This one is pretty good
monde ufo – Flamingo Tower

Tropical Fuck Storm - Fairyland Codex (June 20)

Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles (May 30)

This one had been mentioned here (hey _tunic_!), but I don't remember if a date had been given. Guess I could have searched but hey _tunic_! :D

ETA: Oh man, strings. Tunes. Unfiltered vocals. Damn I missed them. Welcome back. And no, I'm not a reactionary asshole - White Roses, My God was fine y'know...

no, it wasn't official until today. Can't wait to hear it in full!

Some songs I haven't heard yet, he's been playing most of these songs live some no yet though e.g. Princess Road Surgery. Some others he does play live but haven't been released yet even not on this album. like that Jesus song, which is a very very old song actually.



But the Screaming song is amazing, so are some of the others on this album, it will be epic when it's done together with the Turtles

Deerhoof - Noble And Godlike In Ruin (April 25). Joyful Noise says:

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - HausLive 4: @ Constellation, May 3, 2024

We now have a release date: May 5, 2025

Marc Ribot - Map Of A Blue City (May 23)

Mekons - Horror (April 4)

Laura Cannell - LYRELYRELYRE (May 30)

The new Perfume Genius album is phenomenal.

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums (June 27). Box set with SEVEN unreleased albums - holy shit! :eek:

Elliott Sharp | Carbon - Self-Squared Dragon Live In Zurich 1986 (download-only, I think; available now)

The new Black Country, New Road album is pretty good.

Can’t quite bring myself to care about this band, though they’re all the rage with the Instagram/TikTok set.

Now you know how it feels!

This one could win the award for most remarkable release of the year :D


Fifteen Vibrations For Generic Bluetooth Sex Toys by Ben Glas

The real question is how did you find out about it. :D

New DJ Koze is excellent as expected. Fucking finally.

Beloved Mother's day gift.

Ches Smith - Clone Row (June 6)!

Ches Smith - Percussion
Mary Halvorson - Electric guitar
Liberty Ellman - Electric guitar
Nick Dunston - Bass

Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (June 13)!!!

from the TOUCH newsletter :p


(which is the record label for artists such as Fennesz and Claire M Singer)

Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry (July 11)

"Completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023."

Heck yes, pre ordered

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe - Luminal and Lateral (both June 6)

Nick Drake - The Making Of Five Leaves Left (July 25)

The new The Ex album is great great great great :rolleyes:
But if you want more of The Ex Guitars, check out this one:





Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars "Turn Thy Loose"

alternative bandcamp link for Europeans is here



this was recorded at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam last year. I found this video of one of the songs, where the audience looks bored as fuck






(sidenote: post 3.999 :cool: )

This my first post since....a long time ago. And my my next post will be a long time from now, if ever. 😂

Idk why the fuck I read this forum from time to time. Sentimental, I guess.

Sevs response to this really pissed me off. "Tiktok/IG crowd" wtf? (Neither of which I do.) Sev...you were my (sometimes) ally here, when all hope was lost!!

Whatever.

Anyway, I felt compelled to make a post, in honour of BCNR Forever Howlong:

One Of The Ten Greatest Albums Ever Made.

Yeah. That's right. I said that.

Fuck me!! How this band reinvented/recovered after Isaac Wood departed. This is Floydian post Barrett. (Actually, Floyd sucked until Echoes. Whatever.) But you get the drift.

Forever Howlong is one for the ages. Brilliant. Timeless. Strange, beautiful, meandering.

I'll never get bored of this.

They keep saying "Well it's not as compelling as Ants From Up There..." Fuck you!! This blows the previous (excellent) albums out of the water.

I've never been so floored/thrilled with a band that had to adjust.

Forever Howlong is monumental.

Cheers, Bitches.

Man, I just meant the kids like it. That’s all. Young people on the internet. Not *exclusively* young people on the internet, but that group does indeed seem to have an affinity for this band.

I like their first couple of singles back in 2018 or ‘19 or whenever, but nothing since then had grabbed me.

I'm quite stoked about the new Preoccupations album coming up in May. The two songs from it I've heard so far are right up my alley.

Don't know if I'd put it in my all-time Top 10, but I agree with your assessment on how they successfully reinvented themselves. It's a great album and they are great at their craftmanship. I've seen them absolutely command the stage with their first post-Isaac material some 2 years ago. That was such a fucking powerhouse performance. They are not just some young'uns savvy in the use of social media, they are badass professionals on stage and in the studio. People who think they were falling apart as soon as Isaac left have probably not seen May Kershaw soulfully belt out the lyrics to "The Boy" whilst hammering the keys on the piano and also having a frickin' accordion strapped to her chest. Or the point in "Turbines/Pigs", where the piano solo gives way to an orchestral swirl of a crescendo. Performing songs with structures like these takes hard work, a lot of love and a crazy amount of stamina.



Yes, they are popular with TikTok and Insta-users. They are quite savvy at that. But that's not to take away from what they have accomplished, musically. Yep, they've ventured into a whole different area than the one they started out with. But I don't mind, really. I love me some oldschool British Folk, I'm partial to a good bit of Baroque Pop if done well. "Forever Howlong" leans right into that sweet spot. And as for their social media popularity: I see it as a net positive that music this good gets some broad recognition. I never got the hype of - say Arcade Fire (Hate they way they approach their songwriting - everything's cranked up to 11 from the getgo, there is hardly any buildup, only release, which becomes obsolete if there is no buildup. And their lyricism is cookie-cutter and strikes me as very disingenious) - but I absolutely get the hype behind BC,NR.



Thanks for coming to my TED-talk

I'm sneezing

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. One 1978-81 (May 9)

Rattle - Encircle (this one came out on February 28 and I'm just finding out...)

I've been enjoying Arcane Allies' "Mount Adhaphera" quite a bit lately.

The new Big Brave is out today. Hadn't had the time to give it a proper listen, have to get to work. But it's a special one. Far remote from their older work, doesn't have real lyrics it seems, or drums. It's more like Body/Head's ambient drone noise
Give it a try, you might like it more than the Black Country, New Road album :D
https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/album/ost

James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Abstraction Is Deliverance (May 30)

Madeline Kenney - Kiss From The Balcony (July 18)