Albums in Stores – Aug 16th, 2024

New Starflyer 59. Get into it!

 

My daughter (and first child) turned 1 this month, and earlier this summer, I decided that I would record a big project in honor of her birthday! Vivian-i will be releasing later this month (only on Bandcamp), containing ten tracks that range from silly to serious, stretching my usual math-y emo influences into fresh directions. I've just released two singles from the project, "Ready" and "Every," and I'd love for people to check them out!

RIYL: Mae, Jimmy Eat World, House of Heroes, softer Thrice and The Dear Hunter

P.S. I don't want to mope for too long about this, but back in May, I was let go from my job quite unexpectedly (and I would argue unfairly), but in the aftermath, I've been attempting to get a freelancing career off the ground. I'm providing extremely reasonable and competitive prices for podcast audio editing, book/creative writing editing, music production work, and personalized/custom songwriting. If you or someone you know might be interested in working with me, please hit me up at [email protected] to discuss your project! Also, if anyone like these new singles, please consider pre-ordering the full Vivian-i project at Bandcamp for $5:

 

this is the only album that matters today

 

Hazel English - Real Life (indie pop)
Charly Bliss - FOREVER (guitar pop)
Velocity Girl - UltraCopacetic (90s guitar pop/indie rock)
Combat - Stay Golden (pop punk/emo)
Yours Truly - TOXIC (pop punk/alt rock)
Thotcrime - Connection Anxiety (“cybergrind”)
Morgan Wade - Obsessed (americana/country)
Blind Pilot - In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (indie folk/americana)
Lindsay Reamer - Natural Science (indie/indie folk)
Lesibu Grand - Triggered (indie/new wave/punk)
Telenova - Time Is A Flower (indie/cinematic pop)
Pom Poko - Champion (art pop/indie rock)
Maude Latour - Sugar Water (alt pop)
Wishy - Triple Seven (shoegaze/alt rock)
Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other (neo soul)
LEATHERS - Ultraviolet (synth pop)
Sailor Down - Maybe We Should Call It A Night EP (indie/emo)

new Hazel English is her Summer Nights EP plus a new EPs worth of tracks

 

My band fieldfox just dropped our second single, "Arrowhead."

RIYL: Armor for Sleep, Yellowcard, New Found Glory, living in 2004 before we were worried about back pain and how much hair flew off with the blow dryer.

 

Wishy
Hazel English

Some cool singles from Glare and Trauma Ray out this week too

 

Wishy
Gel

 

It’s so good

 

Gel
Foster the People
Falling in Reverse

waterparks
Bruno & Gaga
Alkaline Trio

 

Happy Friday folks! Plenty of new stuff out today to enjoy.

For a more extensive list of new albums and EPs than what's already listed in the main post, you can check out my release schedule spreadsheet which includes stuff released so far in 2024 and currently beyond as far as January 2025.

It also includes stuff that's expected and/or speculated for release with a supporting source link where available.

SINGLES:
A Place To Bury Strangers
Accuser Of The Brethren
Across The Divide
Alexis In Texas
Aleya
Alffa
Alkaline Trio (Two songs)
all in ur head (feat. LiL Lotus)
All That Remains
Amarionette
Another Days Demons
Anthony Green (Circa Survive, Saosin, L.S. Dunes)
Arankai x Dal Av
Arkangel
As Beings
Backhand
Backlash (feat. Nick Adams)
Beauty In A Plastic Bag
Ben Quad
Beyond Awareness
Blind Pilot
Bones UK
Born Of Osiris
The Butcher Sisters
Charly Bliss
Chasing Ghosts
Closed Off! (feat. Crave Death)
Coe Hill
cohen_noise
Cold Cave
Coping Method
Cyant
Dark Harbor
Dark Signal
Day x Day
Dead Icarus
Dead Rabbitts
Deadletter
Dear Me (feat. The Dangerous Summer)
Defences
Drug Church
Dygora
End Of All
Escuela Grind
Evergreen Mars
Every Hell
Equilibrium
Fever 333
fieldfox.
Frost Children (feat. Danny Brown)
Gauntlet
Ghosther
Giant Walker
Giver
Glare
Graves
Greylotus
Halcyon Days
Hamartia
Hana Lili
Hash Gordon
Headwreck
Hello Mary
Heriot
High Parasite
Humdrum
Imminence (Live)
In Her Own Words (feat. Young Culture)
Interloper
Japandroids
Jason Ross (feat. Fairlane)
Kalyptra
The Killers
Kings Of Mercia
Latter
Leprous
Lift The Curse
Lil Xtra
Locked Shut
Love Like Enemies
Meryl Streek
Midwife
Mimi Barks (feat. Raven Gray)
The Narrator
Nate Bergman (My Chemical Romance cover)
New Found Glory
Nik Nocturnal
NinDjent0
No Eye Has Seen
October Drift
Pale Waves
Paysage D'Hiver
Pest Control
Phantogram
Phantom Hourglass
Phix
Power Surge
Public Opinion
RedHook
Rematch
Reminitions
Ripped To Shreds
Rivals
Royalist
Running With Knives
$alamanderx
satellites were set alight
Schammasch
The Serpent's Tears (Drag Me Out, ex-Asking Alexandria)
Set For Tomorrow
She Hates Emotions
Sheoru
Signs Of The Swarm (Live)
Skegss
Starset
Struck A Nerve
Subtle Monster
Sullii (feat. Aarigod)
Sweet Pill (The Wonder Years cover)
Take Breath
Temperer
Then It Ends (Two songs)
Thousand Frames
Torus
Trash Boat
Traveller
Tripper
Truth Trip
Until I Wake
The Untold
Us In Motion
Vacant Voice (feat. Crystal Lake)
Vana
Vended
VENUS GRRRLS
Waterparks
We Are The Catalyst
Xiu Xiu (Two songs)
Zahna
Zero 9:36

As always, all of the above singles are available to stream from my #NewMusicFriday playlist (below) which gets completely updated every single Friday, so feel free to follow/like it and you're all set.

If you don't want to risk missing it, you can also sign up to my mailing list and I'll email it out to you every Friday along with a list of that week's new album and EP releases.

 

Charly Bliss - Forever
Combat - Stay Golden
Del Water Gap - I Miss You Already + I Haven’t Left Yet (Deluxe Edition)
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (15th anniversary edition)
Family Dinner - God Looks Out For Fools
Foster The People - Paradise State Of Mind
GEL - Persona EP
Hazel English - Real Life
Holy Blade - Self Titled EP
Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick
Matty - POPS
Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home
Saloon Dion - Where You’ll Find Me EP
Thotcrime - Connection Anxiety
Tinashe - Quantum Baby
Yours Truly - Toxic
Wishy - Triple Seven

Singles:

Alkaline Trio, Audrey Nun, Brasstracks, Chance The Rapper, Cold Cave, Drug Church, FIDLAR, Glare, Hello Mary, Hinds, Jasmin Bean, Kelly Finnigan, Japandroids, knitting, Lola Young, Many Eyes, Midwife, Nada Surf, Pale Waves, Pest Control, Public Opinion, Sweet Teeth, The Linda Lindas, Trash Boat, Trauma Ray, Wild Pink

 

Looks like just Post and Gel for me this week.

 

Small band Friday release day! Some different stuff for people to check out today.

Heavytrip EP
Honey Creek
Gollylagging EP
Misplaced EP
Yours Truly
Defences EP
The Low Blow / Topiary Creatures EP

 

Gel
Charly Bliss

 

You're awesome Chase, thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your projects! And happy bday to your daughter.

 

A bunch of stuff I’ll check out this week, but the the big ones for me are

Charly Bliss
Combat
Gel
Wishy
Yours Truly


Wishy especially has AOTY potential for me just based on my love of the 4 pre-release tracks.

And don’t let the “shoegaze” label put you off if that’s not your thing, it’s really just a texture within their sound which is more like 90s radio alt-rock meets early to mid-2000s emo pop rock like Jimmy Eat World.

 

First chunky release day in a while for me!

In order of excitement of familiar artists...

- Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home (this is wonderfully floaty and joyous stuff)
- Charly Bliss - Forever
- Yours Truly - TOXIC
- Ruston Kelly - Nashville Sessions
- Morgan Wade - Obsessed

Love the sound of Wishy from your description @Elder Lightning - so will whack that on next.

 

So. Good.

 

Charly.

Bliss.

Lfg

 

Family Dinner
Combat
Charly Bliss
Wishy
Yours Truly
GEL
Starflyer 59
Horse Jumper of Love

 

How's the new Foster The People?

 

Looking forward to Yours Truly later. I listened to the album opener on the Falling in Reverse album and I'm laughing my ass off about how badly Ronnie ripped off NF. For anyone who listens to NF...you'll hear it immediately.

 

• Charly Bliss -- supremely catchy indie pop-rock. more laid back than their past releases, but still exceptional.
• Gel -- hardcore. great hardcore.
• Thotcrime -- glitchy mathcore. can be pretty catchy. is always good.
• Dark Tranquillity -- melodeath masters put out another great album. shocking.
  
• Holy Blade -- Twitching Tongues dudes decided to make an old school AFI-sounding EP. so fun.
• Extinction A.D. -- thrash and hardcore had a child and named them Extinction A.D.
• Morgan Wade -- laid back country. really enjoying this one.
• Trench -- heavy, crushing, suffocating metalcore with electronics
• Greylotus -- prog-y, soaring deathcore.
  
• Missouri Executive Order 44 -- quick, grind-y mathcore
  
• Reserate -- metalcore with some electronics.
  
• Yours Truly -- pop-punk band continues down their darker, way less punk path. reminds me of As It Is' trajectory. This one didn't grab me like their previous releases did.

 

Wishy
Starflyer 59
Combat
Gel
Heavytrip
Horse Jumper of Love

also can't stop listening to the new Trauma Ray single