New Music Friday!

Radar List for 4.4.25


Soul Coughing – Live 2024
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals – A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears
Babe Rainbow – Slipper imp and shakaerator
duendita – a strong desire to survive
Ora Cogan – Bury Me EP
Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Who Believes In Angels?
Sarah Mary Chadwick – Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
Manu Dibango – Dibango 82
Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers – Live At Café OTO
Boldy James x V Don – Alphabet Highway
The Waterboys – Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
Annie Stokes – Ghostwriter
Hiromi – OUT THERE
Mizmor & Hell – Alluvion
Various – NYContinuity Vol.1: New New York Does Old New York
 
musicjunkiegreg said:
🌿🌱List of the Radar Variety🌳🌲
3.28.25
(Last New Music Friday of Q1)

Alien Weaponry - Te Rā (Alternative Metal, Groove Metal)
Autumn's Dawn - We Lost Our Hope Along The Way (Black Metal, Doom Metal)
Backxwash - Only Dust Remains (Industrial/Harcore/Experimental Hip-Hip, Horrorcore)
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (Blackgaze, Shoegaze, Post-Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal)
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Indie Rock/Pop, Art Rock/Pop, Chamber Pop, Synthpop)
Eiko Ishibashi 石橋英子 -  Antigone (Electroacoustic, Art Pop, Ambient, Modern Classical)
Forlorn -  Aether (Folk Horror, Metalcore, Progressive Metal)
Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam (Indie Rock/Pop, Alternative Rock, Noise Pop)
Grey Aura - Zwart Vierkant: Slotstuk (Black Metal)
KINGDOM MOLONGI -  Kembo (Afrobeat, Afrofuturism)
Lucy Dacus - Forever Is A Feeling (Singer-Songwriter, Indie Pop/Rock/Folk, Slacker Rock)
Maya Delilah - The Long Way Round (Singer-Songwriter, Alternative, Indie)
NYX - NYX (Electronic, Drone, Choral)
Perfume Genius -  Glory (Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop/Rock, Chamber Pop, Experimental)
Pillars Of Cacophony - Paralipomena (Black Metal, Death Metal)
Racoon City - FUGUE (Post-Hardcore, Screamo)
Sammale - Ikiharmaja (Atmospheric Black Metal)
SPELLLING - Portrait Of My Heart (Art Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Ethereal Wave, Darkwave)
Telepathy - Transmissions (Post-Metal, Sludge Metal, Progressive Metal)
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Gemini (Instrumental Jazz-Funk)
Vale - No Tomorrow Worth Knowing (Post-Rock/Metal, Blackgaze, Atmospheric Black Metal)
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Did you listen to the Maya Delilah? I quite like it, it’s like an update of the whole Norah Jones thing. Killer voice and a nice vibe overall.
 
First new album release listened to from 2025 Q2: Black Country, New Road with their 3rd LP, Forever Howlong. The British sextet (formerly septet) is back as a new iteration of the band (although the six remaining members are members from their first two LPs). Yes, this is their first album sans lead vocalist Isaac Wood. On Forever Howlong, the vocal chops are shared between the band's three female members, Georgia Ellery, Tyler Hyde, and May Kershaw. And I found that, after my first listen, this offers a female perspective and invigoration to the band that I didn't expect. Because, c'mon, losing a vocalist like Wood would (lol, wood would) normally be pretty detrimental to a group. But BC, NR made the adjustment and ran with it with flying colors on this one. The songwriting and vocal performances from the three ladies were excellent.

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I am a big fan of their first two LPs and I was, admittedly, pretty nervous for how they would follow up those two records without Wood.. But the fresh direction they've gone in with Forever Howlong is a wholly original experience, and I'm left only to applaud the group on their efforts here. There is a certain feel-good, cheeriness on this album that didn't exist on their previous projects. And the band is still taking risks, still being inventive, and still making bold and creative musical choices here. If you weren't a fan of BC, NR's first two albums (or maybe you weren't a fan of Isaac Wood's vocals, specifically) and may be considering skipping over this one, then pump the brakes. If I described you here, then I believe this is definitely something that you should give a chance to. If you're a fan of their previous two efforts, and a fan of Isaac Wood's style, then, surely, this new album will be an adjustment. But, as I said, the core band is still here. The band's instrumentation is still top notch and they were as unpredictable as ever on this one.

Favorite tracks after the initial listen were: 'Nancy Tries to Take the Night', 'Two Horses', 'Salem Sisters', 'For the Cold Country', and 'Socks'. For the numbers people, after one listen, this is a solid 8.5 out of 10 for me. And it may garner a stronger score with more listens. What a great way to kick off a jam-packed Q2!

 
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