Here’s a rundown of new releases on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
Nialler9 keeps a rolling list of Irish album releases here.
Releases Index
New Albums
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
The Cure’s first new release in 16 years, an 8-track collection of new music The band will be performing their only scheduled show of the year tonight at Troxy in London, which will be live streamed on youtube.
Songs of a Lost World grapples with mortality and is Robert Smith & co’s 14th studio album.
Fionn Regan – O Avalanche
The Irish singer-songwriter’s seventh album, is released through Bella Union, and was recorded in the Majorca town of Deià, in Anna Friel’s house (who provides some backing vocals).
“I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways,” he said of the record. “It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you’re thinking about it in a visual way, there’s a quality about it where it’s always magic hour.”
Anderson – Some Rain Must Fall
Some Rain Must Fall arrives nine years since the Dublin singer-songwriter’s debut Patterns.
We heard the news with two songs ‘Pictures Of You’ and ‘The Artist.
“This album was a long time in the making, perhaps these songs offer clues as to why,” Says Daniel Anderson.
“I’m an electrician by trade,” he says. “That’s what I’m professionally qualified to do and what I worked as before I dedicated my life to music. Being a musician has taken up the majority of my adult life but I’d always had a feeling of imposter syndrome with it. In the back of my head I’d be thinking ‘I’m an electrician – I’m not supposed to be making art.
Leaving my trade behind, my ambition was always to make writing music a viable career path. When that didn’t materialise the only other career I could potentially fall back on was being an electrician. But for different reasons it just didn’t work. I changed so completely that going back into that world was impossible. I felt like an imposter all over again. But the dilemma triggered something in me and new songs and ideas started coming. I stopped obsessing on the career that music hadn’t given me and instead focused on how it had enriched my life. It wasn’t easy but everything I went through was captured in the songs and it’s all there on the record: work, worth, fear, pain, ageing, art, love, life and an understanding that into every life some rain must fall.”
Dunny – Schtum
Donnacha O’ Malley is one of the founding members of Dublin based experimental band Meltybrains?.
Schtum is his debut solo album, featuring experimental leaning songcraft.
Sister Ghost – Beyond The Water
Shannon Delores O’Neill’s debut album as Sister Ghost leans on a 90s pop-rock aesthetic, after 10 years of making and playing music under the name.
“Recording in Los Angeles in 2022 was easily the coolest Summer of my life and working with Brad Wood was a dream come true. I’m so proud of this album and I’m excited for everyone to finally hear these songs that mean so much. I look forward to the next chapter of Sister Ghost, Beyond The Water, wherever it may lead.”
Mount Eerie – Night Palace
Washington musician Phil Elverum’s latest.
This is a return to the beloved deep analog fuzz world of the Microphones’ the Glow pt. 2 (2001) and the many thickly embroidered Mount Eerie universes that have followed. Smashed tape, breathing air organs, crackling tube amps and a welcome living reality just outside the open window all entwine to push the definition of what’s “home” and what’s “studio”, of what’s a “song” and what’s at the heart of the unmediated idea itself.
Lykke Li – ƎYƎYƎ
The Swedish pop songwriter appears to have released a Reversed version of EYEYE. I have no idea why.
Freddie Gibbs – You Only Die 1nce
This new no-guest Gibbs album was announced yesterday on Halloween.
Deathbed Convert: Inverse Field Vol. 1 – Inishowen
Deathbed Convert is an outlet for select organic, ambient works by Irish producer Connor Dougan who has previously worked under the aliases Ai Messiah & Defcon and collaborated with the likes of Kaidi Tatham and Boxcutter.
In a desire to break from from the hermetic, occupational hazards of the solo producer, Connor lugged a bunch of equipment to Inishowen in the wilds of North West Ireland where he recorded himself improvising, played it back through a portable speaker and, finally, recorded both the playback and environmental sounds simultaneously. The process led to beautiful moments of serendipity, harmony and chance.
Sloucho – The Eclipse Protocol EP
A 3-track EP release on the Cloudcore label, with Rory Sweeney on one track. Get weird.
Flying Lotus – Spirit Box EP
New five-track EP from the producer, with instrumentals features Dawn Richard and Sid Sriram.
Also released today
- Autre Ne Veut – Love, Guess Who???
- Beatrice Dillon – Seven Reorganisations
- Bishop Nehru – Nehruvia: Solace In Shadows
- Christy Moore – A Terrible Beauty
- J. Spaceman & John Coxon – Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton
- Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry & Rebecca Foon – First Sounds
- THUS LOVE – All Pleasure
- Westside Gunn & DJ Drama – Still Praying
