Albums of 2014

[super nintendo chalmers]

Thirty seconds into the first song and I ordered the cassette. Best eight bucks I spent all week.

[Heathen]

new Swans

Praise be! A union of mightiness has come to pass! It is nuclear fusion in musical form! Yep, Mute have revealed that they'll be releasing the next album by Swans. To Be Kind weighs in at over two hours long, and will feature guest vocals from Little Annie, Cold Specks and St Vincent. Says Michael Gira, "A good portion of the material for this album was developed live during the Swans tours of 2012/13. Much of the music was otherwise conjured in the studio environment."

TLR 096: horseback piedmont apocrypha LP released march 25, 2014 in a limited edition LP of approximately 1000 copies. $19.00 LP, $12 CD. Available for streaming (on/after march 25) or as a direct digital download from bandcamp.

http://threelobed.com/tlr/tlr096.html
http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/piedmont-apocrypha

Young Widows‘ new album, Easy Pain, isn’t out yet, but you can listen to it in full above. Such opportunities are pretty normal these days; most bands stream their recorded output in public before it’s on sale. But Young Widows chose to debut Easy Pain in an unusual way: they played it in full on Sunday night here in New York, and they’ll play it again tonight at The Boot and Saddle in Philly. (They played their excellent second album Old Wounds at a second NYC show last night, and will do so again tomorrow in Philly.) The Young Widows guys seem pretty smart, so one assumes that they figured that the performance was likely to be filmed and passed around online.

Three years on from the release of Wolves in the Throne Room's Celestial Lineage, the Pacific Northwest brother duo have announced they're set to explore the outer reaches of black metal with a drum- and guitar-scrubbing instrumental companion piece called Celestite.

An exact due date has yet to be determined, but the band confirmed in a press release that the recording sessions for their fifth full-length have been completed, and that the LP will arrive through their own newly formed Diadem Records. Wolves in the Throne Room's last few full-lengths had arrived through Southern Lord.

[Kaius]

Thirty seconds into the first song and I ordered the cassette. Best eight bucks I spent all week.

[Simple Torture]

I wish there were a list of upcoming releases in the header post

[super nintendo chalmers]

I can't for the life of me get into Young Widows. Way too derivative. Maybe on this new one they'll come into their own a bit more. They seem to with every album.

[Simple Torture]

New EELS on April 22nd!

https://soundcloud.com/the_eels/agatha-chang-us/s-UZz59

Feels more like End Times / Tomorrow Morning than the last record.

[Heathen]

Agalloch's frontman John Haughm announced on his official Facebook page that the new Agalloch album is ready and mastered, the only thing left to do is to design the CD/LP cover art. So it seems safe to assume that we will be seeing its release in the coming months. Their label Profound Lore Records had already revealed that the successor to Marrow Of The Spirit would come out this year. It's just a matter of patience now.

[Heathen]

The Skull Defekts - Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)
Available: Tue, Apr 8 2014

When the Skull Defekts entered the studio in the Spring of 2013 with nothing more than a collection of loosely organized riffs, they set out to record their most extreme, challenging rock record. Much to the band’s surprise, what emerged were their most incessantly listenable, approachable songs to date. The Defekts merge the coarse vitality of punk with the ritualism of folk dances to create music that is addictive, wondrously discordant, and rooted in a belief in the overwhelming power of pure sound. Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown is the Swedish group’s third release as a quintet, with the legendary Daniel Higgs joining Joachim Nordwall and Daniel Fagerstroem on vocal duties and acting as the group’s spiritual ringleader. The Defekts have long acted as the backbone of the Swedish experimental underground, but since their 2011 breakthrough Peer Amid, the group has emerged at the vanguard of a new wave of radical Scandinavian rock music alongside Iceage and the Posh Isolation label.

http://thrilljockey.com/thrill/The-Skul ... wn-Unknown

also, new Petrels album 'Mima' is out soon on Denovali

[super nintendo chalmers]

^excellent. can't wait to hear that one.

[solace]

Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

[super nintendo chalmers]

Pretty enamored with this single. Full record came out today, might pick it up if I can get to see him next week.

[psychobain]

Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

Interesting. Sounds like a poppier Tame Impala. A little bit of The Black Angels also.

I'll have to get the album

[zeb]

Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

Interesting. Sounds like a poppier Tame Impala. A little bit of The Black Angels also.

That's a good enough recommendation for me.

[Heathen]

Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

30 seconds into this thing I hated it so much that I knew people were gonna eat it up.

[Heathen]

In other news, this leaked:



Fire! Orchestra – Second Exit (Rune Grammofon)

Fire! Orchestra is a 24 member avant-garde, free jazz group that emerged from the Scandinavian jazz scene. Already popping up in Album of the Year lists in The Wire, Mojo, Jazzwise and The Quietus, their first album Exit! was a success when it was released back in January 2013, getting great reviews everywhere and leading to a number of very popular live shows.
One of these you will find on Second Exit, albeit a slightly scaled down version of the full 30 member orchestra, but still sporting 13 members including new boy Goran Kajfes on cornet and previous Fire! collaborator Oren Ambarchi on guitar. The album was recorded live in concert at the Festival Les Rendez-vous de L´erdre in Nantes.

[zeb]

Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

30 seconds into this thing I hated it so much that I knew people were gonna eat it up.

[Heathen]

I should probably start a blog documenting every new record I hate, I bet that would be a great resource for you guys to find your favorite new music.

[zeb]

Hey man, I'd read it.

[i got bugs]

temples is pretty great

not as good as impala but i like it

[Brett]

I'm gonna cross-post this one from the post-rock thread:

El Ten Eleven - For Emily EP

Basically, instrumental dance rock. Does a few things here that they haven't before, but is still pretty obviously the general El Ten sound.

OSB (a.k.a. 1-Speed Bike) - Robbery EP

Low-key, laid-back electronica that dabbles with drone and jazz in the last two tracks. Aidan Girt (one of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's drummers) is the man behind the project. He delivers his characteristically monotone monologues on every track and even sings a bit.

Sam Mickens - Kayfabe: Laamb of G​.​O​.​D.

Frontman for art-rockers The Dead Science releases his second LP, a concept album about professional wrestling. His previous stuff has combined bits of jazz, hip-hop, post-punk, soul, R&B, and big-band music. Should be gloriously weird.

Ought - More Than Any Other Day

EP they released last year is being re-sequenced and extended into a full length this year and being put out by Constellation Records. Kinda awkward, slightly abrasive no-wave/post-punk type stuff. Still not quite sure what I think of them.