Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

CLAMM – Serious Acts (AU)
e4444e – Authentic Natural Tradition (L)
Foxwarren – 2 (OS)
Mt Joy – Hope We Have Fun (OS)
Phoebe Rings – Aseurai (NZ)
Pulp – More (OS)
Regular Spread – Time Lapse (AU)
Sour Worm – Beep Beep (AU)

SINGLES:

Beryl – Shock Absorber (L)
Big Thief – Incomprehensible (OS)
Cate Le Bon – Heaven is no feeling (OS)
Drifting Clouds – Bawuypawuy (AU)
Forth Wanderers – 7 Months (OS)
Neo Magicks – Le Freak (L)
Solo Career – Spenda (L)

Foxwarren, the Andy Shauf fronted avante-garde folk quartet have just released a their third album 2, and it’s a sumptuously produced, wide-ranging and strange affar, just the way we like it. Shauf’s intimate and tender lyricism interplay with off-kilter rhythms, orchestral strings (live and sampled) and lush keys. It’s whimsical but with depth and feeling and will apeal to fans of the likes of Cameron Winter and Black Country New Road. It’s out this week on Anti.

Something similarly blissful and whistful is the debut record from Auckland’s Phoebe Rings. Appropriately named after the outermost ring of Saturn, Phoebe Rings began as the solo project of frontwoman Grace Choi several years ago, before growing into what has been dubbed a local supergroup, featuring members various other well-known indie acts i such as Tiny Ruins, AC Freazy, Princess Chelsea, Fazerdaze and Lucky Boy. Well-worth the wait, Aseurai is a beautifully put together record of dream-pop, performed in English and Korean, which draws on a wide-range of influences including Studio Ghibli films, City Pop, video game soundtracks, Bossa Nova and 90’s Korean ballads. There’s a lot going in, but magic coming out.

An absolute gem has just arrived this week from Gapuwiyak (N.T) musician Terry Guyula. The debut release under his Drifting Clouds moniker,  performed in Liyawulma’mirr-Djambarrpuyngu, a language of Yolngu Matha, Bawuypawuy is euphoric and transcendent dance music at it’s best, with lyrics that describe a traditional Songline of the sea, waves and currents  Arnhem Bay (Gupawupa). Great video as well.