New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: November 1, 2024

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Its a new month and its also New Music Friday. There’s plenty of good stuff being released today from The Cure to The Fleshtones to Moana & The Tribe and more!

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

  1. The CureThe Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) Robert Smith and Co. are back after a 16-year hiatus and they have former Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels on board. Smith told the NME, “The lyrics I’ve been writing for this album, for me personally, are more true. They’re more honest. That’s probably why the album itself is a little bit more doom and gloom. I feel I want to do something that expresses the darker side of what I’ve experienced over the last few years – but in a way that will engage people.” Click here to read the 13th Floor album review.

2. Sarah BlaskoSarah Blasko – I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain (MVKA) Sarah’s seventh solo album finds one of Australia’s most revered songwriters more reflective and more personal than ever before. It traverses both the heartbreak and quiet calm that comes with letting go of your younger self, how thin the line between tragedy and comedy becomes the older we get, and the way time changes ourselves, our hopes and our dreams. And there’s plenty of video content to accompany the music. Blasko says: “All the video material for the record was created when three people – a lighting person (Bazz Barrett), a videographer (Wilk) and a singer with an album (me) – spent three days in a very nice rehearsal room, not really knowing what we’d come out with or what it would all mean. We played around and laughed a lot, and in the end were proud of the spirit of what we captured.” Watch for the 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview with Sarah coming soon!

Paul Kelly3. Paul Kelly – Fever Killing Still (Cooking Vinyl) More great songwriting from Australia! Paul Kelly’s been writing them for over 40 years. “I never know what the themes are until I am in the middle of doing a record,” Kelly says of his new album. “I don’t set out with an album in mind. Over the past 20 years I just get the band together and put down a batch of songs. I put them in what I call my odd-socks drawer on the computer and as they accumulate I see which ones work together.”

4. FleshtonesThe Fleshtones – It’s Getting Late (…and More Songs About Werewolves) (Yep Roc) The title says it all. More classic Super Rock from The Fleshtones! The band has been going strong and consistently since they formed in 1976. This new album is an outburst, and a celebration of the SUPER ROCK sound. Unlike their contemporaries, they have not dialed down the tempos to compensate for osteoporosis, they have not lost anything on their fastball, and continue to throw it for strikes. The hardest working band in garage rock has never sounded better. For more proof, check out the 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview with front man Peter Zaremba…coming very soon!

5. Moana & The TribeMoana & The Tribe – ONO (Black Pearl) ONO means six in Māori. It is also the title of a concept album project that begins in Aotearoa New Zealand and travels the world. Each song showcases the voice, language and culture of six Indigenous wāhine from lands where Moana & the Tribe has performed. The Māori lyrics written by Te Manahau Scotty Morrison are inspired by traditional karakia (incantations) and pay homage to “people power”, relationships and language. Click here to read the 13th Floor Album Review. 

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