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

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    #242
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,103 ✭✭✭mosstin


    New album by The Antlers - 'Familiars' - streaming here. Opening track 'Palace' is one of the more beautiful songs I've heard this year.


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    #243
    lewisdhead
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭lewisdhead


    The Delines-Colfax. Smokey country soul from Willy Vlautin of Richmond Fontaine and Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists with the female voice of Amy Boone



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    #244
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Saw the Delines the other night. Wish I'd heard the album a bit more before the gig, as it seemed very similarly paced the whole way through. Jenny Conlee didn't play with them either.


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    #245
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    new Phantom Band album Strange Friend is out - their first 2 records were great but they dropped off the radar for a few years afterwards. Whole album was on Spotify last week but seems to be only a 3-track sampler now:


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    #246
    lewisdhead
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭lewisdhead


    Gonzovision wrote: »
    Saw the Delines the other night. Wish I'd heard the album a bit more before the gig, as it seemed very similarly paced the whole way through. Jenny Conlee didn't play with them either.

    She played on the album, didn't tour with them. Similarly paced is not something that bothers me, a lot of albums are like that, but I get what you're saying. I just think the songwriting, playing and singing is beautiful, lyrically the songs are very narrative, and the album comes across better than live, I saw them in Cork.


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    #247
    smokedeels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    $_35.JPG

    Ought - More Than Any Other Day
    Spiky, oddly-tuned guitars and chaos courtesy of some Canadians blokes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1V0rYQ4Wo

    fantastic album.

    it might be my favorite musical-thing this year.


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    #248
    cranks
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭cranks


    New Brian Jonestown massacre album stream.
    http://thequietus.com/articles/15250-brian-jonestown-massacre-revelation-album-stream

    They play The Ambassador in July


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    #249
    cranks
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭cranks


    ^that should read the academy


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    #250
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    cranks wrote: »
    ^that should read the academy
    Thanks for getting my hopes up that The Ambassador was starting to host gigs again :)


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    #251
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,120 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    mosstin wrote: »
    New album by The Antlers - 'Familiars' - streaming here. Opening track 'Palace' is one of the more beautiful songs I've heard this year.

    I think it's a masterpiece personally. Pulls the best aspects from Hospice and Burst Apart in a focussed manner. The closing track is exceptional.


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    #252
    cranks
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭cranks


    Cabaret Voltaire: '#7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978 – 1985)'. Released June.
    http://www.mutebank.co.uk/mutebank/mutebank/-7885-Electropunk-to-Technopop-1978-1985/3BCE0000000

    First 2 tracks:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwIR8r9RAk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGFEmgXuwU

    As good an intro to CV as you'll get but it's only the tip of their iceberg and you could do worse than checking out the source albums/EPs. Dark grating, occasionally atmospheric, industrial synth pop that's often unsettling but ultimately quite satisfying. Tastes awful at first but you feel compelled to keep trying and keep going back to it - a bit like corriander herb. 1st album 'Mix-Up' not represented at all which is a pity.

    They play Berlin in August.
    http://mute.com/cabaret-voltaire/announce-first-live-performance-in-over-20-years-at-berlin-atonal-festival-23-august-2014
    I'd love to go and be solemn and avant garde with the solemn and avant garde crowd but it ain't a runner for me.


    [I've cheated on this post: New Album, Recommend me an album, Indie/Altie chitter all in one. I'm thinking of the electric trees I tells ya.....:pac:


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    #253
    Easy Rod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭Easy Rod


    smokedeels wrote: »
    fantastic album.

    it might be my favorite musical-thing this year.

    Playing the workmans in November I just discovered, €12.

    Should be great.


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    #254
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    Dalhous ‎– Will To Be Well, released on Blackest Ever Black. Their first album is also great. Blackest Ever Black is a genuinely independent label regularly releasing interesting music.


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    #255
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    I think this is my album of the year so far. Two weeks is definitely my favourite track up to now.

    tumblr_n6wvt2XeG31raxlgvo1_500.jpg


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    #256
    eclectichoney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭eclectichoney


    Gonzovision wrote: »
    I think this is my album of the year so far. Two weeks is definitely my favourite track up to now.

    Insanely good imo.


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    #257
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    I'm enjoying the new Spoon album - never really listened to them much before (I read in one review that they were statistically the best band of the last 10 years according to Metacritic)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVlAOO41vw


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    #258
    adox
    Registered Users Posts: 19,017 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Royal Bloods debut album released today. On Spotify as well.

    Really like the few tracks they've released so far.


    Edit: not actually released til Monday but available to stream on Spotify and iTunes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUKW3yeOeIE


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    #259
    The_Captain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    Has anyone actually listened to this U2 album yet? It's just sitting there in my iTunes library waiting for attention


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    #260
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    The_Captain wrote: »
    Has anyone actually listened to this U2 album yet? It's just sitting there in my iTunes library waiting for attention

    I'd sooner eat glass... Have you seen the song titles; talk about bloody pretentious! It's obvious someone's run out of ideas.


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    #261
    smacg
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭smacg


    daUbiq wrote: »
    I'd sooner eat glass... Have you seen the song titles; talk about bloody pretentious! It's obvious someone's run out of ideas.

    http://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2014/sep/10/ten-things-to-do-with-unwanted-u2-free-album-apple


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    #262
    smacg
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭smacg


    Havent really listened to some of these, but it does seem a poorer list this year for the Mercury music prize

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29079657


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    #263
    The_Captain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    daUbiq wrote: »
    I'd sooner eat glass... Have you seen the song titles; talk about bloody pretentious! It's obvious someone's run out of ideas.


    I don't think the song titles are that pretentious, but naming your album after a poetry collection is mega-pretentious


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    #264
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,103 ✭✭✭mosstin


    smacg wrote: »
    Havent really listened to some of these, but it does seem a poorer list this year for the Mercury music prize

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29079657


    Only listened to two off that list - Albarn and FKA Twigs and neither do all that much for me even though LP1 does contain a couple of really good tracks.


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    #265
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    I saw Young Fathers rocking Body & Soul at EP and they were class. One of my highlights of the weekend.
    They'll be huge outsiders for the Mercury Music Prize though.


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    #266
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    The_Captain wrote: »
    I don't think the song titles are that pretentious, but naming your album after a poetry collection is mega-pretentious

    Check out the article on the quietus about Bono and U2. I can't post links yet!


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    #267
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Loving the debut album from Catfish and The Bottlemen.. released today, but already on constant repeat!

    If the first three songs from the album (as below) don't win you over, then it ain't for you!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfXl1OefI8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrcVxnjJO8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va75GaPv5jY


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    #268
    [Deleted User]
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    smacg wrote: »
    Havent really listened to some of these, but it does seem a poorer list this year for the Mercury music prize

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29079657

    People say that every year though.


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    #269
    smacg
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭smacg


    Deleted User wrote: »
    People say that every year though.
    Maybe, didnt think much of last years list either. Though the previous 3 winners before that were Alt J, PJ Harvey and the xx. Would be interested to know if there is anything near as good on this years list, as I havent listened to most of them.


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    #270
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,911 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Basq wrote: »
    Loving the debut album from Catfish and The Bottlemen.. released today, but already on constant repeat!

    If the first three songs from the album (as below) don't win you over, then it ain't for you!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfXl1OefI8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrcVxnjJO8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va75GaPv5jY

    Been following these guys for some time, they formed in Llandudno, my home town, and up until 18months ago were playing weekly gigs at my Brother in law's pub, started off with a couple of people watching them there, by the last gig the place was rammed, people standing outside and all


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    #271
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,103 ✭✭✭mosstin


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Been following these guys for some time, they formed in Llandudno, my home town, and up until 18months ago were playing weekly gigs at my Brother in law's pub, started off with a couple of people watching them there, by the last gig the place was rammed, people standing outside and all

    You'd imagine they'd have a better view inside.


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