Here’s a rundown of new releases out today, including new albums and EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
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New Albums and Releases
New Albums
De La Soul – Cabin In the Sky
The cast of the new De La Soul record is stacked, and coming after the passing of Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, the record is a celebration of living life and honouring those lost.
In bringing in a rap hall of fame guest list of Nas, Slick Rick, Q-Tip, Killer Mike, Common, Black Thought, Bilal alongside singers like Little Dragon’s Yukimi, Yummy Bingham, Gareth Donkin, Gina Loring and narration by Giancarlo Esposito, there’s a reflective affirming quality to Cabin in The Sky, buoyed by soul samples and bright production.
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
Producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new album on Warp Records, which came out of a large archive of ‘90s sample CDs that had briefly disappeared from the Internet Archive.
Working with these recovered samples, Lopatin pushed them through custom software and real-time manipulation to build a record that sits between calm and overload, memory and malfunction. The album avoids nostalgia and focuses instead on material: the often-overlooked craft behind commercial sound libraries, and the strange clarity that emerges when those sounds are taken out of context.
Iona Zajac – Bang
The Scottish singer-songwriter Iona Zajac previously collaborated with Lankum’s Daragh Lynch, supported Alison Moyet on tour and performs with The Pogues on their 40th Anniversary concert series.
Bang is Zajac’s debut album, that “moves between shadow and clarity, intimacy and confrontation – a body of work shaped by surreal humour, emotional candour and a refusal to look away. Produced with taut minimalism and a raw sonic edge, the album blends alt-folk, spectral pop and jagged rock textures while showcasing Zajac’s striking lyrical voice.“
Touching on power, boundaries, anger, desire and the strange dreamscapes that shape memory, Bang is both an unburdening and a reclamation. It’s a record that explores how we process harm, how we protect ourselves, and how we transform heaviness into something alive, electric and defiantly human.
David Keenan – Modern Mythologies
Dundalk singer-songwriter’s fourth album “took three years to make as life happens on its own terms but from its beginnings to the final stages I wanted to keep writing about where I was at. We’re left with a collection of songs that connect storytelling threads from mythology to memes and everything in between and to me sound like tributes to the human spirit in all its contradiction, glory and curiosity.:”
The Bug & Ghost Dubs – Implosion
No prizes for guessing what preoccupies the latest release from Kevin Martin aka The Bug and his collaboration with Michael Fiedler, aka Jah Schulz. Bass that rumbles far, deep and wide, a chasm of spectral dub, slow and heavy.
Aux Phoenix – The And Is Now
Irish producer, DJ & musician Aux Phoenix enlists a cast of singers and rappers including Senita, Jesse Dangerously, ANIMWAL, Dot Dev, Vast Aire and more for an album of live hip hop, jazzy prog music.
Ispíní na hÉireann – Poxtail Soup
Irish folk and tradmen Ispíní na hÉireann aim to capture the raucous nature of their live shows over the last four years, with a collection of rambunctious jigs and reels that speak to the “Poxtail Soup: the rancid, boiling pot of acid eating away at our social contract, our collective values, and the very planet itself, all stoked by the fire of rampant individualism.”
It is informed by war, exploitation and collective power. Ross Chaney adds drums, Declan Gillen plays bodhrán, Doireann Ní Ghlacáin sings and Sharon Shannon features on ‘The Kings Of Kerry’.
It’s a stark pint-soaked contrast to the former duo’s more economical beginnings.
Ispíní na hÉireann are Tomás Mulligan (lead vocals, guitar) and featuring Paahto Cummins (vocals, banjo), Pádraig Óg Mac Aodhagáin (saxophone, uilleann pipes, flute), Aongus MacAmhlaigh (vocals, cello, fiddle), and Declan Gillen (drums, bodhrán, pad).
Skrillex – hit me where it hurts x EP
The brostep drop king sound design sculptor drops a five-track EP that features Caroline Polachek, 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady, Nakeesha and Virtual Rot. Most of the tracks are his dubstep techno style
Kelly Lee Owens – KELLY EP
Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens’ newest EP follows up fourth album Dreamstate with a collection of dancefloor tracks that dip towards melodic techno with Lee Owens’ vocals.
“It’s both a snapshot in time of where I am right now artistically and also created as a sonic club journey – each track shaped by the physical spaces and communities that leave their mark on us after unforgettable nights out. I wanted the sounds to feel raw and urgent, a little unruly, visceral and ominous, direct and deliberately uneasy at times
This EP was born from the desire to experience music collectively on a dance floor. It is also an expression of the life force I feel whenever I step into a venue. The EP is a celebration of everyone whose shoulders I stand on, especially the women who came before me and those who might find their own inspiration through connection with the music. It’s a sort of tribute to the power of real spaces, real connection, IRL and the necessity of escapism that lifts us through our everyday world.”
Ciaran Lavery – Salaryman EP
The Antrim singer-songwriter follows up his ambitious Light Entertainment album with a quieter stripped-back collection of music recorded at home.
It is an ode to my personal life – my beautiful partner Nikki, our home, our dogs & an acknowledgement of the every day moments that I continue to be grateful for.
Earlier this year, Lavery also released Promiser, a collaborative EP with Bear’s Den.
YARD – YARD II
The second EP of the year from Dublin industrial electro band YARD features drums from Gilla Band’s Adam Faulkner on ‘Friction’ and is heavy on noise and caustic vocals.
Cosign – Remember When It’s Over EP
cosign is a relatively new Belfast-based artist and producer making impressionistic indie-pop electronic music. Co-produced with Chris W Ryan, this debut EP features a previously featured ‘Boyhood’, with some swirling sonic production touches that give these tunes a singular identity.
Also released this week
- Carron – Siúr
- Goldfrapp – Supernature (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia – What of Our Nature
- Keaton Henson – Parader
- Léa Sen – Levels Unplugged
- Max Richter – Hamnet Soundtrack
- Metropole Orkest, Snarky Puppy & Jules Buckley – Somni
- NIYL – Paris Is Burning
- Pet Shop Boys – Disco 5
- Prince and The Revolution – Around The World In A Day
- Red Axes – LOUD
- Rufus Wainwright & Pacific Jazz Orchestra – I’m A Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill
- Shygirl – ALIAS is ME
- Some Images of Paradise – i expect the same of u
- Twin Shadow – Cadet
- The Beatles – Anthology 4
- The Futureheads – Christmas
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)
- Tobias Jesso Jr. – s h i n e
- Tommy Richman – Worlds Apart
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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.
