{"id":2771,"date":"2022-01-28T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:46:46","slug":"new-releases-4feb2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-4feb2022\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 4 February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our soaraway six, hand-picked from the many new releases out next week, starts with the sixth full-length studio album from Cate Le Bon<\/strong> \u2013 her follow-up to 2019\u2019s Mercury-nominated Reward<\/em> \u2013 whose title, Pompeii<\/em><\/strong>, suggests a coming apocalypse. However, this metaphor eclipses any dissection of the immediate present, says Le Bon, although this is not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by the double catastrophe of global pandemic plus climate emergency\u2019s colliding eco-traumas, which resonates all too eerily. What would be your final gesture? she asks.<\/p>\n

Give Me The Future<\/em><\/strong> is a tribute to humanity in a tech age and reflects on the strangeness of living through times that can feel like science fiction. Exploring both the opportunities of new technology and the dark side of lives lived online, it\u2019s as playful and fun as it is thought-provoking, as dystopian as it is dancefloor-friendly, and as electronic as Bastille<\/strong> have ever been.<\/p>\n

Korn<\/strong> changed the world with the release of their self-titled debut \u2013 an album that pioneered a genre \u2013 while the band\u2019s enduring success points to a larger cultural moment. The Fader<\/em> notes: \u201cThere was an unexpected opening in the pop landscape and Korn articulated a generational coming-of-angst for a claustrophobic, self-surveilled consciousness. Korn became the soundtrack for a generation\u2019s arrival as a snarling, thrashing, systemically restrained freak show.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Time Skiffs<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en-plein-air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective<\/strong>\u2019s singular sense of exploratory wonder: harmonies so rich you want to skydive through their shared air, textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery, rhythms so intricate you want to untangle their sources. Here is Animal Collective nearing 20, and still in search of what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment, let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe. But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious than we knew. With Laurel Hell<\/em><\/strong>, Mitski<\/strong> cements her reputation as an artist in possession of such power \u2013 capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that turns our most savage and alienated experiences into the very elixir that cures them. Her critically beloved last album, Be The Cowboy<\/em>, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016\u2019s Puberty 2<\/em> and launched her from cult favorite to indie star.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Ants From Up There<\/em><\/strong>, which follows on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of Black Country, New Road<\/strong>\u2019s acclaimed debut, For The First Time<\/em>. The new album harnesses the momentum from their debut and manages to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before as well as a natural progression.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>\"Cate<\/a>\"Bastille<\/a>\"Korn<\/a>\"Animal<\/a>\"Mitski<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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