{"id":3337,"date":"2024-03-15T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2024-03-13T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:19:10","slug":"new-releases-22mar2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-22mar2024\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 22 March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of this week\u2019s sublime 6 comes from one of the most hard-working singer-songwriters in the game. Katie Crutchfield, who was raised near Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama, skipped town more than a decade ago and struck out on her own as Waxahatchee<\/strong>. Crutchfield says she never knew the road would lead her here, but after six critically acclaimed albums, she\u2019s never felt more confident in herself as an artist, and this is evident on her new album, Tigers Blood<\/em><\/strong>. While her sound has evolved from lo-fi folk to lush alt-tinged country, her voice has always remained the same: honest and close, poetic with Southern lilting. Much like Carson McCullers\u2019s Mick Kelly, determined in her desires and convictions, ready to tell whoever will listen.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is loud,<\/em>\u201d sings Julia Holter<\/strong> on her sixth album, Something in the Room She Moves<\/em><\/strong>, following an inner pulse. The Los Angeles songwriter\u2019s past work has often explored memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence: \u201cThere\u2019s a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies,<\/em>\u201d Holter says. Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds. \u201cI was trying to create a world that\u2019s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body\u2019s internal sound world,<\/em>\u201d Holter says of her flowing harmonic universe.<\/p>\n

During the high vibrancy of autumn 2022, Big Thief frontwoman Adrianne Lenker<\/strong> got lucky: at last, everyone could come. Three musical friends \u2013 \u201csome of my favourite people\u201d \u2013 had space in their busy touring schedules to join her at the forest-hidden analogue studio, Double Infinity. The musicians \u2013 Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson and Josefin Runsteen \u2013 were known to Adrianne but newer to each other. \u201cI had no idea what the outcome would be,<\/em>\u201d she recalls. The result? \u201cIt was magical,<\/em>\u201d she says. Adrianne\u2019s musical risk became Bright Future<\/em><\/strong>, the studio\u2019s first album, a 12-track telling of a journeyed heart.<\/p>\n

All My Friends<\/em><\/strong>, the follow-up to Aoife O\u2019Donovan<\/strong>\u2019s 3-time Grammy-nominated album, Age of Apathy<\/em>, is based around a collection of songs Aoife wrote, inspired by women\u2019s suffrage and the passage of the 19th amendment. The music is expansive with orchestral arrangements, choral vocals and a variety of instruments that create a sonic soundscape beyond anything Aoife has done in the past. Special guests include Ana\u00efs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, The Westerlies, The Knights and the San Francisco Girls Choir.<\/p>\n

Glasgow Eyes<\/em><\/strong> marks 40 years of The Jesus And Mary Chain<\/strong>. The album was recorded at Mogwai\u2019s Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow, where Jim and William continued the creative process that resulted in 2017\u2019s Damage and Joy<\/em>, which became their highest-charting album in over twenty years. What emerged is a record that finds one of the UK\u2019s most influential groups embracing a productive second chapter, their maelstrom of melody, feedback and controlled chaos now informed more audibly by their love for Suicide and Kraftwerk and a fresh appreciation of the less disciplined attitudes found in jazz. Jim Reid says \u201cDon\u2019t expect \u2018the Mary Chain goes jazz\u2019. People should expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that\u2019s certainly what Glasgow Eyes is.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Elbow<\/strong>\u2019s tenth studio album, Audio Vertigo<\/em><\/strong>, which was recorded over the course of 2023 at the band\u2019s home studios, Migration Studios in Gloucestershire and The Dairy in London, and mixed at the band\u2019s facility at Blueprint Studios, Salford. The album marks a significant step change for the group following 2021\u2019s Flying Dream 1<\/em>. In the words of lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey, Audio Vertigo<\/em> was built from \u201cgnarly, seedy grooves created by us playing together in garagy rooms<\/em>\u201d and is both more direct and more sonically varied than its predecessor.<\/p>\n

\"Elbow<\/a>\"Waxahatchee<\/a>\"Julia<\/a>\"Adrianne<\/a>\"Aoife<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/div>\n

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