Release Surfer – The most interesting upcoming releases of the week – 09/10

With hundreds of new releases every week, it's becoming harder and harder to decide what to listen to and what to leave behind.
This new OndaRock column will be with you every Thursday, helping you choose which waves to ride in the sea of albums coming out the following day.

Giovanni Lindo Ferretti – Percuotendo, in cadenza (art rock, singer-songwriter) – Giovanni Lindo Ferretti steps onto the stage and begins to strike. Not just the percussion of Simone Beneventi and the strings of Luca Alfonso Rossi: he strikes memory, flesh, earth. These live recordings unfold like a rite of passage, a song-theatre where the words of CCCP and CSI blend with the stories of a life. More than forty years of music, pursued along a wholly personal path, brought on tour to ten of Italy's most prestigious theatres and auditoriums.

Greta Van Fleet – Palace For The People (hard rock) – Among the most loved and most hated bands on the contemporary rock scene, the American outfit Greta Van Fleet are approaching their fourth album with a now-solid style and a whopping five million monthly listeners on Spotify. The tracks already released hint at a possible evolution from that Rush/Led Zeppelin blend that has so divided rock fans. Will they finally win over the skeptics and the undecided this time?

Remi Wolf – Mud (Contemporary R&B, Indie Pop) – Wolf's third album ditches the synths and drum machines of her technicolor beginnings and strips things bare: guitars, voices, silences. "Mud" isn't a record about healing: it's healing in real time, captured as it happens. Mud, sweat, tears. And at the end, new skin.

Death Valley Girls – Welcome To Earth (psychedelic rock)
From the ashes of the Eaton Fire, Bonnie Bloomgarden has gathered what remains: a lost home, a lost dog, and a question with no easy answers. "Welcome To Earth" grew out of that silence. It's not a record about loss: it's a ritual of connection.
The psychedelia of the band's origins dissolves into communal chants, girl-group harmonies, choirs of voices that turn grief into celebration. Gregg Foreman plays here for the last time.

Pet Shop Boys – A Man From The Future (synth-pop) – It's mathematician Alan Turing, the man from the future, who gives his name to the sixteenth studio album by electronic pop's most famous duo. Judging by the previews the band shared with the BBC, expect the usual electronics but also some sweeping orchestral arrangements.

Teenage Fanclub – Do Not Dare To Dream (noise-pop, power-pop) – Release number thirteen for the Scottish noise-pop veterans, this time out on Merge. Resilience and resistance to the passage of time sit at the heart of the lyrics running over their usual gripping guitar interplay, more melancholic than ever this time and laced with a few synthetic flourishes.

Troye Sivan – She’s The Best (dance pop, grunge pop) – The young Australian popstar promises a fourth record far grittier than usual. Sure, the LGBTQ-charged dance-pop is still at the heart of the project, but this time Troye's music winks at the Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue, and The Avalanches of the '90s and 2000s, and even at grunge.

The Pineapple Thief – Far And Wide (progressive rock) – Bolstered by the steady presence of Gavin Harrison, drummer of Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief are one of the most followed acts on the contemporary progressive scene. Their formula, right down to the name, bears strong echoes of Steven Wilson's band, but they've always stood out for their careful atmospheres and their affinity with trip-hop constructions. It's a near certainty that longtime fans will greet this seventeenth album as yet another masterpiece. Given the quality of their recent releases, though, the record could win over new listeners too.

Dawn Richard – Creole Culture (alternative r&b) – With "Creole Culture," the celebrated r&b artist closes out the New Orleans trilogy begun with 2019's "New Breed" and continued two years later with "Second Line." Early previews show the usual class and a soul instinct in service of retro-futuristic scenarios.

Marina Herlop – Dja Dja (folktronica) – On her previous albums, the thirty-four-year-old Catalan artist Marina Hernández López proved that folktronica can still reinvent itself, weaving new ties between traditional music and the most progressive frontiers of deconstructed club. Her new LP promises another fascinating exploration of this hybrid territory, where digital sound abstraction meets the warmth of acoustic textures and intertwined vocals.

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