triple j Weekly Additions - w/c July 27

FEATURE ALBUM

The Internet - Ego Death
[Odd Future/Sony]

Lush, dismissive of the neo-R&B popping up on each major label and utterly delightful, the Californian collective have raised the stakes on third LP Ego Death.

The five-piece are no longer bound to the new wave of R&B hook writers which surrounded the soft-release of 2011 debut Purple Naked Ladies. In 2011 Odd Future's Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians (also of Jet Age of Tomorrow) first unleashed their textured take on gentle, narrative-driven soul. It was so far removed from the gaudy assault of OFWGKTA that it was lumped with Frank Ocean's Channel Orange cut Novacane and dubbed another Odd Future side-project. But with velvety showers in tracks like Under Control and Syd tha Kyd's slinky vocal refrain on Gabby (featuring Janelle Monae), Ego Death demands separation.

ADDS

CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace 
[Goodbye Records/Liberator] 

Cosmo's Midnight - Walk With Me {Ft. KUCKA}  
[Nite High/Sony]

Dead Letter Circus - In Plain Sight 
[UNFD/Warner] 

Last Dinosaurs - Apollo  
[Dew Process] 

Miguel - ...goingtohell 
[Sony] 

Raury - Devil's Whisper 
[Sony] 

The Rubens - Hoops 
[Ivy League/Mushroom] 

Wavves - Way Too Much 
[Inertia] 

SPOTS

Cleopold - Down In Flames [Detail Co.] 
Ezra Furman - Lousy Connection [Bella Union/PIAS]
The Ocean Party - Guess Work [Spunk] 
Oh Wonder - Lose It [Dew Process]