Albums of interest to stream this week:
Recommended:
Adrian Crowley – I See Three Birds Flying
Another mejestic and elegiac effort from Mr. Crowley.
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Daphni – JIAOLONG
Caribou’s Dan Snaith goes deeper into dance music for his solo release as Daphni.
Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes
Not grabbing me as much as I’d like in truth. Gorgeous textures and production but the songs are perhaps too fleeting and in a melding mix style to really love for me. Need more time with it.
Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
“Cavernous choruses of Fleet Foxes or My Morning Jacket collide with the polyrhythmic playfulness of… Givers.”
Sun Airway – Soft Fall
“Soft Fall finds Barthmus at the helm, masterfully presiding over the richly layered and deeply emotive pop of the album’s eleven tracks.”
Ultraísta, – Ultraísta
Debut album from a band made up of Nigel Godrich (Radiohead’s producer), Laura Bettinson and Joey Waronker (serious session musician, played drums with Beck, REM, Thom Yorke).
Why? – Mumps, Etc
“…there’s an unforeseen jauntiness – cheeriness, even – to the record that gives it much more bounce than its predecessors.”
Other full album listens of interest:
Beth Orton – Sugaring Season
“…electric instrumentation, instead recasting its star as a modern practitioner of classic English folk a la Pentangle.”
DÉbruit – From the Horizon
“A scribbled funk that occasionally resembles hip-hop but more often than not just assumes whatever shapes it can make from the odd edges leftover from Thomas’ artisan craft.”
Freelance Whales – Diluvia
“The songs practically glow with multi-part vocal harmonies, banjos, strings, horns and other mad manmade clatter.”
Matt & Kim – Lightning
“…they are willing to try a few different directions to keep things fresh. “
Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
“..sounds like the Los Angeles-born singer took a hard look at R&B, pop, rock, funk and “club-aware electronic soul,” gleefully smashed those plates and glued them all together. “
Taken By Trees – Other Worlds
“…it’s a perfectly lovely and lilting thing, an island-dazed dub-pop concept record that feels like it would be best enjoyed while wearing linen and sandals and maybe, like, silk pants. “
Tame Impala – Lonerism
“Not a collection of psychedelic freakouts so much as a collection of controlled psychedelic slow-burns..”
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
