New Releases: Indie (June 2018)
Featured below: Hilary Woods, Robocobra, VerseChorusVerse, Gruff Rhys and Snail Mail.
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Each week The Journal of Music will be compiling news on new and recent releases in contemporary, classical, jazz, traditional music, indie and more. Please send details of all releases to editor [at] journalofmusic.com.
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Hilary Woods: Colt
Sacred Bones Records
8 June 2018
Colt is the first full-length album from multi-instrumentalist and former JJ72 bassist Hilary Woods, structured in two parts, reflecting its existence primarily as a vinyl release. This album is all smooth texture and depth of sound, slow-moving and drifting.
Visit www.sacredbonesrecords.com.
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Robocobra: Plays Hard to Get
Abbreviated Records
25 May 2018
Though frequently characterised as jazz, this Northern Irish quartet are a better fit in experimental indie; though there are elements of jazz here, their groove-driven music has the texture of noise rock, and is the backdrop to understated spoken word that can be both hilarious and poignant.
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Gruff Rhys: Babelsberg
Rough Trade Records
8 June 2018
Gruff Rhys seems to be trying to capture a country music-meets-classic-hollywood-strings vibe with much of Babelsberg, but there are some geniune surprises in this album, filled with colour and imagery.
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VerseChorusVerse: Outro
Kobalt Music
14 June
This is the third album from Tony Wright, former member of And So I Watch You From Afar, under the name VerseChorusVerse. Outro is all guitar-heavy, blues-influenced rock with echoes of Frank Black, which puts Wright’s voice to the fore.
Visit www.versechorusverse.bandcamp.com.
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Snail Mail: Lush
Matador Records
8 June 2018
New York’s Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) releases her first album on Matador Records, with sincere, to-the-point indie rock. Lush has echoes of early-00s upbeat guitar indie-pop and some interesting guitar work and laid-back beats.
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Please send details of all new releases to editor [at] journalofmusic.com.