Goats, Monkeys, cleaned goods and a regal and stormy lizard collab’. Read on.
Hello, Friends.
Let us start the week with three massive returns.
It was a hell of a task picking one Record of the Week amongst this new set, but after much deliberating, we have gone with Dry Cleaning’s excellent new LP Stumpwork. The band’s second album picks up very much where their breakout debut New Long Leg left off, tightly wound riffs and rhythms that wash around the (gloriously) distinctive drawl of Florence Shaw’s voice. She is in commanding form; funny, dry, surreal and a constant flow of consciousness and semi-inner monologue. Musically it is so inventive too, removing the shackles of any of the contemporary post punks and Sprechgesang lightweights, this is a fiercely experimental set of songs. Much to discover, an album as impressive and ambitious as their fine debut.
+ Available on Pink colour vinyl. [JUST ANNOUNCED]
+ Available on White colour vinyl.
And how about this for a welcome return! About the only thing keeping us hurtling further into recession is Arctic Monkeys behind the wheel of new LP, The Car. It’s an album of proper artistic evolution. That's not to say over their stellar career they haven’t always evolved, but The Car feels landmark in that way. Alex Turner’s voice is a honey’d croon instead of a yelp and musically it is hard to decipher what instrument is really doing what in the rich and oozing retro futurism of its immaculate production. It has hooks, but more importantly the whole set has a vibe and it has an energy.
+ Available on limited ‘Custard’ colour vinyl.
Oh Death is the reemergence of formidable psychic warriors, channelers of the mystic and proponents of a spiritual quest that transcends this realm, Goat! The band’s fourth studio album is rich in Afro-rhythms and fuzzed out riffs, it has such a great drive and the tribalistic walls of whaling vocals still whoops up quite the hysteria. Great stuff.
+ Available on ‘Cloudberry Swirl’ colour vinyl.
Bolts is the debut LP from British-Armenian producer Hagop Tchaparian on Kieran Hebden's Text label. The album was recorded over the course of 15 years in which Tchaparian collected field recordings from all over the world, a rich and pulsating tapestry of textures and beats. The pace gears up and down brilliantly, a vibrant mix of lo-fi techno. Highly recommended.
The ever-prolific Greta Kline returns with her fifth full-length record - Inner World Peace - with her Frankie Cosmos band. The production is mint! A richly analogue-sounding pop record with some great changes of pace and her voice floats over the top of it all.
+ Available on ‘Loser Edition’ Clear colour vinyl.
If the name doesn’t give you all you need to know, we can confirm that it’s two irresistible forces in deliciously grooving form. Tropical Fuck Storm and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard combine on Satanic Slumber Party, 20-minutes of “sax skronks, brick-heavy distortion, and punchy riffs.” A really killer-looking pink picture disc in a clear PVC sleeve that… Smells awesome!
Please Have A Seat is the expansive new LP from the Chicago producer and multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ. Such a lush bounce to the production that pulses and glitches, his voice is really killer. Loads of genre touchstones and the sonic unity keeps this one flowing.
+ Available on Indie Exclusive Walnut Brown colour vinyl.
The Pink Album is the Seductive and super stylish new double LP from Unloved. The trio - Jade Vincent, Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes - are also joined by guests Jarvis Cocker, Étienne Daho, Raven Violet and Jon Spencer across the twenty two tracks.
Pigments is the debut collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn.
+ Available on Baby Blue colour vinyl.
Reason in Decline is the first album in twenty four years from North Carolina rock band Archers of Loaf. Driving, big pounding drums, euphoric stuff.
+ Available on Indie Exclusive White, Purple & Red Swirl colour vinyl.
Also this week; Experimental cellist and composer Clarice Jensen releases the gorgeous Esthesis on 130701. LoneLady releases Former Things >> Re-Formed, a 4-track EP of remixes from her most recent album Former Things. JARV IS... (Cocker) has created the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed BBC TV series “This is Going to Hurt”. The Will to Live is the epic new album from New Jersey band Titus Andronicus. Alice Boman returns with The Space Between, and she sings beautifully. We finally have LP copies of William Basinski & Janek Schaefer’s quite amazing collaboration . . . on reflection, on Metallic Silver colour vinyl no less! ISTHISFORREAL? Is the (latest) excellent LP from Los Angeles MC and producer The Koreatown Oddity. Such a great voice.
Another corking week of new! Reissues also this week include; Alex Chilton, Bibio, Djivan Gasparyan, Queens Of The Stone Age and the amazing Lou Reed Words & Music release.
- Drift
