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• NEW Albums Of The Week: Matt Berry | Heard Noises | Tinnitist | Jan. 23, 2025, midnight
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Following the huge acclaim that greeted his 2021 album The Blue Elephant — as well as last year’s one-off album of library music — musician and actor Matt Berry returns with Heard Noises, his eighth studio album.

• Albums Of The Week: Flipturn | Burnout Days | Tinnitist | Jan. 24, 2025, 5:04 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Burnout Days is the new album from five-piece indie-rock powerhouse Flipturn. Across its 12 songs, the LP finds them harnessing their impressive knack for hooks, shimmering soundscapes and nostalgic lyrics. But on Burnout Days, Flipturn display more grit, craft and vulnerability than ever before — a clear evolution in the band’s […]

• Albums Of The Week: Pastel | Souls In Motion | Tinnitist | Jan. 17, 2025, midnight
Now the band cement their rising status with their debut album Souls In Motion. The LP features several of the band’s fan favourites and live staples which have soundtracked their rise to date, including Deeper Than Holy, Isaiah, Your Day and Escape.

• Albums Of The Week: Turbostaat | Alter Zorn | Tinnitist | Jan. 17, 2025, midnight
Alter Zorn looks at the Affenstraße, at neglected corner pubs where dark shadows pile up, at “ruins between glass and steel”, at metropolises full of “garish summer vomit” and shards of mirror that become ever narrower — and only rarely stares at the open sea.

• Albums Of The Week: Victoria Canal | Slowly, It Dawns | Tinnitist | Jan. 16, 2025, midnight
From the sun-kissed indie pop of June Baby and Cuban-inflected sizzle of California Sober, to the meditative instrumentals of Totally Fucking Fine and the cinematic desperation of Cake, Canal’s stunning range is on full display across 12 revealing tracks.

• Albums Of The Week: The Weather Station | Humanhood | Tinnitist | Jan. 17, 2025, 5:01 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Humanhood, the most arresting album Tamara Lindeman has ever made as The Weather Station, was written during one of the most difficult periods of her life — then rendered by a rock band with improvisational chops — just as she began to recover by reckoning with a complicated truth: Sometimes, life […]

• Albums Of The Week: Moonchild Sanelly | Full Moon | Tinnitist | Jan. 9, 2025, midnight
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Full Moon is the new LP from South African musician and creative visionary Moonchild Sanelly, an artist known for her vibrant, inimitable style and affirming lyricism. Full Moon is a collection of 12 songs that display Sanelly’s unique sonic fingerprint, joyous attitude, distinctive vocals and genre-bending hits. Recorded in multiple locations […]

• Albums Of The Week: Early James | Medium Raw | Tinnitist | Jan. 9, 2025, midnight
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Early James recorded his first two Easy Eye Sound albums — Singing For My Supper (2020) and Strange Time To Be Alive (2022) — at the studio inside the vaunted label’s Nashville headquarters. But for James’ third release Medium Raw, producer and Easy Eye Sound label head Dan Auerbach envisioned something […]

• Albums Of The Week: Ringo Starr | Look Up | Tinnitist | Jan. 10, 2025, 5:06 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Ringo Starr’s new country album Look Up is a star-studded collaboration between the iconic Beatles drummer and Americana legend / studio master T Bone Burnett, who co-wrote most of the album and produced the 11-song disc in Nashville and Los Angeles. Nine of the songs on Look Up were written or […]

• Albums Of The Week: U2 | How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 20th Anniversary Edition | Tinnitist | Nov. 22, 2024, 5:27 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “To mark the 20th anniversary of U2’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, it has been remastered and reissued long with the ‘shadow album’ How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, which includes new, unreleased songs discovered in the archive of the original sessions. The process saw the […]

• Albums Of The Week: Ice Cube | Man Down | Tinnitist | Nov. 22, 2024, 5:20 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Six years since his last solo album, one of hip-hop’s living legends returns with a conceptual body of work in Man Down. This 19-song collection examines the status of manhood in the present day and offers wisdom and criticism from a steadfast alpha male of the entertainment industry. “Well, I just […]

• Albums Of The Week: Michael Kiwanuka | Small Changes | Tinnitist | Nov. 22, 2024, 5:09 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Small Changes is the followup to Michael Kiwanuka’s eponymous third LP, the Mercury Prize-winning and Grammy-nominated Kiwanuka. Small Changes was produced alongside Danger Mouse and Inflo, the team behind the globally acclaimed Kiwanuka and its equally acclaimed predecessor, Love & Hate. The new record was recorded between London and Los Angeles. The […]

• Albums Of The Week: Marilyn Manson | One Assassination Under God Chapter 1 | Tinnitist | Nov. 22, 2024, 5:21 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “One Assassination Under God Chapter 1 is the 12th album by Marilyn Manson and features the singles As Sick As The Secrets Within, Raise The Red Flag and Sacrilegious.”  

• Albums Of The Week: Heavy Moss | Dead Slow | Tinnitist | Nov. 22, 2024, 1:22 a.m.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Formed in 2022 from a spontaneous reunion between Lucas Harwood (King Gizzard) and Sam Ingles, Heavy Moss blend mesmerizing psych-rock with lush dreampop on their debut album Dead Slow. With hypnotic grooves, fuzzy guitars and rich melodies, the album explores new sonic territory while nodding to icons like Elton John and […]

• Classic Album Review: U2 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | Tinnitist | Nov. 19, 2024, 3 p.m.
This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   There are, it seems, two kinds of U2 fans. On the one hand, there are those who prefer the band’s earthy, earnest and emotional arena-rock. On the other […]