While it’s easier than ever these days to find and get music, it seems like every day it becomes more and more difficult to just get the things you actually want to hear.
With tons of albums getting released each month, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of the releases you definitely want to get your hands on and you find yourself just giving up.
In the interest of promoting great music, we’ve decided to give our readers a forecast of the best and most promising releases coming out this month.
Desaparecidos – City on the Hill
Label: Epitaph
Release Date: June 19th
Pre-Order: iTunes
Desaparecidos will release their eagerly anticipated new album, Payola, on Friday, 19th June. Their first album in 13 years, the album is a follow-up to the band’s first and only LP, Read Music / Speak Spanish, which combined elements of ’70s/’80s punk & hardcore and ’80s power pop.
Payola was co-produced with Mike Mogis (First Aid Kit, Saintseneca, and ‘The Fault in our Stars’ Score From the Motion Picture with Nate Walcott) and was recorded in several batches over the past few years and tackles a wide range of political issues at a much broader scale.
Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
Label: Sony
Release Date: June 19th
Pre-Order: JB Hi-Fi
London’s Wolf Alice have been a band with serious buzz for some time now, having enjoyed a breakthrough 2014 following the release of their Creature Songs EP, which featured the critically acclaimed hit Moaning Lisa Smile’.
Now, as they gear up to make their way Down Under for Splendour In The Grass 2015, the band who stormed their way into the prestigious BBC Sound of 2015 list will drop their highly anticipated full-length debut, My Love Is Cool. Pick it up Friday, 19th June.
Everything Everything – Get To Heaven
Label: Sony
Release Date: June 19th
Pre-Order: iTunes
Now three albums in, Manchester natives Everything Everything have been charting a unique musical path for themselves. Their latest dispatch, Get to Heaven, is set to be another singular collection of clever, electronically-tinged art rock.
Produced by Stuart Price, best known for his sterling collaborations with The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, and for his prowess as a remixer, Get to Heaven takes Everything Everything in a bold and brilliantly ambitious new direction. Get the new album on Friday, 19th June.
Refused – Freedom
Label: Epitaph
Release Date: June 26th
Pre-Order: Epitaph online
It’s been something of a long time between drinks for punk rock legends Refused. While most bands would struggle to make a believable comeback after 17 years, this Swedish hardcore outfit is not like other bands and they’re sure to make the wait well worth it for fans.
“Nobody wanted us to fuck with the image of the band who makes a great album and splits up. Nobody wanted us to dilute it. That actually provoked us,” said drummer David Sandström. The band’s first album in almost two decades is titled Freedom and is slated to arrive Friday, 26th June.
Lindemann – Skills In Pills
Label: Warner
Release Date: June 19th
Pre-Order: JB Hi-Fi
The name Lindemann is synonymous with everything heavy, industrial, lewd, crude, and in your face, and the debut side-project from Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann is no different. Just taking a look at the album title, Skills In Pills, you know that tongue is being kept firmly in cheek.
Set to drop Friday, 19th June, Lindemann sees the Rammstein chief partnering with Swedish metal veteran Peter Tägtgren. Together, this inimitable pair have concocted an album that bears all the hallmarks of their respective discographies, suffused with humour, witty lyrical imagery, and punishing riffs.
Muse – Drones
Label: Warner
Release Date: June 5th
Pre-Order: iTunes
Having rewritten their own rules with 2012’s eclectic and uncompromising The 2nd Law, Muse have decided to go back to their roots on the highly anticipated follow-up, Drones, and that’s not just a tired old rockstar cliche, either.
Set to drop Friday, 5th June, Drones is muse asserting themselves as the UK’s foremost power trio. The album is rich in uplifting atmospherics, structural complexity, and pummelling riffs peppered with bone-chilling lines from lyricist Matt Bellamy, like “I see magic in your eyes / On the outside you’re ablaze and alive, but you’re dead inside“.
Young Guns – Ones and Zeroes
Label: EMI
Release Date: June 5th
Pre-Order: Universal Store
Having established themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting rock prospects with 2010’s All Our Kings Are Dead, Young Guns have returned once again with their third studio album, Ones and Zeros, which the band have scheduled to drop Friday, 5th June.
Two years on from the release of their album Bones and their first album since signing to Virgin EMI in the UK, Ones and Zeros was produced by Steve Osborne (U2, Placebo, Thrice, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Damien Taylor (Killers, Bjork, The Prodigy, Arcade Fire).
Oh Mercy – When We Talk About Love
Label: EMI
Release Date: June 19th
Pre-Order: JB Hi-Fi
Oh Mercy is the acclaimed project from Alexander Gow and he’s preparing to unveil their latest album, When We Talk About Love, on Friday, 19th June. Written across three American cities and then home, Alex has described the album as his most personal to date.
“Its genetics are the sum of my musical loves. Bacharach, Cohen, The Triffids. Grand, proud and not self-conscious. I accessed all that I’ve learnt, all that I know, or think I know, and importantly, all that I love, to create this record,” he said.
FFS – FFS
Label: EMI
Release Date: June 5th
Pre-Order: JB Hi-Fi
FFS is the brilliant new collaboration between Franz Ferdinand and Los Angeles glam rock legends Sparks. The album is due for release Friday, 5th June and was recorded at London’s RAK Studios and produced by Grammy-award winner John Congleton (St Vincent, David Byrne, Anna Calvi).
While supergroups can sometimes produce albums that are over-produced, bloated, and attempt to coast on the names of the parties involved, FFS is a slickly produced effort brimming with unique pop songwriting, serving as a sublime amalgamation of what makes both bands great.
Of Monsters and Men – Beneath The Skin
Label: Universal
Release Date: June 5th
Pre-Order: ofmonstersandmen.com
Having announced their triumphant return to the scene with the shimmering single ‘Crystals’, Iceland’s Of Monsters & Men are now gearing up to unveil their eagerly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed 2011 album My Head Is an Animal.
Titled Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters & Men’s sophomore effort is slated to drop Friday, 5th June. Speaking to Triple J, singer and guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir revealed that the band’s second album would be a more introverted and “personal” statement.
Saskwatch – Sorry I Let It Come Between Us
Label: Remote Control
Release Date: June 12th
Pre-Order: remotecontrolrecords.com.au
Beloved Melbourne outfit Saskwatch are excited to announce the release of their third studio album, Sorry I Let It Come Between Us, set to drop via Northside Records / Remote Control Records on Friday, 12th June.
Shifting and sliding between guitar heavy pop, bluesy melancholy, and soulful ballads, Sorry I Let It Come Between Us is an evolutionary step forward for the band, recorded over a month-long period at Mt Slippery, an old silversmith warehouse come recording studio on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
