This Week's Releases
The Smith Street Band, Father John Misty, K Flay, Booka Shade, Deez Nuts and more
The Smith Street Band — More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me (Pool House Records/Remote Control)
The band have "taken bigger risks than they have before and it's paid off" on what is an album narrating "the life and death of a relationship, from exciting beginnings to a tumultuous ending". Songs like It Kills Me To Have To Be Alive and Suffer will "break your heart" while Shine and Laughing (Or Pretending To Laugh) have a sense of "buoyancy". We gave it four-and-a-half stars and our Album Of The Week.
Father John Misty — Pure Comedy (Sub Pop/Inertia)
FJM continues to give off the "sense of a person who is completely aghast at the current state of the world". It's more "piano-led" stuff, and the lead single and title track are highlight, however during songs like Leaving LA "things start to get testy — mainly because, at a staggering 13 minutes, it's just too damn long". We gave it three stars.
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The New Pornographers — Whiteout Conditions (Caroline)
Their first album without original member Dan Bejar is commited to "undiluted electro-pop, featuring the kind of twinkling, optimistic keyboard panoramas that M83 used to specialise in". Bejar's "politely caustic contributions are missed", but this album's "'80s revivalism" has given them a "a new lease of life". We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Adam Gibson & The Ark-Ark Birds — Cities Of Spinifex (Independent)
Alexandra Savior — Belladonna Of Sadness (Sony)
Arca — Arca (XL/Remote/Control)
Blaenavon — That's Your Lot (Transgressive Records/[PIAS] Australia)
Bogus Order — Zen Brakes Vol. 2 (Ahead Of Our Time/Inertia)
Booka Shade — Galvany Street (Blaufield Music/Balance Music)
Boss Hog — Brood X (In The Red Records)
Clark — Death Peak (Warp/Inertia)
Cold War Kids — LA Divine (EMI)
D Henry Fenton — Twice I Fell Down Once (Dark Eyes Junco/MGM)
Davidson Brothers — All You Need Is Music (Independent)
Deep Purple — Infinite (earMusic/Sony)
Deez Nuts — Binge & Purgatory (Century Media)
Diet Cig — Swear I'm Good At This (Frenchkiss Records)
Ecstatic Vision — Raw Rock Fury (Relapse)
Falling In Reverse — Coming Home (Epitaph/ADA)
Future Islands — The Far Field (4AD/Remote Control)
Gallucci — (still)Exists! (Independent)
Grun — Manyana (Bird's Robe)
Happyness — Write In (Moshi Moshi/[PIAS] Australia)
Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness (Spunk)
K Flay — Every Where Is Some Where (Interscope Records/Universal)
Karen Elson — Double Roses (1965 Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Mammals — Chase Your Bliss (Independent)
Mike & The Mechanics — Let Me Fly (BMG/ADA)
Rosie Burgess — Handful, Part Two (Independent)
Royal Thunder — Wick (Spinefarm/Caroline)
Sam Gellaitry — Escapism III (XL/Remote Control)
San Fermin — Belong (Downtown/Universal)
Sean Rowe — New Lore (Anti-/Warner)
Skegss — Holiday Food (Ratbag)
The Big Moon — Love In The 4th Dimension (Fiction/Caroline)
The Chainsmokers — Memories… Do Not Open (Disruptor Records/Sony)
The Doomsday Kingdom — The Doomsday Kingdom (Nuclear Blast)
The Meltdown — The Meltdown (Hope Street Recordings)
The Money War — The Money War (LittleBIGMAN Records/EMI)
The Obsessed — Sacred (Relapse)
The Tall Grass — Down The Unmarked Road (Independent)
Timber Timbre — Sincerely, Future Pollution (City Slang/Inertia)
Tina Arena — Greatest Hits And Interpretations (EMI)
TOYDRUM — My Eye On You (To Reinvision) (Skint/Liberator)
TV Haze — Scrap Museum (Poison City Records)
Vancouver Sleep Clinic — Revival (RAL/Sony)
Various Artists — Outlaw: Celebrating The Music Of Waylon Jennings (Sony)
Vex Ruffin — Conveyor (Stones Throw/Inertia)
Yellow Claw — Los Amsterdam (Mad Decent/Warner)
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan — Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (Domino/EMI)
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