NEW ALBUMS (released within last month/30 days) Worth a Listen

mosstin · 29-09-2017 09:28PM

Gonzovision wrote: »

New Vessels and For Tet today. Four Tets best release since TILIY in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsPfafTZys4

Sounds promising for sure. He sold a few hundred of the new album - vinyl - through Oxfam. Supporting a great cause and buying great music - win/win.

Ekels · 01-10-2017 09:41PM

Some month for post-rock was September. As a few have mentioned, Vessels, Balmorhea and Mogwai with albums. Mogwai's album is very good without re-inventing the wheel or bettering CODY or Happy Songs (or whatever anyone else considers their best), in my opinion. Balmorhea album is brilliant. They do a track-by-track here for anyone interested: http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151364-balmorheas-track-by-track-guide-to-clear-language

seachto7 · 02-10-2017 08:18PM

Ekels wrote: »

Some month for post-rock was September. As a few have mentioned, Vessels, Balmorhea and Mogwai with albums. Mogwai's album is very good without re-inventing the wheel or bettering CODY or Happy Songs (or whatever anyone else considers their best), in my opinion. Balmorhea album is brilliant. They do a track-by-track here for anyone interested: http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151364-balmorheas-track-by-track-guide-to-clear-language

It is indeed a real grower. I have it on Spotify but would shell out for a record or CD to support them. Vessels I must check.

UrbanSprawl · 05-10-2017 02:57PM

Can scarcely be anyone with any interest in the Irish indie\alt music scene not aware of Otherkin and their cracking debut album 'OK'.
Definitely one of my top albums Irish or otherwise of the year to date.
Oh and if you are thinking of buying the album do it TODAY, they are very close to having the best selling album of the week.

http://www.thewarnermusicshop.com/artist/otherkin

UrbanSprawl · 06-10-2017 06:19PM

New entry at No 2 great achievement for the guys and well deserved,cannot wait for the December gig,will be mayhem.

LW TW Title Artist Label WOC
1 1 PICTURE THIS PICTURE THIS WARNER MUSIC IRELAND 6
NEW 2 OK OTHERKIN RUBYWORKS 1
3 3 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN ASYLUM 31
NEW 4 NOW SHANIA TWAIN EMI 1
NEW 5 YOUNGER NOW MILEY CYRUS RCA 1
5 6 FREEDOM CHILD SCRIPT COLUMBIA 5

Anesthetize · 10-10-2017 08:28PM

The Horrors - V

On their previous album Luminous it sounded like they lobbed in synths because they ran out of ideas. On their new album they use them with purpose and have some great songs to back it up. That album cover is still awful though.

Claude Wilton · 10-10-2017 08:34PM

The new Waterboys album, Out of all this Blue, is a beauty.

sumsar · 11-10-2017 08:37AM

Claude Wilton wrote: »

The new Waterboys album, Out of all this Blue, is a beauty.

Really liked payo payo chin.. didn't know the album was out, checking it now.

BonnieSituation · 11-10-2017 02:45PM

Anesthetize wrote: »

The Horrors - V

On their previous album Luminous it sounded like they lobbed in synths because they ran out of ideas. On their new album they use them with purpose and have some great songs to back it up. That album cover is still awful though.

I'm loving it. Never really got into Luminous and that's saying something considering Primary Colours and Skying are two of my favourite albums of all time.

Roll on next Tuesday.

mosstin · 12-10-2017 10:43PM

Right, well the new St. Vincent album is brilliant.

Kerrigooney · 13-10-2017 08:55PM

The Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile album is well worth a listen. Gonna be playing it all weekend I think.

sweetie · 14-10-2017 12:08AM

Seamus Fogarty's album is getting good reviews, looking fwd to a listen or three

Birneybau · 14-10-2017 08:45PM

New Beck album worth a listen, sounds like Phoenix as backing band on some songs.

Also, big Horrors fan, thought there were some great songs on Luminous. And, as stated, roll on Tuesday!

loyatemu · 14-10-2017 10:26PM

not sure about the Beck album, it's very produced and commercial by his standards - almost sounds like him singing someone else's songs.

sweetie · 15-10-2017 03:16AM

loyatemu wrote:

not sure about the Beck album, it's very produced and commercial by his standards - almost sounds like him singing someone else's songs.

Yeah Beck by numbers (or colors)

UrbanSprawl · 17-10-2017 08:13PM

The latest and third album from The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is absolutely superb, their best yet.

https://theworldis.bandcamp.com/album/always-foreign

sweetie · 25-10-2017 10:18AM

New album by Michael head and the red elastic band is lovely. He was in Shack, Pale fountains and did this album years ago which made me a fan for life.

loyatemu · 25-10-2017 10:37AM

sweetie wrote: »

New album by Michael head and the red elastic band is lovely. He was in Shack, Pale fountains and did this album years ago which made me a fan for life.

cheers - didn't know about that. As you say, "The Magical World of the Strands" is a wonderful record.

mosstin · 25-10-2017 06:12PM

sweetie wrote: »

New album by Michael head and the red elastic band is lovely. He was in Shack, Pale fountains and did this album years ago which made me a fan for life.

HMS Fable by Shack was a beautiful record. Great songwriter.

BonnieSituation · 26-10-2017 02:12AM

Technically released 33 days ago. But I have fallen in love with Hannah Peel's "Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia".

"Archid Orange Dwarf" is a stunner. I think the last time I was stopped in my tracks like this was when I heard "Peach Plum Pear" by Joanna Newsom upstairs in Tower way back when. been on repeat all night. Plays Belfast on December 2nd. I'll unfortunately be in Manchester at Sasha/Digweed. Couldn't be further in styles from each other!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VzoUJ-8_u0

Arghus · 26-10-2017 11:12PM

Fever Ray's new album Plunge is released tonight/tomorrow. Great unexpected news.

Hopefully it'll be a worthy successor to the last one.

S.M.B. · 26-10-2017 11:16PM

The first single was solid if not spectacular. Felt a bit more The Knife like than Fever Ray.

Ekels · 29-10-2017 09:08AM

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

The latest and third album from The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is absolutely superb, their best yet.

https://theworldis.bandcamp.com/album/always-foreign

Agree wholeheartedly. There's a folk twist on a lot of tracks which I'm liking.

Other than this, the other two recent-ish releases I have on heavy rotation the past few weeks are:

And So I Watch You From Afar- The Endless Shimmering. Not much to say about this. It's not much different to their previous releases, it's just ASIWYFA being awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jho0Jm_ITWA

Knuckle Puck- Shapeshifter. Best pop-punk/post-hardcore album of the year for me. Can't get enough of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnm53glX5Q

UrbanSprawl · 29-10-2017 04:25PM

I suspect the mogawi and ASIYFA albums are likely wysiwyg to borrow an acronym from computer science,not disparaging either but you kinda know what to expect. Seen both of these bands live previously over the years and that's where their true awesomeness is apparent.
In terms of new sounds will be checking out the latter of your links,would also recommend the Brutus album Burst as having
a little bit different sound in a genre that is saturated with bands who sound broadly similar.
Couple of other newly released albums I have being listening to Protomatyr and Wolf Parade both good at times but I don't find myself massively addicted to either.

S.M.B. · 03-11-2017 01:05PM

Not sure if Indie/Alt is the right place for it and I'm a little late to the party as I only heard about the release recently but score to The Vietnam Way by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is another stellar effort from the pair.

I really do love their stuff, would love to see them do a few live dates doing their movie score material.

mosstin · 03-11-2017 09:56PM

Has the Phoebe Bridgers' album been mentioned here yet? If not, it's really worth a listen. Ploughing a well-worn furrow but excellent songwriting.

sweetie · 04-11-2017 12:13PM

mosstin wrote:

Has the Phoebe Bridgers' album been mentioned here yet? If not, it's really worth a listen. Ploughing a well-worn furrow but excellent songwriting.

Thought it was too old, lovely stuff indeed

sweetie · 05-11-2017 02:13PM

Interesting album out by Daniele Luppi called Milano, 80s concept album feat Karen O and Parquet courts.

05-11-2017 09:13PM

S.M.B. wrote: »

The first single was solid if not spectacular. Felt a bit more The Knife like than Fever Ray.

Yeah, it definitely feels more like a Knife album than a Fever Ray one. Fever Ray's debut is a contender for my favourite album of all time, so my expectations for Plunge were always going to be too high. It does have some very good moments (the instrumental title track is a highlight) and she should be commended for not releasing a rehash of the debut*, but overall it has left me a little cold. Still, it helps if I think of it as a follow-up to Shaking the Habitual rather than a follow-up to Fever Ray.

(Though I love that album so much I'd still be happy with a second version of it!

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S.M.B. · 05-11-2017 11:43PM

Agree 100%.

Can't fault her for continuing with what interests her sonically and thematically.

I'd have loved Fever Ray part 2 though.

NEW ALBUMS (released within last month/30 days) Worth a Listen

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