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Fresh Album Fridays: Yeule; Doja Cat; MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist; Kylie Minogue; and more
Good morning ~ This is a thread to discuss new album releases that have arrived on our doorstep this week. Feel free to share albums and EPs that have caught your eye and interest!
Discussion Points
What are you looking forward to listen to?
Have you listened to any of these releases?
What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past?
Why Friday?
Most (but not all) new LPs release on a Friday, as labels want to give the release a full week of sales before entering the charts.
~~ Feedback on the format welcome!
MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist - Faith Is A Rock
Single
Genre(s): Hip Hop
Country: United States
Spotify
RYM
The Alchemist doesn't miss but I'm not as familiar with MIKE or Wiki's discography. I'm looking forward to checking this one out today.
Back with my weekly metal roundup... I swear someday it will have more than metal in it.
Kerrigan - Bloodmoon
bc / a.l
Possibly my favorite of the week. The vocal harmonies really put this one over the top for me. Traditional, old-school sung-vocal heavy metal. Great guitar leads. Plenty of classic influence but it doesn't sound dated. Great modern take on heavy metal.
Vengeance - Sewer Surge
bc / a.l
Old-school speed/heavy metal, DVP's bread and butter. Raw, reverbed mix on this one, sounds like it's straight out of the heavier side of the 80s.
Sorcerer's Sword - Mighty Pact of Evil
bc
Satanic black/thrash/heavy with a relatively low-pitch growl for the genre, and the vocals have some occasional King Diamond singing/wailing that just adds some nice spice to the record. A nice mix of metal genres happening here.
Abominated - Traumatic Putrefaction
bc / a.l
Big time "old school death metal" sound. Not exactly HM-2 buzzsaws but close. It just instantly has that old death metal feel and surprised me a bit. Some albums like this all blend together and become a bit bland and overdone, but so far this one is working well for me.
Kings Rot - At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness
bc / a.l
Symphonic/atmospheric black metal with traces of castle/medieval inspiration in the melodies.
Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
bc / a.l
One of the biggest classic gory death metal artists in the genre. People that don't like metal often have still heard of this band. Their catalog has had some ups and downs in quality and production but this latest release is sounding well-mixed and well-written to me. It's still "yep, this is Cannibal Corpse", but I think the Rutan-isms and just overall feel of the new tracks is very tight and the mix gives it all room to shine. I feel like it's a step up from some previous CC works but others may not see a difference.
Yeule - Softscars
Single
Genre(s): Dream Pop
Country: Singapore
Bandcamp
Spotify
RYM
Soccer Mommy - Karaoke Night (EP)
Single
Genre(s): Indie Rock
Country: United States
Bandcamp
Spotify
RYM
Kylie Minogue - Tension
Single
Genre(s): Dance
Country: Australia
Spotify
RYM
Sorry, this is a prolific release that I would/should have included in the title but got confused with the Deluxe versioning (assumed the album was released earlier in the year).
Do you want me to add it in?
If that's okay!
The MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist album is probably the biggest Hip Hop release of the week, but pretty underground - if the title is too long I would omit that in favour of Kylie.
The title length was good. I simply bolted her to the end.
A little late but this released at the end of August
MxPx - Find A Way Home
Pop punk
Single
YTM
Spotify
what the heck... MxPx is still at it?! I used to chit chat with Mike's parents at shows waaaaay back when. Yuri is the nicest dude.
Doja Cat - Scarlet
Single
Genre(s): Pop Rap
Country: United States
Spotify
RYM
Zach Bryan - Boys of Faith (EP)
Single
Genre(s): Country Rock
Country: United States
Spotify
RYM