Album of the Week – 20/09/24

Some great new sounds this week from some big names. We have the return of Kate Pierson (of The B-52s) with her new album Radios and Rainbows which is suitably upbeat! There are also releases from Jake Bugg (A Modern Day Distraction), Julian Casablancas + The Voidz (Like All Before You), Pale Waves (Smitten), Thurston Moore (Flow Critical Lucidity) and Galaxie 500 (Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90).

There are also some impressive new sounds from Joan As Police Woman (Lemons, Limes and Orchids) and Katy J Pearson (Someday, Now). In the end and after much deliberation, we’ve gone for the new album from Honeyglaze, a trio from South London.

Album of the Week – Honeyglaze – Real Deal

“Honeyglaze’s second album, Real Deal, and first for Fat Possum, feels like their coming of age moment. The band have taken the foundations laid on their debut and focused it into a mammoth record filled with crashing riffs, devastating vocal performances, and nuanced breakdowns, resulting in a mature, complex record grappling with negative relationships, the mundanity of adult life, and identity.”

Albums of the Note:

— Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90

— Jake Bugg – A Modern Day Distraction

— Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes and Orchids

— Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now

— Kate Pierson (of The B-52s) – Radios and Rainbows

— Julian Casablancas + The Voidz – Like All Before You

— Pale Waves – Smitten

— Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity

September 20th:

— Afterimage –  Faces to Hide

— Alaskan Tapes – Something Ephemeral

— Alex Henry Foster – A Measure Of Shape And Sounds

— Alemeda – FK IT EP

— ALUNAH – Fever Dream

— Bad Neighbour – Millions

— Beautiful Junkyards – Nova

— The Black Pacific (feat. Pennywise’s Jim Lindberg) – Here Comes Our Wave

— BLACKSTARKIDS – SATURN DAYZ

— Blossoms – Gary

— Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings

— Brant Bjork Trio – Once Upon A Time In The Desert

— Brenda Lee – Greatest Hits

— Butthole Surfers – Cream Corn From the Socket of Davis (Vinyl Reissue)

— Butthole Surfers – Hairway to Steven (Vinyl Reissue)

— Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician (Vinyl Reissue)

— The Calamatix – The Calamatix

— Chase Rice – Go Down Singin’

— Cher – Forever

— Circus Trees – This makes me sad, and I miss you

— claire rousay – sentiment remixes

— Dave Guy – Ruby

— Defiled – Horror Beyond Horror

— Depeche Mode – Spirit | The 12″ Singles

— Dive Time – Dive Time

— Dolores Forever – It’s Nothing

— Drake White – Low Country High Road

— Dreamless Veil – Every Limb of the Flood

— Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Orchestra Hits

— FIDLAR – Surviving the Dream

— Fight Dice (feat. members of Braid, Hey Mercedes, The Promise Ring) – Total Party Kill

— Fleetwood Mac – Mirage Tour ’82

— Future – Mixtape Pluto

— Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90

— Gregg Allman Band – Uncle Sam’s

— Grateful Dead – Friend Of The Devils: April 1978

— Herb Alpert – 50

— Hippo Campus – Flood

— Honeyglaze – Real Deal

— Ibukun Sunday – Harmony / Balance

— iji – Automatically

— Jake Bugg – A Modern Day Distraction

— James Bay – Changes All the Time

— Jamie xx – In Waves

— Jaz Karis – Safe Flight

— JD Simo and Luther Dickinson – Do the Rump!

— JEMS! – GEMS IN THE CORNERSTORE II

— Jerry Douglas – The Set

— JESSE® – JESSE®

— JJ Wilde – Vices

— Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes and Orchids

— Johnny Foreigner – How To Be Hopeful

— Johnny Marr + The Healers – Boomslang (Reissue)

— JOY (Anonymous) – (South East Corner) EP

— Julian Casablancas + The Voidz – Like All Before You

— Kat Von D – My Side of the Mountain

— Kate Pierson (of The B-52s) – Radios and Rainbows

— The Kills – Happier Girls Sessions EP

— Lawns – Be a Better Man

— LICE – Third Time at the Beach

— The Lijadu Sisters – Horizon Unlimited (Reissue)

— little bit – talk a blue streak EP

— Lutalo – The Academy

— Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now

— Katy Perry – 143

— Keith Urban – HIGH

— Louis the Child – The Sun Comes Up

— Luna Sol – Vita Mors

— Manu Chao – Viva Tu

— Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Into the Wild EP

— Mutant Academy – Keep Holly Alive

— Nelly Furtado – 7

— Neon Trees – Sink Your Teeth

— Nightwish – Yesterwynde

— Noga Erez – THE VANDALIST

— Nonpareils – Rhetoric & Terror

— Nubya Garcia – Odyssey

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Chain of Light

— Odetta Hartman – Restoration EP

— Oreo James – NEPHEW

— Orion Sun – Orion

— Or:la – Trusting Theta

— Oxlade – Oxlade From Africa

— P.D.O.A. – Expressions Of Obsessions

— Pale Waves – Smitten

— Pearl & The Oysters – Planet Pearl

— Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Vinyl Reissue)

— Perla Batalla – A Letter to Leonard Cohen: A Tribute to a Friend

— Phil Collins – Both Sides (All The Sides)

— Photay – Windswept

— Purple Disco Machine – Paradise

— Regional Justice Center – Freedom, Sweet Freedom

— Rival Schools – Pedals (Deluxe)

— Sade – Love Deluxe (Vinyl Reissue)

— Sade – Lovers Rock (Vinyl Reissue)

— Sade – Soldier of Love (Vinyl Reissue)

— Sammy Rae & The Friends – Something For Everybody

— Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers (Deluxe Edition)

— Seether – The Surface Seems So Far

— Skid Row – Live in London

— Smallpools – Ghost Town Road

— St. Lundi – The Island

— St. South – Big Sads EP

—  Starcleaner Reunion – Café Life EP

— Sunset Rubdown – Always Happy to Explode

— Tanukichan – Circles EP

— Tasha – All This and So Much More

— Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – I Love You Too

— Terry Gross (feat. members of Trans Am) – Huge Improvement

— Theo Kandel – EATING & DRINKING & BEING IN LOVE

— Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity

— Tom Walker – I Am

— Trey Anastasio – Atriums

— Unto Others – Never, Neverland

— Various Artists – Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin

— Vended – Vended

— Void of Vision – What I’ll Leave Behind

—  The Waeve (feat. Blur’s Graham Coxon and The Pippettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall) – City Lights

— Wilderado – Talker

— Wings Denied – Just the Basics

— Zac Brown Band – No Wake Zone EP