This Week's Releases
New albums from Catherine Britt, From First To Last, Soviet X-Ray Record Club and Oscar Key Sung...
Hiatus Kaiyote — Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha/Sony)
Scoring our Album Of The Week, Choose Your Weapon is creative and cohesive, with a "plethora of funk, jazz, swing, lounge and soul at play here, all wrapped around Nai Palm’s delightful honey-soaked croon". Our reviewer Jonty Czuchwicki also found the record's musicianship to be top notch, and gave the album four stars.
Mumford & Sons — Wilder Mind (Gentlemen Of The Road/Dew Process/Universal)
Having already received a lot of attention for ditching the banjo on this record (which we first got our taste of in their lead single, The Wolf), our reviewer finds that "Wilder Mind sees far more in the way of reverbed, crunchy guitars". The new direction "might come as a rude surprise to some listeners, however it is good to remember that it takes a bold musician to make such a contestable decision". We gave it three stars.
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My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall (Spunk/Capitol/EMI)
Garnering a solid four stars from us, the band's seventh album is "a collection of lush, predominantly mid-tempo ramblers". Our reviewer thinks songs like Big Decisions and Thin Line conjure "disparate moods" and are "reminiscent of the early MMJ aesthetic rather than more recent forays".
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Quarters (Flightless/Remote Control)
This band has been on everyone's lips recently — as our reviewer notes, due to "relentless giggling and recording" — but with this album, they've taken "an unexpected psych-folk diversion by unleashing a weird rabbit hole of a record where each of the four songs is exactly ten minutes and 11 seconds." The title should make more sense now. We gave the record three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
Baby Et Lulu — Album Deux (Independent)
Best Coast — California Nights (EMI)
Catherine Britt — Boneshaker (Lost Highway/Universal)
Dizz1 — Get 'Em Up (Tru Thoughts/Caroline)
Django Django — Born Under Saturn (Because Music/Warner)
Earth Caller — Degenerate (Independent)
Forest Falls — Hounds (Independent)
From First To Last — Dead Trees (Sumerian/ADA)
Goodreamsagain — GDA Ideas (Lennox Music)
Howling — Sacred Ground (Monkeytown/Inertia)
In Hearts Wake — Skydancer (UNFD)
JEFF The Brotherhood — Wasted On The Dream (Dine Alone/Cooking Vinyl)
Kamelot — Haven (Napalm Records)
Korpiklaani — Noita (Nuclear Blast)
Landshapes — Heyoon (Bella Union/[PIAS] Australia)
Mark Sholtez — The Edge Of The Known World (Ambition)
Metz — II (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Mike Oldfield — The Best Of Mike Oldfield: 1992-2003 (Warner)
Oscar Key Sung — Altruism (Warner)
Other Lives — Rituals ([PIAS] Australia)
Palma Violets — Danger In The Club (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
Patrice Tipoki — A Musical Heart (The Planet Company)
Reece Mastin — Rebel And The Reason (Social Family Records)
Rose Windows — Rose Windows (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Soviet X-Ray Record Club — Wake (Independent)
Super Furry Animals — Mwng (Domino/EMI)
The Meeting Tree — R U A Cop (Sony)
The Outdoor Type — The Outdoor Type (Habit Music Company)
The Wands — The Dawn (Smack Face Records/Create Control)
Timberwolf — Flux (Independent)
Transience — Temple (Independent)
Tyler Farr — Suffer In Peace (Sony)
Various Artists — FUT.UR.ISM 3.0 (Ministry Of Sound)
Various Artists — Rice Is Nice Mix Tape Volume 2 (Rice Is Nice)
Zac Brown Band — Zekyll + Hyde (Big Machine/Universal)
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