While it's a fairly slow summer week for new releases, there are definitely some terrific Northwest releases to get you shopping at your favorite record store today. In the past three years between their second and third albums, Seattle's Feral Children seem to have grown into men... wild men, sure... but more fully fledged as musicians. Regarding their new self-released LP, Too Much, Too Late, our Music Director, Don Yates, calls it "their most polished and song-oriented effort to date" adding that "the band have tightened up the shaggier aspects of their sound, focusing on song craft while still providing plenty of edgy rock thrills on a consistently strong set of songs with buzzing guitars, atmospheric keyboards, impassioned vocals and lots of potent song hooks". Also writing hooky as hell music is Seattle band La Luz, who will undoubtedly increase their buzz quotient exponentially with their excellent new 7-inch single "blending surf, ‘60s girl groups and other vintage styles into summery pop gems." A bit more on the darker side is LA-via-Portland duo Soft Metals, whose second LP "is another first-rate set of dark, goth-tinged electro-pop with icy synths, pulsating rhythms and ethereal vocals". And darker still but still rooted in pop and the blues is the second album by iconoclastic director David Lynch, the follow-up to his 2011 debut, Crazy Clown Time.
Among other interesting new releases out this week is the latest from former Swervedriver Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody, the sophomore LP from Denver noise pop group Gauntlet Hair, and the second release from the Justin Vernon-curated label, Chigliak, with a re-issue of singer/songwriter Sarah Siskind's 2003 debut, Covered. Check all of these and more below before heading out to your local record store today:
What better way to get out of the sun than to spend a bit of time digging crates at your local record shop? While the summer weeks tend to be slow for new releases, you'll find plenty of excellent new albums in stores this week. Among them is the second album from Seattle's Shelby Earl, whose Damie…
Since we're celebrating Sub Pop 25th Anniversary, a.k.a. Silver Jubilee, this week, it's fitting that one of their new signees should top this week's list of new releases. Though the term does define him, Daughn Gibson is unlikely to be called a "singer-songwriter", at least not in the traditional …
