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Albums Out Today: Porter Robinson, Ice Spice, Crack Cloud, Robber Robber, and More

by Konstantinos Pappis

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on July 26, 2024:

Porter Robinson, SMILE! 😀

Porter Robinson is back with his third album, SMILE! 😀, out now via Mom+Pop. The follow-up to 2021’s Nurture was previewed by the singles ‘Cheerleader’, ‘Knock Yourself Out XD’, ‘Russian Roulette’, and ‘Kitsune Maison Freestyle’. “I’m always toying with and entertaining the idea of oblivion, of career suicide, of disappearing,” Robinson commented in a statement about ‘Russian Roulette’, where he’s “trying to reconcile those fantasies against the real responsibilities that hang over me. And then it gets dark, and light all at the same time.”

Ice Spice, Y2K!

Ice Spice’s debut full-length, Y2K!, has arrived via 10K Projects/Capitol Records. Ahead of its release, the Bronx rapper shared the singles ‘Phat Butt’, ‘Gimmie a Light’, ‘Think U The Shit (Fart)’, and ‘Did It First’ with Central Cee. Speaking about the album in a Complex cover story, the Bronx rapper said: “I would say I’m bringing drill to new heights, and I feel like it would make sense to incorporate a lot of that in an album because, of course, there’s trap and everything else, but so many people are doing it and it’s so saturated right now.”

Crack Cloud, Red Mile

Crack Cloud have released their latest album, Red Mile, following up 2022’s Tough Baby. The snigles ‘Blue Kite’ and ‘The Medium’ preceded the LP. “Blue Kite was written with a cultural intersection in mind,” the group’s Zach Choy explained in press materials. “In Canada in the early 00’s we grew up to Sum 41. Late night YTV. And the spectre of Woodstock 99. From the outside looking in: being in a punk band meant that you could be a jackass. Pick your nose on stage; play the drum like Energizer Bunny. My relationship to punk music as a teenager hinged on self-deprecation; an easy, destructive mode of confronting what I didn’t like about myself. And what I didn’t understand about the world around me.”

Robber Robber, Wild Guess

Wild Guess is the debut LP by the Burlington-based outift Robber Robber. Multi-instrumentalists Nina Cates and Zack James co-produced the LP, working with engineers Benny Yurco (Grace Potter) and Urian Hackney (Iggy Pop, Rough Francis). “A while ago, I was writing out the lyrics for all of the tracks, and I realized throughout the record that the songs that have fewer words, we wound up putting earlier on the album, and then the songs that are a lot more wordy, we wound up putting later on,” Cates said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “It’s kind of like I’m warming up my voice and my ability to actually reflect on things. I do feel like missed connections and just struggling to connect is definitely a thematic piece of the whole record.”

Sinai Vessel, I SING

Sinai Vessel, the project of Caleb Cordes, has released a new LP, I SING, via Keeled Scales. The follow-up to 2020’s Ground Aswim was co-produced and mixed by previous collaborator Bennett Littlejohn, who also played bass on it. The album features Andrew Stevenson on drums and Jodi’s Nick Levine on pedal steel. It was preceded by the songs ‘Best Witness’, ‘How’, ‘Birthday’, ‘Attack’, ‘Laughing’, and most recently ‘Challenger’, which, “as with much of I SING – is concerned with aging into a phase of life where survival under capitalism has the potential to complicate all kinds of relationships,” according to Cordes.

Wand, Vertigo

Wand – currently a four-piece with Evan Backer, Evan Burrows, Robbie Cody, and Cory Hanson – have dropped a new album titled Vertigo. Out now via Drag City, it marks the Los Angeles psych band’s first album in four years, following Laughing Matter. Wand recorded the album at their own studio, cutting down pieces from 50 hours of live improvisation and turning them into songs. The record also features string and woodwinds arrangements by Backer.

Clothing, From Memory

Clothing – the duo of Aakaash Israni (Dawn of Midi) and Ben Sterling (Cookies, Mobius Band) – have issued their debut album, From Memory. The 8-track LP features collaborations with Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman, Anna Wise, L’Rain, and Elliott Skinner. The making of the record stretched out over 10 years, through the birth of children, cross-country moves, and searching for the right vocal collaborators. “We learned that it’s incredibly hard to imagine a voice singing a song that it hasn’t sung yet,” Sterling commented in a press release.

Ben Seretan, Allora

Ben Seretan has released a new album, Allora, via Tiny Engines. The New York artist has described the follow-up to 2020’s Youth Pastoral as his “insane Italy record,” and Caleb Cordes, in his bio for the record, explained that the title is “an expressive Venetian catchall that literally translates to “at that time.'” Cordes added: “Allora is a record that couldn’t have been made at any other time under any other circumstances. It is a document that is aware of its own capturing, understanding of its own value beyond the work itself.”

Cults, To the Ghosts

Cults, the New York duo of Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, have dropped their new album, To the Ghosts. The band co-produced the follow-up to 2020’s Host with Shane Stoneback. John Congleton mixed the LP, and Hebra Kadry mastered it. “Without knowing it, we’ve spent our whole career building a world of our own, we just try to create the emotion that we want to feel,” Oblivion reflected. “This record is another piece of the picture, but the picture isn’t done yet. We’d be in Cults no matter what. It’s the way we live our lives.” Madeline added: “This is the first record where I would pick up the microphone and sing whatever I was feeling. The vocals and the lyrics really helped inform the direction rather than the other way around. Every track brings me back to what I was going through at the time.”

Julia-Sophie, forgive too slow

Julia-Sophie has unveiled her debut album, forgive too slow, via Ba Da Bing Records. Following a string of EPs, including it feels like thunder, y?, and </3, the record includes the advance tracks ‘i was only’ (featuring Noah Yorke) ‘numb’, ‘telephone’, and ‘wishful thinking’. “My journey with music has been weird and long,” Julia-Sophie said in a statement. “I think people assumed that the music I made was exactly what I intended to make, when it’s always just been me trying to figure it out. Being a solo artist has allowed me to really find myself and show who I am in all my messy states.”

Other albums out today:

Mustard, Faith of a Mustard Seed; Rakim, G.O.D.’s Network (Reb7rth); Empire of the Sun, Ask That God; Nathan Bowles Trio, Are Possible; Humanist, On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World; Alex Izenberg & the Exiles, Alex Izenberg & the Exiles; Nightshift, Homosapien; Respire, Hiraeth; Dave Harrington, Skull Dream; State Faults, Children of the Moon; Modern Color, There Goes the Dream; Dearthworms, Sapsucker; Falling in Reverse, Popular Monster;  Fancy Gap, Fancy Gap; mirrored fatality, LABUAD MEKLOOQ; Raphael Rogiński, Žaltys.

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