This Week's Releases
The Rubens — Hoops (Ivy League/Liberation)
The second coming for the country town five-piece, the boys have "bottled their boozy late nights and one-night stand tales into a soul-sodden rock album". Scoring our Album Of The Week and four stars, tracks like lead single Hallelujah, The Night Is On My Side and Hold Me Back are all picks from our reviewer — the album is full of "downright drown-your-sorrows-at-a-lonely-bar tunes".
Buried In Verona — Vultures Above, Lions Below (UNFD)
Picking up three stars from us, Buried In Verona's newest "carries sizeable sonic weight, the band expanding on their previous electronic-inflected, string-infused scope throughout this melodic and atmospheric affair". The band do seem to be trying their hand at "the more accessible fare" a la Bring Me The Horizon — "hardcore-meets-rock-ballad Can't Be Unsaid, Hurricane and Pathways are admittedly memorable".
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Mac DeMarco — Another One (Spunk/Caroline)
Our reviewer has many questions for DeMarco — "How can vintage sounds add up to make something that sounds so fresh? How can so much feeling be packed into eight songs?" We find that the album merges "slow-jam, falsetto vocals" with "sexy bass grooves", seventies organs with "bare bones slackerness". Scoring four stars, "everything that should add up to nothing more than a big mess comes together in an inexplicable balance that's just right".
The Jungle Giants — Speakerzoid (Amplifire)
An interesting mix of songs that "contribute to a solid release without providing a genre pigeonhole for the band", Speakerzoid reminds you that winter is no longer and summery times are ahead and glowing with fun. Our reviewer notes highlighs like What Do You Think and Mexico, and though there are "occasional lapses including the spoken-word lyrics of Every Kind Of Way", the band come off as "an intelligent collective". We gave them three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Avalanche City — We Are For The Wild Places (Warner)
Calling Mayday — Fire (Independent)
Cattle Decapitation — The Anthropocene Extinction (Metal Blade Records)
Caulfield — Outcast (Halfcut/Shock)
Chase Rice — Ignite The Night (Sony)
Deaf Wish — Pain (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Don Broco — Automatic (Sony)
Donavon Frankenreiter — The Heart (Liberator)
Dr. Dre — Compton (Universal)
Enabler — Fail To Feel Safe (Century Media)
Fear Factory — Genexus (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Foreign Tongues — Fragile, As Said Before (No Sleep/Shock)
Frank Turner — Positive Songs For Negative People (Xtra Mile/Universal)
Gatherer — Heavy Hail (MGM)
Georgia — Georgia (Domino/EMI)
Golden Rules — Golden Ticket (Lex Records/Warner)
Grand Pavilion — Foreign Escapes (HUB)
Health — Death Magic (Caroline)
Hollywoodfun Downstairs — Reactions (Muzai Records)
Krisiun — Forged In Fury (Century Media)
Lindi Ortego — Faded Gloryville (Cooking Vinyl)
Miss May I — Deathless (Rise Records/ADA)
Moses Gunn Collective — Mercy Mountain (Create Control)
Nattali Rize — New Era Frequency (MGM)
Nervo — Collateral (Sony)
On An On — And The Wave Has Two Sides (Smack Face Records)
Paul Kalkbrenner — 7 (Sony)
Pavement — The Secret History Vol. 1 (Matador/Remote Control)
Ryan Ewing — Mixed Signals (Sony)
Selahphonic — Selahphonic (Independent)
Shane Nicholson — Hell Breaks Loose (Lost Highway/Universal)
Slim Twig — Thank You For Stickin' With Twig (DFA/[PIAS] Australia)
Sol Nation — Melting Pot (Independent)
Terror — The 25th Hour (Century Media)
The Babe Rainbow — The Babe Rainbow EP (Flightless/Remote Control)
The Demon Parade — Stone Circles (Rish)
The Phoenix Foundation — Give Up Your Dreams (Caroline)
The Rubens — Hoops (Ivy League/Liberation)
Tommy Emmanuel — It's Never Too Late (Sony)
Various Artists — When Sharpies Rules — A Vicious Selection (Festival/Warner)
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