This Week's Releases
Blank Realm — Illegals In Heaven (Bedroom Suck/Fire Records)
Picking up our Album Of The Week with four stars, Blank Realm "still don't believe they belong in the critical spotlight they've innocuously found themselves standing under". Illegals In Heaven is "simultaneously frantic, manic and irreverent", with guitar solos that sound "sharper and meaner than before". "Experimental tendencies and pop experiments combine in one glorious amalgam of sound."
The Arcs — Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch/Warner)
For those who aren't aware, singer and guitarist of The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, is The Arcs. Yours, Dreamily is "mid-tempo psych-coloured blues rock", though "there's enough variation in the production and soundscape to keep the straightforward compositions from feeling too dreary." An unexpected surprise is the female mariachi band in Chains Of Love; picking up three stars, "it's reassuring to see Auerbach loosen up and have a little fun here."
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Gold Class — It's You (Spunk)
"Adam Curley sings like a man from nowhere," our reviewer can't help but utter. His "morose baritone" is "utterly intoxicating" and in Shingles (Stay A While) is "a sublime portrait of vulnerability". The band are "far greater than the sum of its four parts", "underpinning each song with a nervous energy that imbues Curley's words with a poignant fragility, like the whole thing could collapse at any minute." We gave the album four stars.
and for the rest of the releases…
Aerials — Restless (MGM)
Ali Barter — AB-EP (Ronnie Records/MGM)
Amorphis — Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Angie — Free Agent (Rice Is Nice)
Black Tongue — The Unconquerable Dark (Century Media)
Christian Andrew — Now And Then (Independent)
Dam-Funk — Invite The Light (Stones Throw/Inertia)
Danny Yau — Do You Think We'll Live Forever (Independent)
Dave McCabe & The Ramifications — Church Of Miami (1965 Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Drunk Mums — Gone Troppo (Pissfart Records)
Fidlar — Too (Warner)
Five Finger Death Punch — Got Your Six (Eleven Seven/Sony)
Helena Hauff — Discreet Desires (Werkdiscs/Inertia)
Highasakite — Keep That Letter Safe (Caroline)
Iron Maiden — The Book Of Souls (Parlophone/Warner)
KLP — triple j's House Party Volume 4 (ABC/Universal)
Lizz Wright — Freedom & Surrender (Concord/Universal)
Lou Barlow — Brace The Wave (Domino/EMI)
Making — Highlife (Trait Records)
Many Things — Burn Together (Dew Process/Universal)
Max Richter — SLEEP (Universal)
Oh Wonder — Oh Wonder (Dew Process/Universal)
Regurgitator — Nothing Less Than Cheap Imitators: Live At The HiFi Melbourne October 2012 (Valve/MGM)
Suzannah Espie — Mother's Not Feeling Herself Today (Vitamin)
The Beards — Ten Long Years, One Long Beard (MGM)
The Libertines — Anthems For Doomed Youth (EMI)
The Riptide Movement — Getting Through (Caroline/Universal)
The Wonder Years — No Closer To Heaven (Hopeless Records/UNFD)
Thirsty Merc — Shifting Gears (MGM)
Tijuana Cartel — Psychedelicatessen (MGM)
Travi$ Scott — Rodeo (Sony)
Troye Sivan — Wild (EMI)
Voros — Diseases Diety (Truth Inc Records)
WSTR — Skrwd (Shock)
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