{"id":3455,"date":"2024-09-20T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:06:49","slug":"new-releases-27sep2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-27sep2024\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 27 September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

First out of the box this week is a record born of grief. You can hear it in the title, White Roses, My God<\/em><\/strong>, as well as in tracks such as \u2018Heaven\u2019, in which Alan Sparhawk<\/strong> describes the afterlife, wrenchingly, as \u201ca lonely place if you\u2019re alone\u201d. You can sense it too in Sparhawk\u2019s decision to create this thing entirely on his own: every note, every lyric, every programmed beat. It would be reductive, even foolish, to see grief as the sole source or the final limit of this taut, brilliant, provocative and thrilling album, whose bold experimentation is powered by profound lyrics and propulsive beats.<\/p>\n

In 2024, after an absence of 35 years, all four original members of \u201980s band Fairground Attraction<\/strong> reunited with a brand-new studio album, Beautiful Happening<\/em><\/strong>. The band\u2019s debut single, \u2018Perfect\u2019, went to #1 not only in the UK but in countries all around the world and, in 1988, it won Best Single at the Brit Awards. It has gone on to be regarded as a genuine pop classic. Like \u2018Perfect\u2019, the new album\u2019s first single \u2018What\u2019s Wrong with the World?\u2019 was written by the band\u2019s guitarist Mark Nevin and sung by their brilliant vocalist, Eddi Reader. In a similar upbeat country-pop vein as their huge hit, they finally answer the question on everyone\u2019s lips: \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

While Pale Waves<\/strong>\u2019 first three albums focused on the band\u2019s immediate present, Smitten<\/em><\/strong> is a lot more preoccupied with past lives \u2013 some more recent than others. Written two years after Unwanted<\/em>, and after the tour that followed, singer Heather Baron-Gracie found herself in a headspace where she could finally breathe, and reflect, like peeling through the pages of a long-forgotten teenage diary and being surprised by what she found. \u201cI found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,<\/em>\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I fall in love, I fall deep, and it\u2019s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. So I feel like Smitten really summarised perfectly what I felt for others at a certain point.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhoda Dakar Sings the Bodysnatchers<\/em><\/strong>, released in 2014, was the original crowdfunded album. Rhoda did a deal at the time to produce a very limited vinyl edition for touring. The album has not been repressed since, but now Rhoda has remastered the whole album and added 3 previously unreleased tracks. The packaging has been completely redesigned with new album artwork, sleeve notes and vinyl colours.<\/p>\n

Stream of Life<\/em><\/strong> finds Max\u00efmo Park<\/strong> in perhaps the most reflective state they\u2019ve been in. Lead singer Paul Smith, this most lit-pop of lyric writers, took the album title from a short story by Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, inspired by both its stream-of-consciousness style and the way it prompts reflection on the inner mechanisms of people\u2019s minds. It begs the question of why they do the things that they do, even when they can seem counterintuitive to the outsider. There\u2019s an inner flow to every individual \u2013 a stream of life.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week, Dance, No One\u2019s Watching<\/em><\/strong>, is an ode to the sacred yet joyous act of dancing. It\u2019s an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead to dawn\u2019s final hours as the night comes to a close. Written during a blistering 2023 in which Ezra Collective<\/strong> toured the world and became the first jazz act ever to win the Mercury Prize, the album is a documentation of the many dance floors they encountered. From London to Chicago, Lagos to Sydney, dance and rhythm connect us. These songs are a testament to that spirit.<\/p>\n

\"Ezra<\/a>\"Alan<\/a>\"Fairground<\/a>\"Pale<\/a>\"Rhoda<\/a>\"Max\u00efmo<\/a><\/div>\n

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

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First out of the box this week is a record born of grief. You can hear it in the title, White Roses, My God, as well as in tracks such as \u2018Heaven\u2019, in which Alan Sparhawk describes the afterlife, wrenchingly, as \u201ca lonely place if you\u2019re alone\u201d. You can sense it too in Sparhawk\u2019s decision…<\/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":[1913,1716,1934,899,36,1520,1785],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-alan-sparhawk","tag-ezra-collective","tag-fairground-attraction","tag-maximo-park","tag-new-release","tag-pale-waves","tag-rhoda-dakar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}