Jesu – Terminus CD (Avalanche Recordings)
Justin K Broadrick is best known as a founding member of Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music, but has also maintained a parallel career as a producer, producing records and remixes for groups such as Pantera, Isis, Mogwai and Pelican. Since 2005 he has also been creating slow, hazy, and deafening music under the moniker Jesu, and here he returns with Terminus, the first full length standalone album from Jesu since 2013’s Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came. Terminus thematically was inspired by the concepts of rejection, dependency, nostalgia, and ultimate loneliness. Musically exploring the entire gamut of the Jesu oeuvre since its initial inception; dream pop, shoegaze, electronica and nonaligned/non genre specific heaviness. [Vinyl edition due November 20.]

Lambchop – Trip CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
In the fall of 2019, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner had a unique idea: In lieu of going on what would become an economically disastrous tour, he would invite the band to Nashville to make a record as a way to provide them with similar financial support and realize something tangible in the process. Each band member was tasked with choosing one song for the band to cover, and leading the recording session to completion each day. Trip sounds like a culmination of the band’s older work and current work. There’s a looseness and freedom that recalls their older sound mixed with a group sophistication and innovation derived through the process of playing together for so long.

Quakers – II: The Next Wave CD/2xLP (Stones Throw)
Quakers is an ever-evolving collective of music with core members Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Australian producer Ashely Anderson. True to the group’s collaborative spirit, the producers invited over twenty rappers from the Stones Throw stable and beyond to contribute to II: The Next Wave. Much like Quakers’ self-titled debut, II: The Next Wave is loud, unapologetic and blunted. It’s also more explicitly political, with songs that speak directly to systemic corruption, racism, and the climate crisis.

Bahamas – Sad Hunk LP (Republic)
Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. The fifth album from Bahamas, Sad Hunk takes its title from a nickname bestowed upon the artist by his wife in reaction to how he was being portrayed in the media, “Something like ten years ago I did a photo shoot, and in all the pictures they sent back I was lit half in shadow, looking all brooding and mysterious,” says the award-winning singer/songwriter otherwise known as Afie Jurvanen. “When my wife saw the photos the first thing she said was, ‘Whoa—sad hunk,’ and after that it became sort of a joke among our friends.” It’s a fitting backstory for an album that embodies an undaunted self-awareness, each track graced with Bahamas’s wry wit and unabashed heart. In sketching Sad Hunk’s delicately composed batch of songs, Jurvanen drew much inspiration from his home life and all the joy and struggle that comes with building a family together. [Limited purple colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Felt – Felt 4 U 2xLP (Rhymesayers)
Recently released on CD – now available on custom pink and teal colored vinyl. After an 11-year hiatus, Murs and Slug are back with their fourth Felt album. Sonically, Felt 4 U is overflowing with the influences of funk, soul, blues and even country flavors.

Mark Pritchard – MP Productions LP (Warp)
Mark Pritchard returns with a six-track club-ready EP fronted by first offering “Be Like Water”. Most of the tracks on this EP were first played in his WXAXRXP NTS mix last year. MP Productions EP 1 will be available on 12″ via Warp on 13th November. The AI-infused artwork is designed by longtime collaborator Jonathan Zawada. This EP sees Pritchard dip into a slew of alias that have kept him busy over the years. This new club 12″ nods to his mesmerizing formulas for making dance music, carrying the listener through grime, electronic and Afrika HiTech territory. “Be Like Water” is a devilish 8 bar grime instrumental. Harking back to an early ’00s grime sound, Pritchard manipulates loops of distorted flutes, hollow chords and pentatonic scales to find an energy which is exciting, addictive and perfect for the club

Grateful Dead – American Beauty [Reissue/1970] LP (Grateful Dead)
50th anniversary standard black vinyl LP reissue. The pinnacle of the Grateful Dead’s studio output, American Beauty certainly lives up to its name. Made just months after its companion release, Workingman’s Dead, the San Francisco legends’ second 1970 masterpiece furthers the former work’s close-knit relationship between country and folk while adding extra rock and bluegrass currents. Understated amplified passages, graceful melodies, layered singing, and old-time string flavors – including mandolin work from masterful guest David Grisman – bestow the material with easygoing, comfortable vibes.