June

Album Digest June 2016 is a poppy batch of albums. We have the return of my long-time favourites Roxette and the heroes of my South American tour Tegan & Sara. There's some dance music in the form of Flume's album "Skin": an Australian presence ahead of the new Avalanches album next month. Finally there is the first of two new albums by Islands - both were released back in May but one gets reviewed this month and the other next month.

To reboot this series, Album Digest June 2015 features five fantastic albums from Hot Chip, Jamie xx, Blanck Mass, Holly Herndon, and The Orb. I could pick loads more as I've listened to a lot of albums since February but I decided to focus on the more electronic material. This means that I have no excuses for not continuing next month with a rockier theme.

Watter are a supergroup composed from various members of Grails, Slint, and other bands. I did not know anything about Hundred Waters before this month. The Moon Rang Like A Bell is their second album. In fact second albums by bands I know nothing about are a something of theme because Sunbathing Animal is Parquet Courts sophomore effort and I know nothing about them either. Meanwhile, I have wanted to write about The Four Seasons Recomposed since April.

Just two albums this month as I am still enjoying last month's albums so much (and I spent loads of time getting reacquainted with Boards Of Canada at the start of the month). I listened to a few more albums but not often enough to write loads about them so there is an "honourable mention" section at the end of the post that briefly discusses a few more albums.

Three fantastic albums for Album Digest June 2012:

I have had the sort of month that is not conducive to listening to much new music. Therefore this month’s post is only going to consider two new albums and two albums that I have bought behind time. Because of various bits of stress and poor mood, I have ended up going back and taking refuge in some old favourites and not listening to new stuff. At other points I have also gone back to the Fleet Foxes’ album that I wrote about last month, which has grown on me even more since. Sometimes I think that I should writing about these albums on a two month delay. Meanwhile, I even have new music that I haven’t listened to at all, namely Bon Iver’s self-titled album. It has received so many good reviews that I have been too intimidated to listen to it. I will try to write about it next month.