This Week's Releases

Birds Of Tokyo – March Fires (Capitol/EMI)

We spoke to Ian Kenny and Adam Spark about why the ornate and ethereal sound of March Fires is so far flung from the big rock choruses of 2010's massively successful self-titled record.

The Drones – I See Seaweed (MGM)

Yes, a new Drones record, and it's as cofounding, impressionistic and compelling as we've come to expect from some of Australia's finest. You're going to want to give this one a few listens to sink in, and catch the band when they take their powerful live show around the country in April.

Fraksha – My Way (Broken Tooth Entertainment/Obese)

One of the best kept secrets on the UK hip-hop scene, veteran MC Fraksha drops his refreshingly direct and dark debt album in Australia.

Popstrangers – Antipodes (Spunk/Cooperative)

Here's a confident slab of psychedelic post-punk that we're streaming for your listening pleasure.

Doldrums – Lesser Evil (Dine Alone/Shock)

The international music cognoscenti have been heaping praise on this sample-wrangling 23 year-old Canuck. You can listen to his single 'She is the Wave' here and see what all the fuss is about.

Apricot Rail – Quarrels (Hidden Shoal)

Here's a lovely little new record from this Perth instrumental outfit. We had a chinwag with their man dude, Ambrose Nock, about obscure pop and why “post-rock” is pretty much the worst genre tag ever.

Stereophonics – Graffiti on the Train (Warner)

16 years in and this latest album finds the Welsh indi-rockers carefully tweaking and refining their signature sound.

Also out this week:

Rhye – Woman (Polydor/Universal)
Imagine Dragons – Night Visions (Universal)
Andre Rieu – In Love With Maastricht – A Tribute To My Hometown (Universal)
Bryan Estepa – Heart vs. Mind (Laughing Outlaw/Inertia)
Suuns – Images Du Futur (Secretly Canadian/Inertia)
Autechre – Exai (Warp/Inertia)
Robert DeLong – Just Movement (Liberator)
Theme Park – Theme Park (Trangressive/Cooperative)
Various – Balance Presents jozif (Balance/EMI)
Kris Menace – Features (Compuphonic/Balance/EMI)
Proxy – Music From The Eastblock Jungles (Turbo/Balance/EMI)
The James Hunter Six – Minute By Minute (Fantasy/Concord/Universal)
Dirty York – Feed The Fiction (Independent)
Absolute Boys – Heavy Flow (Bedroom Suck)
No Escape For The King – 13 Fjords (Independent)
Marnie Stern – In Advance of the Broken Arm (The Planet Company)
Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving (Matador/Remote Control)
Van Halen – The Studio Albums: 1978-1984 (label)
Jeff Healy Band – House On Fire (Shock)
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor – The Colonel & The Governor (Sony)
Dido – Girl Who Go Away (Sony)
Soilwork – The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast/Riot)
Hardcore Superstar – Beg For It (Nuclear Blast/Riot)
Brian McFadden – The Irish Connection (Universal)
Young Dreams – Between Places (Modular/Universal)