A Lacklustre 2018? Please Recommend Me Some Music...

Placidcasual79

Some new music being released in this coming fortnight that I am excited about - 

Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love (superbly produced reggae and tropical pop featuring incredible musicians - vintage style and gear, warm and colourful production)
MGMT - Little Dark Age (rumoured to be a return to Oracula spectacular form - west coast psych guitar pop)
Hookworms - Microshift (Leeds DIY garage/drone punk's third album)

EricTheWeary

Placidcasual79 said:

Some new music being released in this coming fortnight that I am excited about - 

Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love (superbly produced reggae and tropical pop featuring incredible musicians - vintage style and gear, warm and colourful production)
MGMT - Little Dark Age (rumoured to be a return to Oracula spectacular form - west coast psych guitar pop)
Hookworms - Microshift (Leeds DIY garage/drone punk's third album)

I had a notification on something or other about the Hollie Cook one, shame she isn’t better known. Couple of lovely live sets on YouTube,I don’t think she has a regular band as such but seems to find some very good musicians.
In a vaguely similar vein Zara McFarlane does a sophisticated mix of jazz and reggae. 

Fuengi

Not bought a 2018 album yet. From the past few months try Matthew Ryan's album for a bit of Americana, Coulter Wall's eponymous 2nd album for some Appalachian blues, and if you can see past #meetoo try a few listens of the Brand New album from last year, Science Fiction.  

blobb

Silas Neptune.

blobb

RasaSound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FldYka5jtYE

Placidcasual79

EricTheWeary said:

Placidcasual79 said:

Some new music being released in this coming fortnight that I am excited about - 

Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love (superbly produced reggae and tropical pop featuring incredible musicians - vintage style and gear, warm and colourful production)
MGMT - Little Dark Age (rumoured to be a return to Oracula spectacular form - west coast psych guitar pop)
Hookworms - Microshift (Leeds DIY garage/drone punk's third album)

I had a notification on something or other about the Hollie Cook one, shame she isn’t better known. Couple of lovely live sets on YouTube,I don’t think she has a regular band as such but seems to find some very good musicians.
In a vaguely similar vein Zara McFarlane does a sophisticated mix of jazz and reggae. 

Yep - her new album came out yesterday. There are some brilliant sets on youtube - that show the rotating cast of backing musicians she's had - the latest bunch are pretty incredible and of course Prince Fatty produces.

Again props to you @EricTheWeary for putting me onto Prince Fatty and his cohorts                                                                                                                  

duotone

Had this bookmarked and finally found it https://www.albumoftheyear.org/

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/genre/70-americana/2017/.  That link should be a list of "The best Americana albums of 2017-from all publications" if there are certain publications (NME/The Pitchfork/The Guardian etc.) whose opinion you trust you can click them on the right hand side & it will show only their scores.

duotone

Winny_Pooh said:

Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the street (rootsy)

Cheers @Winny_Pooh

Listened to half of the album this evening, will finish it off tomorrow.  Right up my alley, Track No.2 is my favourite so far. 

*Edit: Finally finished it and while I think the first half of the album is slightly stronger than the second half, it's a solid album that I'll definitely be listening to more. Will also check out the rest of his discography.

Deadman

Check out Joan as a Police woman

stimpsonslostson

I'll suggest the following in case you've missed any of them-

Hot Water Music- Light it Up


Scott Sorry- When We were Kings


And Jason Isbell- Nashville Sound

AlexC

Thanks, people. Some real gems here.

Fuengi

Slow burner 2018 but some nice albums around...

horse

2nd Cordova's album if you like mellow Americana - just wish there was more of it:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0HXZ9VDjFUIvZN2SBMyCG3?si=WPMGHxx4QQOE_OAcH1jyow

starwarsnosebleed

Khruangbin
https://youtu.be/DyWhFB9ijzA

King gizzard and the lizard wizard
https://youtu.be/s8azlP-FgHs

fandango

Okay .... two choices from this quarter ...

(1) Ludovico Einaudi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcihcYEOeic&frags=pl%2Cwn

fandango

...and (2) Lettuce ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbAHpA-H17w&frags=pl%2Cwn

NelsonP

Just watched the end of nothing but thieves set at reading. I'd missed these guys completely and they were very good. I'll be checking them out some more i think.

MagicPigDetective

A few more good 2018 albums by:
Snail Mail
Parquet Courts
Kruangbin
NIN
Boy Azooga
Gwenno
Sleep
Manics
Johnny Marr
A perfect circle 

Looking forward to Ed Wynne’s album

Teyeplayer

Hard to categorise the first of these but both may suit an Americana or Folk-rock taste:

The Barr Brothers ‘Queen of the breakers’ 
https://youtu.be/-pceEBu_ooI
Hiss Golden Messenger ‘Hallelujah anyhow’
https://youtu.be/khsVEvkEO4w

UnclePsychosis

NelsonP said:

Just watched the end of nothing but thieves set at reading. I'd missed these guys completely and they were very good. I'll be checking them out some more i think.

-don't understand the love for these guys myself. Saw them a couple of years ago and it was pretty much the definition of by the numbers indie rock. 

Maybe they've got better... :-)