Apr 18: Week 15 of the year sees a smattering of full project releases and build-up towards some of the hotly anticpated drops coming up this Summer. But we all know mere singles and EP drops are just a means to an end, so here’s some of the best ALBUM releases this Friday.
Three Black Blotz
Tunde Adebimpe
The iconic voice behind the boundless spirit of TV On The Radio treads the similar path – but this time on his own. Frenetically fresh and intuitive, Three Black Blotz paints a pretty picture of alt-rock at its pinnacle – from the man who’s been doing for over two decades. Magnetic sets the standard for a revived music ever eager to work into a feeling of true survival.
A Study of Losses
Beirut
Along with his glass of red and liner notes, Beirut – brains of Zach Condon – returns with another musical triumph of expansive fascination. Folky measurements and idyllic instrumentals turn the cogs in A Study of Losses – a sentimental passage of time moving on: with or without the companions you’ve made with it.
The Big Sad
The Pale White
Three-piece gritty Geordie band follow on from their make-or-break moment in debut, with their sophomore The Big Sad. Aptly coined as QOTSA-coined stoner rock, the sophomore record brings in riotous rebel and big Whopper riffs and a whole load of angry melancholy.
Superheaven
Superheaven
Ten years since their last, the grunge revivalists are back. Swamped in a deluge of guitar clangour, Superheaven have been cutting strokes since their full-length debut of Jar in 2013 with massive sound of Youngest Daughter putting them in the same conversations with genre maestros Deftones. Amongst the bands’ evident hibernation, their fuzzed-out approach has become ever so influential. Ever more so today, with their self-titled third – Long Gone and Stare At the Void firm favourites – never feeling so alive and appreciated.
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This week, we also see a magnitude of deluxe versions release with both SOFT PLAY and Fontaines D.C. lapping it up with extended B-sides to their respective projects, Heavy Jelly and Romance. Alongside the weirder side to the alternative, we also see Everything Everything release unheard of B-sides ahead of their 10th Anniversary reissue of third record Get To Heaven. Hot singles from King Gizzard, TURNSTILE and Viagra Boys pave the way in new noise, while Sleep Token another offering up for their less-than-captive expected fourth with Caramel.
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Debutons were also rife this week with the likes of Folk Bitch Trio and Dirty Blonde garnering attention in their fields. Jacob Alon builds hype for his May release as does Adult Leisure while duo YES AND MAYBE share their first hello. Following from their escape to Bristol, talk-of-the-town Y receive a basement boom with their EP Y, which was released earlier this month.
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