This Week's Releases
The Temper Trap, Dope Lemon, Ngaiire and more
The Temper Trap - Thick As Thieves (Liberation)
The highly anticipated third record from celebrated Melbourne rockers The Temper Trap is finally out, with the band revisiting their roots for album number three.
Stack it up again 2012's self-titled effort and it’s a completely different beast, with less “dense and diverse aural experiments” while still retaining a “distinctive, stadium-pop sound and delivering “strong melodies and harmonies, singalong choruses and expansive layers of instrumentation”. We gave it four stars and our Album Of The Week.
Dope Lemon - Honey Bones (EMI)
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The second offering from Angus Stone’s Dope Lemon channels “jangly guitars, and dreamy, echoed lyrics” as well as “the motorway-like beat of the late '70s to mid-'80s post-punk” - the latter of which is where it truly finds its stride. There’s a “deep contemplative aesthetic” throughout this albums’ dope tunes. We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
Ngaiire – Blastoma (Maximilion Brown)
Blastoma sees Papua New Guinean, Sydney-based soul artist really carves our her place as a soul songstress to be reckoned with, and features a wealth of exciting cameos from the likes of Paul Mac and Megan Washington.
Its lyrics content runs deep, with the title a reference to a form of cancer she survived as a child. With her second full-length Ngaiire begins “exploring the boundaries of contemporary Australian neo”.
We gave it four stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Air - Twentyears (PLG France/Warner)
Allen Toussaint - American Tunes (Nonesuch/Warner)
Augustines - This Is Your Life (Caroline)
Big Deal - Say Yes (FatCat Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town (Warner)
Colvin & Earle - Colvin & Earle (Fantasy Records/Universal)
Cornelius – Fantasma (Fat Possum/Inertia)
Emma Russack - In A New State (Spunk/Caroline)
Fatherdude - The Balance (etcetc)
Fitz & The Tantrums - Fitz & The Tantrums (Atlantic/Warner)
Garbage - Strange Little Birds (Stunvolume/Liberator)
Globelamp - The Orange Glow (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Greenthief - Tremors (MGM)
Jimi Beavis - Post-Apocalyptic Love Songs (Independent)
Josh Pyke – Live At The Sydney Opera House (ABC/Universal)
Kongos - Egomaniac (Sony)
Letlive. - If I'm The Devil… (Epitaph Warner)
Little Big Town – Wanderlust (EMI)
Marcus Wale – Inland Sea (Good Manners)
Nahko & Medicine For The People - Hoka (SideOneDummy/Cooking Vinyl)
Nick Jonas - Last Year Was Complicated (Safehouse/Universal)
Peter Bjorn And John - Breakin’ Point (INGRID/Kobalt)
Plaid - The Digging Remedy (Warp/Inertia)
Rage - The Devil Strikes Again (Nuclear Blast)
Rival Sons – Hollow Bones (ADA)
Scorpion Child - Acid Roulette (Nuclear Blast/Universal)
Spring King - Tell Me If You Like To (dew process/Universal)
The Gotobeds - Blood//Sugar//Secs//Traffic (Sub Pop/Inertia)
The Invisible - Patience (Ninja Tune/Inertia)
Tom Odell - Wrong Crowd (Columbia/Sony)
Until Home – Optimistic (Independent)
Yung - A Youthful Dream (Fat Possum/Inertia)
Various Artists - Everybody Wants Some!! (Music From The Motion Picture) (Warner)
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