Album of the Week – 06/09/24

A few new releases worthy of your attention this week, including the return of Mercury Rev (Born Horses). Their appearance at In The Meadows a few months ago was the stuff of legends! They’ll be back in town on Halloween, in the Button Factory.

For our Album of the Week, we’ve gone for a band that hasn’t released an album in 24 years! Yes, The The last released an album (NakedSelf) all the way back in the year 2000, when we were all worried about the millennium bug. Their sound is like nothing has changed. I guess that’s a good thing? You can enjoy the delicious sounds of Matt Johnson and Co. below.

Album of the Week – The The – Ensoulment

“Ensoulment is THE THE’s first studio album of new songs in a quarter century. This 12-song album will be released on Cinéola / earMUSIC on Friday 6 September 2024.

Encompassing characteristic topics ranging from love & sex, war & politics, life & death – to the meaning of what it is to be human in the 21st century – Ensoulment was written, demoed and mixed at Studio Cinéola in London, the base of THE THE’s main creative force, Matt Johnson.”

Albums of Note:

— 10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition)

— Man or Astro-Man? – ROYGBIV (Recordings From The BBC)

— God Is An Astronaut – Embers

— Max Richter – In a Landscape

— Mercury Rev – Born Horses

— Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (Deluxe Edition)

— Toro y Moi – Hole Erth

Albums Released 6/09/24

— 10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition)

— 40 Watt Sun – Little Weight

— The Airborne Toxic Event – Glory

— Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Thank U Edition)

— America – Live From The Hollywood Bowl 1975

— Ant (of Atmosphere) – Collection of Sounds: Volume 1

— Arrested Youth – Too Late to Start Over

— Ashe – Wilson

— Atreyu – The Curse (Vinyl Reissue)

— Black Sun – Black Sun

— Bleachers – A Stranger Desired

— blink-182 – ONE MORE TIME… PART-2

— Boston Manor – Sundiver

— Bremer/McCoy – Kosmos

— Caleb Hearn – Left of McKinney

— Camila Cabello – C,XOXO: Magic City Edition

— Cass McCombs – A (Reissue)

— Cass McCombs – Not the Way EP (Reissue)

— Cass McCombs – PREfection (Reissue)

— Claude Fontaine – La Mer

— Conner Youngblood – Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly

— The Crane Wives – Beyond Beyond Beyond

— Curse the Son – Delirium

— The Dare – What’s Wrong with New York?

— David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

— David Luning – Lessons

— Denitia – Sunset Drive

— The Doug Carn Trio – The Doug Carn Trio (Vinyl Reissue)

— Dummy – Free Energy

— Elephant Tree – Handful of Ten

— Eva Cassidy – Walkin’ After Midnight

— Faces – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973

— “Fast” Eddie Clarke (of Fastway and Motörhead) – Make My Day: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke

— Fat Dog – WOOF.

— Fig Dish – Feels Like the Very First Two Times

— Fcukers – Bagg$$ EP

— The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (25th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue)

— Fred again.. – ten days

— Future Palace – Distortion

— Genesis – Calling All Stations (Vinyl Reissue)

— Genesis – Nursery Cyme (Vinyl Reissue)

— Genesis – Selling England By the Pound (Vinyl Reissue)

— Genesis – We Can’t Dance (Vinyl Reissue)

— Genesis – Wind & Wuthering (Vinyl Reissue)

— George Strait – Cowboys and Dreamers

— Georgia Gets By – Split Lip EP

— God Is An Astronaut – Embers

— The Heavy Heavy – One of a Kind

— Hinds – VIVA HINDS

— The Howl & The Hum – Same Mistake Twice

— Human Interest – Smile While You’re Losing (An Audio Guide To Wellness) EP

— Infrared – Manifestation

— Jack Valero – Not in Kansas Anymore EP

— JHAYCO – Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X)

— Jeffrey Foucault – The Universal Fire

— Jessie Murph – That Ain’t No Man That’s The Devil

— Jordan Rudess (of Dream Theater) – Permission to Fly

— knitting – Some Kind of Heaven

— La Doña – Los Altos de la Soledad

— Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals – Give An Inch EP

— LL Cool J – The Force (Frequencies of Real Creative Energy)

— Lollise – I Hit the Water

— Luke Winslow-King – Flash-A-Magic

— Madonna – Like A Prayer (The Silver Collection)

— Man or Astro-Man? – ROYGBIV (Recordings From The BBC)

— Many Eyes (feat. Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die) – The Light Age

— Martina Topley-Bird – Quixotic (Vinyl Reissue)

— Masayoshi Fujita – Migratory

— Max Richter – In a Landscape

— Mercury Rev – Born Horses

— MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks

— Midwife – No Depression in Heaven

— Monolake – Studio

— Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

— Nancy Sinatra – Nancy in London (Reissue)

— Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten (Vinyl Reissue)

— Neil Young – Archives Vol. III

— Niall Horan – The Show: Live On Tour

— Nicky Jam – Insomnio

— Ninajirachi – girl EDM (disc 1)

— Okay Kaya – Oh My God

— Paris Hilton – Infinite Icon

— Party Dozen – Crime in Australia

— Prim – Move Too Slow

— Public Opinion – Painted on Smile

— Rebounder – Sundress Songs EP

— Rex Orange County – The Alexander Technique

— RINI – Lucky 7 EP

— Robin Kester – Patch EP

— Sarah Kinsley – Escaper

— Shovels & Rope – Something Is Working Up Above My Head

— Skullpresser (feat. members of Mannequin Pussy and The Wonder Years) – Position of Power EP

— slenderbodies – the sugar machine

— SUUNS – The Breaks

— Sybris – Gold On Head

— Sylvester – Live at the Opera House

— Tall Juan – Raccoon Nights

— Tamar Berk – Good Times for a Change

— The The – Ensolument

— Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (Deluxe Edition)

— Toro y Moi – Hole Erth

— Three Quarter Skies (feat. Slowdive’s Simon Scott) – Fade In

— Ultravox – Lament (40th Anniversary Edition)

— Vance Joy – dream your life away (10th Anniversary Edition)

— Various Artists – 20 Years Of Dreaming And Scheming

— Vestige – Janis

— Vincent Price – Witchcraft-Magic—An Adventure in Demonology (Vinyl Reissue)

— Webb Chapel – World Cup

— Whisper States – Whisper States