New Releases for February 23, 2024
MGMT LOSS OF LIFE - MOM + POP CD/LP
It’s possible to overstate how straightforward an album Loss of Life is: this is an album that opens with someone reciting a 13th-century Welsh poem and ends with the title track dissolving into a protracted cacophony. Rather, it strikes a balance between weirdness and pop more impressively than any MGMT album since their debut. Whether it can capitalise on their improbable TikTok fame is questionable – that kind of success rarely extends beyond the track that’s gone viral – as is what happens if it does: MGMT seemed deeply nonplussed by the celebrity Oracular Spectacular conferred on them. But while you wait and see, Loss of Life is a delightful thing to immerse yourself in. - THE GUARDIAN
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE - NONESUCH CD/LP
If The Past Is Still Alive is resigned, however, it’s by no means supine. It’s an act of fierce witness bearing, part memory box, part salute into a setting sun. The singer left their New York home aged 17, jumping freight trains, living rough, playing on street corners and in squats. They know what it takes to push up through the concrete and wire of a hostile environment, and as with 2022 album Life On Earth, or 2017 song Pa’Lante, they present it with tender but unsentimental empathy. - MOJO
ALLIE X GIRL WITH NO FACE LP
AMIGO THE DEVIL YOURS UNTIL THE WAR CD/LP
LIAM BAILEY ZERO GRACE LP
BARDO POND VOLUME 9 LP
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER MIASMA (COLV) (GRN) LP
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER NOCTURNAL (CVNL) LP
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER UNHALLOWED (COLV) LP
BLUT AUS NORD DEUS SALUTIS MEAE LP
BLUT AUS NORD MEMORIA VETUSTA III LP
THE BODY & DIS FIG ORCHARDS OF A FUTILE HEAVEN LP
BORKNAGAR FALL LP
BTS LOVE YOURSELF: TEAR LP
CAN LIVE IN PARIS 1973 LP
BETTY CARTER MODERN SOUND OF BETTY CARTER LP
ERIKA DE CASIER STILL LP
CONGO NATTY JUNGLE REVOLUTION LP
THE DEAD WEATHER HOREHOUND LP
THE DEAD WEATHER SEA OF COWARDS LP
BILL FAY GROUP TOMORROW TOMORROW & TOMORROW LP
FUCKED UP CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LP
EMAHOY GEBRU TSEGE M SOUVENIRS LP
GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA A TRIP TO THE MOON LP/CASSETTE
ASTRUD GILBERTO LOOK TO THE RAINBOW LP
JJ GREY & MOFRO JJ GREY LP
SIMON HANES TSONS OF TSUNAMI CD
HAPPY END KAZEMACHI ROMAN LP
HEAVENLY THE DECLINE & FALL OF HEAVENLY LP
HELLHAMMER APOCALYPTIC RAIDS LP
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF THE PAST IS STILL ALIVE CD/LP
INTEGRITY ALL DEATH IS MINE LP
JOB FOR A COWBOY MOON HEALER LP
JUAN MACLEAN INFINITY MACHINE CASSETTE
KING DIAMOND MASQUERADE OF MADNES LP
FELA KUTI IKOYI BLINDNESS LP
FELA KUTI O.D.O.O. LP
FELA KUTI ORIGINAL SUFFERHEAD LP
LUIZA LIAN 7 ESTRELAS LP
LIL WAYNE I AM MUSIC (CVNL) LP
CORB LUND EL VIEJO LP
SKIP MAHONEY & THE CASUALS YOUR FUNNY MOODS LP
JAMES MASTRO DAWN OF A NEW ERROR LP
JUNE MCDOOM WITH STRINGS LP
MGMT LOSS OF LIFE (BLUE) LP / CD
MINDCHATTER SPIRITUAL PUBERTY LP
MODERN ENGLISH 1 2 3 4 (COLV) LP
MOTORHEAD LOST TAPES VOL. 5 LP
ART PEPPER SMACK UP LP
PERSHER SLEEP WELL (PINK) LP
PONTE DEL DIAVOLO FIRE BLADES FROM THE TOMB LP
PRINCE VAULT - OLD FRIENDS LP
THE RACONTEURS BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS LP
THE RACONTEURS CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY LP
REAL ESTATE DANIEL (SILVER) LP
MAYA SHENFIELD UNDER THE SUN LP
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM OF THE LAST HUMAN BEING LP
SPLENDIDS & EAMON CRY BABY CRY 7”
ROD STEWART / JOOLS HOLLAND SWING FEVER LP
KEITH SWEAT MAKE IT LAST FOREVER LP
TEETHE TEETHE (GREEN) LP
RAFAEL TORAL SPECTRAL EVOLUTION LP
TV ON THE RADIO DEAR SCIENCE LP
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE DUME LP
LATE ADDITIONS…
KAY ADAMS LITTLE PINK MACK LP
BLONDE REDHEAD SIT DOWN FOR DINNER LP
CHRIS BOTTI VOL. 1 CD
ARTHUR BROWN DEVIL'S GRIP 7”
THE CHATS HIGH RISK BEHAVIOUR LP
DE LA SOUL 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING CASSETTE
VARIOUS ARTISTS DISCO NOT DISCO LP
DJ NOBU / WATA IGARASHI FLARES LP
THE DONNAS EARLY SINGLES LP
DANNY ELFMAN THE CORPSE BRIDE LP
FANNY FANNY LP
FEAR RECORD (COLV) LP
RUTH GOLLER SKYLLUMINA LP
HARDLINE DOUBLE ECLIPSE LP
KELVIN KRASH HARSH (BLUE) LP
LAMINATE LAMINATE LP
PEGGY LEE ULTIMATE PEGGY LEE LP
VARIOUS ARTISTS LIVE AT THE CROCODILE LP
THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET THE HORROR COSMIC LP
MEGA CAT MEGA CAT LP
NEW YORK DOLLS NEW YORK DOLLS LP
NUCLEAR ASSAULT SOMETHING WICKED CD
PISSED JEANS HALF DIVORCED CD/LP
DANIEL ROMANO TOO HOT TO SLEEP LP
THE RUNAWAYS THE BEST OF LP
SHEHERAZAAD QASR (CVNL) LP
FRANK SINATRA MY WAY (COLV) LP
SQUAREPUSHER DOSTROTIME CD/LP
TINARIWEN AMATSSOU LP
IKE WHITE CHANGIN TIMES CD
SLAB / KEESH MOUNTAIN WOMBO LP