Kinetic punk rock outfit The Armed recently announced a new LP, Perfect Saviors, to be released via Sargent House on August 25. You can listen to the lead single Sport of Form below.
Perfect Saviors
01 Sport of Measure
02 FKA World
03 Clone
04 Modern Vanity
05 Everything’s Glitter
06 Burned Mind
07 Sport of Form
08 Patient Mind
09 Vatican Under Construction
10 Liar 2
11 In Heaven
12 Public Grieving
June was an exceptional month for new music. Listed below are the releases that kept our listening attention.
Last
Loma Prieta
LP, Deathwish
Released 6/30/2023
Systemic
Divide and Dissolve
LP, Invada
Released 6/30/2023
I Don’t Know
bdrmm
LP, Rock Action
Released 6/30/2023
Disaster
Ostraca
LP, Skeletal Lightning
Released 6/30/2023
The Beggar
SWANS
LP, Young God
Released 6/23/2023
This Can’t Exist
Native Nod
LP Compilation, Numero Group
Formal Growth in the Desert
Protomartyr
LP, Domino
Released 6/2/2023
Archival record label Numero Group has released an LP compilation of Native Nod reissues. The album, titled This Can't Exist, compiles the band's three highly influential and genre-defining 7" EPs originally released for the Gern Blandsten label in the '90s, along with liner notes, previously unseen photographs, and other band-related ephemera. This Can't Exist is available for purchase now in three different vinyl formats.
This Can’t Exist
01 Bread
02 High Tide in Alaska
03 Back to Mimsey
04 Answers
05 Crossings
06 Tangled
07 Lower G.I. Bleed
08 Runner
Austin psych-rock outfit Holy Wave will release a new album called Five of Cups on August 4 via Suicide Squeeze. The 9-track LP follows 2020’s Interloper. See the album’s cover and tracklist below.
Five of Cups
01 Five of Cups
02 Bog Song
03 Chaparral
04 Path of Least Resistance
05 Nothing is Real
06 Hypervigilance
07 The Darkest Timeline (featuring Lorelle Meets the Obsolete)
08 Nothing in the Dark
09 Happier (featuring Estrella del Sol)
Blonde Redhead will release a new album, Sit Down for Dinner, on September 29 via Section1. It’s the band’s first LP of new songs since 2014’s Barragan. Hear the mesmerizing lead single, Snowman, below.
Sit Down for Dinner
01 Snowman
02 Kiss Her Kiss Her
03 Not for Me
04 Melody Experiment
05 Rest of Her Life
06 Sit Down for Dinner (Part 1)
07 Sit Down for Dinner (Part 2)
08 I Thought You Should Know
09 Before
10 If
11 Via Savona
Two essential albums released in May 2023.
The Gray In Between
Jeromes Dream
LP, Iodine and Microspy
Released 5/5/2023
Live at Levitation (2012)
Thee Oh Sees
LP, The Reverberation Appreciation Society
Released 5/19/2023
01 Sequitur
02 NSAIDs
03 Sunlight
04 Dose
05 Fire in Black & White
06 One-Off (Part 2)
07 Circular Saw
08 Symbios
09 Dreamlessnessless
10 Glare
11 LLC
Our favorite albums released in March 2023.
Two Beasts (LP Version)
Sumac
LP, SIGE
Released 3/24/2023
Milk for Flowers
H. Hawkline
LP, Heavenly Recordings
Released 3/10/2023
Compact Trauma
Ulrika Spacek
LP, Tough Love
Released 3/10/2023
Suffocating Hallucination
Full of Hell and Primitive Man
LP, Closed Casket Activities
Released 3/3/2023
Detroit’s finest post-punk outfit Protomartyr announced a new album, Formal Growth in the Desert. The full-length LP, the band’s sixth, will be released June 2 via Domino. Watch the video for lead single Make Way, directed by Trevor Naud, below.
Formal Growth in the Desert
01 Make Way
02 For Tomorrow
03 Elimination Dances
04 Fun In Hi Skool
05 Let’s Tip the Creator
06 Graft Vs. Host
07 3800 Tigers
08 Polacrilex Kid
09 Fulfillment Center
10 We Know the Rats
11 The Author
12 Rain Garden
In this first installment of the monthly Best New Albums post, we highlight our favorite albums released in February 2023.
Nature Morte
Big Brave
LP, Thrill Jockey
Released 2/24/2023
All Fiction
Pile
LP, Exploding In Sound
Released 2/17/2023
7s
Avey Tare
LP, Domino
Released 2/17/2023
Photograph by Michael Lamertz
The new album by San Francisco (by way of Connecticut) screamo pioneers Jeromes Dream, The Gray In Between, is set for release on May 5 via Iodine Recordings.
The Gray In Between
01 Conversations In Time, On Mute
02 Stretched Invisible From London
03 South By Isolation
04 Pines On The Hill (With Guests)
05 Cosmos In Season
06 AAEEAA
07 On Holiday With Infinity
08 The Future Of Memory
09 Often Oceans
10 The Last Water Pearl
