This Week's Releases
Every Time I Die, Passenger, Beach Slang, Tash Sultana and more
Every Time I Die — Low Teens (Epitaph/Warner)
Every Time I Die's ferocity is not winding down despite their 20 years in the business — "vocalist Keith Buckley is pure savagery across nearly all tracks with his vocal approach, filthy and guttural". They "kick speakers under" with songs like Fear & Trembling before bringing "a throbbing melodic breakdown" to The Coin Has A Say. This is "undoubtedly their best release to date". We gave it four stars and our Album Of The Week.
Beach Slang — A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings (Cooking Vinyl)
The album title "fully reflects" what this album is — "It promises, it delivers". Highlights include Atom Bombs, Spin The Dial and Young Hearts, the latter "a sunset in song form". Taking apart "broken hearts, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" as well as "completely effing yourself up on illicit substances", the album lets Beach Slang "[pave] themselves a yellow brick road into the future". We gave it three stars.
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Devendra Banhart — Ape In Pink Marble (Nonesuch/Warner)
Ape In Pink Marble is "Banhart's most relaxed opus to date", seeming like it was "thrown together quite spontaneously, revealing Banhart's idiosyncrasies and quirky charms". It's "hard to see" songs like Middle Names "dominate the airwaves" but "the overall sound of Mourner's Dance and Saturday Night ... might appeal to anyone who's made friends with the new Frank Ocean record". We gave it three stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Airbourne — Breakin' Outta Hell (Spinefarm/Caroline)
Allegaeon — Proponent For Sentience (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
B Wise — Semi Pro (Elefant Traks/Inertia)
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry — Shine A Light (Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad) (Cooking Vinyl)
Boxed In — Melt (Nettwerk)
Bruce Springsteen — Chapter & Verse (Sony)
Charred Walls Of The Damned — Creatures Watching Over The Dead (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Colin Lillie — Glass Homes (Independent)
Crobot — Welcome To Fat City (Nuclear Blast)
Fleetwood Mac — Mirage (Rhino/Warner)
Flyying Colours — Mindfullness (Island/Universal)
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra — Broken Lines (Party Smasher Inc/Cooking Vinyl)
Goldroom — West Of The West (Downtown/Create Control)
Good Boy — Plum (Independent)
Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam — I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (Glassnote/Liberator)
How To Dress Well — Care (Domino/EMI)
Insomnium — Winter's Gate (Century Media/Sony)
Invention — Exist, Explore (Firestarter Distributor)
Jason Walker — All-Night Ghost Town (Lost Highway/Universal)
Lisa Richards — A Light From The Other Side (Independent)
LVL Up — Return To Love (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Merchandise — A Corpse Wired For Sound (4AD/Remote Control)
Monte Pittman — Inverted Grasp Of Balance (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade: Living With Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition) (Warner)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — El Bien Y Mal Nos Une (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
Paper House — A Certain Kind Of Now (Independent)
Passenger — Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea (Black Crow Records/Warner)
PUFF — Living In The Partyzone (Slovenly/Mondo Mongo)
Randy Newman — The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3 (Nonesuch/Warner)
Rationale — Rationale (Warner)
Safe Hands — Tie Your Soul To Mine (Lost Boy Records)
Sampology — Natural Selections (Soul Has No Tempo)
Shawn Mendes — Illuminate (Universal)
Tash Sultana — Notion (Independent)
Teenage Fanclub — Here (PeMa/Warner)
The Ocean Party — Restless (Spunk)
The Sword — Low Country (Razor & Tie/Cooking Vinyl)
Too Close To Touch — Haven't Been Myself (Epitaph/Warner)
True Widow — Avvolgere (Relapse)
Unity Floors — Life Admin (Popfrenzy)
Verge Collection — Open Plan Living (Gun Fever Records)
Warpaint — Heads Up (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
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