Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 24, 2017. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
Background:
For a decade now, Brooklyn-based experimental rockers Dirty Projectors have been providing an unconventional listening experience. Their penchant for throwing odd time signatures, thumping bass lines, mesmerizing vocals, and electronic elements into a blender and seeing what comes out the other side has yielded surprisingly consistent results – especially considering their brazen exploration of any and all things weird. Bitte Orca became one of their most well received albums in 2009. After developing some pop sensibilities to match their burgeoning experimental energy with 2012’s Swing Lo Magellan, their music became the perfect blend of what was interesting and what made sense. The band’s self-titled record not only marks another step in that direction, but it also makes a hefty push towards the artsy offerings of peers like Justin Vernon. In what will likely be a divisive album for long time fans, Dirty Projectors brings even more boundary-testing change.
Listen to Dirty Projectors’ entire record, which has been released 3 days early, courtesy of Spotify.
Or, if you’re not that hungry yet for a Dirty Projectors album, then try the album’s lead single “Keep Your Name”:
Aaron Watson: Vaquero
Genre: Country // Label: BIG Label Records
Stream Vaquero here.
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Acceptance: Colliding By Design
Genre: Alt-Rock // Label: Rise Records
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All Them Witches: Sleeping Through The War
Genre: Stoner Rock/Psychedelic // Label: New West Records
Stream Sleeping Through The War here.
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American Grim: Freakshow
Genre: Rock // Label: eOne
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Antropomorphia: Sermon ov Wrath
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Metal Blade
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Armored Saint: Carpe Noctum
Genre: Heavy/Thrash Metal // Label: Metal Blade
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Aseethe: Hopes Of Failure
Genre: Heavy/Thrash Metal // Label: Thrill Jockey
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Benighted: Necrobreed
Genre: Death Metal/Grind // Label: Season of Mist
Stream Necrobreed here.
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Bloodbound: War Of Dragons
Genre: Heavy/Power Metal // Label: AFM
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A Breach Of Silence: Secrets
Genre: Metalcore // Label: Eclipse
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: The Tourist
Genre: Indie-Pop/Rock // Label: CYHSY Inc.
Stream The Tourist here.
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Crystal Fairy: Crystal Fairy
Genre: Hard/Alt Rock // Label: Ipecac
Stream Crystal Fairy here.
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Dams Of The West: Youngish American
Genre: Indie-Rock // Label: Columbia Records
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Dario Lorina: Death Grip Tribulations
Genre: Thrash Metal // Label: Shrapnel
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Death Therapy: The Storm Before The Calm
Genre: Industrial Groove Metal // Label: Solid State
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Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors
Genre: Indie-Rock/Experimental // Label: Domino Recording Co Ltd
Listen to Dirty Projectors here.
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Disperse: Foreword
Genre: Progressive Metal // Label: Season of Mist
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Dude York: Sincerely
Genre: Indie-Rock // Label: Hardly Art
Stream Sincerely here.
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Ex Deo: The Immortal Wars
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Napalm
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The Feelies: In Between
Genre: Post-Punk/Pop-Rock // Label: Bar None Records
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Ghost Against Ghost: Still Love
Genre: Rock // Label: Our Silent Canvas
Stream Still Love here.
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Hark: Machinations
Genre: Sludge Metal/Stoner Rock // Label: Season of Mist
Stream Machinations here.
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Hippo Campus: Landmark
Genre: Indie-Rock // Label: Grand Jury Music
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Immolation: Atonement
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Nuclear Blast
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana
Genre: Psychedelic/Progressive Rock // Label: Flightless Records
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Kingnomad: Mapping The Inner Void
Genre: Psychedelic Doom Metal // Label: Ripple
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King Woman: Created In The Image Of Suffering
Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal, Shoegaze // Label: Relapse
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Los Campesinos!: Sick Scenes
Genre: Indie-Rock/Pop // Label: Wichita Recordings
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The Mute Gods:…Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth
Genre: Progressive Rock // Label: InsideOut
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Ne-Hi: Offers
Genre: Indie-Rock/Pop // Label: Grand Jury Music
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No Thank You: No Thank You
Genre: Indie-Rock // Label: Lame-O Records
Stream No Thank You here.
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Oddisee: The Iceberg
Genre: Hip-Hop // Label: Mello Music Group
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Old 97’s: Graveyard Whistling
Genre: Rock/Americana // Label: ATO Records
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Peter Silberman: Impermanence
Genre: Indie-Rock/Dream-Pop // Label: Anti
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Piano Wire: Dream Underground
Genre: Punk/Rock // Label: Hanging Houses
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Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now
Genre: Punk/Noise-Rock // Label: Sub Pop
Stream Why Love Now here.
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Power Trip: Nightmare Logic
Genre: Hardcore/Thrash Metal // Label: Southern Lord
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Pyogenesis: A Kingdom To Disappear
Genre: Alt-Rock/Doom Metal // Label: AFM
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Reaping Asmodeia: Inpuritize
Genre: Progressive/Technical Deathcore // Label: Prosthetic
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Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway
Genre: Blues/Country // Label: Nonesuch Records
Stream Freedom Highway here.
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Sanctuary: Inception
Genre: Thrash/Power Metal // Label: Century Media
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Shadow Band: Wilderness of Love
Genre: Indie-Rock/Folk // Label: Mexican Summer
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Six Feet Under: Torment
Genre: Death Metal/Grind // Label: Metal Blade Records
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So This Is Suffering: Palace Of The Pessimist
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Unique Leader
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Steel Panther: Lower the Bar
Genre: Hard Rock // Label: Open E
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Suicide Silence: Suicide Silence
Genre: Metalcore, Death/Nu-Metal // Label: Nuclear Blast
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Tokyo Motor Fist: Tokyo Motor Fist
Genre: Hard Rock // Label: Frontiers
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Unearthly Trance: Stalking The Ghost
Genre: Sludge Metal // Label: Relapse
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Unruly Child: Can’t Go Home
Genre: Hard Rock // Label: Frontiers
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Xiu Xiu: Forget
Genre: Experimental Electronic/Post-Punk // Label: Polyvinyl Record Co.
Stream Forget here.
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Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard: Supersonic Rock ‘N Roll
Genre: Stoner Metal // Label: Napalm
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