This Week's Releases
New albums dropping from Gang Of Youths, Passion Pit and more
Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
The roots rock four-piece have come out with their second record, Sound & Color, this week, worth a cool three-and-a-half stars from our reviewer, Ross Clelland. He says of singer, Brittany Howard — "if unfamiliar, it's one of those voices that comes straight out of her guts and heart and nails you to the wall."
Gang Of Youths — The Positions (Sony)
These young Sydneysiders scored our Album Of The Week this week. The Music's reviewer Roshan Clerke notes, "lead singer Dave Leaupepe's songwriting [is] seemingly endless in its inspiration. Rarely does a writer arrive with such a concrete vision for their art, but Leaupepe bursts onto the scene with a powerful story to tell." The album is receiving rave reviews and we left them with a four-and-a-half stars, too.
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Mojo Juju — Seeing Red/Feeling Blue (ABC/Universal)
The Music's reviewer Andrew McDonald found Mojo Juju's newest to be a fine selection of "damned solid vocal jazz", but notes that if you're looking for sounds other than the "tried and true songwriting languages of jazz, pop and blues-rock," you may be disappointed. He gave the album three-and-a-half stars.
Passion Pit — Kindred (Sony)
Kindred is a "super-dense, syrupy, glistening, orgasmic pop behemoth", The Music's Matt MacMaster found, giving the album three-and-a-half stars. The album is "bright and full" with "infantile enthusiasm" and boasts beautiful album artwork, too.
and the rest of the releases…
Bob Moses — All In All (Domino/EMI)
Bop English — Constant Bop (Downtown/Create Control)
Born Joy Dead — Stones In My Shoe (Independent)
Citizens! — European Soul (Sony)
Dallas Frasca — Love Army (Social Family Records)
Dance Gavin Dance — Instant Gratification (ADA)
Darius Koski — Sisu (Fat Wreck Chords)
Dr Hook — Timeless (Universal)
Eels — Live At The Royal Albert Hall (E Works/[PIAS] Australia)
Elana Stone — Kintsugi Part 1 (Independent)
Elliot Moss — Highspeeds (Pod/Inertia)
Frank Sinatra — Ultimate Sinatra (Capitol/Universal)
Hound — Dying In The Sun (Independent)
Joseph Tawadros — Truth Seekers, Lovers & Warriors (ABC/Universal)
Leikeli47 — Leikeli47 (Sony)
Les Limbes — Les Limbes (Hidden Shoal)
Mavis Staples — Your Good Fortune (Anti-/Warner)
Reba — Love Somebody (Nash Icon Records/Universal)
San Fermin — Jackrabbit (Downtown/Create Control)
SLUG — Ripe (Memphis Industries/Shock)
Squarepusher — Damogen Furies (Warp/Inertia)
Stan Walker — Truth & Soul (Sony)
Stealing Sheep — Not Real (Heavenly Records/[PIAS] Australia)
Steve Grady — A Year's Gone By (Independent)
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving — Yield To Despair (Bird's Robe/MGM)
Tei Shi — Verde (Caroline)
The Black Sorrows — Endless Sleep (Chapter 46)(Head Records)
The Black Sorrows — Endless Sleep (Chapter 47)(Head Records)
Tori Amos — Under The Pink (Warner)
Tori Amos — Little Earthquakes (Warner)
Various Artists — Effie's Classic 90s Hits (Social Family Records)
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