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:
Crimson Haze – Interstellar Symphony (OS) Delivery – Force Majeure (AU) Geowulf – The Child (AU) Jasmine.4.t – You are the morning (OS) O.M.R – III (L) Songhoy Blues – Heritage (OS) The Media – Pilot EP (AU) The Weather Station – Humanhood (OS)
SINGLES:
Mess Esque – Take me to your infinite garden (L) Pale Blue Eyes – Rituals (OS) Royal Chant – Tripwires (AU) Shannon and the Clams – Wax and String (OS) Soliph – Kaleidoscope (L) Σtella – Adagio (OS)
Over to Ontario to begin with, we’ve been blessed with Humanhood, the new album from the The Weather Station, the ethereal, experimental collective lead by singer, multi-instrumentalist (and former actor) Tamara Lindemann. It’s a sublime slize of jazz-inflected art-pop and instrospective folk, that makes subtle use of field recorded samples, muted pianos and electronic. Originally emerging as a live jam in 2023, the pieces on this album were shaped into a beautiful collective whole and it’s a fine Seventh album from the Canadian group
Many flyer miles away, in Naarm, Delivery have just dropped their raucous and riveting sophomore record, Force Majeure. A reference to acts of god (and lack of culpability) it’s a superbly paced, and tightly played one from end to end, that ebbs and flows etween noisy and urgent post-punk and slowed down sleazy guitar pop. The songwriting prowess of Bec Allen and James Lynch in this group has evolved incredibly since they launched the project to cope with the 2020 lockdown, and this is a fine record that also exlores absurdist themes and the malaise of current life in a post-pandemic world. Out now on Fat Possum Records.
Transgressive Records today has released Heritage, the fourth album from Mali’s Songhoy Blues. It’s an alluring record, and a more stripped back and acoustic direction than their previous work, diving deeper into the Desert Blues (or Timbuktu Punk) sound, which draws on the rich melodic traditions of the Niger Delta. The beauty of the compositions belies more urgent themes, and lyrically this is focused as a social critique aimed at corruption, colonial displacement and environmental degradation.
Also keep an ear out for slices from the latest O.M.R (aka Orson’s Martian Radio) EP III. The hard-gigging local group have dropped a five-track gem of slapping blues, fuzz-rock and punk that takes cues from the likes of B-52’s. You could even check out their recent Live at 2SER video to hear more.
Also, we had a surprise single from Shannon and the Clams drop. The Oakland Garage-Psycheteers are currently on a national tour around the country, and found time to also catch up with the Monday Daily’s Annie Lee about all that and more. Keeping busy despite the jetlag. Also keep an ear out for some stunning baroque electronics from new Eora artist Soliph as well brand new Mess Esque and Royal Chant on the airwaves, along with much much more on the 2ser airwaves. Check the list above, tune into 107.3fm anytime, good to have you here!
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