Welcome to the new music review where we connect you with some of the best new music spinning on Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs.

ALBUMS:

Eamon – No matter the season  FEATURE ALBUM
Bodi Bill – I love you I do
Easy Browns – Commercial Fluff + Unbelievable Dust
Elsy Wameyo – Nilotic EP
Mamas Gun – Cure the Jones
Night Palace – Divine Rings
Papercuts – Past Life Regression

SINGLES: 

Air Waves – The Dance
Dick Dudley – Handyman
Ebi Soda – Gated Community with a Public Pool
Girl and Girl – Garden Song
Kaah – Gud Har Med Sig Så Många Namn (CVRL Remix)
Surprise Chef – Velodrome
The Stroppies – Up to my Elbows
Working Men’s Club – Widow
Yves Jarvis – Bootstrap Jubilee

The feature album this week on 2ser is brought to you by Staten Island native Eamon who serves up a soulful sound that’s driven by husky and raw vocals. No matter the season is the fourth album from Eamon and presents a seamless fusion of powerful lyrics, 70s jazz and African music samples, live drumming and horns. The record was Co-produced by Likeminds.

Shifting away from the soulful grooves of Eamon we have the genre blending 5th album from Berlin outfit Bodi Bill, I love U I Do. After ten years the trio are back with a record that offers up a melting pot of sound that showcases everything from indie rock, soul, electronica and disco. All of these genres bounce off one another creating a collage-quality to the groups music, as well as surprising directions across the whole album. Another release that takes the listener on a multi-genre excursion is Adelaide artist Elsy Wameyo’s debut EP Nilotic. Fusing Jazz elements with electronic production, all working to form the backdrop of Wameyo’s impressive vocal delivery.

Next up is Commercial Fluff + Unbelievable Dust an album from experimental psych rockers the Easy Browns, whose sound balances out breezy guitar lines with entrancing vocal melodies that float along the rhythm section. Political undertones are present lyrically from the Melburnians, and disdain for consumerism and it’s environmental cost is tackled within the songwriting.

Carrying on with a sound that places dreamy guitar and vocal lines that glide with a special velvet softness is the 10th record from San Francisco Papercuts (Jason Quever), Past Life Regression. Quever takes the listener on an intimate trip with his washed out and emotive lyricism that’s pushed forward by his distinct west coast folk-pop style. 

Shimmering vocals, squelchy synths and Jangly guitars all take centre stage in Divine Rings, album number 4 from US group Night Palace. Warm harmonies permeate throughout the record alongside breezy guitars that exude a feeling of familiarity and warmness. A similar tenderness is coming in from London soul group Mammas Gun,  who draw glaring stylistic cues from the 70s era sounds of Marvin Gaye, The Dramatics and Bill Withers, all while still presenting their own original and gorgeous soul and deep funk on their album, Cure the Jones. 

All of those albums are in excellent company on 2SER with a brilliant array of new singles being spun throughout the week on the station. Sydney artist Dick Dudley is back with another chugging spoken word number in Handyman, showcasing his array of influences and unique vocal delivery with wit and charming lyricism resembling that of fellow post punker’s Dry Cleaning and Squid. Jangly guitars and unique lyrical story telling is on display in Brisbane indie rock n roll band Girl and Girl’s new single Garden Song.

A fresh track is also heard from Manchester outfit Working Mens Club’s in their latest synth spiked single Widow. It blends blends pulsating acid house beats, with an entrancing vocal melody that floats in and out of the track ominously. In self produced multi instrumentalist Yve’s Jarvis’ new pop psychedelia single Bootstrap Jubilee, reflective vocals are coupled with a looping guitar melody that will through you into a trance.