{"id":754,"date":"2016-03-25T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2016-04-16T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:23:01","slug":"new-releases-1-apr2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-1-apr2016\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 1 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 April<\/strong> is a very nice week for new releases. If you don\u2019t often buy instrumental rock albums, there are two coming out this week which are essential: <strong>Explosions In The Sky<\/strong> return with their first studio album for some time. Hundred Records favourite <strong>Black Mountain<\/strong>\u2019s new album, <strong><em>IV<\/em><\/strong>, is unashamedly ambitious which is as it should be, <strong>Trembling Bells<\/strong>\u2019 new 7-song mini-album, <strong><em>Wide Majestic Aire<\/em><\/strong>, acts as the perfect companion piece to last year\u2019s acclaimed <em>The Sovereign Self<\/em>, Black Sabbath\u2019s <strong><em>Changes<\/em><\/strong> sung soul-style shouldn\u2019t work, but does so triumphantly in the hands of soul sensation <strong>Charles Bradley<\/strong>, the new <strong>Pet Shop Boys<\/strong> album is called <strong><em>Super<\/em><\/strong>, and it is. <strong>The Last Shadow Puppets<\/strong>\u2019 new album is by turns snarling, soaring and seductive, <strong>Black Stone Cherry<\/strong>\u2019s hard rocking <strong><em>Kentucky<\/em><\/strong> is brimful of both energy and good tunes. Album of the week belongs to the other instrumental album, <strong>Mogwai<\/strong>\u2019s soundtrack <strong><em>Atomic<\/em><\/strong> is by turns ethereal, elegiac and deeply moving.<\/p>\n<div id=\"thumbs\"><a title=\"Mogwai - Atomic\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Mogwai - Atomic\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Black Mountain - IV\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Black Mountain - IV\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Trembling Bells - Wide Majestic Aire\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_4\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Trembling Bells - Wide Majestic Aire\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Charles Bradley - Changes\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_5\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bradley - Changes\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Pet Shop Boys - Super\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/6.jpg\" alt=\"Pet Shop Boys - Super\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You\u2019ve Come to Expect\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/7.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You\u2019ve Come to Expect\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401_8\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover4 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/160401\/8.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/releases1602.php#r160401\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 April is a very nice week for new releases. If you don\u2019t often buy instrumental rock albums, there are two coming out this week which are essential: Explosions In The Sky return with their first studio album for some time. Hundred Records favourite Black Mountain\u2019s new album, IV, is unashamedly ambitious which is as&hellip;<\/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":[233,593,590,589,405,36,591,592,238],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-black-mountain","tag-black-stone-cherry","tag-charles-bradley","tag-explosions-in-the-sky","tag-mogwai","tag-new-release","tag-pet-shop-boys","tag-the-last-shadow-puppets","tag-trembling-bells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}