Just, uh... Just a warning. This post? Gonna be a big one. The cutscenes just kept coming.
...but BOY was that giant talos forming sequence fantastic!
I only had two classes at the lv 89 bar for this dungeon, so I opted to run it as Red Mage rather than level up a tank as I usually prefer to use on a first run through a new dungeon. What can I say, I was too eager to get to the story.
And oh boy did that story pay off holy shit.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves and go in chronological order. First, the dungeon.
...
OHOHO! When the giant talos reached in and crushed the sin eaters!!! Several times! AH! So cool.
I keep thinking; all of the sin eaters - the humanoid ones at least - used to be people, and here Vauthry surrounds himself with these "beautiful" ones who no longer have any ability to consent. Just makes him even more repulsive.
Shout out to my FC, Noctua <Hoot> on Marilith who got me through this fight when the duty finder queue was "More than 30 minutes."
When I got out of the transformation sequence cutscene there were multiple "Oh no, he's hot!" messages in the chat. Thanks guys.
SeVeRaL cUtScEnEs ! ! ! The excitement when I saw that message, omg.
*ahem*
Okay.
Ah, born, not changed. Wonder how that happened?
Here it comes. What happens when I eat the rest of the light?
Oh, an echo vision. That's what happens.
Wow Vauthry, your dad was a fucking asshole; brushes aside casualties and is only concerned with his personal power. At least you got it honestly?
Knew you must have had something to do with this, Emet-Selch.
...I wonder why they're going out of their way to not show your face, despite clearly telling us it's you? The way the timeline works, you should still be Solus at this point, I believe? Is it your mask? But why would that be a secret...?
I dunno but those classic Ascian duds sure look good on you from what I can see...
Ladies and gents, if a mysterious man wants to super-power your unborn baby do not listen to him: it's a bad idea.
Oh no, it's happening, I'm going to explode!
What!? I thought you said I couldn't be turned! I'm becoming a Lightwarden!?
But Y'shtola, he doesn't have any sleeves!
...I'm beginning to suspect metaphorically as well as literally.
Exarch! Help!
That doesn't make any sense!
(Thank you Ryne, exactly what I was thinking)
But why? Why pretend? Why lie?
You knew if we knew we wouldn't let you do it, maybe? How did you know Urianger would go along with it? I still don't understand, I don't understand at all!
G'raha Tia!
G'raha, no!
Emet what did you do!? Is that a fucking gun? Did you shoot him? Where the heck did you get a gun??
It was all for me?
Ah shit, I'm contagious.
Ugh. Stop being so hot when you're being evil.
And here is the difference between "me" and "my WoL". My Wol is severely distressed by these turns of events, but me? I am loving this. What fantastic twists. What a great villain. Holy goddamn I am turning into a monster how cool.
Help! My favorite old man just kidnapped my second-favorite old man!
The where..? I didn't think there was anywhere left in this world that could be called "dark."
You can feel how devastated my poor boy is. The people who animated this cutscene did a masterful job.
Wow. WOW. I've become a Lightwarden, and will inevitably succumb to madness given enough time. I am the monster threatening to end the world now. The Exarch tried to kill himself to save everyone, and was only stopped because Emet-Selch stepped up as the villain of the hour. And now Emet has stolen the Exarch away, just when we need his expertise most.
But my friends haven't given up on me. Despite everything, they still fight on.
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Chapter 4- Part 3
Wait, the kid’s name is Mickey?
AYO?? Wonder Skin?? That’s Skitty’s Hidden Ability! Two in a row for getting Pokémon with Hidden Abilities! My luck with Hidden Abilities must be turning around!
And this information is rather useless! So let’s head back outside.
We’ll head to Seacrest’s garden to do some level-grinding. I was initially just gonna train Summer, but now with Whiskers and her having such a useful Ability (and Zen Headbutt)...I dunno, I might train her up too. I won’t be able to evolve her either until I find a Moon Stone, but y’know- party members are party members.
But…you know something? That rock next to the Pokémon Center, in that little alleyway there- why is that there? It’s been bothering me for a little while now, so- you know what? Call it a whim, but I’m gonna go up to that rock and just kinda…click on it, see if anything happens. Pokémon isn’t exactly a stranger to having hidden items in the overworld environment, anyways.
Wait what?? I wasn’t expecting anything to actually happen! What!? SEEDS!?
How common is that in this game? Don’t tell me- have I been missing out on hidden items this whole time!?
We’re still going back to Seacrest’s garden, but like- now I’m paranoid. There are a couple bushes in the garden, could there be anything hidden there? If that’s the case, if I’ve been missing items all this time, I swear-
BY TALOS-
One (partial) grinding session later…
Oh hey, Pickup proc’ed again.
I…don’t think we need that right now, Potions will suffice at this level. But anyways-
One (actual) grinding session later…
Anyways, this is what the team looks like now:
I gave Summer the Rose Incense, naturally. Also, both he and Whiskers have learned moves to put enemies to sleep (Grasswhistle and Sing, respectively)- maybe the game heard my comments from last time about not being able to inflict Sleep right back on my enemies and decided to give Xera Pokémon that would even the playing field in that way, too. First Poison, now Sleep- what’s the next thing to cause us issues while we ourselves can’t inflict it back, Paralysis?
Anyways, I think a range of Lv. 8-10 will suffice for heading north. We’ll encounter more Trainers, no doubt, so we can get everyone up to more even levels easily enough.
So now, here we are! …My paranoia is as strong as ever, I am so going to click on everything in the environment now.
MY PARANOIA PAYS OFF! Which is even funnier because earlier, Pickup proc’ed again and Streak did in fact find another Oran Berry, just like I said.
Also why is the ground cracked open right there, that’s no pothole, who let this happen-
Mosswater? Given how the lake looks…yeah dude, it sure is.
Ooh, this is an important-looking building. Are there plot things happening here? Maybe, but we’ll check that in a little bit, let’s see whatever’s on the right first.
And it’s a guy! Trainer or NPC? Probably the former!
And I was right!
Okay, a Flying-type- not the best for Summer to go up against, so let’s just go to Whiskers instead. Sure, the Hoothoot keeps trying to use Hypnosis which would allow Summer’s Ability to shine, but Whiskers just dodges all of it and takes out the Hoothoot easily.
Cool it kid, you’re too young and Xera still doesn’t swing that way! (Yeah I know that’s not what he meant, but the joke was too easy)
Oh, don’t you worry, all thugs will receive a Pokémon smackdown equally regardless of which neighborhood they’re in.
And speaking of- more goons! Let’s keep up this winning streak and further grinding session, shall we?
“This be our territory”? What are you, a pirate?
Yet again- not a good matchup for Summer here, but we’ll just switch into Whiskers again. In fact- why not be a little cheeky? Let’s try putting it to sleep with Sing! It’s practically a coin toss at 55% accuracy, so why not?
We win the coin toss, that bug is sound asleep-
…It has Shed Skin as its Ability. I…forgot Shed Skin is its main natural Ability. Hm.
Well, Whiskers takes a bit too much damage while trying to whittle Kricketot’s health down, so Streak comes in to finish the job.
Ekans? Oh man, Whiskers with Zen Headbutt would be perfect for this! I’ve got Potions, sure, but…only two, and Xera’s still broke. I don’t want to use any of them unless it’s for a particularly important battle, which is not this.
So instead, let’s fight fire with fire! Or should I say- poison with poison!
…This is the content, folks.
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op tell me about the lv 76 quest. I need to know ahahaha. Its gonna drive me crazy. @you-dropped-your-forgiveness
Oh, sure >:)
Bear in mind that Back In The Day i spent a lot of time tearing Supernatural an absolute new one over its clear, coherent imagery, themes, and metaphors all of which were, well, I WASN'T WRONG, but obviously the writing team and the network of the show were in a PVP battle and the writers lost... The fandom was collateral damage to that but we sure learned a lot of media criticism and theory along the way :') Now I'm just insufferable when I see the same themes elsewhere because I only know vindication and spite and [live slug reaction] to this sort of stuff.
Long post, of course.
SO the first thing is that Shadowbringers is nicely structured with the character introductions, to guide you through each zone and build on the story and draw the characters into it. Each zone is themed and the lightwardens even reflect the themes of each zone as the conclusion to the local story. So obviously it's Exarch upfront for the side of the plot that's an unfolding mystery, and then literal twin questlines for the twins. Then you return to base and we get the start of the Thancred and Minfilia story, which is going to run alongside the Exarch as the heart of the story on the emotional side. Il Mheg is technically Urianger's zone, but he shares it with them and the twins are cut out of it for a good chunk of the main story stuff, choosing or not to stay with the pixies so it can focus on building up specifically the family unit story with Thancred, Minfilia and Urianger.
(Rak'Tika is, with side stuff for Thancred and Minfilia, about the WoL, Emet-Selch, and Y'shtola is finally allowed in as the character who sees through all the crap and starts to solve all the story mysteries for you and as is her wont, and unrelated except for the broader reason the 76 zone drives me crazy, obviously her conflict with Urianger is one of the core emotional parts of it and one of the main things resolved nicely right after the Lightwarden in the post-dungeon cutscene, and the reason WHY Urianger is causing the conflict with her is part of the bigger thread of the Exarch mystery blah blah storytelling good *gnaws on Shadowbrings because tasty meal*)
Then we get to Amn Areng pt 2 and Y'shtola leaves with the twins again - once more leaving you with the family unit to do the Talos plot. This is where I start foaming at the mouth!
So we get to Twine and Magnus is introduced at the major obstacle to getting the Talos working. As SOON as we get to the Talos, Urianger is interested in it and can restore some life to its limbs, but oh no, it's missing its HEART. And he couldn't see that from the outside and even trying to manipulate its missing aether, but there's something else this thing needs to work!
(My Supernatural fandom brain emerges from the swamp to yell "Oh no a thing with a missing heart??? that must be so critically important to a character's entire thesis!")
So then we get to Mangus's story. And it's entirely about his broken heart and the Talos heart being one and the same, while at the same time, directly empathetically relating the Talos to Thancred and his emotional arc and telling us this is what is happening to him. The heart thing is so heavily woven into this, they just keep hammering it in:
Then Thancred talks to Magnus and it's an unspoken agreement really that he should try and reach out to this man who is in catatonic loss over his wife and child. Everyone hangs back and lets him do the talking. Obviously Thancred never actually went into this state and drank heavily in the part of the story where Minfilia was alive and well, he was just having post possession depression as people do. But emotionally, he's very much in this unhelpful, frozen heart space where he's too cold to Ryne and can't let her in.
The heart also doubles as sort of Minfilia herself, and how she died and yet the heart she passes on to the Talos is Ryne and it just took years and Magnus lost all hope in the same way Thancred has become so bitter and conflicted and openly struggles to accept Ryne early on, because in a way he hasn't "found" the heart yet (which is his post-battle cutscene monologue, his moment of transformation and his heart coming back to life.) Ryne also takes in all of this throughout the story, heavily relates and draws her own painful meaning from it, but she strongly emotionally reacts to the story too, seeing herself and Thancred in it, so we're encouraged to make connections, and there's so many angles to look into it. But these are the really important non-shippy, family building, Thancred repairing things we take away from the story.
Buuut also like, Urianger didn't leave with Y'shtola and the twins, and it's not down to Ryne to fix the Talos herself. Their family unit has been shown to actually be all 3 of them since Il Mheg, especially things like Urianger giving her the book so it was clear without any side dialogue if you were only viewing cutscenes, to make it clear he had become extremely fatherly to her too and treated her extremely kindly and she had a really eager happy reaction to his attention.
So, Thancred takes you off to get the new heart, and Urianger stays behind to learn about how to make a Talos heart work.
(It's also fun that he learns this and helps imbue the big Talos later but it's not like he learns a Key Skill for Later, it is very much more important that Chai-Nuzz does all the work devising and creating the Lorge Boy himself with only aetheric assistance from others. The Amn Areng thing in hindsight wasn't a plot moment to establish Urianger learning about Taloses was anything crucial to our victory.)
Thancred has moments at the end of the hunt for the heart where you can basically pat him on the head and let him know he was essential to finding it, regardless of WoL's uncanny story related luck, and it's FAR more that Thancred enabled this, that he put the work in, that this mechanical plot development proceeds, likewise to his emotional development with Ryne. He lets her go and he's willing to accept her returning, even before he can tell her, or know that that's what will happen. In his monologue he rebuilds his own heart and I love it so much I could scream.
Anyway we bring the heart back to Magnus and we get some closure there, and we can bring the heart to Urianger, and we can start the Talos!
literally: Thancred's heart has been suffused with a sufficient quantity of character development, he shall be restored to life, in terms of building his new family. Funny how Urianger is now leading this whole thing. He's just here to do all the heavy lifting! Hey, wasn't this metaphor about not just a dead child but a wife? Hm. Anyway. We get. This shot.
(sorry, it involved silly talk in free company chat, had to kill it, missed the shot in the Unending Journey and too lazy for a 3rd take :P)
But - Magnus returns to see his Talos brought to life, rekindling his own heart in the process, and in this angle, we only have him, looking at Urianger, looking up at the Talos that Urianger has brought back to life. No one else is visible even though the whole squad is standing around, and maybe it was just for a cleaner shot not to have some backs of heads and the WoL's elbow in shot, but it creates such a striking image. Urianger may not have done any of the legwork of fetching the heart or talking to Magnus even but he's the one who is in focus here as having with his simple touch and steady presence, which is the same thing he provided in Il Mheg (the book thing with Ryne) as his side of the family dynamic, been the force that was necessary to restore the Talos. You could say that maybe Thancred could never have done it because of the aether, Ryne might have been too uncertain of her powers, they love having you click on things and dramatically channel aether so why NOT the WoL, but it was not a hero moment for you - you're literally clipped out of it! All you did was give Thancred emotional support and carry the heart around for them in between cutscenes :'D
Anyway then Ryne takes it personally and runs off, and we get the incredible scene of Urianger comforting her while Thancred couldn't (maybe a set piece of how it has been the whole time as he's still pre-near-death-monologue and therefore his heart hasn't yet been made whole) and Thancred watches with you, still in turmoil, but we're being shown Urianger literally doing the same thing for Ryne (who feels like she may as well be a Talos for all her free will matters for a moment) and comforting her and you see that in all of Urianger's moments of comfort he's very much always restoring hearts.
The other thing is he's tied into all the main plot because he knows the secret of what will happen with the Exarch the whole time, and also is carrying the burden of the whole Warriors of Darkness thing back in HW. He feels such a level of determined resolution to fix the First because he feels so responsible for its current state. He also feels directly responsible for manipulating Minfilia into going there, and it costing her life, and the multiple Minfilias situation that followed. He very much positioned, even just from knowing the HW cutscenes about this, as a father to Ryne in a very literal sense of causing her entire situation and feeling bound to her as a result, just as much as Thancred's lingering goobbue rampage guilt has carried him this far and he needs to monologue his way to seeing the goobbue consequences he bears have moved from Minfilia to Ryne shortly, finishing his transformation.
So in this culmination of the 77 quest before the dungeon, you now have Urianger suddenly centred, Thancred having his epiphany, and then Minfilia moves on, Ryne is reborn, and we get the very excellent scene where Thancred names her something nice Urianger once said that stuck in his mind and we will just nod and smile at how soppy THAT is of him. It of course once more gives Urianger a co-parenting share in Ryne, that none of the others suggest names, but Thancred pulls one out that's from their shared experience.
Then we go fight the Lightwarden named after family love :)
Honestly this still feels like a summary of how I feel about the 76-77 questline, because it unravelled me at the core and rebuilt me as someone who just accepts that Thancred and Urianger are married whether they know it or not, so I think about it daily, but yeah. That's basically where I'm at with it :'D
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All The New Albums Coming Out In February 2019
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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in February. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, February 1
American Authors — Seasons (Universal Island Records)
Andrew Wasylyk — The Paralian (Athens Of The North)
Astronoid — Astronoid (Blood Music)
Atomic — Pet Variations (ODIN)
Beirut — Gallipoli (4AD)
Big Wild — Superdream (Counter Records)
Blank Range — In Unison (Sturdy Girls/Thirty Tiger)
Broods — Don’t Feed The Pop Master (Neon Gold/Atlantic)
Boy Harsher — Careful (Nude Club)
Bravo Delta — Unbreakable (self-released)
Business Of Dreams — Ripe For Anarchy (Slumberland Records)
Busted — Half Way There (EastWest U.K.)
Cassadee Pope — Stages (Awake Music LLC)
Cherry Glazzer — Stuffed & Ready (Secretly Canadian)
Dave Harrington (of Darkside) — Pure Imagination, No Country (Yeggs Records)
Deep State — The Path To Fast Oblivion (Friendship Fever)
Deer Tick — Mayonnaise (Partisan Records)
Emily King — Scenery (ATO Records)
Finlay Shakespeare — Domestic Economy (Editions Mego)
Folamour — Ordinary Drugs (FHUO Records)
G Herbo — Still Swervin (Machine Entertainment Group)
Gentle Heat — Liminal EP (Skeletal Lightning)
Girlpool — What Chaos Is Imaginary (ANTI‐)
Guided By Voices — Zeppelin Over China (Rockathon Records)
Hajk — Drama (Jansen Records)
Harriet Brown — Mall Of Fortune (Innovative Leisure)
Highasakite — Uranium Heart (Propeller Recordings)
J.S. Ondara — Tales Of America (Verve Forecast Records)
Jealous Of The Birds — Wisdom Teeth EP (Big Space Records)
Jon Samuel — Dead Melodies (Hidden Pony Records)
Karolina Rose — Invicta EP (Violet Sunset Records)
Le Butcherettes — Bi/Mental (Rise Records)
Leon Vynehall — DJ-Kicks (!K7)
Lexie Liu — 2030 (88rising)
Listen To Girl — Long-Term World (Earthly Habit)
The Lonely Heartstring Band — Smoke & Ashes (Rounder Records)
Lost Cousins — In Scenery (Pheromone Records)
Lou Doillon — Soliloquy (Wrasse Records)
Luttrell — Into Clouds (Anjunadeep)
Mandolin Orange — Tides Of A Teardrop (Yep Roc Records)
Masaki Batoh — Nowhere (Drag City)
Mörglbl — The Story Of Scott Rötti (The Laser’s Edge)
The Moth & The Flame — Ruthless (Robot Farming)
Nina Nesbitt — The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change (Cooking Vinyl)
Onydia — Reflections (Revalve Records)
Patrick Daphier — Say I’m Pretty (YK Records)
Pedro Vian — Pedro Vian (Modern Obscure Music)
Rustin Man (Talk Talk’s Paul Webb) — Drift Code (Domino Recording Company)
Small Talks — A Conversation Between Us (Common Ground Records)
Soen — Lotus (Silver Lining Music)
The Sonic Dawn — Eclipse (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Specials — Encore (UMC)
Spielbergs — This Is Not The End (By The Time It Gets Dark)
Thyla — What’s On Your Mind EP (REX Records)
Tim Bowness — Flowers At The Scene (Inside Out Music)
Tiny Ruins — Olympic Girls (Milk! Records)
Ward Thomas — Restless Minds (Sony Music CG)
The Western Den — A Light Left On (The Western Den)
White Lies — Five ([PIAS])
Within Temptation — Resist (Vertigo Berlin)
Yugen Blakrok — Anima Mysterium (Cylid Sarl DBA I.O.T Records)
Friday, February 8
Ageist — Babyface (Arctic Rodeo Recordings)
Amy McCarley — Meco (MECO Records)
Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next (Republic Records)
Be Forest — Knocturne (We Were Never Being Boring Collective)
Bob Mould — Sunshine Rock (Merge Records)
Busted — Half Way There (EastWest U.K.)
Cass McCombs — Tip Of The Sphere (ANTI‐)
Charlie Faye & The Fayettes — The Whole Shebang (Bigger Better More Records)
Charlotte Adigéry — Zandoli EP (DEEWEE)
CJ Boyd — Kin Ships (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Flat Worms — Into The Iris EP (GOD?)
Geezer — Spiral Fires EP (Kozmik Artifactz)
Health — Vol. 4 :: Slaves Of Fear (Loma Vista Recordings)
Henry Jamison — Gloria Duplex (Akira Records)
Jessica Pratt — Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer)
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love — Mama Said Rock Is Dead (Steamhammer)
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch — An Attempt To Draw Aside The Veil (Sacred Bones)
Kicker — Pure Drivel (Tankcrimes)
King Of Foxes — Salt & Honey (Olivia Street)
LCD Soundsystem — Electric Lady Sessions (DFA Records)
The Lemonheads — Varshons 2 (Fire Records)
Matty Carlock — The Jailbirds (115 Collective)
Michael Chapman — True North (Paradise of Bachelors)
Moes Anthill — Quitter (TOURBOmusic)
Panda Bear — Buoys (Domino Recording Company)
Queen Zee — Queen Zee (Sasstone Records)
Radiant Baby — Restless (Lisbon Lux Records)
Rosy Vista — Unbelievable (Steamhammer)
Ryan Lott (of Son Lux) — Pentaptych (This Is Meru)
Said The Whale — Cascadia (Arts & Crafts)
Silk Road Assassins — State Of Ruin (Planet Mu)
Sister Hazel — Fire EP (Croakin’ Poet Records)
Talos — Far Out Dust (BMG Rights Management (US) LLC)
Tunic — Complexion (Self Sabotage Records)
Various Artists — Music Inspired By The Film Roma (Sony Music)
Windswept — The Onlooker (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Xiu Xiu — Girl With Basket Of Fruit (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
Y La Bamba — Mujeres (Tender Loving Empire)
Yak — Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness (Third Man Records)
Friday, February 15
Andromo & Chris Fortier — Shape & Form EP (Rainforest Music)
Anemone — Beat My Distance (Royal Mountain Records)
Avril Lavigne — Head Above Water (BMG Rights Management (US) LLC)
Baby Goth — Baby EP (Republic Records)
Bedstudy — Dot Wave EP (Grand Jury Music)
Bellamy Brothers — Over The Moon (Bellamy Brothers Records)
Betty Who — Betty (Kobalt)
Bis — Slight Disconnects (Last Night From Glasgow )
Bjarki — Happy Earthday (!K7 Records)
Black Taffy — Elder Mantis (Leaving Records)
Boo Ray — Tennessee Alabama Fireworks (BRRB Music)
Broken Social Scene — Let’s Try The After — Vol 1 EP (Arts & Crafts)
Brookhaven and Scatter Swept — Modern Remains (Expel Records)
C’mon Tigre — Racines (BDC)
Chain Wallet — No Ritual (Jansen Records)
Chaka Khan — Hello Happiness (Island)
Crystal Lake — Helix (SharpTone Records)
Czarface and Ghostface Killah — Czarface Meets Ghostface (Get On Down)
Dale Watson — Call Me Lucky (Compass Records)
Dead Pollys — Strummerland (Too Loud Records)
Dear Seattle — Don’t Let Go (Domestic La La)
Electric Mary — Mother (Listenable Records)
Elena Setién — Another Kind Of Revolution (Thrill Jockey)
Endon — Boy Meets Girl (Thrill Jockey)
Florida George Line — Can’t Say I Ain’t Country (Big Machine)
Gemma Ray — Psychogeology (Bronzerat)
Golden Daze — Simpatico (Autumn Tone Records)
Greg Jacquin — Clocks Slow Down (self-released)
Hajk — Drama (Jansen Records)
Hayes Carll — What It Is (Dualtone Music Group, Inc.)
Holiday Ghosts — West Bay Playroom (PNKSLM Recordings)
Holiday Gunfire — Holiday Gunfire (Cornelius Chapel Records)
Homeshake — Helium (Royal Mountain Records)
Hugh Marsh — Volinvocations (estern Vinyl)
Insane Clown Posse — Fearless Fred Fury (Psychopathic Records)
Jon Fratelli (of The Fratellis) — Bright Night Flowers (Cooking Vinyl)
Komraus — Untie The Ropes (M.A.R.S. Music)
Ladytron — Ladytron (Nettwerk)
The Long Ryders — Psychedelic Country Soul (Omnivore Recordings)
Lucille Furs — Another Land (Treehouse Record Co.)
Marlon Hoffstadt — Simple Communication EP (Midnight Themes)
Methyl Ethel — Triage (4AD)
Millencolin — SOS (Epitaph Records)
The Munsens — Unhanded (Sailor Records)
Nubiyan Twist — Jungle Run (Strut Records)
Peter Mulvey — There Is Another World (Righteous Babe)
Perfect Son — Cast (Sub Pop)
Picture This — Mdrn Lv (Universal Records)
Piroshka — Brickbat (Bella Union)
Quin Galavis — Victim / Non-Victim (Super Secret Records)
Rina Mushonga — In A Galaxy ([PIAS] Recordings Holland)
Ry X — Unfurl (Infectious Music)
Ryan Bingham — American Love Song (Axster Bingham Records)
Savage Mansion — Revision Ballads (Lost Map Records)
Seth Walker — Are You Open? (Royal Potato Family)
Shiny Darkly — Bronze (Crunchy Frog Records)
Shook Twins — Some Good Lives (Dutch Records)
Signo Rojo — End Of Tether EP (No Echo at THIS LOCATION)
Sir Babygirl — Crush On Me (Father/Daughter Records)
SP’s — Rise/Fall EP (Baby Robot Records)
Stats (of Dua Lipa) — Other People’s Lives (Memphis Industries)
Swmrs — Berkeley’s On Fire (Fueled by Ramen)
Trdmrk — Trdmrk EP (Hot Plate Records)
Tourist — Everyday (Monday Records)
Volcano — The Island (Tee Pee)
Voyou — Les Bruits De La Ville (Entreprise)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal — Suffer On (Run For Cover Records)
Woman’s Hour — Ephyra (Practise Music)
Xixa — The Code EP (Dust & Stone Records)
Yann Tiersen — All (Mute Records)
Young Hunting — True Believers (Gold Robot Records)
Friday, February 22
A Fragile Tomorrow — Generation Loss (The ILS Group)
Adia Victoria — Silences (Canvasback/ATL)
Andreya Triana — Life In Colour (Hi-Tea Records)
Andy Frasco — Change Of Pace (Fun Machine Records)
Badflower — Ok, I’m Sick (Big Machine Records/John Varvatos Records)
Bayonne — Drastic Measures (Mom + Pop Music)
Bellows — The Rose Gardener (Topshelf)
Benny Sings — City Pop (Stones Throw Records)
Booze Control — Forgotten Lands (Gates Of Hell Records)
Burnt Tapes — Never Better (Wiretap Records)
Candlemass — The Door To Doom (Napalm Records)
Chris Welch And The Cicada Killers — Shook (Denton independent)
The Claypool Lennon Delirium — South Of Reality (ATO)
Cochemea Gastelum — All My Relations (Daptone Records)
Cyrille Aimée — Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (Mack Avenue Music Group)
Dead Witches — The Final Exorcism (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Down To The Bunker — Misery (Tenacity Music)
Dream Theater — Distance Over Time (InsideOut Music)
Drekka — No Tracks In The Snow (Dais Records)
Drenge — Strange Creatures (Infectious Music)
Dronte — Quelque Part Entre La Guerre Et La Lâcheté (Apathia Records)
Emilie Kahn — Outro (Secret City Records)
Feed Me — High Street Creeps (Mau5trap)
Feels — Post Earth (Wichita Recordings)
Fling — Fling Or Die (Dance to the Radio)
Funeral Advantage — Nectarine (Sleep Well Records)
Gatekeeper — Grey Maiden EP (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Ghost Iris — Apple Of Discord (Long Branch Records)
Ghost Ship Octavius — Delirium (Iceburn Multimedia)
Gypsy Chief Goliath — Masters Of Space And Time (Kozmik Artifactz)
Haulm — Posture EP (Grand Jury Music)
Higher Brothers — Five Stars (88rising)
Hot 8 Brass Band — Take Cover EP (Tru Thoughts)
Idyll Green — When Love Ends, Be The Water EP (Guac, Don’t Run)
James Yorkston — The Route To The Harmonium (Domino Recording Company)
Jocelyn & Chris Arndt — The Fun In The Fight (Bridge Road Entertainment)
Julia Jacklin — Crushing (Liberation Records)
Kim Lenz — Slowly Speeding (Blue Star Record Company)
King Apathy — Wounds (Lifeforce Records)
Lil Halima — For The Dark Days EP (Universal Music/Def Jam Recordings Norway)
Lil Pump — Harverd Dropout (Warner Bros.)
Lily & Madeline — Canterbury Girls (New West Records)
Luther Russell — Medium Cool (Fluff and Gravy)
Major Murphy — Lafayette EP (Winspear)
Martin Frawley (of Twerps) — Undone At 31 (Merge Records)
Maxïmo Park — As Long As We Keep Moving (Cooking Vinyl Limited)
Michael Rother (of Neu!) — Solo (Groenland Records)
MSB — Short Stories (CEN/The Orchard)
Mxmjoy (Maximum Joy) — P.E.A.C.E ()London Field Recordings
Moving Panoramas — In Two (Modern Outsider)
Murray A. Lightburn — Hear Me Out (Dangerbird Records)
Mykele Deville — Maintain (No Trend)
Nakhane — You Will Not Die (BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL)
The National Lights — Whom The Sea Will Keep EP (BloodShake Records)
The O’Jays — The Last Word (S-Curve)
Peter Bjorn And John — EPBJ EP (INGRID)
R. Stevie Moore — Afterlife (Bar/None Records)
Red Beard Wall — The Fight Needs Us All (Argonauta Records)
RKCB — Shores EP (AllPoints)
Sanhedrin — The Poisoner (High Roller Records)
The Saxophones — Singing Desperately Suite EP (Full Time Hobby)
Sleaford Mods — Eton Alive (Extreme Eating Records)
Spelling — Mazy Fly (Sacred Bones Records)
Susanna & The Brotherhood Of Our Lady — Garden Of Earthly Delights (SusannaSonata)
Susto — Ever Since I Lost My Mind (Rounder Records)
Tedeschi Trucks Band — Signs (FanTasy)
Telekinesis — Effluxion (Merge Records)
Vandoliers — Forever (Bloodshot Records)
Various Artists — Kitsuné Parisien 4 (Kitsune)
Yola — Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch)
source https://uproxx.com/music/new-albums-coming-out-this-month-february-2019/
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