The first of this week’s peaches comes from Zach Bryan, whose highly anticipated new studio album, The Great American Bar Scene, comprises 18 tracks including a poem, plus notable features from John Mayer and Bruce Springsteen.
Limits of Language is the first album of new music from Field Music for almost four years. Back in 2022, the touring cycle for the Flat White Moon album ended with a sense of finality. For the first time since the Mercury-nominated Plumb ten years earlier, Peter and David had no plan for what, if anything, would come next. However, after six years of continuation, they were clear that if Field Music was to carry on then it would have to be different, in both sound and scope.
The Ouroborus – the iconic snake or dragon eating its own tail – is an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality. This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Goat sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at igniting dance-floors and expanding minds.
Transparent Eyeball marks a new era for Liela Moss as she advances into a more daring sonic direction. Working with production duo IYEARA (Mark Lanegan), Liela has created a dramatic, menacing sound characterised first by the ominous ‘Reward’ and, now, the atmospheric ‘Conditional Love’. Spacey, glitchy and breathtakingly stylish, the songs’ slick production combined with Liela’s powerful vocals provide a glimpse of what can be expected on the record.
Here comes No Obligation, the second full-length release from The Linda Lindas, which further advances their unironic, joyful and exciting trajectory mashing up LA punk with alt-rock, garage rock, power pop, new wave, rock en español. No Obligation was written and recorded by the band during spring breaks, winter breaks, and long weekends (Lucia and Eloise are still in high school, Mila just finished middle school, and Bela is patiently waiting for them to get done with it already) and was produced by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Best Coast, Bleached).
Our release of the week is Prelude to Ecstasy: Covers and Acoustics, which features the critically acclaimed debut studio album from one of the hottest bands around, The Last Dinner Party, plus curated acoustic versions and covers.
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