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| The five albums you need to hear this week | The five albums you need to hear this week |
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| Rap collective Wu-Tang Clan may only be making one copy of their 31-song double album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but luckily our reviewers got their hands on slightly more accessible releases this weekend. Here are five albums our critics strongly recommended in Friday’s G2 Film & Music and Sunday’s Observer New Review. Have a gander at the selection, spanning folk, garage-rock, sax-driven jazz and more. | Rap collective Wu-Tang Clan may only be making one copy of their 31-song double album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but luckily our reviewers got their hands on slightly more accessible releases this weekend. Here are five albums our critics strongly recommended in Friday’s G2 Film & Music and Sunday’s Observer New Review. Have a gander at the selection, spanning folk, garage-rock, sax-driven jazz and more. |
| Mac Demarco – Salad Days | Mac Demarco – Salad Days |
| G2’s lead review on Friday came from Alexis Petridis, who bestowed Mac DeMarco’s third album – replete with self-deprecation and lo-fi fuzz – with four stars. “He's incredibly adept at distilling an unlikely selection of influences into something that's idiosyncratic without being gratingly quirky,” Petridis wrote. | G2’s lead review on Friday came from Alexis Petridis, who bestowed Mac DeMarco’s third album – replete with self-deprecation and lo-fi fuzz – with four stars. “He's incredibly adept at distilling an unlikely selection of influences into something that's idiosyncratic without being gratingly quirky,” Petridis wrote. |
| Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Mac DeMarco's Passing out Pieces | Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Mac DeMarco's Passing out Pieces |
| Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams | Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams |
| The Canadian band’s latest album fared well in both G2 and the Observer. “Saxophones are smokin' and guitars twang, making Hot Dreams sound like the soundtrack to a western directed by David Lynch,” wrote Jon Dennis in his five-star Film & Music review while Ally Carnwath gave the album four stars in the New Review. | The Canadian band’s latest album fared well in both G2 and the Observer. “Saxophones are smokin' and guitars twang, making Hot Dreams sound like the soundtrack to a western directed by David Lynch,” wrote Jon Dennis in his five-star Film & Music review while Ally Carnwath gave the album four stars in the New Review. |
| Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Timber Timbre's Hot Dreams | Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Timber Timbre's Hot Dreams |
| Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else | Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else |
| In G2 Lanre Bakare dished out four stars to Cloud Nothings’ newest full-length offering since 2012’s Attack on Memory, writing “there's a charm to [frontman Dylan] Baldi's steadfast faith in garage-rock brevity” in his review. | In G2 Lanre Bakare dished out four stars to Cloud Nothings’ newest full-length offering since 2012’s Attack on Memory, writing “there's a charm to [frontman Dylan] Baldi's steadfast faith in garage-rock brevity” in his review. |
| Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Cloud Nothings's Psychic Trauma | Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Cloud Nothings's Psychic Trauma |
| Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes | Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes |
| Kitty Empire's lead review in the Observer on Sunday gave five stars to this New Orleans band’s album of murder ballads and odes to love. “There are easy-going country laments here, harmonicas, a blues or three and even a doo-wop number, all doffing hats to tradition,” Empire wrote. | Kitty Empire's lead review in the Observer on Sunday gave five stars to this New Orleans band’s album of murder ballads and odes to love. “There are easy-going country laments here, harmonicas, a blues or three and even a doo-wop number, all doffing hats to tradition,” Empire wrote. |
| Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Hurray for the Riff Raff's I Know It's Wrong (But That's Alright) | Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Hurray for the Riff Raff's I Know It's Wrong (But That's Alright) |
| Polar Bear – In Each and Every One | Polar Bear – In Each and Every One |
| Finally, in our third five-star review of the week, John Fordham gave a firm thumbs-up to two-sax quartet Polar Bear. On their latest album, “electronics plays a bigger role, with the introductory Open See a sonic vapour of airy whistles and glowing, pulsing effects,” he wrote. If you want to hear more, here's our exclusive stream of the entire album. | |
| Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Polar Bear's Be Free | Reading on mobile? Click here to listen to Polar Bear's Be Free |