Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
Indie folk. Her first record with Double Double Whammy
Kitba - Kitba
Indie folk from Brooklyn based songwriter/harpist.
What’s on your radar today?
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Blur.
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Oxbow
Dark Artrock FFO Nick Cave, Swans, Shellac, Chat Pile
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KONE - KONE ONE
Art pop
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Lauren Auder - The Infinite Spine
I’ve been really looking forward to this debut album since seeing her live five years ago, and the few EPs that have been released since. Sounds lovely on my first listen. Nice review from Loud and Quiet: “Dipping her toes into non-algorithmic chamber psych and PC Music, her woozily self-guessing baroqueness cites the rich fragility of Scott Walker, fixated on Christian allegory and pagan symbolism.”
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Thanks for starting us off. Could you put the newmusicfriday tag on, for those of us who use that?
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New Andrew Bird
FFO ~ Fiddles
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Done. Thanks for the reminder
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My favourite new artist in a long time has an EP^. Circe worked with Steven from Blood Red Shoes on this and it has such a dreamy groove to it all, a little like Metric and Bat for Lashes collaborating. Definitely one for fans of Lorde and Patrick Wolf. Her voice has a little bit of that Cranes and Sundays magic.
^ = 7 tracks so could be a mini album
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Dorotheo - Nada Escrito
Haunting electro from Guadalajara. Their third album. Fans of Broadcast or Stereolab might like this.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - City of Gold
Bluegrass/Americana. Been looking forward to this one with Molly Tuttle’s guitar picking and voice sounding as great as ever, along with the tight Golden Highway band, and Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show co-writing the songs with Tuttle.
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A few of the Hip-Hop releases on my list today…
Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove - Decay
On Billy Woods label Backwoodz Studios.
Black Milk - Everybody Good?
First album for a couple of years from the Detroit Rapper & Producer, features include Mick Jenkins, Quelle Chris & Phonte
Valee & Harry Fraud - Virtuoso
I’m not familiar with Valee, but it’s Harry Fraud production & includes features from Action Bronson & Saba so I’m going to give it a listen
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Upper Wilds
Psych rock from your man from Parts & Labor
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20th Half Japanese record, has a good title and cover
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Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies
GBV with their thousandth album of hooky, oddball mid-fi indie
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Upper Wilds - Jupiter
An upbeat, hooky blast on the basis of the first few tracks. FFO GBV & Oh Sees maybe?
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Nas - Magic 2
FFO rap legends actually doing decent work a few decades into their careers
Strange Ranger - Pure Music
They started out as very raw indie, with elements of newer wave emo and Modest Mouse in there - but seem to have shifted to more electronics and vocal manipulation from what I remember of the later albums. So, be interesting to see where they’ve ended up now
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He gets so little press, it’s infuriating. My Finest Work Yet was brilliant and seemed to do pretty well but this and his last album sort of just popped up out of nowhere.
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Mizmor - Prosaic
Metal somewhere in the gap between black and doom metal. Stereogum had a nice write up on it
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Must be one of the most consistently quality artists working at the moment
Haven’t seen him in over a decade! Really hope he does another tour soon, talked myself out of seeing him the last few times for no good reason
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Saw him in 2009 on the Noble Beast tour. Was so good. Went alone as a nervous 17 year old but worth it
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