In this section, we’ll be showcasing the most anticipated albums each week. Here are the albums coming out on August 30, 2024:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wild God
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are back with a new album. Wild God. 2019 Sequel Ghosteen The album was produced by Cave and Warren Ellis and mixed by David Fridman, and was preceded by a single release. “Frog”‘Long Dark Night’ and the title track. “I hope this album affects listeners the same way it affected me,” Cave said in a statement. “I find myself caught up in the sounds pouring out of the speakers. It’s a complex record, but it’s also deeply joyful and infectious. We never make a master plan when we make a record. Records reflect the emotional state of the composers and musicians who performed on them. And when we listen to it, somehow, we’re happy.”
Why Bonnie, Wish upon the bones
Bonnie released a new album because Wish upon the bonesvia A Tale of FireThe follow-up to the band’s 2022 debut 90 in November The album features the previously released singles “Dotted Line,” “Fake Out,” “Rhyme or Reason” and “Three Big Moons.” Bandleader Blair Howerton co-produced the album with Jonathan Schenke. “We tried on a few musical hats,” Howerton explains. “There are a few country elements on the album, but we weren’t trying to stick to one thing. My music reflects personal experiences where I’ve learned to be bolder, more assertive and believe in myself.”
Seafeel, Square everything
Seafeel has returned from a 13-year hiatus with a new album, ” Square everything. Now on sale warpThe six-track mini-LP was written primarily by band mainstays Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, with bassist Shigeru Ishihara (the Japanese producer known as DJ Scotch Egg) performing on two tracks, and is the follow-up to the project’s 2011 self-titled comeback album.
Adriana McCassim, Watch it disappear
Los Angeles-based, Asheville, North Carolina-raised singer-songwriter Adriana McCasim has released her debut album. Watch it disappearContinuing into the 2020s The Quiet Side The EP album features early singles “Pretend” and “Tarantula Type.” The record was produced by Ryan Polly and mixed by Alex Farrar (Snail Mail, Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Indigo de Souza, Angel Olsen). Sharon Van Etten, who opened for McCassim at his 11th anniversary show at the Troubadour, said: Trumpsaid in a press release, “She’s an incredible songwriter with a truly beautiful, dark, smoky voice. She writes passionate songs about connection and love. They’re very romantic and beautiful songs.”
Coco & Claire, girl
Coco & Claire Claire is 2022 sexy With the new album, girl“In the early stages of writing, I joked that I was pregnant with the new album and that this album felt like a baby girl; on the last project, sexy“We were writing about our relationship, referencing and incorporating lyrics we’d written years ago that we’d previously set aside for being too vulnerable or confessional. We were experimenting with a production style that felt more polished, sophisticated, intentional and intimate. We embraced the tension between this new approach and the defining qualities that drove us early on: witty, boastful and flamboyant – all virtues of femininity and girlishness, but also symbols of masculinity,” the duo explained in a statement.
Enumclaw, Another house life
Enumclaw has released their second album. Another house lifeThrough the band’s new label, Home, Run and hideAhead of the release, the Tacoma, Washington studio is working on a 2022 Save the baby on the tracks “Change” and “Not Just Yet.” Co-produced by Enumclaw and Ben Zaid, the 11-track LP was recorded over four days in Seattle last winter.
Cold God, I’ll drown on this earth
I’ll drown on this earth The second full-length album by Cold Gaud, a post-hardcore/shoegaze band from Rancho Cucamonga, California. Dice RecordsIn 2022 God, get me out of here. The album’s lead single was “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name.” “The message of this song, and the entire album, is that of Victoria Legrand’s words: ‘Believe in yourself, and believe in the people you love, because they are the people who matter most,'” the band’s Matthew Wainwright said in a statement at the time.
John Hopkins, Rituals
Jon Hopkins has released a new album. RitualsIn 2021 Music for Psychedelic TherapyCollaborators on the album include ylana, 7RAYS, Ishq, Clark, Emma Smith, Daisy Vatalaro and Cherif Hashizume. In a statement, Hopkins said: “When I’m writing, I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t know where I’m coming from, I don’t know where I’m going, and it feels like none of that matters. I only know when it’s finished. So all I can do is fumble my way through to the end and reflect and analyze what’s going on and figure out what its purpose is. What I do know for sure is that this record has a ritual structure. I know what my ritual is, but it will be different for you. I feel it’s important not to prescribe what this ritual actually is.”
Yonsi, First Light
Jónsi is back with a new album. First LightThe Sigur Rós frontman’s 2021 surprise record sequel obsidian It was originally conceived as a video game score, with Jónsi saying in a statement: “When I wrote this piece for a video game, I felt it was a time of man-made global chaos and anxiety. First Light It is a temporary, fantastical, far-fetched utopian world where everyone and everything coexists in eternal peace and harmony, where we choose beauty over chaos and hope over fear, where a universal angelic guardian watches over us and unites us all as one through love, melody and music.”
Oceanator, All is love and death
Brooklyn singer-songwriter Elise Okusami’s project Oceanator has released a new album, All is love and death2022 Sequel Not everything will go well On this album, Okusami worked with Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip. “These songs feel like they focus and analyze the same themes as my previous albums, but with more calm and clarity,” Okusami said. “I have a greater ability to listen to the rational part of my brain and understand that things aren’t going to work out, and even though I know they are, I do it anyway, because it’s all about love and death.” The singles “Get Out” and “Drift Away” were released ahead of the release.
Wonder Horse, Midas
Wonderhorse, a band led by former Dead Prettys member Jacob Slater, has released a new album, MidasThe follow-up to his 2022 debut LP Turnip The album was recorded at Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota with producer Craig Silvey. “When we first went into the studio to make this album, the only thing we knew for sure was what we wanted it to sound like: very imperfect, very raw, very unadorned,” Slater said in press materials. “We wanted it to sound like you had your face pressed up against an amp, like you were trapped inside a kick drum.”
Leah Cole, Normal sound
Chicago-based artist Leah Cole has released her third full-length album. Normal soundvia Glyph of the Moon Continued from last year The ceiling rests Featuring previously released tracks “Car Alarm, Turn Signal” and “Ignition, Sneakers,” the record uses field recordings of grocery store cash register beeps, machine humming, and car rumble, and is described by Cole as “a love letter to the mundane world of sound” and “to the part of my brain that can’t stop listening to everything all the time.”
Other albums out today:
Duster, In a dream; Thai Segal, The Basics of Love; —__–____, Night of Fire; Big Sean, I’m better than you; Sean Henry, head; Los Bichos, Talkie Talkie; Laurie Anderson, Amelia; Tycho, Infinite Health; nail, All bridges are burned; Bug Club, About the complex inner workings of the system; John Legend, My favorite dream; Destroying loneliness, Love Lasts Forever; Oar, afterglow; Robert Glasper, Code derivation; RZA, Ballet in the mud; Zed, Telos; Jana Mila, chameleon; Carlisle, Humans Humans; Cactus flower, Every time I think of you; Ellen Reid, Big Majestic; Yuko Araki, Prequel.
