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This Week's Releases

Staff Writer

New tunes from Birds Of Tokyo, Client Liaison, Mel Parsons and more!

Birds Of Tokyo — Brace (EMI)

Well, talk about being all over the place all of a sudden. Birds Of Tokyo's new effort, Brace, is this week's Feature Album on triple j, has a national tour set to kick off in a fortnight and has critics raving over its lusciously dark contents. Plus, we were generously granted access to some exclusive and pretty damn beautiful behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the album by photographer Mclean Stephenson.

Client Liaison — Diplomatic Immunity (Dot Dash/Remote Control)

Throwback specialists Client Liaison keep up their "relentless lampooning of the (in)glorious excess of the 1980s" with their eagerly awaited debut long-player. It comes off the back of an extended period of hype-building for the celebrated duo, and the production has quality pouring off it "in spades", our reviewer says, though the appeal has its limits: "Thematically, it's thin but fun." We gave it three stars.

Mel Parsons — Drylands (MGM)

Hoo boy, Mel Parsons has stumped up a good'un with Drylands. How do we know? We premiered it, that's how. Not only that, but we were lucky enough to score premiere rights to the Kiwi songstress' brilliant video for her track Don't Wait, featuring iconic vocalist Ron Sexsmith. It's damn fine, and well worth your time.

...and the rest of this week's new goods:

Alicia Keys — Here (RCA/Sony)
American Wrestlers — Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum/Inertia)
Attila — Chaos (SharpTone)
Birds Of Tokyo — Brace (EMI)
Bon Jovi — This House Is Not For Sale (Island/Universal)
Daniel O'Donnell — I Have A Dream (Sony)
Dyssidia — Of Delight & Despair (Independent)
Elko Fields — Elko Fields (Airlock Records)
Hammerfall — Built To Last (Napalm Records/Rocket)
Handsome Young Strangers — Battle Of Broken Hill (Folk Til Ya Punk Records/MGM)
Harrison Craig — Kings Of Vegas (Universal)
Hat Fitz & Cara — After The Rain (Independent)
High Tyde — Real (Caroline)
Honeyblood — Babes Never Die (FatCat Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Imperial Broads — Who Are We Turning Into? (Independent)
James Arthur — Back From The Edge (Columbia/Sony)
Jim James — Eternally Even (ATO/Capitol)
Joel Sena — Joel Sena (Foghorn)
Junk Son — Beginning Ending Pretending 37 Adventures ([PIAS] Australia)
Lambchop — FLOTUS (City Slang/Inertia)
Mel Parsons — Drylands (MGM)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — Weekly Mansions (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
Palace — So Long Forever (Fiction/Caroline)
Pez — Don't Look Down (EMI)
Pop Cult — Cult Classics (Create Control)
Queen — The Complete BBC Radio Sessions (Universal)
Robbie Williams — Heavy Entertainment Show (Columbia/Sony)
Shapeshifter — Stars (Caroline)
Shirley Collins — Lodestar (Domino/EMI)
The Chainsmokers — Collage (Sony)
The Fray — Through The Years: The Best Of The Fray (Sony)
The Ruminaters — I Used To Hate The Ruminaters, Now I Like Them (The Sunball Machine)
The Tambourine Girls — The Tambourine Girls (Chugg Music)
Timothy Nelson — Words Like Young (Independent)
Vader — The Empire (Nuclear Blast)
Various Artists — Spurts! Punk & Post-punk From The '70s & Beyond (Warner)