New Albums 2024

THE VACCINES – Earworm Jukebox With Their 6th Album ‘PICK-UP FULL OF PINK CARNATIONS’

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13 January 2024

British guitar pop idols THE VACCINES have their new,
6th full-length, baptized Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations out.

Press info: “The title comes from a misheard lyric from Don McClean‘s “American Pie,”
a song that for Young fittingly evokes the death of innocence and the American Dream. After he moved to Los Angeles – a city the band has grown up being captivated by – he
was forced to wrestle with the disillusionment that comes when expectations, dreams,
and reality don’t quite meet.

Justin Hayward-Young (frontman) : “The album is about reconciling with loss, but it’s
also filled with gratitude for the people and places we once loved.”Pink carnations symbolise gratitude and tell a person they’ll never be forgotten. So whether it’s the loss of a lover, or a friend, or even just a dream, the record is a reminder that they’ll live on in whatever capacity the mind allows them to. And it’s a reminder to keep on dreaming.”


Album artwork

NME says: “Over a decade on from their breakout moment, The Vaccines remain dependable,
if frustratingly predictable. That’s not to say it doesn’t work. It might not offer anything new, but
it doesn’t necessarily need to. There’s a reason why they’ve remained a festival favourite for over
a decade – they’re good at what they do, even if it’s nothing particularly groundbreaking.”
Score: 3/5.

TUTV: Tune after tune after tune is what you get. That’s what The Vaccines do since day one and their cracking debut LP What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (2011). The new one will help to fill their jukebox further on with whistle/sing/hum along vaccines. Why making complex music, if you can make people happy with simple, boosting TUNES.

Key singles/clips: Sometimes, I Swear / Lunar Eclipse / Heartbreak Kid

– SOMETIMES, I SWEAR –

– LUNAR ECLIPSE –

– HEARTBREAK KID –

ALBUM


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Europe/UK 2024

US Tour 2024

THE VACCINES: Instagram

New Albums In 2024 – Third One By French Avant-Garde Artist SARASARA Out March 1st

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12 January 2024

Sarasara is a French avant-garde performance artist and
songwriter who launches her 3rd album Elixir on March 1st.

“The album’s potent mix of cultural ideas fuses with dark industrial synths and gothic atmospherics to shape her intoxicating, cinematic sophisti-pop. Enthralling, groove-laden compositions recall the likes of David Bowie and Jehnny Beth, but Sarasara found more influence in political writers Bell Hooks, the distinguished professor of race and class, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a French socialist, and the first person to declare himself an anarchist, and , the French novelist Édith Thomas and bisexual pioneer of women’s history, among others.”

Singles/clips (so far): The Horrible Things / Warrior

– THE HORRIBLE THINGS –
Enigmatic slo-mo reverie
with a magnetic beat

– WARRIOR –
Perfume Genius vibe

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SARASARA: Instagram – Linktree

New Albums In 2024 – THE BLINDERS With Their 3rd One ‘BEHOLDER’ On March 1st

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9 January 2024

The Doncaster/Manchester psych-rock-post-punk quartet THE BLINDERS (describing themselves hilariously as The Desert Shrimp Jacuzzi Boys) made a name for themselves with 2 notable albums, Columbia (2018) and Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath (2020) and stormy gigs.

They canned their 3rd longplayer. It’s named BEHOLDER and
it will see the light of day on March 1st. Pre-order HERE.

TRACKLIST

1. Ceremony
2. Brakelights
3. While I’m Still Young
4. At Any Hand But Hers
5. Always
6. Iggy Got Camaro
7. Waterfalls Of Venice
8. Nocturnal Skies
9. Swallowing Static
10. All I Need

SINGLES/CLIPS: Always / Brakelights

– ALWAYS –
Think Joy Division on a roll and
Hooky‘s chilling bass upfront

– BRAKELIGHTS –
Post-punk frenzy at its impassioned best

TOUR

The Blinders: Instagram – Facebook

DAVID BOWIE – New Vinyl Album ‘WAITING IN THE SKY’ With 1971 Recordings Out On RECORD STORE DAY 20 April 2024

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9 January 2024

A new limited vinyl Ziggy Stardust-era album by DAVID BOWIE
will be released on Record Store Day 2024 (20 April).

WAITING IN THE SKY is a collection of recordings from Trident Studios (London)
in 1971 where Ziggy was recorded, and features the majority of songs that would
go on to form the legendary ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders
From Mars’ LP.

Also 4 songs that didn’t make Ziggy Stardust are included,
one of them a cover of Chuck Berry‘s ‘Around And Around’.

More info and tracklist below.

CLASSIC


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Bowie: Linktree

New Albums In 2024 – Southern Rock Gunslingers BLACKBERRY SMOKE Launch Their New One ‘BE RIGHT HERE’ In February

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4 January 2024

Atlanta‘s notorious riffin’ gunslingers BLACKBERRY SMOKE launch their 8th LP,
named BE RIGHT HERE on 16 February and will hit the road for the rest of the
year. References? Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, and Tom Petty, to name a few, but
definitely enough to make your ears hungry for what’s coming.

Pre-order HERE.

Press info: “Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell), Be Right Here is a timely reminder to be present and live authentically. Across these ten tracks—a collection of their signature rock and roll anthems, Americana-leaning ballads and country rock jams—the band celebrates the simple joys of life, the fleeting moments and the little bits of luck found along the way.”

Charlie Starr (vocals/guitar): “We always track live together, but this time we had all
our amps and drums and everything in the same room. It’s just as natural and as real as possible. The last album was very raw too, but with this one I remember different times I
would say, ‘I think we should redo that,’ and Dave was like, ‘No, leave it that way. That way
it’s magical.’”

Singles/clips: Dig A Hole / Hammer And The Nail / Little Bit Crazy

– DIG A HOLE –

– HAMMER AND THE NAIL –

– LITTLE BIT CRAZY –

Tour 2024

BS: Instagram – Facebook

REAL ESTATE – New Jersey’s Indie Veterans Have Their 6th Album Out In February

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3 January 2024


Photo by Sinna Nassari

New Jersey‘s indie pop outfit REAL ESTATE are around
for 25 years, with changing line-ups along their cruise.

Although they’re not that productive they got on fire lately with their
5th album The Main Thing in 2020, a new EP in 2021 and now they make
their longtime fans happy with longplayer #6. It’s named DANIEL and
lands on 23 February.


Album artwork

“Real Estate’s sixth full-length album Daniel was recorded in an ebullient nine-day spree at RCA Studio A, in Nashville with Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves). In 11 compulsively tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of adulthood.”

Single/clip: Daniel

WATCH/LISTEN

REAL ESTATE : Facebook – Instagram

Albums In 2024 – American Psych Pop Duo MGMT Return With Their 5th LP ‘LOSS OF LIFE’ In February

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1 January 2023


Artwork album

Psych pop duo MGMT from Connecticut are back to launch their 5th LP.
It’s baptized LOSS OF LIFE and will see the day of light on 23 February.
Pre-order info here.

Press info: “A joyous return and everything you could/want from MGMT.
A very MGMT album which the band describes as “a group of songs about
love and change, first and foremost.” Descriptors from the band include: bold,
flavorful, playful, sincere, optimistic, perceptive. The album includes the first ever
MGMT song with a feature, courtesy Christine and the Queens. The album artwork
has been licensed from John Baldessari‘s estate and is an artwork titled Noses and
Ears, Etc.”

Singles/clips: Mother Nature / Bubblegum Dog

– MOTHER NATURE –

– BUBBLEGUM DOG –

MGMT: All Albums – Instagram

New Albums In 2024 – THE LIBERTINES Launch Their 4th In March

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31 December 2023


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British indie misfits THE LIBERTINES have their 4th LP, named ALL QUIET
ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE out on 8 March 2024. Pre-order info here.


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Press info: “On All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, the quartet of unlikely lads have gathered from their new-found homes in France, Denmark, Margate and London to solder a strongest-ever internal bond, and scale new creative heights resulting in the best music of their extraordinary career so far.”

Singles/clips: Run Run Run / Night Of The Hunter

– NIGHT OF THE HUNTER –

THE LIBERTINES: Instagram – Facebook

New Albums In 2024 – British Sensation YARD ACT With Their 2d One In March

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31 December 2023


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British indie rockers YARD ACT shot to the top like a
comet last year with their ace debut LP The Overload.

Last summer they came back with a high-caliber, stand-alone single,
named The Trench Coat Museum. A harbinger for album number two,
titled, WHERE’S MY UTOPIA that will show up on 1 March 2024.

Pre-order info here.

Press info:” The return of Yard Act. Where’s My Utopia? is the follow up to the Leeds band’s critically-acclaimed debut record The Overload which arrived in January 2022. Written in snapshots of time between a relentless touring schedule, and produced jointly by the band and Gorillaz’ Remi Kabaka Jr, the quartet’s second act is a giant leap forward into broad and playful new sonic waters. Across the record, influences ranging from Fela Kuti to Ennio Moricone via Spiller’s ‘00s pop smash ‘Groovejet’ make themselves known.”

Singles/clips: Dream Job / Petroleum

– DREAM JOB –

– PETROLEUM –

YA: Facebook – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

New Albums In 2024 – TY SEGALL Premiers New LP ‘THREE BELLS’ On 26 January

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30 December 2023


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Californian post-punk garage rocker TY SEGALL is one of the busiest bees in rockbizz. With 14 solo LPs in only 15 years and some collaborative albums here and there, like with his wife under the moniker of The C.I.A. you wonder when this guy sleeps.

On 26 January, he’ll premiere his new longplayer THREE BELLS.

Press info: “A fifteen song cycle that takes a journey to the center of the self. Ty’s been on this kind of trip before, so he’s souped up a vehicle that’s all his own – a sophisticated machine – to take us there this time. The conception of Three Bells arcs, rainbow-like, into a land nearly beyond songs – but inside of them, Ty relentlessly pushes the walls further and further in his writing and playing to cast light into the most opaque depths.”

Singles/clips: My Room / Eggman / Void

– MY ROOM –

– EGGMAN –

– VOID –

TY SEGALL: Instagram – Facebook