Album of the Week – 06/05/22

There are so many good releases this week, that it’s actually quite hard to choose your favourite!

Our old and dear friends !!! have released something new album Let It Be Blue, their first new album since 2019’s Wallop. There are even some new sounds from Belle and Sebastian (A Bit of Previous) and Warpaint (Radiate Like This). Could we look beyond the stadium rock sounds of Arcade Fire with their new album WE? Yes, we could.

It’s another gem from Sharon Van Etten, so enjoy a taste of it below.

Album of the Week — Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

 Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong concerns itself with the questions we ask ourselves when we think the world –or at least, our world –might be ending. Havewe loved as well as we could? Did we try hard enough? How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? And how do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost? In considering these questions and herown vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten has created a stunning meditation on how life’s changes can be both terrifying and transformative. We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages.

Albums of Note:

— !!! – Let It Be Blue

— Arcade Fire – WE

— Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous

— Warpaint – Radiate Like This

Albums Released on May 6th:

— !!! – Let It Be Blue

— Aaron Raitiere – Wide Dreamer

—Absolutely Free – How To Repaint Clouds (Boiled)

— Alison Wonderland – Loner

— ALT – Altitude (Deluxe Reissue)

— Alune Wade – Sultan

— The Americans – Stand True

— Anna Calvi – Tommy EP

— Arcade Fire – WE

— Armagideon Time – Crime As Theatre EP

— Artemas – I’m Sorry I’m Like This

— Astor Piazzolla – Astor Piazzolla: The American Clavé Recordings

— Aundrey Guillaume. – Energy EP

— AWOLNATION – My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me

— Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti

— Bad Planning – Et Fortes

— Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous

— Ben Craven – Monsters From the Id

— Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2

— The Black Crowes – 1972 EP

— Blond in Car – Different Dream EP

— Blunt Chucks – Blunt Chucks EP

— Bottler – Journey Work

— Boyish – My Friend Mica EP

— Brave Rival – Life’s Machine

— Brennen Leigh – Obsessed with the West

— Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) – Love Letters EP

— The Builders and The Butchers – Hell & High Water

— C Dunan – Alluvium

— Caitlin Cobb-Vialet – Endless Void

— Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule

— Cleaver – No More Must Crawl

— Cliffdiver – Exercise Your Demons

— Cody Frost – TEETH

— Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones

— deep tan – diamond horsetail EP

— Depressed Mode – Death Walks Among Us

— Desaparecidos – Read Music/Speak Spanish (Reissue)

— Doug Henthorn – Three

— Dubstar – Two

— Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs (Vinyl Reissue)

— Emeli Sandé – Let’s Say For Instance

— The Feeling – Loss. Hope. Love

— Flight Mode – Torshov, ’05 EP

— flor – Future Shine

— Francesco Lurgo – Sleep Together Folded Like Origami

— Fuzz Meadows – Orange Sunshine

— Gabriella Marinaro – Inner Space EP

— George Winston – NIGHT

— Gianni Brezzo – Tutto Passa

— GILT – Conceit EP

— Girls Against Boys – House of GVSB (Vinyl Reissue)

— GOVI – WHERE DO WE FALL

— Graham Nash – Graham Nash: Live

— Halestorm – Back From The Dead

— Haunted By Silhouettes – No Man Isle EP

— Haunter – Discarnate Ails

— Hermitude – Mirror Mountain

— I Am The Night – While the Gods Are Sleeping

— I Am Snow Angel – Lost World

— Ibeyi – Spell 31

— Ibaraki (feat. Trivium’s Matthew Kiichi Heafy) – Rashomon

— Jack Harlow – Come Home The Kids Miss You

— Jani Limatainen – My Father’s Son

— Jeff Scott Soto – Compilcated

— Jim Lindberg (of Pennywise) – Songs From The Elkhorn Trail (Physical Release)

— John Scofield – John Scofield

— John Tsung – Empire Postcards

— Jon Natchez (of The War on Drugs) – Luzzu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

— Jordan Reyes and Robert Stokowy – Northern: Ashroud Is My Country

— JOYFULTALK – Familiar Science

— The Juliana Theory – Still The Same Kids Pt. 1 EP

— Kaila Vandever – Regrowth

— Kaleidobolt – This One Simple Trick

— Karen Dalton – Shuckin’ Sugar

— Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) – Flux Alchemy EP Part 1

— Kelly Hoppenjans – Can’t Get The Dark Out EP

— kelz – 5am And I Can’t Sleep

— Kikagaku Moyo – Kikagaku Moyo

— Kisskadee – Black Hole Era

— Krush Puppies – Love Kills The Demons EP

— LÉA SEN – You Of Now Pt. 1 EP

— Les Baxter – The Soul of Drums (Vinyl Reissue)

— Leyla McCalla – Breaking The Thermometer

— Lil Zay Osama – Trench Baby 3

— Love & Pain – It Comes in Waves EP

— Lu Silver – Luneliness

—Matt Simons – Identify Crisis

— Mack Keane & ESTA – Intersections EP

— Maria Chiara Argirò – Forest City

— The Mary Veils – Esoteric Hex…

— Maryze – 8

— Max Frost – Flying Machines EP

— Miles Davis Quintet – Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (Reissue)

— Molten Chains – Orisons of Vengeance

— Moonraker – The Forest

— Motor Sister – Get Off

— N8NOFACE – Homicide

— Nico Georis – Desert Mirror EP

— Nitty Gritty Band – Dirt Does Dylan

— Noah Deemer – The Sleepwalker

— Norma Tanega – I’m The Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964-1971

— OGI – Monologues EP

— Onyria – Feed The Monster

— Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon

— OU – one

— Pink Mountaintops – Peacock Pools

— Posthuman Abomination – Mankind Recall

— Puppy – Pure Evil

— Red Snapper – Everybody Is Somebody

— Richard Thompson – Grizzly Man OST (Reissue)

— Rick Astley – Whenever You Need Somebody (2022 Remaster)

— Rise To The Sky – Every Day, A Funeral

— Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever – Endless Rooms

— Rowan – Does It Make You Happy?

— Saâda Bonaire – 1992

— Sadurn – Radiator

— Sandrider – Sandrider (Vinyl Reissue)

— Savage Republic – Tragic Figures (40th Anniversary Edition)

— Sea Power – Everything Was Forever (Physical Release)

— Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

— Sheryl Crow – Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary

— The Shipbuilders – Spring Tide

— Sigrid – How To Let Go

— Silverstein – Misery Made Me

— Simple Plan – Harder Than It Looks

— Soft Cell – *Happiness Not Included

— STÖNER (feat. Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri & Ryan Güt) – totally…

— Stoney & Meatloaf – Everything Under the Sun— The Motown Recordings

— Strange Parade (members of Radar Brothers, Brian Jonestown Massacre) – The Watchers

— Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar

— Suki Waterhouse – I Can’t Let Go

— Terror – Pain Into Power

— Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band – Bloodlines (Reissue)

— Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band – Smokin the Dummy (Reissue)

— This Is Oblivion – This Is Oblivion

— Timothy B. Schmit (of The Eagles) – Day By Day

— Tommaso Moretti – Inside Out

— Tourist – Inside Out

— Turbo World – My Challenger

— UFOMAMMUT – Fenice

— Upon A Burning Body – Fury

— Valorie Miller – Only The Killer Would Know

— Vero – Unsoothing Interior

— The Vision Ablaze – Embers

— Wallice – 90s American Superstar EP

— Warpaint – Radiate Like This

— The Who – A Quick One (Vinyl Reissue)

— The Who – My Generation (Vinyl Reissue)

— The Wilful Boys – World Ward Word Sword

— Wilma Vritra – Grotto

— Windwaker – Love Language

— Wo Fat – The Singularity

— XTC – Mummer (Vinyl Reissue)

— Zakoor – Life Cycle