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. This week’s features lo-fi icons Sebadoh’s teaser EP due before their first LPin almost 20 years comes out in September, the debut from Glass Towers, Kings Of Leon’s much anticipated sixth album, and more.
Sebadoh
Secret EP
Indie rock pioneers Sebadoh are set to release their first new LP in 14 years.
The longtime project of Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein and Bob D’Amico, Sebadoh’s Defend Yourself marks the band’s first self-recorded album since 1994’s legendary Bakesale.
In addition, the band will precede their new longplayer with the Secret EP, being released digitally on Friday June 21.
Secret EP is just that: an EP revealed almost in secret. The band quietly posted these 5 tracks on their Bandcamp page some months ago, disseminating the new material to the initiated without performing any of the standard rituals of promotion or distribution, until now that is.
Secret EP Out June 21st, Defend Yourself out September 13th
Tracklisting:
1. Keep The Boy Alive
2. My Drugs
3. Arbitrary High
4. I Don’t Mind
5. All Kinds
Kings Of Leon
Mechanical Bull
Kings Of Leon have been busy dropping hints about the new album, entitled Mechanical Bull, with Jared Followil revealing he was “amazed how youthful it sounds. It’s like a mix ofYouth & Young Manhood and Because Of The Times.”
Now the group have given us a little sneak peak of what to expect with a new song, ‘Super Soaker’
With Mechanical Bull, the boys from Nashville will be hoping to emulate the success of Only By The Night, which spawned a number of #1 hits, went on to sell over 600,000 copies in Australia and was certified 9x platinum.
Mechanical Bull Out September 24th through RCA Records.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Various Artists
Ultraista Remixes
Wunderproducer Nigel Godrich’s other other project Ultraista is getting the remix treatment from some of music’s biggest names.
Those names include the likes of Four Tet, Zero 7, David Lynch, Matthew Dear and more.
While Ultraista’s album is far more uniform and dare we say precise, the remix album serves to give fans what maybe Godrich couldn’t, and that’s variety.
The year’s worth of remixes have already been making round online, and will no doubt please fans from across the board.
Ultraista Remixes is out August 6t through Temporary Residence
Tracklisting:
01 You’re Out (Prefuse 73 remix)
02 Smalltalk (Four Tet remix)
03 Gold Dayzz (FaltyDL remix)
04 Wash It Over (ERAAS remix)
05 Party Line (Canon Blue remix)
06 Easier (Zammuto remix)
07 Static Light (Matthew Herbert remix)
08 Bad Insect (DC Sux remix)
09 Our Song (Zero 7 remix)
10 Strange Formula (David Lynch remix)
Bonus tracks:
01 Party Line (Nathan Fake remix)
02 Gold Dayzz (Maribou State remix)
03 Gold Dayzz (Boom Bip remix)
04 Gold Dayzz (Chvrches remix)
05 Smalltalk (Matthew Dear remix)
06 Smalltalk (Sasha remix)
Goldfrapp
Tales Of Us
The follow up to Goldfrapp’s 2010’s Head First is due for release late this year. The British electro duo, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have revealed this latest record will contain some of their most intricate work to date
The record was recorded at their studio in the “English countryside,” according to Billboard. The announcement was accompanied by the first in a series of short films, featuring a etherial new bits of music from the upcoming album.
You can view the trailer here.
Tales Of Us out September 10th
Tracklisting:
01 Jo
02 Annabel
03 Drew
04 Ulla
05 Alvar
06 Thea
07 Simone
08 Stranger
09 Laurel
10 Clay
Neko Case
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
The Worse Things Get is Neko’s most precise, urgent record to date, marked by a melodic immediacy, a loving embrace of the big rock gesture, and a lyrical frankness typified by first single ‘Man’, in which she warns “I’m a man…you’ll deal with me directly.”
The album was executive-produced by Case and recorded at Wavelab in Tuscon, as well as Portland, Los Angeles and with Phil Palazzolo in Brooklyn.
Case’s 2009 album Middle Cyclone was the best-reviewed and fastest-selling of her career to date. It debuted at #3 on US Billboard Top 200 and earned two Grammy nominations.
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is out September 6th through Anti
Tracklisting:
1. Wild Creatures
2. Night Still Comes
3. Man
4. I’m From Nowhere
5. Bracing for Sunday
6. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu
7. Calling Cards
8. City Swans
9. Afraid
10. Local Girl
11. Where Did I Leave That Fire
12. Ragtime
Tracklisting not yet available.
Group Love
Spreading Rumours
Spreading Rumours – which follows Grouplove’s acclaimed 2011 debut, Never Trust A Happy Song – will be led by the new single, ‘Ways To Go’, available digitally now.
Grouplove came together in 2009 and soon were hailed as a great live act, both as headliners and at such international festivals as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Reading + Leeds Festivals, and Glastonbury.
Their debut arrived in 2011, produced by the band’s own Ryan Rabin. The acclaimed album was highlighted by the debut single, ‘Colours’ which received critical acclaim.
Spreading Rumours is out September 20th through Canvasback Music/Atlantic
Tracklisting:
- I’m With You
- Borderlines And Aliens
- Schoolboy
- Ways To Go
- Shark Attack
- Sit Still
- Hippy Hill
- What I Know
- Didn’t Have To Go
- Bitin’ The Bullet
- News To Me
- Raspberry
- Save The Party For Me
Trouble With Templeton
Rookie
Brisbane’s The Trouble With Templeton have announced a brand new LP. Following on from a huge trip to the US earlier this year where they locked in agents and wowed crowds at SXSW and Canadian Music Week, this announcement solidifies the band’s home plans.
Created with the help of Brisbane producer Matt Redlich (Emma Louise, Hungry Kids of Hungary), the new album marks the arrival of a band truly comfortable in their own skin.
The first two singles – “Six Months In A Cast” and “Like A Kid” – cracked top 10 of both the Triple J airplay and AIR Independent airplay charts, achieved solid rotation on Rage and Channel V and broke through to a broader audience with over 35,000 downloads of “Six Months” as iTunes Single of the Week.
Rookie is out August 2nd through MGM
Tracklisting not yet available.
Glass Towers
Halcyon Days
It’s said that a picture can speak a thousand words – in the case of the title of Glass Towers’ debut album Halcyon Days the band have captured the joy, wonder, adventure, innocence and mystery of youth.
The band became a staple of national broadcaster Triple J, and honed their craft on festivals like Splendour In The Grass and tours alongside contemporaries such as Loon Lake, Dappled Cities, Papa Vs Pretty and internationals Maximo Park and The Kooks.
Along with the news of the band’s debut album, comes the announcement of their largest national headline tour to date. Opening the proceedings is young Sydney songstress Jordan Leser (pronounced ‘Lazer’). Her beautiful and serene voice can be heard across the album and features on the recent single ‘Halcyon’.
Halcyon Days is out July 5th through Inertia.
Tracklisting not yet available.
