New Album Releases #33
Friday 4th October 2024
Hello and happy Friday to you and yours!
Lots of fun albums out today, I’ve probably just scraped the surface. Feeling a bit wonky today so might have to dig deeper into today’s releases some time later.
Looking forward to listen to Geordie Deep album which will probably be a wild ride, Godspeed You! Black Emperor which will probably be a slow weird ride and The Hard Quartet which will probably be a cosy ride.
Oh, Coldplay have got a new album out today also. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. I’m too busy to listen to it. You know. Busy. So busy!
This week I’ve mainly worked (and watched that WWE doc on Netflix), yawn. But I am going to see Neil Hamburger tonight which I’m very excited about, he’s one of my favourite comedians. So tired though, it’s been a long week!
I did go and see Janet Jackson last week on Sunday, at the O2 in London, which was a really fun and slick pop show.
Cumgirl8
Debut album from the post-punk New York multi-media collective.
4/5 NME / Far Out
Geordie Greep
The hyped up debut album from the black midi frontman feat. over 30 session musicians and was recorded in Brazil and England.
9/10 Uncut 4.5/5 musicOHM 4/5 Slant 7/10 The Quietus 6/10 Mojo
Drug Church
Fifth album from the NYC melodic post-hardcore band, with members from Militarie Gun and Pile of Love.
9/10 Distorted Sound 4.5/5 Far Out 8/10 PopMatters 8/10 Exclaim / Dork
The Hard Quartet
Debut album from the supergroup consisting of Stephen Malkmus, Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, Dirty Three’s Jim White, and the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly's new band. The first music from Pavement's Malkmus since his 2020 solo album Traditional Techniques.
8/10 Uncut 7/10 Loud and Quiet 3.5/5 Far Out
Yasmin Williams
Third album from the Northern Virginia "finger-style guitarist". Think the whole album is instrumental, sounds pretty nice.
9/10 Uncut 4/5 The Skinny 8/10 Mojo
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Eight album from the legendary Canadian post-rock band. I could have seen them live last week on Sunday but I went to see Janet Jackson instead, which was maybe for the best.
4/5 The Skinny 8/10 Uncut
Abstract Crimewave
Debut album from Swedish producers / musicians Jocke Åhlund (Caesars etc) and Björn Yttling (Peter, Bjorn & John). Feat Lykke Li, Chrissie Hyde, Dungen.
FINNEAS
Second album from LA producer and probably most famously - Billie Eilish's brother.
4/5 Dork 6/10 Rolling Stone 2/5 musicOHH
LOW-RES
Third album from dystopian goth pop band from Stockholm, Sweden.
Tony Vaz
Debut album from Brooklyn singer. Sounds very "New York".
7.6/10 Pitchfork
The Clearwater Swimmers
Debut album from roots / slow core Portland/NYC band.
8/10 Uncut 4/5 Spill 3/5 Far Out
Public Service Broadcasting
Fifth album from the experimental / mainly instrumental with audio recordings included London quartet, with Amelia Earhart (same as Laurie Anderson's album released a few week ago, bet they were gutted when they found that out). Feat This is the Kit etc.
10/10 Record Collector 8/10 Mojo 3.5/5 Far Out 6/10 Uncut
The Smile
Third album from the English Thom Yorke-led supergroup.
8/10 Loud and Quiet / Uncut / Mojo 3.5/5 Slant 6/10 The Arts Desk
Wild Pink
Fifth album from the NYC band.
8.5/10 Paste 8/10 PopMatters / Northern Transmissions
A Place To Bury Strangers
Seventh album from the NYC shoegazers.
8/10 Record Collector 7.3/10 Paste 7/10 Uncut 3.5/5 Far Out
Leon Bridges
Fourth album from the pop soul-y Fort Worth singer-songwriter.
9/10 Glide 8/10 Uncut 6/10 Rolling Stone
Love Antell
Third solo album from the Florence Valentin singer. Loved his first solo album but lost a bit of interest lately, but will give this a proper listen.
4/6 (Gaffa - Sweden)
The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
Listening to that new The Cure song out this week, I went back to this old classic. What an album! One of my sisters were really into The Cure and got me to like them, but she never had this album and when I bought it on LP as a teenager I was blown away.
Last week I’ve listened a lot to the latest albums from H Self, Joel Plaskett, Bright Eyes, Christian Lee Hutson, Larry June, Future, Being Dead and Lou Reed’s “Coney Island” (for some reason).
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Have a lovely weekend and chill out!
Simon