BOB DYLAN // Shadows In The Night (Out now, Sony Music
Entertainment Australia)
After selling more than 125 million records around the world,
this is Bob Dylan’s 36th studio album no less. It reveals Dylan’s
interpretation of 10 classic American songs from Some Enchanted
Evening to Autumn Leaves, and delivers his style of refining
complicated arrangements for 30-piece orchestras down to those
uniquely tailored for his five-piece band. Hell it’s BD, just get it!
AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS // A Monstrous
Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind) The
Wizards of Oz (March 13, Monstrous Bubble/Festival
Records)
Once you’ve wrapped your head around the title, it’s
easier to accept that this is an antipodean cosmic space
music odyssey from 1966 to present day through the eyes
of Australia and New Zealand. Please explain? Well, take
Aussie classics like The Real Thing from Russell Morris
and more recent recordings from the likes of Pond and
Tame Impala, and see this UK psychedelic DJ duo weave
and mash tracks together for two-plus hours - farkin epic!
Badbadnotgood and Ghostface Killah // Sour Soul (February
24, Lex Records)
Here’s a collab album from Toronto jazz/hip-hop band
Badbadnotgood and Staten Island rap legend Ghostface Killah,
available digitally on February 24 and physically on February
27, with the Wu-Tang boss blastin’ it on every track. Taking
inspiration from the recording techniques and production of the
1960s and ‘70s, Sour Soul eschews sampling in favour of live
instrumentation. Others featured include Danny Brown, DOOM
and Elzhi, formerly of Slum Village.
MADEON // Adventure (March 27, Columbia Records/Sony
Music Entertainment Australia)
He’s 20 and already worked with artists including Muse and
Coldplay, as well as claimed the title of the first electronic artist
in history to perform a full production show on the floor of the
New York stock exchange (huh?). You might have caught him
at Future Music Festival in 2013 in between dodging seatbeltwearing leg-waxing gym freaks. Either way, this DJ/producer’s
got some crazy shit going on.