This Week's Releases
Bonnie Raitt, Phil Collins, Steel Panther and more
Hands Like Houses — Dissonants (Anger Music/UNFD)
The melodic metal kids have released another album that more than lives up to "heightened expectations". The record has "heavy lines and gutsy ferocity" and "a vibrant, pulsating energy driving each and every one of these complex arrangements". Songs like Colourblind and Perspectives are highlights, with "lyrics that reach for something hopeful". We gave it four stars and our Album Of The Week.
Santigold — 99 Cents (Atlantic/Warner)
99 Cents is "a colourful and eclectic ensemble of songs revolving around the increasingly related concepts of identity and commercialisation". Continuing to "unashamedly market herself as an alternative pop spectacle", tracks like Can't Get Enough Of Myself and Chasing Shadows are highlights, the latter taking "a slightly darker approach". We gave it four stars.
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DMA's — Hills End (I OH YOU)
Sydney's "Britpop throwback" to Oasis has dished up a platter of songs "lush with hooks, melodies and fuzz guitar". The band's finished product is "well crafted", "impressive", "fresh and self-aware". "Vocalist Tommy O'Dell delivers an emotionally forceful adenoidal snarl that would give not only Liam Gallagher but also Alex Turner a run for his money". We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases...
Anthrax — For All Kings (Nuclear Blast)
Big Bad Echo — It Takes A Big Dog To Weigh A Ton (Independent)
Bombus — Repeat Until Death (Century Media/Sony)
Bonnie Raitt — Dig In Deep (Redwing Records)
C Duncan — Architect (FatCat Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Colours — Ivory (Victory)
Driven Fear — Freethinker (Pee Records)
Entombed A.D. — Dead Dawn (Century Media/Sony)
From Ashes To New — Day One (Eleven Seven/Sony)
Headspace — All That You Fear Is Gone (Inside Out/Sony)
Holy Esque — At Hope's Ravine (Beyond The Frequency)
Junkie XL — Deadpool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Milan/Warner)
Macklemore And Ryan Lewis — This Unruly Mess I've Made (Warner)
Mangelwurzel — Gary (Independent)
Michael Jackson — Off The Wall (Sony)
Millencolin — True Brew (Epitaph/Warner)
Mothers — When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Phil Collins — Hello, I Must Be Going! (Rhino/Warner)
Phil Collins — Dance Into The Light (Rhino/Warner)
Raleigh Ritchie — You're A Man Now, Boy (Sony)
Redemption — The Art Of Loss (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Ricky Warwick — When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues) / Hearts On Trees (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Run River North — Drinking From A Salt Pond (Nettwerk/Inertia)
Spirit Adrift — Behind — Beyond (Prosthetic/Rocket)
Steel Panther — Live From Lexxi's Mom's Garage (Open E Records)
Steve Mason — Meet The Humans (Double Six/Domino)
The 1975 — I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It (Sony)
The Dirty Earth — Ascendancy (MGM)
Totally Mild — Alive In Denmark (Bedroom Suck)
Various Artists — Belgica (Original Soundtrack by Soulwax) ([PIAS] Australia)
Voivod — Post Society (Century Media/Sony)
Willie Nelson — Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin (Legacy/Sony)
Wolf Alice — My Love Is Cool (Deluxe) (Dirty Hit Records/Sony)
Yashin — The Renegades (Sony)
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