10 Albums Worth Checking Out Coming Out Today, September 27
To the blasted, blissed-out post-club music of Alan Sparhawk to the melancholic tape loops of William Basinski, there are a ton of interesting new releases coming out today, September 27, to get lost
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There's a cornucopia of killer music out these week to get lost in, as the skies begin to leaden and darken and the leaves begin to turn. There's the ghostly, gossamer tape loops of William Basinski's September 23. There's deliciously dreamy shoegaze of The Asteroid No. 4. There's the deconstructed dub of Jay Glass Dub, and lots more besides.
Here are 10 albums coming out today, September 27, that are worth checking out!
10 Albums Coming Out September 27 Worth Checking Out
The Asteroid No. 4 - Several Shapes of Solar Flares
Philadelphia's ever-reliable The Asteroid No. 4 return with a particularly dreamy slab of shoegaze, just in time for turning leaves.
Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing Remastered
Soft Machine's Kevin Ayers' beautifully batshit Whatshebringswesing gets a tasty remaster, really bringing out the luster on his bizarro granny music.
William Basinski - September 23
William Basinski returns with another document of melancholic decasia, this time captured from an acoustic piano from his Arcadia Studio loft during the '80s and '90s. You can read my review of his fabulous performance last weekend at the First Congressional Church that i wrote for Spectrum Culture.
Jill Fraser - Earthly Pleasures
Deep, lush drone, sucking you down a gravity well, beyond thought and memory, until yr little more than a speck of consciousness in an abilene, mother-of-pearl swirl.
Jay Glass Dubs - Resurgence
Six tracks of especially zoned-out, ghostly dub from Jay Glass Dubs.
Permanent Parts - Permanent Parts
Beautifully bizarre, ragged, ragtag machine skudge mixed with white cube minimalist modern classical and clinical radiophonic electronics from Stefan Schneider of To Rococo Rot and Kreidler.
Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes
I don't care how precognitive you are, when you drop the needle on the architect of soul-searing maximalist free jazz and one of the greatest geniuses of the Harlem Renaissance by a gifted outre guitarist, you're not expecting an album of rickety guitar deconstructions, falling somewhere between the kora and the koto. The soulfulness and spirit of Coltrane's music transcends genre, though, shining forth like a jeweled lotus beneath Roginski's talented fingers.
Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
Ben Chasny's unstoppable year continues apace, as he gets even higher than normal with the help of an old friend, Twig Harper. Under Harper's knife, Chasny's soundscapes sound less like hashishin tranceouts than itchy, electroacoustic modern classical. If you've ever wondered what Six Organs of Admittance might sound like covering Elliott Carter and Morton Feldman, you're in for a treat.
Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
Low leading light Alan Sparhawk returns with one of the most unexpected, unlikely records in his labyrinthine career - an album of blissed-out, blasted post-club music.
Sun Araw - Lifetime
Gosh dang, why even bother being a music journalist/critic when Boomkat exists? They say of Lifetime, "Cameron Stallones' tenth proper Sun Araw album, 'Lifetime' is a soft-focus, VHS warped hypnagogic psych head-melter, tearing into the sun-bleached West Coast soft rock canon and twisting it into an itchy new age-d fever dream of slippery talkbox vocals, echoing beatbox drums and winding guitar solos."
If you'd like to sample 'em all at once, J's compiled them all together on his September 2024 playlist, with lots more besides!
This post originally appeared on Micro Genre Music.
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