STACK #235 May 2024

MUSIC FEATURE

visit jbhifi.com.au/stack WHAT’S OUT Whether it’s a voyage of musical discovery or a sonic reacquaintance with a favourite band or artist, check out these fresh releases heading to JB this month.

immortality - realising that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see,” he says. KINGS OF LEON Can We Please Have Fun Universal Nashville rockers Kings angles, flinging a few experiments into the cauldron, and ultimately opening the doors to a brand new side of their sound. Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Caleb has declared: ”It was the most enjoyable record I’ve ever been a part of.” INCUBUS Morning View XXIII Virgin of Leon have let their sweaty hair down on their ninth album. They’re testing new

DUA LIPA Radical Optimism Warner

BETH GIBBONS Lives Outgrown Domino

EDITOR’S PICK ANGUS & JULIA STONE Cape Forestier Sony Freshly signed with Sony, bro- and-sis duo Angus and Julia Stone are releasing their sixth album together, Cape Forestier . Both siblings have dabbled on the solo side of things since their last commercial indie pop release as a duo (2017’s Snow ), but it seems that blood harmonies rule. Cape Forestier is a return to the pair’s earlier folk sound, telling tales of love and life with that unique emotional magnetism that only these two can craft.

According to three-time Grammy and seven-time Brit Award-winning pop star Dua Lipa, her new

Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is ready to gift us her first ever solo album, recorded over a period of immense

record investigates her experience of being “struck” by “the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm.” We can’t wait for what is sure to be a colossal follow-up to 2020’s Future Nostalgia . FRANK TURNER Undefeated Xtra Mile Recordings English folk-punk legend Frank Turner is shimmers with fun and self deprecation. “Nineteen years into my solo career, I’m still standing up and putting out some of my best work,” he’s said of his tenth solo studio album, Undefeated . “It feels good.” KAMASI WASHINGTON Fearless Movement XL/Remote Control Records back with a record about survival and defiance, which also

personal change during the last ten years. It comprises hypnotic, weird, and very beautiful tracks which sweep through topics of motherhood, death, fighting your own biology, and “lots of goodbyes.” GLASS BEAMS Mahal Ninja Tune Led by founding member Rajan Silva, Glass Beams offer a Mahal is a timeless fusion of cultures and sounds beamed through a prism of live instrumentation and DIY electronica, all wrapped up inside a mesmerising and mystical visual world of the Melbourne trio’s own making. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Still Kids BMG cross-pollination of East and West, old and new;

Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd has described the writing of the band’s highest selling album, 2001’s

Morning View , as happening in “that ever sought-after flow state.” Now, 23 years later, the band are presenting a “re-recording/re-think” of its sparkling material to honour its legacy. TWENTY ONE PILOTS Clancy Warner

J onathan, Jordan, Joey, Donnie, and Danny are releasing their first new full-length studio album in 11 years. It features

In contrast to his previous musical explorations into the cosmic, Kamasi Washington’s fifth studio

Clancy is the final chapter in a sonic narrative which Twenty

14 fresh tracks, including lead single Kids , alongside a grab bag of pop anthems, dance tracks, love songs, and grooves that will become immediate faves for all Blockheads.

One Pilots began in 2015’s Blurryface . It follows Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun’s adventures in the metaphorical world of ‘Trench’, particularly its dystopian city

album Fearless Movement puts the spotlight on the everyday, in an examination of life on earth. The change in scope was propelled by the birth of Washington’s first child: “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my

‘Dema’, and brings the thrilling conceptual tale to its conclusion.

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