Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 29, 2018.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.  As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the artwork (if we remember…) so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.

Featured Release

Florence + The Machine: High As Hope
Genre: Indie-Pop/Alternative Rock
Label: Republic

Few artists have as recognizable of a voice as Florence Welch, one of the most respected frontwomen in alternative rock.  While Lungs and Ceremonials launched her career to stardom, wielding hits such as ‘Dog Days Are Over’ and ‘Shake It Off’, the more understated How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful still managed to keep the magic alive with prevalent acoustics and a slightly more uptempo atmosphere.  While no one is certain as to what tricks – if any – that High As Hope holds up its sleeve, you can count on Welch delivering another vocal masterpiece.  That alone makes High As Hope worth investigating, regardless of whether this album treads the same lighter path as its predecessor or returns to the booming, anthemic way of Lungs.

– List of Releases: June 29, 2018 –

Bells Atlas: Be Brave
Genre: Indie-Pop/Soul
Label: None Records

The Blank Tapes: Candy
Genre: Pop/Psychedelic/Rock
Label: People In A Position To Know

Bullet For My Valentine: Gravity
Genre: Metalcore/Thrash
Label: Spinefarm

Elle Belle: No Signal
Genre: Rock/Pop-Rock
Label: Little Record Co

The Essex Green: Hardly Electronic
Genre: Indie-Pop
Label: Merge

Fates Warning: Live Over Europe
Genre: Progressive/Heavy Metal
Label: InsideOutMusic

Florence + The Machine: High As Hope
Genre: Indie-Pop/Alternative Rock
Label: Republic

Glass Lungs: Impermanence
Genre: Indie/Post-Rock
Label: Independent

Gorillaz: The Now Now
Genre: Trip-Hop/Hip-Hop/Alternative Rock
Label: Warner Bros.

Jim James: Uniform Distortion
Genre: Psychedelic/Soul/Indie-Rock
Label: ATO

John Coltrane: Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
Genre: Jazz/Experimental
Label: Verve

Let’s Eat Grandma: I’m All Ears
Genre: Indie-Pop/Experimental
Label: Pias America

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs: No New World
Genre: Shoegaze/Alternative Rock/Post-Punk
Label: Flake Records

The Milk Carton Kids: All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do
Genre: Folk/Alternative Rock
Label: Anti/Epitaph

Nachtmahr: Widerstand
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Trisol

The Vines: In Miracle Land
Genre: Alternative Rock/Grunge/Indie-Rock
Label: Wicked Nature Music

Wild Moccasins: Look Together
Genre: Indie-Pop
Label: New West Records

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