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The Ultimate New Releases Rundown for 11.13.26: Krill, clipping., Kim Deal, Artificial Brain, Flaming Lips, Loretta Lynn, Sleepwalk, U2, Wavves (Updated 7:41 p.m. MT)

Posted in Latest New Releases Schedule, Lists, New Releases, Videos with tags Artificial Brain, clipping., Flaming Lips, Kim Deal, Loretta Lynn, Sleepwalk, Trentemøller, U2, Wavves on 11/13/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

Krill’s Secret Language

54 Ultra – Honeymoon single
Ari Abdul – Void (Slumbo Labs/ RCA)
Aesop Rock & Blockhead – Trouble Mountain
Agent Side Grinder – Choir single (Metropolis)
Aluna – Pistachio Milk single (Noir Fever/ EMPIRE)
Always You (feat. members of Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing) – Against the World (Hit the North)
Mark Ambor – East Houston Tapes (Captiol)
Lex Amarni – Kill (Remix) (feat. Bassvictim) single (Interscope Capitol)
Artificial Brain – Antillia (Profound Lore)

Assumption – Paradox of the Arrow (20 Buck Spin)
Avatar – Naughty List (feat. Zakk Wylde) single (Black Waltz)
Babyface – Unfuckwithable II (Empire)
Bad Company – Live in London (PrimaryWave)
Theodor Bastard – ▽ (first album in six years; Season of Mist)
Believe in Nothing and Tayne – Carcosa single (Church Road)
J.Bernardt (of Balthazar) – Wild Swim ([PIAS])
Veronica Bianqui – Use Once Then Destroy (NX)
Black Space Riders – Die 8 (BlackSpaceRecords/Cargo)
Blackhaine – Saints in the Wethouse (XL)
The Body and Cel Genesis – Whole Wide World (Thrill Jockey)

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Pixies’ ‘Bossanova (2026 Remaster)’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags David Lovering, Frank Black, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, Pixies on 09/11/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

There’s arguably no Pixies record that could have benefited more from a masterful manicure, which is so well-executed from start to finish that it’s impossible to forget that you’re not listening to the original version. “Rock Music,” which once sounded limp, now lives up to its name as a sub-two-minute banger. This time around, “Velouria” sounds like a fantastical space odyssey presaging the interstellar obsession that Frank Black lacquered over his solo works years later. The brilliance of Dave Lovering’s frenetic drum rolls are crystallized on “Allison” and “Is She Weird,” the latter of which also brings Joey Santiago’s guitar playing and Kim Deal’s bass into shiver-inducing focus.

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From the Vault: Are the Pixies Milking It With Their Multitudinous Video Releases?

Posted in Album Reviews, Essays, Reviews with tags David Lovering, Frank Black, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, Pixies on 09/27/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

(Note: This essay was written before the Pixies released a fifth video, Live at the Town and Country Club 1988, in 2011.)

So, shocker: Some people have been suggesting in the five-plus years since Pixies re-formed that maybe the foursome – who are revving up for another trek – have only been doing it for the money. What a strange, bizarre accusation. Like the plot of a Behind the Music episode, it’s the most predictable question of all for any band getting back together: It’s been alleged of everyone from CSNY to Simon & Garfunkel to Eagles to the Stooges to My Bloody Valentine to Rage Against the Machine to Dinosaur Jr. to the Jesus Lizard and on. And on. And on.

On the other hand, there is some potentially sound evidence that raking in the clams has been the main, if not only, reason Pixies reunited. As evident in the somewhat-illuminating doc loudQUIETloud, one of the DVDs we’ll be focusing on below, David Lovering was on the verge of going broke, falling back on his career as a magician – turning tricks in order to make ends meet, if you will.

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Best Albums of 2024: Gaerea, Shellac, Chat Pile, Kim Deal

Posted in Lists with tags Alcest, Chat Pile, Gaerea, Help, Kim Deal, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Oranssi Pazuzu, Shellac, St. Vincent, Thank on 01/03/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Gaerea – Coma (Season of Mist)
Shellac – To All Trains (Touch and Go)
Chat Pile – Cool World (The Flenser)
Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Wild God (PIAS)
St. Vincent – All Born Screaming (Total Pleasure)
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast)
Thank – I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed (Big Scary Monsters)
Necrot – Lifeless Birth (Tank Crimes)
Alcest – Les Chants de l’aurore (Nuclear Blast)

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FLOOD’s Best Albums of 2024 and My Two Cents

Posted in Album Reviews, Lists, Reviews with tags Brittany Howard, Kim Deal, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sleater-Kinney, Touché Amoré on 12/10/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

FLOOD recently released its list of the top 50 albums that the outlet’s contributors determined mattered most in 2024. Expect it, once again, to be regarded as one of the more authoritative and reputed chronicles of the year in music.

What follows are my reviews of releases on the list, and a related interview to boot, that FLOOD published this year:

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds‘ Wild God review (published 12.10, FLOOD)
• Kim Deal‘s Nobody Loves You More review (published 12.2, FLOOD)
• Touché Amoré‘s Spiral in a Straight Line review (published 10.11, FLOOD)
• Sleater-Kinney‘s A Little Rope Goes a Very Long Way feature (published 4.10, FLOOD)
• Brittany Howard‘s What Now review (published 2.9, FLOOD)

Infinite thanks for your support, and that of my invaluable editors at FLOOD and other outlets that tolerated my contributions, in 2024. It mattered this year more than ever before.

For my pre-2024 writings on the aforementioned artists and many more than appeared on other top 10 lists this year, go to my Interview Index and Reviews Archive.

Lastly, stay tuned for The Bad Penny‘s annual Top 10 Albums of the Year list for 2024. (That is, if you place any value in rundowns like those.)

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Kim Deal’s ‘Nobody Loves You More’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Kim Deal, The Amps, the Breeders on 12/02/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

No one–and I mean no one–expected Kim Deal to pull one of the best albums of the year out of her pocket. But that’s exactly what the tragically self-deprecating, perpetually under-appreciated and divinely talented artist has done. With Nobody Loves You More, the first album released under her own name, the pride of Dayton, Ohio, stupefies us for–stupidly–not giving Deal the level of respect that she’s deserved since 1986. Read my full, bittersweet review of her towering work of art on FLOOD‘s website.

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