In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on August 9, 2024:
beabadoobee, This Is How Tomorrow Moves
beabadoobee has released her new album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, via Dirty Hit. Recorded with producer Rick Rubin at his Shangri-La studio, the Beatopia follow-up was preceded by the singles ‘Ever Seen’, ‘Take a Bite’, ‘Coming Home’, and ‘Beaches’. “I think I’m more aware of my actions in these songs,” Bea Kristi reflected in press materials. “In my previous records, I would consistently sing about my reaction towards other people’s doings, like a blame game. But in this record, it’s accepting that there’s an inevitability of my fault in there too. Whether it’s childhood trauma or relationship issues, it takes two to tango in everything.”
oso oso, life till bones
Jade Lilitri is back with a new oso oso album, life till bones, out now via the band’s own Yunahon label. Produced by frequent collaborator Billy Mannino, the 12-track LP serves as the follow-up to 2022’s sore thumb. It features the previously released singles ‘all of my love’ and ‘that’s what time does’.
Ravyn Lenae, Bird’s Eye
Ravyn Lenae has unveiled her sophomore album, Bird’s Eye. The follow-up to the R&B singer’s 2022 debut Hypnos was executive produced by Dahi. “Bird’s Eye signifies returning to a place of self-trust and unbending intuition while acknowledging the paths and turns I’ve taken to get here,” Lenae explained in press materials. “Revisiting the most basic parts of my identity has allowed me to fully embrace them and be proud of where I’m going.” The singles ‘Dream Girl’ with Ty Dolla $ign, ‘Love Me Not’, ‘Love Is Blind’, and ‘One Wish’ with Childish Gambino arrived ahead of the release.
Belong, Realistic IX
Belong – the ambient-leaning shoegaze duo made up of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich – have returned with Realistic IX, their first new album in 13 years. Out today via Kranky, the Common Era follow-up was previewed by the singles ‘Souvenir’, ‘Image of Love’, and ‘AM / PM’. As a press release notes, “Jones and Dietrich’s commitment to oblique states of motorik drone and liminal emotion continues to evolve and unfold, increasingly tactile and unreal, an alluring glow glimpsed through fogged windows at witching hours.”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Flight b741
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have put out their 26th album, Flight b741, the first release on their own (p)doom records imprint. The band’s Stu Mackenzie said that the band “wanted to make something that was primal, instinctual, more ‘from the gut’, just people in a room, doing what feels right. We wanted to make something fun.” He added, “This is our most collaborative record – the collaboration was occurring in the room, it was free, and everyone was bringing in songs and ideas. And we wanted to have as many lead vocalists as we could, and to pass the mic, like, ‘This is my part, my idea, I’m gonna sing it and then I’m gonna pass the mic along to you and you can do your thing’. The whole record is built around that. We ended up doing a lot of backing vocals and extra recording, everyone in a room around a couple of microphones, just to give it that feel.”
MAVI, shadowbox
Charlotte, North Carolina, rapper MAVI has shared a new album titled shadowbox. The 14-track record follows 2022’s Laughing So Hard It Hurts. “I was really sad about the last album,” MAVI reflected in a statement. “I didn’t really know how to get back into making stuff into the way I like. I felt really hopeless about it, started getting really drunk, dealt with love and heartbreak, having to be there for my family. I had to come back and really learn how to make art all over again. My path back was centered around visual art, fashion, interior design, and design as an artistic framework and as an organizational force in society. A lot of the backbone of the album came from my time with this design book, The Black Experience in Design. The idea I gained from that is design is power. The ability to determine the order of things, the way things are supposed to be… that’s power. The orderliness in the lives of the devoutly religious became an attractive subtext during the creation of this album.”
Latto, Sugar Honey Iced Tea
Latto has dropped her latest album, Sugar Honey Iced Tea. Revolving around the rapper’s Georgia Southern roots, the 21-track effort boasts guest appearances from Young Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Mariah the Scientist, Teezo Touchdown, Cardi B, and Flo Milli. The follow-up to 2022’s 777 was promoted with the singles ‘Big Mama’, ‘Sunday Service’, and ‘Put It on Da Floor’.
Fucked Up, Another Day
Fucked Up have followed up last year’s One Day with a brand new album, Another Day. “Like any parts of a bold series,” a press bio states, “they’re not the same, but they’re not completely different.” It’s the band’s shortest LP to date and was recorded between Toronto and London, with guitarist Mike Haliechuk producing and Alex Gamble engineering and mixing. Guest vocalists on the album include PONY’s Sam Bielanski, Pretty Matty, Charlie Manning Walker, Holden Abraham, D. Franklan, and Danko Jones.
Google Earth, Street View
Google Earth – the new duo composed of John Vanderslice and his frequent collaborator James Riotto – have issued their debut album, Street View. “It was a lifelong dream to collab with Jamie,” Vanderslice said in a statement. “We’ve been incredibly close for 15 years so this feels overdue. It was more meaningful to me than I could have imagined.” Riotto added: “John and I have been friends and collaborators for a long time now, but this record feels really different because it’s sort of a culmination of years of pushing each other into more abstract electronic palettes. We didn’t set out to make a record together, either. We just met up a couple of times a month to hang and jam and have dinner together. It wasn’t until pretty far into this process that we realized we were making some very interesting music.”
Peter Cat Recording Co., BETA
Peter Cat Recording Co. have dropped a new LP, BETA. The follow-up to 2019’s Bismallah was produced by the band, which is composed of Suryakant Sawhney on vocals and guitars, Karan Singh on drums, Dhruv Bhola on bass and samples, Rohit Gupta on keys and trumpet, and Kartik Sundareshan Pillai on keyboards, guitar, electronics, and trumpet. “BETA is a collection of stories about the future told 50 years in the past, to make sense of the present, on our only home, planet Earth,” the group said in a statement.
Other albums out today:
Destroy Boys, Funeral Soundtrack #4; Chlöe, Trouble in Paradise; Louis Cole, nothing; Logic, Ultra 85; Kali Uchis, ORQUÍDEAS Parte 2; Osees, SORCS 80; Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding, Milton + esperanza; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Opus; Cloud Cult, Alchemy Creek; maxwell stern, In the Good Light; Mal Not Bad, This Is Your New Life; Mamaleek, Vida Blue; NIKI, Buzz; niina, honestly, does this smell off to you?; Thee Marloes, Perak; J Balvin, Rayo; Polo G, Hood Poet; Asake, Lungu Boy; Big Sean, Better Me Than You; Amos Lee, Transmissions; Quivers, Oyster Cuts; Elkhorn, The Red Valley; Spice, Mirror 25; And So I Watch You From Afar, Megafauna; Davidsson, Lifelines; Larry June, Doing It For Me; Energy Slime, Planet Perfect; Fulci, Duck Face Killings; Reinhold Friedl & Gwennaëlle Roulleau, strata & spheres.