Friday, November 13, brings a strong rock and pop slate alongside the week’s hip-hop releases, with new albums from U2, Royal Blood, Becky Hill, Holly Humberstone and Walls of Jericho all arriving on the same day. The releases make it one of the busiest new-music Fridays of the year.
U2 release Carnaval de Luz on Island Records, according to Exclaim’s new-album guide and the Sputnikmusic weekly releases list. Royal Blood release Dead Company on Warner Music, according to Ghost Cult Magazine’s New Music Friday roundup, which also lists Walls of Jericho’s System Error: Humanity, Artificial Brain’s Antillia and Kalandra’s The Other Side.
Pop and indie join the party
Becky Hill releases Rebecca, and Holly Humberstone releases Cruel World… So It Ends, according to the Sputnikmusic list. The guide also lists new albums from Jake Bugg, whose Alamo arrives on Thirty Tigers, and Miranda Lambert, whose Songline arrives on Amazon Music.
Always You release Against The World on Friday, November 13, according to Kazi Magazine, with Apple Music listing the album at 10 tracks. The announcement describes Always You as Los Angeles twin brothers Christoph and Anton Hochheim, and credits Jack Tatum with production.
A Friday the 13th to remember
Ghost Cult Magazine notes that Friday the 13th is doing its best to wreck the listening schedule, with heavy hitters, left-field experiments, hardcore bruisers and enough underground releases to bury weekend plans. The magazine’s list includes Def Leppard’s Volume 4 box set, Yngwie Malmsteen’s Hell Of High Water and Chastity’s I Built This Prison Myself.
The vinyl listings for the week show 479 releases in total, with Friday the busiest day. The sheer volume means competition for attention will be fierce, and the charts next week will show which albums have broken through. For rock fans, though, the choice is unusually rich, with U2 and Royal Blood leading a slate that spans stadium rock, hardcore and indie pop.
