New album releases: Caribou, The Smile, Orla Gartland, GY!BE, Bricknasty, Bantum, Geordie Greep & more
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
Caribou – Honey
The sixth album finds Dan Snaith further blurring the lines between the Caribou band project and his dancefloor alias Daphni. Collapsing them both into the main artist name for now, Honey is filled with metronomic dance music with flashes of French touch, electro, psychedelia and house pop tracks, all with Dan Snaith’s treated vocals.
The Smile – Cutouts
Third album from Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, is the quick followup to January’s Wall Of Eyes.
Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs A Hero
The Second album from the Irish artist features previous released singles ‘Little Chaos’, ‘Mine’, ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’ and new song ‘The Hit’.
The followup to Woman On The Internet, explores how the songwriter moves through a long term relationship, and how to find her place in a postfeminist world., while exploring the idea of a hero, and how we look up to someone else, potentially to cover our own flaws.
Bantum – Bantum
Cork producer Bantum’s new album will feature no guests, and is 8 tracks of all instrumental music, featuring “old school funk bass and electric guitars, driving house rhythms and hip-hop samples.”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
Canadian post-rock return referencing Israel’s war on Palestine with a new collection of vertiginous krautrock, drone and avant rock instrumentals.
Niwel Tsumbu – Milimo
Democratic Republic of Congo guitarist made Ireland his home many moons ago, and his long-awaited debut solo album features classical, African and jazz music-influences, and is released on Dublin label Diatribe Records. It was recorded with the assistance of Peter Gabriel’s house engineer Dom Shaw at Realworld studios.
Lеon Bridges – Leon
‘Leon’ is the fourth album from songwriter, and producer Leon Bridges and addresses his hometown of Forth Worth, Texas.
Bicurious – Your Life is Over Now…
Dublin alt-rock duo of Gavin Purcell and Taran Plouzané’s new album on Big Scary Monsters, leans on math-rock riffs, post-rock and loud elemental guitar music.
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)
30th Anniversary Edition of the seminal collection of ambient electronic music from one of music’s true auteurs and originators.
This expanded version of the album features arguably one of Aphex Twin’s most beautiful songs – ’19’, previously only a vinyl release, along with other unreleased tracks.
Woozy – WZY4.5
Yamamori Tengu booker and dub and bass music DJ EMA’s latest compilation.
Woozy’s annual WZY.5 compilation summit gathers for its fourth instalment, celebrating 9 artists of dubwise disposition that maintains the label and its founder EMA’s spellbinding tradition in futurist soundsystem music. No Sir, Maude Vôs, Jossy Mitsu, Chewlie, Beaabea, Mantra, Introspekt, Ila Brugal and Honeydrip all feature for another bumper showcase of ambitious club sounds.
BRICKNASTY – XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ
Dublin collective Bricknasty are following up their 2023 EP Ina Crueler with a mixtape, features ‘Mouthy’, and ‘Boyfriend’.
The 9-track EP captures “the band’s journey through loss, recovery, and the embrace of the unknown. “
“The majority of these formative experiences occurred on tour shortly after the release of their first project.”
Róis – MO LÉAN EP
Róis is a Fermanagh composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and electronic artist. The new EP’ has a theme of celebrating Ireland’s ancient traditions around death, from start to finish. The EP was self-released, written and produced by RÓIS with additional production from John Spud Murphy (OXN/Lankum), and was inspired by recordings of keening songs.
Alessandro Cortini – NATI INFINITI
Merzbow and Daniel Avery Collaborator and Nine Inch Nails live keys and synths man returns with a collection of ambient work.
NATI INFINITI is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 where it was presented across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Moagem. Cortini later debuted the live performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival in 2023, reimagining the work as a unique, evolving dialogue. T
Geordie Greep – The New Sound
Marmite singer of Black Midi goes solo. Musically, it sounds like like Steely Dan with jazzy-post-rock. Vocally it has a theatrical cabaret crooner delivery.
The Bug – Machines I – V
Kevin Martin’s first solo instrumental album as The Bug, compiling a series of EPs issued digitally 2023-2024 on his Pressure label.
Half Waif – See You At The Maypole
Nandi Rose’s latest album came in the devastating wake of a miscarriage.
See You At The Maypole is both a recognition of personal sadness and a call to ecstatic togetherness. It is gathering the colours of our spirit, in all its shades, and making something intricate and remarkable. The ceremonial folk dance performed around a maypole is filled with fauna and flora, with ribbons woven into complex braids incapable of unraveling; these dances are survivals of ancient ritual, honoring the living trees, and the return of Spring and fertility. These patterns––this dance––cannot be completed alone, and so, Half Waif welcomes others to join her, a collective of bleeding colour.
Joan Shelley – Mood Ring
Kentucky folk singer’s latest EP.
Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight
London instrumental band who take samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material, address aviator Amelia Earhart’s last flight.
The Last Flight is our version of the story of Amelia Earhart’s final, ill-fated journey in 1937. Having successfully navigated over 20,000 miles and 5 continents on her round-the-world trip, her aircraft, the Electra, vanished without trace near Howland Island. Her whereabouts, and those of her navigator, Fred Noonan, remain a lingering mystery to this day.
cumgirl8 – 8th Cumming
Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8’s debut album on 4A, is rooted in a philosophy close to the band’s heart: cyberfeminism, which addresses the relationship between human and machine, nature and technology. Musically, the band dig into new wave, alt-rock and synth punk.
Eve Belle – Sad City, Baby! EP
Second EP in two years from Donegal artist Eve Belle who’s new EP is “a romantic, Americana-tinged journey through the humiliating ordeal of loving someone”. Draws on country-pop and features lap steel guitar, orchestral strings and trumpet.
Tr One – Is This The End EP
The title takes influence on the struggle provided by modern day electronic music and the thoughts on continuing and this EP tries to provide solace in the love and richness that techno and house sounds particularly deeper strains can provide.
Also released today
- A Place To Bury Stranger – Synthesizer
- Balance and Composure – With You in Spirit;
- Clarence Clarity – VANISHING ACT II: ULTIMATE REALITY
- Coldplay – Moon Music
- Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Quiet in a World Full of Noise
- Finneas – For Cryin’ Out Loud
- Hiro Ama – Music for Peace and Harmony
- Lizzy McAlpine – Older (and Wiser)
- Maya Hawke – Clipped Wings
- Midland – Fragments Of Us
- Nice Biscuit – SOS
- Thee Sacred Souls – Got A Story To Tell
- Wasps vs Humans – Scratchcard Empires
