Arcade Fire – Everything Now
To herald their new forthcoming album, a new single drops this week produced by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter and while there's some of his influence evident in the precision of the song you would be forgiven for thinking it was Abba’s Benny & Bjorn at the controls. Limited 12-inch orange vinyl available on Friday.
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister – Planetarium
Sufjan and Bryce are frequent live collaborators but – move over Holst – here's a planetary suite combining the pair's subtle electronica with a string quartet and a cohort of brass. It's a voyage from outer space to the internal space of what it means to be human.
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister – Mercury
Chuck Berry – Chuck
Chuck's first album of new material in 38 years comes just a couple of months after his passing. Half a dozen of the songs were written and recorded in the nineties with the rest including Big Boys - a colloboration with Tom Morello and Nathaniel Rateliff - had been recorded in the last few years by which time Chuck had become a dab hand at ProTools!
Chuck Berry – Big Boys
Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
Their EP1 made a considerable splash but Greg Gonzalez and his bandmates have taken their cinematic sound one step further on this album with repeated motifs compounding the effect of their Mazzy Star/Red House Painters/Badalamenti influenced wooziness. Well worth investigating.
Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse
Phoenix – Ti Amo
It's been a while since we heard from the French electro-popsters and while their new album was touted as a dark take on the post-Bataclan world you'd be hard pressed to hear it on the Pet Shop Boys inspired J-Boy.
Phoenix – J-Boy
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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