Kicking it off with the new shame - Food For Worms
FFO- previous shame records, Fontaines DC I suppose
Death Pill - s/t
riot grrl punk from Kyiv, kicks arse and there’s some ripping solos in there too
Death Valley Girls - Islands in the Sky
dirty garage rock FFO - LA Witch, Shannon and the Clams
Im enjoying that Death Valley Girls album
quite a few new ones to listen to today -
shame
Algiers
The Church
Phil Selway
Summer Flake
New album from UK band
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
Have a soft spot for Gorillaz so will be starting with this today.
Kassel Jaeger - Shifted in Dreams
Synth and organ drones with some added guitar shimmer. Top quality ambient.
The Necks - Travel
Widescreen long form jazz. FFO Oren Ambarchi.
Roger Damawuzan - Seda
New one from the 71 year old soul man of Lome, Togo. FFO William Onyeabor.
Adding this which came out yesterday…
Kareem Ali - Godson of House: The Album
It’s been a while, but the hugely prolific Phoenix-based house / electronic producer is back with another album. I’m yet to find anything of his that I don’t like, so looking forward to this
Chill folk pop EP from Portugal’s Maro
BIG BRAVE
Heavy slabs of deep, deep drone metal, with crushing lyrics.
Lucero - Should’ve Learned By Now
Whisky soaked Americana tinged punk rock. Think Hold Steady playing Bruce Springsteen songs in a dive bar.
Nand - Wie Es Ist
Don’t know anything about them other than they’re (probably) from Germany. Reminds me of the Bandua album I loved last year. Very low key atmospheric muted horns, piano and vocals. The first few songs are lovely, looking forward to listening to this properly.
Kelora - Gloomerald
Glasgow duo - ‘cyber folk, combining acoustic balladry with homegrown electronic production, which sits alongside pagan imagery of dimly-lit forests and derelict buildings’, apparently.
Mui Zyu - Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century
Debut album from Hong Kong British artist, with ‘chopped up soundscapes, delicate industrial ambience and sweet pop melodies’
Voyou - Les Royaumes Minuscules
French laid back chamber pop, with November Ultra singing on a track.
Megan Alice Clune - Furtive Glances
ambient sort of piano improvisations and hazy sounds.
New U.S Girls
Algiers - Shook
Post punk. I listened to their first album a lot when it came out and then abruptly forgot they existed. I guess they sound a bit like stuff like Protomartyr.
two good Bristol related albums today
Naut - Hunt. Post-punk / goth, ffo The Sisters Of Mercy, Skeletal Family, March Violets etc
Obey Robots - One In A Thousand. Collab between Laura Kidd (She Makes War / Penfriend) and Rat out of Ned’s Atomic Dustbin. Fizzy guitar bangers, somewhere between punk and indie
Die Wilde Jagd - Ophio
Electronic ambient sounds and muted avant pop.
Otay:Onii - Dream Hacker
Pitchfork gave it a 7.4 and said: ‘Singing in English and Mandarin, the Berklee-educated vocalist and experimental musician uses oddball pop melodies, distorted breaks, and swirling drones to explore themes of anxiety and selfhood.’
Elvis DepressedInly - Who Owns The Graveyard
In which frontman Mathew Lee Cothran seems to have found a vocoder and gone all Cher-like. (or maybe like Lambchop with their experimentations with that vocal style)
Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Attaca Quartet, Eliza Bagg - False We Hope
An orchestral sort of shindig, offering ‘variations on a theme of musical chaos, blending electronic and acoustic sounds to create a unique and intense soundscape that is both jarring and angular while also serene.’
Miss Grit - Follow The Cyborg
Alt-pop, sounds nice.
No albums jumping out for me today, but S.G. Goodman has a new single out.
S.G. Goodman - Take It Away
*But with nice vocals on top instead of screaming.
Hundred Reasons have a new album out today. If they can recapture the brilliance of their early EPs (they won’t) then we’re in for a treat. FFO: MTV2, guitars, hair, going into Different Class records and getting them to show you all the hoodies from the high rack then choosing the first one anyway.
Host - IX
Paradise Lost side project.
Supposed to be their goth / 80s pop album.
Earth Trax - Closer Now
Warm electronica with some bangers.
Daine - Shapeless
Hyper/emo pop. Been addicted to the singles. FFO Charli XCX, Purity Ring
Charmer - Seney Stretch
Midwest Depress-emo
Looking forward to this their last album was great
Polinski - Telex from midi city
65daysofstatic member is back with his side project after about 12 years.
It’s like a electronica version of 65.
Only on bandcamp by the look of things.
Just got a notification through for this! Looking forward to giving it a spin this morning.