In this section, we show the most notable albums released each week. Here are the albums that will be released on January 5, 2024:
Speed races, Message to self
Sprints released their debut album, Message to selfVia City Slang. The follow-up to the Dublin four-piece's 2022 EP Recent job It includes previously shared singles “Adore Adore Adore,” “Shadow of a Doubt,” “Literary Mind,” “Up and Comer,” and “Heavy.” In a press release, vocalist Carla Chubb described the record as “a deeply personal and autobiographical album both lyrically and in its central themes, while sonically exploring a space inspired by our love of early '80s goth, the noise of '90s rock and more modern influences. It revisits our most vulnerable moments and brings It has a deep garage feel. It aims to take things that are inherently negative — feelings of anxiety, rage, rage, and turn them into positive. Using our experiences to fuel us and pouring them into a positive outlet. It's cathartic, it's honest, it's raw.
Rejoice, All the luck of heaven
All the luck of heaven is the debut LP from Columbus hardcore metal band Rejoice. Now via Delayed Gratification Records, the 8-track record delves into “capitalism's destruction of the Earth as we know it, the parasitic tendencies of the wealthy that are changing the Earth, and the demise of the common person caused by those aforementioned wealthy people,” according to press materials. The album's artwork was created by Italian artist Simona Celli .
Yes, chorion
chorion is the latest LP by Chinese experimental artist Yikii, following 2021's EP The Scarlet Poem The Scarlet Poem. Blending contemporary classicism with video game composition, the record is named after the membrane that ultimately forms part of the placenta. In theory, it is derived from science fiction writer Andy Weir's short story “The Egg,” which follows the experience of a man on the threshold of reincarnation. on chorionwhich features material collected by Yikii between 2018 and 2021, “the idea of whether we are ‘every human being who ever lived’ is presented less as a question and more as an indisputable fact,” according to the album’s bio.
Cory Reeder, snow
Corey Reeder, a composer and performer based in Denton, Texas, has released a new album, snowVia Sawyer Editions, a label specializing in contemporary, experimental and improvised music. Besides Reeder on piano, the record features Maren Major on violin, Colin Stokes on cello, and Benjamin Dammann on percussion. Its Bandcamp description quotes Louise Glück's “Winter Journey”: “This is the line between / It's like / This line from which our words emerge; / Moonlight bursts. / Shadows on the snow / Cast by the pines.”
Other albums released today:
DXR and Val Smith, 11 nights; From Bergson, Avant; Move it, Football Head, Do you want to come and not be together?; Gray state, Under the wheels of progress.
