This time last week, I was on the way to Infest. A week later, there’s an awful lot of catching up to do on new releases…
This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new music and events, keeps me up to speed, and indeed simply reads these posts.
/Events, Livestreams and New Releases 30-Aug 2024
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/Releases out today or recently
/Upcoming releases
/Upcoming/Livestreams/Gigs/Club Nights/Events
/amodelofcontrol.com/next week
/amodelofcontrol.com/recent content
/Releases out today or recently
/Album of the Week
23-Aug 2024 / Uniform / American Standard / Bandcamp
Uniform released their magnum opus last week, an extraordinary four-track (forty minutes) release that wrestles with a lot of demons and comes out victorious.
/New Albums
07-Jul 2024 / Beta Virus / Ballistic Acoustics / Bandcamp
Retro-futurist electro-industrial from this US artist.
02-Aug 2024 / Nature of Wires / Digital Silence / Bandcamp
An intriguing experiment using AI that doesn’t always work.
09-Aug 2024 / And So I Watch You From Afar / Megafauna / Official Label Store
The post-rock band, back with more chaos.
09-Aug 2024 / KITE / VII / Bandcamp
The various recent 7″ singles all brought together in new versions that could be seen as KITE’s first full-length album.
09-Aug 2024 / Mortal Realm / Stab In The Dark / Bandcamp
Adam Jones of HAEX takes things into new directions on his first solo album.
10-Aug 2024 / Keef Baker / K / Bandcamp
Twenty (!) years on since his debut solo release, Keef Baker returns with a great new album.
16-Aug 2024 / LEATHERS / Ultraviolet / Bandcamp
Shannon from ACTORS finally releases their debut album (it seems to have been trailed for literally years). It’s very good, too.
16-Aug 2024 / Urban Heat / The Tower / Bandcamp
A striking album that blurs the lines between genres and has some truly great songs too.
23-Aug 2024 / Geneva Jacuzzi / Triple Fire / Bandcamp
Striking synthpop from this US artist.
23-Aug 2024 / Nile / The Underworld Awaits Us All / Bandcamp
Extreme metal’s foremost Ancient Egypt specialists back with more missives from the underworld.
23-Aug 2024 / Zeal & Ardor / GREIF / Bandcamp
One of the most fascinating bands in extreme metal make their comeback.
27-Aug 2024 / Riots on Rewind / Generation Loss / Bandcamp
Lucidstatic’s James Church and XSRY get their heads together for a new, thoughtful electronic release.
28-Aug 2024 / Amnistia / †ĦΞ ŊΛʈɄɍƎ ºƒ m₳Ɲ/ Facebook
German bodywave duo Amnistia continue their explorations of industrial music.
30-Aug 2024 / NAILS / Every Bridge Burning / Official Label Store
The searing hardcore band return with a new lineup and no less aggression.
30-Aug 2024 / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Wild God / Official Artist Store
Lauded as their best album in years, a more positive-sounding Nick Cave leads the charge.
/New Singles/EPs
26-Jul 2024 / Static Logic / Future Ru(i)nes / Bandcamp
James Church continues one of his many projects.
16-Aug 2024 / Cardinal Noire / Killshelter / Bandcamp
The brapping Finnish industrialists begin the campaign for their next album with a strong single.
23-Aug 2024 / genCAB / Let It Rip / Bandcamp
After the success of last year’s reworking of an old song, genCAB is continuing in that vein, alongside some new tracks and covers.
23-Aug 2024 / Pixel Grip / Stamina / Spotify Link
The rip-roaring, and really upfront, new single from Pixel Grip.
28-Aug 2024 / Amnistia / +ᾚε mïɍɌȱŔ: ƒɍ34ʞƼ / Bandcamp
The accompanying new EP to the album mentioned above.
30-Aug 2024 / Hellripper / Fork-Tongued Messiah / Bandcamp
Hands up who was expecting a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover on the new Hellripper single?
30-Aug 2024 / IAmImperfect / Old Wounds / Bandcamp
Sheffield synth-goth duo with a new single.
/New Compilations, Live Albums, Reissues
02-Aug 2024 / Mark Lanegan / Bubblegum XX / Bandcamp
Lanegan’s best solo album, at least to these ears, gets the reissue treatment.
09-Aug 2024 / Front Line Assembly / Millenium 2024 / Bandcamp
Millenium – the album that saw FLA cross over with their use of guitars – gets the lavish 30th anniversary vinyl treatment.
09-Aug 2024 / Pig Destroyer / Painter of Dead Girls (20th anniversary) / Official Artist Store
The infamous collection of early tracks, B-sides and covers (the Dwarves cover on here is worth it alone) gets a 20th anniversary reissue.
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Long unavailable, Raymond Watts continues to fill the gaps in everyone’s collections.
31-Aug 2024 / Lamb of God / Ashes of the Wake (20th Anniversary) / Official Artist Store
Arguably the point where Lamb of God’s enormous potential was finally realised, and the beginning of their journey to being one of the biggest metal bands going.
26-Jul 2024 / Slighter X Static Logic / Reformatted / Bandcamp
Slighter joins Static Logic for a fascinating remix release.
30-Aug 2024 / Chelsea Wolfe / Undone EP / Bandcamp
Chelsea Wolfe allows her work to be remixed for some rare outside input, and it works well.
/Upcoming Albums
13-Sep 2024 / Sacred Skin / Born In Fire / Bandcamp
The second album from this band sees them develop their sound, with the dark outline enhanced by fantastic songwriting.
27-Sep 2024 / En Esch / Dance Hall Putsch / Bandcamp
Another album that seems to have been “coming soon” forever is the new En Esch album. Here at last, at the end of September…
04-Oct 2024 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor / “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” / Bandcamp
A new tour announced earlier in the year suggested new material could be coming, and so it has proved: the post-metal titans’s fifth album since they resumed activity.
04-Oct 2024 / Pharmakon / Maggot Mass / Bandcamp
One of the lead artists in the noise resurgence of late.
04-Oct 2024 / Wingtips / On Trial / Bandcamp
The darkwave duo, back with their latest album.
11-Oct 2024 / Oranssi Pazuzu / Muuntautuja / Bandcamp
The Finnish experimental psych-black-metallers, here to confound expectations again.
15-Nov 2024 / Fightmilk / No Souvenirs / Bandcamp
The long-awaited third album from the London-based, sneering indie tock band.
/Upcoming EPs/Singles
None this week.
/Upcoming Compilations, Live Albums, Reissues
04-Oct 2024 / mclusky / the difference between me and you is that i’m not on fire (2024 remaster) / Bandcamp
The final mclusky album (at least of the first phase) gets a vinyl reissue.
/Upcoming/Livestreams/Gigs/Club Nights/Events
/amodelofcontrol.com continues to maintain an events calendar, but it has now moved to /amodelofcontrol.com/events – and is now a dynamic, searchable database, and you can add individual events to your own calendars. The listing has had a revamp and redesign (and I’m re-adding events, so it’s a bit of a work in progress).
If you have updates, relevant events for me, or want to tell me about something else, use the contact details above. It goes without saying that any gig or club still in the listing is subject to change at short notice, or may not happen at all.
/amodelofcontrol.com/next week
Coming up in the next week will be /Tuesday Ten /565, catching up with the best tracks in August.
/amodelofcontrol.com/recent content
/Memory of a Festival /040 /Infest 2024
My roundup and review of every act at Infest 2024, the last (for now) in Bradford.
/Tuesday Ten /564 /To Hell With Good Intentions
Songs about bad ideas.
/Tuesday Ten /563 /Tracks of the Month /Jul-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/DJ / Guest /106 /Bruise Violet
Almost exactly a year since I last did an in-person DJ set, here’s another one (including Little Daisy Nothing’s first in-person set).
/Tuesday Ten /562 /Everything’s Not Awesome
Songs about things being terrible.
/Tuesday Ten /561 /Bicycle Race
Songs about cycling.
/Tuesday Ten /560 /Tracks of the Month /Jun-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /559 /I Want to Break Free – Pride Month
Songs about LGBTQIA+ issues by LGBTQIA+ artists, to mark the end of the Pride Month.
/Tuesday Ten /558 /Tracks of the Month /May-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /557 /…and Justice for All.
Songs about injustice, and fighting for justice.
/Tuesday Ten /556 /Bulldozer – Steve Albini songs
I pay tribute to Steve Albini’s work with a selection of songs he worked on that I loved.
/Tuesday Ten /555 /Repeating Myself
Songs about repetition, for the third time.
/Tuesday Ten /554 /Tracks of the Month /Apr-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /553 /The Road
Songs about roads.
/Tuesday Ten /552 /Private Investigations
Songs about detectives and investigations.
/Tuesday Ten /551 /Tracks of the Month /Mar-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /550 /Caught by the Fuzz
Songs about the police.