Friday is album release day and here’s a quick rundown of what’s been released today. Check back next week for our favourites.
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
The second album from Dua Lipa takes on Kylie’s mantle of ’80s and ’90s disco-fried pop music.
The Scratch – Couldn’t Give A Rats
The Dublin acoustic folk metallers brought their album forward by 3 months and will live stream a performance next Friday.
Half Waif – The Caretaker
Nandi Rose Punkett releases a second album of subtly-constructed songwriter indie.
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together / Ghosts VI: Locusts
Two new albums of instrumentals from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Little Dragon – New Me, Same Us
The sixth album from the Swedish R&B psych-pop band.
Nicolás Jaar – Cenizas
Shortly after releasing an Against All Logic album, Jaar is back with a solo full-length.
The Chats – High Risk Behaviour
Aussie lo-fi punk band on a full-length vibe
Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams – Aporia
Sufjan and his stepdad make an instrumental album
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion Of Time
Daniel Avery and Nine Inch Nails synth artist Alessandro Cortini release their debut full-length collaboration.
Other releases of interest out today
- Bon Iver – Blood Bank 10th Anniversary Edition EP
- Dirty Projectors – Windows Open EP
- Skepta, Chip & Young Adz – Insomnia
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
- Margaret Glaspy – Devotion
- The Ocelets – Started To Wonder
- Knxwledge – 1988
- Pearl Jam – Gigaton
- Beautiful Tapes Volume 1. – Bitch I’m Fucking Quarantined
- The Orb – Abolition Of The Royal Familia
- Basia Bulat – Are You In Love?
- Nap Eyes – Snapshot of a Beginner
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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
