Here’s a list of prominent new releases for the week of September 8th, 2023. Genres/labels are best guesses based on cursory Googling. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors. Or don’t, whatever. I’m not your mom.
– List of Releases: September 8th, 2023 –
(G)I-DLE – HEAT (EP)
Genre: K-Pop
Label: Cube Entertainment
Allison Russell – The Returner
Genre: Contemporary Folk
Label: Fantasy
Anjimile – The King
Genre: Avant-Folk / Art Pop
Label: 4AD
Ashley McBryde – The Devil I Know
Genre: Contemporary Country
Label: Warner Nashville
The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling
Genre: Alternative Dance / Progressive House
Label: Virgin EMI
Courtney Barnett – End Of The Day
(Music from the film Anonymous Club)
Genre: Ambient
Label: Milk!, Mom+Pop
Cryptopsy – As Gomorrah Burns
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Cyanotic – The After Effect
Genre: Industrial
Label: Glitch Mode
Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg for Death
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Label: Relapse
Finsterforst – Jenseits (EP)
Genre: Viking Metal / Folk Metal
Label: AOP
The Flower Kings – Look at You Now
Genre: Progressive Rock / Symphonic Prog
Label: InsideOut
Hawthorne Heights – Lost Lights (EP)
Genre: Emo Pop / Post-Hardcore
Label: Pure Noise
Irreversible Entanglements – Protect Your Light
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz
Label: Impulse!
James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven
Genre: Future Garage / Alternative R&B
Label: Republic, Polydor
Kvelertak – Endling
Genre: Hard Rock / Hardcore Punk
Label: Rise
Laufey – Bewitched
Genre: Pop
Label: AWAL
Logan Ledger – Golden State
Genre: Nashville Sound / Contemporary Country
Label: Rounder
Monolord – It’s All the Same (EP)
Genre: Doom Metal / Stoner Metal
Label: Relapse
Mustard Plug – Where Did All My Friends Go?
Genre: Ska Punk
Label: Bad Time
Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
Genre: Power Pop
Label: Geffen
Pomegranate Tiger – All Input Is Error
Genre: Instru-djental Metal
Label: Sheet Happens Publishing
Puddle of Mudd – Ubiquitous
Genre: Post-Grunge
Label: Pavement Music
Róisín Murphy – Hit Parade
Genre: Art Pop / Microhouse
Label: Ninja Tune
Saliva – Revelation
Genre: Hard Rock / Alternative Metal
Label: MRI
Soda Blonde – Dream Big
Genre: Alt Pop / Bedroom Pop
Label: Overbite
Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: ANTI-
Sylosis – A Sign of Things to Come
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Tyler Childers – Rustin’ in the Rain
Genre: Americana
Label: Hickman Holler
Uada – Crepuscule Natura
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Label: Eisenwald
World’s End Girlfriend – Resistance & the Blessing
Genre: Post-Rock / Modern Classical
Label: Virgin Babylon
Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music
Genre: Jazz / R&B / Afrobeats
Label: Brownswood
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Folk Implosion
Jonathan Wilson
The Handsome Family
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Chemical Brothers
Jonathan Wilson
Folk Implosion
The Handsome Family
Tyler Childers
Kvelertak
Courtney Barnett
James Blake
Róisín Murphy
The Coral
Matthew Halsall
There's probably more but those are first on the list anyway...
09.08.23
Sparklehorse 4.5
Jonathan Wilson 4
Handsome Family 3.5
Chemical Brothers 3
09.08.23
The list does not fill my with joy, I must say
a lot of they-are-still-going-apparently type entries on here
09.08.23
A lot of the time it is the least likely stuff that is impressing me this year so I tend to not filter too much based on preconceptions
09.08.23
even more so if you do not have the time for loads of new / releases and need cut it down significantly
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