INERTIA’s
2018
Release Highlights
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In an age of shortened attention spans, heightened engagement and an endless slew of information being thrown at us, it’s difficult to imagine the relevance of an album release.
Despite this, the importance of an album is in its ability to make the listener slow down whether it’s for half an hour or weeks on end. An album release is as significant as a birthday, a marriage; it’s an invitation to strengthen our relationship with an artist. We slow down to appreciate this milestone, this snapshot of the world through another lens and how it reflects where our individual lives might be.
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“The UK’s most exhilarating new band.” – Billboard
Listen to SONGS OF PRAISE by SHAME HERE.
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“…their glimmering punk-pop is the most exciting thing you’re going to hear this dreary January, and quite likely all 2018.” – NME.
Listen to DREAM WIFE by DREAM WIFE HERE.
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“This is a beautiful, soul-searching record and the one that Joan Wasser has spent her whole life building up to.” – Q Magazine.
Listen to DAMNED DEVOTION by JOAN AS A POLICEWOMAN HERE.
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“[Soccer Mommy’s] excellent studio debut is a compact album of clear melodies, plainspoken lyrics, and the impossibly tangled logic of infatuation.” – Pitchfork, Best New Music.
Listen to CLEAN by SOCCER MOMMY HERE.
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“A brilliant record, proof that old forms can still be timeless.” – The Guardian.
Listen to MAY YOUR KINDNESS REMAIN by COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS HERE.
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“An all-you- can-eat buffet where you indulge in the band’s finer points…” – CLASH, 8/10.
Listen to SEX & FOOD by UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA HERE.
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“Beach House remain masters of the indefinable and their seventh album is their heaviest and most immersive-sounding of their career.” – Pitchfork, Best New Music.
Listen to 7 by BEACH HOUSE HERE.
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“An important moment for British jazz…”– Clash Magazine, 8/10.
Listen to THE RETURN by KAMAAL WILLIAMS HERE.
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“Soil is a crucial psalm; crucial for its queerness, crucial for its catholicism, its pagan roots protruding into sidewalks, crucial for its purity of heart, crucial for how it avoids imperative, softly chiming.” – Tiny Mix Tapes.
Listen to SOIL by SERPENTWITHFEET HERE.
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“mature and highly infectious” – STACK.
Listen to BLEND INN by HOCKEY DAD HERE.
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“It feels just as estranged of pop’s traditional structures and strictures as they’ve always been. It feels exhilarating; it feels like freedom.”– The Guardian.
Listen to COCOA SUGAR by YOUNG FATHERS HERE.
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“With a fresh take on emotive electronica, No Mono have firmly stamped themselves on the music landscape” – Beat Magazine, 8.5/10.
Listen to ISLANDS (1) by NO MONO HERE.
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“Age Of paints a vivid picture of a bizarre dystopia through the eyes and ears of a producer that is on the cutting-edge of contemporary music.” – FBi Radio, Album Of The Week.
Listen to AGE OF by ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER HERE.
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“Bon Voyage is a foray into the world of spiritual healing and rediscovery through a various musical textures and emotions” – Drowned In Sound.
Listen to BON VOYAGE by MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER HERE.
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“Nothing Is Still shows Leon Vynehall elevating his music to new heights.”– Resident Advisor, 4.4/5.
Listen to NOTHING IS STILL by LEON VYNEHALL HERE.
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“Jean’s magic trick on her fifth album [is] writing singles with strikes of rawness and immediacy that hit hard because you [are] dancing and singing along.” – Sydney Morning Herald.
Listen to DEVOTION by LAURA JEAN HERE.
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“A record filled with countless intricate and carefully considered elements, and yet one that never feels cluttered, or at risk of losing its pervasive emotional resonance.”– Clash Music.
Listen to FAMILY PORTRAIT by ROSS FROM FRIENDS HERE.
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“Thrillingly dark bait-and-switch pop” – The Guardian.
Listen to BE THE COWBOY by MITSKI HERE.
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“Sublime and raw, LAUREL is on the rise.” -triple j, Feature Album.
Listen to DOGVIOLET by LAUREL HERE.
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“A lush song suite reflective of the grandeur of their native New Zealand’s landscapes.” – Uncut.
Listen to LIGHTSLEEPER by NEIL & LIAM FINN HERE.
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“Blistering, intelligent punk–they might just be Britain’s most necessary band.”– The Guardian.
Listen to JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE by IDLES HERE.
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“but another stroke of genius in a career full of them.” – Exclaim.
Listen to AND NOTHING HURT by SPIRITUALIZED HERE.
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“Dread, sensuousness, ecstasy, terror–that melt into a mood so pungent and pervasive that people who grew up inside all kinds of different music will be beckoned towards it.”– Pitchfork, Best New Music.
Listen to SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE by YVES TUMOR HERE.
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“The Goon Sax have created a glorious pop album that perfectly captures those awkward confusions on the road to adulthood” – MOJO 8/10.
Listen to WE’RE NOT TALKING by THE GOON SAX HERE.
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“Pure pop melodies with punk rock riffing and a snotty attitude…the results are exhilarating” – The Saturday Paper.
Listen to FADE THE HAMMER by BLEEDING KNEES CLUB HERE.
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“Not just the new blueprint for modern pop that matters, Honey is already the finest album of 2018”– Herald Sun.
Listen to HONEY by ROBYN HERE.
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Listen to OVERLOAD by GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW HERE.
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