New album: The London electronica post-punk, tree-camouflage-dressed quartet return with their vigorously inventive, infectiously dance-inspiring, krautrock-ish defiant work holding up a mirror to the absurdities and injustices of modern life
Read moreDECIUS: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)
DECIUS: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)
New album: After 2022’s Part 1, a second outing of eclectic, mesmerically inventive reworking of deep Chicago acid house/ electronica by the shapeshifting Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family with brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher
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Snapped Ankles in the urban forest with their third LP
New album: An excellent third LP by the east London be-leafed electro-krautrock-dance-pop band bursts with vigour and ideas, themed and fuelled by a troubled world coming out of lockdown in this folllow-up to their last, Stunning Luxury
Read moreNew albums: Algiers, Halsey, Courteeners, Eminem, Mura Masa, Mac Miller, Keeley Forsyth, Alice Boman, Bill Fay, Bombay Bicycle Club, Pinegrove, Whyte Horses (with John Grant), Ivor Cutler tribute
Halsey
A mixture of dark and light, hope and hopelessness decorate this week’s huge roundup of releases across many genres, including oddities and eccentricities, passions and playfulness from Emimen to Ivor Cutler, Halsey to Keeley Forsyth
Read moreBillie Eilish to FKA twigs to Weyes Blood: favourite albums of 2019 – part 2
FKA twigs
The second part of this year’s LP favourites again includes several superb female artists. Also check out the first part published yesterday
Read moreNew albums: The Flaming Lips, Purple Mountains, Blood Orange, Banks, IDER, Sarathy Korwar, Various (Frightened Rabbit tribute)
From The Flaming Lip’s an immersive art exhibition to accompany their new album, King’s Mouth.
A catchup of recent releases includes The Flaming Lips going concept again with with their best for years, Silver Jews frontman David Berman’s new band, innovations from IDER, Blood Orange and Banks and an all-star Frightened Rabbit tribute
Read moreNew albums: Clinic, Holly Herndon, Mac Demarco, Viagra Boys, AA Bondy, Jamila Woods, The Mystery Lights, Laurence Pike, Death And Vanilla
Clinic: summoning wonderfully woozy images of 1970s showbiz
Wonderfully otherworldly and woozy work is a theme this week, especially from Liverpool’s fabulous Clinic and choral groundbreaking brilliance from Holly Herndon, alongside a variety of other oddities including Mac Demarco
Read moreNew albums: Father John Misty, LUMP (Laura Marling / Mike Lindsay), Bodega, Neko Case, Warmduscher, Natalie Prass, Sam Evian, Morcheeba
LUMP: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, inspired by the hairy one
This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
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