Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 13, 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:
St. Vincent’s fifth full-length LP MASSEDUCATION (pronounced “mass seduction”) marks Annie Clark’s follow-up to her celebrated self-titled 2014 venture into art-pop. Jack Antonoff (of Bleachers) is credited as a co-producer with Clark and there is a range of special guests featured on the album including Kamasi Washington, Jenny Lewis, and Thomas Bartlett.
Check out the music video for “New York” below:
Altarage: Endinghent
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Season of Mist
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Ancient VVisdom: 33
Genre: Rock // Label: Magic Bullet
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Antisect: The Rising Of The Lights
Genre: Punk // Label: Rise Above
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Beck: Colors
Genre: Folk/Experimental/Alt-Rock // Label: Capitol Records
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Bigfoot: Bigfoot
Genre: Alternative Rock // Label: Frontiers Music
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Courtney Barnett + Kurt Vile: Lotta Sea Lice
Genre: Indie-Folk/Indie-Rock // Label: Matador
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Daniel Cavanagh: Monochrome
Genre: Post-Rock/Progressive Rock // Label: Sony Music Canada
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dvsn: Morning After
Genre: R&B // Label: OVO Sound/Warner Bros
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Enslaved: E
Genre: Black Metal/Progressive Metal/Folk // Label: Nuclear Blast
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Exhumed: Death Revenge
Genre: Grind/Melodic Death Metal // Label: Relapse
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Fozzy: Judas
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal // Label: Century Media
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The Front Bottoms: Going Grey
Genre: Emo/Indie-Rock/Folk-Punk // Label: Fueled By Ramen
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The Fright: Canto V
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal // Label: Steamhammer
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Godsticks: Faced With Rage
Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal/Jazz // Label: kscope
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Gothminister: The Other Side
Genre: Industrial/Gothic/Metal // Label: AFM
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The Haxans: Party Monsters
Genre: Rock // Label: Another Century
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Jason Kui: Absence Of Words
Genre: Rock // Label: Prosthetic
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King Krule: The Ooz
Genre: Indie-Rock/Hip-Hop/Lo-Fi // Label: True Panther
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Knuckle Puck: Shapeshifter
Genre: Pop-Punk/Emo // Label: Rise
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L.A. Guns: The Missing Peace
Genre: Rock // Label: Frontiers Music
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MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE: Vicious World
Genre: Death Metal/Metalcore // Label: eOne Music
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Narcotic Wasteland: Delirium Tremens
Genre: Rock/Metal // Label: MRI
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P!nk: Beautiful Trauma
Genre: Pop/Pop-Rock // Label: RCA Records
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Pale Honey: Devotion
Genre: Alternative Rock // Label: Instant Records
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Power Quest: Sixth Dimension
Genre: Power Metal/Hard Rock/Progressive Metal // Label: Inner Wound Recordings
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Robert Plant: Carry Fire
Genre: Blues/Rock/Country // Label: Nonesuch
Stream Carry Fire here.
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Samael: Hegemony
Genre: Black Metal/Industrial/Death Metal // Label: Napalm Records
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SISTERS: Wait Don’t Wait
Genre: Alternative Rock /Pop // Label: Tender Loving Empire
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Sparzanza: Announcing The End
Genre: Metal/Rock // Label: Despotz Records
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Spectral Voice: Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Genre: Death Metal/Doom Metal // Label: Dark Descent Records
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Stars: There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light
Genre: Indie-Pop/Alternative Rock // Label: Last Gang
Stream There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light here.
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Stick To Your Guns: True View
Genre: Hardcore/Metalcore // Label: Pure Noise Records
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St. Vincent: MASSEDUCATION
Genre: Indie-Pop/Indie-Rock// Label: Loma Vista Recordings
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Vassafor: Malediction
Genre: Black Metal/Death Metal/Doom Metal // Label: Thrill Jockey
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Billy Corgan: Ogilala
Genre: Alternative Rock/Electronic // Label: BMG Rights Management
Stream Ogilala here.
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Wu-Tang Clan: The Saga Continues
Genre: Hip-Hop // Label: Entertainment One Music
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