This week's latest and greatest…
the music's picks…
Miss Blanks - Diary Of A Thotaholic (Trench)
Diary Of A Thotaholic is not your average Adelaide hills skip-hop or suburban-boi cyphering, this is international grade, female-focused, dis-rap, borderline hip hop erotica from an artist pulling triple duty to rep a trio of disastrously underrepresented community facets.
Morrissey - Low In High School (BMG)
Eleven solo records deep and hell is still closer to freezing over than that ever-desirable Smiths reunion. Brace yourselves then for Low In High School on which Steven Patrick Morrissey is determined to remind us exactly who he is. Every face of Moz is delivered with the showy panache of Broadway, from the deliberately provocative cover to the sultrily wanton In Your Lap and its metaphorically and musically horned-up companion When You Open Your Legs.
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Soul Of A Woman (Daptone Records)
The initial intention for Soul Of A Woman was to create a string-laden, symphonic album; something that would capture one side of Sharon Jones' artistry but wouldn't easily fit into her dynamite live shows. When it was established that Jones' cancer had returned and that she might not have much time left, she and her band took a different direction, penning some stripped-down, rootsy songs to create a balanced portrait of a radiant performing artist.
And the rest of the releases…
Amber Lawrence — Aussie Aussie Christmas (ABC/Universal)
Cavalera Conspiracy — Psychosis (Napalm Records/Rocket)
Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest (Because Music/Warner)
Chase Rice — Lambs & Lions (BMG/ADA)
Dreamers Crime — No Compromises (Independent)
GBH — Momentum (Hellcat Records)
Glenn Proudfoot — Fire & Rain (Bird's Robe)
HTMLflowers — Chrome Halo (Wondercore Island)
James Hazelden — Crying Is The Worst Medicine (Independent)
Karl Blau — Out Her Space (Bella Union/[PIAS]/Inertia)
Mavis Staples — If All I Was Was (Black Anti-/ADA)
Morrissey — Low In High-School (BMG/ADA)
North Arm — Let Love Through (Inertia)
Paloma Faith — The Architect (RCA/Sony)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings — Soul Of A Woman (Daptone)
Sia — Everyday Is Christmas (Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic)
Silver Linings — Don't Make Tracks (Wax Museum Records)
Struggle With Glory — I Saw Red (Independent)
Suicide Swans — Augusta (Independent)
The Hunter Express — The Hunter Express (Independent)
Tigertown — Warriors (Inertia)
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill — The Rest Of Our Life (Sony)
Tove Lo — Blue Lips: Lady Wood Phase II (Universal)
YLVA — Meta (Pelagic)
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