Albums of 2018

[VinylGuy]

That cover looks like it was made in 2001

[run2death]

New El Ten Eleven album, Banker's Hill is out August 10 on Topshelf Records. It's their first time working with an outside producer and releasing on a label that is not their own.

Preview track is called "Phenomenal Problems."



As a bonus, here's a video of them playing the song live in the house studio that the album was recorded in:

[Kaius]

That cover looks like it was made in 2001

It really does have a millennium feel.

[tragabigzanda]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Yeah it's great. That guy is incredible

[Higgs]

Just gave John Prine a listen, nice one.

I am a big fan of heart-on-sleeve Oz poppy-rock and The Hard Aches last album was a cracker, so I had high hopes for their new one. I've been listening to it off and on for the past few months and gotta say it delivers. I dare say I'm one of only a few on RM that will care for this stuff, but hey.

The new album features our own Georgia Mac from Camp Cope on a few tunes, that's gotta be good.

Here's the lead and title track, Mess.

[psychobain]

[Kaius]

[LoathedVermin72]

New noise rock project from Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin of The Drones (and two other people I don't know).

[Ello Sailor]

That Rocky track is so damn lazy. What a load of shit.

[Kaius]

I disagree!

[Kaius]

fuuuuuuck yessss

[Kaius]

[Ello Sailor]

Gunz N Butter is infinitely better. A$AP Forever is still trash.

[chewm]

I wasn't sure at first but this Parquet Courts album is now clicking hard with me. Great record.

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

Not really into the new Lykke Li album so far. It's like in some weird in-between. Not really dark and atmospheric like her earlier stuff, but also not especially poppy or memorably melodic.

[guestT]

Any Israel Nash fans here? He has a new album coming out soon. RIYL Okonokos-era MMJ.

new single


oldie but a goody

[Brett]

Another new Vennart song, "Immortal Soldiers." The new album is called To Cure a Blizzard Upon a Plastic Sea and is slated for release September 14.

[Higgs]

One day in the not too distant future, my wife and I will finally make it to Italy. We will hire some sort of sporty euro convertible and we will drive the beautiful windy roads of the North. It will be high summer and we will laugh and smile. She will wear a scarf in her hair, I will wear a short-sleeved linen shirt. And this will be our soundtrack.

Ernie Hawks and the Soul Investigators - Tracking Down