As Autumn begins, so commences the bombardment of great new releases. This week’s selection is as follows:
Claude Fontaine La Mer
A vibrant blend of 60s French yé-yé pop, Studio One reggae, and Brazilian tropicalia sung in English, French and Portuguese. The unexpected combination of styles makes this album stand out.
Hinds Viva Hinds
Their most accomplished, sonically adventurous, honest and celebratory album so far features their first Spanish language songs as well as collaborations with Beck and Grian Chatten.
Party Dozen Crime in Australia
Third album from the Sydney based duo, made up of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet.
Masayoshi Fujita Migratory
Japanese composer and producer reimagines and mesmerises with his trademark sounds of vibraphone and resumes his experimentation with the marimba and synthesisers that he first incorporated on his 2021 album, Bird Ambience.
Amadou & Mariam La Vie Est Belle
A compilation which features their greatest hits, new exclusive tracks and celebrates a career spanning almost 50 years.
Mercury Rev Born Horses
Their ninth album is a cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest that searches its soul but can never truly know the answer.
Bhajan Bhoy Peace Frequencies / Healing Frequencies
These recordings, which were laid down especially for the USA radio stations WFMU and WGXC, are designed to melt your speakers and your mind.
Molchat Doma Belaya Polosa
Belarusian post-punk / synth pop group have always exuded the kind of brutalist aesthetic of the architecture that adorns their album art. It’s cold, grey, imposing, industrial—and yet there are human hearts beating within those foundations.
Jamie Sutherland The World As It Used To Be
Broken records frontman produces a collection of songs with a focus on the melody and lyrics, growing from a collection of stripped-back bare-bones songs.
Nala Sinephro Endlessness
The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerising celebration of life cycles and rebirth.
Midwife No Depression in Heaven
An album that explores themes of sentimentality, the interplay between dreams, memory, and fantasy.
MJ Lenderman Manning Fireworks
Warped pedal steels and scuzzed out guitar; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy; the keen observations and reflections of a front stoop philosopher. MJ Lenderman’s songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at a hometown studio.
Heiko Maile & Julian Demarre Neostalgia
A collection of diverse influences of electronic music over the past 50 years. A style book of sorts, in which sometimes contradictory elements and references are deliberately combined, superimposed or quoted as part of a collage.
Moggs Motel Moggs Motel
12 new songs from band led by UFO frontman, Phil Mogg.
Child of the Parish Sweet Surrender
The album takes its cues from classic house and dance, melding glitchy, electronic sounds with more organic elements of indie, disco and funk.
Huge Molasses Tank Explodes III
The Milan, Italy-based band offers us a kaleidoscopic experience, ranging from rugged and evocative beats to dreamy soundscapes, inspired by post-punk and psych-wave.
God Is An Astronaut Embers
Instrumental post-rock opus moving from psych- to krautrock trips and to further enrich the album’s sonic space, incorporating elements such sitar, cello, zither, shamanic drums, bowed psaltery, chimes and tanpura
Cass McCombs Not The Way, A & Prefection
Reissue of his first three releases for 4AD, an EP and 2 LPs respectively.
Jimi Tenor Sähkömies
A mixture of drum machine driven electronic sounds and Sun Ra-inspired jazz.
The Cold Stares The Southern
An album that delves deep into their Southern roots for the first time on record.
Three Quarter Skies Fade In
Debut album from new band formed by Simon Scott of Slowdive. While their EP grew out of a semi-improvised live recording, the new album is as focused as it is ferocious.
Gooseberry All My Friends Are Cattle
This debut full-length record represents Gooseberry’s most ambitious project yet, showcasing the expansive distance they cover, from punch-you-in-the-mouth punk rock to lyrically-driven singer-songwriter to atmospheric prog rock.
Boston Manor Sundiver
Blackpool band that came out of the emo and pop punk scene, have explored genres and sonics throughout their career and emerge with a refreshed optimism.
Dummy Free Energy
Second album from Los Angeles four-piece, celebrating music’s ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine.
The Hearts The Long Goodbye
Their indie-folk/Americana songs, enriched with dreamy textures and earthy grooves, are known for their heartfelt delivery.
The Peawees One Ride
Active for over 25 years, The Peawees have taken their Punk Rock roots and dosed them with R’n’B, Roots Rock, Soul and Garage influences while staying true to their rock’n’roll upbringings.
Fat Dog Woof
A blend of electro-punk, rock’n’roll snarling, techno soundscapes, industrial-pop and rave euphoria, music for letting go to.
Jack Valero Not In Kansas Anymore
EP that introduces a kaleidoscopic sound with soaring choruses and harmonies
The Crane Wives Beyond Beyond Beyond
Indie rock band with an album that explores the mixture of fear, joy, and deep vulnerability that occurs when a person is on the cusp of changing the course of their life.
