New one from veteran space rock aces Hawkwind, possibly their last after frontman Dave Brock recently announced health issues mean they won’t be touring after their current dates (he is 83, to be fair)
This is the one I’m looking forward to listening to most today.
Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Experimental, psych-folk, electronic. Collaboration with John Parish. Partly a reflection on the decline and death of her father.
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Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
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Bob Vylan - Humble As The Sun
London rap-punk duo’s fourth album. What an album their last one, The Price of Life, was, full of energy, wit and politics. High hopes for this.
Grace Cummings - Ramona
Third album from Melbourne-based singer-songwriter. More instrumentation going on here compared to the stripped down Storm Queen, but her amazing voice is still the star.
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Some good singles on this. Didn’t have a good Libertines album on my 2024 Bingo card!
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Drahla - angeltape
Frenetic art-rock, lots of spiky guitars and urgent saxophone playing and Luciel Brown’s excellent vocals and lyrics.
Vessel - Wrapped In Cellophane
More sax on this one from Atlanta post-punk band. More of a pop sound to their post-punk, think B-52s rather than Joy Division.
Raoul Eden - Incarnation
“Dark primitive psychedelic blues”. French guitarist with these instrumentals combining American primitivist fingerstyle guitar with dobro (acoustic lap steel) and guembri (Moroccan bass lute) playing.
(This technically came out on 31 March if that matters for your record-keeping/AOTM-picking)
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Ugly - Twice Around the Sun EP
Received a rave review from @parm In the gig thread, I’ll let their words speak for the music
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Funeral Lakes - North American Martyrs
Dream/indie pop/shoegazy stuff from Ontario based band.
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Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent
Auburn-tinged roadtripping indie, shoe gaze and electronica
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“These are fugue states as much as fugues in a literal classical music sense – smeared epiphanies of uncertain memory and spatial dislocation, coaxed from the unconscious and set aloft.”
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Soren Huss - Vi Fik Mere, End Fi Kom For
Older Danish fella with a lived-in voice and some classy moody production.
Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers - Izigquinamba
Gqom thumps and chants from Durban, also featuring Jesse Hackett who seems to get involved in lots of cool afro stuff
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Lala Lala - if i were a real man i would be able to break the neck of a suffering bird
An instrumental album this time round
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Yo, goober, where’s the emojis?
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Strung Out - Dead Rebellion
Fast, riffy, melodic skate punk. They’ve been consistently good since the 90s so looking forward to this one. FFO Propagandhi
Iron Monkey - Spleen And Goad
Sludge metal. FFO slow nasty uhh…sludge
Khruangbin - A La Sala
Spaced out mellow psych. FFO deserts
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New Analog Africa release - does what it says on the cover, its Congolese funk from 1969-1982
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Dustin Kensrue - Desert Dreaming
Thrice frontman does a Beyoncé and releases a country influenced Americana album.
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Cranes - Fuse
Shoegaze / Dream pop ffo Just Mustard
Lorican - End Terrain
Avant Garde metal. There’s a Coil cover on the album, you know what your getting into.
Otik - Cloud Runner
Yet more electronica from this prolific producer.
Pye Corner Audio - The Endless Echo
Chilled electronica
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RiTchie (One half of By Storm, formally Injury Reserve) has his debut album out today. Good singles!
There’s also the Vegyn record…mainly because of this standout single in the run up to release. After-party downtempo.
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Enjoyable Listens - Trapped In The Cage Of A Hateful Bird
Baroque pop. One of my favourite live bands of recent times, just feel good fun.
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I had no idea Iron Monkey were still going
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