{"id":3050,"date":"2023-02-17T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2023-02-14T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:08:49","slug":"new-releases-24feb2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-24feb2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 24 February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve got six crackers for you this week, starting with the appropriately titled Cracker Island<\/em><\/strong>, the eight studio album from Gorillaz<\/strong>. It\u2019s an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck. Recorded in London and LA earlier this year, it is produced by Gorillaz, Remi Kabaka Jr and eight-time Grammy Award-winner Greg Kurstin.<\/p>\n

Algiers<\/strong> return with Shook<\/em><\/strong>, their first new music since 2020\u2019s There Is No Year<\/em>, which NME called \u201ca heady concoction of post-punk, \u201960s soul and political insight.<\/em>\u201d The new album features contributions from Rage Against The Machine\u2019s Zack De La Rocha, Boy Harsher\u2019s Jae Matthews, Big Rube, billy woods, Backxwash, and many more. September\u2019s standalone release of single \u2018Bite Back\u2019 was greeted by Fader<\/em> with a glowing \u2018Song You Need\u2019 review: \u201cA sober state of the union rallying cry for the revolution.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

After three albums as School Of Language, David Brewis<\/strong>\u2019s next contribution to the ever-expanding Field Music universe is this jazz-inflected acoustic record. It will also be the second album released on Field Music\u2019s newly formed Daylight Saving Records label, intended as the home for the Brewis brothers\u2019 extra-curricular projects. The Soft Struggles<\/em><\/strong> veers away from Field Music\u2019s eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrison\u2019s Astral Weeks<\/em> and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstone\u2019s One Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Montreux Years<\/em><\/strong> is a showcase of Paco De Lucia<\/strong>\u2019s mesmerising Montreux Jazz Festival live performances between 1984 and 2012. The audio has been expertly restored and remastered in superlative HD audio, and The Montreux Years<\/em> is released on superior audiophile heavyweight vinyl and on MQA-quality CD. The release also includes brand-new liner notes and rare photos from his Montreux shows.<\/p>\n

Travel<\/em><\/strong>, the 19th studio album by Australian improvisational trio The Necks<\/strong>, documents their recent practice of starting each day in the studio with a 20-minute improvisation. As bassist Lloyd Swanton puts it: \u201cIt\u2019s a really nice communal activity to bring us together in focus each day, and some lovely music has resulted from it.<\/em>\u201d The recordings on Travel<\/em> offer some of their most ecstatic and captivating music yet cut to tape. Although the trio has never recorded a straight \u2018live\u2019 improvisation in the studio, these tracks \u2013 save for some light overdubs and post-production \u2013 are closest to what they\u2019ve been doing live for more than 30 years now.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is the third album from one of Britain\u2019s most exciting bands, Shame<\/strong>. If Songs Of Praise<\/em> was fuelled by pint-sloshing teenage vitriol, then Drunk Tank Pink<\/em> delved into a different kind of intensity. Wading into uncharted musical waters, emboldened by their wit and earned cynicism, Shame created something with the abandon of a band who had nothing to lose. Having forced their way through their second album\u2019s identity crisis, they arrive, finally, at a place of hard-won maturity. Enter Food For Worms<\/em><\/strong>, which Charlie Steen declares to be \u201cthe Lamborghini of Shame records.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve got six crackers for you this week, starting with the appropriately titled Cracker Island, the eight studio album from Gorillaz. It\u2019s an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck. Recorded in London and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1742,1743,894,36,1744,1090,1745],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-algiers","tag-david-brewis","tag-gorillaz","tag-new-release","tag-paco-de-lucia","tag-shame","tag-the-necks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}