Sarah Blasko - Eternal Return (EMI)
Our Album Of The Week, Blasko's new 'un comes "complete with the range of feels that one little word tries to capture". Songs like "gender bending" I Wanna Be Your Man are "fabulous", while "Maybe This Time claims victory from the jaws of relationship failure's defeat". We gave Eternal Return four stars.
City Calm Down - In A Restless House (I Oh You)
The debut album from City Calm Down is "a sonically calculated, varied and well produced release", with a directed that is "concise and meditated". Jack Bourke "possesses a stark resemblance to Nick Cave and Ian Curtis" with his "throaty vocal tones" — tracks like Rabbit Run, Son and Nowhere To Start are highlights. We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
You Am I — Porridge And Hotsauce (You Am I Records)
This album will sound like "the most 'You Am I-sounding' album of their last few", given their last few have been more "Rogers solo songs - as played by the band". Songs like One Drink At A Time and Buzz The Boss will make you "remember the scruffy swagger that made you love them in the first place" — You Am I have "still got the goods". We gave the album three-and-a-half stars and are streaming it exclusively here.
and the rest of the releases…
Archie Roach — Charcoal Lane (Festival/Warner)
Auntie Flo — Theory Of Flo (Huntleys + Palmers/Kompakt)
Ayla — Ayla (Independent)
Bill Ryder-Jones — West Kirby County Primary (Domino/EMI)
Birds Of Tokyo — Playlist (EMI)
Bjork — Vulnicura Strings (Pods/Inertia)
Bob Dylan — The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol 12 (Legacy/Sony)
Cee-Lo Green — Heart Blanche (Warner)
Custard — Come Back, All Is Forgiven (ABC/Universal)
Dan Sultan — Openlive — Live From The National Theatre (Liberation)
Darren Middleton — Splinters (Independent)
Day Wave — Come Home Now (I Oh You/Librator)
Devil You Know — They Bleed Red (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Ellie Goulding — Delirium (Polydor/Universal)
Eulogy — Eternal Worth (Holy Roar Records/Shock)
Floating Points — Elaenia (Pod/Inertia)
Grimes — Art Angels (4AD/Remote Control)
Joe Moore — A Thousand Lifetimes (Decca/Universal)
Langhorne Slim & The Law — The Spirit Moves (Dualtone/Cooking Vinyl)
Little Mix — Get Weird (Sony)
Natalie Merchant — Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recording (Nonesuch/Warner)
Novelists — Souvenirs (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Old Dominion — Meat And Candy (Sony)
Ronnie Spector — The Very Best Of Ronnie Spector (Sony)
Royce Wood Junior — Honeydripper (37 Adventures/[PIAS] Australia)
Sam Smith — In The Lonely Hour (Drowning Shadows Edition) (EMI)
Sara Bareilles — What's Inside: Songs From Waitress (Epic/Sony)
Seal — 7 (Warner)
The Beatles — 1 (EMI)
The Sam Willows — Take Heart (Sony)
The Sticks — The Sticks (Broken Stone Records/Remote Control)
Tim Hecker — Norberg/Apondalifa (Room40)
Tim McGraw — Damn Country Music (Universal)
Villainy — Dead Sight (MGM)
