Album of the Week – 12/02/2024

There are new albums from The American Analog Set (New Drifters), Chelsea Wolfe (She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She) and even Zara Larsson (Venus).

We’ve gone for PHASOR by Helado Negro, or Roberto Carlos Lange to his Mum! It’s his 8th studio album, depending on whether you include various expanded versions or not, but it’s possibly his finest to date!

Album of the Week – PHASOR by Helado Negro

While PHASOR feels loose and expansive, it’s Lange’s tightest collection—deep, atmospheric, meticulously executed. It’s aligned with 2019’s This Is How You Smile, which found him incorporating more upfront drums and bass and focused grooves. Sequentially, it follows the expansive hour-plus long Far In, whose title was inspired by new age legend Laraaji and created in lockdown, in Marfa, Texas – lyrically digging into connection and focused on being in quarantine. PHASOR, in turn, is an homage to going outside again. It’s a returning-to-life record, remembering what the sun feels like and letting it warm your skin.

Albums of Note:

— The American Analog Set – New Drifters

— Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

— Zara Larsson – Venus

Albums Released on February 9th:

— aldrch – would you like to go out? EP

— The American Analog Set – New Drifters

— Astral Bakers – The Whole Story

— Austin Peralta – Endless Planets (Deluxe Edition)

— British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (15th Anniversary Edition)

— Brittany Howard – What Now

— Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

— The Chisel – What A F*cking Nightmare

— David Nance & Mowed Sound – David Nance & Mowed Sound

— The Dead South – Chains & Stakes

— Declean McKenna – What Happened to the Beach?

— The Dream Syndicate – Live Through the Past, Darkly

— Ducks Ltd. – Harm’s Way

— Fivio Foreign – Pain & Love 2

— Haystack – Doomsday Goes Away

— Helado Negro – PHASOR

— Il Divo – XX: 20th Anniversary Album

— Infected Rain – Time

— Itasca – Imitation of War

— Joel Ross – nublues

— Kali Malone – All Life Long

— Katelyn Tarver – Quitter

— Kelela – RAVE:N, The Remixes

— Les Claypool – Adverse Yaw: The Prawn Song Years

— Loving – Any Light

— Luke Sital-Singh – Across the Evening Sky EP

— Madi Diaz – Weird Faith

— MICHELLE – GLOW EP

— Mk.gee – Two Star and the Dream Police

— My Life Story – Loving You Is Killing Me

— Nils Hoffman – Running in a Dream

— Orgōne – Chimera

— Pouty – Forgot About Me

— Ron Gallo – Foreground Music (Deluxe Edition)

— Sam Cooke – Sam Cooke’s SAR Records Story 1959 – 1965 (Vinyl Reissue)

— Shygirl – Club Shy EP

— Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears (Reissue)

— Split System – Vol. 2

— The Strumbellas – Time Believer

— tAKiDA – The agony flame

— TSO – Hellcare

— Tyler Ramsey – New Lost Ages

— Usher – Coming Home

— Yellowcard + Hammock – A Hopeful Sign

— Zara Larsson – Venus