Don’t tell me there’s no good new music — there are more than 150 releases due in the next seven days. Here’s my exhaustive list: Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:
TOP NEW ALBUMS
Gary Clark Jr.
This Land
Based on the powerful title single and some of the Austin singer-guitarist’s other recent material, it’s probably safe to assume this will be the most political and topical disc of his career. And even if that turns out not to be the case, it should still be a treat for anyone who loves to listen to Clark’s world-class fretwork.
Claypool Lennon Delirium
South of Reality
The bassist from Primus and the youngest son of John and Yoko have always seemed like an unlikely pairing. But if you heard their 2016 debut Monolith of Phobos and their 2017 covers EP Lime and Limpid Green, you were probably as pleasantly surprised as I was. I’m optimistically expecting more of the same this time around.
Sleaford Mods
Eton Alive
I’m just going to let acerbic frontman Jason Williamson tell you about the fifth album from his garage-rock duo: “Eton Alive speaks for itself really. Here we are once again in the middle of another elitist plan being digested slowly as we wait to be turned into faeces once more. Some already are, some are dead and the rest of us erode in the belly of prehistoric ideology which depending on our abilities and willingness, assigns to each of us varying levels of comfort that range from horrible to reasonably acceptable, based on contribution. So after the digestive system of the Nobles rejects our inedible bones we exit the Arse of Rule, we fall into the toilet again and at the mercy of whatever policies are holding order in the shit pipe of this tatty civilisation. It is here our flesh regenerates as we rattle into another form, ready, and ripe for order.” Thanks! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
OTHER NEW RELEASES
• Aenimus | Dreamcatcher
• A Fragile Tomorrow | Generation Loss
• Cyrille Aimée | Move On: A Sondheim Adventure
• Alive in Barcelona | Alive in Barcelona
• Claudia Anderson | Synthesis
• And The Kids | When This Life Is Over
• Areni Agbabian | Bloom
• Jocelyn & Chris Arndt | The Fun In The Fight
• Attila | Villain
• Badflower | OK, I’m Sick
• Bayonne | Drastic Measures
• Eric Bellinger | The ReBirth 2
• Bellows | The Rose Gardener
• Benny Sings | City Pop
• Ali Berger | Keys the Door EP1
• Bilderbuch | Vernissage My Heart
• Bloc Party | Silent Alarm Live
• Booze Control | Forgotten Lands
• Bruiser & Bicycle | Woods Come Find Me
• Burnt Tapes | Never Better
• Candlemass | The Door to Doom
• Ray Charles | Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Vol. 1 & 2 Remastered
• Chasm | The Mirage
• Michael Chinworth | Three Vapors
• Clear Soul Forces | Stil
• Cut_ | A Small Group of Individuals
• Datarock | A Fool at Forty is a Fool Indeed
• Dead Witches | The Final Exorcism
• Deaf Center | Low Distance
• Delain | Hunter’s Moon
• Yves De Mey | Sueda
• Mykele Deville | Type Love
• Digawolf | Yellowstone
• Down To The Bunker | Misery
• Dream Theater | Distance Over Time
• Drekka | No Tracks In The Snow
• Drenge | Strange Creatures
• Dronte | Quelque Part Entre La Guerre Et La Lâcheté
• Du Blonde | Lung Bread for Daddy
• 8MM | Heart-Shaped Hell
• Elhae | Trouble in Paradise
• Far Away | Viaje
• Faux Ferocious | Pretty Groovy
• Feed Me | High Street Creeps
• Feels | Post Earth
• Emily Jean Flack | Throwing Shapes
• Flamin Groovies | Gonna Rock Tonite! The Complete Recordings 1969-71
• Fling | Fling Or Die
• Andy Frasco & the U.N. | Change of Pace
• Martin Frawley | Undone at 31
• Freedom Candlemaker | Beaming Light
• Funeral Advantage | Nectarine
• Louis Futon | Way Back When
• Cochemea Gastelum | All My Relations
• Gatekeeper | Grey Maiden
• Ghost Iris | Apple Of Discord
• Ghost Ship Octavius | Delirium
• Giggs | Big Bad…
• Gloaming | The Gloaming 3
• Good Fuck | Good Fuck
• Roses Gabor | Fantasy & Fact
• Buck Gooter | Finer Thorns
• Gunna | Drip or Down 2
• Gypsy Chief Goliath | Masters Of Space And Time
• Half Japanese | Invincible
• Haulm | Posture EP
• Hejira | Thread of Gold
• Higher Brothers | Five Stars
• Hilltop Hoods | The Great Expanse
• Hot 8 Brass Band | Take Cover EP
• David Huckfelt | Stranger Angels
• Brotha Lynch Hung | Torment
• Ian Hunter | From the Knees of My Heart: The Albums 1979-1981
• Idyll Green | When Love Ends, Be The Water EP
• Julia Jacklin | Crushing
• Emilie Kahn | Outro
• Kehlani | While We Wait
• Kerli | Shadow Works
• King Apathy | Wounds
• Fredrik Klingwall / Julia Black | Sentience
• Last in Line | II
• Kim Lenz | Slowly Speeding
• Le SuperHomard | Meadow Lane Park
• Murray A. Lightburn | Hear Me Out
• Lil Halima | For The Dark Days EP
• Lil Pump | Harverd Dropout
• Lily & Madeleine | Canterbury Girls
• Theophilus London | Bebey
• Night Lovell | Good Night Lovell
• Lowland Hum | Glyphonic
• Maxïmo Park | As Long We Keep Moving
• John Mayall | Nobody Told Me
• Curtis Mayfield | Keep On Keepin’ On: Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-1974
• R. Stevie Moore | Afterlife
• Mord Fustang | The Symbolism of Everything
• Moth Gatherer | Esoteric Oppression
• Moving Panoramas | In Two
• MSB | Short Stories
• Murlo | Dolos
• Major Murphy | Lafayette EP
• Mxmjoy | P.E.A.C.E
• Nakhane | You Will Not Die
• National Lights | Whom The Sea Will Keep EP
• 90 Process | Fuse EP
• Noble Kids | Messy Pretty
• Offset | TBA
• O’Jays | The Last Word
• Opprobrium | The Fallen Entities
• Overkill | The Wings of War
• Steve Perry | Traces Deluxe Edition
• Peter Bjorn And John | EPBJ EP
• Pom Poko | Birthday
• Red Beard Wall | The Fight Needs Us All
• Donna Regina | Transient
• Relics of Humanity | Ana Kihu Alamu
• REO Speedwagon | Classic Years 1978-1990
• Rhapsody of Fire | The Eighth Mountain
• RKCB | Shores EP
• Rock Goddess | This Time
• Michael Rother | Solo
• Luther Russell | Medium Cool
• Sanhedrin | The Poisoner
• Saxophones | Singing Desperately Suite
• Smif-n-Wessun | The All
• Spellling | Mazy Fly
• Stiff Little Fingers | The Albums 1991-1997
• Sunwatchers | Illegal Moves
• Susanna & The Brotherhood of Our Lady | Garden of Earthly Delights
• Susto | Ever Since I Lost My Mind
• David Sylvain | Brilliant Trees, Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities, Gone to Earth, Secrets of the Beehive Vinyl Reissues
• Tangerine Dream | The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987
• Teeth of the Sea | Wraith
• Telekinesis | Effluxion
• Thelma | The Only Thing
• Thouxanbanfauni & UnoTheActivist | For Christ Sake 2
• Andreya Triana | Life in Colour
• Uffie | Tokyo Love Hotel
• Undisputed Truth | Cosmic Truth / Higher Than High
• Vandoliers | Forever
• Various Artists | Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s
• Various Artists | Kitsuné Parisien 4
• Matthew Logan Vasquez | Light’n Up
• Adia Victoria | Silences
• Chris Welch And The Cicada Killers | Shook
• Alex Wiley | Tangerine Dream II
• Wire Train | In a Chamber Expanded Edition
• Nate Wooley | Columbia Icefield
• Synodic X | Poems by Otto EP
• Yola | Walk Through Fire
• Thom Yorke | Suspiria: Unreleased Material
• James Yorkston | The Route To The Harmonium
• Yung Tory | Rastar
