Good Luck Choosing Where To Start With All Of This Week's Excellent New Releases

21 August 2020 | 12:24 pm | Staff Writer

With some much new music around each week, it can be hard to know where to start. Here's a list of this week's album releases, plus a handy playlist of new tracks from local artists too.

Cut Copy - Freeze, Melt

"Cut Copy's trajectory surely isn't over." Read the full review here.


Glass Ocean - The Remnants Of Losing Yourself In Someone Else

"This album is quality from end to end, every track is strong. They have steadfastly avoided anything even resembling filler here." Read the full review here.


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ALBUM OF THE WEEK 
Alex The Astronaut The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing

"It’s a record that is both captivating and catchy." Find out why it's our Album Of The Week here.


This Week's Releases...

bambi - unfolding (Spinning Top ) 

Blues Pills - Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast) 

Briggs - Always Was (Island/Universal)

Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Dead Oceans/Inertia) 

Bully - SUGAREGG (Sub Pop) 

California Girls - Beat Boy (Dero Arcade) 

Dan Croll - Grand Plan (Communion/Caroline)

Duckwrth - Supergood (Republic/Universal)

East Of Zurich - East Of Zurich (Independent ) 

Ekko Park - Horizon (Dinner For Wolves ) 

Elsie Lange - Talk To Me (Independent ) 

Erasure - The Neon (Mute/[PIAS])

Everything Everything - Re-Animator (AWAL) 

Felix Riebl - Black Room White Walls (Independent ) 

Girl Friday - Androgynous Mary (Hardly Art) 

HC McEntire Eno Axis (Merge) 

Icecream Hands - No Weapon But Love (Independent) 

Imogen Clark - The Making Of Me (Potts Entertainment/MGM) 

Jefferson Starship - Mother Of The Sun (Golden Robot ) 

Kill The Lights - The Sinner (Fearless/Caroline)

Lewis Del Mar - August (FADER Label/Caroline)

Naked Giants - The Shadow (New West) 

Nas - King’s Disease (Mass Appeal Records/Caroline)

Pop Filter - Banksia (Spunk) 

Sneaks - Happy Birthday (Merge) 

Sophisticated Dingo - How’s The Carry On!? (Independent )

Stellie - Stellie (The Orchard) 

The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames (Fueled By Ramen) 

The Killers - Imploding The Mirage (Island/Universal)

The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public (4AD/Remote Control)

The Waterboys - Good Luck, Seeker (Cooking Vinyl) 

Tim McGraw - Here On Earth (Big Machine/Universal)

Troye Sivan - In A Dream (EMI) 

Various - Cannot Buy My Soul 2020 - Re-Issue (EMI) 

Wafia - Good Things (Warner) 


Hot Singles In Your Area
Connect with this week's local tracks on the playlist below.