New albums & releases

Glad to see this; was about to make one of these threads myself.
There's been so much amazing music this year, it's [almost] absurd!

Here are the highlights for me over the last couple of months:




Low - Ones and Sixes
File under: indie rock slowcore crooning

Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
File under: lushly orchestrated pop rock

Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down
File under: guy-and-a-guitar perfection

Widowspeak - All Yours
File under: see above, only with a girl too

Beach House - Depression Cherry
File under: moody dream pop ++

Tame Impala - Currents
File under: retro chic alt rock opus

Natural Snow Buildings - Terror's Horns
File under: headscape folk drone suites

Dungen - Allas Sak
File under: psychedelic IKEA rock

Circle - Pharaoh Overlord
File under: Finnish Krautrock-infused jazz-metal for a new age

Pharaoh Overlord - Circle
File under: Finnish easy listening motorik synth boogie

Creeping Pink - Caped In At Mirror Woods
File under: warbled lo-fi indie rock splattering

Wand - 1000 Days
File under: spacey psyche meltdown rock opera

Health - Death Magic
File under: abrasive electronic tinged hypnotist rock

Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
File under: pissed off, stream-of-consciousness, working class punk rock ditties

US Girls - Half Free
File under: lo-fi bedroom pop nuggets

Mick Jenkens - Wave [ s ]
File under: slick, sun dappled hip hop vacation

Jay Rock - 90059
File under: intense, kicking names and taking ass hip hop

The Weekend - Beauty Behind the Madness
File under: soulful Jackson-esque crooning about dumb topics set to moody, hypnotic dreamscapes aka my addictive guilty pleasure

King Midas Sound + Fennesz - Edition 1
File under: ambient glitch-tronica dub ballads

Pole - Wald
File under: electronic skeletons with bits of sentient meat

Nosaj Thing - Fated
File under: smooth, blissed-out, murmuring electronica

Koss - Silence
File under: gorgeous ambient piano laden soundscapes

Heathered Pearls - Body Complex
File under: minimal 'pop ambient' electronica for rain days or neon-lit streets

Max Richter - Sleep
File under: Eight hours of ambience. It's supposed to help you sleep.

Nai Harvest - Hairball
File under: straight-forward, clean indie rock goodness

MGLA - Exercises In Futility
File under: roaring, angry, hate-everything black metal

Deafheaven - New Bermuda
File under: shoegaze infused black metal aka poser metal but who cares lmao

Krallice - Yggdrasil Huur
File under: twisty, blackened tech metal wankery. More poser metal lol.

Ghost BC - Meliora
File under: Yup, more poser metal. But it's so pop-y and 70s throw-backy... it's just great.

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
File under: Speaking of the 70s! Proto-metal slash heavy rock goodness.

Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig
File under: crushing nautical themed doom metal

Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor
File under: noise rock gas leak with threats of match-lighting

Shit and Shine - 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
File under: f**k if I know... blown out electronic jazz fed thru 100 FX pedals and left out in the sun for too long?



I'll post some Youtube samplings if anyone is interested.

Re Battles: I'm a fan of theirs, and for me the new album is something of a throwback to Mirrored and prior. Not a bad thing by any means, though admittedly I was a bit underwhelmed coming from Gloss Drop. It's just not a particularly adventurous album by their standards. What it IS however is a solid and enjoyable album with some great tracks like "The Yabba" and "Summer Simmer." IMHO, YMMV, etc. etc.

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Looking forward to the Bloc Party release Hymns sometime next year.



This one will be on it... The Love Within. Synthesizers? Nope, that's guitars... cool sound!:

 

Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete (G.O.D.)

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Great glitched out electronica with tinges of industrial weirdness.


Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

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Psych rock on the lighter side of the spectrum with some serious groove.


Zombi - Shape Shift

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Synths, bass, and drums sounding like the perfect 70s horror soundtrack Goblin never made.


Joanna Newsom - Divers

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Pastoral outsider---but not too far outside---folksy indie rock sung by a honking angel.


Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?

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Low key, simple... yet mesmerizing. Gorgeous stuff.


Neon Indian - VEGA Intl. Night School
https://youtu.be/Hw6LDVPst_0
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Funk fusion that's the soundtrack to seedy porn filled back rooms in VHS rental hole-in-the-walls.




Other notable mentions:
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Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Mac Miller - GO:OD AM
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
F INGERS - Hide Before Dinner
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
Loren Chase - The Animals and Their Shadows
Apprentice Destroyer - Glass Ceiling Universe
LOOP - Array 1 EP




As for stuff I'm looking forward to in the coming months, the new Baroness (Purple) and the new Sunn O))) (Kannon) immediately come to mind. Apparently a new M83 album is coming in 2016. Also the next Death Grips joint, Bottomless Pit, is due out... heaven knows when.

 

Sexwitch - Sexwitch

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Incredible psych rock with ethnic flair and hypnotic pulsations.


Milo - So The Flies Don't Come

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Wordsmith hip hop language games at their finest.

 

Shocked no one mentioned this but the new Adele album is scheduled to hit 11/20. First song off the album is "Hello"

 

Dilly Dally - Sore

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Early 90s grunge worshippers have concocted this fantastic little album, like a pure concentrated shot of espresso (only used as a suppository). Dirty. The vocal performances in particular really stick in my mind like dark mucky residue. Yum.


Fuzz - II

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The return of FUZZ! The last album these guys exhaled from their gnarled lungs was one of my favorites of 2013, a distorted---yes, fuzzed out----romp through garage dwelling psychedelia. This new album is even fuzzier. Wooooo.




Also this is a big one...

COIL - Backwards

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I'm a huge Coil fan, so I'm pretty hyped over this: Backwards is seeing a proper release for the first time in twenty-some-odd years. Granted, there was a heavily remixed version released in 2008-ish---and a lot of these tracks would appear later on The Ape of Naples---but this is closer to a "lost album" that has an actual place within the band's older discography. Either way, listening to these tracks in any form is a real pleasure.