New Releases: June 2016

Round-up of the most interesting albums, singles and EPs released in June 2016:

Albums

The Glowing Man

SWANS - The Glowing Man
THE KILLS - Ash & Ice
PSYCHIC ILLS - Inner Journey Out
STEVE GUNN - Eyes on the Lines
MINOR VICTORIES - Minor Victories
BLOOD ORANGE - Freetown Sound
CAT'S EYES - Treasure House
SPRING KING - Tell Me If You Like To
DEERHOOF - The Magic
MOURN - Ha Ha He
WYE OAK - Tween
MITSKI - Puberty 2
CASE / LANG / VEIRS - Case / Lang / Veirs
LERA LYNN - Resistor
BAND OF HORSES - Why Are You OK
OLD FIRE - Songs From The Haunted South
FEAR OF MEN - Fall Forever
PURO INSTINCT - Autodrama
LET'S EAT GRANDMA - I, Gemini
SHOW ME THE BODY - Body War
USELESS EATERS - Relaxing Death
SPRAY PAINT - Feel The Clamps
WOMPS - Our Fertile Forever
MOON CITY BOYS - I Need More
GUSTAVE TIGER - Chaste and Mystic Tribadry
WHITNEY - Light Upon the Lake
LADYHAWKE - Wild Things
XENO AND OAKLANDER - Topiary
TEGAN AND SARA - Love You to Death
GARBAGE - Strange Little Birds
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - The Getaway
DJ SHADOW - The Mountain Will Fall
NITE JEWEL - Liquid Cool
ALEXIS TAYLOR - Piano
PETER, BJORN AND JOHN - Breakin' Point

Singles & EPs

Bath White

50 FOOT WAVE - Bath White EP
PJ HARVEY - The Community of Hope
FACTORY FLOOR - Dial Me In
THE STROKES - Future Present Past EP
SPEEDY ORTIZ - Foiled Again EP
FALSE ADVERTISING - Give It Your Worst
CLOSE LOBSTERS - Desire and Signs EP
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Bing Bong
WARMDUSCHER AND MEAT RAFFLE - The Sweet Smell of Florida / The Bird Song
BABY IN VAIN - For the Kids EP
PRETTY VICIOUS - Cave Song EP
TINY RUINS - Dream Wave
MAN OF MOON - Medicine
DARKSTAR / GWILYM GOLD - Rope / Folk
DAVID J WITH FEDERALE AND FRIENDS - The Day That David Bowie Died

Listening Habits 05-06.2016

At the top of the list of our favorite albums for May - June 2016 we have Parquet Courts' "Human Performance", perhaps the best effort yet for the New York-based indie rockers who have had an excellent run in the last 4 years, offering us a string of outstanding releases starting with 2012' "Light Up Gold".

The same can be said for Woods, also from the Big Apple, who recently released their 9th album "City Sun Eater in the River of Light". Woods have been supplying us with an awesome blend of folk and psych rock for several years now and their latest effort finds them in top form, picking up right where they left off with 2014's excellent "With Light and with Love".

It's no alarm and no surprise that Radiohead's return is also among the best releases of the last couple of months, and the same is true for Bob Mould and Kristin Hersh's 50 Foot Wave, who both add terrific new chapters to an outstanding legacy that goes all the way back to the '80s and two of our all-time favorite bands, Hüsker Dü and Throwing Muses respectively.

We did have a few surprises lately though and perhaps the best one came from The Coral whose "Distance Inbetween" is not only their best job since resurfacing a few years ago, but also a record that can compete with their mid '00s output for the honor of being named their best effort yet.

White Lung have given us evidence in the past that they can rock as inspiredly hard as their '90s indie rock heroes and "Paradise" adds more fuel to their fire, while Frankie Cosmos, aka singer-songwriter Greta Simone Kline, excels at the two-minute pop song, singing elaborate tales that you simply cannot believe how they all have fitted in the brief but wonderful 28 minutes of her new album "Next Thing".

Lots more great staff on offer recently as you can see in our Top 15 Albums list below. Have a listen and make sure to pay us a visit next week to see what will make it in our Top 30 list for the first half of 2016.

Top 15 Albums

 1.  Human Performance - PARQUET COURTS
2.  City Sun Eater In The River Of Light - WOODS
3.  A Moon Shaped Pool - RADIOHEAD
4.  Distance Inbetween - THE CORAL
5.  Next Thing - FRANKIE COSMOS
6.  Paradise - WHITE LUNG
7.  Bath White EP - 50 FOOT WAVE
8.  Patch The Sky - BOB MOULD
9.  Strangers - MARISSA NADLER
10. Funs Cool - THE PRETTIOTS
11. Chaosmosis - PRIMAL SCREAM
12. Kin - THE DUKE SPIRIT
13. Hold/Still - SUUNS
14. Stiff - WHITE DENIM
15. Punk 45: Chaos in the City of Angels and Devils. Hollywood From X To Zero & Hardcore On The Beaches: Punk In Los Angeles 1977-81 - VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top 15 Tracks

1.  Sun City Creeps - WOODS
2.  Burn The Witch - RADIOHEAD
3.  Chasing The Tail Of A Dream - THE CORAL
4.  Dust - PARQUET COURTS
5.  Bath White - 50 FOOT WAVE
6.  Dead Weight - WHITE LUNG
7.  The End Of Things - BOB MOULD
8.  Sinister - FRANKIE COSMOS
9.  Janie In Love - MARISSA NADLER
10. Where The Light Gets In - PRIMAL SCREAM
11. Hands - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Stabler - THE PRETTIOTS
13. Real Deal Momma - WHITE DENIM
14. Translate - SUUNS
15. Female Vampire - JENNY HVAL

 Parquet Courts - Dust

Attack of the 50 Foot Wave

50 Foot Wave, the rock beast created by Kristin Hersh and Bernard Georges of Throwing Muses with drummer Rob Ahlers, is back once again with an awesome 5-track new EP titled "With Love From The Men's Room". The EP, priced with the pay-what you like model that the group has used since 2005, is available from here, while you can also download their entire awesome back-catalog including all 4 EPs they've released between 2004 and 2009, instrumentals, live recording, and a few other goodies here.

The good news from Kristin Hersh's camp do not stop here. Throwing Muses, the band that introduced us to the astonishing talents of Kristin Hersh more than 25 years ago (along with those of Tanya Donelly of course), are also on the way back with a new album (their first since 2003) which is currently in the mixing stages. Throwing Muses who celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of their monumental (self-titled or untitled as we later found out) debut last September by releasing the "Anthology" compilation (a good place to start if you're unfamiliar with their work), currently have 38 new songs and we're waiting to find out how many of those will make it in their ninth album which is entirely listener-funded thanks to Kristin’s subscribers (Strange Angels) and other contributors via CASH Music.

Here's "Grey" from 50 Foot Wave's "With Love From The Men's Room" EP:

50 Foot Wave - Grey

And here's a blast from Throwing Muses's past - the amazing "Bright Yellow Gun" from the 1995 LP "University", which, in a fair world, should have been a universal No. 1 smash hit:

Throwing Muses - Bright Yellow Gun