Album of the Week – 28/07/23

The album that will no doubt get most of the attention this week, is the new release from Dexys called The Feminine Divine. Yes, they’ve dropped the “Midnight Runners” part of their name and no, I’m not sure why.

Brad features the undoubted talents of Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam). They’ve just released a new one called  In the Moment That You’re Born. Other albums of interest include Air Miami (ME. ME. ME.), Daniel Rossen (Live At Pioneertown & Santa Fe) and Beverly Glenn-Copeland (The Ones Ahead).

Our album of the week comes from one very familiar name, along with two less familiar ones.

Album of the Week — Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, and Bill Nace – Glass Band

We have here three musicians with such a rich shared history that they might as well share the same blood. Each an accomplished solo artist in their own right, there’s a vibrant track record of collaborative work as well, with others and among themselves. The Gunn-Truscinski Duo has been a formal going concern for nearly a decade and a half, producing a fabulous string of albums for this label. Truscinski and Nace, along with Jake Meginksy, make up xo4, a group dating back to the early days of this century. All three, with the addition of Kim Gordon, appeared on a record documenting their live scoring of Andy Warhol’s film “Kiss”.

And so on “Glass Band”, the record at hand, they just fall in together. It’s a seamless grouping, so much so that, despite the distinct instrumentation, it’s somehow hard at times to tell who’s doing what. This is true all the way down to the LP sleeve, which features Nace’s artwork adorned with Gunn’s familiar handwriting. There is no leader, there are no accompanists; we encounter highly developed musical intellects melding in such a refined way as to dispose entirely with expectations in order to get right down to the crucial business of creation.

Albums of Note:

— Air Miami – ME. ME. ME. (Deluxe Edition)

— Brad (feat. Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam) – In the Moment That You’re Born

— Daniel Rossen – Live At Pioneertown & Santa Fe

— Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead

— Dexys – The Feminine Divine

July 28th:

— Air Miami – ME. ME. ME. (Deluxe Edition)

— AMAKA – Oasis EP

— Anne-Marie – Unhealthy

— Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 EP

— Bethany Cosentino – Natural Disaster

— Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead

— Billy Idol – Billy Idol (Expanded Edition)

— Black Uniforms – Splatter Punx on Acid (Vinyl Reissue)

— Brad (feat. Stone Gossard) – In the Moment That You’re Born

— Brad (feat. Stone Gossard) – Shame (Vinyl Reissue)

— Bre Kennedy – Scream Over Everything (Side A)

— The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP

— Burnside Project – The Networks, The Circuits, The Streams, The Harmonies (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

— Bush Tetras – They Live In My Head

— Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loveliest Time

— Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning

— Chika – SAMSON: The album

— Citizen Cope – Victory March

— The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore

— Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – New Future City Radio

— Daniel Rossen – Live At Pioneertown & Santa Fe

— Darlingside – Everything Is Alive

— Dexys – The Feminine Divine

— Diesel Boy – Gets Old

— DJ Koze – Wespennest EP

— Dot Allison – Consciousology

— EarthGang – Earthgang vs the Algorithm: RIP Human Art EP

— Echosmith – Echosmith

— Elizabeth Moen – For Arthur EP

— Fly Anakin – Skinemaxxx (Side B) EP

— From Ashes to New – Blackout

— Ghost Hounds – First Last Time

— hackedepicciotto – Keepsakes

— Hailey Whitters – I’m In Love EP

— Heroin – Discography

— High Pulp – Days in the Desert

— James and the Cold Gun – James and the Cold Gun

— Jessy Lanza – Love Hallucination

— Joni Mitchell – AT NEWPORT

— Jordan Moser – PERIL

— kid apollo – In Your Own Right EP

— Kid Fears – Undying Love

— Kilamanzego – Black Weirdo EP

— KitschKrieg – German Engineering 1

— Kizz Daniel – Maverick

— Locate S,1 – Wicked Jaw

— Lomond Campbell – Interference Patterns EP

— Madeline Kenney – A New Reality Mind

— Maroulita de Kol – Anásana

— Matt B – ALKEBULAN

— MMYYKK – The Midst of Things

— Mudhoney – Five Dollar Bob’s Mock Cooter Stew (Vinyl Reissue)

— Mutoid Man – Mutants

— Nick Lowe – Dig My Mood (25th Anniversary Edition)

— No Rome – Blueboy Must Die

— Oslo Twins – Back to Nothing EP

— OTR – Be Quiet, They’re Listening

— Peter Frampton – Frampton@50

— Phoebe Hunt – Nothing Else Matters

— Post Malone – Austin

— Primal Scream – Reverberations (Travelling In Time)

— The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land 25th Anniversary – Remixes

— PWNT – Play What’s Not There

— Richard Wright – Wet Dream (Reissue)

— Ruth Mascelli (of Special Interest) – Non-Stop Healing Frequency

— Saul – This Is It… The End of Everything

— Sevendust – Truth Killer

— Sid Sriram – Sidharth

— Sidewalk – Sidewalk (Vinyl Reissue)

— Skeleten – Under Utopia

— The Sleeping – I Feel Like I’m Becoming a Ghost

— Soft Cell – *Happiness now completed

—Soft Cell – *Happiness now extended

— Sore Dream (feat. members of Full Of Hell) and Hisham Akira Bharoocha – Sore Dream x Hisham Akira Bharoocha

— Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic (Vinyl Reissue)

— Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, and Bill Nace – Glass Band

— Steve Marino – Too Late to Start Again

— Stevie Nicks – Complete Studio Albums & Rarities

— Susanna – Baudelaire & Orchestra

— SUSTO – My Entire Life

— Ten Tonnes – Dancing, Alone

— Tori Kelly – tori EP

— Travis Scott – Utopia

— Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Slaughter on First Avenue

— Various Artists – Godspeed… A Tribute to Pierre Kezdy

— Various Artists – Raised By Rap: 50 Years of Hip Hop

— William the Conqueror – Excuse Me While I Vanish

— Yonaka – Welcome to My House EP

— Ziúr – Eyeroll