Album of the Week – 12/04/24

This week sees new releases from METZ (Up on Gravity Hill) and MELTS (Field Theory)! There are also new sounds from Clarissa Connelly (World of Work) and LYNKS (Abomination). You should listen to their single ‘(WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM) SEX WITH A STRANGER’ if nothing else.

For our album of the week, we couldn’t resist the gentle sounds of Bridget Kearney with her album Comeback Kid.

Album of the Week – Comeback Kid – Bridget Kearney

Empires rise and fall every day in the human heart, and riding these cycles––stories with no beginning or end, only transformation––churns us through the reckless, ridiculous, rueful, redemptive.

A founding member of Lake Street Dive and writer of some of their most enduring songs, Iowa-born and Brooklyn-based Bridget Kearney is known for writing smart, unexpected lyrics and melodies built for a heart-baring dance or an introspective drive. Kearney writes music as if filtered through a camera lens. Her stories, steeped in nostalgia and joy, construct a bittersweet framework around the memories that make us human, and shape who we are. As the absurdity of life abounds, Kearney can hold these fragile snapshots and rolling reruns with evident notes of levity, and compassion for a past self. On her new album Comeback Kid, produced by Dan Molad (Lucius, Buck Meek), there are reminders to cherish the moments that make up the collage of what we see in the mirror, but to also plant our feet firmly in the present, for those are the times that will come to form the future.

Albums of Note:

— Clarissa Connelly – World of Work

— Birdfeeder (feat. Mark Mulcahy) – Woodstock

— LYNKS – Abomination

— MELTS – Field Theory

– METZ – Up on Gravity Hill

Album Released: 12/04/24

— 9T Antiope – Horror Vacui

— Aaron Lee Tasjan – Stellar Evolution

— Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties – In Lieu of Flowers

— Alice Merton – Heron EP

— Asha Jefferies – Ego Ride

— Avi Kaplan – Feels Alright EP

— Baby Rose – Slow Burn

— Bad Bad Hats – Bad Bad Hats

— The Ballroom Thieves – Sundust

— Birdfeeder (feat. Mark Mulcahy) – Woodstock

— Blue Bendy – So Medieval

— Blue Öyster Cult – Ghost Stories

— Bodega – Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

— Bridget Kearney (of Lake Street Dive) – Comeback Kid

— Clarissa Connelly – World of Work

— The Cosmic Dead – Infinite Peaks

— Cosmo Sheldrake – Eye to the Ear

— cruush – Nice Things Now, All The Time EP

— Dog Date – Zinger

— DRAM – DRAM&B

— Eagles – To The Limit: The Essential Collection

— Elliott BROOD – Town & Country

— English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

— Exist – Hijacking the Zeitgeist

— Future and Metro Boomin – We Still Don’t Trust You

— girl in red – I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!

— Greyhaven – Stereo Grief EP

— Heavenly Blue – We Have the Answer

— Heavy Temple – Garden of Heathens

— Hour – Ease the Work

— Humbird – Right On

— Imminence – The Black

— Jakobs Castle (Jakob Nowell) – Enter: The Castle

— James – Yummy

— James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg – All Gist

— Jess Ribeiro – Summer of Love

— Kenny Garrett and Svoy – Who Killed AI?

— Letters Sent Home – Forever Undone

— Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat

— Linkin Park – Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)

— Louisa Stancioff – When We Were Looking

— Lynks – Abomination

— Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me

— Mark Knopfler – One Deep River

— MELTS – Field Theory

— Meshell Ndegeocello – Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City

— METZ – Up on Gravity Hill

— NECROT – Lifeless Birth

— Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud

— Nicolette & The Nobodies – The Long Way

— Northlane – Mirror’s Edge EP

— The Ophelias – Ribbon EP

— Phil Manzanera (of Roxy Music) – Revolución To Roxy

— The Read Pears – Better Late Than Never

— The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Your Worst Song Is Your Greatest Hit

— Ryan Lott – Greatest Hits (Original Score Soundtrack)

— SETYØURSAILS – Bad Blood

— Shabaka (of Sons of Kemet) –  Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace

— sleepmakeswaves – It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It

— Sophie Gault – Baltic Street Hotel

— Sunburned Hand of The Man – Nimbus

— Tom Jenkins – Meadow Part 2

— Torn Boy – 1983

— Trummors – 5

— Tusks – Gold

— Tyler Hubbard – Strong

— Various Artists – Greatest Hits (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

— Will Hoge – Tenderhearted Boys

— Work Wife – Waste Management

— World’s First Cinema – Palm Reader (Silver Screen Edition)