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
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
The third album from the English four-piece band who operate on the boundaries of traditional guitar and rock music with Florence Shaw’s magnetising spoken-word vocals and lyrics the centrifugal force for the band’s avant-rock sound.
Secret Love is produced by Cate Le Bon, the singular artist and producer of records from Horsegirl, Wilco and her own records. Secret Love has a lightness of atmosphere and an ’80s soft touch that could likely be attributed to Le Bon compared to 2022’s Stumpwork and 2021’s New Long Leg.
Winged Wheel – Desert So Green
This experimental rock band are ostensibility a Detroit outfit with members scattered across the American music landscape and including Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Circuit des Yeux), Cory Plump (Spray Paint, co-owner of the dream venue Tubby’s), Matthew J. Rolin (solo guitar wizard and half of the Powers/Rolin Duo), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Lonnie Slack, and Fred Thomas (Idle Ray, Tyvek).
Desert So Green is the band’s third record, recorded in Chicago and draws on American midwest emo, shoegaze, post-rock and kosmische experimental improvisation – reminding me at various points of Godspeed, Slint, TAGABOW, Mogwai with a restrained sound that compliments this week’s other rock record from Dry Cleaning.
SAULT – Chapter 1
The enigmatic R&B /soul band lead by producer Inflo and singer Cleo Soul have released their first album since last April’s 10.
Chapter 1 is the band’s thirteenth record since 2019.
Chapter 1 features the band’s trademark stark black artwork with a candle on the cover, and ten tracks with the tracklisting as per below.
As well as the core duo, Jack Penate and the ’80s American production duo Jerry Jam and Terry Lewis (Janet Jackson) contribute and there’s an extensive credit list that features an orchestra.
Clark – We Bury The Dead
Clark drops his original score for Australian arthouse zombie film We Bury the Dead‘ which is directed by Zak Hilditch and starring Daisy Ridley.
Jenny On Holiday – Quicksand Heart
Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingsworth releases a debut solo album under a new moniker, which features a decidedly less avant-garde lean to it with a more overt pop style – defiant electronic indie with heart-soaked twinkling and swopping songwriting.
It was written in Norwich over the summer with producer Steph Marziano, and is rooted in the idea of a “quicksand heart” – fragile, flawed, yet full of feeling.
Felsmann and Tiley – God Is Lonelier
German synthesizer and producer duo out out a seven-track release from the 12 tracks of their forthcoming Protomensch album which is in next month on February 13th.
Ambient men in polo becks and monochrome in their press photos, Dominik Felsmann and Patrick Tiley’s music is in the contemporary classic electronic vein with trance, synthwave and IDM textures, and guest vocalists including London’s Pet Deaths and Australian artists The Kite String Tangle, Woodes, and Laius.
Taymour x Bareetlblad – Nos Insan – نص انسان
A collaborative 5-track mini album between Jordanian producer Taymour and Palestinian rapper/singer Bareetlblad “of skewed gothic pop, like some auto-tuned, arabic-language re-imagining of Faith-era The Cure via Dean Blunt, Cocteau Twins x Future.
Trust, it’s exceptional stuff, curving melancholy, PNL-style biomechanical rhymes around heartfelt new wave/post-punk loops, like little else.”
As recommended and available on Boomkat.
David Keenan – Poetry from the Well
Dundalk singer-songwriter releases a simple recorded collection of his poetry.
Here are some of my poems, read by a mic as typed and sent out to you.
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)
You absolutely won’t be surprised that Oneohtrix Point Never has made a soundtrack album with synth vaporwave ’80s vibes with nods to Tangerine Dreams, Jean-Michel Jarre and Philip Glass.
Also released this week
- DIIV – Boiled Alive (Live Album)
- Glom – Below
- Lasse Lokøy – & The Roommates
- Pullman – III
- The Cribs – Selling A Vibe
- Zach Bryan – With Heaven On Top
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