Anticipated Albums: 2019

[WWWP]

Getting this going as Exo has been busy, but he'll edit things in when he gets the chance. Team effort. So just like the threads of yesteryear, post the albums you're looking forward to (with release dates if possible) and we'll keep this updated throughout the year.

January

Sascha Funke & Niklas Wandt - Wismut (1/14)

Malibu Ken - S/T (1/18)

Joe Mcphee & John Butcher – At The Hill Of James Magee (1/18)

Machinefabriek - With Voices (1/18)

Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast (1/18)

Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant / Karkhana with Nadah El Shazly - Carte Blanche (1/19)

Swervedriver - Future Ruins (1/24)

Focus - 11 (1/25)

Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte - You Don't Know the Life (1/25)

Jeff Ballard - Fairgrounds (1/25)

deadmau5 - Polar OST (1/25)


February

White Lies - Five (2/1)

Ladytron - S/T (2/1)

Guided By Voices - Zeppelin Over China (2/1)

YERÛŠELEM - The Sublime (2/8)

Anton Eger - Æ (2/8)

Front Line Assembly, Wake Up the Coma (2/8)

Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket of Fruit (2/8)

Theon Cross - Fyah (2/15)

Motorpsycho - The Crucible (2/15)

Half Japanese - Invincible (2/22)

Nate Wooley - Columbia Icefield (2/22)

Overkill - Wings of War (2/22)

Rock Goddess - This Time (2/22)


March

FEWS - Into Red (3/1)

The Flying Luttenbachers - Shattered Dimension (March 1st)

Weezer - The Black Album (3/1)

The Chemical Brothers - No Geography (3/8)

Daniel Herskedal (3/8)

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Woman (3/15)

Matmos - Plastic Anniversary (3/15)

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (3/29)

Devin Townsend - Empath (3/29)


April

The Flaming Lips - King's Mouth (4/20)


Rumored/TBA

Chance the Rapper
Chance the Rapper & Kanye West — Good Ass Job
Childish Gambino
EarthGang — Mirrorland
ScHoolboy Q
RTJ4
Chino XL
Immortal Technique - Middle Passage
R.A. The Rugged Man

[Zhanteimi]

Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant / Karkhana with Nadah El Shazly - Carte Blanche (19 Jan)

It took more than only some time and the ability of imagination to believe that Carte Blanche, this piece of extremely exciting and astonishing contemporary music, played by some of the most talented and able musicians of the international avant-circuit, could be realized. Karkhana, a highly explosive mostly Middle Eastern/Mediterranean ensemble comprised of Sam Shalabi (Land Of Kush, Shalabi Effect, Dwarfs Of East Agouza), Sharif Sehnaoui ("A"Trio), Michael Zerang (Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Jaap Blonk, Ken Vandermark), Mazen Kerbaj ("A"Trio), Maurice Louca (Dwarfs Of East Agouza), Tony Elieh, and Umut Caglar (Konstrukt) is rolling out a carpet of sound for Egyptian songstress Nadah El Shazly's voice to dip deep into it. On the other side, two grand seigneurs of the underground, ex-Sun City Girls and Rangda guitar wizard Sir Richard Bishop and David Oliphant play it loud. Drone-ish in a way, but very heavy, sharp and crystal clear. Ripe. Carte Blanche will be released as a one-time pressing. Vinyl cut by Peter Koerfer at Ivory Tower. Extra-heavy deluxe cover, printed cardboard insert.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant / Karkhana with Nadah El Shazly - Carte Blanche (19 Jan)

*drool*

Holy ****!

[Zhanteimi]

Yep. This is the way to start a new year!

[rostasi]

January 18:



and

Machinefabriek - With Voices

[Unitron]

There's only a couple albums so far that are on my radar for 2019.

Jan 18
Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast

Jan 24
Swervedriver - Future Ruins

[rostasi]

Was just listening to that new Swervedriver yesterday.

[Unitron]

^How was it? Any good?

Forgot about the new Overkill album, Wings of War in February.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by rostasi

January 18:

There are really awesome runs in here but it seems like they're thinking too much about the space that they're performing in and it's causing them to be more tepid than exploratory.

[rostasi]

Originally Posted by Frownland

There are really awesome runs in here but it seems like they're thinking too much about the space that they're performing in and it's causing them to be more tepid than exploratory.

Yeah, I get the feeling that the first track (the one where they move about separately in a couple of rooms),
may have been a better thing live. Also, I think they may have some psychogeographical influence going on too -
considering that they're in a deserted SmellPaso, Texas location.