In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 1, 2024:
The Cure, Songs of a Lost World
Songs of a Lost World, the Cure‘s first album in 16 years, has arrived. The 4:13 Dream includes the previously released singles ‘A Fragile Thing’ and ‘Alone’. The LP was written and arranged by Robert Smith, who produced and mixed it with Paul Corkett. Smith also created the sleeve concept, which features Bagatelle, a 1975 sculpture by Slovenian artist Janez Pirnat, while longtime collaborator Andy Vella handled the record’s art and design. It’s the band’s first album with guitarist Reeves Gabrels since he joined as a full-time member in 2012, and features the return of keyboardist Roger O’Donnell, who rejoined the band in 2011 after a six-year hiatus.
Mount Eerie, Night Palace
Phil Elverum has released Night Palace, his first album under the Mount Eerie moniker in five years. Billed as a spiritual sequel to the Microphones’ 2001 classic The Glow pt. 2, the record spans 26 tracks, including the previously unveiled ‘I Saw Another Bird’, ‘Broom of the Wind’, ‘I Walk’, and ‘Non-Metaphorical Decolonization’. “These songs point at a moment of release, of peace found in a non-intellectual lightning strike after long waves of turmoil and surrender,” Elverum explained. “I tried to give them all they needed to go out beyond my little story independently. I have traveled through decades of fluctuations, swinging between the concrete and the mystical, between attachment and annihilation, between certainty and dust, now washed up on a shore in what I’m pretty sure is an authentic state of peace. The desperate reaches toward belief and the recoils of aversion have calmed. A raven loudly flaps through the branches above me and I say hello like it’s no big thing.”
Autre Ne Veut, Love, Guess Who??
Arthur Ashin, the singer-songwriter and producer who records as Autre Ne Veut, is back with their first album since 2015’s Age of Transparency. It’s called Love, Guess Who??, and it was preceded by the singles ‘Okay’, ‘About to Lose’, ‘Heavy Tho’, and ‘Itchy Blood’. The record features contributions from Micah Jasper (ELIO, Rebecca Black), Kris Yute, Spencer Zahn, BlankFor.ms, Jessica Zambri (Solvey, Zambri), Cristi Jo Zambri (Ex Mazed, Zambri), Joe Stickney (Bear In Heaven, Ex Mazed), Jacob Becker, Raia Was, and Joxx Wilson.
Haley Heynderickx, Seed of a Seed
Haley Heynderickx has released her first new album in six years, Seed of a Seed. The Portland-based singer-songwriter previewed the follow-up to her 2018 debut LP, I Need to Start a Garden, with the songs ‘Gemini’, ‘Foxglove’, and the title track. It finds the artist working with a “core jazz boy band” featuring Daniel Rossi on drums, Denzel Mendoza on trombone, and Matthew Holmes on electric and upright bass. According to a press release, the album explores “how distant we can feel from nature and ourselves in a world of technology, overconsumption and consumerism.” Heynderickx explained, “The irony is I’ll still be asking these questions; I’m not on the other side of it.”
Freddie Gibbs, You Only Die 1nce
Freddie Gibbs has surprise-released his new album You Only Die 1nce. It’s the rap veteran’s first LP since his 2022 Warner debut $oul $old $eparately, and he announced it just yesterday, sharing a video for the lead single and closing track ‘On the Set’. Serving as a sequel to 2017’s You Only Live 2wice, The project features production from BNYX, 454, Andrew “Pops” Papaleo, Ben “Lambo” Lambert, DJ Harrison, and Thurst Mgurst.
Olivia O., No Bones, Sickly Sweet
Olivia O., one half of the NYC-via-Atlanta duo Lowertown, has unveiled her sophomore album, No Bones, Sickly Sweet. It was almost entirely written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Osby. “This album is very personal and vulnerable – a lot of it was made during periods of spending excessive time by myself,” Osby shared. “It’s me trying to confront things that I’ve been avoiding, and sort of a retaliation against things I’ve been feeling really grossed out or confined by.” She added: “There’s a weird power you have in that one moment of destroying yourself, where it’s all on your own terms,” she says. “Most people are scared to risk destruction, and they’ll do anything to have self-preservation, even if it’s at the cost of being their true selves.”
Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake 2
Lil Uzi Vert has dropped their fourth studio album, Eternal Atake 2. The Philadelphia rapper announced the record a week prior with a trailer that referred to the March 2020 release of their second LP, Eternal Atake. “On March 6, 2020, Lil Uzi Vert mysteriously vanished,” it stated. “While it was never confirmed what happened that day, the faithful believed it to be the fulfillment of a long-awaited prophecy… Eternal Atake.” Eternal Atake 2 serves as the follow-up to last year’s Pink Tape.
Katrina Ford, H.E.A.R.T.
Former Celebration bassist and vocalist Katrina Ford has issued her debut album, H.E.A.R.T., which stands for Heart Ember Abuse Resin Trend. “Edges, the line, the start and the finish, There was no clearly defined beginning or ending to the making of this album,” Ford said in a statement. “My work as an artist is a run on sentence. I light many fires and some I carry out the door, so to speak. Some of these songs were written years ago and some were finished this year. They all have the mark of pandemic.” Ford made the LP with her Celebration partner Sean Antanaitis, adding, “We’re maximalists. I love all kinds of music — the vocals and recording techniques of Phil Spector and girl group pop, the weirdo pop of ’80s legends like Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, and the punk and goth that’s in my bones.”
Military Genius, Scarred for Life
Military Genius – the project of Bryce Cloghesy, a member of the Canadian art-punk collective Crack Cloud – has a new album out, Scarred for Life, via Unheard of Hope. The album’s title refers to a near-death experience Cloghesy had in 2012, when he fell through a window. “I tore up my left arm real good and never slowed down to process the trauma,” he explained. “It took some time to realize that I had been working tirelessly for years, white-knuckling life without any tools to process stress or trauma. So there are many lyrics about that mental health journey, learning to cope and accept.” The LP was previewed by the tracks ‘Window to the Soul’ and ‘Darkest Hour’.
Other albums out today:
Willie Nelson, Last Leaf on the Tree; Contour, Take Off From Mercy; urika’s bedroom, Big Smile, Black Mire; Planes Mistaken for Stars, Do You Still Love Me?; Thus Love, All Pleasure; Fionn Regan, O Avalanche; mxmtoon, liminal space; Flower Face, Girl Prometheus; Thirdface, Ministerial Cafeteria; Jennifer Castle, Camelot; Du Blonde, Sniff More Gritty; EEP, You Don’t Have to Be Prepared; Dean Drouillard, Mirrors & Ghosts; Sam Blasucci, Real Life Thing; Beatrice Dillon, Seven Reorganisations; Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry and Rebecca Foon, First Sounds.