New album releases for week beginning 16 January 2017

Loyle Carner – Yesterday's Gone

Carner is getting a huge push of late - you may have heard his catchy music collector-themed NO CD by now. The gospel-tinged The Isle Of Arran demonstrates that beyond the radio friendliness there's a touch of quirkiness to the rapper's work.

Loyle Carner – The Isle Of Arran

Directed by Georgia Hudson. 'The Isle Of Arran' taken from my debut album 'Yesterday's Gone', out January 20th via AMF Records. Get 'Yesterday's Gone' and tickets to the upcoming tour at www.loylecarner.com. Download on iTunes: http://po.st/iYTdioa Listen on Spotify: http://po.st/sYTdioa Listen on Apple Music: http://po.st/aYTdioa Signed CD/Vinyl: http://po.st/OSYdayGne Facebook: www.facebook.com/LoyleCarner Twitter: www.twitter.com/loylecarner Instagram: www.instagram.com/loylecarner Music video by Loyle Carner performing The Isle of Arran.

Foxygen – Hang

Lush sounding pop featuring a symphony orchestra throughout and guest appearances from Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips, as well as Brian and Michael D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs.

Foxygen – Follow the Leader 

Foxygen - "Follow The Leader" from 'Hang' out on January 20, 2017 on Jagjaguwar Pre-order 'Hang': https://foxygentheband.lnk.to/Hang Director: Cameron Dutra Produced by: Whitelist Executive Producer: Jerad Anderson Head of Production: Matt Griffo Head of Development: Colin Moore Head of Finance: Natasha Suebert Producers: Alexander Potter & Noah Iunes http://vevo.ly/qnLjQ8

AFI – The Blood Album

This stadium-filling follow-up to 2013's Burials is AFI's 10th album and definitely at the pop end of the emo/alt-rock spectrum.

AFI - White Offerings

AFI (The Blood Album), out 20th January, is now available for pre-order on iTunes. Listen, Buy, Download https://AFI.lnk.to/TheBloodAlbumID The Blood Tour starts in January 2017 Tickets: http://afireinside.net/ Follow AFI on Spotify: http://bit.ly/AFISpotify Directed by Drew Kirsch Produced by Lex Lewter Music video by AFI performing White Offerings. (C) 2017 Concord Music Group, Inc.

Menace Beach - Lemon Menace

Best  and oddest blurb of the week goes to Menace Beach: Lemon Memory is in part an effort to lift a citrus-based curse Ryan and Liza believe was placed on their house, using the hex-breaking power of music. With bad things happening at home, from a giant rodent infestation to gangs breaking in to attack their landlord, Menace Beach left Leeds behind clutching a copy of Mysterious Cults - a book they’d picked up while on tour - and hotfooted it to Ibiza to start writing the follow-up to Ratworld. Available on guess-which-colour vinyl in a Scratch'n'Sniff sleeve!

Menace Beach - Maybe We'll Drown

Artist: Menace Beach Track: Maybe We'll Drown Label: Memphis Industries Order on CD / yellow LP with scratch n sniff sleeve from : http://smarturl.it/lemonMBSite From the album Lemon Memory

Mick Harvey – Intoxicated Woman

The solo artists, former Bad Seed and multi-collaborator (including PJ Harvey)  returns with volume 4 of his Serge Gainsbourg Translations album with a host of excellent guest singers. It includes a version of Je T’aime… (Moi non plus) – titled Ich Liebe Dich… (Ich Dich Auch Nicht) with German chantreuse Andrea Schroeder. The album was originally due in November, but Mute are finally releasing it on 20 January. Here’s the album sampler:

Baby Teeth, Wolfy Teeth, Striptease and Contact are taken from the new album 'Intoxicated Women' (Songs Of Serge Gainsbourg Volume 4) released on 4th November 2016. 'Intoxicated Women' contains many duets and songs written by Gainsbourg, mostly during the 60s, in a period where he was focusing his songwriting on singers such as France Galle, Juliette Greco and most famously, Brigitte Bardot.

Paul Weller Reissues

When it comes to sourcing his solo albums on vinyl, Weller fans are a long-suffering lot. The good news is the self-titled LP and Wildwood are out on Friday with two more to follow shortly. The bad news is that these are expensive for represses and offer little in added value.

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

New single The Attic is available to download now via iTunes (UK) http://bit.ly/AtticITunes The EP comes with the brand new track The Piper. Follow Paul Weller http://www.paulweller.com/ http://www.facebook.com/paulwellerofficial https://twitter.com/#!/paulwellerHQ Music video by Paul Weller performing Wild Wood. (C) 1993 Go! Discs Ltd.

This week's selection is by Michael Moloney, aka llamalpaca from the vinyl-only record and design store, Chameleon, with additions by The Landlord.

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