Also out this week:
Backlit by the emotional exhaustion that life constantly piles on top of you, Porridge Radio’s new album is a masterclass in the patient building of pressure, as drum, keyboard, guitar, and voice tenderly evolve into heart-purging outpourings, High Vis make anthemic music for the distraught: melodic post-hardcore where the melodies flood down from Madchester, the hardcore hits like gravel, and hope is in the post, floaty yet propulsive, Kelly Lee Owens' oneiric thumpers push for the late night swell as much as the soothing sunrise and it's all held together by her gorgeous ear-worm vox, and, following last night's Confidence Man dance-a-thon, their third studio outing has landed with big, fat, bumping beats that are perfectly designed to soundtrack the hedonistic parties of your dreams. And that's not all! Suede's 'Dog Man Star' has turned 30 in style, George Michael is whispering carelessly, you can dig into Iris Dement's life, Paul Weller has been taking his supplements, Chappell Roan is wishing us good luck (babe), Frost* have found life in the wires, there's an excellent Dinked delivery from Kelly Finnigan, Thomas Dolby is in outer space, Interpol are up to their old antics, PP Arnold is live from Liverpool, and Julian Casablancas is gazing into The Voidz once more.
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