New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: October 11, 2024
New Music Friday is here again and again, we here at The 13th Floor bring you the new music you crave.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda picks these five new releases for your consideration:
Jon Toogood – Last Of The Lonely Gods (Warner NZ) Shihad frontman Jon Toogood gets personal on this, his first solo album. “Losing both parents lead me to thinking a lot about my own mortality which in turn lead to me writing this tune. I’d been hiding away from the world after my mum passed away and was trying to work out what I wanted my life to look like going forward” says Jon. You can here more from Jon by watching this 13th Floor MusicTalk interview. And click here for the 13th Floor album review.
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Revulva – Revulva (Revulva) Wellington’s Revulva release their debut album today. Recorded at Doctor Lee Prebble’s Surgery Studios in Wellington, its ten-song tracklist captures the dynamic energy and juxtapositions that power their percussive grooves, spellbinding horn section and Johnson’s silky smooth songcraft and spoken word strut. “This album is the culmination of five years of growing pains and hard work” shares Phoebe Johnson. “I started this project in 2019, as I wrapped my honours year studying jazz bass at Te Kōkī / New Zealand School of Music. I had written these songs primarily around frustrations I was having. At the time the jazz school had a male heavy cohort, and there were no female tutors – I felt like I had travelled back in time. Most bands I was seeing perform in Wellington had no women in their lineups. I wanted to make something that I wanted to see – a funky, exciting, fun, live set that was led by a woman.”
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Dawes – Oh Brother (Dead Ringers) Oh Brother marks a distinctive new chapter for Dawes co-founders Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith following 2022’s epic Misadventures of Doomscroller and the amicable departure of two bandmates last year. “It feels like we’re reborn in a way, and I mean that with so, so much love and gratitude to everyone we’ve ever played with before,” Taylor Goldsmith says. “This is what it means to be a lifer, to have iterations. It means having phases and chapters, and this is a very clear delineation as to the beginning of a new one. So Oh Brother feels like a ninth record, but it also feels like a first record.” Click here to read the 13th Floor album review.
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The Linda Lindas – No Obligation (Epitaph) Rock out with The Linda Lindas! Its the second album from this LA-based punk quartet. The age of the band members range from 13 to 19. Lucia de la Garza and bassist Eloise Wong are still in high school; drummer Mila de la Garza just finished middle school, and Bela Salazar is the eldest, waiting for the rest to catch up. No Obligation was written and recorded during band members’ spring and winter breaks and long weekends. “We don’t make music out of obligation—we make music out of love. And we’re so grateful for all of the opportunities music has given us, like going to Japan and making this video with a team including Naoko from Shonen Knife! Enjoy.”
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The Armoires – Octoberland (Big Stir) Time for some Southern California “jangle-pop” in the form of this new album by The Armoires. “The whole album is a series of stories,” says vocalist-keyboardist Christina Bulbenko. “It’s all about how stories, music, and art bind us together and offer us solace in dark times. “We’re doing unapologetic lit-rock, but we’re having fun with it,” says Rex Broome. “These are like Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed songs, arranged and performed like a B-52’s party album. They fit together and create a time and place of their own. And we can’t wait to welcome our listeners to explore it for themselves.”
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