This Week's Releases
Foals — What Went Down (Warner)
Picking up our Album Of The Week and a whopping four-and-a-half stars from our reviewer, What Went Down is where "all those simmering, seething growls and insecurities get unleashed", the ones that were held off on their past records. There's the "cathartic release" of the opener, Snake Oil's "screaming, intense glam-fuzz stomp" and Birch Tree's "masterfully orchestrated balance".
"It's exactly what you didn't realise you needed Foals to deliver."
The Paper Kites — Twelvefour (Wonderlick/Sony)
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Twelvefour is a concept album "based around the idea that an artist's creative peak is between midnight and when the street sweepers call it quits". The nocturnal vibes reflect the time of day frontman Sam Bentley worked on the album, where "I'm Lying To You Cause I'm Lost and Woke Up From A Dream drive along to alternative-country rhythms" and A Silent Cause creates "hushed moments of intimacy". Grabbing four stars from us, twelvefour is "a gorgeous listening experience".
Last Dinosaurs — Wellness (Dew Process)
Wellness "journeys to a tropical soundscape soaked in their signature shimmering guitar riffs and melancholic vocals". Highlights include "Matrix-inspired single Apollo", the emotional Stream and Zero's "soaring drum beat". The album is "introspective" and weaves "thought on life and love", and "whether it catapults you into self-discovery or summertime", the album will leave "a lasting impression". Four stars.
and the rest of the releases...
Adam Eckersley Band — The Second Album (Lost Highway/Universal)
Alessia Cara — Four Punk Walls (Universal)
Andrei Eremin — Pale Blue (Independent)
Ash — KABLAMMO! (earMusic/Sony)
Atlas Genius — Inanimate Objects (Warner)
Avaberee — In Your Arms I Found My Secrets (Other People)
Beach House — Depression Cherry (Mistletone/Inertia)
Best Friends — Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane (Smack Face Records)
Black Temple — It All Ends (Century Media)
Defeater — Abandoned (Epitaph/Warner)
Diva — Divinity In Thee (Circle Star/Inertia)
Family Machine — Skrwd (Shock)
FTSE — Joyless (Lucky Number Music/[PIAS] Australia)
Gin Wigmore — Blood To Bone (Island/Universal)
Greys — Lyre (Strange Yonder)
Halsey — Badlands (Astralwerks/EMI)
Hooton Tennis Club — Highest Point In Cliff Town (Heavenly Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Jack Colwell — Only When Flooded Could I Let Go (Independent)
Joy. — Ode (Independent)
Katie Wighton — oh-dark-hours (Independent)
k-os — Can't Fly Without Gravity (Dine Alone/Cooking Vinyl)
Luke Kennedy — Skin & Scars (Independent)
Maddie & Tae — Start Here (Dot Records/Universal)
Maricopa Wells — Place To Land (Independent)
Motorhead — Bad Magic (ADA)
Ms Murphy — Dirty Soul (Universal)
Mustered Courage — White Lies & Melodies (Universal)
Nero — Between II Worlds (MTA Records/EMI)
Nile — What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Outland Brothers — God Is Drunk In Charge (Independent)
Ryn Weaver — The Fool (Universal)
Silicon — Personal Computer (Weird World/Domino)
Soilwork — The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Sui Zhen — Secretly Susan (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
The Snowdroppers — Business (FourFour/ABC)
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind The Madness (Universal)
Tim Wheatley — Cast Of Yesterday (Sony)
Various Artists — 20 Years Of Being Skint (Skint/Shock)
Yo La Tengo — Stuff Like That There (Matador/Remote Control)
Yotam Ben Horin & Dan Cribb — Split EP (Pee Records)
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