A slightly quieter week in the run-up to Easter and post-Record Store Day but there are still a number of new releases that warrant attention.
Chime Oblivion Chime Oblivion
New John Dwyer project featuring Dave Barbarossa (Adam & The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Fine Young Cannibals, Third House), Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus), Tom Dolas (Osees, Mr Elevator), H.L. Nelly (Naked Lights, FKA SMILEY) & Brad Caulkins (Bent Arcana, With Egg).
Group Listening Tell Everyone Everything
Woodwind and keys instrumental duo informed by decay, expiration and musical renewal.
Beirut A Study of Losses
An 18-track odyssey commissioned by Swedish circus Kompani Giraff for an acrobatic stage show of the same name. Musically, it is inspired by one of Condron’s all-time favourite records, Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs.
Mamuthones From Word to Flesh
Italian four piece whose seven tracks meld pagan-folk with post-punk repetitiveness with jazz experimentation.
Julien Baker & Torres Send A Prayer My Way
A country album, written and sung in the best of the outlaw tradition—defiant, subversive, working class, and determined to wrestle not only with addiction, regret and bad decisions, but also with oppressive systems of power.
Tunde Adebimpe Thee Black Boltz
Solo release from the TV On The Radio co-founder is his response to the macro unease of a post-pandemic world careening towards violent authoritarianism and the personal grief that has come from loss in recent years.
Hawkwind There Is No Space For Us
Space rock pioneers develop the dystopian themes of recent albums and the cosmic, almost metaphysical perspective on humanity’s place in the universe through expansive soundscapes and electrifying psychedelic rock.
Scrounge Almost Like You Could
Punk leaning tunes that draw from the likes of Savages, Fugazi, Unwound and Priests.
Mien Mien
Psychedelic supergroup comprised of Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone), John-Mark Lapham (The Earlies) and Robb Kidd (Golden Dawn Arkestra)
The Concrete Boys Everything’s Better Than You
An impetuous garage-punk ode to freedom and indignation recorded by by veteran musicians that seriously don’t take this world seriously.
Avery Friedman New Thing
Album influenced by Squirrel Flower / Babehoven / Big Thief / Alex G / Bon Iver. Many of these tracks were born of anxiety – from Friedman turning to a guitar to externalize (and organize) a sense of chaos that otherwise felt trapped inside her.
The Pale White The Big Sad
Newcastle alt-rock trio who are currently supporting Frank Black.
Ally Venable Money & Power
Guitar virtuoso with a modern roots record that plays by its own rules and marches to the beat of its own drum.
Divide and Dissolve Insatiable
Over the 10 tracks, it runs the gamut of doom metal, building upon the genre’s trademark sludgy guitars and thundering drums with Takaiya’s deft saxophone.
Iron Lung Adapting / Crawling
Do It Yourself, obscure, extreme, maladjusted and utterly free from the constraints of “music” or, more widely, rules in general.
Jessy Fury Hollywood Forever EP
With a sound evoking the era of John Hughes films, Fury’s music transports listeners to a nostalgic realm.
Ursula Sereghy Cordial
Sounds unravel and reform: fragments of voices, reshaped textures, the shimmer of manipulated recordings all bending into semi-familiar contours.
Quade The Foel Tower
The band half-jokingly, yet somewhat accurately, describe themselves as “doomer sad boy, ambient-dub, folk, experimental post-rock”
Arthur Russell Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out
An intimate unedited Arthur Russell solo live performance recorded at Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 20/12/85.
Icosandria & Treewax Void Intention EP
A collaboration between Portuguese shoegaze/post-metal band ICOSANDRIA and alt-rock trio TREEWAX.
Melvins Thunderball
The new album from the always heavy band features their 1983 line-up.
Kai Bosch Popstar of your Dreams
EP that serves as a culmination of his journey so far, an intoxicating mix of dancefloor euphoria, emotional vulnerability, and pure pop spectacle.
Oswald Slain Kiss Me On The Mouth EP
A rich tapestry woven from the threads of classic Americana, echoing the timeless vibes of Neil Young and The Band, whilst infusing it with the gritty, energetic rock essence familiar from their previous works.
Dirty Blonde Looking For Trouble EP
Channelling the raw energy of Pixies, the narrative flair of Taylor Swift, and the bold swagger of 90s Garbage.
