New releases out today: Everything Is Recorded, Darkside, Marie Davidson, Panda Bear, Maria Kelly and more
Here’s a rundown of new Albums & EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
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New Albums and EPs:
New Albums
Everything Is Recorded – Temporary
The third studio album from XL Recordings boss Richard Russell and a cast of collaborators.
This album, features a wide-range of musicians including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Ricky Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time.
The album was four years in the making.
Darkside – Nothing
The third album by the band founded by Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington – now a trio with drummer Tlacael Esparza.
Nothing follows Psychic (2013) and Spiral (2021) with Nothing “borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations”.
“Serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. Haunted rhythms, distorted vocals, and uncanny beauty” as it is put.
Marie Davidson – City of Clowns
The Montreal electronic producer Marie Davidson’s sixth album arrives on Soulwax’s Deewee label – moving from “xrunching techno straight out of 90s Detroit, fired-up circuitboard breakbeats, and skewed club cuts,” while exploring her place in thw world as a woman, a musician, and an artist.
The record was made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau (Essaie pas, L’Œil Nu, Feu St-Antoine).
Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
The Animal Collective member Noah Lennox’s new solo record, his first in five years, made with his bandmate Deakin in Lisbon, where he has lived for a long time.
Sinister Grift is actually quite a warm-hearted and sunny record of a poppier persuastion than recent material.
It features Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and—for the first time on a Panda Bear solo album—each of his Animal Collective bandmates.
Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time
Belfast-based singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside new album on Nettwerk, leans into the lush fingerpicked folk sound he’s been increasingly embodying of late, with nods to Irish traditional music, and electronic textures.
“This feels like my happiest family of songs to date. Or the most joy-filled ones anyway… which isn’t much of a boast. This album was written against the background of my becoming a father for the first time, and of my family growing alongside my wife Emily. And, alongside that joy, comes a lot of fear and anxiety, both of which are also pretty prevalent throughout this album. The songs were written between Belfast and Comber, Donegal and Paris, and recorded in my unsound-proof studio in Belfast city centre. So the sounds and life of the city and countryside, alongside that of my son, are all key parts and drivers of the tracks on this record.”
Maria Kelly – Waiting Room
The Mayo singer-songwriter’s second album on VETA records, the followup to 2021’s debut The Sum of the In-between.
Mental health is a big theme of the record, with the title referencing the very rela place Maria spent time in while seeking answers for chronic pain, along with a metaphorical place of her inner world.
“This album is an exploration of the roadblocks, both internally and externally, that keep us feeling powerless and taking away our agency,” Maria explains. The record also touches on the housing crisis, societal expectations, faded friendships and more.
It was recorded between the Start Together Studio in Belfast and Black Mountain Studios in Dundalk, and features a collection of long-time friends and collaborators: co-producer and co-writer Matt Harris (HAVVK, Birthday Problem), drummers Hannah Hiemstra (Rachael Lavelle, Rival Sisters) and Nigel Kenny (Bitch Falcon), vocalist Julie Hough (HAVVK, PostLast), mixer Rocky O’Reilly (Oppenheimer) and others.
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
The Japanese ambient folk artist whose dreamy compositions foreground acoustic and classical guitar.
Luminescent Creatures swells with harp, flute, strings, synths and piano instrumentation, and takes its chief inspiration from the Japanese Ryukyu Islands.
bdrmm – Microtonic
Hull band bdrmm release their third record Mogwai’s Rock Action label.
The album was recorded with long-term band collaborator Alex Greaves and featuring guest appearances from Sydney Minsky Sargeant of Working Men’s Club and Olivesque of Nightbus.
‘Lake Disappointment’ is the third preview from the record I previously feautred, in which a drum and bass rhythm meets pulsating synthesizers for a dark-gilded track that sounds like industrial rockers Health in tone, if a tad lighter.
It’s all part of bdrmm’s increased reliance of electronic sounds in their newest work.
Muireann Bradley – I Kept These Old Blues
The 18 year old Donegal artist made a name for herself with her faithful renditions of old American blues songs on her debut album originally recorded as a fifteen year-old.
This new version of the album released today was remixed and remastered by Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Kevin Reeves, and features blues standards such as Blind Blake’s ‘Police Dog Blues’ and Rev Gary Davis’ ‘Candyman’.
HANNAHBELLA – Parasite EP
Cork experimental electronic-pop emerging artist’s new EP.
“‘Parasite’ is an exploration of the darker, uncomfortable sides of the human experience- those unwanted feelings and thoughts we often try to suppress. The EP dives into the depths of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, grief, loneliness and love, offering a raw and honest space for these emotions to breathe and be confronted. I think it’s so important to honour how we feel/react as people because we need to nurture ourselves. You’re stuck with yourself so why not try to understand and learn so you can be the best you? I love to play with point of view and structure because no matter how straight forward things may seem, sometimes our thoughts and feelings don’t catch on! It’s never linear.
Annie-Dog – 15
Irish alternative pop artist releases as second EP on Dance To The Radio, with music that ranges from bedroom pop a la Pink Pantheress and Grimes to more alternative rock styles clashing with electronics.
Also released today
- Antony Szmierek – Service Station At The End Of The Universe
- Banks – Off With Her Head
- Boldy James & Chuck Strangers – Token of Appreciation
- Deep Sea Diver – Billboard Heart
- Doves – Constellations For The Lonely
- The Men – Buyer Beware
- Miya Folick – Erotica Veronica
- Mdou Moctar -Tears Of Injustice
- Paris Texas – They Left Me With A Gun
- serpentwithfeet – GRIP SEQUEL
- Shygirl – Club Shy Room 2 EP
- Sports Team – Boys These Days
- Hope Tala – Hope Handwritten
- Tori Amos – The Music of Tori and the Muses
