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ALKALINE TRIO – BLOOD, HAIR, AND EYEBALLS
Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs is Alkaline Trio‘s first studio album since 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?, which went top 5 on Billboard’s US Independent Albums and US Alternative Albums charts.
Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs is the band’s final album with long time drummer, Derek Grant, who left the band last June. Atom Willard, formerly of Rocket from the Crypt, Against Me! and Angels & Airwaves, has taken over as the band’s new drummer.
Stream • Rise • 2024
CALIGULA’S HORSE – CHARCOAL GRACE
Caligula’s Horse‘s 6th studio album, Charcoal Grace, is described by the band as being about “the grim allure and strange beauty of stillness, silence and loss.”
Stream • InsideOutMusic • 2024
FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES – DARK RAINBOW
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes‘ fifth LP, Dark Rainbow, “is one of their most accomplished records to date, in part due to the strong soul-searching that becomes a core facet of the album’s identity.” (Rolling Stone UK).
Stream • AWAL • 2024
FUTURE ISLANDS – PEOPLE WHO AREN’T THERE ANYMORE
People Who Aren’t There Anymore is the seventh studio album from beloved synth-pop band Future Islands.
Stream • 4AD • 2024
JUNODREAM – POOLS OF COLOUR
Pools of Colour is the anticipated debut album album alternative/indie group junodream.
Stream • AWAL • 2024
NEWDAD – MADRA
After releasing the Waves EP in 2021 and the Banshee EP in 2022, Irish indie band NewDad will release their debut album, Madra, this week.
Madra explores various difficult parts of the human condition and the idea of the title is that these feelings that come up are sometimes ones you can’t escape – feelings that follow you around like a dog. We had an amazing team around us who helped bring these songs to life and we’re so excited for this album to be out in the world. We hope that people connect with the songs and that Madra can be a comfort to everyone who listens.
NewDad singer/songwriter Julie Dawson
Stream • FairYouth/Atlantic • 2024
QUARTERS OF CHANGE – PORTRAITS
After releasing their debut album in 2022, and making their Twin Cities live debut at the 7th St. Entry in 2023, New York rockers Quarters of Change return this week with their sophomore album, Portraits.
Stream • 300 Entertainment • 2024
GRUFF RHYS – SADNESS SETS ME FREE
Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals released their most recent album to date, Dark Days/Light Years in 2009, and then went on hiatus in 2016.
During that time, frontman Gruff Rhys has released five solo albums and two soundtrack albums. He returns this week with his eighth solo album, Sadness Sets Me Free.
Stream • Rough Trade • 2024
TY SEGALL – THREE BELLS
Three Bells, Ty Segall‘s 15th studio album in 16 years, is a “fifteen song cycle that takes a journey to the center of the self” and “arcs, rainbow-like, into a land nearly beyond songs.” (Bandcamp)
Stream • Drag City • 2024
THE SMILE – WALL OF EYES
Radiohead-adjacent English rockers The Smile (which features Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead) have returned with their sophomore album, Wall of Eyes.
Wall of Eyes follows the critically-acclaimed 2022 debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention.
Stream • XL Recordings • 2024
STATIC-X – PROJECT: REGENERATION VOL. 2
Nine years after the death of frontman Wayne Static, Static-X are set to release their second album of songs featuring recovered material their late frontman had been demoing.
Like 2020’s Project Regeneration: Vol. 1, its follow up contains songs with Wayne Static on lead vocals, as well as new songs with “Xer0” (Edsel Dope from Dope) on lead vocals. Project Regeneration: Vol. 2‘s lead single is a cover of Nine Inch Nails‘ “Terrible Lie.”
Stream • The Orchard Music • 2024
TORRES – WHAT AN ENORMOUS ROOM
What an Enormous Room is the sixth LP and follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Thirstier from Orlando’s Mackenzie Scott who performs under the name TORRES.
Stream • Merge • 2024
CRAIG WEDREN – THE DREAM DREAMING
Craig Wedren, film composer and former Shudder to Think frontman, is to release his fifth solo album this week.
The Dream Dreaming is (as described by Ghetto Blaster Magazine) “a yearlong series of singles and videos which allows Wedren to focus on a song and its visuals at the same time, candy flipping between the two as one informs the other.”
Stream • Tough Lover • 2024
WHITECHAPEL – LIVE IN THE VALLEY
Live in the Valley, the 13-song live album from Tennessee deathcore band Whitechapel, was recorded at their hometown Christmas benefit show in 2022. This live set features six songs from 2019’s The Valley, five from 2021’s Kin and more.
Stream • Metal Blade • 2024
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