In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 6, 2024:
MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks
MJ Lenderman has released his latest album, Manning Fireworks. Out now via ANTI-, the 9-track collection follows the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter and Wednesday guitarist’s 2022 breakthrough Boat Songs. It was co-produced by frequent collaborator Alex Farrar and recorded at Asheville’s Drop of Sun Studios during multiple four-day stints whenever Lenderman had a break from touring. The singles ‘Rudolph’, ‘Joker Lips’, ‘She’s Leaving You’, and ‘Wristwatch’ arrived ahead of the release. Read our review of Manning Fireworks.
Fat Dog, WOOF.
Fat Dog have dropped their debut full-length, WOOF., through Domino. The band’s frontman Joe Love co-produced the album with James Ford and Jimmy Robertson. “I wanted to make something ridiculous because I was so bored,” Love said in press materials. “I don’t like sanitized music. Even this album is sanitized compared to what’s in my head. I thought it would sound more fucked up.” The group previewed WOOF. with the singles ‘All the Same’, ‘Running’, ‘Wither’, and ‘I Am the King’.
The Dare, What’s Wrong With New York?
The Dare‘s debut LP, What’s Wrong With New York?, has arrived via Polydor Records. The record boasts collaborations with Dylan Brady (100 gecs), Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, Dua Lipa), Romil Hemnani (Brockhampton), Chris Greatti (Yves Tumor, Yeule), and more Isaac Eiger (of Strange Ranger). Recorded over the last year between the Dare’s home and studio in New York, the album features two songs off 2023’s The Sex EP, ‘Good Time’ and ‘Girls’.
Midwife, No Depression in Heaven
Midwife has unveiled her fourth studio album, No Depression in Heaven, via the Flenser. It features collaborations with Chris Adolf and Michael Stein of American Culture, Ben Schurr and Tim Jordan of Nyxy Nyx, Angel Diaz of Vyva Melinkolya, and Allison Lorenzen, as well as the advance tracks ‘Killdozer’, ‘Rock N Roll Never Forgets’, and ‘Vanessa’. “It’s about the transient nature of what we do,” Madeline Johnston explained in a statement. “Our bodies are vessels – our bodies are, together, a vessel, a vehicle, and that togetherness allows us to become something larger than ourselves in the slipstream of the unconscious, droving.”
Nala Sinephro, Endlessness
Nala Sinephro has issued Endlessness, which follows the jazz musician’s 2021 debut Space 1.8. Composed, produced, arranged, and engineered by Sinephro, the 45-minute album features contributions by Sheila Maurice-Grey, Morgan Simpson, James Mollison, Lyle Barton, Nubya Garcia, Natcyet Wakili, and Dwayne Kilvington. Ahead of its release, Sinephro previewed the record with the opener ‘Continuum 1’.
Dummy, Free Energy
Dummy have put out a new album titled Free Energy. The follow-up to 2021’s Mandatory Enjoyment was preceded by the singles ‘Nine Clean Nails’, ‘Nullspace’, ‘Blue Dada’, and ‘Opaline Bubbletear’. According to a press release, “Where Mandatory Enjoyment was cerebral and lo-fi, the product of a lot of time inside, Free Energy is all movement, presence, and physicality.” It features contributions from Oakland-based saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Cole Pulice and Jen Powers of Powers/Rolin Duo, as well as an array of field recordings the band made while on tour.
Hinds, Viva Hinds
Hinds are back with their first album since 2020’s The Prettiest Curse. The band’s Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote recorded Viva Hinds – their first collection since the departure of bassist Ade Martín and drummer Amber Grimbergen – in rural France. Pete Robertson produced the record, which was engineered by Tom Roach and mixed by Caesar Edmunds. It includes the previously released songs ‘Boom Boom Back’ featuring Beck, ‘Coffee’, ‘En Forma’, ‘Superstar’, and ‘The Bed, the Room, the Rain and You’, as well as a collaboration with Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten called ‘Stranger’.
Fred again.., ten days
Fred again.. has dropped a new album titled ten days. Following the producer’s Actual Life series, which most recently included 2022’s Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022), the record includes guest appearances from Four Tet, Sampha, Emmylou Harris, Anderson. Paak, Skrillex, SOAK, the Japanese House, Chika, Obonjayar, Jozzy, Jim Legxacy, Duskus, Joy Anyonymous, and Scott Hardkiss. “there’s been a lot of biggg mad crazy moments in the last year but basically all of these are about really very small quiet intimate moments,” he wrote on social media. “some of them are like the most intensely joyful things i have felt, and some of them are the other side of things. and some days I don’t want to speak about loads cos I’m not the only person it was an important day for if that makes sense.”
Toro y Moi, Hole Erth
Toro y Moi has come out with a new LP, Hole Erth, via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to 2022’s Mahal was previewed by the tracks Heaven’ (featuring Brockhampton founder Kevin Abstract and Lev), ‘Tuesday’, ‘Hollywood’ (a collaboration with Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service leader Ben Gibbard), and ‘CD-R’. In a statement about the new release, Chaz Bear said: “I hope you enjoy this suburban anthem, growing up the often-controversial-line between mainstream and underground artists was so defined but now that line has become so blurred I can’t even tell what I like anymore… sometimes.” Glaive, Don Toliver, and Porches also guest on the LP.
Okay Kaya, Oh My God – That’s So Me
Norwegian-American artist Okay Kaya has unveiled her fourth album, Oh My God – That’s So Me. Kaya wrote, recorded, and produced the follow-up to 2022’s SAP outside of Oslo, Norway – often in perfect seclusion after moving to a new island home last year. “Only accessible by boat, the island created a set of limitations, from collaboration opportunities to access to mainland activities, that became a tool for the creation of the record,” a press release notes. “Alone-time enabled her to abstract concepts of multi-platform existence and the reality of navigating the make-believe in art.”
Mercury Rev, Born Horses
Mercury Rev have returned with Born Horses, their first album of original music in nine years. It includes the previously released tracks ‘Patterns’, ‘Ancient Love’, and ‘A Bird of No Address’. Discussing the album, bandleader Jonathan Donahue explained: “Since our beginning in the mid 80’s with David Baker through the recording of Born Horses with new permanent members, Woodstock native (pianist) Jesse Chandler and Austrian born (keyboardist) Marion Genser, we’ve celebrated this unspoken trust in the ‘statue already inside the marble’. We didn’t make Born Horses by throwing clay on top of clay; we allowed Time to reveal what was always there.”
knitting, Some Kind of Heaven
Out now via Mint Records, Some Kind of Heaven is the debut full-length by Montreal’s knitting. Featuring the early tracks ‘Spirit Gum’ ‘Sleeper’, and ‘Heaven’, the album was written over a period of several years while bandleader Mischa Dempsey was coming into their non-binary identity. Rounding out the group are Sarah Harris (Property, Amery) on guitar, Piper Curtis (Sunforger) on bass, and Andy Mulcair (Power Buddies, Marlaena Moore) on drums.
Public Opinion, Painted on Smile
Denver’s Public Opinion have put out their debut LP, Painted on Smile, via Convulse Records. The record was co-produced by Militarie Gun/Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton and God’s Hate/Twitching Tongues member Taylor Young. “We really wanted to try and expand the sound of the band more,” vocalist Kevin Hart said in a statement. “That early 2000s stuff like The Strokes, The Hives, and Bloc Party was really important to us when we were kids, and I think this time we let a lot more of that infiltrate into what we were doing, and we ended up stumbling on more of our own sound.” The band previewed the the album with the songs ‘Drawn From Memory’, ‘Hothead’, and ‘Some Don’t’.
Other albums out today:
Party Dozen, Crime in Australia; The The, Entitled Ensoulment; David Gilmour, Luck and Strange; Max Richter, In a Landscape; Tall Juan, Raccoon Nights; SUUNS, The Breaks; Ashe, Willson; The Heavy Heavy, One of a Kind; Sarah Kinsley, Escaper; Callahan & Witscher, Think Differently; Claude Fountaine, La Mer; Prim, Move Too Slow; Caleb Hearn, Left on McKinney; Webb Chapel, World Cup; Molchat Doma, Belaya Polosa; The Deslondes, Roll It Out; HONNE, OUCH; Lollise, I hit the water; Masayoshi Fujita, Migratory; Paris Hilton, Infinite Icon; Mo Kenney, From Nowhere; The Airborne Toxic Event, Hollywood Park; Monolake, Studio; YAI, Sky Time; Farida Amadou, When It Rains It Pours.