Horrorshow — Bardo State (Elefant Traks)
Bardo State is "a sophisticated, sexy, dance-inflected record", with "thrilling" new terrain. Highlights include Astray ("spacious, voluptuous, and properly sexy"), Eat The Cake ("a funked-out dance jam") and My Time, where "the world caves in, the spaceship takes off, the curtain drops, and gritty reality gives way to a dreamscape". We gave it four-and-a-half stars and our Album Of The Week.
Holy Holy — PAINT (Wonderlick/Sony)
PAINT is "something quite special", a "noisy, colourful and exploratory" listen. One half of the act Timothy Carroll "has rarely put a foot wrong in his entire career" and this follows, bearing "all the fingerprints of the pair's" band. With essences of Ball Park Music, Hungry Kids Of Hungary and Emma Louise, "it's a gorgeous listen. Do not miss it". We gave it four stars.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana (Flightless/Remote Control)
King Gizzard's "sweet and simple formula of write a killer hook then repeat, repeat, repeat" is "wearing a little thin", but this album is "something of an experimental release" with its playfulness with microtones. The album may be a little "underwhelming" as there don't "appear to be any anthems here that might dominate the Js the way Gamma Knife did", but we gave it three-and-a-half stars.
and the rest of the releases…
A Breach Of Silence — Secrets (Eclipse Records)
Adam Torres — I Came To Sing The Song (Fat Possum/Inertia)
Allan Rayman — Roadhouse 01 (Communion)
AntropomorphiA — Sermon Or Wrath (Metal Blade Records)
Armored Saint — Carpe Noctum (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Broads — Vacancy (Independent)
Children Of Alice — Children Of Alice (Warp/Inertia)
Crystal Fairy — Crystal Fairy (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
Dag — Benefits Of Solitude (Bedroom Suck)
Dams Of The West — Youngish American (30th Century Records)
Dear Reader — Day Fever (City Slang/Inertia)
Dirty Projectors — Dirty Projectors (Domino/EMI)
Dope Lemon — Hounds Tooth (EMI)
Dude York — Sincerely (Hardly Art/Inertia)
Eric Gales — Middle Of The Road (Mascot Label Group/Provogue)
Froth — Outside (Briefly) (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Future — HNDRXX (Epic/Sony)
Herzeloyde — 4D (Trench)
Hippo Campus — Landmark (Transgressive Records/[PIAS] Australia)
Immolation — Atonement (Nuclear Blast)
Jeff Lang — Alone In Bad Company (ABC/Universal)
Karriem Riggins — Headnod Suite (Stones Throw/Inertia)
King Woman — Created In The Image Of Suffering (Relapse)
Little Big Town — The Breaker (EMI)
Los Campesinos! — Sick Scenes (Wichita Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — Ensayo De Un Desparecido (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
Peter Silberman — Impermanence (Pod/Inertia)
Pissed Jeans — Why Love Now (Sub Pop/Inertia)
Postblue — Deprogrammed (Independent)
Powerline Sneakers — disasterpiece (Kasumuen Records)
Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway (Nonesuch/Warner)
Sailor & I — The Invention Of Loneliness (Skint/Liberator)
Sanctuary — Inception (Century Media/Sony)
Sara Bethe Nelson — Oh, Evolution (Burger Records)
Shadow Band — Wilderness Of Love (Mexican Summer/Rocket)
Six Feet Under — Torment (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Stephen Dorrington — 1987 (Independent)
Stormzy — Gang Signs And Prayer (#MERKY Records/ADA)
Suicide Silence — Suicide Silence (Nuclear Blast)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre — Don't Get Lost (A Recordings/MGM)
The Waifs — Ironbark (Jarrah Records)
They — Nu Religion: Hyena (Mind Of A Genius/Warner)
Thundercat — Drunk (Brainfeeder/Inertia)
Various Artists — Gimme Danger: Music From The Motion Picture (Rhino/Warner)
Various Artists — The Shack: Music From And Inspired By The Original Motion Picture (Atlantic/Warner)
Various Artists — The Glory Days Of Aussie Pub Rock Vol. 2 (Festival/Warner)
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