![]() ![]() THE ANIMALS – Retrospective 2LP (ABKCO) *180g, ReissueīADBADNOTGOOD – IV LP (Innovative Leisure) *Reissue, Ltd. > AMBRE – 3000° (aka 3000 Degrees) LP (Roc Nation) *Now available on vinyl! ![]() OTHER IMPORTANT NEW RELEASES, REISSUES & RESTOCKS This is an undeniable Album of the Year contender coming in under the wire. Special guests here include ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, HAND HABITS’ MEG DUFFY, and MARY LATTIMORE. The effect is thrillingly subversive & transformative, like a great magic trick. The lush musicality is often in stark contrast to the lyrical content, which deals eloquently with feelings we all know too well from pandemic times – isolation, regret, and yearning to see a little light. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is every bit as epic in scope as Titanic Rising and her songs still swell with echoes of 70’s folk pop & AM Gold like NILSSON, CAROLE KING and THE CARPENTERS, but now it feels like Mering is fully assured in this style and ready to wield it like a superpower. Natalie Mering’s 5th WEYES BLOOD album is yet another cosmic leap forward in her already excellent body of work. > WEYES BLOOD – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow LP/CD/CS (Sub Pop) *Black or Ltd. Embracing both a militaristic stance to institutional oppression and violence and a warm championing of queer sexuality, these songs hiss, pulsate, rumble and pummel in equal measure. We’ve had our eyes out over the past few years for art punks SPECIAL INTEREST, who across two LPs and a handful of EPs have cultivated a sound that mixes in disco, house, industrial and funk, creating a virile dance punk concoction that on their third album Endure comes to a thrilling head. > SPECIAL INTEREST – Endure LP/CD (Rough Trade) ![]() Some of either artists’ best work in a few years, this comes RECOMMENDED. The sound they chase is rooted in 60s pop music, but their approach is uniquely sample-based, crafting sugary melodies, rich honeyed harmonies and propulsive rhythms towards lite psychedelia that seems like THE BEACH BOYS or THE ASSOCIATION thrown into a time machine. Yellow Vinyl – Now available on vinyl!Īfter having collaborated on each other’s solo records over the past decade, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE’s PANDA BEAR and the great SONIC BOOM (ex-SPACEMEN 3) share equal billing on this 2022 album. > PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM – Reset LP (Domino) *Black or Ltd. One of Int’l Anthem’s more purely “jazz” releases of 2022 (at least in terms of instrumentation), this is far from straight ahead, veering into high celestial territories and soulful sojourns. ATALAYA is DOUGLAS’ first as bandleader, embracing the soul-forward free jazz of later COLTRANE and the rhythmic roots thrust of peak-era MINGUS. > DEZRON DOUGLAS – ATALAYA LP/CD (International Anthem)īassist DEZRON DOUGLAS has appeared on a few Int’l Anthem’s titles, notably with harpist BRANDEE YOUNGER on the quarantine-inspired Force Majeure and aboard MAKAYA McCRAVEN’s epic Universal Beings. Like other DAWSON LPs, The Ruby Cord is not for the faint of heart (or ear), but it will reward multiple listens, revealing themes and sonic ideas deep within these compositions. ![]() DAWSON builds a future world with sounds that branch to jazzy prog-folk, sparse electronics and glitches that seem to deconstruct his world’s reality. The Ruby Cord completes a sort of album trilogy for English avant-folkie RICHARD DAWSON, going from past ( Peasant) to present ( 2020) now to 500 years in the future. > RICHARD DAWSON – The Ruby Cord 2LP/CD (Weird World) *Black or Ltd. Analog synth mastery and surprising vocal treatments from some local faves. Chicago astral travelers pay tribute to the ultimate spaceman SUN RA with this tape of covers. ThIs was released digitally in late 2021 & now it’s finally here physically. > BITCHIN BAJAS – Switched on Ra LP (Drag City) *Now available on vinyl! Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow ![]()
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