There is a healthy bundle of new releases this week. Here they are:
Our Girl The Good Kind
New signings to Bella Union, their dynamics permeate the record, from heavy guitars and soaring lead lines to ear worm choruses and intimate vocal moments. Filled with warmth and honesty, The Good Kind is a celebration of determination – of choosing to recommit to what matters, against all opposition.
Umarells One More Day EP
Band whose name is taken from a very specific Italian word for retired men who watch construction sites—arrange pieces of post-hardcore, shoegaze, Midwest emo, and ‘00s indie-psych into reflections on grief, loss, and failed relationships.
Lazy Day Open The Door
A rush of contemplative yet powerful indie rock, with rich vocals in the vein of Chrissie Hynde and Karen O.
Bananagun Why is the Colour of the Sky
An album that departs from the ultra-slick bursts of sunshine-pop and afrobeat that defined ‘True Story…’ and muddies the waters with a heavy blend of incendiary jazz and freak-beat experimentation.
Merope Vėjula
While ‘Vėjula’ still roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms, it sprouts out spiritedly from that point into unfamiliar landscapes, muddling ancient themes with contemporary philosophies, concepts and technologies.
Arthur Ahbez & The Flaming Ahbez Reckless
Vacillating between playful tongue-in-cheek remarks and universal truths, Arthur’s songs are grown from the soil of his personal philosophy. Love, existential angst, joy, and trepidation interact behind a canvas of reverb and piercing electric guitar.
The Body The Crying Out of Things
At the vanguard of heavy music for two decades, their latest conveys a dark range of emotions through inspired arrangements, dynamics, and sound selections.
LewisSpybey LEWISSPYBEY
Debut collaborative album from Edvard Graham Lewis (Wire, He Said, Hox, Dome etc) & Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Beehatch, Altered Statesmen, Zoviet France). Mixing lush electronic rhythms, sonic collage, ambient soundscapes and manipulated field recordings, these six compositions form a record with a strong identity.
Various Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan
This 12-song compilation is an homage to Guryan’s classic 1968 record, Take a Picture, featuring reinterpretations by contemporary artists Clairo, Margo Price, TOPS, Rahill, June McDoom, MUNYA & Kainalu, Frankie Cosmos & Good Morning, Kate Bollinger, Pearl & The Oysters, Bedouine & Sylvie, Barrie, and Empress Of.
The Saints (I’m) Stranded
Deluxe version of their 1977 debut with bonus live performances and demos.
Lamina Sueños acuáticos
Rooted in the myth of the ‘Lamina’, a creature from Basque folklore, the project blends this oral tradition with technology to build a geological myth.
Delain Dance with the Devil EP
Melodic synth metal band with a collection of two brand new tracks, two newly presented favourites, nine live performances, and two instrumental bonus tracks,
Beetlebug All Ash is Snow EP
A debut EP displaying a crystalline voice, evocative poetry and pastoral folk-pop.
We Are Wolves NADA
They harness the sounds of synth rock, garage rock, cold wave, post punk, cumbia, tropical psych, and 90’s alt-rock.
Cass McCombs Seed Cake On Leap Year
A collection of early, previously unreleased music recorded at Jason Quever’s apartment at 924 Fulton in San Francisco while McCombs was living in Berkeley between 1999 and 2000.
You Doo Right From the Heights of our Pastureland
Experimental rock trio that weds noisy, melodic guitar parts, effects-laden synthesizer soundscapes, deep bass grooves and patented percussive furies into sprawling, cathartic musical pieces.
Lili Holland-Fricke and Sean Rogan Dear Alien
A constellation of radiant improvised impulses, imagined in lucent fragments of cello, guitar and voice.
Piglet Frank Forever
South London songwriter who highlights the injustices faced by trans people in the British healthcare system and celebrates queer identity,
Freak Slug I Blow Out Big Candles
An album that is playful, fun, but not shying away from the darker sides of both sound and psyche.
Librarians With Hickeys How To Make Friends By Telephone
Third album from Ohio power pop/jangle rock outfit.
Sabiwa Sons of
An EP marries disembodied field recordings and processed orchestral instrumentation with coruscating noise and half-forgotten Taiwanese folklore.
Twinnie Something We Used To Say
Country pop artist whose expansive 22-song charts a significant chapter in her life, documenting the devastation of the end of her long-term relationship and attempting to move on.
eat-girls Area Silenzio
A three-piece band, carefully crafting songs in their apartment. Through many genres, pop, post-punk, minimal synth, kraut, dub, these songs work through their train of thought and, akin to a dream, paint obsessing and intriguing shapes.
Moody Joody Dream Girl
Debut EP from Nashville-based shimmer pop band embodies the duality of being human–from dance floor anthems to tracks that embrace the less glamorous side of life and being a musician.
Miracle of Sound Materia – Best of 2011-2024
Gavin Dunne’s Napalm Records debut. Get ready for a journey through a mystical world of Vikings, pirates, sea shanties, Celtic history, modern fantasy and more!
Belfi & Reidy dessus oben alto up
Hailing from different ends of the globe (Australia and Italy) but both longtime residents of Berlin, Reidy and Belfi’s approaches have much in common, bringing together compositional precision and electroacoustic rigour with improvisation freedom, the immediate gratifications of rhythmic pulse, and an overtly lyrical sensibility.
The Harpoonist Did We Come Here To Dance
Solo debut from Canadian vocalist and harmonica player, Shawn Hall, on an album that brings swampy grooves and heavy soul into the mix.
Orbital A Beginner’s Guide
Featuring the key moments in the seminal career of the UK electronic music duo composed of brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll; and for the first time presents Orbital’s biggest hits in their edited form, in one collection.
The Hearts Traces
Their indie-folk/Americana songs, enriched with dreamy textures and earthy grooves, are known for their heartfelt delivery.
