3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Benefits, Japanese Breakfast, and Men I Trust
There’s so much good music out in the ether that sometimes it’s difficult to parse through all of it. Every week The Daily Music Report will do the hard work for you and highlight the best releases available on streaming services.
This week we’re highlighting new music from Benefits, Japanese Breakfast, and Men I Trust.
Benefits – Constant Noise
Constant Noise follows Benefits’ debut Nails, marking a shift in both lineup and sound. Now a duo of Kingsley Hall and electronic virtuoso Robbie Major, the band embraces a more expansive sonic palette. “We’re still angry,” says Hall, “just angry in a different way to before. If the previous record was black and white, we wanted this to be technicolour.” Early singles like the bass-heavy, dance-inflected ‘Land Of The Tyrants’ and the atmospheric ‘Relentless,” featuring The Libertines’ Peter Doherty, signaled this evolution. With additional collaborations from Zera Tønin, Neil Cooper (Therapy?), and rapper Shakk, alongside production from James Welsh (Phantasy Sound) and James Adrian Brown (ex-Pulled Apart By Horses), Constant Noise fuses the intensity of punk with the electronic textures of Underworld and Leftfield, the grit of The Streets, and the energy of early 2000s indie sleaze.
Standout Songs: ‘Land Of The Tyrants,’ ‘The Victory Lap,’ ‘Blame,’and ‘Relentless.’
8.7
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Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is the fourth studio album by Japanese Breakfast, produced by Blake Mills and released via Dead Oceans. A follow-up to 2021’s Jubilee, which explored joy, this record returns to darker, “gothic-gloomy” themes inspired by the “psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration.” Recorded at Los Angeles’ legendary Sound City Studios, it marks the band’s first album made in a professional studio setting. The title comes from a lyric in the lead single, ‘Orlando in Love,’ which Michelle Zauner describes as “romantic and tongue-in-cheek,” drawing from John Cheever’s The World of Apples. She also likens its divisive nature to albums like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. With For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), Japanese Breakfast leans into its most brooding and poetic territory yet.
Standout Songs: ‘Orlando in Love,’ ‘Mega Circuit,’ and ‘Picture Window.’
7.7
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Men I Trust – Equus Asinus
Montreal’s Men I Trust has returned with Equus Asinus, the first of two albums released this year. As the band explains, “Early in the writing and recording process, we realized we had a collection of songs with distinct energies yet equally meaningful to us… It became clear that we wanted to release them as two separate entities from the same genus: Equus Asinus and Equus Caballus.” The album leans into a folk-inflected warmth while preserving the hypnotic grooves, intricate instrumentation, and dreamlike production that define their sound, offering a rich and familiar listening experience.
Standout Songs: ‘I Come With Mud,’ ‘Bethlehem,’ ‘Purple Box,’ and ‘Unllike Anything.’
7.4
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