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:

ALICE – Chateaux Faibles (OS)
Chitra – You can see it when it’s dark (AU)
Crown and Country – Crown and Country (AU)
Mal Devisa – Palempsesa (OS)
Night Moves – Double Life (OS)
Sienna Thornton – Birding Out (AU)
The OLC Collective – All Our Tomorrow’s (L)

SINGLES:

Animal Collective – Buddies on the blackboard (OS)
Curtis Harding – Time (OS)
Piggietails – Cycling Song (AU)
Rona – Show me (AU)
Velvet Trip – Burnin’ up (L)
Wanda Felicia – Stuck on you (OS)

As always, we’re blessed with a veritable bounty of incredible new music this week. The latest on the Les Disques du Bongo Joe label comes from Swiss trio Alice and their third full album – Chateaux Faibles (“Feeble Castles”). Powered by three French-singing voices and a single keyboard, Alice’s sound is sweet and kooky, stripped back minimalist micro-folk  , that draws on classic French, South American and Jewish traditions.

Amherst, Massachusetts based poet, activist and experimental musician Mal Devisa (aka Deja Corr) has just released Palimpsesa, a twenty-eight track anthology record comprising new material, along with remastered back-catalogue tracks drawn from her previous (and very hard to find) work dating back to 2014. That covers the breadth of her career, and it’s a wild ride across spun out soul and jazz, left field indie rock, sample-based loops, ambient acoustic pieces along with straight-down-the-line rap bangers. The title itself is a reference to Palimpset, a type of manucript that is in a constant state of flux and updating. Fans of the likes of Yves Jarvis and Mitski will relate to the artistic range and feel hereon this, and it’s a great snapshot of a hyperprolific artist.

Finally, out today is the self-titled debut album from Crown and Country, the collaborative project between Warlpiri philosopher Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu and music producer Marc Monkey Peckham. Combining rich synthesised textures, dub-reggae electronic beats with spoken word and field recordings, the record is both an exploration of cultural knowledge and a reflection on connection with country and identity in the modern world. Out now on ABC Records.

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