This Week's Releases

16 July 2015 | 1:57 pm | Staff Writer

Tame Impala — Currents (Universal)

Sending currents (sorry) shooting through triple j as their Feature Album, as well as garnering a slew of positive reviews on nearly every music publication imaginable, Currents scores our Album Of The Week, too. Our reviewer notes, "Tame Impala have transformed themselves into the kind of group that writes introspective anthems where the music is the focus, as well as finally finding a way for Parker to lose those John Lennon comparisons", picking up four stars from us this week.

Art Of Sleeping — Shake Shiver (Dew Process/Universal)

A bright, summery, charming set of songs, our reviewer thinks Shake Shiver is like the hot lacrosse guy from a teen movie — "dumb as bricks with charisma to spare and a heart of pure gold'. An enjoyable album with a "your-mum-would-love-this vibe", the band take "zero risks" to stand out from the pack — it's a mixture of "reckless emotional abandon and aggressive predictability". We gave it three stars.

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The Chemical Brothers — Born In The Echoes (EMI)

For fans who thought Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons' "block-rockin' beats had become flaccid", this album appears to have reconnected their diversion, perhaps a result of Simons focusing on academia in recent times and Rowlands taking it solo. Highlights include "impossible to stand still to" song, Go, "classic rave-wave" jam I Feel So Deserted and Beck's feature on Wide Open — an elegant "masterstroke". We gave it three stars.

The Dark Horses — Tunnel At The End Of The Light (Dark Horse Records/Inertia)

Although Tex Perkins has been off acting-and-singing as of late, our reviewer finds him in the "familiar surrounds of this truly cracking band" truly refreshing. The record is "not quite blues, not quite country, not quite rock", though it "does have that distinctly laconic and sometimes slightly piss-taking mood". We gave the album three-and-a-half stars.

and the rest of the releases…

British Sea Power — The Decline Of British Sea Power (Golden Chariot/Shock)
Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room — Party Adjacent (Kartel/Shock)
Flying Saucer Attack — Instrumentals 2015 (Domino/EMI)
Foxes — Organic Vessels (Firestarter Distributions)
Frankie & The Heartstrings — Decency (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Full Tote Odds — The Chosen Few (Independent)
Future — DS2 (Sony)
Good Oak — Public Service (Independent)
Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free (Spunk/Caroline)
Like Wires — Transmission (Independent)
Lowdown Hokum Orchestra — That's Showbiz (MGM)
Miles Davis — At Newport 1955-1975; The Bootleg Series Volume 4 (Sony)
MS MR — How Does It Feel (Columbia/Sony)
Oakland  Into The Sea (Independent)
Owl City — Mobile Orchestra (Republic/Universal)
Pitbull — Dale (RCA/Sony)
Tim Bowness — Stupid Things That Mean The World (Inside Out/Century Media)
Various Artists — #SayYesToLove Volume 1