In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on August 16, 2024:
Charly Bliss, Forever
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Charly Bliss are back with a new album, Forever, out now via Lucky Number. The follow-up to 2019’s Young Enough and the Supermoon EP includes the previously released tracks ‘Nineteen’, ‘Waiting for You’, ‘Calling You Out’, and ‘Back There Now’. The band’s own Sam Hendricks co-produced the LP with Hippo Campus frontman Jake Juppen and Caleb Wright. The group set out to write Forever with a simple directive: “It has to be fun.” Read about how friendship, Lexapro, HAIM, and more inspired the record in our new interview with Charly Bliss.
Horse Jumper of Love, Disaster Trick
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Horse Jumper of Love have today dropped their new LP, Disaster Trick, through Run for Cover. Following the 2023 mini-album Heartbreak Rules, the 11-track effort includes the previously shared songs ‘Wink’, ‘Snow Angel’, ‘Today’s Iconoclast’, and ‘Word’. Recorded at Asheville, North Carolina’s Drop of Sun Studios with producer Alex Farrar, it features contributions from Wednesday’s MJ Lenderman and Karly Harzman and Squirrel Flower’s Ella Williams. Read our interview with frontman Dimitri Giannopoulos about how Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, Leonard Cohen’s Songs From a Room, seeing Codeine live, and more inspired the LP.
Tinashe, Quantum Baby
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Tinashe has returned with a new record, Quantum Baby. Featuring the early singles ‘Nasty’ and ‘Getting No Sleep’, the album is billed as the second installment in a trilogy that began with last year’s with BB/Ang3l. “Quantum Baby is about getting to know me on a deeper level,” the singer said in a press release. “It’s about exploring who I am as a person and who I am as an artist. I’ve never been one to be put into a box, so the name ‘Quantum Baby’ encompasses all the different parts that make up who I am as a creative.”
Wishy, Triple Seven
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Wishy have come through with their debut album, Triple Seven. The follow-up to last year’s Paradise EP is out now via Winspear, having been previewed with the singles ‘Sick Sweet’, ‘Love on the Outside’, ‘Just Like Sunday’, and the title track. “It’s an angel number that symbolizes spiritual awakening and knowing one’s self,” the band’s Nina Pitchkites said of the album title in press materials. Pitchkites and fellow songwriter Kevin Krauter are joined on the LP by guitarist Dimitri Morris, bassist Mitch Collins, and drummer Conner Host.
Post Malone, F-1 Trillion
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Post Malone is back with his sixth studio album and first-ever country record, F-1 Trillion. The follow-up to 2023’s Austin was promoted with ‘Pour Me a Drink’, a duet with country star Blake Shelton, and the Morgan Wallen collab ‘I Had Some Help’. Dolly Parton, Jelly Roll, Tim McGraw, Ernest, Hank Williams Jr., Lainey Wilson, Brad Paisley, Sierra Ferrell, HARDY, and Chris Stapleton also guest on the record. The album’s cover art was shot by Gonzalo Lebrija.
Rosie Lowe, Lover, Other
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Rosie Lowe has issued a new album, Lover, Other, via Blue Flowers. The 15-track collection features the previously unveiled singles ‘Gratitudes’, ‘Mood to Make Love’, ‘Something’, and ‘In My Head’. The singer-songwriter took on recording, writing, and production duties on the new record, working with her brother Louis Hemming-Lowe on music videos, opera singer Isabelle Peters on vocals, Sylvie Pyne on the artwork, and Harvey Grant and D’Monk on production.
Hamish Hawk, A Firmer Hand
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Hamish Hawk has unveiled his new album, A Firmer Hand, via Fierce Panda. The follow-up to last year’s Angel Numbers was preceded by the tracks ‘Big Cat Tattoos’, ‘Nancy Dearest’, and ‘Men Like Wire’. “Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out,” Hawk said in a statement. “The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised: I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good. The album made so many demands, and I just gave myself over to it.”
Pom Poko, Champion
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Pom Poko have put out their third LP, Champion, via Bella Union. The follow-up to 2021’s Cheater includes the advance tracks ‘Growing Story’, ‘Go’, and the title track, which accompanied the album’s announcement. “The word ‘champion’ was there from the beginning,” vocalist Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit explained. “I built the lyrics around that title, just one evening, in my apartment. There’s a big parking lot in front of my building, and I was just sitting there and looking out at it. I was just struck with this image of being in our van, and touring, and all the parking lots we’ve ever been in. It’s a song about growing older and not feeling like you have to take over the world anymore. We’re just doing this for ourselves, really. If we can be in a band that lasts for 20 years, that’s amazing. We’re not champions, but we are at the same time.”
Other albums out today:
Lindsay Reamer, Natural Science; Foster the People, Paradise State of Mind; Chuck Johnson, Sun Glories; Delicate Steve, Delicate Steve Sings; Combat, Stay Golden; NoCap, Before I Disappear Again; Morgan Wade, Obsessed; Melinda Sullivan & Larry Goldings, Big Foot; Matty, POPS; The Script, Satellites; Family Dinner, God Looks Out For Fools; Etelin, Patio User Manual.
