As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
If you’re looking for new albums, all the new long-players I’ve spotted from emerging, independent, and DIY artists are here
TAKEN FROM THE AA-SIDE ‘CHANGE MY MIND / DARE TO FALL IN LOVE’
Phantastic Ferniture – Change My Mind
Julia Jacklin’s voice soars as the wistful poetry over the driving, wide-eyed prose of the guitars and rhythm, all of it enjoying itself immensely. A welcome, warm, and wonderful return.
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM ‘UNHEAVEN’
Georgia Mulligan – The Floor at the Enmore
This track, along with the rest of the ‘Unheaven’ album, is a nebula of forming stars, bright points in darkness. Colours swirl on a pitch black canvas, and you just stare and stare and stare.
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM ‘PATCHWORK’
Suzi – My Car Is Due For A Service
The honesty in the lyrics is brutal, but the blow is softened by the bags of joy in the song itself. So it often goes with Suzi songs – a classic of the form, and just one from an excellent album full of them.
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM ‘happy birthday’
The Empty Threats – micro
Showing what they’re capabale of, this closing track from their ‘happy birthday’ LP is a wild ride, stinging as much as it floats, a gently literate vocal sitting snugly alongside the squeals and crashes.
TAKEN FROM THE ‘FIGURE EIGHT’ EP
Eyesite – Figure Eight
By turns urgent and shuddering or dreamy and comforting, Eyesite – rather helpfully – include some much-needed pauses for breath in between the high-intensity bursts of gloriously manic artock.