Welcome to The Noise Of August 2018! Like for every month, I collected my favorite records of the past weeks, for you to enjoy. August was intense, with a bunch of really great stuff. Let’s delve in!
Tides Of Man – Every Nothing
August 3 // Unsigned
The Love Language – Baby Grand
August 3 // Merge Records
Nostrum Grocers – Nostrum Grocers
August 3 // Unsigned
Dorian Concept – The Nature Of Imitation
August 3 // Unsigned
Yuragi – Still Dreaming, Still Deafening
August 8 // Flake Sounds
Japanese? Check! Fuzzy, dreamy shoegaze? Check! I literally can’t resist loving this. It’s determined in my musical DNA.
Delta Sleep – Ghost City
August 10 // Big Scary Monsters
Louis Cole – Time
August 10 // Unsigned
Tomberlin – At Weddings
August 10 // Saddle Creek Records
Stella Sommer – 13 Kinds Of Happiness
August 10 // Affairs Of The Heart
Moses Sumney – Black In Deep Red, 2014
August 10 // Jagjaguwar
Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is
August 10 // Rock Action Records
Haan – By The Grace Of Blood And Guts
August 10 // Aqualamb
Private Life – Silent Partner
August 17 // Dark Operative Digital
Great Lake Swimmers – The Waves, The Wake
August 17 // Nettwerk Records
Well-written indie folk, nice tunes. This is nothing extraordinarily special, just a very pleasent and comforting album.
Zevious – Lowlands
August 17 // Nefarious Industries
Mitski – Be The Cowboy
August 17 // Dead Oceans
Echo Beds – Buried Language
August 17 // The Flenser
Trevor Powers – Mulberry Violence
August 17 // Baby Halo
Amos Val – New Teeth
August 17 // Unsigned
Autumn Creatures – Funeral Garden
August 18 // Unsigned
Murphy Radio – Murphy Radio
August 18 // An Atmos Initiative
toe – Our Latest Number
August 22 // Machupicchu Industrias/Topshelf Records/Big Scary Monsters
Convulsing – Grievous
August 22 // Unsigned
Ancestors – Suspended In Reflections
August 24 // Pelagic Records
Brian Campeau – Old Dog, New Tricks
August 24 // Art As Catharsis
Albert Af Ekenstam – Hundred Miles
August 24 // Kning Disk
Nothing – Dance On The Blacktop
August 24 // Relapse Records
Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence
August 24 // Debemur Morti Productions
Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
August 24 // BMG
Blood Orange – Negro Swan
August 24 // Domino Records
Sungod – Wave Refraction
August 24 // Holodeck Records
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – With Animals
August 24 // Heavenly Recordings
Is there such a thing as ‘dark blues’? If not, I claim this description for this album. Wholesome, but dark, melancholic. And blue.
Midori Takada & Lafawndah – Le Renard Bleu
August 24 // !K7 Records
Midori Takada‘s first release after 20 years. If you don’t know why you should be excited as fuck, you have some homework to do.
Teams + Noah + Repeat Pattern – Kwaidan
August 24 // flau
April + Vista – You Are Here
August 24 // Unsigned
tide/edit – All My Friends
August 25 // Friend Of Mine Records
The Pineapple Thief – Dissolution
August 31 // Kscope
Mamaleek – Out Of Time
August 31 // The Flenser
Palm – To Live Is To Die, To Die Is To Live
August 31 // EVP Recordings
Gillian Carter – …This Earth Shaped Tomb
August 31 // Skeletal Lightning
Tash Sultana – Flow State
August 31 // Sony Australia/Mom + Pop Records
Szun Waves – New Hymn To Freedom
August 31 // The Leaf Label
As always, thanks for scrolling. See you next month!
