Album of the Week – 13/03/26

This week sees the release of a new album from our favourite Hard Hearted Woman, Ore Corgan. There are also releases from Tinariwen (Hoggar), who you will no doubt see in an early afternoon slot at one of the festivals this summer. They’re always entertaining. There are also releases from the likes of Kim Gordon (Play Me) and Anjimile (You’re Free To Go).

For our Album of the Week, we’ve gone for the new release from one of our favourites, The Notwist. It’s called News from Planet Zombie, and you can enjoy it below…

Album of the Week – The Notwist – News from Planet Zombie

With »News from Planet Zombie«, The Notwist return to view after years of exploration and experiment with an album rich in both melancholy and positivity, sketched across a suite of thrilling, fiercely committed pop songs. It’s an album reflecting a chaotic world, but responding with warmth and generosity, to achieve creative and spiritual consolidation. Recorded in their home base of Munich, it reconnects with the security of the local to explore the troubles of the global: a guiding impulse writ large across this album’s eleven songs. It’s also the first studio album since 1995’s »12« that the entire band recorded together in the studio in its expanded live formation.

A new album by The Notwist is always a curious endeavour; their musical language is as consistent and resilient as the contexts for creativity are unpredictable and ever shifting. For »News from Planet Zombie«, the core trio of Markus and Micha Acher and Cico Beck embraced the plural possibilities of writing together, bringing songs to the collective and then arranging, rehearsing and recording that material live, in the studio.

Albums of Note: 

— ANJIMILE – You’re Free To Go

— Kim Gordon – Play Me

— Ore Corgan – Hard Hearted Woman

https://oracogan.bandcamp.com/album/hard-hearted-woman

— Tenderness – Blue

— Tinariwen – Hoggar

March 13th:

— Alexis Taylor (of Hot Chip) – Paris In the Spring

— Anjimile – You’re Free to Go

— ASIA – Asia – Live In England

— The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers

— Blessing Jolie – 20nothing

— Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Irreversible

— Cat Clyde – Mud Blood Bone

— Crack Cloud – Peace and Purpose

— Cut Worms – Transmitter

— Dream Theater – Live In Tokyo, 2010

— Eihwar – Hugrheim

— ELUCID and Sebb Bash – I Guess U Had To Be There

— Fotocrime – Security

— Foy Vance – The Wake

— The Fray – A Light That Waits

— Gavin Adcock – Country Never Dies

— googly eyes – paint me like one of your fav american girls EP

— Jack Harlow – Monica

— James Blake – Trying Times

— John Coltrane – The Best of John Coltrane (Vinyl Release)

— Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds – Mutiny After Midnight

— Jonas Brothers – Friends From Your Hometown

— Kim Gordon – PLAY ME

— Kungs – OUT LOUD

— ladylike – It’s A Pleasure Of Mine, to Know You’re Fine EP

— Lamb of God – Into Oblivion

— Mary Ocher – Weimar

— Miles Davis – The Best of Miles Davis (Vinyl Release)

— Morgan Nagler – I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It

— n0trixx – A Catalogue of Madness and Melancholia

— The Notwist – News from Planet Zombie

— Ore Corgan – Hard Hearted Woman

— The Orielles – Only You Left

— Outfit – Preservers of the Pearl

— Powerplant – Bridge of Sacrifice

— Prostitute – Attempted Martyr

— PUP – Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings)

— Quarters – I HOPE THIS ISN’T THE END OF THE WORLD

— RUSH – Grace Under Pressure (40th Anniversary Edition)

— Santos Bravos – DUAL EP

— Shoreline – Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After?

— The Sophs – GOLDSTAR

— Sweet Pill – Still There’s a Glow

— Tenderness – Blue

— Terrence Dixon – When Stars Remember EP

— The Third Mind – Spellbinder!

— Tinariwen – Hoggar

— Various Artists – Pretty in Pink (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Vinyl Reissue)

— White Reaper – Only Slightly Expanded

— WITCHCRAFT – A Sinner’s Child EP