{"id":461931,"date":"2026-05-22T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:14","slug":"13-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-bladee-fakemink-and-eli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461931\/","title":{"rendered":"13 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bladee, Fakemink, and Eli"},"content":{"rendered":"

From kissa bars to city pop<\/a>, Western fascination with Japanese musical tradition is a well-worn trope at this point. But Portland ambient duo Visible Cloaks have set themselves apart from the trend-chasing masses through their genuinely meaningful contributions to Japanese genre kanky\u014d ongaku, or \u201cenvironmental music.\u201d Last year, Spencer Doran, who makes up the group alongside Ryan Carlile, curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kanky\u014d Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990<\/a>; and the duo\u2019s latest album, Paradessence, continues to build on kanky\u014d ongaku\u2019s praxis by making music for the world we\u2019re in, as opposed to the futurist utopias. Their first album in nine years, Paradessence, surveys a global landscape defined by genocide, climate catastrophe, and post-pandemic disorder with clarity, weaving unnerving builds with gorgeous, blooming moments best listened to in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a>
Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a>
Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

Ed O\u2019Brien:\u00a0Blue Morpho\u00a0[Transgressive]\"Image<\/p>\n

Radiohead may be back in the touring mix, but that\u2019s not stopping guitarist Ed O\u2019Brien<\/a> from continuing to nurture his solo work\u2014and, in doing so, grappling with some of life\u2019s hard truths. In a press statement, O\u2019Brien said that his new album Blue Morpho, which follows his 2020 debut Earth<\/a>, was written during one of \u201cthe most challenging periods\u201d of his life, earmarked by a deep depression that wracked him in late 2020 and the hours of daily guitar playing that led to a light at the end of the tunnel. Produced by Paul Epworth and featuring Shabaka Hutchings<\/a> and composer T\u00f5nu K\u00f5rvits, the album arrives alongside an accompanying short film, Blue Morpho: The Three Act Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a>
Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a>
Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From kissa bars to city pop, Western fascination with Japanese musical tradition is a well-worn trope at this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,33265],"class_list":["post-461931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-out-this-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}