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 surroundedthe soft-release of 2011 debut Purple Naked Ladies. In 2011Odd 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 velvetyshowers 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]