Album of the Week – 05/06/26

This week sees new albums from Bedouine (Neon Summer Skin) and the much-loved Death Cab for Cutie (I Built You a Tower).

Widowspeak have just released Roses and horsegiirL (yes, with a capital l) have just offered up “NATURE IS HEALING”.

I always thought of Montreal would be massive by this stage, as they’re good at what they do! It would be hard not to enjoy what Kevin Barnes and friends create. They’re celebrating their 30th anniversary, as they started out in 1996. You can enjoy their 20th (?) album below as our Album of the Week!

Album of the Week – of Montreal – aethermead

As any of Montreal devotée knows, Kevin Barnes has long been known to make diaristic and compelling hay out of chronicling the unfiltered nuances of his personal life. As the long-running musical project enters its 30th year of existence, Barnes has remained true to form, continuing to evolve while navigating the murkiest waters life has to offer.

Emerging out of great personal upheaval in Barnes’s life, aethermead, of Montreal’s 20th album, recalls the beauty-in-the-breakdown immediacy of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? mixed with the garage-y jangle of Lousy With Sylvanbriar and Cherry Peel’s homespun intimacy—but, remember, the last band that you’ll ever hear truly repeat themselves is of Montreal. “I don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time, but I really don’t want to repeat myself either—and aiming for that is always a little bit hard, but it’s fun too,” Barnes says about the new approaches and perspectives that color this latest irresistible batch of songs.

Albums of Note: 

— Bedouine – Neon Summer Skin

— Death Cab for Cutie – I Built You a Tower

— Deer Tick – Coin-O-Matic

— The Creem (feat. Nick Thorburn and Mike Stroud) – A Taste of Cherry

— horsegiirL – NATURE IS HEALING

— Modest Mouse – An Eraser and a Maze

— Old Crow Medicine Show – Union Made

— Post Malone – Lullaby Renditions of Post Malone

— Rosa Walton (of Let’s Eat Grandma) – Tell Me It’s A Dream

— Widowspeak – Roses

Albums released on June 5th:

— 100 Demons – Embrace the Black Light

— The 69 Eyes – I Survive EP

— A.A. Williams – Solstice

— Above & Beyond – Anjunabeats Volume 17

— The Aggrolites – Super Atomic

— August Burns Red – Season of Surrender

— Bad Stuff – Bad Stuff

— Barry Manilow – What A Time

— Bedouine – Neon Summer Skin

— Bella White – A Sign In The Weather

— Big Special – O’JOY! EP

— Brent Cobb – Live a Song, Write a Memory, Vol. 1

— The Creem (feat. Nick Thorburn and Mike Stroud) – A Taste of Cherry

— Damian Lewis – Mission Creep

— daresay – daresay EP

— Death Cab for Cutie – I Built You a Tower

— Deer Tick – Coin-O-Matic

— Dwarves – JENKEM

— Evanescence – Sanctuary

— Evergrey – Architects Of A New Weave

— Fightmaster – Tolerance

— Fitz and the Tantrums – Man on The Moon (The Galaxy Edition)

— Futurebirds – Far Out Country

— Hammok – When Does This Place Become Our Scene

— Haylie Davis – Wandering Star

— horsegiirL – NATURE IS HEALING

— Hurricane Wisdom – Weather The World

— Jalen Ngonda – Doctrine of Love

— Jared James Nichols – Louder Than Fate

— Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – Night Blooms

–– Jo Dee Messina – Bridges

— Laura Misch – Lithic

— Labrador – The Rosy Red World

— Lee “Scratch” Perry and Mouse on Mars – Spatial, No Problem

— Lizzo – BITCH

— madfolk – madfolk

— Malcolm Todd – Do That Again

— Modest Mouse – An Eraser and a Maze

— Niall Horan – Dinner Party

— of Montreal – aethermead

— Oh Hiroshima – And the Dead Tree Gives No Shelter

— Old Crow Medicine Show – Union Made

— Pleasure Systems – Leave It in the Sand

— Poppy Ackroyd – Liminal

— Post Malone – Lullaby Renditions of Post Malone

— Purbayan Chatterjee and Mark Lettieri – Feathered Creatures

— The Red Clay Strays – Grateful

— Rosa Walton (of Let’s Eat Grandma) – Tell Me It’s A Dream

— Simone Dinnerstein – Hours

— SLIFT – Fantasia

— Sparklmami – in this body

— Thomas Bangalter – Mirage – Ballet for 16 Dancers

— Vince Staples – Cry Baby

— VOÏVOD – Symphonique

— Widowspeak – Roses

— Zoh Amba – Eyes Full EP

— zzzahara – Distant Lands