A short set of new releases for your Friday deliberations, but each one is a total cracker!

It’s a very welcome return to the ever-prolific OSEES this week with their new (we are not even going to attempt to count what album this is across the John Dwyer metaverse) SORCS 80; them, but not as we know it. No guitars, no keys, but still loads of drive and it is a lot of fun. They sound entirely like themselves whilst also dropping so many of their signatures and introducing so many new timbres. They are restless logistically and restless creatively. Great band.

+ Pressed on an exclusive Coke Bottle colour vinyl pressing.

I mean, if you want to talk about prolific, Australian rock ‘n’ roll royalty King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard release the all-new Flight b741 this week and it is a total stonker. Drenched in Country-fried 70s American rock, it is ludicrously good fun. From their previous routes into Metal or Funk, they have a knack for taking sonic cues, giving them their own spin and Flight b741 very much does this. Fun, joyous, rousing and certainly no joke.

+ Pressed on recycled Black vinyl and shipping in oversize, printed brown paper bags.
nothing is the all new LP from LA based jazz-soul-funk renaissance man Louis Cole. We have said it before, his skills across instruments, arrangements, production (and his fine voice) are just dazzling. This new album - again on the mighty Brainfeeder - is a collaboration with Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, recorded for the very vast majority across a run of live dates. It is dynamic, shifting between swooping cinematics and frenetic funk, with a fusing of the two in the middle. Hugely impressive stuff.

Perak is the debut LP on Big Crown Records from Thee Marloes, a young soul band out of Surabaya, Indonesia. The trio - who also self-produced - really have nailed the fundamentals, floating keyes, drums in the pocket and guitar licks that cut through, all with super-smooth vocals. They lock in from the first beat and it all feels pretty effortless. A really impressive set.

+ Available on Merah Red colour vinyl.

XL Recordings release Forever, Ya Girl from keiyaA and it really is something special. The NYC based singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist really has delivered something pretty wonderful on her debut; soul with psychedelia and funk. Her voice is just superb and the production really is wonderful, dense but with a great flow and so intimate.

Also this week we have the big, collaborative Body of Light / I Am A Cloud from The Dead Tongues on Merge. We finally got hold of Beak>’s fourth LP, >>>> which is really good. Lastly, we did already mention Belong’s Realistic IX earlier in the week, but man alive is this one good. Post-rock textures with some mbv in the mix too; a loud, full-body experience and one to really get lost in. It’s our Record of the Week.

The Week’s reissues are plentiful, including: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Sandy Harless, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, Outkast and the mighty Super Djata Band.

Right on!