Vecka 27-29

Essex Green

Då kör vi en ny omgång mitt i semestertider. Jag är nöjd över att det 

ändå var fyra av er jurymedlemmar som kunder rösta sist. Ni kommer att

få tre veckor på er denna omgång också med dessa tio bidrag.

1 Essex Green (US)  return today with a new single, “Sloane Ranger,” and news of a fourth album, Hardly Electronic. It’s their first new music since 2006’s Cannibal Sea.  For those of us who’ve waited 12 years for to hear from Jeff Baron, Chris Ziter, and Sasha Bell again, “Sloane Ranger” will more than fit the bill: the sunny ’60s-inspired melodies, perfectly sloppy rhythm guitar, singalong harmonies, and buoyant, handclap-friendly beat are all back too. SPIN

2 Still Corners (US/UK) Underrated synth dark-pop duo Still Corners have announced a new album, Slow Air, to be released August 17 via the band’s own Wrecking Light label. Alongside the announcement they’ve released a typically sighing, atmospheric advance single, “Black Lagoon,” and announced a North American tour that finds them trekking across the U.S. (plus Toronto and Vancouver) this fall. In a press release, Still Corners’ Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes said the new album was written and recorded within just three months, in and around Austin, Texas. The title Slow Air was inspired by the region’s stultifying ambient heat. SPIN

3 Marissa Nadler (US) Marissa Nadler begins “For My Crimes,” the title track of her latest album, with the assumption of innocence. Over a guitar line so solemn it sounds like a frown, the Boston singer-songwriter takes on the role of the soft-voiced victim, bound by her captors at the wrists and led blindly into an unknowable abyss. She fantasizes about someone she used to know, how they once fit together and never will again. But then Nadler confesses her crimes, admitting to lies and misdeeds so severe, she likens herself to a snake, passing into punishment “serpentine.” Pitchfork

4 O.R.B. (Au) Australian psych-rockers O.R.B go into interstellar overdrive with the fuzzed-out cosmic title track to their forthcoming album Space Between The Planets, their third record in two years. Harnessing the deeply psychedelic vibes that seems to have taken hold of Geelong's water supply, the ripper of a single sets out to blast brains into another dimension and succeeds admirably.Undertheradar

5 Doug Tuttle (US) The music of Doug Tuttle is the sound of the outside. Expansive and ambitious, it has an ability to be introspective while never losing a fully-aware sense of the enormity around us. So it’s a bit appropriate the Massachusetts songwriter returns today, on this summer solstice (June 21), with a mindful new track titled “Twilight.” Vanyaland

6 Great Lake Swimmers (CAN) "Alone But Not Alone" (Nettwerk): The Toronto folk-rockers will release a new album, The Waves, The Wake on Aug. 17. One its tracks, "Alone But Not Alone," has just come out as a single. Singer/songwriter, Tony Dekker, describes the song this way: "It is a straighter shooter than some of the other tracks on the new album, with a little more of a familiar 12-string jangle, and it’s a bridge back across our fifteen-year, seven-album catalogue. We set out to make a breezy, 1960’s AM radio-inspired kind of thing, with a few twists and turns, because it seemed to be what the song was asking for, in the midst of experimenting with sounds for some of the other new songs. Fyimusicnews

7 Johnny Marr (UK) has revealed that there’s a song on his upcoming new album that reminds him of The Smiths‘ classic ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ – crossed with Patti Smith. Speaking in the new issue of Uncut Magazine, the guitar legend revealed all about his upcoming third album ‘Call The Comet’ when he opened about the sound of key track ‘Hi Hello’. UNCUT

8 The Charlatans (UK) new EP 'Totally Eclipsing. the title track is online now and it's got a hazy summer feel, matching The Zombies to the Byrds in their own effervescent style.Supreme jangle-pop from one of the country's most-loved groups. Clashmusic

9 Melody’s Echo Chamber (FR) French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet’s self-titled debut – a collection of radiant psychedelia produced by her then-boyfriend, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – was released almost six years ago. In 2014, she began trailing its follow-up. Only now, however, has Bon Voyage actually arrived. Sung in a mixture of English, French and Swedish, tracks tend to be loose and freeform as they slope between tempos and styles: opener Cross My Heart begins by aping Jefferson Airplane before segueing into a fidgety breakbeat; The Guardian

10 How To Dress Well (US) The last time we really heard new solo music from the alt R&B songwriter was 2016’s Care LP. Now, Tom Krell is finally back with new HTDW music, as he’s shared a new two-song EP/single, The first track on the release is actually almost four songs in and of itself. The seven-minute suite cuts from ambient electronics to grooving pop to glitchy chaos.  Land of the Overflowing Urn.

Ni får alltså tre veckor på er även denna omgång. Slutdatum att ämna era poäng

blir söndag 22 juli. Här är länken. 

Melody Prochet i  hennes Echo Chamber på sång nr 9