Here is our roundup of the week’s new releases.
Melt Banana 3+5
A record that synthesizes elements of a variety of Extreme Musics, Hyper-Pop, classic Punk, vintage Metal, and Noise. It partakes of Japanese culture overall, especially the subcultures of gaming, anime and underground music.
Kato Hideki & Kramer The Walk
A record that explores the intersection of 21st century musical artistry and the age-old form of the written word. Hideki and Kramer create a soundscape that interweaves their inspiration by poets Basho and Robert Walser, creating an auditory monument to listening and crafting a new way to see and hear the world.
Stuart Moxham Fabstract
This is the final gathering of lost recordings with tracks long-thought lost from the very start of the Young Marble Giants, to the songwriting of “Crow, Crow” and “Suburban Monochrome”, through bits of odd whimsy and vastly alternate versions of fan faves.
Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies
Reissue of 1986 album which is unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free-form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit.
Chime School The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel
The second album from Andy Pastalaniec of The Reds, Pinks and Purples brings a moodier tone to his jangle.
Susanna Meditations on Love
Norwegian singer and composer’s latest release reflects the complexities and difficulties of maintaining love.
Uniform American Standard
Existing in a netherworld between Public Image Ltd and Butthole Surfers, the record tackles themes of self-destruction and with a particular focus on vocalist Michael Berdan’s bulimia nervosa.
Body Meat Star Chris
Starchris doesn’t simply deconstruct pop music’s conventions – it obliterates them – and with the fragments of chaos, complexity and curious elegance that remain, Body Meat develops a distinct sonic language that is entirely his own.
Atlas Genius The End of the Tunnel
Album ingredients: Lost love, guilt, passion, a dash of social commentary, existential crises, reckless abandon, and honest self-criticism. May contain traces of lust.
Fake Fruit Mucho Mistrust
Oakland post-punk three-piece whose album title encapsulates both the anxieties of daily life, a bloodless music industry, and global capitalism as well as the clear-eyed scepticism needed to rebel against it.
White Hills Beyond This Fiction
Neo-psychedelia, indie, post-punk, shoegaze and experimental elements contribute to an album that explores the idea of “riding between opposites”- forging one’s own path unrestrained by the collective “fiction” that the masses subscribe to.
Sabrina Carpenter Short n’ Sweet
Sixth album from chart-topping ‘Espresso’ artist.
Brian Gibson Thrasher
Bassist from Lightning Bolt with the soundtrack to his new original game of the same name, Thrasher.
Endon Fall of Spring
A Tokyo-based ensemble of Taichi Nagura, Koki Miyabe, and Taro Aiko have made a name for themselves with their relentless exploration of sonic extremes in the vein of artists such as the Boredoms and Merzbow.
Umberto Black Bile
Minimalist composer with pieces that grew from piano improvisations. Many of the album’s phrases are constructed from just two notes or sounds, arranged by Hill into complex patterns that undulate with an organic pulse.
Demiser Slave to the Scythe
An intense slab of work; an aural harbinger of hellish intent that sees the band blend ’80s thrash, first-wave black metal, death metal, and a healthy dose of NWOBHM.
Geneva Jacuzzi Triple Fire
The album expands and crystallizes Jacuzzi’s signature fusion of midnight melody and mutant aerobics across a 12-track hit parade of wildcard synth-pop and sly post-apocalyptic camp.
Warren Zeiders Relapse
Artist who brings a hard rock edge to country.
