Another enticing array of new releases in our roundup this week.
Kelley Stolz La Fleur
There are the requisite 60’s meets 80’s pop rock confections that Stoltz favours with a new focus on out front vocals and perhaps a bit shinier production. Pandemic era blues, politics and fatherhood are lyrical touchstones throughout.
Angelica Garcia Gemelo
Pop experimentalist with an album that is searing and borderless, free of cultural confinement and challenging the notion that singing in English is a prerequisite for creating American music.
Orbury Common Sylvan Chute
A collection of subverted pop songs and surreal ballads, wherein earthy (and unearthly) synths, deformed samples and mangled drumbeats coalesce with and ensemble of zithers, flutes, organs and guitars.
Goat Girl Below The Waste
Their latest album bears the influence of time spent listening to Phillip Glass and Deerhoof.
Seasick Steve A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees
It’s a record on which he seems a little preoccupied with solitude and an escape from digital living (‘Moving To The Country’ / ‘Internet Cowboys’) but it also includes a song he began writing in 1967 (‘San Francisco Sound 67’), songs about recovery (‘A Trip A Stumble’), defying preconceptions (‘You Don’t Know), and his love of bands like Sly & The Family Stone (‘Funky Music’).
Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me On Your Mind / See You Free
Double album with its roots in the sounds and lyrical spirit of traditional folk music, its branches in a more experimental and emotionally raw version of the band.
Good Looks Lived Here For A While
Austin Texas quartet that write kind hearted and cathartic rock songs about the persistence required to make it through hard times.
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Field recording sit behind most tracks, alongside VST synths, guitars, and a variety of voices, from adaa’s own mangled vox to EVP samples taken from YouTube.
Sabrina Song You Could Stay in One Spot and I’d Love You the Same
Alt-pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose debut album explores themes of existentialism, navigating young womanhood, gratitude, and the intensity of love.
The Mysterines Afraid of Tomorrows
A deeper and darker foray into The Mysterines’ psyche than its predecessor.
Red Vanilla Days of Grey EP
The band has a densely, guitar-driven sound wrapped in ‘90s inspired pop-hook vocals,
Amanda Bergman Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever
Miniatures painted in lush, orchestral brush-strokes that spread like the vast expanses of Amanda’s home on a working farm in rural Sweden, or bring into focus the detail of the lessons learned (or learning) across a career as a musician, an environmental activist, a farmer, and a mother.
Psychic Graveyard Wilting
Consisting of Charles Ovett’s relentless workflow on the drums; the burbling sawtooth substructures, grimy lead synths, and deconstructed guitars supplied by Nathan Joyner and Paul Vieira; and, of course, vocalist Eric Paul’s many narrators and personas, who find form as ghosts howling from within the machine or as agitated surrealists living lives huddled in the grimmest of redoubts.
Axel Flovent Away From This Dream
Icelandic alt-pop artist leaning into life’s ebb and flows as he allows his signature sound to breathe and thrive.
Tymon Dogg & The Dacoits The Granada Sessions
Punk/folk experimentalists who played with Joe Strummer in The 101ers.
Strand of Oaks Miracle Focus
The songs on his eighth album celebrate bliss and connection and were written following Showalter’s transformative embrace of meditation. Influences like Ram Dass, Alice Coltrane, Freddie Mercury and the Beastie Boys weave through the album, creating a joyful soundscape rich with synth layers and mantra-like lyrics.
Only The Poets One More Night EP
Six tracks that sees the band consolidating their synch-pop sound and illuminating the heartfelt emotion in their lyrics.
Umbra Vitae Light of Death
Album that emerges with a spine-chilling violin swell before erupting into duel guitar driven madness,
Magic Fig Magic Fig
Members of the Bay Area’s best and brightest pop, psychedelic and garage bands join forces.
Disciple B.C Power. Blood. Sacrifice.
An album that sees them playing off and subverting religious imagery with their grinding, distorted, hardcore-infused punk rock.
Pem Cloud Work EP
Songs that blend confessional lyrics with swooping melodies, transporting listeners into a world of vulnerable introspection.
Perennial Art History
Art History finds the New England three-piece mastering their modernist punk as a collage of 60s mod grooves, post-hardcore angles, Stax soul, and experimental electronic music.
Loose Articles Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
Manchester punks with an album that covers everything from the highs of being pinball champions to the lows of having to deal with rubbish jobs and managers.
Jo Harrop The Path of a Tear
An album that goes beyond jazz, into blues and 70s soul, and was produced by the legendary Larry Klein, best-known for his work with iconic artists Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux and Herbie Hancock. Featuring songs co-written with Ian Barter (Amy Winehouse’s ex-Musical Director), Hannah V (Stormzy, JP Cooper), and collaborator Paul Edis
Ginger Winn Stop-Motion
Singer-songwriter with a 27-minute carousel ride through a renaissance.
Cardinals Cardinals EP
A sound that has echoes of Big Music, of the effervescence of 80s indie, conjuring up an eclectic, gothic amalgam of shoegaze, Irish trad folk and alternative music
Elour Blood Running
An act whose goal is to help people find community, empowerment, and catharsis through the experience of emotionally charged, hook-heavy femme rock music.
Clara La San Made Mistakes
While her music is steeped in a holistic listening of myriad musical strands—from early aughts R&B to contemporary rap instrumentals—Clara La San braids her influences with inspirations from cinema scores and up-to-the-second sound design.
Memo PST Memo PST
12 blasts of raw and primitive Los Angeles punk rock.
Maya Vik Hustlebot
An album full of dance hits, positive lyrics, and a coolness that reminds listeners of Kylie Minogue or Janet Jackson.
Sect Plagues upon Plagues
Hardcore album about a political plague swept in worldwide under the chaos of a literal & ecological one.
Evergrey Theories of Emptiness
Gothenburg metal band who have previously gifted their devotees 13 studio records depicting dark, emotional imagery supported by progressive and heavy melodic metal elements.
Kaytranada Timeless
Producer with his follow-up to BUBBA, his 2019 Grammy award-winning project for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
