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 another release from space cadets, Of Montreal, the new LP from Kim Gordon’s new project Body/Head, the sophomore effort from Little Scout, and more!
Of Montreal
lousy with sylvianbriar
Do they ever slow down? After two releases last year, Paralytic Stalks and the Daughter Of Cloud rarities compilation, the Athens, Georgia band are back with what will be their 12th long player.
Principle songwriter Kevin Barnes, teamed up with engineer Drew Vandenberg (Deerhunter, Toro y Moi) to record the album in Barnes’ home studio on a 24-track tape machine in just three weeks, with most of it done live with all members in the same room together.
“I wanted to work fast and to maintain a high level of spontaneity and immediacy. I wanted the songs to be more lyric-driven, and for the instrumental arrangements to be understated and uncluttered,” Barnes told Paste Magazine.
Get ready for some nostalgia-laces tunage.
lousy with sylvianbriar will be available October 8th through Polyvinyl.
Tracklisting:
1. fugitive air
2. obsidian currents
3. belle glade missionairies
4. sirens of your toxic spirit
5. colossus
6. triumph of disintegration
7. amphibian days
8. she ain’t speakin’ now
9. hegira émigré
10. raindrop in my skull
11. imbecile rages
No Age
An Object
Los Angeles-based experimental punk duo No Age are set to release their forthcoming full-length next month and fans couldn’t be more excited.
For their upcoming album, No Age has forgone the straight and narrow route, landing in a strange and unexpected place.
This new LP finds drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, guitarist Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined, rats nests.
Lyrically, Spunt challenges space, fracturing ideological forms and complacency, by creating a striking new perspective that reveals thematic preoccupations with structural ruptures and temporal limits.
An Object will be available August 16th through Subpop/Inertia.
Tracklisting:
01 No Ground
02 I won’t Be Your Generator
03 C’mon Stimmung
04 Defector/ed
05 An Impression
06 Lock Box
07 Running From A-Go-Go
08 My Hands, Birch and Steel
09 Circling With Dizzy
10 A Ceiling Dreams of a Floor
11 Commerce, Comment, Commence
Body/Head
Coming Apart
Electric guitar duo Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.) began working together in various loose formats a few years ago, but the Body/Head concept evolved more specifically in early 2012.
Initially their approach was almost entirely instrumental — lattices of interwoven feedback rainbows, with bits recalling everyone from Heldon to Keiji Haino. Gordon’s voice began creeping into the mix soon after, and the vocals now have become an intrinsic part of their musical architecture.
Coming Apart will be issued as a double LP /CD/digital album and we recommend getting in quick!
Coming Apart will be available September 6th through Matador Records/Remote Control
Tracklisting not yet available.
Little Scout
Are You Life
Self-produced and recorded at various locations in their hometown of Brisbane, the record reflects the more muscular, distorted sounds that the band has developed in their live show since the release of their critically acclaimed debut, Take Your Light .
Mixed by Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Deap Vally, The Mars Volta) and mastered by Joe LaPorta of Sterling Sound in New York, Are You Life is a stunning work of dense arrangements, layered distortion and striking vocal melodies.
The sonically adventurous lead single, ‘Go Quietly’ (co-written with Scott Bromiley of The John Steel Singers), has already garnered Triple J and community radio rotation nationally, here’s hoping it’s am omen for the rest of the record.
Are You Life will be available September 6th through MGM.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Various Artists
Mushroom40: Rock
Living up to its title with 40 tracks from the past 40 years, the new compilation is focusing on the rock side of Mushroom’s heritage.
It begins with classic early hits from the likes of Matt Taylor, Madder Lake and mid-70s breakthrough mega-hits from Skyhooks and Ol’55.
It moves through the late 70s (Split Enz, Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons), into the early 80s (Sunnyboys,Models, Hunters & Collectors), mid and late-80s (Paul Kelly, Jimmy Barnes, Choirboys), into the 90s and beyond (Bad Loves, 28 Days, Eskimo Joe).
The compilation also features a number of rarities for collectors, including the first ever reissue of Lucille by seminal early 70s Melbourne outfit Friends, and is timed to coninide with the re-releas of a number of classic albums.
Mushroom40:Rock will be available August 2nd through Warner Music.
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Skyhooks – Living in the 70’s
2. Matt Taylor – I Remember When I Was Young
3. The Dingoes – Way Out West
4. Madder Lake – 12lb Toothbrush
5. Friends – Lucille
6. Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs – New Orleans
7. Ol’55 – On The Prowl
8. Stars – Mighty Rock
9. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Shape I’m In
10. The Sports – Who Listens To The Radio
11. Split Enz – I See Red
12. The Ferrets – Janie May
13. Dave Warner’s from the Suburbs – Suburban Boy
14. Paul Kelly – Leaps and Bounds
15. The Swingers – Counting The Beat
16. Russell Morris & The Rubes – Hush
17. Sunnyboys – Happy Man
18. Painters & Dockers – Nude School
19. The Johnnys – Injun Joe
20.The Triffids – Wide Open Road
CD2
1. Jimmy Barnes – No Second Prize
2. Ian Moss – Telephone Booth
3. The Saints – Just Like Fire Would
4. Choirboys – Run To Paradise
5. Angry Anderson – Bound For Glory
6. The Angels – Dogs Are Talking
7. Uncanny X-Men – Everybody Wants To Work
8. Models – Out Of Mind Out Of Sight
9. Hunters and Collectors – When The River Runs Dry
10. The Stems – At First Sight
11. Weddings Parties Anything – Luckiest Man
12. The Badloves – Green Limousine
13. Nick Barker – Time Bomb
14. Kings Of The Sun – Serpentine
15. Horsehead – Liar
16. Suze DeMarchi – Satellite
17. Cold Chisel – Yakuza Girls
18. 28 Days – Goodbye
19. Machine Gun Fellatio – The Girl Of My Dreams (is Giving Me Nightmares)
20. Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
