{"id":2579,"date":"2021-05-14T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:51:47","slug":"new-releases-21may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-21may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 21 May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve got some special news for you this week. At long last, the three iconic albums released by My Bloody Valentine<\/strong> are being reissued, along with a collection of EPs and rare tracks! Their debut album for Creation Records, 1988\u2019s Isn\u2019t Anything<\/em><\/strong>, revolutionised alternative music, heralding a new approach to guitar music and studio production and birthing a sound that became a template for thousands of new subgenres for years to come. Loveless<\/em><\/strong> is widely considered a flawless whole and rightly regarded as a masterpiece: a 1990s equivalent to Pet Sounds<\/em>, In A Silent Way<\/em> or Innervisions<\/em>, a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of. It is a record best experienced as a whole, in one sitting \u2013 a listening experience like no other and unmatchable in its sonic brevity. The band continued to push boundaries of both music and genre on 2013\u2019s m b v<\/em><\/strong>, an album of astonishing music, some of which could lay claim to being of a type never made before; otherworldly, intimate and a visceral listen, it\u2019s a startling and beautiful metamorphosis of the MBV sound, like no other band. And EP\u2019s 1988-1991<\/em><\/strong> collects the four EPs that contain many fans\u2019 favourite music: You Made Me Realise<\/em> and Feed Me With Your Kiss<\/em>, released in quick succession before Isn\u2019t Anything<\/em> in 1988, and Glider<\/em> (1990) and Tremolo<\/em> (1991), which came out in the gap between Isn\u2019t Anything<\/em> and Loveless<\/em>. Also included are some rare tracks, including the full 10-minute version of \u2018Glider\u2019.<\/p>\n

Intruder<\/em><\/strong> is the first new music from the iconic and influential Gary Numan<\/strong> since 2017\u2019s Savage: Songs From a Broken World<\/em>, which charted at #2 in the UK. Whereas Savage<\/em> depicted earth as a barren wasteland in which humanity and culture had been largely crushed by the effects of global warming, Intruder<\/em> presents a fresh but complementary narrative. It\u2019s a philosophical examination of a potential future apocalypse: the planet can only survive by purging its inhabitants. Intruder<\/em> was recorded between sessions at Numan\u2019s home studio in Los Angeles and at the Bath studio of producer Ade Fenton, who produced four critically acclaimed albums for Numan: Jagged<\/em>, Dead Son Rising<\/em>, Splinter<\/em> and Savage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Kurt Wagner\u2019s signature brittle baritone is back, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re going to get a nostalgic alt.country album. Showtunes<\/em><\/strong> is a continuation of Lambchop<\/strong>\u2019s explorations of new sound worlds and opens up another chapter. Each track is an exciting journey with an uncertain destination. With Showtunes<\/em>, as he has done so many times throughout his varied and fascinating career, Kurt was experimenting with something new. In late 2019 he took simple guitar tracks and converted them into midi piano tracks. It was a revelation that from those conversions he was able to manipulate each note and add, subtract, arrange the chords and melody into a form that didn\u2019t have any of the limitations he had with his previous methods of writing with a guitar. Removing these limitations led to a surprising new sound, something akin to showtunes but with edges sanded down and viewed through Kurt\u2019s own specific lens. It\u2019s a genre he was none too fond of, with the exceptions of a few Great American Songbook type of stuff or some of the works of artists like Tom Waits, early Randy Newman or even Gershwin or Carmichael. \u201cI\u2019d always wanted to make songs with a similar feel but my skills were limited until now,<\/em>\u201d says Wagner.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Seeking New Gods<\/em><\/strong>, the seventh solo album from Gruff Rhys<\/strong>, which was was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in Los Angeles with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys). The album concept was originally driven to be the biography of a mountain, Mount Paektu (an East Asian active volcano). However, as Gruff\u2019s writing began to reflect on the inhuman timescale of a peak\u2019s existence and the intimate features that bring it to mythological life, both the songs and the mountain became more and more personal. The album is about people and civilisations and the spaces people inhabit over periods of time, how people come and go but the geology sticks around and changes more slowly. \u201cI think it\u2019s about memory and time,<\/em>\u201d suggests Gruff of Seeking New Gods<\/em>\u2019 meaning. \u201cIt\u2019s still a biography of a mountain, but now it\u2019s a Mount Paektu of the mind. You won\u2019t learn much about the real mountain from listening to this record but you will feel something, hopefully.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Gruff<\/a>\"My<\/a>\"Gary<\/a>\"Lambchop<\/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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