This Week's Releases
Big Scary, Felix Riebl, Ceres, Izzy Bizu and more
Big Scary — Animal (Pieeater/Inertia)
Animal is "a triumph from start to finish", filled with surprises and "all of them good". Double Darkness is a highlight — "Iansek appears to have borrowed a few moves from Jack White's playbook" here — while Flutism and Breathe Underwater are beautiful for the way they juxtapose each other. Our reviewer thinks its "one of [the] best contemporary indie records produced this side of the equator". We gave it four-and-a-half stars and our Album Of The Week.
Felix Riebl — Paper Doors (My Shore Productions/Kobalt)
Riebl has dialled back the "wisecracking lyrics and frenetic energy" of The Cat Empire here, making the record a more "ethereal and expansive" affair. Featuring duets with Katy Steele, Emily Lubitz and Martha Wainwright, it's clear Riebl "draws from a very broad cross-section of musical influences". We gave it three stars.
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Angel Olsen — MY WOMAN (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
Divided in two halfs — perfect for vinyl listening — MY WOMAN is "a simply gorgeous" collection of tracks. The first half "[draws] on the swagger of Polly Jean Harvey or Jenny Lewis when required" while the second becomes more "introspective". The album gives us a illusion that "you're sneaking a peek behind the curtain at an artist in turmoil". We gave it four-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
A Day To Remember — Bad Vibrations (ADTR Records/Epitaph)
Beach Baby — No Mind No Money (Island/Caroline)
Bibio — The Serious EP (Warp/Inertia)
Caravana Sun — Guerilla Club (Independent)
Ceres — Drag It Down On You (Cooking Vinyl)
Dagny — Ultraviolet (Universal)
Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier — Everybody's Begging (Intercorps/MGM)
Dirty Wolves — Creation And Chaos (MGM)
Formidable Vegetable Sound System — Grow Do It (Independent)
Izzy Bizu — A Moment Of Madness (Epic/Sony)
James Vincent McMorrow — We Move (Dew Process)
Jamie T — Trick (Virgin/EMI)
King Creosote — Astronaut Meets Appleman (Domino/EMI)
Maribelle — Overtake (Independent)
Mark Pritchard — Beautiful People (Warp/Inertia)
Our Past Days — Keep Safe (Greyscale Records)
Pleasure Symbols — Pleasure Symbols (Death Valley)
SKYE | ROSS — SKYE | ROSS (Fly Agaric Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Soundwalk Collective With Jesse Paris Smith (feat. Patti Smith) — Killer Road (Bella Union/[PIAS] Australia)
Teeth & Tongue — Give Up On Your Health (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
The Frightnrs — Nothing More To Say (Daptone)
The Invisible — Life's Dancers (Ninja Tune/Inertia)
To The Rats And Wolves — Dethroned (Arising Empire)
Warhaus — We Fucked A Flame Into Being ([PIAS] Australia)
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