Never started one of these before! Definite slowdown today - the main new release on my pile from what I can see so far is:
Tucker Zimmerman - Music By River Words By Ear
Veteran folk/country singer with his follow up to last year’s lovely collaboration album with Big Thief
What else you all got?
Rival Consoles - Landscape From Memory
Tracks put together on the move and away from the studio, promising to hit “that sweet spot between knotty ambient and widescreen electronica, where environmental tones and electro-acoustic textures converge to create a living document of sound”.
Everything Everything – Get to Heaven (Expanded 10th Anniversary edition)
A reissue with demos and live snippets of a great, fun album
Leonov - Shape of Ash ep
Very moody, melodic post metal. Leans a bit goth on first listen.
We Lost the Sea - A single flower
Epic post rock with very long songs. Sounded really good this monrning.
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed
Very prolific indie poppers with nice washes of fuzzy C86 noise and understated hooks release their 12th album in six years. Might be a compilation actually.
Kae Tempest - Self Titled
Most personal album yet from Tempest, which is saying something.
We’ve got a new single out on WEPN today
FFO BoC, Call Super, Bee Mask. Both tracks are great, but Melltydd is one of my favourite tracks by anyone this year. 9 minutes of uneasy ambient beauty. Well worth dissolving in if you have a good pair of headphones to hand
The Worm - Pantilde
“The Worm is an avant folk project, rooted in the stories of a fictional, time-travelling character, created and acted out by Amy Lawrence (they / them), a performance artist from Cornwall. With music played on cello, harp, recorders and percussion, Lawrence crafts a strange, enchanting soundworld as The Worm, shaping an inimitable form of abstract roots music enriched by inventive storytelling”.
Mortual - Altar of Brutality
Death metal out of Costa Rica.
Not showing as out yet, but will no doubt unlock a bit later today.
Real slim pickings for me today. And by slim pickings, I mean nothing at all… nothing at all… nothing at all…
Same here - there’s some curio of Saint Etienne covering their own Cola Boy record ‘7 Ways to Love’, but just feels like a bland remix. Nothing else at all.
Jools - Violent Delights
Debut album of noisy post-punk from Leicester. The lyrics may or may not be about social justice, but certainly some of the songs I’ve heard are.
Weald & Woe - Far From The Light of Heaven
Medieval black metal, in the same vein as Véhémence, Obsequiae or Grylle
BIG SPECIAL - NATIONAL AVERAGE
All I know about this band is that they play at festivals. Rachel Goswell is apparently on the last track. Just skimming it sounds not too different to how I described Jools, but with fewer instruments, like a less annoying, um, who’s that annoying band that’s always on 6Music? quite like it so far.
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Ta. I’ll give this a listen as this band who play at festivals are playing at a festival I’m going to.
16 posts in 3 hours. Quiet day for everyone, it seems
They were the support on the Pixies tour - I did quite like one or two of their songs, others I thought were pretty generic.
I guess I should promote my new single since it’s quiet, it’s a pretty standard electronic/ambient track.
Didn’t realise he released an album/soundtrack last month. So a double RC day for me.