Album of the Week – 23/01/26

It’s a quiet week towards the end of January, and while there are a multitude of new releases… It’s not a vintage week?

Fear not, noble reader, as we’ve managed to find a few new sounds for your delectation. We’d recommend you check out Greg Weeks (of Espers), who features below with his new album If the Sun Dies.

For our Album of the Week, we’ve gone for The Paper Kites, who could be described as Melbourne’s finest? This is actually their 7th album, so if you haven’t heard them yet, you’re not really trying…

Album of the Week – The Paper Kites – If You Go There, I Hope You Find It

“The album finds The Paper Kites rediscovering imperfection and stillness. Written on a friend’s farm in their hometown of Melbourne, the band looked to reconnect with what it means to feel something honestly through music, letting go of polish and trusting the moment. “If you go there, I hope you find it,” a phrase Christina Lacy wrote on a fogged-up bus window one morning, became a quiet mission statement — a reflection on distance, devotion and the quiet hope that the people you love will find what they’re looking for, even if you can’t follow them where they go. Musically, it’s the five of them again — recorded live in the room, minimal overdubs, leaning into imperfection. “

Albums of Note:
— Ari Lennox – Vacancy

— David Forman – Who You Been Talking To

— Greg Weeks (of Espers) – If the Sun Dies

Released on January 23rd:

— Alan Vega – Alan Vega (Reissue)

— Alan Vega – Alan Vega Deluxe Edition

— Alan Vega – Collision Drive (Reissue)

— Ari Lennox – Vacancy

— Becca Hannah – Tonight In My Dreams

— Cam Kahin – CHUG

— Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig (15th Anniversary Edition)

— Chris Garneau – In Reverse

— Colossal Rains – Ferral Sorrow

— Crystal Lake – The Weight of Sound

— The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else

— David Forman – Who You Been Talking To

— DRAAG – Miracle Drug EP

— The Format – Boycott Heaven

— Gesaffelstein – Enter The Gamma

— Goldfinger – NINE LIVES

— Greg Weeks (of Espers) – If the Sun Dies

— Hot Face – Automated Response

— Hudson Westbrook – Exclusive EP

— .idk – E.T.D.S. – Even the Devil Smile

— Jo Passed – Away

— Julian Lage – Scenes from Above

— Kashus Culpepper – Act I EP

— Immaterialize – Perfect

— Louis Tomlinson – How Did I Get Here?

— Lucinda Williams – World’s Gone Wrong

— Marc Broussard – S.O.S. V: Songs of the ’50s

— Megadeth – Megadeth

— MIKA – Hyperlove

— The Necessaries – Completely Necessary (Anthology 1978–1982)

— Nija – What I Didn’t Say

— The Paper Kites – If You Go There, I Hope You Find It

— PEEKABOO – Are We Dreaming?

— Pelican – Ascending EP

— Perfect Person – Perfect Person

— Poppy – Empty Hands

— The Power Station – The Power Station (40th Anniversary Edition)

— Reba McEntire – Starting Over (30th Anniversary Edition)

— reggie – UNDRA

— Rotting Christ – AEALO (Re-Recorded)

— Sammy Brue – The Journals

— Searows – Death in the Business of Whaling

— Shintaro Sakamoto – Yoo-hoo

— Ski Team – Burnout/Boys

— Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden (Vinyl Reissue)

— Tom Hamilton – I’m Your Vampire

— Victoryland –  My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It

— YES – Symphonic Live