{"id":2513,"date":"2021-02-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:33:02","slug":"new-releases-5mar2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-5mar2021\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 5 March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our pick of 5 March<\/strong>\u2019s new releases starts with William The Conqueror<\/strong>, a band who have paid their dues. Like the sportsman cutting chipped teeth in the lower leagues before shooting to the very top, this band have lugged all the amps, placated the in-house sound guy for an easier life, their nails dirty, their hair unkempt. Enough. Except it\u2019s never enough, because despite the slinky, swampy, razor-sharp, blues-drenched, guitar-thrashed alt.rock songs that form new album Maverick Thinker<\/em><\/strong> and suggest that the door is opening for bigger rooms and broader audiences, it\u2019s those sticky basement-bar stages where the songs have always shed a skin and come alive. The record put the three-piece behind the glass at Sound City Studios in LA, treading the same carpet as the likes of Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, and Fleetwood Mac, and they might well have inhaled the spirit of them all. William The Conqueror\u2019s protagonist is Ruarri Joseph, a man who knows his way around a melody and a verse. Joseph\u2019s wryness suggests life just ain\u2019t plain sailin\u2019, and he fizzes that sigh and lament into something that breathes heavy with heart and with soul.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about hopelessness and darkness,<\/em>\u201d says Aidan Moffat. \u201cBut in a fun way.<\/em>\u201d The Arab Strap<\/strong> frontman is speaking about As Days Get Dark<\/em><\/strong>, the band\u2019s 7th studio album and their first since 2005\u2019s The Last Romance<\/em>. The band\u2019s exciting return saw the much-lauded single \u2018The Turning of Our Bones\u2019 achieve Record of the Week on Jo Whiley\u2019s BBC Radio 2 show and hit the B-list on BBC 6Music. The new album will appeal to long-time fans and pick up new ones who weren\u2019t ready for Arab Strap first time round!<\/p>\n

Evering Road<\/em><\/strong> marks a bold and exciting new chapter for Tom Grennan<\/strong>, blasting back with an album shot through with raw emotion and searing honesty. Named after the East London street on which Tom lived with his then-girlfriend, it\u2019s a hub of love, heartbreak and redemption. The album features the single \u2018This Is The Place\u2019, the soulful, introspective \u2018Oh Please\u2019 and \u2018Amen\u2019, a gospel-inspired awakening as Tom roars, \u2018I don\u2019t go to church, but Amen!\u2019<\/p>\n

Flock<\/em><\/strong> is the record that Jane Weaver<\/strong> always wanted to make \u2013 the most genuine version of herself, complete with unpretentious day-glo pop sensibilities, wit, kindness, humour and glamour. A consciously positive vision for negative times, a brooding and ethereal creation. The album features an untested new fusion of seemingly unrelated compounds fused into an eco-friendly hum; pop music for post-new-normal times. Created from elements that should never date, this is pop music reinvented. Still prevalent are the cosmic sounds, but Flock<\/em> is a natural rebellion against her recent releases which sees her move decisively away from conceptual roots in favour of writing pop music, albeit pop produced on a complicated diet of bygone Lebanese torch songs, 1980s Russian aerobics records and Australian punk.<\/p>\n

Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny<\/strong> has won 20 Grammy Awards in 12 different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums. On his latest album, Road To The Sun<\/em><\/strong>, Pat Metheny surprises us once again with his seemingly endless ability to harvest new vistas while retaining the instantly recognisable Metheny sound.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Topaz<\/em><\/strong>, the latest from Israel Nash<\/strong>. \u201cMusic can be the space where people think \u2013 even just for a few minutes,<\/em>\u201d he says. \u201cThe space is not about changing their lives or political views or their party ticket. It\u2019s about creating something that prompts reflection in a moment \u2013 and those reflections have other chain reactions.<\/em>\u201d Nash is sitting outside in the sun, thinking. It\u2019s something he does often, looking out over endless Texas hills that surround his family\u2019s rural home. He\u2019s thought a lot over the last several years about music \u2013 not only how to make it, but why. What is the endgame for Nash, a critically acclaimed rock-and-roll groovesman, personally? Nash\u2019s magnificent new album, Topaz<\/em>, is what happened when he found his answers. Nash recorded the album over the course of about a year in the Quonset hut studio he built about 600 feet from his house in the Texas Hill Country. While musician friends from nearby Austin contributed to the project, Topaz<\/em> marks the first album Nash has recorded mostly on his own, both taking his time and relishing his newfound access to immediacy, punching the red button moments after an idea hit. \u201cIt\u2019s allowed me to capture sounds and ideas, to really get stuff out of my head and into the world so quickly,<\/em>\u201d Nash says.<\/p>\n

\"Israel<\/a>\"William<\/a>\"Arab<\/a>\"Tom<\/a>\"Jane<\/a>\"Pat<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image 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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