New Releases for September 1, 2023

SIGUR ROS ATTA - BMG CD/LP

After a decade, the Icelandic band returns with an album of minimal music performed maximally, along with a 41-piece orchestra, climate despair, and Jónsi’s inimitable vocals. - PITCHFORK


KOOL KEITH BLACK ELVIS 2 - MELLO MUSIC GROUP LP

It’s hard to recommend this album as it is unique to the typical flair in the mainstream. It’s entrenched in its concept, never losing sight of what it wants to accomplish. But it does more than what I expected and then some. It is something for those old heads who miss the hard-hitting flows that never flip on a dime to bring some weak melodic flows and shift the meaning on a whim. If you’re ambitious and curious, give it a spin, but you won’t be missing much if you gloss over it for some of the more mainstream rap like Gunna or Young Thug. - THE WEEKLY COOS


SLOWDIVE EVERYTHING IS ALIVE - DEAD OCEANS CD/LP/CASSETTE

These songs are indubitably vigorous and youthful. Moreover, there’s also a fleck of Slowdive's nostalgia and urgency spattered on them, like the golden sky at sunset, whose warm-coloured canvas quickly loses its treasured vibrance to nightly darkness. “alife”, with its spiralling progression, sits as one of the most upbeat songs in their catalogue. Both Simon Scott’s hasty drum pattern and Christian Savill’s swift guitar strums suggest a scene where they’re hurtling towards something that’s melting away every second. The quintet’s subdued panic is palpable in the instrumental upheavals, which again is an embodiment of Slowdive’s ability to capture the negatives within a melodic framework that can even be described as soothing. - THE LINE OF BEST FIT


ELECTRIC CHAIRS SO MANY WAYS 7”

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE I'M SO LUCKY 7”

BLANKFOR.MS/JASON MORAN/MARCUS GILMORE REFRACT CD

BUDDY RICH TRIOS CD/LP

ROYAL BLOOD BACK TO THE WATER BELOW CD/LP

AYAKO SHINOZAKI MUSIC NOW FOR HARP CD/LP

SIGUR ROS ATTA CD/LP

SLOWDIVE EVERYTHING IS ALIVE CD/LP/CASSETTE

TOM WAITS FRANK'S WILD YEARS CD

TOM WAITS RAIN DOGS CD

TOM WAITS SWORDFISHTROMBONES CD

JOHN ZORN FULL FATHOM FIVE CD

AESOP ROCK SKELETHON LP

AMANAZ AFRICA LP

ANRI HEAVEN BEACH LP

ANRI TIMELY!! LP

ASKING ALEXANDRIA FROM DEATH TO DESTINY LP

AUNTY RAZOR VIRAL WRECKAGE LP

CODEINE WHAT ABOUT THE LONELY? LP

COIL APE OF NAPLES LP

ORNETTE COLEMAN TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION LP

CONVERGE DUSK IN US DELUXE LP

CROSBY STILLS & NASH CROSBY STILLS & NASH LP

DEATH WHEELERS CHAOS & THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MADNESS LP

DISASTERPEACE MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON LP

EEE GEE SHE-REX LP

FAIRUZ WAHDON LP

FRANKIE & THE WITCH DATA DOOM LP/CASSETTE

GRANDADDY SUMDAY: TWUNNY (BOX) LP

GWAR BATTLE MAXIMUS LP

HIGH RISE DISPERSION LP

HIM RAZORBLADE ROMANCE LP

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD LIVE AT RED ROCKS '22 LP

KOOL KEITH BLACK ELVIS 2 LP

LATHE OF HEAVEN BOUND BY NAKED SKIES LP

LOCAL NATIVES HUMMINGBIRD LP

THE METERS LOOK-KA PY PY LP

THE METERS THE METERS LP

THE METERS STRUTTIN' LP

MIDWXST E3 LP

TONY MOLINA EMBARASSING TIMES LP

NAGAT EYOUN EL ALB LP

NATIVE NOD THIS CAN'T EXIST LP

PASSION PIT GOSSAMER LP

BIG JOHN PATTON LET 'EM ROLL LP

JOHN PRINE JOHN PRINE LP

PUBLIC MEMORY ELEGIAC BEAT LP

REVEREND BIZARRE IN THE RECTORY LP

SHARAYET EL DISCO / SHARAYET EL DISCO LP

WAYNE SHORTER SCHIZOPHRENIA LP

STURGILL SIMPSON SAILOR'S GUIDE TO EARTH LP

SINDECUT & IJEOMA LATE LP

SLEEPWALKER SKOPOFOBOEXOSKELETT LP

SPRAIN LAMB AS EFFIGY LP

EARL SWEATSHIRT SICK! LP

VIAGRA BOYS COMMON SENSE LP

WILCO SKY BLUE SKY LP

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE ODEON BUDOKAN LP

GRANDADDY SUMDAY: THE CASSETTE DEMOS CASSETTE

VARIOUS ARTISTS GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 CASSETTE