{"id":3063,"date":"2023-03-03T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:12:57","slug":"new-releases-10mar2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-10mar2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 10 March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking off this week\u2019s six stormers is visionary Swedish singer-songwriter and producer Fever Ray<\/strong>, who has finally returned to us grateful fans with a splendid new long-player, some five years after their last outing (2017\u2019s Plunge<\/em>). Radical Romantics<\/em><\/strong> is a return characterised by a somewhat darker and more brooding mood and feel. This work is most definitely drifting further from and plunging deeper than what we recognise and love as The Knife but my golly-gosh, it is so very rewarding, slamming and sonically rich \u2013 it is fantastic!<\/p>\n

Grammy-nominated Rival Sons<\/strong> release their anxiously awaited new album, Darkfighter<\/em><\/strong>, their first new music since 2019\u2019s Feral Roots<\/em>. Vocalist Jay Buchanan shares: \u201cDarkfighter represents the cultural mitosis of isolation, the pandemic, and the national fabric of the US getting looser and looser. We\u2019re so divided, and you can\u2019t step over the lines without offending someone. It certainly informed my writing. We recognised a responsibility to put a good word on people\u2019s ears so there\u2019s a good word coming back on their tongues too. We missed the joy of the live show and that magical interaction. When it was taken from us, that made me want to sing about topics that were important. There are strong themes on this record of loss of identity, preservation of joy, and beholding light and shape again.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Morrison<\/strong>\u2019s love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he\u2019d hear early 20th-century folk, blues and jazz from the likes of Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton. So when he first heard Lonnie Donegan\u2019s take on \u2018Rock Island Line\u2019 he intuitively understood the music he was hearing; before long, he was playing with a skiffle band in school. Moving On Skiffle<\/em><\/strong> finds him taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn\u2019t always possess the first time around.<\/p>\n

Ward Thomas<\/strong>, the first and only UK country act to achieve a No.1 album \u2013 with 2016\u2019s gold-selling Cartwheels<\/em> \u2013 are back. After releasing their brilliant lockdown album Invitation<\/em>, the Hampshire-based duo return with Music In The Madness<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 their fifth studio album. Music In The Madness<\/em> is both a harmony-soaked balm for shattered souls and an uplifting reminder of what really matters. Love, family, unity and the healing power of music are recurrent themes on the album.<\/p>\n

Dutch Uncles<\/strong>, the much-revered Mancunian electro art-rock quartet, return with their long-awaited sixth album. True Entertainment<\/em><\/strong> takes inspiration from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Prince, Steely Dan, Ennio Morricone, The Blue Nile, Kate Bush and Roxy Music. \u201cTrue Entertainment behaves like it knows it\u2019s been away for some time, and doesn\u2019t apologise for that,<\/em>\u201d jokes vocalist Duncan Wallis. \u201cUltimately, it\u2019s written with the mindset that on our sixth album, we\u2019re only in competition with ourselves when it comes to finding satisfaction in our craft.<\/em>\u201d True to this mantra, True Entertainment<\/em> bears some of the most delightfully fun Dutch Uncles music to date, paired with some of their most existential and introspective lyrics.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is UK Grim<\/em><\/strong>, the most dancefloor-friendly release yet from Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods<\/strong>: an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. This is truly the sound of now, not only in terms of the ideas and issues Jason Williamson\u2019s strong words invoke, but also thanks to the innovative and immersive production of Andrew Fearn, which on this release has seen the pair collaborate on songs with Jane\u2019s Addiction\u2019s creative powerhouse, Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro, and with Florence Shaw, the distinct and vital voice at the heart of British band Dry Cleaning. Angry yet artful, innovative yet possessing an instinctual energy that irresistibly moves bodies and minds, UK Grim<\/em> is an erudite electronic vision that truly engages with times that have been anything but \u2018precedented\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"Sleaford<\/a>\"Fever<\/a>\"Rival<\/a>\"Van<\/a>\"Ward<\/a>\"Dutch<\/a><\/div>\n

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

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