folk as a carousel of vocalists – Kiran Leonard, Bingo Fury, Anna B Savage and Slaughter Beach, Dog – bring their archives to life.
The album’s second half features the band’s most ambitious work to date: an 18-minute spoken word epic rooted in Arthurian legend, about the tragic sinking of the HMY Iolaire off the coast of Stornoway in 1919 collaborating with Guatemalan cellist and composer Mabe Fratti and Welsh actor Morfydd Clark.
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The big one for me is Ash - Race The Night.
My copy arrived yesterday so I’ve already listened to it and it’s great. Full of brilliant pop rock that they do best.
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Just finished listening to this. I loved their first album so much that I had already pre-ordered this album on vinyl. I think I really liked the first half, but not sure about the spoken second half so far, but will definitely go back and have a proper listen to it all, especially the lyrics. As long as I can cope with Maybe Fratti’s dark haunting cello again!
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Jaws - If It Wasn’t For My Friend’s, Things Could Be Different
First new music in 4 years from these guys, comes in the shape of an EP. I’m assuming they’re still slightly punky dream pop.
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C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops
2nd album from Children of Finland Fighting in Norway
Glammy thug stomp from Sydney
Lewsberg - Out and About
Lo-fi Dutch indie with talky vocals
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Corinne bailey ray
S.carey
Ok my links have stopped working. Was there a workaround?
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Will give this a go
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Purple is a masterpiece imo but both that and to an even greater extent Gold & Grey really suffered from their decision to work with Dave “Everything compressed to 11” Fridmann. this album does bring some of the blue sludge back but more than anything else it has G&G’s ambition but with a lush production & mastering job that stays just the right side of slick. If you’ve not liked anything they’ve done since blue I’m not sure if this will be where you check back in but would be interested to hear!
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Thank you
Days Of August - Postcards
Norwegian band. Just finishing my first listen to this. Basically this is a complete Sufjan banjo-orchestral indie folk album. You want some Sufjan? You got it. Nice and pretty sounding.
Mitski day. Some others too.
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New one from Bombino Niger guitarist Saharan rock, blues, Tuareg music. You get the gist. FFO Modu Moctor, Tinerwain, Songhay Blues
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I don’t know how they can say with a straight face it’s a “return to our roots” and then record a track like “Choir”
unless they never actually said that and it’s just fan hype
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After a mere 19 years away, mclusky are back with a double A side, 4 track EP - the funds from which, will allow them to resume the Australian Tour they had to cancel.
It’s very good. Noisy, humourous, shouty 3 piece rock that you’ll play on loop.
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