This week’s featured new releases are:
The Black Keys – Peaches!
The Akron duo’s 14th studio album is a visceral and raw 10-song collection recorded in a similar DIY spirit to their 2002 debut, with all musicians playing in the same room with few overdubs.
Cage Fight – Exuvia
This is my personal highlight of the week: heavy, full of riffs, brutal in places and featuring the extraordinary death vocals of Rachel Aspe, which challenge any of the genre’s male vocalists.
Tori Amos – In Time of Dragons
A metaphorical story about the current abhorrent non-accidental burning down of democracy in real time by the ‘Dictator believing Lizard Demons’.
Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
Fresh yet familiar, this is classically Kacey: humorous takes on the human condition that are honest, fearless, immersive, and always ready to wink at life’s twists and turns.
Jesca Hoop – Long Wave Home
Staying true to her folk roots, though never purely, Hoop delivers strikingly original songwriting, with her innovative vocals augmented by imaginative arrangements.
Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy
This elaborate concept record reflects on morality, the dangers of AI and the slippery slope of optimisation without empathy, and simply oozes classic psych/prog stylings.
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