New Music Friday!

Hollywood said:
Stranger Ranger is 🆕 to me and interesting in that the album is a sonic pastiche. A mashup of experimental dream-pop, shoegaze, neo-psychedelia, chillwave, synth-pop, Britpop and alternative dance music circa 1990s.👌
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I owned their first album after they switched names from Sioux Falls to Strange Ranger. I think that album might have been the first album I added to the Discog database. Anyways that album sound a lot like Modest Mouse and I thought it was pretty good. I haven’t kept tabs on them since then though.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I owned their first album after they switched names from Sioux Falls to Strange Ranger. I think that album might have been the first album I added to the Discog database. Anyways that album sound a lot like Modest Mouse and I thought it was pretty good. I haven’t kept tabs on them since then though.
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From what I've read, their debut album was more melodic post-punk and was inspired by Modest Mouse and Pixies. Their sophomore album, was lusher and more textural in sound akin to bedroom pop. Since then, they experimented with various genres and went in numerous directions which yeilded an ambitious and surprising mixtape in 2021. Fast ⏩ to 2023's Pure Music, an album recorded in a cabin in Upstate New York, the album nearly abandons all vestiges of the band's previous iterations.
 
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Radar List for 7.28.23


Geoff Berner – 7 Plague Songs
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
Knoel Scott feat. Marshall Allen – Celestial
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 EP
Gunn Truscinski Nace – Glass Band
Joni Mitchell – At Newport
Ambrose Akinmusire – Beauty Is Enough
Kilamanzego – Black Weirdo EP
High Pulp – Days in the Desert
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – New Future City Radio
MMYYKK – The Midst of Things
El Kontessa الكونتيسة - Nos Habet Caramel | نص حبة كراميل
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Slaughter on First Avenue
The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land 25th Anniversary – Remixes
Primal Scream – Reverberations (Travelling In Time)
The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP
Lomond Campbell – Interference Patterns EP
 
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A lot of middling.

🔥
  • Saloli - Canyon [I might have this a tier too high, but I give artists from Portland favorable grades in personal rankings. Enjoyable live show last week]
👍
  • ANOHNI and The Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross [beautifully performed, eerily like that of Nina Simone. It'll demand revisits and I can see this one going into the high tier]
  • JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES: DLC PACK (EP) [enjoyable side quest, though not necessary to complete the main game]
🤷‍♂️
  • Agriculture - Agriculture
  • blue honey - sick & tired (EP)
  • Disclosure - Alchemy
  • Kota the Friend - Protea [my favorite of this grouping, but not by much]
  • Nathanael LaRochette - Old Growth [RoyaltyFreeYoutubeVlogCore]
  • NewJeans - Get Up (EP) [fun, short and sweet K-Pop]
👎
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🤮
  • LUCKI - s*x m*ney dr*gs [mumble rap is the worst]

Second opinion: Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings 👍➡️🔥 [stunningly gorgeous, I can't stay away]
 
Between new releases from Irreversible Entanglements, Anjimile, James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet, Allison Russell, Yussef Dayes, Black Market Brass, Alabaster dePlume, and Matthew Halsall - not to mention big releases other folks will be more excited about than me, including a courtney barnett soundtrack, a posthumous Sparklehorse album, and Olivia Rodrigo's sophomore album... September 8th is looking STACKED!!!
 
avecigrec said:
Radar List for 7.28.23


Geoff Berner – 7 Plague Songs
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah – Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
Knoel Scott feat. Marshall Allen – Celestial
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 EP
Gunn Truscinski Nace – Glass Band
Joni Mitchell – At Newport
Ambrose Akinmusire – Beauty Is Enough
Kilamanzego – Black Weirdo EP
High Pulp – Days in the Desert
Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – New Future City Radio
MMYYKK – The Midst of Things
El Kontessa الكونتيسة - Nos Habet Caramel | نص حبة كراميل
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Slaughter on First Avenue
The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land 25th Anniversary – Remixes
Primal Scream – Reverberations (Travelling In Time)
The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge EP
Lomond Campbell – Interference Patterns EP
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Updated to include this one...

 
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