New music from Vampire Weekend, Primal Scream, MS MR, Justice and Buchanan!
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Primal Scream – More Light (Ignition/Inertia)
These Scots 1991 classic Screamadelica pioneered that potent blend of electronica and indie which is all the rage these days, but while good, album #10 isn't really a patch on their best work.
MS MR – Secondhand Rapture (Sony)
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The sameyness of this debut full-length from the Brooklyn duo shows that a handful of good tracks do not always make for a great album.
Four Tet – Rounds [Reissue] (Domino/EMI)
His mum calls him Kieran Hebden, and his breakthrough album has just been rereleased with a bonus live set on an extra disc. Check out our review of this influential postglitchjazztronica milestone that stands tall on its tenth birthday.
Joshua Redman – Walking Shadows (Nonesuch/Warner)
Redman drives his band ably through an album of sax-driven hard bop, but even with a string section backing him up, he could afford to step outside the box from time to time.
Alison Moyet – the minutes (Cooking Vinyl)
She was one half of the UK synthpop two-piece Yazoo in the 80s, and her latest album finds her trying to split the difference between electronica and classic pop songwriting. She had a chat to us about how one makes a comeback like this work.
Buchanan – Human Spring (Independent)
These Melbourne lads have been getting a bit of triple j love and have been battling major-label A&R departments; we're streaming their debut album for your listening pleasure.
These albums are also dropping this week:
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (XL/Remote Control)
Huey Lewis & The News – Sports [Reissue] (EMI)
Something With Numbers – Eleven Eleven (Stop Start/EMI)
Matty J Ruys – Deeper (EMI)
Lady Antebellum – Golden (EMI)
Justice – Access All Arenas [Live] (Warner)
Hugh Laurie – Let Them Talk (Warner)
Retox – YPLL (Epitaph/Warner)
Craig Campbell – Never Regret (ABC/Universal)
Noah & The Whale – Heart of Nowhere (Universal)
Demi Lovarto – Demi (Universal)
Various Artists – The Great Gatsby Soundtrack (Universal)
Agnetha – A (Universal)
Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (Universal)
Ludovico Einaudi – In A Time Lapse (Universal)
Walk The Moon – Walk The Moon [Deluxe Edition] (Sony)
The Piano Guys – The Piano Guys 2 (Sony)
Pistol Annies – Annie Up (Sony)
Natalie Maines – Mother (Sony)
Za! – Wanananai (Gandula/Valve)
Solkyri – Are You My Brother (Bird's Robe)
They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants and Lincoln [Reissues] (Breakaway)
Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy – You Are Everything (MGM)
The Handsome Family – Wilderness (Spunk/Cooperative)
Killing Joke – The Singles Collection: 1979-2012 (Spinefarm/Cooperative)
Charles Baby – In The End of the Terror Lights (Independent)
Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse (Independent)
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold (Create/Control)
Wire – Change Becomes Us (Popfrenzy)
Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Dungeonesse – Dungeonesse (Secretly Canadian/Inertia)