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New Music Fridays: The Last Dinner Party, Kirin J Calinan, Burial 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
Another Friday! A pretty quiet week as we roll into February, but some interesting sleepy releases. Here's what's caught my eye ~
'Prelude to Ecstasy' from The Last Dinner Party - LP just released, not heard of this band before but this seems to be the release that's causing the biggest buzz on socials. An all-female Glam Rock release.
'If I Could Sing' from Kirin J Calinan - One of my favourite artists, this was handed out as USB Drives in July but has finally made it to streaming, so I'm looking forward to hearing it for the first time. No other artist balances comedy and sincerity on such a strange line as Kirin. He's known for the 'Big Enough' meme, but
A double sided single release from Burial - 'Boy Sent From Above' and 'Dreamfever'. These have been circling around for a while, but now officially uploaded. Seems like a return to beat-heavy garage stuff rather than the ambient sound he's been dabbling in. Really excited to hear these in full (both 12+ minutes!)
New freestyle from Chance
New single from Bicep
Sorry to bump but I am adding some actual contribution so that seems to be okay to do.
Playing catchup - will post my favorites of February 9th on that thread soon as well.
Favorite releases (Week of 02/02/2024)
Non-metal
J. Mascis - What Do We Do Now
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Dinosaur Jr's J. Mascis releases another solo album and it sounds great. This time with full drums and electric leads, but as usual, the classic acoustic guitar rhythm underlying it all. Guest musicians add piano and steel guitar to round out this release.
Metal
Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal
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Top pick of the week by far. French blackened death metal. Sinister and beautiful. A few very unique parts on here where heavy distorted guitars are overlaid with a clean-tone "jangle" guitar picking sound that does the opposite of what you'd expect: makes it sound even heavier and more evil.
Deselect - Selftitled
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Hardcore punk with a black/thrash feel. Nice vocal reverb, some unique punk guitar riffs in here too.
Smoking Mirror - Live for the Blade
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Thrashy death metal with equally thrashy (yelling-style) vocals.
Askel - Cycles of Ruin
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Grimy, noisy, doomy sludge. Get absolutely submerged in filth as you despairingly crawl through layers and layers of muck and feedback and despair.
Morghuul - Domination of the Beast
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Old school blackened thrash sound. Production is a bit on the thinner side, with bass not as prominent as I would like- but it fits the aesthetic. Janky, old school hand-drawn album art. Plenty of "OUGH"s and wails and high-pitch shrieks! Sounds unhinged in the best way.
Mean Mistreater - Razor Wire
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A band apparently named after a song by Willie Dixon from '68 or one of its covers. Classic metal and hard rock mixture with nice solos and a driving rhythm section that keeps things moving.
Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions
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Speedy death/thrash with dual vocals, ranging from highs, to growls, to gang vocals, to mixes of all of these at once, great variety. Fast vocal lines, guitar divebombs and plenty of tremolo action. Constantly doing fun and interesting things musically- you will NOT get bored.
Hasturian Vigil - Unveiling the Brac'thal
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Irish black metal that sometimes goes into a black n' roll or blackened hard rock feel at moments but then goes back to blasting. Nice switchups between these tempos. Nice guitar tone, though it could handle a bit more drive as it sounds a bit dry in the slower more rock-tinged sections. Works great during the black metal blasts though. A nice dry, coughy black metal vocal lays on top of it all well too.