This Week's Releases
Green Day, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, Placebo, Tiny Little Houses and more
DD Dumbo — Utopia Defeated (Liberation)
Utopia Defeated features an "eccentric and kinetic sound" and the producer/engineer Fabian Prynn worked on end "to capture the many layers that goes into a DD Dumbo song." Their vocal style "remains captivating" whilst going through "territory of Ezra Koenig, Chet Faker or even Sting". Overall the album's unorthodox concepts give the impression that Perry "is not content to deliver a straight-up pop record". We gave it four-and-a-half stars and Album Of The Week.
Green Day — Revolution Radio (Reprise/Warner)
Revolution Radio is said to "seeks to grapple with the culture of violence in the US" and has delivered some of the "vintage jokey-cynical Green Day" but "anyone hoping for a late-career classic is bound to be disappointed". The release is nevertheless "solid and concise", compared to the other later career releases by the band, who are dabbling in a genre which lives off "youthful cynicism and exuberance". We gave it two-and-a-half stars.
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Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen — Death's Dateless Night (Gawdaggie/Universal)
A shared bereavement brought two "Australian rock veterans" together to record a collection of songs they play at funerals of friends, described as "a sombre affair without being mired in sadness". Kelly's daughters "Maddy and Memphis adding a welcome feminine touch" and on the whole the album is "a beautiful way to contemplate our inevitable demise". We gave it four stars.
And the rest of the releases…
Alter Bridge - The Last Hero (Napalm Records/Rocket)
Archive — The False Foundation (Dangervisit/[PIAS]Australia)
Balance & Composure — Light We Made (UNFD)
Barry Gibb — In The Now (Columbia/Sony)
C Duncan — The Midnight Sun (FatCat Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Candiria — While They Were Sleeping (Metal Blade Records)
Daya — Sit Still, Look Pretty (Sony)
Gatecreeper — Sonoran Depravation (Relapse)
Goat — Requiem (Rocket)
Jack River - Highway Songs No. 2 (I Oh You/Liberation)
James Kenyon — Imagine You Are Driving (Independent)
Jones — New Skin (37 Adventures/[PIAS] Australia)
Joyce Manor — Cody (Epitaph/Warner)
Julia Jacklin — Don't Let the Kids Win (Liberation)
Kaiser Chiefs — Stay Together (Fiction/Caroline)
Kate Tempest — Let Them Eat Chaos (Fiction/Caroline)
Lemaitre — Afterglow (EMI)
Mo Pitney — Behind This Guitar (Sony)
Moreton — Specimen (Create Control)
Norah Jones — Day Breaks (EMI)
Oasis — Be Here Now (Big Brother)
Olivia Newton-John, Berth Nielser — Liv On (Sony)
Omar Rodriquez-Lopez — Cell Phone Bikini (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
One Republic — Oh My My (Interscope Records/Universal)
Phantogram — Three (Fiction/Caroline)
Pitbull — Climate Change (Sony)
Placebo — A Place For Us To Dream (Universal)
Placebo — Life's What You Make It (Universal)
Seasick Steve — Keepin' The Horses Between Me And The Ground (Balance Music/Universal)
Set It Off — Upside Down (Rude)
She Cries Wolf — Doubt (Eleventh Records)
Shining Bird — Black Opal (Spunk)
Sonata Arctica — The Ninth Hour (Nuclear Blast)
Sum 41 — 13 Voices (Hopeless Records/Unified)
The Magnetic Fields — 69 Love Songs (Domino/EMI)
The Panics — Hole In Your Pocket (Dew Process/Universal)
Thigh Master — Early Times (Coolin' By Sound)
Tiny Little Houses — Snow Globe (Ivy League/Liberation)
White Lies — Friends (Infectious Music/BMG)
Xylouris White — Black Peak (Caroline)
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