2024 New Music

[Ben7amin_]

Quite like the new Our Girl  (side project of Big Moon guitarist)  album very chilled & mellodic -  Only point of note it feels like a lovely chilled summers day album.  Released in November. 

[CharlotteB]

It's a lovely album. I've been listening to their stuff more than The Big Moon's lately. Got tickets to see them later this month. Can't wait!

[Quark]

I liked their first album, will give this a listen.  Never realised it was Soph's side project though!  Big Moon are one of my under the radar live favourites, seen them a couple of times and they're great value.

[Ben7amin_]

14 hours ago, CharlotteB said:

It's a lovely album. I've been listening to their stuff more than The Big Moon's lately. Got tickets to see them later this month. Can't wait!

 

16 minutes ago, Quark said:

I liked their first album, will give this a listen.  Never realised it was Soph's side project though!  Big Moon are one of my under the radar live favourites, seen them a couple of times and they're great value.

 

If Underrated was a band. - it would be the Big Moon

 

Good lyrics, Good albums fun live.  - Just not getting the appreciation they deserve sadly.  

[CharlotteB]

4 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

 

If Underrated was a band. - it would be the Big Moon

 

Good lyrics, Good albums fun live.  - Just not getting the appreciation they deserve sadly.  

 

Absolutely. They join quite a lengthy list of all-female bands that should really be higher up the billing. I've seen them a fair few times, once a rough pub when they were pretty much unknown. They've never disappointed me ❤️ 

[Acid_Haze]

The new Tyler the Creator album is good. It feels more personal than his other albums, definitely got a lot of stuff to still unpick from it. Not sure I prefer it to his last 3 - which were all amazing imo. It's still full of bangers, more towards the soul/psychedelia side than Hip Hop. I know that he said in 2022 Mr. Morale was his favourite album that year, and you can definitely feel the influence conceptually. Glastonbury really need to book him to headline at some point.

[nikkic]

New Sam Fender sounds a lot like Sam Fender. 

And by that, I mean it sounds like Bruce Springsteen. 

[st dan]

Really enjoying the mew album from half.alive

I only discovered them fairly recently, and imagine a few on here may be a fan. 

[Acid_Haze]

I love the new Cure album, wow. I can't believe they can come out with something so good and on par with their best stuff so late in their career. It doesn't have the sort of 'hits' that you might get with some of the older albums but man does it have that beautiful emotive atmosphere that you'd get on Disintegration. It has a lot of sadness, you can hear that it's about grief, getting older, the world changing etc. The more I listen to it the more I love it.

[Joey Peeps]

New Manics single is lovely. Possibly their catchiest since Your Love Alone. 

[Stokesy10]

As part of my 200 albums from 2024 challenge, I've come across a very interesting Nigerian band called Mdou Moctar and their album "Funeral for Justice". Highly recommend it. Some superb bluesy/psych rock riffs. Would love to see them on West Holts!

[Acid_Haze]

The new Mount Eerie album is sick - perfect for these icy winter days. It has a claustrophobic, cold sort of sound to it which really works. I like the introspection and the rawness of the lyrics. His best since the devastating one he did in 2017. The themes of the album are like the sociopolitical made personal, about colonialism and humanity's relationship with nature. Folky music with some experimentation. It is a pretty long one though.

Edited Wednesday at 05:49 PM by Acid_Haze

[Acid_Haze]

27 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

As part of my 200 albums from 2024 challenge, I've come across a very interesting Nigerian band called Mdou Moctar and their album "Funeral for Justice". Highly recommend it. Some superb bluesy/psych rock riffs. Would love to see them on West Holts!

Shoulda seen him on the Park stage Sunday morning if you went this year, was 👌

[Stokesy10]

33 minutes ago, Acid_Haze said:

Shoulda seen him on the Park stage Sunday morning if you went this year, was 👌

Oh sh*t, I had no idea! I didn't go this year, but I bet that was awesome!

[wairey]

I'm really enjoying the singles that have come out so far off the new Maribou State album, hopefully they'll be on the farm this year

[MilkyJoe]

New single from Ren drops tonight…

 

[MilkyJoe]

14 hours ago, MilkyJoe said:

New single from Ren drops tonight…

 

 

 

 

[Acid_Haze]

The new Laura Marling album is beautiful, such a lovely personal album about her daughter. It's got a cozy warmness about it and I love the string arrangements and how they marry well with the gorgeous guitarwork and her voice. It has a great earthy quality to it, moreso than her previous albums. There's something especially captivating about this album that I can't put my finger on.

Edited Friday at 12:10 PM by Acid_Haze

[Meerkat]

Loving the new Kendrick album, a nice surprise release

[st dan]

5 hours ago, Meerkat said:

Loving the new Kendrick album, a nice surprise release

Yep, it’s superb. What a generational talent he is .. head and shoulders about the rest. Reincarnated is up there with his best ever songs for me. 

[Looother]

New Michael Kiwanuka album yesterday. Perhaps as a whole a little less immediate than his others, but still very wonderful. He just makes my ears extraordinarily happy.

[Jack The Stripper]

On 11/12/2024 at 12:40 PM, Ben7amin_ said:

 

 

If Underrated was a band. - it would be the Big Moon

 

Good lyrics, Good albums fun live.  - Just not getting the appreciation they deserve sadly.  

Can't disagree with this, Daydreaming was probably my fave tune of 2023. Hopefully the tour with Glass Animals will have gotten them a bit of traction.

[Someoni]

Ren's new stuff is phenomenal but nothing will ever top...

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Someoni

[Joey Peeps]

Not quite new music but can anyone help me with the name of a band I've been desperately trying to find on Spotify to no avail?

 

Manchester band, quite new. Lead singer sung in a distinctively Manc accent and possibly wore a beanie style hat. One of their songs was played a bit on 6 Music, maybe towards the end of last year. Had a kind of psychedelic, middle eastern guitar sound and was called something like the story of a man, or at least some of the lyrics were like that. Doing my head in.

 

Disclaimer is I may have misremembered much of this.