Elena Setién "Another Kind Of Revolution (Thrill Jockey)"
Elena Setién’s Thrill Jockey debut Another Kind Of Revolution is an ethereal beauty of an album. Haunting and emotive in a Kate Bush meets Bonnie Prince Billy kind of way, this is a mesmerizing album. Distant, reverb-soaked instrumentation echoes while Elena’s captivating vocals draw you in. What’s that? Oh no! I just got an excessive adjective fine from the Commissioner of Blurb Writing. Man… I wasn’t being excessive, was I? I was just trying to describe how much I love this album. I’m gonna have to take this up with the league. In the meantime, check out the title track “Another Kind Of Revolution” and try to keep your adjectives below the league cap if you can.
ENDON "Boy Meets Girl (Thrill Jockey)"
If you love Thrill Jockey because they aren’t afraid to release scream filled metal strangeness, then you are here for this ENDON record Boy Meets Girl. Impossibly fuzzed guitars, screeching art-noise, and more screaming than you can… I dunno… shake a screaming stick at? That makes no sense. Sorry. But if you too like “disparate influences such as horrorcore, Dick Dale, Joe Meek and the Dead Kennedys” then get ready to add an ENDON t-shirt to the drawer of t-shirts that spark joy. Check out the Mr. Bungle-esque syncopation and quick changes of “Doubts As A Source.”
Yann Tiersen "All (Mute)"
If you’ve somehow made it to 2019 without knowing what to expect from a new Yann Tiersen album, then shame on you. All (Mute) is the latest collection of unbelievably beautiful pieces. That’s right, I called them pieces, not songs. So you know it’s serious. Somewhere between classical music and more artistic electronic releases, this record continues along the path of his last release, writing songs about our connection to nature. Also, this is the first time he recorded an album at his newly built studio The Eskal, “built in an abandoned discotheque on the island of Ushant.” And that, friends, is the most Yann Tiersen sentence ever written. Check out the piano beauty of “Tempelhof.”
Bob Mould "Sunshine Rock (Merge)"
Check out the name of the new Bob Mould record! Does that mean Bob Mould is “happy”? Is he ever happy? Wait, is this a HAPPY ALBUM? With the title SUNSHINE ROCK you can start to think maybe, JUST MAYBE Bob has gone all Partridge Family on us. But alas, under the wall of churning guitars and power choruses is BOB MOULD. How does the guy do it? Album after album, song after song, the man has written more good words then Karl Ove Knausgård and more songs then Aleksander Vinter better known as Savant (yeah google it). Dig in to the title track, ”Sunshine Rock” and get ready for the next one!