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New Music Fridays: The Smile, Phillip Glass, Squid and more
This is a thread to discuss 2024 releases that have recently arrived on our doorstep, or been announced for the future. Feel free to share albums, singles, EPs or reissues that have caught your eye and interest, or share your thoughts about any new music that you've had the chance to listen to this week.
Discussion Points
Is there anything you've been looking forward to listening to?
Any releases that have surprised you?
Have you listened to any new music recently? What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past? How does their latest work compare?
~~ Feedback on the format welcome
Hi all, thanks to everyone who enjoyed and engaged with Fresh Album Fridays last year.
Releases are picking back up again, and I wanted to enter the year by relaxing the format a bit. ~music was a little busier last summer when I rebooted these threads, but as things have mellowed down I think broadening these threads beyond just albums to any new music (singles, reissues, etc) makes increasing sense as a way to make these threads a hub for new music discussion as the year progresses.
I'll still curate the title, but otherwise I'll leave the comments open to discussion, instead of more rigidly listing highlights of the week as comments - I'll likely leave a comment on my personal feelings of the week instead.
A leak of The Smile's new LP has been circling around, but officially releases today - one for the Radiohead fans. I wasn't crazy about their 2022 drop, but enjoyed it enough to be curious about this one.
We have a Philip Glass solo piano album arriving as well - skipping through it sounds like pretty standard Glass.
Currently listening to a record 'Blue Raspberry' from Katy Kirby who's new to me, really mellow singer songwriter stuff - very pleasant! Would make for good weekend listening, I recommend.
New singles from Squid and Elbow too.
My posts here I usually mirror as blog posts on my site, and since Fresh Album Fridays went on hiatus a bit, so did I. Worked out well for my life anyway. So, to kick back into gear, I'm just going to present a simple "things I've liked released so far this year" list, with minimal comment.
🌿 = Top recommendation
Non-metal
Archaic | Orkun A. - Ambient/drone from Turkey
Castle | 1381 - Very short and sweet minimal Castle/Medieval synthwave/dungeon-synth
Na Igle | The Violent Youth - German goth/post-punk
Metal
🌿 Suffer & Become | Vitriol - One of the most powerful/angry sounding US death metal acts ever.
Ascension In The Altar Of Condemned | Deconsekrated - Chilean Death Metal
Under the Wheels of Progress | GRAY STATE - Finnish Hardcore/Metalcore
🌿 Candela | Svdestada - Blackened Crust from Spain
Pimeyteen laskee joki | Nimetön Hauta - Finnish atmo-black
Saints Dispelled | Master - Death metal veterans from US/Czechia
Cerebral Purgatory | Resin Tomb - Australian Death Metal
🌿 Sinister Upheaval | Boundless Chaos - German death/black thrash
UPON THE KNIFE | ACID MASS Punky US speed/thrash
🌿 Warriors of Madness 7″ | Heavy Sentence Punky heavy/nwobhm from UK
🌿 As Spoken | Knoll - Avant-garde blackened death/grind from US
Lower Form Resistance | Dissimulator - Canadian sci-fi death/thrash
Iv been trying to get into the new knoll album but it's not really clicking. I'm not a massive fan of dissonant death metal which is the direction they seem to be going in. It's still very good but at around the 30min mark I gotta dip out.
Dissonant stuff is very hit or miss for me, but for whatever reason the Knoll record really clicked. I think part of it is that it's still pretty grindy and filthy and noisy which is my preferred atmosphere for dissonant stuff.
It can be pretty exhausting after a while though
Yea I think in my head I still think of them as a vrind band which they aren't really. So I kinda gotta reframe that and then I think it will click. Might just swing back to it after a few weeks.