Album of the Week – 15/11/24

As we approach silly season, the number of new albums being released will decline… but we’ll keep going as long as is humanly possible!

This week sees new releases from GORDI (Lunch At Dune EP), Silverlites (feat. Peter Buck, Rich Robinson, Barrett Martin, and Joseph Arthur) and Becky and the Birds (Only Music Makes Me Cry Now). The new album from Fazerdaze (Soft Power) is also worth a listen.

This week, we’ve gone for the sound of the Sahara, with Tinariwen. They often turn up at music festivals in Ireland and I’ve never been disappointed yet!

Album of the Week – Idrache (Traces Of The Past) by Tinariwen

Idrache (Traces Of The Past) features a dozen hidden gems from the Sahara. Rough hewn, but intimate and beautiful recordings by Tinariwen, the world’s most famous Tuareg band. Some are demos that were later released in more produced versions on subsequent albums and four of them have never been released before.

This is music to transport you, music that makes you feel you are in the Sahara with these extraordinary musicians for whom it is their home and their inspiration. These are raw desert treasures, recorded live with no overdubs, that are only emerging into the sunlight with this album of rarities, Idrache, Traces of the Past.

Albums of Note:

— GORDI – Lunch At Dune EP

— JORDY – SEX WITH MYSELF AND IT LASTS LONGER

— Shawn Mendes – Shawn

— Becky and the Birds – Only Music Makes Me Cry Now

— Silverlites (feat. Peter Buck, Rich Robinson, Barrett Martin, and Joseph Arthur) – Silverlites

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers Original Score (Vinyl Release)

— FAZERDAZE – Soft Power 

— St. Vincent – Todos Nacen Gritando

November 15th:

— 070 Shake – Petrichor

— Adrian Younge – Linear Labs: São Paulo

— Alvvays – Alvvays (Vinyl Reissue)

— Anthony Raneri (of Bayside) – Everyday Royalty EP

— araabMUZIK and Dave East – Living Proof

— As I Lay Dying – Through Storms Ahead

— BANKS – Goddess Unplugged

— Becky and the Birds – Only Music Makes Me Cry Now

— The Black Keys – Ohio Players (Trophy Edition)

— Brooks & Dunn – Reboot 2

— Bryan Adams – Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2024

— Ciaran Lavery – Light Entertainment

— Cordae – The Crossroads

— Denzel Curry – King Of The Mischievous South

— Du Blonde – Sniff More Gritty

— Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days

— Elori Saxl – Earth Focus

— Emei – Rabbithole EP

— Erick the Architect – I’ve Never Been Here Before (Deluxe Edition)

— Fazerdaze – Soft Power

— Fightmilk – No Souveniers

— Fitz (of Fitz & The Tantrums) – Summer of Us

— Flat Party – It’s All Been Done Before EP

— Flora Hibberd – Swirl

— FLO – Access All Areas

— Friedberg – Hardcore Workout Queen

— Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan – Scraping The Divine

— George Harrison – Living in the Material World (50th Anniversary Edition)

— Glosser – Angel Dust EP

— Greg Proops – Purple Shasta Racoon

— Gwen Stefani – Bouquet

— half•alive – Persona

— Hank Heaven – Loaded Dice

— Harry Gregson-Williams – Gladiator II: Music From The Motion Picture

— Heart to Gold – Free Help

— HOMER – Ensatina

— Iron Maiden – Powerslave (Vinyl Reissue)

— Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time (Vinyl Reissue)

— Jagged Baptist Club – Physical Surveillance

— Jai Wolf – The Red Eye Home

— Jin (of BTS) – Happy

— John Cale – The Academy in Peril (Remastered)

— John Cale – Paris 1919 (Deluxe Edition)

— John Wetton – Concentus : The John Wetton Live Collection, Volume I

— Jon Batiste – Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1)

— JORDY – SEX WITH MYSELF AND IT LASTS LONGER

— Klaus Schulze – 101, Milky Way

— LAU – Digital Dream

— Less Than Jake – Uncharted EP

— Lily Seabird – Alas, (Vinyl Reissue)

— Lily Seabird – Alas, (Acoustic Versions) EP

— Lunar Noon – A circle’s round

— Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazer (15th Anniversary Edition)

— Mary J. Blige – Gratitude

— Mason Ramsey – Merry Christmas Baby EP

— Medium Build – Marietta EP

— Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes

— MF DOOM – MM..FOOD (20th Anniversary Edition)

— Nickelback – Live From Nashville

— Olivia O’Brien – everywhere i go, there i am EP

— Pa Salieu – Afrikan Di Alien

— Poppy – Negative Spaces

— Primal Code – Opaque Fixation

— Quando Rondo – Here For A Reason

— Rauw Alejandro – Cosa Nuestra

— The Saints – (I’m) Stranded (Vinyl Box Set)

— Shawn Mendes – Shawn

— Silverlites (feat. Peter Buck, Rich Robinson, Barrett Martin, and Joseph Arthur) – Silverlites

— Sister Hazel – Sand, Sea & Crash Debris

— Sofie Royer – Young-Girl Forever

— St. Vincent – Todos Nacen Gritando

— Steel Panther – Feel the Steel (15th Anniversary Edition)

— Stranger Cat – Slow Jam Love Letters To My Body In Pieces

— Sunnsetter – Heaven Hang Over Me

— Taylor Deupree – Ash EP

— Terry Presume – Rage and Purity EP

— Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek

— Tomo Katsurada (of Kikagaku Moyo) – Dream of the Egg EP

— Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers Original Score (Vinyl Release)

— TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (20th Anniversary Edition)

— Various Artists – Dolly Parton & Family: Smoky Mountain DNA – Family, Faith & Fables

— Vera Sola – Ghostmaker EP

— Vitamin String Quartet – Otaku

— Vlad Holiday – My Favorite Drug

— Wallice – The Jester

— Wussy – Cincinnati Ohio

— Xeno & Oaklander – Via Negativa (in the doorway light)

— Yola – My Way EP