Not much out today, really. But hereās one:
SPRINTS - Shadow of a Doubt
Irish punkish rock
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Pile have an EP out
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Footwork, bass. Atmospheric stuff.
Enjoyed Dawn of the Final Hour from last January and this sounds good so far.
Also on Bandcamp pay what you can (edit: with two extra tracks not on streaming)
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Savan DePaul - iLLadelph halfdeath under a nautical twilight
Hyperpop/hip-hop deep dive from Philadelphiaās finest who also records as Ishtar Sr.
Seems to be a lot of hype about Sprints. For people who want to know what Courtney Love would sound like if she was Irish.
Thereās a new God is an Astronaut live album with Jo Quail featuring on it.
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Kinoteki sounds great.
Galcher Lustwerk - Played Out
House EP
OG Keemo - Fieber
German hip-hop - @paulo is a fan which ought to be recommendation enough.
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He likes an early in the year album, our Keemo. His last one came out the first week of 2022 too.
Will be giving it a spin in a bit
Relaxing, clean modern jazz. Some nice vocal performances too, been nice to work to this morn.
Alkemie & Freelance Nun - A Fine Companion - LP - Medieval Rock
Released 05/01. Medieval instruments and lyrics with modern production. Its a little hit & miss and the production can be a little heavy handed but Iām a sucker for operatic singing and odd instuments so this one worked for me, especially the preview track after a quiet intro ([edit] skip 30 seconds).
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Rosie Frater-Taylor - Featherweight - LP - Soul Funk
Supposed to be released 03/01, think it might be delayed to 09/02. The follow up to her 2021 album, Bloom. I like her voice and her plucky guitar, nothing new but all solid.
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Laurie Shaw - Dove From Above
Prolific Wirral born, Kerry based artist. Sounds like a more DIY Bill Ryder Jones.
Usually insanely prolific, he released 7 albums in 2022 alone, but unusually heās slowed down and been teasing this one with singles for nearly a year - described as āan arrangement of model kit parts from doomed releasesā. Good title too.
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Sorry to be a pedant, but I think that the OP links to last yearās single by Sprints.
Believe the album out today can be found here:
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To be fair once youāve heard one song youāve heard them all.
Good news! Thereās a new Shed Seven album:
Shed Seven - A Matter of Time
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I need a ādislikeā button.
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Jonas Bonnetta & Edwin Huizinga - Dark Watchers
Quite lovely instrumental/ambient album from Evening Hymns chap and someone else.
LYR - An Unnatural History
Poet speaking guy and singer singing guy with a new album.
Viic Woods - The Water Between Us
Previously went by the artist name of Mire Kay, and had a song on the Netflix show Dark. Probably FFO boygenius or somesuch.
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There better be a follow-up called āCrow From Belowā.
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Thanks, thought the single being played on 6 music sounded good so Iāll give it a listen
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Saw Sprints last October and thought they were really good/great. Their A Modern Job EP is solid stuff - punchy tracks, good hooks. Sheās a great frontperson too.
But Iām finding the album quite underwhelming. It doesnāt feel as urgent, and the somewhat scrappy nature of the old stuff has been replaced with more of a grand, stadium-y feel. I donāt think anything about it really stands out.
I got half way through and turned it off. Theyāre probably going to be huge.
Havenāt heard the album or most of the singles yet, my experience when I was researching them before seeing them support Gilla Band a couple of years ago was that the A Modern Job EP was pretty solid stuff but anything theyād released before it was a bit more generic (their live set also started a bit generic and got better as it went on). A shame if the album is a step backwards. Will give it a spin over the weekend.