This week in new music

Thu 28th Jul, 2011 in Local News

New music from Mastadon, Regurgitator, Death in Vegas, M83, Laura Marling, Opeth, Snow Patrol, Girls and heaps more.

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Last week’s new music wrap up got bumped due to the sudden (and very exiting) announcement of the lineup for the Harvest festival lineup, so it makes sense that we open this weeks collection of new music with a track from on of the festival’s acts – Death in Vegas.

Your Loft is the first single from the forthcoming Death in Vegas album Trans-Love Energies, the first for Richard Fearless and Tim Holmws since Satan’s Circus in 2004. This taste of the record features Austra lead singer Katie Stelmanis. Sadly Stelmanis won’t be joining the band at Harvest, but she told us this week that she’ll be touring next year.

After two years of work in the studio Snow Patrol are set to return soon with a new record Fallen Empires, the follow up to 2008’s A Hundred Million Suns According to the press release their new track “has a disco feel with some nice vocal harmonies and funky drum beat throughout not to mention the prominent bass lines” and lead singer Gary Lightbody describes the new material as “different but great.” What do you think?

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are also returning soon with their new album Hysterical due out in September. It’s the first record for the most hyped band of 2005 since their 2007 effort Some Loud Thunder. The first taste of their comeback is Manic.

Girls band members Christopher Owens and Chet White recorded their new incarnation in a San Francisco office building with new drummer Darren Weiss and guitarist John Anderson to create an album described as “less explorative than previous records”. Take a listen to their new track vomit here.

When France’s M83 toured Australia a few years ago FL’s reviewer at the Melbourne leg of the festival declared that “there are very few acts who can match these guys for the sheer emotion that their music elicits. The band, led by electronic jack of all trades Anthony Gonzales, returns with a new album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming in October. Take a listen to the first track offered as a taste of the record – Midnight City.

Swedish electronic act Lo-Fi-FNK has warned us to “get yourselves ready for a punch in the face” with their brand new single Boom! a does of their second record Last Summer.

Low-fi garage rock crew Loon Lake were on the FL playlist back in April and by now you probably know (and love) their catchy single In The Summer which has had a fair bit of airtime on triple j. With their trebly guitar and jaunty pace the band has been compared to the Strokes – a comparison that they back up with their latest single I Loved You Then.

Regurgitator’s seventh studio album Super Happy Fun Times Best Friends, out next Friday 5th August will be available from shows and online in a new format called Playbutton – a wearable digital storage device that plays itself. The band’s manager Paul Curtis says the band wanted to release the album in a format that reflected the “more mobile” way people engage with music. Very cool, but what do you think of their new sone All Fake Everything.

Laura Marling’s third album in a little over three years A Creature I Don’t Know is set to drop on September 12th. This tune Sophia is the first taste of the album produced by Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams)

Here’s a brief taste of Damon Albarn’s ambitious new album. He’s recording in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a stack of producers aiming to make a full album in just seven days. This snippit is from a track called_Hallo_ which will feature vocals from Tout Puissant Mukalo.