New Music Friday - February 4, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	2 Chainz - Dope Don’t Sell Itself Watch: "Million Dollars Worth of Game" (featuring 42 Dugg) Watch: "Neighbors Know My Name"
	Animal Collective - Time Skiffs Watch: "Prester John" Watch: "Walker"
	Cate Le Bon - Pompeii Watch: "Running Away" Watch: "Moderation"
	Mitski - Laurel Hell Watch: "Working for the Knife" Watch: "The Only Heartbreaker"
	yeule - Glitch Princess Watch: "Too Dead Inside" Watch: "Don’t Be So Hard on Your Own Beauty"

Other Full-Length Releases

Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There Watch: "Concorde" Listen: "Bread Song"

Hippo Campus - LP3 Watch: "Boys" Watch: "Ride or Die"

Los Bitchos - Let the Festivities Begin! Watch: "Good to Go!" Watch: "Pista (Fresh Start)"

MØ - Motordrome Watch: "New Moon" Watch: "Brad Pitt"

A Place to Bury Strangers - See Through You Watch: "Let’s See Each Other" Watch: "Hold on Tight"

Raum - Daughter Listen: "Daughter" Listen: "Lullaby"

Saba - Few Good Things Watch: "Stop That" Watch: "Come My Way" (featuring Krayzie Bone)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Marissa Nadler - The Wrath of the Clouds Listen: "Seabird" Listen: "Some Secret Existence"

New Music Friday - February 17, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now Through his music, Lekman has always been a detailed story-teller. That quality lent itself well to two projects he undertook between 2014's I Know What Love Isn't and this follow-up. His Postcards project had him writing a new song each week, and with Ghostwriting, he wrote songs based on ideas submitted by the public (he did a night in Cincinnati). Both influenced his approach to writing the new album; he considers it less constrained than his 2014 record. Watch: "What’s That Perfume That You Wear?" Listen: "Evening Prayer"

Jidenna - The Chief Perhaps the most dapper man in hip hop, Jidenna's style mixes his Nigerian roots with western influences. This is true of both his music and his fashion. He's built up a lot of hype over the past couple of years with the singles "Classic Man", "Long Live the Chief", and "Knickers". His debut album, out on Wondaland Records, serves as a perfect culmination of the reputation that he's built. Watch: "Bambi" Watch: "The Let Out" (featuring Nana Kwabena)

Molly Burch - Please Be Mine Molly Burch is a performer out of Los Angeles with a penchant for 1960s-style vocal pop. She studied vocal jazz at UNC Asheville, then relocated to Austin to begin her career. Her debut album is a collection of love songs, released just a little late for Valentine's Day. Watch: "Try" Listen: "Wrong for You"

Ryan Adams - Prisoner Prisoner is Ryan Adams' first album since his divorce from Mandy Moore last year, but he's been adamant that the album was not born of sadness. Some sense of heartbreak shows throughout the record, but Adams does not linger on his pain. It's also a bit of a return to older Ryan Adams, before he was covering Taylor Swift albums, which has garnered him some of his highest praise in years. Watch: "Do You Still Love Me?" Listen: "Doomsday"

Other Full-Length Releases

Dutch Uncle - Big Balloon Watch: "Big Balloon" Watch: "Oh Yeah"

Future - Future Watch: "Draco" Watch: "Poppin' Tags"

Novella - Change of State Watch: "Does the Island Know" Watch: "Change of State"

Sam Patch - Yeah You, and I Listen: "Listening" Listen: "St. Sebastien"

Strand of Oaks - Hard Love Watch: "Rest of It" Watch: "Radio Kids"

Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I & I Watch: "Letter to the Editor" Listen: "Let the Chalice Blaze"

Tim Darcy - Saturday Night Watch: "Still Waking Up" Watch: "Tall Glass of Water"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act II Watch: "Coconuts"

Animal Collective - The Painters EP Watch: "Kinda Bonkers" Listen: "Jimmy Mack"

Flume - Skin Companion II EP Listen: "Enough" (featuring Pusha T) Listen: "Depth Charge"

Gavin Turek - Good Look for You Listen: "Good Look for You"

Gold (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Listen: Iggy Pop - "Gold"

Maggie Rogers - Now That the Light Is Fading Out Watch: "On + Off" Watch: "Dog Years"

New Order - New Order Presents Be Music

New Music Friday - February 19, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Animal Collective - Painting With Animal Collective's tenth album has them returning to the smaller lineup they had for 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion; Deakin is again the member who sat out. The album comes after a short break in which members focused on other projects, both music- and life-related. They came back together last year to write and record this latest record. Watch: "FloriDada" Watch: "Golden Gal"

BJ the Chicago Kid - In My Mind BJ the Chicago Kid is Bryan James Sledge and he hails from, you guessed it, Chicago. He's been in the music industry for more than a decade and released his debut album, Pineapple Now-Laters, in 2012. His follow-up, and first album on Motown, sees him getting some help from fellow Chicago musician and budding taste-maker Chance The Rapper. Watch: "Nothin’ but Love" (featuring Joey Badass) Watch: "Church" (featuring Chance The Rapper)

Mavis Staples - Livin’ on a High Note Mavis Staples, a member of the famed Staples Singles gospel group, has enjoyed a bit of a career resurgence as of late with the help of a number of younger musicians. Her latest solo record features production from M. Ward and new songs written for Staples by Neko Case, Nick Cave, Justin Vernon, tUnE-yArDs, and Aloe Blacc. Listen: "High Note" Listen: "Jesus Lay Down Beside Me"

Ra Ra Riot - Need Your Light Need Your Light is the fourth album from this New York band. On it they are joined by an old collaborator, Rostam Batmanglij, formerly of Vampire Weekend. Ra Ra Riot frontman Wes Miles previously worked with Rostam in the band Discovery. He helped write and produce two of the album's tracks, the remaining were produced by Ryan Hadlock. Watch: "Foreign Lovers" Watch: "Water"

TEEN - Love Yes TEEN is made up of the Lieberson sisters, Kristina, Katherine, and Lizzie, along with Boshra AlSaadi. Kristina was previously the keyboardist for Here We Go Magic, but formed this band in 2010. This is their third album, written on the road and recorded shortly after their tour for 2014's The Way in Color. Watch: "Free Time" Listen: "Tokyo"

Other Full-Length Releases

Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex Listen: "melody in high feedback tone" Listen: "liquid gate"

LNZNDRF - LNZNDRF Watch: "Future You" Listen: "Kind Things"

Lushlife - Ritualize Listen: "The Ecstatic Cult" (featuring Killer Mike) Listen: "Strawberry Mansion" (featuring Freeway)

Matmos - Ultimate Care II Watch: "Ultimate Care II Excerpt 3" Watch: "Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five"

Wild Nothing - Life of Pause Watch: "To Know You”/“TV Queen" Listen: "Reichpop"

Wolfmother - Victorious Watch: "Victorious" Watch: "Pretty Peggy"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel Reissue Listen: "A Ghost Story" Listen: "Recent Bedroom"

Girls, Vol. 3 (Music from the HBO Original Series) Listen: Waxahatchee - "With You" Listen: BØRNS - "Past Lives"

Good for You Listen: Courtney Barnett - "Three Packs a Day" Listen: Fraser A. Gorman - "Skyscraper Skyline Blues"

Iggy Pop, Tarwater, & Alva Noto - Leaves of Grass Listen: "From Pent-Up Aching Rivers"

Marching Church - Coming Down: Sessions in April Listen: "Coming Down"

The Soft Moon - Deeper Remixes Vol. 2 Listen: "Deeper" (Fango Remix) Listen: "Feel" (Ninos du Brasil Remix)

Sonic Youth - Murray Street Reissue Listen: "The Empty Page" Listen: "Disconnection Notice"

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped Reissue Listen: "Reena" Listen: "Incinerate"

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse Reissue Listen: "Pattern Recognition" Listen: "Unmade Bed"

A Bigger Splash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Listen: St. Vincent - "Emotional Rescue"

Stars Wars Headspace Listen: Flying Lotus - "R2 Where R U?" Listen: Röyksopp - "Bounty Hunters"

Yoko Ono - Yes, I’m a Witch Too Listen: "Forgive Me My Love" (Death Cab for Cutie Remix)