New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: July 19, 2024

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It’s New Music Friday again! Time flies when you’re listening to new music all week. We could go all classic rock on you with new albums by Deep Purple and Focus but instead this week’s new releases are led by a collection of covers by The Raveonettes. 

The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda picks these five new releases for your consideration:

  1. RaveonettesThe Raveonettes – The Raveonettes Sing (Cleopatra) 10 cool covers. The indie rock duo take on everyone from The Everly Brothers to The Cramps (well, almost everyone). Guitarist/vocalist Sune Rose Wagner says, “Sharin and I used to perform songs by The Everly Brothers before we changed our name to The Raveonettes, so our love for this band goes way back. You won’t find a more dreamy song than ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream,’ it’s the perfect lullaby in my book. We loved recording our version and hope people will rediscover such a timeless classic.”

2.Kyle DAniel Kyle Daniel – Kentucky Gold (Snakefarm) Raging country/rock from this Bowling Green native. This is Kyle’s debut album and he’s very excited about it. “Releasing my debut album, “Kentucky Gold”, feels like the culmination of a lifelong dream,” he enthuses. “It’s finally time to tell my story.” And tell it he does, loud and strong…watch for a 13th Floor interview with Kyle…

Thousand Limbs3. Thousand Limbs – The Aurochs (Azathoth) Closer to home, we bring you the metallic stylings of Auckland post-metal doom quartet Thousand Limbs. It’s the band’s debut album and it is nothing if not ambitious. According to their PR, the record was “written and produced as a ten-song interpretation of the individual woodcuts that make up Kakuan Shien’s Ten Ox-herding Pictures, both the album and Shien’s art serve to illustrate the stages of one’s passage toward awakening – as well as their subsequent return to impart learned wisdom”. “It’s a sonic interpretation of a perpetual cycle of disconnection and reconnection with a spiritual practice,” explains guitarist, Patrick Gray. “The woodcuts act as an extra-musical guide, with a recurring motif representing the lost beast in the woods, disappearing then appearing again throughout the album.”

Kiely Connell4. Kiely Connell – My Own Company (Calumet/Thirty Tigers) We get back to the country with Kiely Connell whose second album was produced by Tucker Martine. “It was a running joke of mine that I would always say, I’m going to make my next album with Tucker Martine, says Kiely. “I’ve been a fan of his since I heard Neko Case’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You.” She sent Martine some demos, unsure how or if he would react, but he responded immediately and enthusiastically.

5.Eliza & The DElusionals Eliza & The Delusionals – Make It Feel Like The Garden (Cooking Vinyl) The Brisbane-based band, now a trio, releases their second album today, one that they say was “conceptualized while on the road in North America”. Eliza says “It was interesting to see how working in a different part of the world, outside of the comfort of our home studio and Australia in general, has influenced our writing and the process of demoing the songs. Recording the album with Oscar Dawson was an incredibly collaborative experience. He continued to push us out of our comfort zones which lead us to feeling really free creatively. I think this also made us write in our most honest and genuine form.”

 

 

 

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