Holy smokes, is there ever alot of music coming out this week! Big names, buzzed-about indie bands, and everything in between … check out info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may never have heard of (but should know about), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
3, The Ghost You Gave To Me (Metal Blade)
Absu, Abzu (Candlelight)
From Pitchfork: "An energizing sprint through black metal, bedrock thrash, symphonic flourishes, and arcane mythological references… layers of density define the record — in sonics, in lyrics, in the completely triumphant, surprisingly melodic manner in which it merges the two. Perfect and immense."
Ryan Adams, Ashes & Fire (PAX-AM/Capitol)
The moodily prolific roots rock singer-songwriter issues his first record via his own label, under the Capitol umbrella; Ashes & Fire is his 13th overall.
Lauren Alaina, Wildflower (Mercury Nashville/19 Recordings/Interscope)
Baron Von Luxxury, Women Of A Certain Age (Manimal Vinyl)
Bella Novela, The Archeress (self-release)
Scott H. Biram, Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot Records)
Bjork, Biophilia (Nonesuch)
Tabi Bonney, Summer Years (Caroline)
Casiokids, Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen (Polyvinyl)
Confused Little Girl, Southern Gentlemen (Rotten Records)
Cosmo Jarvis, Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange? (25th Frame / The End Records)
Brian Eno has given his seal of approval to the quirky British singer-songwriter, recently telling BBC6Music "Cosmo Jarvis is a very interesting example to me of a new kind of person; a new kind of artist; a one in a million artist." Check out his video for "Gay Pirates" after the jump, along with the rest of this week's new releases…
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2011.
