What do we have today?
Been looking forward to this one…
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Alternative rap collaboration, getting some good reviews. Woods has been behind some of my favourites from the last few years.
Conway the Machine - Won’t He Do It
Third solo album from US rapper.
And intrigued by this one…
Fred Again… & Brian Eno - Secret Life
Young upstart teams up with ambient legend.
Jerome’s Dream - The Gray Inbetween
FFO: reuinon albums from early 90s hardcore bands but actually not bad
Cloth - Secret Measure
Glasgow based twins release their second full length on Rock Action records. Desolate alt rock, whispery vocals. Is nice.
The Hip Priests - Roden House Blues
Fast, snotty punk n roll similar to Zeke, Supersuckers, New Bomb Turks.
FFO: black leather, tight jeans, whisky
Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
Northern Irish hard rock, will it be another Troublegum style pop classic or a gritty nihilistic noisy album like Suicide Pact? I don’t know, I haven’t listened to it yet.
Drain - Living Proof
Hyped modern hardcore FFO everything on the Outbreak Fest lineup
Therapy? - hard cold fire
N.I’s finest back with their 16th album.
The Lemon Twigs – Everything Harmony
Baroque Pop / Glam Folk - FFO Big Star
Fourth album
Trevor’s Head - A View From Below
Daft name? Check. Riffs-a-plenty? Check! Approval of Shucks? Check. Stoner, proggy, punk noise goodness from the ever reliable, APF Records who constantly release great stuff.
Dave Lombardo - Rites Of Percussion
Solo album from the Slayer drummer which, and this will surprise you, is quite drum heavy. It’s on Ipecac so will probably be weird. Review says it experiments with lots of different styles so don’t expect shower cans bangers.
LA Priest – Fase Luna
Ex-Late of The Pier dude
Fase Luna is the ocean-inspired, wobbly-pop filled third album, by LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate. Following 2020’s GENE, named after a modular drum machine that Sam designed using 150 electrical circuits he’d built himself, Fase Luna strips things back to little more than Sam and his guitar: nine sunshine-streaked tracks of pure bliss
Shit Present - What Still Gets Me
This is the band Iona formed after she left Great Cynics, punky indie jams FFO the kind of stuff @rich-t normally posts.
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New Michael J. Blood x Rat Heart for me today. Love Vol 1 so high hopes for this.
Whatitdo Archive Group - Palace Of A Thousand Suns
These crate diggers return for their second album. Exploring mid century exotica and library music.
Fwiw, I heard Huey play a track off this album a few weeks ago and was hooked, so if you love that jazzy/soul/funk beat stuff, you’ll love this
Worriedaboutsatan - The Pivot.
I’m guessing chilled electronica. Haven’t heard it yet.
I’ve probably missed the memo but some smashing pumpkins release
Huge, Huge day for new releases for me today. Some of those at the top of my list - billy woods, Jerome’s Dream, Therapy? - have already been mentioned. Got that billy woods & Kenny Segal on now and delighted that the first track has the lyric ‘God’s a hater’ in it.
Some others I’ll be looking to check out over the weekend:
Busdriver - Made In Love
Verbose, chameleonic rap from an underground hero
Flasher - My Myth
Pretty, acerbic and dry electro-tinged indie/slacker pop.
$uicideboy$ - Yin Yang Tapes
Don’t really know anything about this duo, other than they’ve been credited with modernising horrorcore in the past. Hoping this is a decent place to start.
Unearth - The wretched; The Ruinous
I’ll probably find myself checking this out of nostalgia than anything else, but they are maybe the only second wave metalcore band still putting out gripping stuff. Liked one of the lead-off singles I heard a lot.
Drain - Living Proof
Riffy, bouncey, hooky hardcore that should be up my street. There’s a lot of this kind of shit out there, but hoping this is as addictive as it promises to be.
Death Goals - A Garden of Dead Flowers
I know nothing about this band other than that they’re a queer-centric powerviolence-type thing. Should be good.
It’s 33 tracks long… Good God.
SBTRKT - The Rat Road
First album for 7 years, features include Toro y Moi, Little Dragon & Sampha.
IDK - F65
New album from the Maryland rapper, and a lengthy one at that, includes features from Musiq Soulchild, Snoop Dogg & Benny The Butcher
Oh No & Roy Ayers - Good Vibes / Bad Vibes
Jazzy Hip-Hop or Hip-Hoppy Jazz either way I’m enjoying this.
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Cool-guy Indie director Jim Jarmusch’s doomy drone band release their first album not tied to a film soundtrack. FFO Sunn 0))), Earth, Bohren