This Week's Releases

PVT - New Spirit (Create Control)

PVT continue to dodge labels, with New Spirit delivering yet another surprising twist. While it does borrow some influence from their last effort, Homosapien, “it feels like the band's most organic and most aggressively bizarre release". We gave it four-and-a-half stars and our Album Of The Week because “it could easily be considered the band's best work”.

Holly Throsby - After A Time (Spunk)

“Simple and gorgeous” is the best way to describe the ebbs and flows of After A Time, with tight harmonies and winning songs like Going To The Sea and Find Your Way Home building a captivating release. We gave it four stars.

The Courtneys - The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)

Vancouver indie-pop outfit The Courtneys channel their sunny, ramshackle aesthetic to the max on their Flying Nun debut. The follow-up to their 2013 self-titled debut, The Courtneys II is an “uplifting, feel-good wedge of dreamy lo-fi bubblegum garage-punk, swathed in distortion”. We gave it four stars.

and the rest of the releases…

Alison Krauss – Windy City (Capitol/EMI)

Animal Collective – The Painter (Domino/EMI)

Baba Zula – Do Not Obey (Milan/Warner)

Battle Beast - Bringer Of Pain (Nuclear Blast)

Bing & Ruth - No Home Of The Mind (4AD/Remote Control)

Busby Marou - Postcards From The Shell House (Warner)

Darcy Baylis - Intimacy And Isolation (Downtime)

Deep Throat Choir - Be OK (Bella Union/[PIAS])

Electric Guest - Plural (Dew Process/Universal)

Flume – Skin Companion II (Future Classic)

Foam – Coping Mechanisms (MGM)

Fractures – Still Here (Independent)

Future – Future (Sony)

Hanni El Khatib - Savage Times (Innovative Leisure/Inertia)

Iluka - Blue My Soul (Independen)

Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian/Inertia)

Jidenna – The Chief (Epic/Sony)

Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp – Songs Of The Latin Skies (Kin/Universal)

Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism (Room40)

London O'Connor - OΔ (True Panther Sounds/Remote Control)

Maggie Rogers - Now That The Light Is Fading (EMI)

Meat Wave - The Incessant (SideOneDummy/Cooking Vinyl)

Middle Kids - Middle Kids (EMI)

Molly Burch - Please Be Mine (Captured Tracks/Remote Control)

Novella - Change Of State (Sinderlyn/Remote Control)

One Human – Evolution (earMusic/Sony)

Ryan Adams - Prisoner (Paxam Records/EMI)

Shock Machine - Shock Machine (Liberator)

Son Volt - Notes Of Blue (Thirty Tigers/Cooking Vinyl)

Strand Of Oaks - Hard Love (Dead Oceans/Inertia)

TeamMate – TeamMate (Sony)

The Byzantines – You Pull It (Independet)

The Orwells – Terrible Human Beings (Atlantic/Warner)

Tim Darcy - Saturday Night (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)

Toby Martin - Songs From Northam Avenue (Ivy League Liberation)

Wanderers - Something For A Distraction (MGM)

Zillanova - The Fader (Hope Street Recording)