This Week's Releases
King Gizzard, Panda Bear, Conrad Sewell and more
Le1f — Riot Boi (Terrible Records/Remote Control)
Scoring our Album Of The Week and four stars, Riot Boi is "ready-made for vogueing at parties" due to its "hard house and dance rhythms with tongue-in-cheek lyricism". The record "drips with self-aware sexual energy" and "thrumming electronic rhythms that make it impossible to stand still, but there's always grit, a real edge". Riot Boi is "sexy, one-of-a-kind and definitely too cool for us mere mortals".
Kerser — Next Step (ABK/ADA)
Kerser's first release on a major label, Next Step has the resounding silence of "the absence of Kerser's former beat-maker-in-chief, Nebs, perhaps the best beat-maker in the country". Kerser's story is one of an "unapologetic, partially reformed bad guy trying to make sense of the maelstrom", though "the C-bomb is no longer as shocking". We gave Next Step three stars.
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Dream On, Dreamer — Songs Of Soulitude (Independent)
In a departure from older material, "clean vocals dominate the majority of the album", allowing the more "tender moments" to hit deeper. The album's most refreshing moments remain the "more unexpected aspects" — "the ambient and noise-laden opener Souls On Fire and completely acoustic finale Violent Pictures." We gave Songs Of Soulitude three stars.
and the rest of the releases…
A Great Big World — When The Morning Comes (Epic/Sony)
A Tribe Called Quest — People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (Sony)
Bankrupt Billionaires — Nobody's Business (Hydrofunk/MGM)
Ben Haenow — Ben Haenow (Sony)
Boots — Aquaria (Columbia/Sony)
Chris Young — I'm Coming Over (Sony)
Chrome Sparks — Parallelism (Future Classic)
Conrad Sewell — All I Know (Warner)
Devin Townsend Project — Devil Townsend Presents: Ziltoid Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Inside Out/Century Media)
Ed Sheeran — X — Wembley Edition (Atlantic/Warner)
Firespawn — Shadow Realms (Century Media/Sony)
Flying Colors — Second Flight: Live At The Z7 (Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group)
Givers — New Kingdom (Glassnote/Liberator)
Grave Pleasures — Dreamcrash (Sony)
Gum — Glamorous Damage (Spinning Top)
Handguns — Disenchanted (Pure Noise/Sony)
Intronaut — The Direction Of Last Things (Century Media/Sony)
Jeff Lynne's ELO — Alone In The Universe (Sony)
Justin Bieber — Purpose (Universal)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Paper Mache Dream Balloon (Flightless/Remote Control)
Kylie Minogue — Kylie Christmas (Parlophone/Warner)
Lanterns On The Lake — Beings (Bella Union/[PIAS] Australia)
Mark McGuire — Beyond Belief (Dead Oceans/Inertia)
Mutemath — Vitals (Sony)
Neil Young — Bluenote Cafe (Reprise/Warner)
One Direction — Made In The A.M. (Sony)
Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden Of Delite (Warp/Inertia)
Panda Bear — Crosswords (Domino/EMI)
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express — Junun (Nonesuch/Warner)
Skyhooks — Hits 'N' Riffs (Festival/Warner)
Swallow The Sun — Songs From The North I, II & III (Century Media/Sony)
The Besnard Lakes — Golden Lion (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
The Wainwright Sisters — Songs In The Dark (MapleMusic Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Theories Of Everything — Theories Of Everything & Thomas The Woodcutter (Independent)
Ty Dolla $ign — Free TC (Atlantic/Warner)
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