This Week's Releases
Drake, Melody Pool, Rob Zombie, Tremonti and more
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Nonagon Infinity (Flightless/Remote Control)
In what is the band's "heaviest set" to date, Nonagon Infinity "runs in a continuous loop" with each song connected to each other and the record's end linking back to the beginning "like a sonic mobius strip". Production-wise, it's "rough around the edges" and our reviewer ponders whether "Nonagon Infinity ought to have a health warning that side effects may include physical and mental disintegration". We gave it four stars and Album Of The Week.
Luca Brasi — If This Is All We're Going To Be (Poison City Records)
For the "blink-182 led turn of the century" pop punk kids, Luca Brasi's record is "something nostalgic". With singer Tyler Richardson wearing "his Australian accent on his sleeve" — adding authenticity — the only criticism of the album is that it "powers through its ten songs at the same pace, rarely giving you a chance to take a breath". We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
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Olympia — Self Talk (EMI)
Self Talk is "at time remarkable", while at others it seems Olivia Bartley is "maybe still working out what to say — and how to say it". Boasting " electronics, spirals and eddies of harmonies, an almost contradictorily powerful yet wispy voice", "beautiful modern pop" and more, it's hard not to draw comparisons to the likes of Goldfrapp and St Vincent. We gave it three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Abnormality — Mechanisms Of Omniscience (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Babaganouj — Pillar Of Light (Independent)
Bad Company — Live In Concert 1977 & 1979 (Rhino/Warner)
Billy Ocean — Here You Are: The Best Of Billy Ocean (Legacy/Sony)
Brian Eno — The Ship (Warp/Inertia)
Chronolyth — Atrophy (Rocket)
Discharge — End Of Days (Nuclear Blast)
Doomsquad — Total Time (Bella Union/[PIAS] Australia)
Drake — Views From The 6 (Universal)
Fallujah — Dreamless (Nuclear Blast)
Graeme Connors — 60 Summers: The Ultimate Collection (ABC/Universal)
Haken — Affinity (Century Media/Sony)
Imarhan — Imarhan (City Slang/Inertia)
Jaye Bartell — Light Enough (Sinderlyn/Remote Control)
Katy B — Honey (EMI)
Kyle Craft — Dolls Of Highland (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Linda Ronstadt — Mas Canciones (Rhino/Warner)
Linda Ronstadt — Canciones De Mi Padre (Rhino/Warner)
Long Distance Calling — Trips (Inside Out/Sony)
Matt Malone — S.I.X. (Heart Of The Rat Records)
Melody Pool — Deep Dark Savage Heart (Liberation)
Pity Sex — White Hot Moon (Run For Cover Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Richard Marx — The Ultimate Collection (Universal)
Rob Zombie — The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser (T-Boy Records/Universal)
Sixx: A.M. — Prayers For The Damned (Eleven Seven/Sony)
SM Jenkins — Out There In The Zoo (Independent)
Stay At Home Son — Stay At Home Son (Neat Lawn)
The Boxer Rebellion — Ocean By Ocean (Absentee Recordings/Kobalt)
Travis — Everything At Once (Caroline)
Tremonti — Dust (Fret 12/MGM)
Various Artists — RnB Fridays Volume 2 (Universal)
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