Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
6th record from Detroit’s champions of ironic post-punk.
22 Likes
Lloyd / Bean - Black Cat, Dark Horse
Robert Lloyd of Nightingales with Janet Beveridge Bean of Eleventh Day Dream & Freakwater join forces for this rather lovely duets album. For fans of Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott.
Knower - Knower Forever
Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi back together for their first album since 2016. Odd synthy funky jazzy electro pop.
Body Type - Expired Candy
Second album of garage pop/rock from the all-female four-piece from Sydney.
Louise Post - Sleepwalker
Alt-rock. Louise from Veruca Salt’s first solo album which, judging by the pre-release tracks, is good 90s-sounding indie rock stuff though less rock-orientated than Veruca Salt.
Tanya Tucker - Sweet Western Sound
Country. New album from Tanya Tucker to celebrate more than 50 years in country music and being one of this year’s inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The Stools - R U Saved?
Detroit garage rock.
Various Artists (Practical Records) - Stories
Compilation of 12 emerging Los Angeles-based queer and BIPOC artists. “From synthcore screamo pop to ancient Judeo-Spanish folk ballad to shoegaze noise pop, “Stories” tells a story about the beautiful possibilities when we create unexpected connections across experimental genres and marginalized voices.”
And will also be finding some time for two disco-pop veterans.
Jake Shears - Last Man Dancing
Ex-Scissor Sister giving it full Wham-era George Michael on this pop/disco album. Kylie guests on one track. Don’t think it’ll win any Ivor Novellos but I’ve found the pre-release tracks to be good hands-in-the-air fun.
Sophie Ellis Bextor - HANA
The pre-release tracks from this record by the dancefloor murder witness (perpetrator?) have been very enjoyable electro-pop.
6 Likes
A few more:
Beach Fossils - Bunny
Summery indie guitar jams
Bully - Lucky For You
Grunge rock
Anthony Naples - Orbs
Lush techno
6 Likes
Foo fighters, But here we are
New Baxter Drury one as well
1 Like
Didn’t see they had a new one out. Their previous record flew well under the radar but was really excellent.
3 Likes
Remotely Together - Remotely Together
Series of pieces commissioned during lockdown - artists working together remotely and across borders. Features Claire Rousay, KMRU, vocalist Morita Vargas, Valentina Magaletti, Peruvian sound artist Maria Chavez, and Dutch filmmaker Donna Verheijden.
KMRU - Windbags / Lune
New EP from prolific Kenyan ambient artist.
JIM - Love Makes Magic
From Levenshulme via Laurel Canyon. Sun soaked blue eyed soul.
Fila Brazilia - Retrospective Reselected 1990 > 2022
From Piccadilly Records: From pioneering psychedelic beats in the early 90s through to subaqueous house, downtempo deliciousness, rustic funk, and deranged disco in the current day; the neoteric duo’s healthy lack of reverence to scene and industry pressures has resulted in this enthrallingly fluid compendium of the past 30 years of electronic music.
4 Likes
Lanterns on the Lake - Versions of Us
New one from Newcastle’s finest. Featuring yer man Phil Selway on drums.
10 Likes
New Ben folds album. First couple of singles have seemed like a return to earlier stuff. And he certainly isn’t taking part in the loudness war.
4 Likes
New Dylan live album from his last tour
3 Likes
Noel Gallagher’s new one is out
2 Likes
Bob Dylan re-recorded a lot of his big classic tracks when his tour was postponed due to Covid
Witch (We Intend To Cause Havoc) are a band from Zambia, leaders of the Zam-Rock scene in the 70s. Thanks to hipster crate diggers, they were rediscovered a few years ago and now have a new album out
7 Likes
New Rufus Wainwright is guest heavy
1 Like
Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than The Edge
Debut album from the South London jazz foursome.
Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse!
Jazz musicians debut on Astigmatic Records. Mixing jazz, Middle Eastern music and 90s hip hop.
McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
4th album from the jazz rapper. Last one made it onto a lot of end of year lists, expect the same from this.
Surprise Chef - Friendship EP
New EP from the Aussie soul funk group
9 Likes
Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
Didn’t know about him till a couple of days ago, but apparently Paul White did some production on it, so I’m interested…
Also Protomartyr is gonna be great. A lot of stuff for me today!
4 Likes
Goyard Ibn Said - Goyard Comin’: Exordium
New album under a new name from Ghais Guevara. Maybe expect hip hop in a similar vein to JPEGMAFIA? Have heard it yet, but his other stuff sounded like a less chaotic and more focused JPEG, so maybe more of the same.
5 Likes
Lichen - Light on the Firing Line
New single from Michael Clark, the son of Gavin Clark who was in Clayhill and collaborated loads with Shane Meadows.
Downbeat, acoustic indie stuff.
Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes
This will sound exactly like a Rancid album, which is to say, a Clash album. Fast punk rock.
4 Likes
Spy - Satisfaction
Fast moshy hardcore similar to Gel, Drain, Scowl and other bands with a one word name.
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Techy hardcore adjacent noisy metal. If you like 60% or more of an average ArcTanGent fest lineup you’ll like this.
Bongzilla - Dab City
Imagine a band called Bongzilla released an album called Dab City. It sounds exactly like that. Doomy stoner rock.
7 Likes
More big guitars from rival sons
Mun Sing - Inflatable Gravestone
Disorienting exploration of grief from one half of Giant Swan: fragmented electronics, spliced vocals, rubbery synths and skittish percussion.
4 Likes