{"id":2037,"date":"2019-05-10T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:20:11","slug":"new-releases-17may2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-17may2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 17 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week\u2019s smashers start off with Small World Turning<\/em><\/strong>, the first new collection of songs from Thea Gilmore<\/strong> since 2017\u2019s The Counterweight<\/em>, which was her third successive Top-40 album. An artist of enduring international acclaim (Bruce Springsteen regularly names her as a favourite) and a justly revered lyricist, Gilmore\u2019s musical settings have taken many ingenious detours in recent years. Small World Turning<\/em>, however, nails its colours to a very different mast from the get-go: acoustic guitars are back to the fore, and a quintessentially rootsy array of instruments frame them \u2013 fiddles, whistles, mandolins and tenor banjos are all in abundance. A gifted and exceptional artist at the peak of her powers, Thea Gilmore has delivered a vibrant and deeply resonant album, rooted in folk music but completely transcending any limitations of genre.<\/p>\n

Interpol<\/strong>\u2019s new EP, A Fine Mess<\/em><\/strong>, is a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy set loose with Marauder<\/em>. Echoing its title, the artwork for A Fine Mess<\/em> is illustrated by a series of lost images, recovered from an abandoned police station in Detroit, Michigan. In a crumbling evidence room \u2013 amongst the rubble \u2013 an undeveloped roll of film, dated \u20181-20-96\u2019, featured latent images of a breaking and entering scene, the rooms in chaos. A Fine Mess<\/em> is a bracing and distinct entry in Interpol\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n

The Heavy<\/strong>\u2019s fifth album, Sons<\/em><\/strong>, takes the band\u2019s blazing, urgent and infectious sound to dizzying new heights, flitting between soul, bombastic rock and blues in a singular package. \u201cSons is taking it back to the dirt and filth The Heavy are best known for \u2026 and making it better than we ever have,<\/em>\u201d said lead singer Kelvin Swaby.<\/p>\n

2018 was a truly remarkable year for budding Scottish artist Lewis Capaldi<\/strong>, rising from years of playing in local pubs around Scotland to selling 75,000 tickets on three sold-out back-to-back headline tours and being hand-picked to support Sam Smith, Bastille, Rag\u2019n\u2019Bone Man and Niall Horan. Critical support also came in droves as he was shortlisted for the Brits Critics\u2019 Choice award, long-listed for BBC\u2019s Sound of 2018 and added to Radio 1\u2019s coveted Brit List. 2019 looks set to catapult him into the stratosphere with the announcement of his long-anticipated debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rammstein<\/strong> release the imaginatively titled Rammstein<\/em><\/strong>, their seventh studio album and their first full-length release in a decade. According to guitarists Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers, the band are taking a different approach with their new record: \u201cIt\u2019s not too sterile, not too clean,<\/em>\u201d Landers said. \u201cIt has a lot of life and energy in it, but it\u2019s not all angry. The music is more than that. It\u2019s different for Rammstein. You might even say it\u2019s fun to listen to!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Our album of the week is The National<\/strong>\u2019s new album, I Am Easy To Find<\/em><\/strong>, the band\u2019s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017\u2019s Grammy-award winning Sleep Well Beast<\/em>. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. As the album\u2019s opening track, \u2018You Had Your Soul With You\u2019, unfurls, it\u2019s so far, so National: a digitally manipulated guitar line, skittering drums, Berninger\u2019s familiar baritone, mounting tension. Then around the 2:15 mark, the true nature of I Am Easy To Find<\/em> announces itself: the racket subsides, strings swell, and the voice of long-time David Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey booms out \u2013 not as background vocals, not as a hook, but to take over the song. Elsewhere it\u2019s Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, or Sharon Van Etten, or Mina Tindle or Kate Stables of This Is the Kit, or varying combinations of them. Or the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, with whom Bryce Dessner had worked before. There are choral arrangements and strings on nearly every track, largely put together by Bryce in Paris \u2013 not a negation of the band\u2019s dramatic tendencies, but a redistribution of them. \u201cYes, there are a lot of women singing on this, but it wasn\u2019t because, \u2018Oh, let\u2019s have more women\u2019s voices,\u2019<\/em>\u201d says Berninger. \u201cIt was more, \u2018Let\u2019s have more of a fabric of people\u2019s identities.\u2019 It would have been better to have had other male singers, but my ego wouldn\u2019t let that happen.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Click an image for more details and to order your copy. Look out for our special low pre-sale prices<\/strong> in red \u2013 order early so you don\u2019t miss them!<\/p>\n

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