Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is
A unique voice - ghostly, fragile, fractured, sensual and sexual, the singer, pianist and winner of the Scottish Album of the Year Award in 2015 with Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled, returns with an equally series of brilliantly intimate songs, again produced in Glasgow by Marcus Mackay. Out on Rock Action Records.
Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Fabulous debut album from the New Zealand indie band fronted by singer songwriter Elizabeth Stokes with a wonderful fuzz-box sound, wry, clever lyrics and a delivery that reminds of something between The Cardigans, The Breeders, and Courtney Barnett. Out on Carpark Records.
The Beths - Happy Unhappy
Slaves - Acts Of Fear and Love
Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent return with their third album, after 2016's Take Action. It's less angry sounding, more melodic, but still very much them, pulling no punches, with an element of aggressive comedy, with material that seems written during the course of their career so far, mixing the shouty with elements of pop, but still taking no prisoners. Out on Virgin.
Slaves - Cut And Run
Our Girl - Stranger Today
Moody, dark, stirring, guitar indie songwriting from the young British band, full of sleepless nights, first love and more, with a distinct maturity and depth, influenced by Breeders, Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine. Out on Cannibal Hymns.
Our Girl - No Big Deal
Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
The prolifically energetic, remorseless heavy rock machine of John Dwyer and co rolls on, this time taking a more prog-rock direction in the vein of Keith Emerson. Stil the most exciting live band you can see. Out on Castle Face.
Oh Sees - C
The Yossarians – Ambition Will Eat Itself
The Mancunian eclectic collective follow 2017's great full-length album, Fabric Of Time, with a shorter work totalling just 17 minutes, but hard to define, clever innovative stuff, again fronted by songwriter Tim Schiazza. Shuddering, edgy, oddball, and generally tasting unusual.
The Yossarians – Caramelised
Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today
Twenty years since their debut, Death Cab aren't doing anything particularly new, but what they do still works. It's all about the sum of individual parts, making up alt-rock melancholia, mature, at times minimal and nicely melodic. Out on Atlantic Records.
Death Cab For Cutie - Gold Rush
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
Dark, swooning, sighing pop from the Japanese-American singer-songwriter and musician, now releasing her fifth album in just six years. Throbbingly bassy, but also lightly pop, she seems to specialise in melodic, mainstream solitude. Out on Dead Oceans.
Mitski - Nobody
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