New Music Friday: October 25th, 2024
New day, new tunes, new playlist.
Happy new music Friday! I want to say that today is a low-key unreal day for new music releases, but I don’t think a day with this many albums from great bands can be called “low-key” at all.
Today is one of those release days where there is truly something for everyone, and so as such I have tried to organize my thoughts by genres:
If you like indie rock:
I reviewed the new Onsloow album in a previous post, and that’s out today and worth a look if you like indie rock and emo-pop that comes with a RIYL list of bands including: Alvvays, The Anniversary, Great Grandpa, Momma, and Slow Pulp.
2nd Grade have a new record out, very buzzed about online and since I enjoyed their last one I’m going to make sure I get to that one as well today.
One of my personal favs Sleeping Bag have a new record out today, their sixth I believe (not including demos or their albums of songs recorded for fans’ pets.)
Hedge, a band sure to be on my year-end list, have been talking about the new Ezra Cohen LP a lot so that alone has made it priority for me today.
I have no prior experience with this ALVILDA band but their album C’est Deja L’heure just sounded like something up my alley when I tried it out.
I absolutely loved the last Fievel is Glauque album so, and damn I’m saying this a lot today, I really need to prioritize that because it’s one of my most anticipated of the day.
If you like heavy stuff:
Squint have their debut LP out after a series of EPs and one collection of said EPs. I don’t like to say reductive things like this, but I think they may have released the best Drug Church album of the year with this one.
The Every Time I Die offshoot Better Lovers have their debut record out today, which I am very interested in hearing because ETID were an all-timer for me.
Thrash/metal/hardcore fans should check out the new EPs from Pest Control and Enforced, both of whom have had year-end albums on my lists in previous years.
If you like rap/hip hop:
Toronto's Swamp Thing (Timbuktu, Chokeules, & Savilion) have a new record out, just in time for Halloween!
If you like electronic/etc.:
Flock’s Flock II jumped out at me in the new release bins today, sounds like a really good avant-garde jazzy time to me.
Objekt has a new two-song single out today for dubstep/breakstep fans.
Nicolás Jaar released two (!) electroacoustic/downtempo releases today, collecting work that began life as “a 24-channel installation at the University Museum of Mexico City (MUAC), where it was exhibited for five months” which itself was based on a radio play entitled Archivos de Radio Piedras.
The Two Shell album out today sounds like the kind of glitchy, hyper-pop-y thing I can get behind. Will check that one out too.
What are you excited to listen to? What am I missing from my list? Let me know!
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Legend:
⛏️ pick of the week.
🔝 albums I’m placing at the top of my stack today.
🌱 albums I’m intrigued by and want to take a closer listen to soon.
⛏️ Triple Bypass In B-Flat by 2nd Grade off Scheduled Explosions (Double Double Whammy)
⛏️ Troll 3 by Sleeping Bag off Beam Me Up (Earth Libraries)
⛏️ Magic by Squint off Big Hand (Sunday Drive)
⛏️ Taxi by Onsloow off Full Speed Anywhere Else (Tiny Engines)
🔝 Angoisse by ALVILDA off C'est Déjà L'heure (Static Shock)
🔝 Fountain Of UHF by Patois Counselors off Limited Sphere (Ever/Never Records LLC)
🔝 Fire Escape by Ezra Cohen & The Big City Band off Worse for the Wear (Dead Broke Rekerds)
🌱 Dead Men, Pt. 2 by Strangelight off Material Conditions (Strangelight)
🔝 A Leap into the Dark by Enforced off A Leap Into the Dark - EP (Century Media)
🔝 Year of the Pest by Pest Control off Year of the Pest (4071238 Records DK)
🔝 Future Myopia by Better Lovers off Highly Irresponsible (SHARPTONE)
🌱 The Other Half by Bent Blue off So Much Seething (Indecision Records)
⛏️ As Above So Below by Fievel Is Glauque off Rong Weicknes (Fat Possum)
🔝 Capillary Waves by Flock off Flock II (Strut)
Like a Painting by Anna McClellan off Electric Bouquet (Father/Daughter Records)
🌱 purepurepure by Her New Knife off chrome is lullaby (Many Hats Distribution)
🔝 Pure Quality by Swamp Thing off Slap Slap (URBNET Communications Inc./Fontana North)
Destroy and Consume by Living Gate off Suffer As One (Relapse Records)
Worm Dance by Objekt off Chicken Garaage (Kapsela)
F Collect by Nicolas Jaar off Piedras 2 (Other People)
🔝 The Impending Dissolve of Hey, ily! by Hey, Ily off Hey, I Loathe You! (Lonely Ghost Records)
🌱 Ripper by Night Idea off Rocky Coast (7636996 Records DK2)
Chewing Gum by Amyl and The Sniffers off Cartoon Darkness (Virgin Music Label And Artist Services Australia (P&D))
River by Anne Malin off Strange Power! (Dear Life Records)
Drug Burn by Buñuel off Mansuetude (SKiN GRAFT Records)
Black Girl by Che Noir off The Lotus Child (Poetic Records)
The Shadows by Laura Marling off Patterns in Repeat (Chrysalis Records)
Big End by Dazy off IT'S ONLY A SECRET (if you repeat it) (Lame-O Records)
Worm Grew a Spine by Elias Rønnenfelt off Heavy Glory (Escho)
Forever Is a Long Time by Mope Grooves off Box of Dark Roses (12XU)
Yob by Naked Roommate off Pass The Loofah (Trouble In Mind Records)
Ring of Atreides by Nero off LP3.14 (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Momifié dans la vase by SEDIMENTUM off SEDIMENTUM (SEDIMENTUM)
🌱 (rock✧solid) by Two Shell off Two Shell (Young)
M by Soccer Mommy off Evergreen (Loma Vista Recordings)
Counting Sheep by Meryl Streek off Songs For The Deceased (Venn Records)
Humanity Upon Request by Punitive Damage off Hate Training (Convulse Records)
A CINEMATIC EXIT! by instant crush off I'M SORRY I DIDN'T BITE MY TONGUE (Share It Music)
That’s it, that’s all. Be excellent to one other.
Calgary goth rockers Pøltergeist released an album yesterday, too and so did the gnarly death / black metal Coloradans Black Curse. Also excited to give that Alvilda a listen, and that Punitive Damage, which I should've known about but didn't.