Oh Sees – Orc
John Dwyer's band, formerly prefixed with a "Thee" are back with their third album in just over a year. Lashings of garage rock with a psychedelic edge, and as confirmed by anyone who has seen them, absolutely stunning live.
Oh Sees – Animated Violence
DJ Shadow – The Mountain Has Fallen
EP follow-up to last year's The Mountain Will Fall album featuring collaborations with Nas, Danny Brown and film composer Steven Price (Gravity and some of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy).
DJ Shadow - Corridors
Ghostpoet – Dark Days & Canapés
As the title suggests, dryly humorous doom-laden lyrics describe our dysfunctional society in Obaro Ejimiwe’s fourth studio album. Check out also the always topical Immigrant Boogie.
Ghosbpoet – Freakshow
Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
Everything Everything should be hugely successful, and yes, the follow-up to 2015's Get To Heaven is stuffed full of synth-pop indie anthems, but these are songs tinged with an understandable sense of unease as the band survey a world replete with political upheaval and terrorism.
Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
Thoughtful, intelligent, melancholy light-and-shade indie from the US band, with their fifth studio album. Four Cypresses is another song worth checking out from the album.
Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound
Paul Draper – Spooky Action
Hotly anticipated album from the former Mansun frontman is gritty and autobiographical with more than a few of Draper's pop hooks. Spooky Action takes its cue from the his two recent EPs and was recorded in collaboration with Catherine AD (The Anchoress) and long time Mansun collaborator P Dub.
Paul Draper – Things People Want
This week's selection is by Michael Moloney, aka llamalpaca from the vinyl-only record and design store, Chameleon, with additions by The Landlord.
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