Lucy Dacus - Forever is a Feeling
4th album from one of the Boys. Washed in hushed tones apparently, so taken a more restrained approach to the production.
12 Likes
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Newest release from blackgaze gang. Getting good press and the singles were excellent.
21 Likes
Amenra - With Fang and Claw
First of 2x EPs from Belgian gloomy post metal crew released today. This is the more abrasive of the two, akin to their earlier sound
Amenra - De Toorn
More ambient and brooding of the two releases, very much a continuation of the fantastic De Doorn album from a few years ago.
12 Likes
Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam
First album in what feels like forever. Been really looking forward to this one. Beyond indie rock, beyond alt country. Think Big Thief and you’ll get somewhere there. A really special album that’s been a long time coming
14 Likes
I’ve released the second single from my new vocal project, No Slugs - an off-kilter electro missive on environmental collapse.
Timed it well to clash with Lucy Dacus and Deafheaven 
18 Likes
Let’s not let a new release by M****** and S*** tarnish an otherwise ridiculously good release day.
Perfume Genius - Glory
PG goes country
16 Likes
Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss
Uncompromisingly heavy blackened death metal out of Spain.
4 Likes
Free Range - Lost & Found
2nd album from Chicago based alt country artist. Strays some where towards a bit of slowcore on Hardly.
2 Likes
Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie
Its nine songs imagine Bejar as a lounge singer, a hustler, and, at times, a supporting character in his own fantasies in nine all-timer Destroyer songs that have the urgency of a state secret hiding in the mind of a tortured spy.
15 Likes
Yawners - SUPERBUCLE
Madrid based project with their third album. Exploring the poppier side of 90s alt rock and bands like the Beths and Snail Mail
3 Likes
aya - Hexed!
Latest from the Hyperdub queer supremo. Very exciting.
14 Likes
Sandwell District - End Beginnings
New LP from techno collective led by Regis and Function.
18 Likes
Big day for Drag City with these four all out today.
Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone
Art-pop from the Japanese artist. Been looking forward to this latest one from her.
“Antigone artfully stirs together jazz, musique concrète, vintage synth gear and chamber pop, featuring additional instrumentation from Jim O’Rourke, among others”.
Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl - For Translucence
Entrancing collection of viola and cello improvisations.
Mess Esque - Jay Marie, Comfort Me
Third album from the Australian duo Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers). Art pop, I reckon.
Bag People - Bag People
80s Chicago post-punk/no wave band, these tracks compiled from tapes lost for 40 years.
8 Likes
Jan Jelinek - faitiche edition no.2
Experimental. Recording of 2022 Berlin ‘Jan Jelinek plays The Carpenters’ ‘concert for four loudspeakers’. Towards the end of the 1st half, the original (Carpenters) source sample emerges from the dense arrangement of processed loops and reveals its identity, a moment that recalls awakening from deep hypnosis. The 2nd half of the performance zooms in further on the source material, leading to a complete dissolution of any referentiality".
Sounds very much my bag, but annoyingly it looks like a cassette only release which is sold out, with just a couple of excerpts digitally available.
VÍZ - Danse des Larmes
Second solo album from Hungarian Transylvanian artist based on sketches commissioned for a theater production. “She pulls from industrial music, dark ambient, Eastern European folk music and vintage horror soundtracks, smudging sludgy drones, dense electro-acoustic textures and her own breathtaking choral vocals until the roots vanish almost completely, leaving only ghostly traces behind.”
Yukimi - For You
Soul/pop. Debut solo album for Gothenberg artist Yukimi, the singer from Little Dragon. On Ninja Tune.
2 Likes
DJ Python - I Was Put On This Earth
Inventive, trippy, downtempo stuff, with mainly vocal tracks. Besos Robados with Isabella Lovestory is excellent.
10 Likes
A few Rap/Hip Hop ones today
Willie The Kid & Real Bad Man - Midnight
Willie The Kid sounding great over RBM’s dusty jazzy production.
Boldy James & Antt Beatz - Hommage
Album number 4 of the year for Boldy (number 5 is due next Friday), this one back to more Trappy beats.
Crimeapple - Jaguar On Palisade 3
Crime’s first solo project of the year.
6 Likes
I have a LOT on my plate today. Here’s some I haven’t seen mentioned already…
Use Knife - État Coupable
Electronic/Technoish with Iraqi vocalist
aya - Hexed!
Experimental electronicy stuff
DJ Python - I was put on this earth EP
Hazy melodic electronic
Mess Esque - Jay Marie, comfort me
Late night indie rock
Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing
Alt indie electronic
Yukimi - For You
Alt electronic pop from Little Dragon singer
Sacred Paws - Jump into life
Joyful afrobeat Indie rock
Cocorosie - Little Death Wishes
Alt electronic pop
8 Likes
Unspecified Enemies: Romance in the Age of Adaptive Feedback
Kinda machine funk. FFO Barker.
OHYUNG: You Are Always on My Mind
Leftfield pop. Very cool. Single sounds like a budget Unfinished Sympathy & I mean that in the very best way.
LA Timpa: Iox
If Actress did some rapping. FFO Space Afrika too.
Yetsuby: 4EVA
Leftfield house & techno. One half of Salamanda. Amazing sound design. A real one off.
Plus Python, Viz, Eiko Ishibashi & Aya! No idea how I’m going to listen to it all tbh.
10 Likes
Jivebomb - ETHEREAL
Hardcore FFO Gel etc
2 Likes
Ysbrydnos - Siant Derwyddol
New EP of Welsh raw black metal.
“Crickhowell, 1783, a peaceful village, starving to death. They agree to send their Holy Men, The Derwydd up the mountain to seek the hidden knowledge of the gods within a forbidden cave…”
4 Likes