New releases out today: Taylor Swift, Pillow Queens, New Jackson & 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
Taylor Swift – THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
Taylor’s 11th studio album with a synth pop flavour. Features Florence & The Machine and Post Malone. A 31 tracks, 2 hours long anthology version, the corporate pop juggernaut is back again.
“The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Taylor Swift
Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow
Third album from the Irish indie-rock band after putting out singles ‘Heavy Pour’, ‘Suffer’, ‘Gone’ and ‘Like A Lesson’.
The band play Iveagh Gardens this summer, and have UK and Limerick dates.
New Jackson – OOPS!… POP
David Kitt’s techno pop project releases a long-awaited second full-length on Permanent Vacation. Features a cover of the Stone Roses ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ along with some previously-released bangers.
OOPS!… POP features collaborators Rita Lynn, Donnacha Costello, Riche “Jape” Egan, Yenkee, Kean Kavanagh,Margie Jean Lewis, Meg Cronin and Fehdah so it’s all-cast affair this time around.
Stomptown Brass – It Did Went Down
The Dublin-based 8-piece urban funk brass band have released their long-awaited debut album, marking 10 years in existence. “Two Drummers, two Trombones, two Trumpets, sixteen hands, one Sax and one big filthy Tuba.’
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
Ahead of their show at Marlay Park this summer, the Seattle grunge rock band twelfth studio album is released.
David Murphy – Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar
Rollercoaster Records label releases this new LP by Cork session-musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist David Murphy. An ambient and exploratory take with the pedal steel instrument.
GANGRENE – Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Oh No & The Alchemist trading production. Featuring Ankhlejohn, Evidence, & Boldy James.
Cadence Weapon – Rollercoaster
Canadian rapper’s latest hyperpop and electro-inspired album features Grandtheft, Jacques Greene, Machinedrum and Myst Milano and is concerned with “the dizzying contradictions of modern culture and technology.”
claire rousay – sentiment
Canadian-American experimental musician and composer based in Los Angeles. emo ambient on Thrill Jockey.
Wallis Bird, Spark – Visions of Venus
Albums also released today
- A Certain Ratio – It All Comes Down To This
- Brian Eno – Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Cloud Nothings – Final Summer
- Digitalism – Idealism Forever (Anniversary edition)
- Eyedress – Vampire in Beverly Hills
- Lucy Rose – This Ain’t The Way To Go Out
- Tourist – Memory Morning
New EPs out today
Ezra Williams – Socks EP
Cork singer-songwriter’s new EP follows the Choice Music Prize nominated Supernumeraries.
The Love Buzz – No Different
Cork scuzz pop indie-rock band release debut EP.
