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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,941 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    A little disappointed with the Black Keys album. Three best songs were the three singles already released



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    ShaneU wrote: »
    A little disappointed with the Black Keys album. Three best songs were the three singles already released


    Its very bad imo for an established act ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I usually can not stand pop punk music. Hate the melodies, hate the way the guitars sound, especially hate the vocals and the subject Matter. But I saw this record - Morbid Stuff by Pup - was getting good reviews so I gave it a few listens.



    And, yes, there's a lot I don't like about it, but it's also got somethings going on that I enjoy: everything is delivered with a bit more balls and intensity than other similarish bands, the instrumentation is interesting and not completely cookie-cutter and the lyrics are pretty self aware, I can look past the vocals which don't really do it for me a lot of the time. There's also this tune which is twice as aggressive as anything else on the album -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Liking alot the new Purple Mountains (David Berman ex Silver Jews) and Jane Weaver loops in the secret society (remixed versions of songs from previous two albums)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Acosta


    The new Flaming Lips album, Kings Mouth, is very nice. Much of it reminds me of Yoshimi. There is however narration from Mick Jones throughout which is annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    I’ve been listening to the Soft Cavalry (Rachel Goswell & Husband)’s album the past few weeks. It’s pretty decent once you get past the disappointment of it not sounding very like Slowdive.


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭divide_by_zero


    Cherubs - Immaculada High.

    Been listening to this all weekend and can't recommend it enough. It will be in my top ten for this year. Anyone who is a fan of Metz or The Melvins check this out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Cherubs - Immaculada High.

    Been listening to this all weekend and can't recommend it enough. It will be in my top ten for this year. Anyone who is a fan of Metz or The Melvins check this out.

    Spent most of today listening to this. I love it!

    The guitar sounds so abrasive and distorted throughout, but the riffs are absolute dynamite. Definitely one of the best of the year.

    This is my favourite at the moment -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭caviardreams


    Finally getting around to giving the new Banks album (III) a proper listen - really good stuff. Her best yet imo. Thought the first record was great and the second one slipped a bit, but this one is the finished article.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Blanck Mass has a new album out. Everything he has done up to this point has been solid, so hopefully it won't dissapoint.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,941 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭mosstin


    The new Bon Iver is a return to form. Thought his last one was poor in spite of all the critical acclaim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    After a few early misgivings, I can attest that the new Blanck Mass is solid. Some of the reviews are saying it's a bit much and too abrasive, in which case they're falling victim to the age old problem of pretending to have listened to earlier stuff by the artist they are reviewing; so many music reviewers are totally full of shit. Definitely more mellow than his last two albums, by some distance. Maybe doesn't have the amazing highs of his previous stuff, but a more consistent record overall.

    Loads of new stuff to listen to that I'll have to get around to: Tropical Fuck Storm, Sleater Kinney - though I have low expectations on that front - and Bon Iver, even if I kinda hate everything he's done except for the first stuff, but, sure, lookit...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭mgkelly


    I’ve been listening to the Soft Cavalry (Rachel Goswell & Husband)’s album the past few weeks. It’s pretty decent once you get past the disappointment of it not sounding very like Slowdive.
    Yes, the lack of similarity was a bit of a disappointment to me initially, but it is actually quite a good album. Feels a wee bit like "Slowdive-lite", perhaps.
    A good enough album on it's own merit, & I guess the best way to assess it.
    On a related subject, the new Ride album is quite tasty.
    Now, a new Slowdive or Minor Victories album would be nice...!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭OhHiMark


    The new Tool album is predictably superb.


  • Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭Joffrey


    Our's "Strangers With Guns" came out on Friday. I'll link it through bandcamp because it's just a URl but it's all on major platforms

    If any of you are fans of bands like "Rollins Band" "Butthole Surfers" or "Melvins" you might dig us. We also have Mik Pyro cameo on the track "Monkey King"

    https://strangerswithguns.bandcamp.com/album/degenerate-art


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    I’m loving Sandro Perri’s album, Soft Landing. I don’t think I’m familiar with any of the influences. The only thing that jumps out at me as a possible antecedent is Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The new album by Alex G, House of Sugar, sounds very good at first listen. Strong Elliott Smith vibe off a lot of the songs in places, feels like an album that'll offer more with further listens:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The new Girl Band album, The Talkies, was released yesterday. It's good to have them back, a cut above most Irish bands.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    New DIIV album out today, 'Deceiver'. One of my favourite bands, gone for a heavier sound this time around.



    And brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album, 'Ghosteen'. Very synthy and mellow from first listen.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/04/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghosteen-review-the-most-beautiful-songs-he-has-ever-recorded
    On one level, it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s as good as it is: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been in a career-high purple patch since the last double album they released, 2004’s Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Nevertheless, listening to Ghosteen, it’s very hard indeed not to be taken aback.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    Also, Angel Olson’s new album is out. Produced by John Congleton who also did Sharon Van Etten’s Remind me Tomorrow. Sounds good on first listen.


    Birneybau wrote: »
    New DIIV album out today, 'Deceiver'. One of my favourite bands, gone for a heavier sound this time around.



    And brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album, 'Ghosteen'. Very synthy and mellow from first listen.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/04/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghosteen-review-the-most-beautiful-songs-he-has-ever-recorded


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Birneybau wrote: »

    And brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album, 'Ghosteen'. Very synthy and mellow from first listen.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/04/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghosteen-review-the-most-beautiful-songs-he-has-ever-recorded

    got bored with the Nick Cave album after about 5 tracks and I'm now listening to Abattoir Blues instead. Wasn't mad on his last couple of records either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    loyatemu wrote: »
    Birneybau wrote: »

    And brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album, 'Ghosteen'. Very synthy and mellow from first listen.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/04/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-ghosteen-review-the-most-beautiful-songs-he-has-ever-recorded

    got bored with the Nick Cave album after about 5 tracks and I'm now listening to Abattoir Blues instead. Wasn't mad on his last couple of records either.

    I do prefer the rockier stuff myself, "Dig!!!Lazarus!!!Dig!!!"would be up there with "Abbatoir Blues" for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The new Angel Olsen seems like a return to form, she lost me a bit with My Woman, even though critics raved about it, it wasn't as strong for me as Burn Your Fire..., which was an unbelievable record, every song was great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    New Wilco is pretty understated after a couple of listens but I think it's a grower


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Okay, I think the new Angel Olsen might be awesome. It certainly gets better the more I listen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭divide_by_zero


    The new Boris record Love & Evol is excellent, definitely worth a listen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    loyatemu wrote: »
    got bored with the Nick Cave album after about 5 tracks and I'm now listening to Abattoir Blues instead. Wasn't mad on his last couple of records either.

    I thought it felt a bit unsubstantial myself at first - all that floating ambiance can feel weightless - but I think it's a grower. The two longer songs on the second half of the album are outstanding. If you're in the right frame of mind they sound overwhelming.

    I wouldn't entirely believe all the hype about it being this new version of him as a happy and welcoming New Agey guy. Most of these songs sound deliberately heavenly at first, but they have teeth - it's a deceptively dark record.

    The final song, Hollywood, is something else - so ominous and brooding, maybe the only one here that's unambiguously grim sounding. I was listening to earlier today, going about my business, and there's a line in the song where he sings -

    " The kid drops his bucket and spade
    And climbs into the sun" -

    and then the song immediately changes in feel and the weird bassline becomes even more prominent and utterly fcked sounding and I thought of the death of his son, which is there through everything on the record, and...just... powerful piece of music.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Big Thief really have rose to the upper echelon of the alt rock community in a reasonably short space of time.

    Looks like they could have two albums featured very high up in the upcoming AOTY polls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭mosstin


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    Big Thief really have rose to the upper echelon of the alt rock community in a reasonably short space of time.

    Looks like they could have two albums featured very high up in the upcoming AOTY polls.


    'UFOF' is the best album I've heard in about 3 years. Listening to the new one now expectantly.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭divide_by_zero


    Kim Gordon's new album No Home Record is excellent and is a hell of a lot shorter than Thurston Moore's lastest release Spirit Counsel (which if you have a spare two and a half hours is a great listen).



    Bats new one Alter nature is also worth a listen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    mosstin wrote: »
    'UFOF' is the best album I've heard in about 3 years. Listening to the new one now expectantly.

    new Big Thief is unsurprisingly excellent. They're definitely one of the best bands around currently, 4 great albums in 4 years, & Lencker's solo stuff is also really good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    New Tandem Felix Rom-com album is really good, like Wilco jamming with Teenage Fanclub.
    Also the late David Turpin Romances is also very good, 10 guest singers including Conor O Brien, Elephant and Martin McCann (Sack) over disco-pop, synthy type stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Kim Gordon's new album No Home Record is excellent and is a hell of a lot shorter than Thurston Moore's lastest release Spirit Counsel (which if you have a spare two and a half hours is a great listen).



    Bats new one Alter nature is also worth a listen.


    I hope its better than the muck that she was coming out with at the "gig" in Royal Hospital Kilmainham couple of months ago. That was some drivel. I like Sonic Youth and went along expecting something of a resemblance. No chance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭divide_by_zero


    I hope its better than the muck that she was coming out with at the "gig" in Royal Hospital Kilmainham couple of months ago. That was some drivel. I like Sonic Youth and went along expecting something of a resemblance. No chance.

    Much better than that sh*te. That stuff she does with Body/Head is awful self indulgent ****. Couldn't listen to it went to see Kerbdog instead that night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Arghus wrote: »
    The new Girl Band album, The Talkies, was released yesterday. It's good to have them back, a cut above most Irish bands.

    this is really growing on me, it's so relentlessly tense.

    Mention of Angel Olsen a few posts up - her track on the Mark Ronson album is fantastic (though naggingly similar to something I can't put my finger on...):



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    New Swans album out today, Leaving Meaning, bound to be a very uplifting experience.

    Lankum's new album, The Livelong Day, is also out today. Saw them last weekend and they were predictably fantastic. The outro to their version of The Wild Rover makes me think of traditional meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Amazing album from tr/st no wonder all their shows are booked out all across Europe.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD4ZnIl3Zf8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭mosstin


    I'm enjoying the Michael Kiwankua album.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I've only listened to it a few times but that Michael Kiwanuka album seems good to me. No bad songs so far as I can tell and the interludes are pretty interesting. Maybe the Dangermouse production style is a bit familiar at times - if I was being nit-picky - but it certainly seems to be a strong album.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    New FKA twigs out tomorrow. Reviews are excellent and I really enjoyed her first one so expecting a lot


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭mosstin


    sweetie wrote: »
    New FKA twigs out tomorrow. Reviews are excellent and I really enjoyed her first one so expecting a lot

    It's pretty decent!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    mosstin wrote: »
    It's pretty decent!
    Agreed, short but no drop in standard from everything she's done before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but for those who like that sort of thing the new SUNN O))) album, Pyroclasts, is pretty good. I actually think some of it - maybe the first two songs - are semi-accessible for this type of music. They're properly suffocating and enveloping, but they have a grandeur to them that doesn't make them impenetrable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭thomasm


    mosstin wrote: »
    I'm enjoying the Michael Kiwankua album.





    Really enjoying this one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    also liking the Kiwanuka album, agree about the Dangermouse production making it sound quite familiar, also reminds me a bit of Jungle's first album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭mosstin


    New Tindersticks album out. They've been around for so long now. This one sounds slight but promising.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    loyatemu wrote: »
    also liking the Kiwanuka album, agree about the Dangermouse production making it sound quite familiar, also reminds me a bit of Jungle's first album.

    Reminds me of last year’s Lux Prima album, which Dangermouse produced. Also, I can’t listen to the track ‘Final Days’ without thinking of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Welsh duo Right hand left hand 'Zone Rouge' is out today and its a fascinating post rock masterpiece.

    https://righthandlefthand.bandcamp.com/



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