New Releases: October 2018

Round-up of October's most interesting new releases including albums by Julia Holter, Cat Power, Kristin Hersh, Kurt Vile and Ed Kuepper's The Aints! plus a new EP by Public Service Broadcasting about the Titanic:

Albums

JULIA HOLTER - Aviary
CAT POWER - Wanderer
KRISTIN HERSH - Possible Dust Clouds
KURT VILE - Bottle It In

THE AINTS! - The Church of Simultaneous Existence

CLOUD NOTHINGS - Last Building Burning 

TY SEGALL - Fudge Sandwich
PHOSPHORESCENT - C’est La Vie
LAURA GIBSON - Goners
SWEARIN' - Fall into the Sun
FUCKED UP - Dose Your Dreams
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - IC-01 Hanoi
TVAM - Psychic Data
ADRIANNE LENKER - Abysskiss
JOHN GRANT - Love Is Magic
THE KVB - Only Now Forever
THE OSCILLATION - Wasted Space
FACTORY FLOOR - A Soundtrack For A Film
GOATMAN - Rhythms
EXPLODED VIEW - Obey
TESS PARKS AND ANTON NEWCOMBE - Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe
BAXTER DURY, ETIENNE DE CRECY, DELILAH HOLLIDAY - B.E.D
ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS - Look Now
WILL OLDHAM - Songs Of Love And Horror
ST. VINCENT - MassEducation
CALVIN JOHNSON - A Wonderful Beast
JIM JAMES - Uniform Clarity
CURSIVE - Vitriola
KINSKI - Accustomed To Your Face
BLUE ORCHIDS - Righteous Harmony Fist
THE NIGHTINGALES - Perish The Thought
MALCOLM MIDDLETON - Bananas
MICAH P HINSON AND THE MUSICIANS OF THE APOCALYPSE - When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You
SAY LOU LOU - Immortelle
EMPRESS OF - Us
HOW TO DRESS WELL - The Anteroom
SOAP AND SKIN - From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend
THE DODOS - Certainty Waves
CONNAN MOCKASIN - Jassbusters
NENEH CHERRY - Broken Politics
RICHARD ASHCROFT - Natural Rebel
THE RESIDENTS - Intruders
THOM YORKE - Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - The Stars, The Oceans and The Moon

Singles & EPs

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - White Star Liner EP
GABE GURNSEY - You Can (The Hacker Remix)
DJANGO DJANGO - Winter's Beach EP
SOCCER MOMMY - Henry / I'm On Fire
BOYGENIUS - boygenius EP
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS - Some Mutts (Can't be Muzzled)
TOY - The Willo / Energy
DRENGE - Autonomy EP
TITUS ANDRONICUS - Home Alone on Halloween EP
THE NATVRAL - Know You More
LAPS - Who Me? EP
MINUS THE BEAR - Fair Enough EP
COMET GAIN - If Not Tomorrow / I Was More of a Mess Then
FALSE HEADS - Less Is Better EP
RUBBER JAW - Feeling Funny
HOVVDY - Easy / Turns Blue
MUSH - Gig Economy
MYSTERY JETS - Live To Vinyl
THE TWILIGHT SAD - Videograms
PETITE NOIR - La Maison Noir / The Black House EP
STONE FOUNDATION - Next Time Around / Carry The News
THE SHADRACKS - Oh Bondage Up Yours! / I Am A Cliché
KEVIN MORBY - Live at Third Man Records
THE PASSENGERS - All Through the Night / New Life
THE PASSENGERS - Queen of Weird / Danger Zone

Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2

Public Service Broadcasting - White Star Liner

Public Service Broadcasting, live @ Six D.O.G.S (Athens, November 15, 2014)

Public Service Broadcasting are gearing up for "The Race For Space" (their second album, scheduled for February 2015), but before their space program begins, the eccentric London electrorock duo of J Willgoose Esq. and Wriggleswort brought to Athens for the very first time their very informative and certainly entertaining show.

The 60-minute broadcast, which was preceded by the electronic beats of local duo ice_eyes, began with images of Second World War London as the band started their set with "London Can Take It" off "The War Room", their 2012 EP that first brought them to our attention.

More educative war stories from the same EP came later on in the show with storming renditions of "If War Should Come" and my personal favorite PSB track, "Spitfire", which also appeared on their debut full-length "Inform - Educate - Entertain", the album with which the band made its mission statement known (and landed in our Top 20 list of 2013).

Most of this album's tracks were present in the duo's set list with the krautrockin' "Signal 30", "The Now Generation", "Theme From PSB", "ROYGBIV" and the excellent set-closer "Everest" being among the highlights of the show.

No tracks from the new album were revealed as it seems PSB are guarding closely the secrets that can win them the coming space race. We did get a song in Dutch, though, about ice skating, their Record Store Day single "Elfstendentocht, Part 2". I guess we'll have to wait until their next visit for some space age edutainment. Looking forward to it!

Check out below "Spitfire" from Public Service Broadcasting's first ever Athens gig:

 Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire (live in Athens)