Album Recommendations: 2024 Edition

[belboid]

This is out today. I tried listening to it this morning and couldn't make it past song 3 - found it infuriatingly twee and uninspiring

I am a bad tempered hag atm though, maybe I should try again during half term or something.

Just listened to it and it does improve. Not enough and not consistently though . Three or four very good tracks but otherwise, disappointing.

Alligator has just come on afterwards to remind me what she can do.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Soundcarriers new album. Another vein of 60s tinged exotica

My copy of this finally arrived this week. Ordered so long ago that I'd forgotten about it.

It's wonderful. Lush and intricate but also very live-sounding at the same time.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Just listened to the new Mercury Rev - better than anything they've done for a long time

Sounds very M83.

Not sure I dare hope for a good Mercury Rev album though. They've broken my heart with so much toss since the magnificent All Is Dream.

 

[redsquirrel]

New one from Colin Stetson out today - "The Love It Took To Leave You"

After being a little underwhelmed by When we were that what wept for the sea, this I love. Along with Laura Cannell's it is at my top of the year

New Tindersticks out, no huge change but more soul than previous


Also `The Necks have a new album in November

 

[The39thStep]

Missed this , came out in May.

Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven (45th anniversary edition)

 

[hitmouse]

New Xiu Xiu is out today:


Also, new Algernon Cornelius came out earlier this month:


Also, excited to see that there's a new Chat Pile coming soon, three tracks up now:

 

[stavros]

New Kyle Bobby Dunn, with nearly two hours of calm, orchestral drone:



I had heard that he'd turned into an utter cunt on social media and in person a couple of years ago, but I can't find any updates.

 

[hitmouse]

Ahead of their (short) tour next week, here's the new Uniform record:

 

[heinous seamus]

New Kyle Bobby Dunn, with nearly two hours of calm, orchestral drone:



I had heard that he'd turned into an utter cunt on social media and in person a couple of years ago, but I can't find any updates.

This is beautiful.

 

[hitmouse]

And here's the new album from Bad Breeding, who'll be touring with Uniform:

 

[zahir]

Sierra Ferrell

 

[The39thStep]

Milan.W -Leave Another Day .

The album’s dozen songs illuminate the thoughts of an old head on young shoulders; gilding and binding aspects of dusky country, folk-rock, blues, chamber-like jazz noir, spangled kosmiche and indie-pop, with flushes of synthetic warmth and a strikingly poised voice for the ages, perfectly suspended in-the-mix, floating moody above it all.

 

[hitmouse]

Fucked Up have a live album that's only up for 24 hours:

 

[Indeliblelink]

New Craven Faults out 25th of this month, 'Bounds'.
One taster track up.

 

[braindancer]

Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere is out today. Been looking forward to this and it doesn't disappoint. Straddling the intersection between death metal and kosmiche - it's an absolute trip...

 

[stavros]

This is beautiful.

He did another album earlier this year, of similar nature.

 

[The39thStep]

If you like something that you could place in Stereolab/Broadcast spectrum then Peel Dream Magazine's new album Rose Main Reading Room is worth a listen

 

[hitmouse]

The Fucked Up pop sideproject Jade Hairpins have a new album out:

 

[May Kasahara]

Enjoyable pop punk from the Linda Lindas.

 

[stavros]

Only an EP, but very promising Aussie shoegaze:

 

[SpookyFrank]

If you like something that you could place in Stereolab/Broadcast spectrum then Peel Dream Magazine's new album Rose Main Reading Room is worth a listen

Ooh that's lovely.

 

[starfish]

New album from Kelly Lee Owens out today.

 

[belboid]

The new Porridge Radio is excellent.

And there are two new Julian Cope albums just out! Not had a chance to listen yet, but one sounds promising (Friar Tuck, a follow up to last years' Robin Hood) although the other - a 70 minute mellotron work out designed to drown out church bells and help his (then) children sleep. I suspect that one will only get played once.

 

[rutabowa]

new Blood Incantation album is generating a stir.... a fusion of death metal and prog, taking in jazz dub electronic etc... 2 20 minute songs... definitely massively overblown and ridiculous but also v impressive and awesome. probably will be a quite important to the history of metal. worth a go. Knotted you may be interested

 

[Knotted]

new Blood Incantation album is generating a stir.... a fusion of death metal and prog, taking in jazz dub electronic etc... 2 20 minute songs... definitely massively overblown and ridiculous but also v impressive and awesome. probably will be a quite important to the history of metal. worth a go. Knotted you may be interested

How dare you!


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Oh yeah I do like it.

 

[hitmouse]

New Chat Pile is out:

 

[DaveCinzano]

I forgot to mention before, but last month Britcore legends Gunshot released their first album since the turn of the millennium...

Black Lebanon Volume 1 is split between vintage demos from the 90s, and more recent material. This summer's eulogy to the sadly departed rapper Alkaline is included, but the previous two rebirth tracks (‘Sulphur’ and ‘Burn Cycle’) aren't. The digital album also throws in some bonus tracks - a pair of reworkings/remixes of ‘Ghetto Heartbeat’ (their final single before their decades-long hiatus!), plus a couple more.

Definitely worth your squids.

 

[nogojones]

Unicorn on Ketamine - PIPIPI hits just where it's needed

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, and the new Drug Church is out now, so between that, Xiu Xiu, Porridge Radio and Chat Pile I think that's all the big names that I'd been looking forward to:

 

[Buddy Bradley]

The Indelicates have a new album out, their usual mix of indie with hints of west end musicals - this one's a concept album about internet conspiracies. Wasn't super impressed on first listen but it's definitely growing on me:



They've also gotten deep into generative AI, making this awesome video for the lead single: