This Week's Releases
As well as Dustin Tebbutt, Jack Carty, Storm The Sky and more...
Montaigne — Glorious Heights (Wonderlick/Sony)
With a more "poppy" sensibility, "catchy hooks and a danceability that will prove very palatable to a more mainstream audience", Montaigne's "sublime voice" still manages to cut through the "full-scale production". The album is "raw, emotive and infectious" and "she's not afraid to get dark with her sound, rejecting the notion that pop music needs to be inoffensive, mindless drivel". We gave it four stars and Album Of The Week.
Bernard Fanning — Civil Dusk (Dew Process/Universal)
Ahead of fourth record Brutal Dawn, Civil Dusk is "his latest voyage of self discovery" in which "he sounds kinda bored, not knowing whether to kick around a country pub (on the half pissed What A Man Wants) or rocking out a horrible Status Quo pastiche (on Change Of Pace)". With "mesmerising" lyrical unrest, we gave Civil Dusk three stars.
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Kylie Auldist — Family Tree (6834)
Family Tree is "an authentic celebration of an enviable record collection", where you'll hear snippets of "Chaka Khan's grooves" and "lashes of Whitney Houston's '80s heyday", all while packaged within Auldist's "electro-soul diva". You'll even find Ron Burgundy's "bonafide jazz flute" and a "fly Grandmaster Flash-style rap" in Good Time Girl. We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Acolyte — Shades Of Black (Independent)
Alan Jackson — Genuine: The Alan Jackson Story (Sony)
Alex Lloyd — Acoustica (Liberation)
Backsliders — Heathen Songbook (Rocket)
Blossoms — Blossoms (EMI)
Blues Pills — Lady In Gold (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Byron Short & The Sunset Junkies — Revelations (Sunset Junk Recordings)
Carnifex — Slow Death (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Creative Adult — Fear Of Life (Run For Cover Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Dinosaur Jr — Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
DJ Snake — Encore (Interscope Records/Universal)
Dustin Tebbutt — First Light (Eleven)
Gypsy & The Cat — Virtual Islands (Alsatian)
Hieroglyphic Being — The Disco's Of Inhotep (Technicolour Recordings/Inertia)
Holy Balm — Activity (Chapter Music)
Jack Carty — Home State (Curly Co. Recordings/MGM)
Jenn Champion — No One (Hardly Art/Inertia)
Kaurna Cronin — Southern Loss (Independent)
King Of The North — Get Our Of Your World (Dirty Rock)
Kllo — Well Worn (Good Manners)
Lazy Colts — Trojan (Independent)
Leanne Tennant — Red Wine, Late Nights (Independent)
Mass Gothic — Sup Goth (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Moose Blood — Blush (Hopeless Records/Unified)
My Iron Lung — Learn To Leave (Pure Noise/Sony)
Necromancing The Stone — Jewel Of The Vile (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Sarah Mary Chadwick — Roses Always Die (Rice Is Nice/Inertia)
Schwarz Don't Crack — No Hard Feelings (Nettwerk)
Skillet — Unleashed (Atlantic/Warner)
Storm The Sky — Sin Will Find You (UNFD)
Ta-Ku & Wafia — (M)edian (Future Classic)
Tarja — The Shadow Self (earMusic/Sony)
Tenderfoot — Beginnings (Audio Network)
The Brave — Epoch (UNFD)
The Cadillac Three — Bury Me In My Boots (Big Machine/Universal)
The Dead Daisies — Make Some Noise (SPV/eOne Music)
The Lulu Raes — All Our Parents Are Divorced (Verge)
The Rumjacks — Sleepin' Rough (FourFour/Universal)
The Valery Trails — Chameleon Bones (Independent)
The Winter Gypsy — Page I (Independent)
Trevor Sensor — Starved Nights Of Saturday Stars (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
VANT — Karma Seeker (Parlophone/Warner)
Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album (Atlantic/Warner)
Wild Beasts — Boy King (Domino/EMI)
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