For some years now, Friday has been the day of the week dedicated to record releases. What better way then to mentally prepare for the upcoming long-awaited weekend than to review the best albums released in the last few hours?
The records awaited for months are finally among us… enjoy listening
PAINKILLER- “Samsara”
[Tzadik]
jazz, grindcore
Look who shows up again. The wonder shot Zorn, Laswell e Harris meets to show off creativity and improvisation between free jazz and grind and sound explosions, with ambient and dub ready to peek out. A true extreme musical exploration.
WOLVES – “Liminal Animals”
[House Of Mythology]
synth-pop
It’s been a lifetime since the early 90s black metal days. Subsequently Kristoffer Rygg and his band have worked on a surprising and infinite range of sounds that have now moved to soft, melancholic and catchy synth-pop, in the 80s zone.
THE MILK CARTON KIDS – “Christmas In A Minor Key”
[Far Cry Records]
indie-pop
The band describes the project like this: “We had fun recording the most beautiful and sad Christmas songs that came to mind, naturally with the harmony of the two voices. It is very nostalgic and we hope it brings comfort and joy to your holidays.“
CASX – “Isobel”
[V4V]
indie-rock
Disco with post punk, shoegaze and indie rock influences tells the story of Isobel Gowdiea young Scottish woman from the 1600s oppressed by the powerful of her time. In her stories, she proclaimed herself a witch and described her connection with the devil, the only one who listened to her. The project of CASX resumes her story as a modern metaphor: a girl in 2024, looking for escape and listening, in a world where society changes in appearance but not in substance. Isobellike one Joan of Arc contemporary, catapulted into the present after being hanged, she discovers that evil is not the devil, but man himself.
WHITEMARY – “New Bianchini”
[42Records]
electronic, electro-pop
A lethal mix of straight bass and piercing mantras, of lightness and depth, of expressive urgency and unmistakable sonic refinement.
BASEBALL GREGG – “Briefs”
[La Barberia]
indie-rock
The album is made up of ten songs that took shape and matured over two years and were finally recorded in Colle Ameno, in the Bolognese countryside, during the scorching heat of last summer.
JUANITA STEIN – “The Weighless Hour”
[Agricultural Audio]
indie people
“The Weightless Hour” sees Stein once again joining forces with producer Ben Hillier, her longtime collaborator. The album, built from the fragments of pain collected following the loss of his father, is intimate and minimal.
THE INNOCENCE MISSION – “Midwinter Swimmers”
[Bella Union]
indie people
Touching, sensitive and soft lo-fi folk: a world made of small details and bittersweet sensations that look back to the 60s with affection and respect.
TOTAL TOMMY – “Bruises”
[[PIAS]]
indie-rock
Among guitars inspired by Garbage and pop sensibility Jess Holt begins this new adventure. “I feel like a very different person than when I made the songs under the name Essie Holt“, continues the artist. “I’ve been through a lot of things that have affected me, like huge changes – I came out, moved city, met my wife, and everything is so different. Even thinking back to those photos of me, I ask myself: “Who is she?”. All these things in life have given me a much thicker skin“.
HAMBURGER – “Beat Back The Ghouls”
[Specialists Subjects]
indie-rock
These guys come from Bristol with 90s indie-rock in their hearts. A hint of lo-fi, saturated guitars but also poignant mid-tempos ready to become sonic and noisy.
BRIGHT LIKE STARS – “Reflection”
[autoproduzione]
indie-rock
This is what the band says: ““We wanted to mix the sound of Torch with the soft sounds of the former Slowdive into something that is hopefully refreshing and memorable for the listener. Reflections’ is a sort of homage to different genres/bands that had an impact on us growing up in the 90s, where every song meant the world to us at that time“. See the band at work Neil Burkdollwho we know well for being the guitarist of Whimsical.
AISHA BADRU – “The Sun Still Rises”
[Nettwerk]
indie-pop
“The goal of my music is to help people feel more connected, feel loved, and feel important. I hope that the well-being I have found in my personal journey rubs off on everyone who listens to my songs“.
GOOD MORNING – “The Accident”
[autoproduzione]
indie-pop
Between measured psychedelia, dazed indie-pop and iridescent and relaxing structures, the Australian duo makes a decidedly interesting album.
BLINKER THE STAR – “Occult Classic”
[autoproduzione]
indie-rock
Jordon Zadorozny continues with his beautiful layered and noisy songs with a hint of shoegaze. “As a child I proudly imagined a shelf full of all my future albums, not yet made“, remember Zadorozny. “As these albums really pile up, I see them less as trophies and more as time-makers for me. Or perhaps, as my futile protest against mortality“.
IBON ERAZKIN – “Claros Del Bosque”
[Elefant Records]
indie-pop
The instrumentation of the album is simple: guitars, piano, bass, melodica, banjo and some synthesizers. There are no percussion. In “Foto Aérea”, the last album, the sounds were acoustic, but in many cases Bird he sampled what he had played and manipulated it on the keyboard. In “Claros Del Bosque” he does not use this technique and the recording process is more traditional or “natural”. Melodies appear and disappear. This is the element that most defines the album. Music without a definitive meaning, which leads nowhere, which simply is there.
GUINEVRE – “To All The Lost Souls”
[La Tempesta]
indie-pop-folk
The debut album of Guinevere it is by far the artist’s most personal and autobiographical project. After making her debut in 2023 with the EP “Running In Circles”, which attracted the attention of the most curious listeners and critics, revealing her as one of the most interesting names on the Italian independent scene, capable of navigating the territories with her music of folk, also looking towards jazz, rock and classical music. The work confirms and further amplifies the quality and ambitions of the artistic profile of Guinevere.
FUWAH – “Care”
[autoproduzione]
jazz-beat
Collective of Italian musicians, based between London and Milan. “Care” is their new album, jazz-beat with pop and electronic undertones, which grew and developed in Brexit London during the pandemic. In the songs of “Care” the musicians reflect on the meaning of protection, mutual support and awareness, developing the album as a sonic journey that touches on different topics: from capitalism torn to shreds to environmentalist protest, passing through reflections on frenzy and quantum travel multidimensional: the variety of topics is reflected in the multitude of nuances that involve the band’s sound.
MEANINGFUL STONE – “Angel interview”
[EMA Recordings]
dream-pop
Her first album “A Call From My Dream” dabbled in dream pop and folk pop, with this new album the Korean singer evolves into an inspired work with more elements of shoegaze, folk pop, psych rock, all mixed to his sweet voice.
