Plenty of top tunes this week to keep your toes tapping and your brains thumping.
Jessica Pratt Here
Some of her most adventurous music yet. Throughout these nine songs, timpani, glockenspiel, baritone saxophone, and flute are layered alongside robust vocal arrangements that create a triumphant mood, even when the lyrics hint at devastation.
Pete Philly and Perquisite Eon
A fusion of open-minded hip-hop with influences from soul, funk, jazz, world and electronic music, enthralling solos and unexpected twists.
The Lemon Twigs A Dream is All We Know
Combining elements of the Merseybeat sound, the California Beach Boy harmony sound, and Bubblegum to create a unique collection of pop nuggets.
Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds That Delicious Vice
New album from Kid Congo whose unique guitar style has been at the centre of some of the most forward-thinking bands in punk and garage: The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
Girls in Synthesis Sublimation
Their third album sees them constructing their own world and bringing forward their interpretation of a dark, twisted and angular pop record, with all the intensity of their previous work.
Sofi Paes Silent Stories
Costa Rican composer and pianist who is the first signing to Olafur Arnald’s label. She experiments with piano, voice and electronic elements in search for new ways of expression in her roots, using both the Spanish and English language.
Mdou Moctar Funeral For Justice
The Nigerian quartet’s latest sees them in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and wilder. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political.
Various Artists Kimono My House
50th Anniversary of Sparks album, covered by various artists.
Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes The Doober
Duo with their third Saxofone and Bass Guitar album
Penny Arcade Backwater Collage
First solo project from James Hoare, previously known for his work with Veronica Falls, Proper Ornaments and Ultimate Painting presents 11 solitary and intimate songs.
Agriculture Living is Easy / The Circle Chant
Ecstatic black metal band bring together their debut EP with some recordings for debut vinyl album.
Kee Avil Spine
On Spine, Kee Avil strips back her heavily textured compositions, opening up a much rawer sound.
Milo Korbenski When You Gonna Tell ‘Em the Truth, Aaron?
A shadowy, anonymous solo musician only publicly seen in a featureless white mask, Stetson and denim jacket. However, his deeply expressive take on lo-fi slacker indie-rock invokes a heartfelt intimacy, singing straight from the soul.
Jon McKiel Hex
His music moves subtly between moods, carrying themes of fate, doom, family, love and distrust in the digital age. The eponymous lead track and first single is an eerie, subterranean banger whose looped percussion and dirt-nasty bassline bring to mind lo fi hip hop flipping early 70s Gene Clark.
Mammoth Penguins Here
Cambridge indie po trio reminiscent of the pop melodies of The Beths, the indie dissonance of Land of Talk, and the guitar forward slacker rock of Weezer,
Yobs Yobs
A band that deal in hard-edged, primitive garage-punk salvos that race by with a bludgeoning intensity.
Daytime TV Island
EP from band that aims to bend genres and cross borders.
Kelly Jones Inevitable Incredible
An album that sees him writing primarily on the piano for the first time, wrestling haunting melodies from his piano and writing emotional, soul searching and always brutally honest lyrics into his notebook.
Alien Airforce Give Pigeons The Right Of Way
The first solo venture from Crispin Gray, former guitarist and songwriter for Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena (and currently guitarist for Portuguese artist Starsha Lee).
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies Lost Themes IV: Noir
In which the film director and his collaborators construct “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” Whereas the scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
Neomi Somebody’s Daughter
Folk-pop singer-songwriter whose album themes follow néomí’s journey through adolescence, young adulthood and newly found womanhood.
Bellah Mae Never Waste A Heartbreak EP
A new EP from pop storyteller and lyricist.
Mob Rules Celebration Day – 30 Years of Mob Rules
Compilation from German melodic power metallers celebrating 30 years of music making.
Into It. Over It. Interestind Decisions. Into It. Over It (Songs 2020-2023)
A compilation of tracks lifted from splits, one-offs, and more, but also introduces three entirely new songs, all performed by the revamped formation of Into It. Over It. The band started as a one-off project writing and releasing one song per week for a year, which quickly turned into a flourishing career aimed to create art and build community.
Dan Rincon Spotlight City
Debut solo album from OSEES drummer sees him building electronic soundscapes for the imaginary Spotlight City with his cadre of synthesizers.
Fast Blood Sunny Blunts
Newcastle indie punks with a hefty and soulful, complex but hook-laden, abrasive and thoughtful collection.
Lemoncello Lemoncello
A sound embedded in Irish folk roots, led by the attitude of off-kilter-indie pop.
Raga the Son Son of Nile
Music that blurs the lines between genres but finds itself in the sonic worlds of Trip-Hop. The influences include Egyptian music, reggae, progressive rock, soul, hip hop, jazz and more.
Daath The Deceivers
Progressive death metal band with their first albumin13 years showcasing their technical wizardry and brutal intensity.
Home Counties Exactly As It Seems
Drawing on a swathe of broad-ranging influences, early 2000s pop and the “dopamine overload” of Confidence Man’s live shows, to LCD Soundsystem, The Slits, and the nuanced art-rock of ‘Remain In Light’/’Speaking In Tongues’-era Talking Heads.
Broadcast Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
Compilation of songs and sketches drawn from Trish Keenan’s extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs. The recordings lay the groundwork for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album.
Lucy Gaffney Pitfalls EP
Singer-songwriter’s EP taps into the realms of how endings can interact with new beginnings, like dawn radiating, emerging from the night, each song on the EP is drenched with the nuance and urgency of love, loss and hope.
Feuerschwanz Warriors
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, this album with lyrics all in English features the brand-new song “The Unholy Grail”, a cover of the Assassin’s Creed classic “Valhalla Calling” by Miracle Of Sound, as well as ten of the band’s greatest hits.
Corella Once Upon A Weekend
Pop-rock band who met after being placed in the same university halls, bonding over their shared love of indie bands such as Foals and Two Door Cinema Club, along with classic pop and rock including The Beatles, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits.
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Correspondences Vol 1
A project that traverses a wealth of geographies and their natural environments, where the artists have uncovered sonic footsteps left by poets, filmmakers, revolutionaries, and the impact of climate change.
