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Albums Out Today: Japandroids, Porridge Radio, Christopher Owens, Kelly Lee Owens, and More

by Konstantinos Pappis

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 18, 2024:

Japandroids, Fate & Alcohol

Japandroids have released their fourth and final LP, Fate & Alcohol, via ANTI-. The Vancouver duo co-produced the follow-up to 2017’s Near to the Wild Heart of Life with longtime collaborator Jesse Gander. “On our last record, we wanted to broaden the definition of a Japandroids song and purposely left our demos quite open and malleable so that we had more flexibility to experiment in the studio,” Brian King said in a statement. “At the time, this approach was new and exciting and inspired us to be bolder, to take more chances. We were aiming for a more cinematic take on our signature sound. This time, we made certain that every song ripped in our jam space before Jesse ever heard it.” Read our review of Fate & Alcohol.

Porridge Radio, Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me

Porridge Radio have returned with a new album called Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me. The follow-up to 2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky was produced by Dom Monks and recorded in Frome, England. “It feels like the first time we’ve made something,” bandleader Dana Margolin reflected. “It captured something about our friendship as a band and the way that we have learnt to play together. It’s taught me so much. Following your gut to the nth point, trusting your friends and their loyalty, trusting yourself to be able to fight with people properly and still come back together. How I want to live is how I want to make records, because making records is my life because my work is my play is my job is my life. It all ties together in this thing, and there are ways to do this that might not kill me.”

Christopher Owens, I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens is back with his first new album in seven years, I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair. Since releasing Vante with his band Curls in 2017, Owens has dealt with a bad motorcycle accident, experiences with homelessness, and the 2020 death of his former Girls partner Chet “JR” White. In a press release, he described I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair as “a record about a journey back to the centre of myself.” He continued: “In the second half of the Bible, Jesus asks ‘What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ Lately I’ve found it interesting to ask it in a different way. ‘What shall it profit a man, if he lose his whole world, and gain back his soul?’ And I think the answer would have to be something like — The Kingdom of Heaven.”

Kelly Lee Owens, Dreamstate

Kelly Lee Owens has issued her fourth studio album, Dreamstate. The follow-up to 2022’s LP.8 is out now 18 via dh2, an electronic imprint of the Dirty Hit label spearheaded by the 1975’s George Daniel, and it features producer-writer credits from Bicep, Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers, and Daniel himself. Ahead of its release, Owens shared the singles ‘Higher’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Love You Got’, and ‘Ballad (In the End)’.

High Vis, Guided Tour

High Vis have dropped their sophomore LP, Guided Tour. The follow-up to 2022’s Blending was recorded across a few weeks at Holy Mountain Studios in London with producer Jonah Falco and engineer Stanley Gravett. The London punks previewed the full-length, which stretches their blend of hardcore, post-punk, and jangly indie, with the singles ‘Mob DLA’, ‘Mind’s a Lie’, ‘Drop Me Out’, and the title track.

MC5, Heavy Lifting

Heavy Lifting, the first MC5 album in 53 years, has been released via EarMusic. The 13-track LP features guitar and vocals from the late Wayne Kramer, who passed away in February at age 75. Kramer co-wrote 12 of the album’s songs with Oakland singer-songwriter Brad Brooks and enlisted guests including Tom Morello, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, William DuVall, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, and the late MC5 drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson. The band’s last album was 1971’s High Time.

Karate, Make It Fit

Boston post-emo band Karate are back with their first album since 2004’s Pockets. Out now via Numero Group, Make It Fit includes the previously released songs ‘Defendants’, ‘Silence, Sound’, and ‘Around the Dial’. The trio laid down the record with longtime collaborator Andy Hong in Nashville this past January. Hong also mixed the LP, and Geoff Farina added guitars and vocals at his home studio and Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio.

Jordana, Lively Premonition

Jordana has followed up 2022’s Face the Wall with a new album called Lively Premonition. Featuring the early singles ‘Anything for You’, ‘We Get By’, ‘Like a Dog’, and ‘Raver Girl’, the LP was made over the course of 2023 with producer Emmett Kai. “It’s about the cycle of love, heartbreak, lust, party-going, self acceptance, connections, and rediscovering yourself over and over again,” Jordana explained. She added, “The whole record is this mixed bag of tricks with plenty of cheeky lyrical and instrumental decisions. We’re taking tons of risks here.”

Silverbacks, Easy Being a Winner

Silverbacks have put out their third LP, which is called Easy Being a Winner. The follow-up to 2022’s Archive Material was preceded by the singles ‘Selling Shovels’, ‘Something I Know’, and ‘Giving Away an Inch Of’. As with their previous two albums, Silverbacks laid down the new record with Daniel Fox (Gilla Band) at Sonic Studios in Stoneybatter, Dublin. “Now that Easy Being a Winner is coming out, I feel I can more confidently say who we are,” vocalist Kilian O’Kelly shared. “We’re indie rock. And this album sounds even more like the indie rock I imagined for our band all those years ago.”

W. H. Lung, Every Inch of Earth Pulsates

W. H. Lung have a new album out today, via Melodic, titled Every Inch of Earth Pulsates. The follow-up to 2021’s Vanities was previewed by the tracks ‘How to Walk’, ‘Bloom and Fade’, and ‘The Painting of the Bay’. It finds the Mancunian synthpop outfit working with Ross Orton (MIA, Arctic Monkeys, Working Men’s Club). “Ross is the Sheffield Steve Albini,” singer Joseph Evans remarked in press materials. “He’s the king of not overthinking it and trusting the process of the art of recording songs. He was always there to stop us fucking around with cerebral stuff and get it down.”

Machine Girl, MG Ultra

Machine Girl are back with a new LP titled MG Ultra. It marks the New York City electronic hardcore duo’s first album in four years, following U-Void Synthesizer, as well as their debut for new label home Future Classic. According to a press release, the record “playfully institutionalizes the battle against alienation, dysmorphia, estrangement, commodification, and the gentrification of the mind through a complex sonic narrative.” It was preceded by the tracks  ‘Motherfather’, ‘Until I Die’, and ‘Psychic Attack’.

Office Culture, Enough

Brooklyn-based outfit Office Culture have unveiled their fourth album, Enough, via Ruination Records. Along with the band’s core lineup of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Winston Cook-Wilson, bassist Charlie Kaplan, and guitarist Ryan El-Solh (Scree), the record features contributions from fellow Ruination artists Alena Spanger, The Bird Calls (Sam Sodomsky), and Jackie West, as well as guitarist Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel), harpist Rebecca El-Saleh (Kitba), keyboardist Frank Meadows (Fust, Tomberlin), Little Mystery’s Ivy Meissner and Julian Cubillos, and many more.

Hildegard, Jour 1596

Hildegard – the collaborative project of Montreal-based artists and multi-instrumentalists Ouri and Helena Deland – have followed up their 2021 self-titled album Jour 1596, out now via Chivi Chivi. The record took shape during yearly week-long retreats in rural Quebec; while the pair’s debut came together over just eight days, the new LP was composed over 1596 days. It features contributions from Zach Frampton on piano, Christopher Edmondson on saxophone, Phil Melanson on drums, and Benja on guitar.

Other albums out today:

Yeat, LIFESTYLE; Kylie Minogue, Tension II; Tim Heidecker, Slipping Away; Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham, Cunningham Bird; Nap Eyes, The Neon Gate; Hemlock Ernst, Studying Absence; Confidence Man, 3AM LA LA LA; Oliver Coates, Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time; Phantogram, Memory of a Day; Roy Hargrove, Crisol: Grande-Terre; Shower Curtain, words from a wishing well; Rubblebucket, Year of the Banana; Lisel, The Vanishing Point; Karl Blau, Vultures of Love; NET GALA, GALAPAGGOT; Bear Hands, The Key to What; Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis, Warriors; Lechuga Zafiro, Desde los Oídos de un Sapo; Joy Oladokun, Observations From a Crowded Room; Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood, Blues Experience; Boney James, Slow Burn; Alex E. Chávez, Sonorous Present; Maven Grace, Surface With a Smile; Sissi Rada, Demeter in Aexone.

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