This Week's Releases
My Disco — Severe (Temporary Residence)
Picking up our Album Of The Week with four-and-a-half stars, My Disco has "stripped rock and punk of all its flamboyant flesh" with their "deliberate, methodical abdication to metronomic, punishing rhythms and monotonous syllabic utterances". With highlights "the self-flagellating Cancer, scorched-earth Paradise and buoyant Little Joy", our reviewer notes "this bruising effort is nothing short of spectacular".
Roots Manuva — Bleeds (Big Dada/Inertia)
His first record in four years, Bleeds contains "slow, grimy jams with his dulcet baritone dropping lyrics with precision". He's confident and "opts not to fill Bleeds with guests", though Don't Breathe Out has Barry White's Honey Please, Can't Ya See drifting "in and out and lends a Bon Iver-esque quality to the track". This album "reminds you of why Roots Manuva is a name to be revered". We gave Roots Manuva four stars.
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Palms — Crazy Rack (Ivy League/Liberation)
Coming from "fondly-remembered noughties outfit Red Riders", Palms "know how to pack one wicked guitar line after another into their poppy slices of garage rock" but have "turned the distortion up to 11". At only 30 minutes, "the rapid-fire run-time is symptomatic of just how tightly constructed the songs are" — namely Bad Apple, Thoughts Of You and Sleep Too Much. We gave it four stars.
and the rest of the releases…
'77 — Nothing's Gonna Stop Us (Century Media/Sony)
Alanis Morissette — Jagged Little Pill (Rhino/Warner)
Beach Slang — The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us (Cooking Vinyl)
British Sea Power — Sea Of Brass (Shock)
Car Seat Headrest — Teens Of Style (Matador/Remote Control)
Carnage — Papi Gordo (Sony)
Charlie A'Court — Come On Over (Fanfare/Universal)
Cheatahs — Mythologies (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Chris Janson — Buy Me A Boat (Warner)
Crystal Lake — The Sign (Halfcut/Shock)
Def Leppard — Def Leppard (earMusic/Sony)
Dinosaur Pile-Up — Eleven Eleven (Double Cross Records/Cooking Vinyl)
Don McGlashan — Lucky Stars (Only Blues Music)
Drug Church — Hit Your Head (No Sleep/Shock)
EL VY — Return To The Moon (4AD/Remote Control)
Enter Shikari — The Mindsweep: Hospitalised (Ambush Reality/[PIAS] Australia)
Erasure — Always — The Very Best Of Erasure (Mute/[PIAS] Australia)
Escape The Fate — Hate Me (Elevent Seven/Sony)
Guy Garvey — Courting The Squall (Universal)
Jackson Firebird — Shake (Warner)
James Morrison — Higher Than Here (Island/Universal)
Jeffrey Lewis — Manhattan (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
Kenny Rogers — Once Again It's Christmas (Warner)
Kev Carmody — Recollections… Reflections… (A Journey) (One Louder Records/Universal)
Laurie Anderson — Heart Of A Dog (Nonesuch/Warner)
Lloyd Swanton — Ambon (Bugle Records)
Martin Courtney — Many Moons (Domino/EMI)
Mathas — Armwrestling Atlas (Independent)
Moana — The Trilogy Of The Black Monsoon (Independent)
Never Shout Never — Black Cat (Warner)
Pantera — History Of Hostility (Rhino/Warner)
Playwrite — Cathedrals (Independent)
Power — Electric Glitter Boogie (Cool Death Records)
Ritual — Ritual (Halfcut/Shock)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — It's A Holiday Soul Party (Daptone/Shock)
Silent Knight — Conquer & Command (Independent)
Skyhooks — Don't You Believe What You've Seen Or You've Heard (Festival/Warner)
Straight No Chaser — The New Old Fashioned (Warner)
Teramaze — Her Halo (Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group)
The Chills — Silver Bullets (Fire Records/Rocket)
The Neighbourhood — Wiped Out! (Columbia/Sony)
The Shrine — Rare Breed (Century Media)
Tina Arena — Eleven (EMI)
Warmth Crashes In — Warmth Crashes In (Create Control)
Warumpi Band — Warumpi Band 4 Ever (Festival/Warner)
Whitaker — I Am An Animal (Independent)
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