In this section, we show the most notable albums released each week. Here are the albums that will be released on February 9, 2024:
Chelsea Wolfe, She extends her hand to She extends her hand to her
Chelsea Wolfe is back with a new LP, She extends her hand to She extends her hand to her, today via Loma Vista. Follow up for 2019 The birth of violence It was produced by TV on Radio's Dave Sitek and mixed by Shawn Everett. “It is a record of a past self reaching out to a present self and reaching out to a future self to summon change, growth, and direction,” Wolf explained in a press release. “It is a story of freeing yourself from situations and patterns that hold you back in order to become self-empowered. It is an invitation to step into your authenticity.” The singles “Dusk”, “Whispers in the Echo Chamber”, “Tunnel Lights” and “Everything Turns Blue” arrived ahead of the release. Read our review of the album.
ducks ltd, harm way
Follow Ducks Ltd. Debuting in 2021 Modern fantasy With the new album, harm wayAcross the parking lot. The 9-track collection was produced by Dave Vettraino and features contributions from members of Ratboys, Dehd, Moontype, Dummy and more. “They're songs about struggle,” band member Tom McGreevey explained. “About seeing people I care about suffer, and trying to figure out how to be there for them. And about the pressure of living in the world when it feels like it's about to collapse.” He added: “Historically, our operation has been tightly controlled and isolated. “On this record, we worked with people we trusted who had a very broad range of musical backgrounds and had styles and ideas that helped open up the sonic palette of the recording.”
madi diaz, Amazing faith
Maddie Diaz releases her new album Amazing faithvia ANTI-. Follow up until 2021 History of feeling “Chronicles a new relationship, but also a new relationship with myself,” says Diaz, who co-produced the record with Sam Cohen and Conrad Seder. Amazing faith Includes previously released singles “Don't Do Me Good” (featuring Kacey Musgraves) and “Same Risk”. “This record is about the beginning of love, and expressing every feeling out loud, when I feel it, for better or for worse because I can't help it,” the Nashville singer-songwriter added.
Putty, He forgot me
He forgot me is the full-length debut of Pouty, the project of Rachel Gagliardi, previously of Slutever and Upset. Recorded in Los Angeles and Philadelphia with Evan Bernard and Chris Baglifo of the Superweaks, the album features the lead-off tracks “TV on TV,” “Salty,” and “Virgos Need More Love.” “with He forgot me“I feel like it's more of an inner expression of my true identity and less about hiding behind veils, costumes and distortion,” Gagliardi said in an interview with Artist Spotlight. “It's a high-quality production approach. I feel like I used to be very interested in lo-fi production, and this album is 'let's put these songs on the radio', a very clean, fully realized energy.”
Brittany Howard, What now
Brittany Howard is back with a new album What now, now across the island. The Alabama Shakes singer-songwriter co-produced the sequel to the 2019 album. Jaime at the Sound Emporium and historic RCA B Studio in its adopted hometown of Nashville. The record includes the promotional singles “Prove It to You”, “Red Flag” and the title track. “It's full of songs that are about relationships and love, about the world, about hope, about being funny, even though everything is bad. And that's good too,” Howard told NPR. “Celebrating what we have, and the people we still have. Also talking about things like depression, talking about things like working hard and forgetting what it's like to feel this spontaneous joy. Songs about patience with love, and understanding my own patterns.
Black ice cream, Develop
Helado Negro's latest album Develop, arrived via 4AD. Inspiration for the new record to follow in 2021 away inIt dates back to 2019, when Roberto Carlos Lange visited Salvatore Materano's SAL-MAR synthesizer at the University of Illinois. “It blew my mind,” he recalls. “It's given me a special vision of what motivates me. This pursuit of constant curiosity in the process and the outcome. Songs are the fruit, but I love what's under the dirt. The invisible, magical process. I don't want everyone to see it because not everyone cares to see it. Some of us just want the fruit. I do But I want to grow fruit, too. The record was preceded by the tracks “Better for You and Me”, “I Just Wanna Wake Up with You” and “LFO”.
Callie Malone, All life is long
Callie Malone released All life is longcontinuing in 2023 Does spring hide its joy?. Clocking in at 78 minutes, the record features 12 pieces of music, composed by Malone for choir, brass organ and pipe organ between 2020 and 2023, with voice and brass performed by Macadam Ensemble and Anima Brass. The organ music was played by Malone, accompanied by Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O)) on four different organs dating from the 15th to 17th centuries. According to the press materials, “This is not music of praise, or spiritual revelation, but an artistic enactment to translate the indescribable. It carries the gravity of liturgical hymn, its emphasis on the infinite, but it draws its weight from the earthly world of human experience.
declan mckenna, What happened to the beach?
Declan McKenna is back with a new LP, What happened to the beach?Via Colombia. Follow up until 2020 Zeros It was produced by Gianluca Buccellati and features the early singles “Sympathy”, “Nothing Works”, “Elevator Hum” and “Mulholland's Dinner and Wine”. “The thing I was trying to get to, this release idea, was weighed down,” McKenna said in the press materials. “The songs are very similar to the music I listen to,” he added, citing St. Vincent and the Little-Known Mortal Orchestra as influences.
itasca, Imitation of war
Kayla Cohen, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who records under the name Itasca, has released a new album, Imitation of war. Follow up for 2019 spring It was co-produced by Robbie Cody of the bands Wand and Behavior, and was previewed by the single “Milk” and the title track. Cohen began writing several of the album's songs in the fall of 2020, while recording with the Gun Outfit (for which she plays bass) in Pine Flat, California, near the Sequoia National Forest. Gun Outfit's Daniel Sawyer appears on the LP, along with Cody's bandmates Evan Packer and Evan Burroughs.
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David Nance & Mowed Sound — the new project of Omaha singer-songwriter and guitarist David Nance featuring Kevin Donahue on drums, James Schroeder on guitar, Derek Higgins, and Sam Lipsett on bass — have dropped their debut single “Third Man.” The record also includes guest appearances from Megan Siebe, Skye Junginger and Pearl LoveJoy Boyd. “The whole album is one big magic trick,” Nance commented. “Most of these songs were written as country songs and then twisted into different forms…but it's definitely not a country record.”
Other albums released today:
1999 Write the Future, casting (˃̣̣̥╭╮˂̣̣̥) ✧ ♡ ‧º·˚; Chisel, What a fucking nightmare; Loving, What light?; Pylon Reenactment Association, magnet factory; Split system, Vol. 2; Dizzee Rascal; Don't take it personally; Ruel Otis, Brats and pain; Zara Larsson, Venus; Middle cover, Inclinations; I mean jeans, Criticize; Nick Scofield, Surrounding band; Pineapple thief, It leads to this; Thomas Bangalter, Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!; Estee Haim and Christopher Stracy, SUNCOAST (original soundtrack).
