Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis.
Chet Faker
Built On Glass
Have you heard, Australia? The time has come for Chet Faker’s highly anticipated debut LP Built On Glass, set to release on Australian tastemaker labels Future Classic and Opulent in April as a follow up to the critically acclaimed, gold selling debut EP Thinking in Textures.
After sell-out shows across Australia, the US, UK and Europe and proclaimed collabs with artists like Kilo Kish and Flume, Chet has given us the first cut ‘Talk is Cheap’ which combines a two year effort on a self produced record inspired by a youth spent creating house and disco with his RnB vocals and feel good pop vibes.
Winning Best Independent Single/EP and Breakthrough Independent Artist on Australian soil whilst also receiving media support across the globe from the likes of Zane Lowe (BBC) and Pitchfork, Chet speaking of the release said ”Lyrically, I wanted to explore how my life directly affected my music – that’s the glass, I guess.’’
Built On Glass is due out April 2014 on Future Classic and Opulent
Tracklisting:
1. Release Your Problems
2. Talk Is Cheap
3. No Advice (Airport Version)
4. Melt (Kilo Kish)
5. Gold
6. To Me
7. /
8. Blush
9. 1998
10. Cigarettes and Loneliness
11. Lesson In Patience
12. Dead Body
Better Than The Wizards
Better Than The Wizards
Heralding from Melbourne, Australia’s newest independent pop sensation, Better Than The Wizards are primed to release their self-titled debut on March 7. Working with engineer Robin Mai (John Butler, Augie March) it’s best said that the record represents a mix of pop, and funk and music that is good for the soul.
The first single ‘She Said’ is a short, sharp and super sweet track that showcases the six-pieces fun, diverse and energetic sound that will have you shaking your tail feather – you can catch the release at The Hi-Fi on February 14 promising a banging live show set to rock from Melbourne to Middle Earth.
Selling out shows in iconic Melbourne venues and working with Aussie artists like Evermore and Sparkadia, the release is set to explode right across the Australian music scene with a distinctive sound that is building quite the reputation.
Better Than The Wizards self titled debut due to on March 7.
Tracklisting:
No tracklisting available.
Cloud Nothings
Here And Nowhere Else
Cleveland-bred rock favourites Cloud Nothings announce their fourth album Here And Nowhere Else to follow 2012’s aggressive third release Attack on Memory. Founding member Dylan Baldi said “I was feeling pretty good about everything so I just made stuff that made me happy” and what more could you expect with their success winning loyal fans across the globe.
Writing on the road for the best part of 18 months, revered producer John Congleton (The Walkman, Chairlift) who will be working with the three-piece says “I’m pretty sure every song is written in a different country” and the result it’s an alluring white-knuckle racquet entailing all the sumptuous details we have come to know and love from the group.
With Pitchfork highlighting the release in the ’40 Most Anticipated Releases of 2014’ Here And Nowhere Else’s first look ‘I’m Not Part of Me’ is the next sign of wholesome progress from a songwriter and band that are fast developing their own unique identity.
Here And Nowhere Else is due out on March 28th via Start Stop.
Tracklisting:
1. Now Hear In
2. Quieter Today
3. Psychic Trauma
4. Just See Fear
5. Giving Into Seeing
6. No Thoughts
7. Pattern Walks
8. I’m Not Part Of Me
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Oddments
What could be better than one full-length in 18 months? Two or maybe three? Well, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard have shocked fans and the music industry by announcing their fourth LP, Oddments cementing their spot as some of Australia’s hardest working musicians.
Announcing 17 tour dates at different sized venues across the Great Southern Land, including five consecutive Melbourne shows, they provide the perfect backdrop to showcase the surf, psych, punk audio that is contagious to the ears and fulfilling of the inner wild-child contained in all of us.
Facing a series of unforeseen production issues the fourth has been pushed back to March 7 but never fear, the group have released the artwork and track listing as the first tantalizing details of the upcoming Flightless / Remote Control Records release.
Oddments is due out via Flightless / Remote Control Records on March 7th.
Tracklisting:
1. Alluda Majaka
2. Stressin’
3. Vegemite
4. It’s Got Old
5. Work This Time
6. ABABCd.
7. Sleepwalker
8. Hot Wax
9. Crying
10. Pipe-Dream
11. Homeless Man In Addidas
12. Oddments
