Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

Bartees Strange – Horror (OS)
Charlie Needs Braces – Nyaa Wa (AU)
Fabiola – The Mushroom Type (OS)
Harvey Pink’s Flying Bathhouse – Everybody Digs (AU)
Jane Dire – I’m Jane DIre (L)
Q Lazzarus – The Many Lives of… (OS)
Shady Nasty – Trek LP (L)
Sunny War – Armageddon in a summer dress (OS)

SINGLES:

Club Bistro – Mongol Boogie (L)
Derya Yildirim and Grup Simsek – Ceylan (OS)
Eggy – Colouring the Silence (AU)
Julia Why – Pale Blue Dot (L)
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke – Back in the game (L/OS)
Olivia’s World – Empresario (L)
The Melodrones – Til Kingdom Come (L)

Much new music to enjoy across 2SER this week, and beginning with the latest Charlie Needs Braces. The musical project lead by GuriNgai woman Charlie Woods, their second album, Nyaa Wa (“take care”) is a brilliant combinationa of playful, theatrical jazz, electronica and dubby production that is inextricably connected with land, culture, conservation, family and nature. Intertwining live performance and loop-based rhythmic sampling, vocals and fantastic effected horn lines, it’s a brilliant and unique record that covers a lot of sonic territory and that wraps you in it’s warm yet cinematic sounds.

This week also sees the release of a retrospective compilation of late New Jersey musician Diane Duckley aka Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: the many lives of … is a 19-track deep dive into the cult New Jersey musician. Born in 1960 and releasing music on small local labels through the 80s, Q Lazarrus gained broad attention after the use of Goodbye Horses in that scene in Silence of the Lambs (special mention to Clerks 2). More than a one hit wonder however, Lazarrus recorded a range of excellent material, particularly between 1985-95, and this compilation on Terrorbird features rare and unreleased cuts from that era. From visceral and erotic new wave to disco and lo-fidelity rock, Q Lazzarus wrote songs about everything from sexuality to inner city poverty and this is an excellent snapshot of the work of a truly authentic artist.

This week also sees the release of the eighth album from highly prolific Los Angeles punk-folk poet, Sunny War. Armaggedon in a summer dress is a personal and impassioned record of alternative folk, gospel and blues-rock. The follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, Sunny War (aka Sydney Ward) wrote much of Armageddon whilst Much of the album was written during a period in which she moved into the house of her late father in Chattanooga (Tennessee).  Originally believing it to be haunted, it turned out she had been hallucinating from gas poisoning, and themes of memory loss and the ghosts of past selves pervade the songwriting.  It’s an ultimately cathartic one though with some great guest features (Tre Burt, Valerie June and Steve Ignorant).

Out just this week is Back in the Game, a new collaboration between Mark Pritchard (Africa HiTech, Global Communication et al) and Thom Yorke. It’s a deep and pulsing atmospheric cut, frayed with gentle distortion (thanks to  a vintage H910 harmonizer on Yorke’s vocals) and also their first release together since 2016.

Also keep an ear out for local art-rockers The Melodrones 50s doo-wop inspired “Til Kingdom Come” (a final taste of an imminent album) as new Julia Why, Olivia’s World, Club Bistro and much more.