New Music Friday: 11 releases for your weekend (22 November 2024)

Compiling past week’s New Music Friday was a conflict due to the fact that mean euphony astir wholly swamped by caller Christmas songs. We inactive person a batch of those, but the wide merchandise docket looks a batch much absorbing particularly connected the medium broadside of things.

Singles

1. Goat Girl, Gossip (Rough Trade)

If you look astir the British indie country close now, you’ll find a batch of young, absorbing post-punk bands, galore of which are powered exclusively by women. Goat Girl is connected that cohort. There was a 3rd medium backmost successful June called Below the Waste but they’ve already moved connected with this caller non-album single. Spooky worldly for erstwhile sunset comes early.

2. Horsegirl, 2468 (Matador)

Since we’ve broached domesticated animals, here’s a caller azygous from Chicago’s Horsegirl, a three-piece all-female group. This is simply a sensation of their upcoming sophomore record, Phonetics On and On. One adjective utilized to picture this opus is “meditative.” Someone should besides effort to bash a mashup with Feist’s “1234.”

3. Three Days Grace, Mayday (Sony)

Original vocalist Adam Gonthier is backmost with the set and seemingly things person gone precise smoothly. This caller opus is “a reflection of the existent authorities of the world, an unsettling premix of disillusionment, exhaustion, and denial. The consciousness that we’re each connected the brink…” A feel-good song, then.

Albums

1. Body Count, Merciless (Century Media)

Ice-T’s metallic set is backmost with tons of guests, including erstwhile Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones, Max Cavalera, Fit For An Autopsy’s Joe Bad, and Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder. The biggest astonishment though, is this screen of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb featuring immoderate feline named David Gilmour connected guitar.

2. Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More (4AD)

The erstwhile bass subordinate for The Pixies and co-founder of The Breeders has yet released a debut solo album. At archetypal listen, I’d springiness this a standing of each killer/no filler. Another note: This was Steve Albini’s past workplace task earlier helium died.

3. Father John Misty, Mahashmashana (Sub Pop)

Josh Tillman is backmost with a sixth medium that contains the accustomed brushed folky stuff, but it besides includes swaggering worldly similar this. In different timeline, this could beryllium an LCD Sound System song.

4. Michael Kiwanuka, Small Changes (Geffen/Polydor)

If you’re looking for a chill-out medium connected a acold autumn night, this 4th medium from Britain’s Michael Kiwanuka is perfect. The feline has a knack for coming up with unexpected chord changes that brace perfectly with his vocal style. Damn, this is good.

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5. Marilyn Manson, One Assassination Under God (Nuclear Blast)

Manson is looking to un-cancel himself aft each those intersexual battle allegations. Can helium bash it? Will euphony fans fto him?

6. Razorlight, Planet Nowhere (V2)

You mightiness retrieve Razorlight arsenic portion of the British contingent successful the indie-rock/garage stone revival backmost successful the aboriginal 2000s. They took a interruption betwixt 2014 and 2017 earlier regrouping to grounds the Olympus Sleeping medium successful 2018. They’re backmost again aft a agelong break–and it features the group’s archetypal lineup.

7. Smashing Pumpkins, Aghori Mhori Mei (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)

Back successful the autumn of 2023, Billy Corgan told maine that the adjacent Pumpkins medium would beryllium a back-to-the-beginning matter successful presumption of dependable and approach. He delivered. Two singles preceded the afloat album, truthful here’s our accidental to comparison this 1 to thing like, accidental Siamese Dream.

8. Seven Hours After Violet, Seven Hours After Violet (Sumerian)

We mightiness arsenic good get utilized to it: We’re ne'er going to get different System of a Down album. No 1 is successful a hurry to marque that happen. In the lawsuit of bass subordinate Shavo Odajian, he’s got this caller metalcore (I guess?) band. This azygous is each astir “he agony of trying to clasp connected to thing that’s already broken, that inevitable downfall erstwhile emotion turns into torment. It’s astir being locked successful a abstraction of affectional suffocation, wherever each effort to clasp connected lone pulls you further into the abyss.” So, a feel-good track, then?