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Below is a smattering of new releases for September 6th, 2024. Exclusions not intentional because seeing new comments is a dopamine hit. Feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors, inform the people about what’s unintentionally missing from the list, and let us know what you plan on jamming this release week.

– List of Releases: September 6th, 2024 –

40 Watt Sun – Little Weight
Genre: Slowcore
Label: Fisher’s Folly

A Swarm of the Sun – An Empire
Genre: Post-Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Label: Pelagic

The Airborne Toxic Event – Glory
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Little Tokyo

Amy Allen – Amy Allen
Genre: Indie Pop
Label: Kenny + Betty

Ashe – Willson
Genre: Alt-Pop / Americana
Label: [independent]

Black Sites – The Promised Land?
Genre: Progressive Metal / Heavy Metal
Label: [independent]

Bleachers – A Stranger Desired
Genre: Acoustic renditions of 2014’s Strange Desire
Label: Dirty Hit

blink-182 – ONE MORE TIME… PART-2
Genre: Pop-Punk / Alternative Rock
Label: Columbia

Boston Manor – Sundiver
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: SharpTone

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Welcome back to another edition of the Weekly Releases feature, where everything is made up and the points don’t matter! That’s right — the points matter as much as pants to a toll booth operator or why your obscure Transylvanian dungeon synth band with 3 bandcamp followers didn’t make the list (because it will probably be in the comments). Feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors and let the people know what’s missing from this intentionally-not-thorough list.

– List of Releases: August 30th, 2024 –

Alora Crucible – Oak Lace Apparition
Genre: Chamber Music / Neoclassical New Age
Label: House of Mythology

Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Genre: Progressive Metal / Sludge Metal
Label: Season of Mist

AWOLNATION – The Phantom Five
Genre: Alternative Rock / Indietronica
Label: Better Noise

Bent Knee – Twenty Pills Without Water
Genre: Art Rock / Chamber Pop
Label: Take This to Heart

CHELSEA WOLFE – Undone (EP)
Genre: Darkwave / Witch House
Label: Loma Vista

Deliver the Galaxy – Bury Your Gods
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Massacre

Destroy Lonely – LOVE LAST FOREVER
Genre: Trap / Southern Hip-Hop
Label: Opium /…


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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 23rd, 2024.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: August 23, 2024 –

Alleviate: DMNS
Genre:
Metalcore/Deathcore
Label: Arising Empire

Cassyette: This World Fucking Sucks
Genre:
Alternative
Label: Rough Trade

Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera
Genre: Symphonic Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Fontaines D.C.: Romance
Genre:
Post Punk
Label: XL Recordings

Gift: Illuminator
Genre:
Indie / Psychedelic
Label: Omnian Music

Illuminati Hotties: Power
Genre:
Lo-fi / Indie pop
Label: Hopeless Records

Kingcrow: Hopium
Genre:
Progressive Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Kishi Bashi: Kantos
Genre:
Indie Pop / Psychedelic
Label: Joyful Noise Records

Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind
Genre:
Country
Label: Broken Bow

Lisa Loeb & The Hollow Trees: That’s What It’s All About
Genre:
Folk / Alternative
Label: Independent

Meer: Wheels Within Wheels
Genre:
Alt Prog


Ulver: A Sputnik Guide

This feature is part of a hopefully ongoing series aimed at exploring the discographies of interesting and/or important bands whose wider body of work is often overlooked on this site. There will be lots of words and a few pictures, but the main deal is that if a band features here, they are good and you should listen to them! And if you already jam them, hit up the comments and explain where and why this is wrong! Get going!

Previously covered discographies:

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The news broke today that Tore Ylwizaker, member of Ulver since 1997, died three days ago on his 54th birthday. Though credited as a ‘keyboardist’, Ylwizaker was absolutely essential to everything the group made since he joined: without his contributions, it’s unthinkable that Ulver would have emerged from their early years as a metal band as a such a stunningly proficient juggling act between IDM and downtempo — and then onto drone, onto classical, onto full-tilt synthpop, and anything they could fold into the margins of their umpteen strong suits. Ulver’s name has practically become a by-word for versatility, but for me this was always underpinned by a rigorous sense of competence, which, in turn, I viewed as practically synonymous with Ylwizaker. His passing marks a great loss for forward-thinking music as a whole, and we are privileged to be able to hear his talent across so many guises.


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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 16, 2024.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: August 16, 2024 –

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Blind Pilot: In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain
Genre: 
Indie Folk/Rock
Label: ATO Records

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Charly Bliss: Forever
Genre: 
Indie Rock/Pop Rock/Pop Punk
Label: Lucky Number

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Dark Tranquillity: Endtime Signals
Genre: 
Melodic Death Metal
Label: Century Media

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Genre: Dream Pop
Label: Turn To Wind

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Falling In Reverse: Popular Monster
Genre: 
Post-Hardcore/Pop Rock/Pop Punk
Label: Epitaph Records

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Foster The People: Paradise State Of Mind
Genre: 
Indie Pop
Label: Atlantic

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Hamish Hawk: A Firmer Hand
Genre: Sophisti-Pop/Post-Punk/Indie Rock
Label: So Recordings/Fierce Panda

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Hozier: Unaired
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Genre: Soul/Pop/Folk
Label: Rubyworks

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Morgan Wade: Obsessed
Genre: Country/Americana
Label: Sony Music Entertainment and Ladylike Records

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Pom Poko: Champion
Genre: 
Indie Pop/Rock/Punk
Label: Bella Union

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Ray LaMontagne: Long Way Home
Genre: 
Indie Folk
Label: Liula Records

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Post Malone: F-1 Trillion
Genre: Pop/R&B/Hip-Hop
Label: Mercury Records and Republic Records

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Rosie Lowe: Lover, Other
Genre: 
Alternative R&B/Neo-Soul
Label: Blue Flowers

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Starflyer 59: Lust For Gold
Genre: 
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Indie Rock
Label: Velvet Blue

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Thermality: The Final Hours
Genre: 
Melodic Death Metal
Label: Black Lodge

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Tinashe: Quantum Baby

Genre: R&B/Pop
Label: Tinashe Music/Nice Life

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Wishy: Triple Seven
Genre: 
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Indie Pop
Label: Winspear

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Yours Truly: Toxic
Genre: 
Alt-Rock/Pop Punk
Label: UNFD


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State Faults – Children of the Moon

State Faults’ newest album Children of the Moon is so immediately classic that it’s hard to put into words. The evolution of this band from the lofi, unhinged sound of Desolate Peaks to where they are in 2024 is staggering. At their core they’re still that emotionally draining band, hitting you with songs fueled by distorted riffs and banshee shrieks such as (my personal favorite) Divination and Transfiguration, but now also being able to pull off a 10+ minute behemoth such as No Gospel. A track that takes you through every high and low, every desolate peak (pun?) to every epic mountain top with influences from prog rock to post-hardcore. Or a ballad such as Bodega Head that REALLY gets you in your feels with its soft acoustics and melodic vocals. State Faults have crafted a perfect album that will indeed go down as one of the best screamo albums of all time. But to pigeonhole Children of the Moon as just “screamo” would be a huge disservice. This album transcends any genre tag. So get off your ass and jam this beast. You will not regret it!

-Hawks


OK Fellow Sputters—

It’s been years since I’ve last done one of these, and it’s certainly the first since I’ve been a staffer, so welcome to the first official blog post for “Neek’s 1st Listen”!

As a reminder for those new to this long-dormant series, this closer to a stream-of-consciousness series of rants that flow from my very very tired brain edit-free onto the page the very first time I hear the album in question. So please forgive my ridiculous comparisons and questionable turns of phrase.


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Full disclosure:
The Smashing Pumpkins are one of my favorite bands, and while I was an apologist for their post-breakup era a good long while, the most recent run of albums left me completely cold. I didn’t even bother checking ATUM: Act III, and this is someone who ranked all 200-something of their songs in 2018. But after skimming Johnny’s excellent review and peeping the opening track, Edin I decided it was about time to finally break out this blog feature (and all the formatting fun that comes with it).

Without further ado…

“Edin”:
Johnny’s line about Tool and Kyuss is spot on; these fuckin riffs are buttery but sharply wielded. Corgan’s vocals kinda shatter the fun—even on his better moments in these late albums his performance sounds AI-generated. You could predict his cadence by…


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Guys, gals, and non-binary pals, please find an intentionally non-exhaustive list of new releases for August 9th along with some already-released records. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors; plus, feel free to add to the not-full-scale list by letting the people know in the comments what else should be on the community’s radar. Please comment. Please clap. Thank you.

– List of Releases: August 9th, 2024 –

Acrid Tomb / Tomb of Annihilation – Hermetic Invocations (Split)
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Label: Iconoclasm Conquest

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay
Genre: Alt-Country / Americana
Label: Mule Kick

Amos Lee – Transmissions
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Soul
Label: Thirty Tigers

And So I Watch You From Afar – Megafauna
Genre: Math Rock / Post-Rock
Label: Velocity

beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves
Genre: Indie Pop / Alternative Rock
Label: Dirty Hit

Benny the Butcher – SummerTime Butch
Genre: East Coast Hip-Hop / Gangsta Rap
Label: BSF

Bleached Cross / The True Faith – Columns of Impenetrable Light [Split]
Genre: Darkwave /…


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Here’s a sampler of new releases set to debut on August 2nd. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors; additionally, feel free to add to the list by letting the people know in the comments what else should be on the community’s radar.

– List of Releases: August 2nd, 2024 –

A Night in Texas – Digital Apocalypse
Genre: Deathcore / Technical Death Metal
Label: Unique Leader

Anberlin – Vega
Genre: Alternative Rock / Pop-Punk
Label: Equal Vision

Blues Pills – Birthday
Genre: Blues Rock
Label: BMG

Carnophage – Matter of a Darker Nature
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity

Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories
Genre: Ambient Pop / Ethereal Wave / Drone
Label: Sacred Bones

Ella Langley – Hungover
Genre: Contemporary Country / Country Pop
Label: Columbia

G.O.O.N. – God’s Only Option Now
Genre: Hardcore Punk
Label: Convulse

Gryffin – PULSE
Genre: Electropop / Dance-Pop / EDM
Label: Darkroom

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Hey everyone! Welcome back to Weekly Releases. Below is a list of notable new releases set to premiere on July 26th, 2024. Feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors. Cheers!

– List of Releases: July 26th, 2024 –

ALBUM REVIEW: Abbie Ozard – everything still worries me | NARC. | Reliably Informed | Music and Creative Arts News for Newcastle and the North East

Abbie Ozard – Everything Still Worries Me
Genre: Indie Pop / Bedroom Pop
Label: House Anxiety

Mournful Benediction (feat. Ben Duerr) | A Wake In Providence | Unique Leader Records

A Wake in Providence – I Write to You, My Darling Decay
Genre: Deathcore / Blackened Death Metal
Label: Unique Leader Records

Category 7 “Category 7″ | Metal Blade Records

Category 7 – Category 7
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Metal Blade

Blue Kite | Crack Cloud

Crack Cloud – Red Mile
Genre: Post-Punk / New Wave / Experimental
Label: Jagjaguwar

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Cults – To the Ghosts
Genre: Indie Pop / Indie Rock/ Dream Pop
Label: Imperial

Metal Gods (24-bit HD audio) | Dream Evil | Century Media Records

Dream Evil – Metal Gods
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Label: Century Media

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Empire of the Sun – Ask That God
Genre: Electropop / Synthpop
Label: EMI / Capitol

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Falling in Reverse – Popular Monster
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Metalcore
Label: Epitaph

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Ghost – Rite Here Rite Now (Soundtrack)
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: Loma Vista

Hakushi Hasegawa –Mahogakko
Genre: Art Pop / Glitch /…


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Hey everyone! Welcome back to Weekly Releases. Below is a list of notable new releases set to premiere on July 19th, 2024. Feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors. Cheers!

– List of Releases: July 19th, 2024 –

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Act of Creation – Moments to Remain
Genre: Thrash Metal
Label: Massacre Records

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Alburnum – The Withered Roots of Reality (July 20th release)
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Folk
Label: Independent

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Ashenheart – Faded Gold
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Independent

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Assemble the Chariots – Ephemeral Trilogy Episode 1: Unyielding Night
Genre: Symphonic Metal/Deathcore
Label: Independent

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Avery Anna – Breakup Over Breakfast
Genre: Singer-Songwriter
Label: Warner Music

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Beachwood Sparks – Across the River of Stars
Genre: Alt-Country/Psychedelic/Indie Pop
Label: Curation Records

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Bizhiki– Unbound
Genre: Powwow Music
Label: Jagjaguwar

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Ceremony of Silence– Halios
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Label: Willowtip Records

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Childish Gambino– Bando Stone & the New World
Genre: Hip-Hop/Soundtrack
Label: RCA

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Curren$y & Monsta Beatz– Radioactive
Genre: Hip-Hop
Label: Jet Life

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Deep Purple– =1
Genre: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Label: earMUSIC

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Denzel Curry– King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
Genre: Hip-Hop
Label: PH, Loma Vista

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Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog
Genre: Indie Rock/Psychedelic
Label: We Buy Gold

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SUMAC – The Healer

The collective of Aaron Turner (ISIS), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and Brian Cook (Botch) have once again proven there is such a thing as beautiful bleakness.Too often as bands progress through their careers they take the comfortable, digestible, and tried-and-true elements of their sound and pair them down into cohesive, intimate, and relatable vignettes of their former selves. SUMAC has achieved the opposite with The Healer, a sprawling 75 minute behemoth built on the assumption the listener is both patient enough to allow the band to stretch out, and eager enough to explore alongside the musicians as they dig down deep into chasms of dissonance, dread, and finally catharsis.

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Sputnikmusic Staff’s Q2 Playlist 2024

Welcome to the second installment for our 2024 quarterly playlist! Having Canada D’eh and Independence Day during the same week had some of us partying hard. Feel free to jam while reading what participating staffers had to say about their picks. Tell us what your favorites are in the comments, any new artists you may have discovered here, or let us know what we missed!


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Arooj Aftab – “Aey Nehin”
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Perhaps the most heatproof antidote I’ve heard this year to everything sweaty and inconvenient about summer, Arooj Aftab’s stellar new record opens in a revelation of cleansing harp tones and dusky croons. Her hazy weave of textures effortlessly trots out everything palatable you could ask of a current-year chamber jazz, earning a rare for all music fans badge of approval from practically anyone whose opinion you should care to ask. Literally better than sunscreen. –JohnnyoftheWell

ARTMS – “Virtual Angel”
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Charli XCX might be sitting on pop’s most obvious AOTY ticket, but this right here is the flyaway headrush single of (maybe) the year, affirming everything gauzy and effortless about pop, living and dying on the sheer gratification of breezy production and the featherweight delivery of knockout hooks. If that’s not enough (and your Korean is up to it), ARTMS’ lyrics offer a wholesome take on…


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Hey everyone! Welcome back to Weekly Releases. Below is a list of notable new releases set to premiere on July 12th, 2024. Feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors. Cheers!

– List of Releases: July 12th, 2024 –

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Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes (Live at Tavastia)
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Atomic Fire Records

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Ani DiFranco – Unprecedented Sh!t
Genre: Alternative Rock / Indie Rock
Label: Righteous Babe

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Black Lava – The Savage Winds to Wisdom
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Label: Season of Mist

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Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer
Genre: Indie Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Dead Oceans

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Cigarettes After Sex – X’s
Genre: Dream Pop / Ambient Pop
Label: Partisan

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Clairo – Charm
Genre: Indie Pop / Folk-Pop
Label: Self-Released

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Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace)
Genre: Hip-Hop
Label: Shady / Aftermath / Interscope

Future Utopia – Django’s High
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Label: 70Hz Recordings

Graphic Nature – Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
Genre: Nu-Metalcore
Label: Rude

Hannah Mohan – Time Is a Walnut
Genre: Indie Rock / Indie…


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Happy American Independence Day. Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 5th, 2024.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: July 5, 2024 –

Aeons: The Ghosts of What We Knew
Genre:
Progressive Metalcore
Label: Sliptrick Records

Akhlys: House of the Black Geminus
Genre: Black Metal / Ambient
Label: Debemur Morti Productions

Fink: Beauty in Your Wake
Genre:
Alternative / Downtempo
Label: R’COUP’D

Horned Almighty: Contagion Zero
Genre:
Black Metal
Label: Soulseller Records

Kasabian: Happenings
Genre:
Indie / Psychedelic
Label: Columbia Records

Kiasmos: II
Genre:
Electronic / Ambient
Label: Erased Tapes Records

Kokoko!: Butu
Genre:
African / Electronic / Alternative
Label: Transgressive Records

Liminal Shroud: Visions of Collapse
Genre:
Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Willowtip Records

Nyktophobia: To the Stars
Genre:
Blackened Death Metal
Label: Napalm Records

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