{"id":884564,"date":"2026-10-16T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884564\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:10:12","slug":"11-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-fontaines-d-c-the-avalanches-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884564\/","title":{"rendered":"11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Fontaines D.C., the Avalanches, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Titled after a Twitter meme<\/a>, Autosmile<\/a> by @<\/a> plays out like a series of private jokes told between friends. Those friends\u2014Filipczak and Victoria Rose\u2014got their start as folk-pop pranksters, but on their 4AD<\/a> debut, they\u2019ve leveled up into a brain-rotted Rawlings<\/a> and Welch<\/a>. Before Autosmile, you\u2019d never hear Rose sing a lyric as nakedly sincere as \u201cI don\u2019t know how I belong to you, but I do somehow<\/a>.\u201d For the first time, the band with the most un-Googleable name in showbiz sounds marginally legible.<\/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

The Avalanches: No Bad Memories [Modular]\"Image<\/p>\n

Those of us over a certain age all have that one jingle\u2014a corporate ditty imprinted in our memory like a painting at Lascaux. (Mine? Education Connection<\/a>. My Gen X mom\u2019s? The original Big Mac theme<\/a>.) Leave it to the Avalanches, masters of making up for lost time, to run with this phenomenon. The duo\u2019s first proper LP since the pandemic draws inspiration from lost jingles and now-defunct technology like those two buddies pictured above. The features across the 31-song project bring a similar \u201cold becomes new again\u201d spirit to the group\u2019s anhedonia-flecked electronica, uniting legends such as Yellow Magic Orchestra cofounder Haruomi Hosono with fresher-faced experimentalists Portraits of Tracy. Who knew hauntology could be so fun?<\/p>\n