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

Shane St. · 18-11-2019 7:05am

Arghus wrote: »

I'm not feeling the new FKA Twigs. Think the songs are pretty ordinary underneath all the - admittedly quite interesting - studio jiggery pokerey. Cellophane is a good song and maybe Home With You as well but there isn't too much else blowing my mind on it.

fallen alien is brilliant

sweetie · 18-11-2019 10:09am

New Jape is getting good reviews, lot's of 'his best album so far' comments. Also the Careerist album 'Weird Hill' got plenty of listens since release last week, a snappy 30 min album with nods to Pavement...

Useful.Idiot · 18-11-2019 11:08am

New Lankum is my AOTY so far I think. Vital modern Irish music.

Careerist's (fka Hot Cops) debut album is indeed great. Underrated Irish band from da nort.

Never listened to Jape back in the day but will definitely check out the new one.

mosstin · 27-11-2019 11:51pm

Not exactly music released in the last 30 days but the new Grimes album (Feb 2020, I think) is fantastic.

Arghus · 29-11-2019 12:44am

I'll hold on until the official release, but glad to hear something is happening.

UrbanSprawl · 04-12-2019 11:45am

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

New Lankum is my AOTY so far I think. Vital modern Irish music.

Careerist's (fka Hot Cops) debut album is indeed great. Underrated Irish band from da nort.

Never listened to Jape back in the day but will definitely check out the new one.

Why the name change I wonder?

mosstin · 04-12-2019 6:45pm

Bob Stanley/Saint Etienne compilation called 'The Daisy Age' which includes rap and hip hop from the 90s is brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xE6ZWwJezg

fluke · 27-12-2019 9:50pm

The latest Jimmy Eat World album is pretty amazing.

Pighead · 10-01-2020 12:09pm

New David Keenan album out today. Bit of a buzz around it. Liking what I've heard so far. The Healing and Evidence of Living in particular are brilliant songs. Proving once again that Dundalk is home to some of the most talented people on planet earth.:cool:

Arghus · 11-01-2020 1:33am

Poppy has a new album out, I Disagree. I know it's hard to know what's real and what's fake with the whole Poppy thing and I can understand how people can hate everything to do with it/her/them? There's a lot I don't like myself - but I've always found one or two songs on previous albums that were genuinely great, so I'm prepared to put up with the stuff that doesn't work in order to get to interesting stuff.

This album is really nu-metally and a lot if can seem real insincere and just someone playing around, but when it works that mix of ultra aggressive guitars, abrasiveness and sugary pop feels damn good - and the songs have numerous little details and layers that make me want to listen again. At her best she sounds like a metallier Grimes - at her worst she sounds dumb and cheesy.

I kinda hate the first half of this song, the "edgy" vocals don't do it for me, but about a minute and a half in it starts to get messy in an interesting way, with little bits of noise between each blast of the music and the guitar solo that follows has this weird doubled up effect going on with some extra bass that I absolutely love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIO26jvWIuI

This song I like from start to finish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVG8SD1aucE

its_steve116 · 12-01-2020 11:18pm

Pighead wrote: »

New David Keenan album out today. Bit of a buzz around it. Liking what I've heard so far. The Healing and Evidence of Living in particular are brilliant songs. Proving once again that Dundalk is home to some of the most talented people on planet earth.:cool:

He's actually from Knockbridge. But close enough!

NapoleonInRags · 17-01-2020 4:58pm

Pighead wrote: »

New David Keenan album out today. Bit of a buzz around it. Liking what I've heard so far. The Healing and Evidence of Living in particular are brilliant songs. Proving once again that Dundalk is home to some of the most talented people on planet earth.:cool:

Jesus I think it's awful muck. Could only get through 4 songs before the pain became too much.

UrbanSprawl · 17-01-2020 9:52pm

NapoleonInRags wrote: »

Jesus I think it's awful muck. Could only get through 4 songs before the pain became too much.

Thats 3.75 more than I heard,think he is aiming for the dermot kennedy type demographic.

Arghus · 17-01-2020 11:31pm

Kiwi Jr. are a band. They have an album Football Money. On the first listen they sound like Pavement, meets The Strokes meets bits of The Velvet Underground. Nothing groundbreaking here, but the songs are nice and they have a bit more personality once you get to know them.

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

sweetie · 17-01-2020 11:41pm

Arghus wrote: »

Kiwi Jr. are a band. They have an album Football Money. On the first listen they sound like Pavement, meets The Strokes meets bits of The Velvet Underground. Nothing groundbreaking here, but the songs are nice and they have a bit more personality once you get to know them.

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

You had me at Pavement

Arghus · 17-01-2020 11:56pm

sweetie wrote: »

You had me at Pavement

The singer sounds a lot like Stephen Malkmus. To be honest if I want to listen to bands that sound like Pavement, I'll just listen to Pavement - but they aren't the total knock offs I thought they were at first.

UrbanSprawl · 18-01-2020 12:41am

Arghus wrote: »

The singer sounds a lot like Stephen Malkmus. To be honest if I want to listen to bands that sound like Pavement, I'll just listen to Pavement - but they aren't the total knock offs I thought they were at first.

They could tour as pavement and no one would suspect a thing.

Pighead · 18-01-2020 10:07am

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

Thats 3.75 more than I heard,think he is aiming for the dermot kennedy type demographic.

Possibly the most uninformed comment ever to be posted in this hallowed forum. Keenan has more depth in his little finger than Kennedy has in his whole being. The only thing those guys have in common are their initials.

No issues with you not liking the music but if you're gonna throw out unflattering comparisons at least listen to more than 0.25 songs before you do so. I actually got sick a little bit in my mouth when I read your post. Not cool.

UrbanSprawl · 18-01-2020 9:34pm

Pighead wrote: »

Possibly the most uninformed comment ever to be posted in this hallowed forum. Keenan has more depth in his little finger than Kennedy has in his whole being. The only thing those guys have in common are their initials.

No issues with you not liking the music but if you're gonna throw out unflattering comparisons at least listen to more than 0.25 songs before you do so. I actually got sick a little bit in my mouth when I read your post. Not cool.

How exactly is he alternative or indie in the first place?
He sounds very much like Dermot on this track I randomly chose to listen to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52QIqtxJCU

It not 'bad music' prob get so plays on radio but too generic and boring for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcxZZsFv98

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Arghus · 20-01-2020 12:48am

He's not terrible, nor is he that amazing IMO. I can like bits of his songs, but it comes across as a man trying too hard.

I had genuinely never listened to Dermot Kennedy before I saw the two of them being compared here. Dermot Kennedy is way, way more garbage pop. He's genuinely painful to listen to. I wouldn't compare the two really.

Pighead · 20-01-2020 11:17am

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

How exactly is he alternative or indie in the first place?
He sounds very much like Dermot on this track I randomly chose to listen to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52QIqtxJCU

It not 'bad music' prob get so plays on radio but too generic and boring for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcxZZsFv98

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

The album from Keenan is far from perfect. Few too many tuneless songs on it for my taste but when he gets it right (The Healing, Evidence of living, Subliminal Dublinia, Unholy Ghosts) it's clear to see the guy is a talent. Dermot Kennedy is in the same bracket to me as The Script, Picture This etc.

How on earth anybody can listen to this and call it generic is beyond me.

its_steve116 · 20-01-2020 6:34pm

Pighead wrote: »

Possibly the most uninformed comment ever to be posted in this hallowed forum. Keenan has more depth in his little finger than Kennedy has in his whole being. The only thing those guys have in common are their initials.

No issues with you not liking the music but if you're gonna throw out unflattering comparisons at least listen to more than 0.25 songs before you do so. I actually got sick a little bit in my mouth when I read your post. Not cool.

In my personal opinion they are both good in their own ways. Considerably different, though.

sweetie · 21-01-2020 10:00am

Neither are Alternative or Indie really so can we get back to it....

divide_by_zero · 21-01-2020 11:05am

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's new album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories is great. Worth a listen if you want to listen to something that isn't David Keenan/Kennedy today

Pighead · 21-01-2020 5:22pm

sweetie wrote: »

Neither are Alternative or Indie really so can we get back to it....

Not how it works. Unfortunately you are not a member of the alternative and indie police so you don't get to say what we can or cannot talk about. I will continue to champion Mr Keenan in this wonderful forum for as long as he continues to release great tunes.:cool:

Speaking of which....

Arghus · 22-01-2020 2:43am

Well, after that, I can safely say the more I hear of David Keenan the more I dislike him.

scottmcb04 · 22-01-2020 4:15am

Algiers - There is no year (damn this band are so underrated)

https://youtu.be/bwKTIQuH5ug

UrbanSprawl · 23-01-2020 1:53am

Throwaway comment was not expecting such a vitriolic comeback.. and it was Napeolan who kicked this off with his Keenan hating buzz:mad:
Anyway this album isn't out just yet but they are from Belgium and its not deus.

Pighead · 23-01-2020 3:53pm

UrbanSprawl i love you but you're breaking my heart. I was just trying to occupy the forum with original ideas. Our war is nearly over now. Are you ready for the healing?

UrbanSprawl · 23-01-2020 8:29pm

Pighead wrote: »

UrbanSprawl i love you but you're breaking my heart. I was just trying to occupy the forum with original ideas. Our war is nearly over now. Are you ready for the healing?

Indeed bring it on ..attacking the post not the poster.

sweetie · 26-01-2020 11:35am

New Wire album 'mind hive' sounds great on first listen

Arghus · 27-01-2020 12:15am

sweetie wrote: »

New Wire album 'mind hive' sounds great on first listen

Listening to it now myself. It's a bit toothless in places to my ears and the guitars are strangely tame - they crunch but seem to be muted or mixed weirdly on some songs - but there's some good stuff here too. Nice use of electronics to add to the soundscapey vibe on a few of the quieter and I would say better songs.

Easily one of the most underrated bands of all time.

Acosta · 28-01-2020 11:54pm

divide_by_zero wrote: »

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's new album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories is great. Worth a listen if you want to listen to something that isn't David Keenan/Kennedy today

Big fan but can't warm to it at all.

New Wolf Parade album Thin Mind, is out. Enjoying it so far after a couple of listens

Arghus · 01-02-2020 8:08pm

There's a new album by Destroyer out, Have We Met. One of those bands I meant to listen to down through the years, but struggled to get into. They always felt a bit too mannered, or arch to me.

I feel a bit of the same thing after a few listens through this album: the vocal style is an acquired taste. But, there are a few tunes on here I like. Very synth heavy, but it's done largely in a pretty tasteful way and the songwriting is on point for at least 60% of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZLNLz2yGI

Granadino · 03-02-2020 10:31pm

Not a new album, but a new album for me, which I think lives up to the hype. Shlagenheim. I was very disappointed after a while with the likes of Idles, Fontaines, Murder Capital. Not that they're bad, just I read so much about them, the curiosity wore off after a while. Black Midi are doing it for me at the moment...

UrbanSprawl · 04-02-2020 11:53pm

Granadino wrote: »

Not a new album, but a new album for me, which I think lives up to the hype. Shlagenheim. I was very disappointed after a while with the likes of Idles, Fontaines, Murder Capital. Not that they're bad, just I read so much about them, the curiosity wore off after a while. Black Midi are doing it for me at the moment...

The conveyor belt of music consumerism these days ..next!
Murder Capital have potential Idles I would say intriguing tracks initially until u actually see the, listen to them in interviews not much going on intellectually..will have to wait to see can they deliver another album of any note.

flasher0030 · 05-02-2020 10:31am

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

The conveyor belt of music consumerism these days ..next!
Murder Capital have potential Idles I would say intriguing tracks initially until u actually see the, listen to them in interviews not much going on intellectually..will have to wait to see can they deliver another album of any note.

Good point. For me anyway, there are albums that growers. Don’t seem much at first, but riffs, samples, melodies that just click after listening to them several times. They obviously suffer from what you refer to as the conveyor belt of music consumerism. I don’t know much about Fontaines DC (listened to them a bit. I’m sure I’ll get back into it again). Saw Idles live and loved it. But I can’t have a bad word said about Murder Capital. Initially too I wasn’t overly impressed. Didn’t think there was much substance to it. But after few listens, it just came together. Now I listen to it every day, and look forward to it every time. Feeling Fades is just majestic.

(No connection to the band, by the way!!!!)

Granadino · 05-02-2020 11:44am

flasher0030 wrote: »

Good point. For me anyway, there are albums that growers. Don’t seem much at first, but riffs, samples, melodies that just click after listening to them several times. They obviously suffer from what you refer to as the conveyor belt of music consumerism. I don’t know much about Fontaines DC (listened to them a bit. I’m sure I’ll get back into it again). Saw Idles live and loved it. But I can’t have a bad word said about Murder Capital. Initially too I wasn’t overly impressed. Didn’t think there was much substance to it. But after few listens, it just came together. Now I listen to it every day, and look forward to it every time. Feeling Fades is just majestic.

(No connection to the band, by the way!!!!)

Just can't get into them. They remind of a 5th year school band trying to be edgy.

flasher0030 · 05-02-2020 12:06pm

Granadino wrote: »

Just can't get into them. They remind of a 5th year school band trying to be edgy.

:mad::mad::mad:
Each to their own, I guess. Different tastes.

sweetie · 05-02-2020 1:08pm

took me a while but beginning to get my head around Schlagenheim, same thing with seeing them live

Gonzovision · 05-02-2020 3:51pm

Arghus wrote: »

There's a new album by Destroyer out, Have We Met. One of those bands I meant to listen to down through the years, but struggled to get into. They always felt a bit too mannered, or arch to me.

I feel a bit of the same thing after a few listens through this album: the vocal style is an acquired taste. But, there are a few tunes on here I like. Very synth heavy, but it's done largely in a pretty tasteful way and the songwriting is on point for at least 60% of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZLNLz2yGI

I'm enjoying this one quite a bit. I actually had listened to Kaputt quite a bit a few years ago, but completely fell off my radar. I can imagine some people would bounce right off the vocal style. Very distinctive and worth the perseverance from my point of view.

peteeeed · 05-02-2020 4:53pm

A band that's under the radar a bit but their new album is out this Friday and they are fantastic, from a small town in Holland

thomasm · 05-02-2020 7:47pm

Came across this a couple of weeks ago and I love it, Panorama by La Dispute

https://youtu.be/3YAkc-ucWlI

Arghus · 05-02-2020 8:36pm

Gonzovision wrote: »

I'm enjoying this one quite a bit. I actually had listened to Kaputt quite a bit a few years ago, but completely fell off my radar. I can imagine some people would bounce right off the vocal style. Very distinctive and worth the perseverance from my point of view.

I listened to this album a lot over the last few days. The songs that work, work really well. The first half of the record is pretty strong, but there's some really lifeless, pointless stuff elsewhere; almost to the point of it being muzack. Half a really great album, let down by it's other half, IMO.

Though I decided to listen to Destroyer's Rubies today, because it seems to be maybe their best regarded album? Feels like there's more meat in it, to be honest. Comes across as a cross between Dylan and Neil Young.

Of course, it being an album from the mid noughties there isn't a note from a synth in it anywhere. I wonder how a lot of contemporary music will sound to people in ten or fifteen years. Not that I hate it, but synths and the like are being fairly lashed into everything these days.

Arghus · 16-02-2020 12:17am

New Tame Impala.

I'm still on the fence about these guys.

I have a hard time with your man's singing voice.

ShaneU · 16-02-2020 1:01am

Arghus wrote: »

New Tame Impala.

I'm still on the fence about these guys.

I have a hard time with your man's singing voice.

I love them, really like the song "Is It True" It's not as good as Currents though

I also listened to the new Green Day album, The first half of the album is pop songs with a lot of 50's/60's style hooks and sounds very little like Green Day, the second half is more of the same. I'm glad they at least tried something different. The song "Stab you in the heart" is a total ripoff of Hippy Hippy Shake, I hope this is acknowledged on the album cover somewhere.

Will listen to the Tennis album next.

mosstin · 16-02-2020 3:21pm

Arghus wrote: »

New Tame Impala.

I'm still on the fence about these guys.

I have a hard time with your man's singing voice.

I have given them several listens over the years and they leave me utterly cold.

divide_by_zero · 18-02-2020 12:09pm

This week I have mostly been listening to.... Bombara -Stray, Beach Bunny - Honeymoon, Post Animal - Forward Motion Godyssey, Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity and Riki - Riki.

The Beach Bunny record is definitely the stand out this week for me.

peteeeed · 18-02-2020 1:32pm

loving the new tennis album 'swimmer' catchy as fvck

Anesthetize · 19-02-2020 10:17pm

Listening to the new Grimes album Miss Anthropocene.

Decent album, but it sounds a bit safe by her standards. I'm hoping that this is her contractual obligation album for 4AD, and that she has something wilder up her sleeve when she's free from her label.

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

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