HipsterZOMBIEJoint New Music Friday Picks 4/17/20

Lots of great new albums are dropping today to get us rockin’ through the weekend! All of these albums and more are now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple

Per Pitchfork:
Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound. No music has ever sounded quite like it. Apple recorded Fetch the Bolt Cutters both in and with her Venice Beach home, banging on its walls, stomping on its ground. Self-reliance is its rule, curiosity is its key. Fetch the Bolt Cutters seems to almost completely turn the volume down on music history, while it cranks up raw, real life—handclaps, chants, and other makeshift percussion, in harmony with space, echoes, whispers, screams, breathing, jokes, so-called mistakes, and dog barks. (At least five dogs are credited: Mercy, Maddie, Leo, Little, and Alfie.) All of this debris orbits around the core of Apple’s music: her voice, her piano, and most of all her words, which have always been her primary instrument. It creates a wild symphony of the everyday.

Blood Machines Soundtrack

Per HappyMag:
Carpenter Brut’s high voltage Blood Machines score takes heavy synthwave to unchartered levels of awesome. Dive in.

Verminous – The Black Dahlia Murder

Per The HeavyPress:
The band’s ninth full length, Verminous (Metal Blade Records), is nine tracks of melodic death metal mayhem. Verminous begins with the eerie sounds of dripping water and squeaking vermin. What follows is an impressive and aggressive record that features technical bass, chugging guitar, and blast beats.

Earth – EOB

Per Clash:
With its sweeping length, ‘Earth’ is a record that invites meditation. Its forerunner, named after the country, where the album was born, begins as a finely-spun foray into folk, before spiralling into a hypnotic floor-filler. ‘Brazil’ is the perfect illustrator for the project’s dual nature, indulging in thought and trance; endings and beginnings.

On The Widow’s Walk – The White Buffalo

Per Kerrang:
Grittier than a wad of three-day old gum found on the pavement, The White Buffalo’s sixth release is a husky-voiced dose of story-led Americana. It’s a vehicle for multi-talented solo artist Jake Smith, who collaborates here with alternative country star Shooter Jennings, the artist who helped Duff McKagan bring his superb solo album Tenderness together last year.