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LUPE FIASCO // Tetsuo & Youth (Out now, Atlanta Records)
From chillin with a kick n push in 2006 to Grammy Award-winning
artist whose been named a Henry Crown Fellow in the fellowship
to mobilise a new brand of leaders under the age of 45, to tackle
the world’s most intractable problems … yep Lupe Fiasco keeps
notching up wins. Here’s this, his fifth flavoursome album featuring
some of his tightest collaborators like Ab-Soul, Trae Tha Truth,
Troi and Fam Lay.
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE // Kintsugi (March 27, Atlantic Records/
Warner Music)
Four years has passed since their last release, with Death Cab For
Cutie storing up a whole lot of philosophical, spiritual and emotional
content to create for this, their eighth studio album. Add Rich Costey
to the recording process, who’s worked with Muse and Interpol, and
you have an impacting noise still loyal to indie and alternative rock
fans from way back.
SPIRIT VALLEY // Moonrocks (Out now, Sweet Baby Baby Records)
What do you get mixing memories of the ol’ rave days, a love for
chanting, sidechained bass lines and a thirst for playing to a sweaty
dancefloor? Pretty much what Sydney pair Dave Tomlinson and
Chris Stabback have put out under the guise of Spirit Valley – a
genre of Doomshine Boogie. With their debut album of dancefloor
shanties called Give Trance A Chance out digitally on February 27,
here’s the single Moonrocks to keep you company til then. Get yours
from Bandcamp.
JAKUBI // Holiday (Out now, Create/Control)
After a massive 2014 for Melbourne-based hip-hop/pop/grunge
collective Jakubi – touring Australia, the US and Canada – they’ve
spat out this debut EP of four tracks including their Can’t Afford It
All and Holiday which both reached #1 on Hype Machine charts.
Then come May they will return to the US to appear at Summer
Camp Festival as well as Wakarusa 2015, headlined by The Roots
and Ben Harper.