In this section, we show the most notable albums released each week. Here are the albums that will be released on January 26, 2024:
the smile, Wall of eyes
The Smile band released their second album Wall of eyesvia XL. Ahead of its arrival, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner previewed the 2022 follow-up Light to attract attention With “Bending Hectic,” the title track, and “Friend of a Friend,” which features a new video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson today. Former collaborator Sam Petts-Davies produced and mixed the LP, which was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios and features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra.
katie kirby, blueberry
Katie Kirby followed up with her debut in 2021 Cool and dry place with blueberry, her debut album for ANTI- Records. It was preceded by the singles “Cubic Zirconia”, “Table”, “Party of the Century” and “Hand to Hand”. “This record is a lot more personal than I intended it to be,” the New York-based singer-songwriter explained in press materials. “I was in a period of experimentation with how to write, and what came out was a song about a woman, about a woman I imagined — I didn't think I was writing for myself or about myself, but that kind of song kept coming out, with bits of overlapping lyrics tying them together like beads on a string. “The thread. They seem to inhabit the same world.”
future islands, People who aren't there anymore
Future Islands returns with a new album People who aren't there anymore, out now via 4AD. Follow up until 2020 As long as you Includes previously released songs “Peach”, “King of Switzerland”, “Deep in the Night”, “The Tower”, “The Fight” and “Say Goodnight”. The group's seventh full-length record was co-produced by Steve Wright, which was mixed by Wright and Chris Cody, who has not worked with the band since 2014. Singles. The LP is named after a painting by New Mexico-based artist Pedallo, whose painting it was Facial memory fades Serves as cover art.
Torres, What an enormous room
Torres is back with a new LP, What an enormous room, now via merging records. A 10-track effort follows in 2021 thirsty It was previewed by the singles “I've Got Fear”, “Collect” and “Wake Up to the Flowers”. Mackenzie Scott produced the album alongside Sarah Jaffe, recording at Stadium Heights Sound in Durham, North Carolina, in September and October 2022. “What I can say about Torres is that I think the music comes from a place convicted. […] I think it's incredibly good music to listen to.
courting, New family name
Liverpool-based four-piece Courting have dropped their sophomore LP, New family name. Described as a “theatrical play within an album”, it is the follow-up to 2022's EP Guitar music It was recorded with Gary and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs and features guest production from DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. “We didn't want this to become an overbearing concept album where you can't listen to the songs because you're too worried thinking about how the plot is going to progress from one song to the next,” frontman Sean Murphy-O'Neill said. In Artist Spotlight Interview. “We wanted to strike that balance where you can listen to this record as a casual listener and just enjoy the songs, or if you want to really think about what it means and participate in the narrative and details that we've hidden throughout the world record, then you can do that too.”
Benny the Butcher, Everyone can't go
Everyone can't go, Benny the Butcher's debut on Def Jam Recordings has arrived. The Buffalo rapper's four solo LP was produced entirely by Hit-Boy and the Alchemist, and features collaborations with Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Armani Ceasar, Babyface Ray, Conway the Machine, Jadakiss, Kyle Banks, Stove God Cooks, Peezy, Rick Hyde, And Westside Gun. The singles “Big Dog”, “One Foot In” and “Bron” preceded the album.
Ty Seagal, Three bells
Ty Segall has released a new album Three bellsThrough the city of clouds. After last year “Hello Hello”The record was promoted with the tracks “Eggman”, “Void”, “My Room” and “My Best Friend”. It was co-produced by Cooper Crane, who also engineered and mixed the LP. Segall collaborated with his wife Denée on five of its songs, while members of the Freedom Band helped flesh out the record.
Mall girl, Pure love
Oslo experimental band Mall Girl – vocalist Bethany Forseth-Reichberg, guitarist Iver Armand Tandsether, and drummer Veslemøy Narvesen – have come up with Pure lovethe follow-up to their 2022 debut Eclectic Superstar. Available now via Jansen Records, the record includes the advanced tracks “Inzane,” “All I Must Have Say,” “Super Lazy Girl,” and “Emo Shred.” “I think the album is like a breakout album meets Bildungsroman (is it like an episode of Girls? Maybe),” Forsyth-Reichberg explained. “Ironically, the 'post-rock' sound probably goes hand in hand with the post-college experience that I've written about. I'm glad we wrote this album and I'm a little (very) nervous to let people hear our perspective.” Pure love“.
Astrid Sun, Great doubt
Now via Escho, Great doubt is the third LP by London-based Danish composer, singer-songwriter Astrid Sonne, who appeared in the same circles as ML Buch and Erika de Casier. The 9-track album, which follows in 2021 Out of your time, featuring previously revealed songs “Boost,” “Staying here,” “Do you Want,” and “Give my all,” a tribute to Mariah Carey’s “My All.” Alongside Sonne's trusty viola, it finds the musician expanding her sound with percussion, woodwinds and discrete piano.
Other albums released today:
Craig Warden, dream dream; Tom Odell, Black Friday; Philip Glass, Philip Glass Solo; Fabiano Do Nascimento and Sam Gendel, the room; Sarah Jarosz, Polaroid lovers; NewDad, dog; Alkaline trio, Blood, hair and eyeballs; Lyrical lemonade, Everything is yellow; Ninth, An evening with Nihan; Caligula's horse, Coal blessing; Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Dark rainbow; Dead Poets Society, Nuclear fission; Office dog, sweet talk; Eye of flies, Eye of flies; Grove Race, Sadness sets me free; Umbrellas, Fair weather friend; The devil, Lucifer F; Goth babe, Lola; Leslie Smoker, Breathable landscapes.
