In this week’s new records round up, we bring you teasers for 10 albums and EPs that have recently been announced across the alternative music world.
Boston Manor – Sundiver
Credit: Morgan Doherty
Boston Manor will release new album Sundiver on September 6 through SharpTone Records.
Frontman Henry Cox said: “Sundiver is the culmination of two years work and four years of planning. Going into the pandemic we knew our next record would be a double album released in two parts, the first a short shadowy-noiry electronic record set over one night and the second a sprawling rock record that documents the following day.
“Both albums are products of their environments, we made Datura in the dead of winter in a windowless studio complex that mostly just produced techno, we’d enter before the sun rose and leave long after it set, basically never seeing sunlight.
“We made Sundiver in Welwyn Garden City over two summers, we barbecued every day & would walk across the road to a meadow and just take naps in the sunshine when we weren’t recording.
“We’ve essentially been working on this album and building up to it since the pandemic. We were obsessed with trying to make a record that felt like blistering sunshine, or that wavy/hazy horizon you get when the pavement is super hot, but we didn’t want it to sound “happy” or “major key”.
“Sundiver is by far Boston Manor’s best and most ambitious record to date, and we couldn’t be happier with it, I really hope our fans love it as much as we do.”
Tracklist:
Datura (Dawn)
Container
Sliding Doors
HEAT ME UP
Horses In A Dream
Morning Star
Why I Sleep
Fornix
Dissolve
What Is Taken, Will Never Be Lost
DC Mini (feat. Heriot)
Feldspar – Old City New Ruins
Credit: Guido Gazzilli
Feldspar will release debut album Old City New Ruins on September 30 through Time To Kill Records.
Graphic Nature – Who Are You When No One is Watching?
Graphic Nature will release new album Who Are You When No One is Watching? on July 12 through Rude Records!
Vocalist Harvey Freeman said: “It’s the idea of your true self showing through.
“We all put on a mask around our friends and colleagues, pretending to be someone. And then when we come home, that’s our true personality. Or, on the flipside of it, it’s the fakeness of pretending to be someone that’s likable and nice, but who also does horrific things. There are many different ways to take it. It’s really just who you are.”
“Lyrically, it’s a journey through a lot of different emotions I’ve personally been through in the space of 12 months,” he explains.
“How I dealt with that was to write it onto paper and to put it into the songs. It’s my way of saying, ‘I’m not doing so good, here’s some shit I went through, here’s how I felt about it, here’s some things that have then come off the back of that.’ It’s really just about how everything can stem from one bad day in your life.”
Four Year Strong – Analysis Paralysis
Four Year Strong will release new album Analysis Paralysis on August 9 through Pure Noise Records!
Tracklist:
aftermath / afterthought
bad habit
maybe it’s me
uncooked
out of touch
daddy of mine
dead end friend
paranoia
STFIL
rollercoaster
better get better
how do i let you go?
Balance And Composure – With You in Spirit
Credit: Ashley Gellman
Balance And Composure will release new album With You in Spirit on October 4.
The album is produced by long-time collaborator Will Yip and released on his Memory Music label.
He said: “I truly believe that this is the best collection of Balance and Composure songs there’s ever been.
“It has the heavy stuff, it has the fast stuff, it has the groovy stuff. It has everything they’ve worked on over the last 12 years.”
Tracklist:
restless
ain’t it sweet
any means
cross to bear
believe the hype
lead foot
sorrow machine
a little of myself
closer to god
with you in spirit
NILE – The Underworld Awaits Us All
Credit: Casey Coscarelli
NILE will release new album The Underworld Awaits Us All on August 23 through Napalm Records.
Guitarist Karl Sanders said: “We are very happy to be sharing with fans Nile’s 10th album. We worked overtime making this record as killer as we could – because we sincerely felt fans deserved our best efforts. The Underworld Awaits us All – and we will see you there.”
Tracklist:
Stelae of Vultures
Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
To Strike with Secret Fang
Naqada II Enter the Golden Age
The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka
Overlords of the Black Earth
Under the Curse of the One God
Doctrine of Last Things
True Gods of the Desert
The Underworld Awaits us All
Lament for the Destruction of Time
Uzumaki – Waded
Uzumaki will release their debut album Waded on September 13 through Everything Sucks Music.
Vocalist and guitarist Alex Cheung explains: “It’s so fitting for us to release Scenes of Beauty first. It was always positioned first in the demo track listing, so in a way it felt like the natural introduction to the feel of the album for all of us.
“With that in mind, we wanted to create the music video ourselves, channeling the type of visuals coined by our influences, which feel true to how we ‘see’ the songs in the record. We’ve always thought of Scenes of Beauty as a summer song, so we’re so happy to be releasing it right now.
“Tom is amazing at capturing the sound of the room, keeping a realness to the recording which is so often lost these days. The demos for this album were very complete, with bells and whistles already locked in, so the recording session was less about the crafting of the songs than it was about capturing the natural energy of us playing the songs for real.”
Tracklist:
Waded For You
Heaven
Scenes of Beauty
Look Outside
Game We Play
Change of View
Head Up
Day of Days
Downtown
Cold Feet
Disguise Your Mindset
Catapult
High Parasite – Forever We Burn
Credit: Andy Ford
High Parasite will release debut album Forever We Burn on September 27 through Candlelight/Spinefarm.
Aaron Stainthorpe said: “This is not a side project. It’s a new touring and recording band, and with Forever We Burn, our debut studio album, we’re showing our love for all things gothic and grand, along with a collective belief that dark music doesn’t have to be confined to the shadows.
“The band has been lurking in the shadows, developing, growing, and evolving, and is now ready to unveil its own brand of darkness to the world. Skating the lines between metal, gothic rock and dark synth pop, High Parasite is here, and death pop is born!”
Tracklist:
Forever We Burn
My Syndrome
Grave Intentions
Wasn’t Human
Concentric Nightmares
Hate Springs Eternal
Parasite
Let It Fail
Widowmaker
We Break We Die
The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments
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The Red Clay Strays will release new album Made by These Moments on July 26 through RCA Records.
Vocalist Brandon Coleman said: “Made by These Moments shines a light on overcoming the battles we face in life like loneliness, depression, and hopelessness. We hope you listen and recognise that our pain has a purpose.”
Tracklist:
Disaster
Wasting Time
Wanna Be Loved
No One Else Like Me
Ramblin’
Drowning
Devil In My Ear
I’m Still Fine
On My Knees
Moments
God Does
Wrex – This Hell Goes a Long Way Down
Wrex will release their new EP This Hell Goes a Long Way Down on August 16.
Tracklist:
Take a Walk
Heaven’s Gate
This Hell Goes a Long Way Down
S.A.D
Shallow
The End
