Album of the Week – 09/06/23

New music comes this week from The Boo Radleys (EIGHT), or the band that is calling themselves The Boo Radleys these days, as they are without chief songwriter and lead guitarist   Martin Carr. There is also new music from Christine and the Queens (PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE) and Jenny Lewis (Joy’All).

New releases from Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Weathervanes) and Keaton Henson (House Party) are worthy of your attention. There is also another low-fi gem from King Krule (Space Heavy).

In the end, it was impossible to fight against the beautiful sounds of Kate Stables, with her latest This is the Kit release. If you’re interested, they’ll be in the National Concert Hall in a few months’ time (November 18th)…

Album of the Week – This Is The Kit – Careful of Your Keepers

“Singer-songwriter and composer, Kate Stables returns with a wondrous new This Is The Kit album, Careful of Your Keepers, that chronicles a world of mistakes and mishaps, cruel circumstances, and universe-driven surprises. It’s a record that embraces the concept of outrospection – the idea that you get to know oneself by developing relationships and empathic thinking with others – and brings the Paris-based, UK born bandleader’s signature ability to move swiftly between cryptic poetry to honest inquisition to the fore.

Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), who deftly enhances the innate shared language that Stables has with her band, capturing beautiful instrumental performances while leaving the space required for her robust, silken voice to lead. The music here is daring and soft, cutting and warm, a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. Surviving change is a constant throughout this record and This is the Kit takes us to the front lines in “More Change,” where we celebrate the losing battle of fighting change with barbed dancing lyrics that whisk us from the mundane to the massive as a steady beat and delicate guitars wind in and out, down and around…  “

Albums of Note:

— Adam Green – Friends of Mine (20th Anniversary Edition)

— The Boo Radleys – EIGHT

— Christine and the Queens – PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE

— Jenny Lewis – Joy’All

— Janelle Monaé – The Age of Pleasure

— Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Weathervanes

— Keaton Henson – House Party

— King Krule – Space Heavy

— My Morning Jacket – MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome)

Albums Released on June 9th:

— Adam Green – Friends of Mine (20th Anniversary Edition)

— aja monet – when poems do what they do

— Albert Ayler – In Greenwich Village (Vinyl Reissue)

— Alice Cooper – Killer (Deluxe Edition)

— Alice Cooper – School’s Out (Deluxe Edition)

— Amaarae – Fountain Baby

— Andy Stack (of Wye Oak) and Jay Hammond – Inter Personal

— Ane Díaz – Despechada

— Anna St. Louis – In the Air

— Bell Witch – Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate (Physical Release)

— Bendik Giske – Bendik Giske

— Benny Sings – Southern Skies

— Big Blood – First Aid Kit

— Black Rainbows – Superskull

— BLK ODYSSY – DIAMONDS & FREAKS

— Boldy James – Prisoner of Circumstance EP

— The Boo Radleys – EIGHT

— Braxe + Falcon – Step By Step Remixes

— Brooke Eden – Outlaw Love EP

— BUSH – The Art of Survival (Deluxe Edition)

— Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up to Us (Vinyl Reissue)

— Chase Matthew – Come Get Your Memory

— Christine and the Queens – PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE

— Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear) – Past Lives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

— Colby Acuff – Western White Pines

— Conor Maynard – +11 Hours

— Cooper Wolken – Chapters

— Crashing Wayward – Listen!

— Curtis Waters – Bad Son

— Dan Webb – Sunshine/Dialogue

— Darkside – Live at Spiral House

— Dead Quiet – IV

— decker. – Ouroboros

— The Defiants – Drive

— Dominic Sen – Apparition

— Dream Wife – Social Lubrication

— Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak

— Emotional Oranges – Still Emo

— Extreme – Six

— feeble little horse – Girl with Fish

— Flawes – One Step Back, Two Steps Forward

— Future Utopia – We Were We Still Are EP

— GELD – Currency // Castration

— George FitzGerald – Not As I EP

— Godflesh – PURGE

— Hak Baker – Worlds End FM

— headboy – Was It What You Thought

— The High Water Marks – Your Next Wolf

— J Hacha De Zola – Without A Tribe

— James – Be Opened By the Wonderful (40 Years Orchestrated)

— Janelle Monaé – The Age of Pleasure

— Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Weathervanes

— Jayda G – Guy

— Jeff Clarke (of Black Lips) – Locust

— Jenny Lewis – Joy’All

— Jeremy Zucker – is nothing sacred? EP

— Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental

— Jimmy Whispers – The Search For God

— Johnny the Boy – You

— Keaton Henson – House Party

— King Krule – Space Heavy

— Laura Cantrell – Just Like A Rose: The Anniversary Sessions

— Legss – Fester EP

— Lightning Dust – Nostalgia Killer

— Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition) (Vinyl Release)

— lophiile – The Good Days Between

— Lontalius – Life on the Edge of You

— Love and Rockets – Hot Trip to Heaven (Vinyl Reissue)

— Love and Rockets – My Sweet Twin

— Love and Rockets – Sweet F. A. (Vinyl Reissue)

— Luke Sital-Singh – Strange Weather EP

— Lunch Money Life – The God Phone

— Maps – Counter Mixes

— Michael David – Talking Book World EP

— My Morning Jacket – MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome)

— Niall Horan – The Show

— Nicholas Allbrook – Manganese

— Noah Kahan – Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)

— Nora Stanley & Benny Bock – Assembling

— Odonis Odonis – Icon EP

— Olof Dreijer (of The Knife) + Mt Sims – Souvenir

— Otis Redding – Otis Forever: The Albums & Singles (1968-1970)

— Pantayo – Ang Pagdaloy

— Public Body – Big Mess

— Queen of Swords – Year 8

— Rammstein – Sehnsucht Anniversary Edition

— Ray Adler – II

— Rise to Fall – The Fifth Dimension

— Rob Grant – Lost At Sea

— Sarah Kinsley – Ascension EP

— SB19 – PAGTATAG! EP

— Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph)

— Sivu – Wild Horse Running

— Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman (Vinyl Reissue)

— Squid – O Monolith

— Statik Selektah – Round Trip

— Stellar Circuits – Sight to Sound

— Sumbuck (Caamp’s Taylor Meier) – Lucky

— TEKE::TEKE – Hagata

— This Is The Kit – Careful of Your Keepers

— The Vamps – Meet the Vamps (Vinyl Reissue)

— Various Artists – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5 (Music From The Amazon Original Series)

— The View – Exorcism of Youth

— Wombo – Slab EP

— Youth Lagoon – Heaven Is a Junkyard

— Zylva – Poems from the Dark