New Music Report – January 19, 2023

Things are starting to get moving now, we’ve got a couple releases trickling in that are worth listening to. But honestly, the big story is still all the new singles, and the album release dates that come along with it. Bands like Jesus Piece, The Ocean, City & Colour, and more all put out some very promising new singles this week, with announcements for albums coming in the next 2-3 months. Full of Hell and Primitive Man also put out a single together preceding a full-length collaborative album, which is incredibly cool. If nothing else, all this is an indicator that we’re going to have a very strong spring album release season, which is always a great sign of the year to come.

In addition to those, we had some more one-off singles, including two more new bangers from Sleep Token. I have to imagine this is going to be a huge year for them. These singles have all been huge hits, or at least major talking points. Count me interested, I can’t wait to see what else they’ve got going on this year.

As far as albums themselves? We got new albums from Katatonia and New Found Glory. Not really show-stoppers for me, but big names nonetheless. There are some albums I’m looking forward to next week, but if these singles keep rolling out like this, that’ll be what I’m really looking forward to.