New Releases 12/11/21

Beach House have a new double lbum coming out in Feb, but they’re releasing it as four EPs.

It sounds nice.

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“The record opens with Relacional. An enchanting, nostalgic melody is followed by lush pads and complex sound design before the introduction of a haunting choral sample. Heavy kicks and deep subs drive the track forward, with the occasional addition of subtle percussive patterns, atmospheric chords and vocal snippets.“

Nice EP for the electronic leaning - FFO Richard D James

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Well it’s definitely caught my interest.

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Got Garbology on now, digging it, pretty sure Courtney Barnett’s one is gonna be great too. In addition…

Céu - Um Gusto De Sol

Tasty Brazilian pop with some traditional elements thrown in

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Apologies in advance but it appears the entire Jazz community picked today to release everything.

Ill Considered and Portico Quartet are excellent so glad they’ve already been mentioned. Looking forward to Eccentronic Research Council, they are never dull.

Red Sands - Ajak Kwai - World.
“Performing in English, Arabic, and her native language, Dinka, Ajak Kwai’s music draws upon South Sudanese funk and blues influences and brings together elements of traditional music alongside more contemporary gestures.”

Bo!led - Different, Us - Jazz Fusion.
An Italian jazz funk band whose press release compares themselves to Badbadnotgood. I don’t hear it myself but they are excellent throughout the whole release so absolutely still worth a listen.

Nana Rizinni - Maracujá Azedo - Electro Jazz.
Jazz drummer from Brazil. Mixing Synths & Sound effects with a whole host of incredible musicians from throughout the world.

Jelly Cleaver - Forever Presence - Lounge Jazz.
Still only up as preorder so far for me but the 2 sample tracks are excellent so looking forward to the full release later today. “Jelly has had an incendiary rise over the last year; she has received the Steve Reid Award, is a Serious Take Five artist, was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award, and has been called ‘the next artist to make an impact on the London Jazz Scene’ by Tina Edwards”

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O - MDALI - Mellow Jazz, mostly.
A trombonist from Johannesburg. Soulful and powerful stuff.

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Massive mountain goats live session release

Sounding fun

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This is really good.

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this came out yesterday.

chilled lo-fi with a few suprises, lovely sample choices and hooks.

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Has Siv Disa - Dreamhouse been mentioned? Nice, wonky, low-key songs with odd rhythms and stuff. I imagine she likes latter-period Radiohead and has picked up some influences from recent Icelandic pop too (She’s from New York but lives in Reykjavik).

Sally Anne Morgan and Pip Blom are the other two I’m excited about. I might give Jon Hopkins a try and there seems to be loads of other interesting stuff worth investigating as well. A good week. :+1:

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Might be reading too much into this, but isn’t it a bit shitty that there’s only the three of them on the cover when all those hits were done as a four piece?

A couple of black metal releases I will try and check out today.

A new EP from Italian atmo black band Selvans

New release from German purveyors of “mining black metal”, Dauþuz

Debut of depressive bm from Australian band Bleeding Sorrow

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Aside from a few bits here and there, it didn’t really work for me.
This sounds like such a petty complaint but I really don’t like a lot of the drum machine sounds on there. Don’t mind a good drum machine at all but the aesthetic that she’s going for would work so much better with some slightly sloppy real hi-hat playing rather than the rather stilted preset sounds she’s got all over this.

Tons to check out from @Octobadger OP (cheers for all your links!) - mostly looking forward to the Courtney Barnett, Aesop Rock, Silk Sonic, Robin Guthrie and Irreversible Entanglements records. Also saw these came out today:

Lee Ranaldo - In Virus Times

https://open.spotify.com/album/1mRPe77RVvDNfYyQ8SWg5F?si=ibw8pflFT8q757iITu2fmg

This 22-min recording is an instrumental acoustic piece in four parts, written and performed by Ranaldo, stretching over one side of vinyl.

Shanhai Baby - Congratulations

https://open.spotify.com/album/1cDG38mG4tJvHRXHqNj17h?si=H24wAbARTYGgkKt3OrZWgg

Side project from Hinds bassist Ade Martin. FFO scuzzy indie pop.

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Only thing I’ll be checking out not covered above will be Ill Considered’s Liminal - one for the jazz heads…the singles promised much.

New Walk The Moon album out today, banger of an alt-pop record and might be the best since their debut.

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For fans of Orange Juice, The Pale Fountains, Gang of Four, XTC…the wonderful debut Tigers & Flies album.

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Just the way it is I think. The Sugababes greatest hits cover had Amelle on it :scream:

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Sega Bodega - Romeo

Irish producer specialising in futuristic, bass-heavy, stylistically restless deconstructed club music - fans of Sophie might enjoy this - with a short album with spots from Charlotte Gainsbourg and Arca.

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Idles have come back strong - really good album

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Don’t know if it was already out digitally, but I’ve just ordered the LP of this from Resident which has today’s release date on it:

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