New Releases: July - August 2019

Time to catch up with the latest new releases: here's our list of the most interesting albums, singles and EPs released in the second half of the summer:

Albums

PURPLE MOUNTAINS - Purple Mountains
TY SEGALL - First Taste
SLEATER-KINNEY - The Center Won’t Hold
THE MURDER CAPITAL - When I Have Fears
TROPICAL FUCK STORM - Braindrops
JAY SOM - Anak Ko
HTRK - Venus In Leo
RIDE - This Is Not A Safe Place
REDD KROSS - Beyond the Door
THE FLAMING LIPS - King's Mouth
THE HOLD STEADY - Thrashing Thru The Passion
THE FUTUREHEADS - Powers
BLEACHED - Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough
MARIKA HACKMAN - Any Human Friend 
LANA DEL REY - Norman Fucking Rockwell 
SERATONES - Power
JESCA HOOP - Stonechild
OLYMPIA - Flamingo
BLANCK MASS - Animated Violence Mild
OH SEES - Face Stabber
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Infest the Rats’ Nest
VERSUS - Ex Voto
!!! - Wallop
FRIENDLY FIRES - Inflorescent
HERE LIES MAN - No Ground To Walk Upon
SHEER MAG - A Distant Call
BIG STICK - LP
JASON LYTLE - Arthur King Presents Jason Lytle: Nylonadjuno
MARK MULCAHY - The Gus
MODERN NATURE - How To Live
THE SOFT CAVALRY - The Soft Cavalry
ADA LEA - What We Say In Private
SHANNON LAY - August
SALAD - The Salad Way
JOYERO - Release The Dogs
CFM - Soundtrack For an Empty Room
CEREMONY - In the Spirit World Now 
TOOL - Fear Inoculum  
FOLLAKZOID - I
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Blood Year
OH, ROSE - While My Father Sleeps
KHRUANGBIN - Hasta El Cielo
IMPERIAL TEEN - Now We Are Timeless
DARREN HAYMAN - 12 Astronauts
MANEKA - Devin
KAISER CHIEFS - Duck Album
DUDE YORK - Falling
CURSE OF LONO - 4am And Counting: Live And Stripped Back At Toe Rag Studios
KOKOKO! - Fongola
METZ - Automat

Singles & EPs

SPOON - No Bullets Spent
JEFFREY LEWIS & THE VOLTAGE - LPs
THOM YORKE - Not The News Rmx EP
THE VACANT LOTS - Exit EP
THE STROPPIES - It's A Hit! EP
DRY CLEANING - Sweet Princess EP
AUTOMATIC - Calling It
WORKING MEN'S CLUB - Teeth
SINEAD O’BRIEN - Taking On Time
BUSH TETRAS - There is a Hum
THE WEDDING PRESENT - Jump in, The Water’s Fine
IDLES - Mercedes Marxist
GIRL BAND - Going Norway
SPINNING COIN - Visions At The Stars
BEAK> - Life Goes On EP
GABE GURNSEY - I Get Harder
KNIFE WIFE - Family Party EP
GHUM - The Coldest Fire EP
TERRY - Who's Terry? EP
SLAVES - The Velvet Ditch EP
FLAME 2 - Dive / Rain
FLOATING POINTS - LesAlpx / Coorabell
GEORGIA - About Work the Dancefloor
GEORGIA - Started Out
CAGEWORK - Cagework EP
WILDHONEY - Naive Castle
MOLLY BURCH - Ballads
AIDAN MOFFAT AND RM HUBBERT - Cut to Black
ELBOW - Dexter & Sinister
THE SPITFIRES - Enough is Enough

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage - LPs

Live: Ejekt Festival 2019 with The Cure, M. Kiwanuka, Ride, Khruangbin (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

The Cure, live @ Ejekt 2019 (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

In the third and last post of our three-part series presenting the live music we got to enjoy during our July vacation, we have photos and videos from Ejekt Festival 2019 headlined by The Cure and also featuring Michael Kiwanuka, Ride, Khruangbin and The Steams.

Khruangbin, live @ Ejekt 2019 (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

We arrived at Plateia Nerou, the seaside location of the festival in recent years, just in time to catch the summer vibes of Khruangbin, the Texas trio which we also enjoyed a few days earlier at BST Festival in London. The early afternoon heat did not hinder their breezy set which brought us the sounds of their recent album "Con Todo El Mundo", an interesting, laid back mix of global music, soul, funk, garage and psychedelia.

Ride, live @ Ejekt 2019 (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

The logical flow would suggest that after Khruangbin we should be hearing Michael Kiwanuka's soul sounds, but instead the musical mood changed drastically with the classic shoegaze guitars of Ride. The Oxford band has defined this sound with its early '90s output and in the almost 60-minutes they played, we got to hear several of their classics including "Seagull", "Dreams Burn Down", "Leave Them All Behind", "Taste", "Vapour Trail" and "Drive Blind". Ride's return to action in recent years has also brought us some exciting new music and their set also included songs from their 2017 comeback album "Weather Diaries" as well as a couple from their forthcoming work "This Is Not a Safe Place", with closer "Kill Switch" being one of the highlights of their performance.

Michael Kiwanuka, live @ Ejekt 2019 (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

Michael Kiwanuka and his band with the easier to the ear melodic soul and folk sounds allowed us some time to relax and enjoy our beer before the mammoth, two and a half hour headline set of goth godfathers The Cure.

The Cure, live @ Ejekt 2019 (Athens, July 17th, 2019)

Robert Smith and his band have not played around these parts for almost 14 years, so the long set filled with highlights from The Cure's early years until their late '80s - early '90s hits was more that welcome from the huge crowd of all ages that filled the venue to see them. It was certainly one of those occasions where different rock generations meet, some to remember the music of their youth, some to see for the first time one of rock's legendary bands, that although it has not produced any new music for several years now, its classic output is more than enough for a great festival show.

Here's The Cure's set list at Eject Festival which this year celebrated its 15th anniversary, plus a couple of videos from the event:

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The Cure - The Caterpillar (live @ Ejekt Festival 2019)

Ride - Drive Blind (live @ Ejekt Festival 2019)