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    Albums Out Today: Foxing, Nilüfer Yanya, Porches, Lunar Vacation, and More

    by Konstantinos Pappis

    In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 13, 2024:

    Foxing, Foxing

    Foxing have dropped their self-titled album via their own Grand Paradise label. The follow-up to 2021’s Draw Down the Moon includes the previously released singles ‘Greyhound’ and ‘Hell 99’. “I think it’s the most introspective album in terms of our band itself,” Conor Murphy said in our interview. “It’s kind of the band looking in the mirror more so than me individually. With past albums, just lyrically speaking, there’s a lot of personal deep-dive stuff – whether it’s about growing up, sexuality, depression, religion, or whatever the themes are. With this album, I feel like the vast majority of the songs are still written personally, but they’re more about the experience of this band’s career.”

    Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor

    Nilüfer Yanya has released her third album, My Method Actor, via Ninja Tune. The follow-up to 2022’s PAINLESS was previewed by a string of singles, including ‘Like I Say (I runaway)’, ‘Method Actor’, ‘Call It Love’, ‘Mutations’, ‘Made of Memory’, and ‘Just a Western’. The singer-songwriter worked on the album in London, Wales, and Eastbourne with her longtime collaborator Wilma Archer. “This is the most intense album, in that respect,” she said in press materials. “Because it’s only been us two. We didn’t let anyone else into the bubble.” Read our review of My Method Actor.

    Porches, Shirt

    Porches, the musical project led by NYC’s Aaron Maine, has returned with a new album called Shirt. Out now via Domino, the follow-up to 2021’s All Day Gentle Hold ! was preceded by the singles ‘Rag’, ‘Joker’, ‘Itch’, and ‘Crying at the End’. It’s “part angsty fantasy, part confessional melodrama,” according to a press release, “a rock album that oscillates between reality and make-believe to reflect both the innocence of suburban youth and the frayed reality of adulthood. A fusion of chaotic impulses, insatiable desires, and a perpetual yearning, Shirt plays with the tension between one’s person and persona – the weight of your dreams crashing up against your reality.”

    Lunar Vacation, Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire

    Lunar Vacation have followed up 2021’s Inside Every Fig is a Dead Wasp with a new LP titled Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire. Produced by Drew Vandenberg and released on Keeled Scales, the record features the advance singles ‘Set the Stage’ – which came with a Finn Wolfhard-directed video – ‘Set the Stage’, ‘Sick’, ‘Tom’, and ‘Fantasy’. “Our last album was super produced, manicured,” guitarist and vocalist Maggie Geeslin said in a statement. “This one’s organic. We embraced mistakes; it made the work even better.”

    Allegra Krieger, Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine

    Allegra Krieger has unveiled a new album titled Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, following up last year’s I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane. Ahead of its release, the New York singer-songwriter shared the singles ‘Came’, ‘Never Arriving’, ‘Into Eternity’, and ‘Roosevelt Ave’. She wrote much of the album in the months that following her escape after multiple lithium batteries combusted and set fire to the e-bike shop on the ground floor of her Chinatown apartment building. The collection is “more outward looking, more questioning,” Krieger explained. “These songs are obviously extremely personal. But they also sucked the whole world in.”

    Floating Points, Cascade

    Floating Points has released a new album, Cascade, via Ninja Tune. It follows Mere Mortals, Sam Shepherd’s first ballet score made in collaboration with the San Francisco Ballet, as well as Promises, his 2021 collaborative album with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. “I’m just constantly chasing challenges,” he remarked. “I always want to keep things moving and go all in on things that excite me. Whether that’s working with a 100-piece orchestra on a ballet or on a laptop on my own.” The singles ‘Birth4000’, ‘Del Oro’, ‘Key103’, and ‘Ocotillo’ arrived ahead of the release.

    Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder

    New York City-based songwriter and poet Wendy Eisenberg has issued a new LP, Viewfinder, via American Dreams. The follow-up to 2021’s Bent Ring includes the previously shared tracks ‘HM’ and ‘Lasik’. “A viewfinder is the window through which a photographer looks onto a preview of their image before it is captured,” a press release notes. “It’s easy to forget this in the age of the smartphone, to have been defamiliarized from the process of manipulating a proper camera. Some viewfinders, severed from the camera’s capturing lens, distort the angle by which a tableau is made legible. The prelude and its final form are thus related but non-identical. Our ways of seeing, of course, are always approximate. What we know of what we look at arrives in us slantwise, refracted through the singularity of experience.”

    Suki Waterhouse, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin

    Suki Waterhouse’s latest album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, has arrived via Sub Pop. The 18-track double album, which follows 2022’s I Can’t Let Go, was promoted with the singles ‘My Fun’, ‘Faded’, and ‘Blackout Drunk’. “I came across the Sparklemuffin – which is wildly colored, does this razzle-dazzle dance, and its mate will cannibalize it if she doesn’t approve of the dance,” Waterhouse explained in a statement. “It’s a metaphor for the dance of life we’re all in. The title felt hilarious, ridiculous, and wonderful to me.”

    julie, my anti-aircraft friend

    Los Angeles shoegaze/noise rock outfit julie have come through with their debut LP, my anti-aircraft friend, out now via Atlantic Records. The band – Alexandria Elizabeth on vocals and bass, Keyan Pourzand on vocals and guitar, and Dillon Lee on drums – previewed the album with the singles ‘very little effort’ and ‘clairbourne practice’. “It’s us becoming more vulnerable, and more accurate with the emotional expression,” Lee said in press materials. “Some of the songs in the earlier days are a bit more guarded or timid. Now we’re more confident in what we want to do.”

    Ginger Root, SHINBANGUMI

    Ginger Root – the California-based project of Cameron Lew – has released a new record, SHINBANGUMI. Featuring the early tracks ‘No Problems’, ‘Better Than Monday’, ‘All Night’, and ‘There Was a Time’, it marks his third full-length and first for new label home Ghostly International. “In terms of instrumentation and musicality, it’s the first time that I felt very confident and comfortable with what everything should be comprised of,” Lew explained. “On the more personal side, I’m coming out of the last four years of writing, touring, and living as a different person; SHINBANGUMI is a platform to showcase my new self.”

    Other albums out today:

    Snow Patrol, The Forest Is the Path; Tindersticks, Soft Tissue; LSDXOXO, DOGMA; Nada Surf, Moon Mirror; My Brightest Diamond, Fight the Real Terror; Kal Marks, Wasteland Baby; Chastity, Chastity; Worlds Greatest Dad, Better Luck Next Time; Gia Ford, Transparent Things; TR/ST, Performance; Bad Moves, Wearing Out the Refrain; Colin Stetson, The love it took to leave you; London Grammar, The Greatest Love; Hello Mary, Emita Ox;  Chilly Gonzales, Gonzo; Lily Kershaw, Pain & More; Dora Jara, No Way to Relax When You’re on Fire; Fousheé, Pointy Heights; ionnalee, Close Your Eyes; Sarah Davachi, The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir.

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