This is a stacked week! No sign of Vince Staples yet but this is enough to keep me going:
Billy Woods & Preservation - Aethiopes
Highly anticipated first album since 2020’s BRASS from Billy Woods following a string of excellent albums of abstract East Coast rap. Boldy James, El-P and Quelle Chris amongst the guests.
Overmono - Cash Romantic
Techno drum’n’bass EP from the masters of the banger.
John Carroll Kirby - Dance Ancestral
5th album in 2 years for the prolific jazz keyboardist, featuring Laraaji and Yu Su as he takes his instrumental funk grooves in a more electronic direction.
Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century
More expansive and arch baroque chamber pop from J Tillman, including a foray into bossa nova.
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Much hyped muffin-buttering four-piece spoken word post-punk duo’s debut album.
Whatever The Weather - Whatever the Weather
Loraine James goes ambient
Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
Grizzly Bear multi-instrumentalist embraces free jazz in his debut solo LP.
Jack White - Fear of the Dawn
Former White Stripe still churning out solo material, first of two albums expected this year.
Orville Peck - Bronco
The MF DOOM and Brokeback Mountain mash-up you didn’t know you needed, this masked, proudly queer cowboy country album should be great - 2/3 of it has been out already in EP form and was already a step up from his previous work.
Banks - Serpentina
4th album of R&B electro-pop with Banks finally taking full creative responsibility on production.
Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker
Soulful dub reggae from the singer widely known for his vocals on Massive Attack’s One Love.
Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
Epic Slovenian “imaginary folk” songs on acoustic and often handmade instruments.
Nik Colk Void - Bucked Up Space
Layered instrumental noise, improvisation, and free sonic exploration from an artist better known as 1/3 of Carter Tutti Void or 1/2 of Factory Floor.
Son Lux - Everything Everywhere All at Once
49 track soundtrack to a a multiversal action movie based on a launderette’s financial audit and featuring Mitski, David Byrne, a flute-playing André 3000, Randy Newman and Moses Sumney.
Fergus Mcreadie - Forest Floor
Scottish jazz pianist follows up last ear’s Cairn with another album of nature inspired compositions.
Real Bad Man - On High Alert Vol. 4
Roc Marciano, Stove God Cooks, Rome Streetz and Rigz all rap on this beats tape from producer Real Bad Man.
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Variant
Exquisitely named remix album based on last year’s Mood Valiant.
Tanika Charles - Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly
Canadian Soul / R’n’B singer
Kush Jones - existing, do not desire to be perceived
This actually looks like its from last year but new up on streaming.
Looking forward to them, and Oceanator and Son Lux are on my list too. Other albums: