2018 New Music

[dentalplan]

Apparently she's training for her pilot's license. So she has no excuse other than to get over here and sub The Cure.

[Odessa]

Yeah she'd be an absolute dream of a Glasto subheadliner. I'm never gonnna pay 50 odd quid or whatever for a gig of hers, especially as I think she's known for doing very short shows, but I would really like to see her.

[Quark]

Sort of new, Slow Readers Club have done a 6 song acoustic EP with tracks from Build A Tower. I like.

 

[Amy Lawn]

YAAASSSSSS

 

[Quark]

11 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

YAAASSSSSS

 

[Quark]

On 9/17/2018 at 8:16 AM, Odessa said:

Can't find a release date (they'll prob put something on facebook in the next hour or so), but White Lies have a new album coming up called Five. 7 and a half minute song to kick it off is sounding v nice on first listen. 

 

Got round to giving this a listen.  By rights it should be too long and a bit dull, but it's really not.  Looking forward to more new material 

[Mouseboy11]

New Brockhampton is good, think the album is meant to drop tomorrow? 

 

[Mattymooz]

1 hour ago, Mouseboy11 said:

New Brockhampton is good, think the album is meant to drop tomorrow? 

 

I think it leaked yesterday? Havent gotten round to listening to it yet though

[frontsidecab]

Liking all the new Lana stuff.
New Mumford is v weak but lead single from Wilder Mind was the weakest of the album by far so we'll see.
New Brockhampton album is wonderful.

[FloorFiller]

New Brockhampton is great. A lot less outright banger/hype tracks than we got with the Saturation albums but still keeping up that high quality.

Gave the new Christine & the Queens a couple of spins and it's not bad. I don't think I ever got around to listening to her previous one as I don't think I can stomach to hear Tilted again but this is really good, and thankfully Girlfriend wasn't an outlier (although is definitely the best song here).

[Quark]

Happy day today. New Suede, new Christine, new Villagers, new Brockhampton.  Lots to listen to. I love Fridays.

[Tommy101]

Listened to the new Villagers album this morning for no other reason than the artwork caught my eye and have really been enjoying it. Good sunny Friday stuff.

[stuartbert two hats]

On 9/17/2018 at 11:15 AM, Odessa said:

Yeah it's shit I agree. But let's stay positive and be grateful it's not a self titled record that isn't a debut.

I quite like it.  It's as if to say "this is the real deal, this record distils the essence of the band"

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

New Suede

Had forgotten about this. Reviews seem a little more middling than usual but I've recently returned to my 'Dog Man Star is one of the greatest albums ever' phase so excited to hear it nonetheless. 

[FloorFiller]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

I quite like it.  It's as if to say "this is the real deal, this record distils the essence of the band"

Yeah I like it when bands/acts do this too. It's a bold statement, and then is all the funnier when/if it turns out to be a bit of a stinker.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, FloorFiller said:

Yeah I like it when bands/acts do this too. It's a bold statement, and then is all the funnier when/if it turns out to be a bit of a stinker.

Come to think of it, the first two that spring to mind are decent, if oddball entries - Blur and The Beatles.  Neither are particularly representative of the sound.  Any other examples?

[Quark]

The one that threw me was when Future Islands released Singles. That is reserved for best of albums. Confused me a lot, especially as I was only just starting to listen to them ahead of their JP set last year

Edited September 21, 2018 by Quark

[stuartbert two hats]

4 minutes ago, Quark said:

The one that threw me was when Future Islands released Singles. That is reserved for best of albums. Confused me a lot, especially as I was only just starting to listen to them ahead of their JP set last year

Yeah, I thought that was a retrospective of their past work too, not a normal album.

[Odessa]

6 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Come to think of it, the first two that spring to mind are decent, if oddball entries - Blur and The Beatles.  Neither are particularly representative of the sound.  Any other examples?

I think my main gripe with it stems from MGMT's self titled album letting me down so badly haha. Interpol's most meh record also fits the rule.

Blur's self titled is brilliant. Up there with 13 as their two best albums for me. I really like Avenged Sevenfold's self titled. Efests favourite Razorlight did it and theirs was pretty crap on the whole after their debut being full of tunes. Paramore did it 4 albums in and it's their best record easily. Struggling to think of any others!

[Winslow Leach]

I've always liked the title of The Durutti Column's debut album, The Return of the Durutti Column, myself.

[EighteenSixty7]

Lupe pulled his album release forward due to the leaks, looking forward to giving that a listen later.

[The Nal]

Mountain Mans new album is lovely stuff. A bit getting-gangraped-by-a-group-of-hicks-in-the-scary-woods about it but lovely nonetheless. 

Bill Gibbons newie about to get a spin. 

 

[dentalplan]

4 hours ago, Odessa said:

I think my main gripe with it stems from MGMT's self titled album letting me down so badly haha. Interpol's most meh record also fits the rule.

Blur's self titled is brilliant. Up there with 13 as their two best albums for me. I really like Avenged Sevenfold's self titled. Efests favourite Razorlight did it and theirs was pretty crap on the whole after their debut being full of tunes. Paramore did it 4 albums in and it's their best record easily. Struggling to think of any others!

Off the top of my head I know The Libertines, Metallica, a couple of Weezer albums, Beyoncé (as I mentioned earlier, she released that after '4'), St. Vincent, Pearl Jam (debut album 'Ten', very confusing) and Velvet Underground without Nico.  Also AM if you consider the fact that nobody shortened the Arctic Monkeys to 'AM' before then.

Most of those are quite highly praised but I guess I wouldn't recall the pants ones. Still many better examples of good debut self-titled albums. They ought to all take Black Sabbath's lead and start the self-titled debut with a self-titled song, but I dunno how some of those would go about doing that.

[jyoung]

So much time for that new nine minute Lana Del Ray track, Venice Bitch. Love the sound.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Very much enjoyed the Lonnie Holley album that came out today.