Album of the Week – 1/05/26

It’s a busy one! We have a lovely new album from Hiss Golden Messenger called I’m People. He certainly is. If you want to know more, we reviewed it here.

There is also music from various stars, such as Kneecap (Fenian), Super Furry Animals (Precreation Percolation) and Tori Amos (In Times of Dragons).

For our album of the week, how could we possibly resist Miss Hoop? Soon, the world will sit up and take notice.

Album of the Week – Jesca Hoop – Long Wave Home

“When I was faced with the challenge of writing and recording a new album, I had the choice to stay where I was comfortable, under the sage guidance of a producer or to step out into the dark and produce it myself. It became clear that if I was going to grow in the craft, I needed to become my own lighthouse. So I made the commitment to take on the Producer role. There were a lot of sleepless nights.

Writing Long Wave Home, though no less daunting, became a refuge for me—a place to explore interpersonal connections and the rise and fall of emotions that come with relationships. Writing an album can be very agitating, but it’s a discomfort I am comfortable with. What a gift it is to spend my time examining my inner world, my relationships, and from it make music.

My life took an unexpected turn in 2025. Many people exited my life… like a bus pulling into the station. Some of these relationships were of great importance, so I had much to wrestle with in these verses. Disconnect, or the illusion thereof, was also fodder for songs—amid the chaos and confusion we are creating in this world, I feel a responsibility to record what I see transpiring among us: what is being done… by whom and to whom.

Albums of Note: 

— Hiss Golden Messenger – I’m People

— The Black Keys – Peaches!

— Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons

— Kneecap – Fenian

— Super Furry Animals – Precreation Percolation

— Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer – They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza

May 1st:

— – _BY.ALEXANDER – The Decoupling of the Nuclear Family

— Alberto Giurioli – Leftovers

— American Football – LP4

— Arturo Sandoval – SANGÚ

— Asake – M$NEY

— The Black Keys – Peaches!

— BLARF (Eric André) – Film Scores for Films That Don’t Exist

— The Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy

— Daniel Avery – Tremor (Deluxe Edition)

— Eagles – One Of These Nights (Deluxe Edition)

— Ernest – Deep Blue

— face of ancient gallery – Like Kites

— Funkadelic – Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow (Reissue)

— Gabrielle Cavassa – Daivola

— Godsmack – Live at Mohegan Sun

— Jesca Hoop – Long Wave Home

— Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere

— The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart (15th Anniversary Edition)

— Hiss Golden Messenger – I’m People

— INXS – Kick (Rhino High Fidelity)

— Isaiah Rashad – It’s Been Awful

— Kneecap – Fenian

— Laibach – MUSICK

— Lil Tjay – They Just Ain’t You

— Lip Critic – Theft World

— Luhh Dyl – A Time To Hurt, A Time To Heal

— Maya Hawke – Maitreya Corso

— Melanie C – Sweat

— Modern Woman – Johnny’s Dreamworld

— The Nth Power – Never Alone

— Oteil Burbridge and Lamar Williams. Jr. – The Offering

— Paisley Fields – Are U Mad At Me

— Pigeon – OUTTANATIONAL

— Real Farmer – Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

— Rita Wilson – Sound of a Woman

— Rodrigo y Gabriela – Rodrigo y Gabriela + Re-Foc (20th Anniversary Edition)

— Sevendust – ONE

— Shooter Jennings – Countach (For Giorgio) (Vinyl Reissue)

— Shoreline Mafia – Bidness Is Boomin

— Simon White – Letter To The Last Generation

— Sub*T – How My Own Voice Sounds

— Super Furry Animals – Precreation Percolation

— Taj Mahal – Time

— Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer – They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza

— Toadies – The Charmer

— Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons

— Weird Nightmare – Hoopla

— White Flowers – Dreams For Somebody Else

— ugly ozo – dive EP

— Venom – Into Oblivion

— youbet – youbet

— Young the Giant – Victory Garden

— Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun: Girls Trip

— Ziggy Marley – Brightside