This is the best thing they've ever done. Better than Dopesmoker and even the very best High on Fire and Om releases. It's absolutely incredible.

They've still been playing regularly over the years, and they put out a live at the BBC record a while back, but no sign of a new record yet.

I've always preferred Om to Sleep or High on Fire.

Hell yes

I haven't been posting much on here in a while, so I've fallen off the wagon on sharing new stuff with the board. I figured that perhaps I should remedy that a bit and to kick it off, here's what my favorite label, Constellation has released and/or announced for the year so far:

First up, released in March, was The Obsession With Her Voice, the solo debut of Erika Angell, a Swedish-born, Canadian-residing singer and musician. With a history as a member of groups like industrial noise duo The Moth, art pop band Thus Owls, and minimalist folk duo Josef & Erika, Angell pulls aspects of all of those into her performances here, but mostly reframed into a darker, more gothic sound.


April saw another debut, this one of the project Fyear, an eight-piece band spearheaded by electroacoustic composer and saxophonist Jason Sharp and poet Kaie Kellough. Rounded out by a second voice in Tawhida Tanya Evanson, pedal steel, two violins, and two drummers, the band touches on drone, chamber rock, out jazz, and more in an avant-garde stew that laments, questions, and excoriates our present-future of social, economic, and environmental unrest.


The beginning of May will see the sophomore release of Montreal guitarist, singer, and producer Kee Avil (alias of Vicky Mettler), Spine. The album finds Mettler sharpening her electroacoustic, minimalist-industrial songwriting approach into a bone-dry austerity, stripped down to a centering of guitar and voice with support from delicate electronics and some strings on a couple tracks. This results in an unsettling see-saw of glaring beauty and unnerving, raw darkness. By the by, while it officially releases on May 3, preorders began arriving in mid-April, continuing Constellation's trend of rewarding loyal customers who place physical orders of upcoming releases with well-before street date arrival - some bigger outfits could learn a thing or two...


Lastly, so far, the end of May brings Eric Chenaux's eighth release with the label, though it's also technically a debut of his eponymous trio, Delights of My Life. Joined by long-time collaborator and friend Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer and backing vocals and Phillipe Melanson on electronic percussion and backing vocals, this record promises to bring a new chapter to Chenaux's already prodigious career in playfully bent folk-jazz balladry. For me, personally, each of Chenaux's records over the last decade have been absolute highlights of whatever release year in which they appear, and I'm gleefully awaiting this new one.

Like the Erika Angell track a LOT, thanks Brett. I’ll check out more for sure.

But I had to chuckle at the FYEARA track…sounds like if Die Antwerp’s bookkeeper got ahold of their tapes

Also I’m always impressed that you can embed Bandcamp tracks.

I used to be able to embed Bandcamp tracks, but I think that functionality has been broken for a while. So those are actually embeds of the albums instead.

Thanks! I enjoyed these, particularly the Kee Avil track, I'm going to check out her other record.

New Iron & Wine is fantastic

This is probably gonna be my top song on spotify this year. Every note hits just right.

It's just fantastic. And I'm not even sure it's the best song on the album.

That was really nice

A little disappointed with this new Dua Lipa album. The three singles are easily the best songs. Plus “French Exit”. That one might be my favorite track. “Maria” is pretty good. I guess I like 45.455% of this album. You know what? I’ll take it.

Dua has not made a great album yet. She'll get there

Over in the jazz thread we're talking about the incredible new album by Kamasi Washington

I really thought this could be the one

I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but the first half is really good.

Damn, Thundercat is BUSTIN OUT on that track Jorge posted.

Tears That Don't Matter

Greg? Saunier, drummer and founder of Deerhoof, has released his first proper solo album, We Sang, Therefore We Were recently. I made a joke elsewhere that the record sounds like Greg? cloned himself a few times, then locked the rest of the band in a closet while he wrote and recorded the next Deerhoof album by himself with his clones. That is to say, it sounds a lot like recent Deerhoof, but with Greg? doing everything, which is still really good.



Also, I didn't type those question marks after Greg?'s name, and they aren't in the comment box, but I can't figure out how to make them go away...

its a joke from the succession thread dont worry