A few more releases to graze upon this week. Here is our guide:
The Weather Station Humanhood
Written during one of the most difficult periods of Lindeman’s life and rendered with a rock band with improvisational chops just as she began to recover by reckoning with a complicated truth: Sometimes, life simply tries to dismantle us, no matter how good everything may seem, and we must accept that in order to survive.
jasmine.4.t You Are The Morning
The debut album from trans woman and singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t. who is the first UK signing to Phoebe Bridgers label, Saddest Factory Records.
Band of Holy Joy Scorched Jerusalem
Removed from the romanticism of their recent albums, side one matches Mark Stewart/Adrian Sherwood style production with the grim politics of recent years before moving onto Weimar-era waltzes.
Helen McCookerybook Showtunes from the Shadows
Her songs are replete the same sort of charm, alluring personality and minimalism of peers like Marine Girls, The Raincoats & Television Personalities.
Parchman Prison Prayer Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
A second collection of raw and haunting performances from the prison’s Sunday gospel service.
Some Fear Some Fear
Their sound can be described as chill and melancholic, a blend of slowcore and lo-fi rock that resonates with a profound sense of introspection.
Songhoy Blues Héritage
The Mali 4-piece embrace a more acoustic, creative re-imaging of their signature “desert blues” sound.
Sophie Jamieson I Still Want To Share
A deeply personal reflection on the cyclical nature of loving and losing from an artist who has drawn comparisons to Sharon van Etten, PJ Harvey and Lisa Germano.
Rose Gray Louder, Please
It pairs home truths with dance hedonism, summoning not just a transformative night out – the new faces and chosen family, ecstatic highs and crushing lows – but also telling Rose Gray’s story: a life lived through club music, and always to its fullest.
Delivery Force Majeure
A twelve-track battering ram of an album that only lets up for journeys into Television and Wire territory.
Ex-Void In Love
Their second album sees the band flourish from a chaotic power punk group into a fully-fledged pop behemoth. Taking in elements of shoegaze, country and 90s indie rock.
Geowulf The Child
Across “The Child’s” timeless-sounding psych-pop songs, Kendrick sings of friendships, familial ties and new motherhood with clarity and profound confidence.
Ela Minus DIA
Electronic music, where cutting-edge production and space-shuddering sonics meet a burgeoning singer-songwriter’s real sense of self-reflection and private reckoning.
Blue Lake Weft
Mini-album of off-kilter folk, country and left-field ambience.
Lots of hands Into A Pretty Room
Newcastle duo whose songs span from touching instrumentals written for family, meant to help usher them through a chapter of monumental loss, to whispered ballads sung with loved ones.
Sarcator Swarming Angels & Flies
Swedish group who are at the forefront of an emergent, highly determined new generation of Scandinavian extreme metal bands
20/20 Back to California
Their first album in over 25 years and its hooks, harmonies and instantly memorable tunes stand with the late ‘70s/early ’80s work that won the band an inaugural induction into the Power Pop Hall Of Fame.
Greg Freeman I Looked Up
Across ten songs that meld knotty indie rock with pastoral twang, he sings with a zealous urgency of shipwrecks, biblical visions, doomed drifters, dams breaking, and lives left in rearview mirrors.
David Gray Dear Life
A return for the songwriter’s songwriter who broadens his musical palette with rich orchestral strings, horns and woodwind arrangements to correspond with the scale of the themes.
Delights If Heaven Looks A Little Like This
Manchester band nodding to psychedelia, funk and soul, disco and stadium-sized indie pop, with wide-ranging influence spanning Metronomy, Cut Copy, Empire Of The Sun, Prefab Sprout and Supergrass, to Wings, Daft Punk, 10cc, Justice, MGMT & more.
