New Music Friday - June 2, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Juan Wauters - Wandering Rebel Watch: "Modus Operandi" (featuring Frankie Cosmos) Watch: "Milanesa al Pan" (featuring Zoe Gotusso)
	Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy Watch: "Down in the Willow Grove" (featuring Brandi Carlile) Watch: "Harvest" (featuring Andrew Bird & Chris Stills)
	The Saxophones - To Be a Cloud Watch: "Desert Flower" Watch: "Boy Crazy"
	Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than the Edge Watch: "Geronimo Blues" (featuring Kae Tempest) Watch: "On Grounds" (featuring Coby Sey)
	Tanya Tucker - Sweet Western Sound Watch: "Kindness" Watch: "Breakfast in Birmingham" (featuring Brandi Carlile)

Other Full-Length Releases

Beach Fossils - Bunny Watch: "Don’t Fade Away" Watch: "Dare Me"

Ben Folds - What Matters Most Watch: "Exhausting Lover" Watch: "Winslow Gardens"

Bully - Lucky for You Watch: "Days Move Slow" Watch: "Hard to Love"

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are Watch: "The Glass" Watch: "The Teacher"

Jam City - Jam City Presents EFM Watch: "Times Square" (featuring Aidan) Watch: "Wild N Sweet" (featuring Empress Of)

Lost Under Heaven - Something Is Announced By Your Life! Watch: "Shadowboxing" Watch: "I Surrender"

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Council Skies Watch: "Easy Now" Watch: "Dead to the World"

Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert Watch: "Make Way" Watch: "Elimination Dances"

WITCH - Zango Watch: "Avalanche of Love" (featuring Sampa The Great) Listen: "Nshingilile" (featuring Keith Kabwe)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

American Nightmare - Dedicated to the Next World Listen: "SELF CHECK-OUT"

Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom Watch: "Forever Young" Listen: "Queen Jane Approximately"

Synthia - "So Low"/"You & I" Listen: "So Low" Listen: "You & I" (featuring MALLA)

Tom Waits - Closing Time Reissue Listen: "Ol’ 55" Listen: "Closing Time"

New Music Friday - March 31, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Aimee Mann - Mental Illness Mental Illness is the ninth album from Aimee Mann and the first since her 2014 collaboration with Ted Leo as The Both. The album features vocal contributions from Leo, as well as a few unexpected influences. One track is influenced by a meeting Mann had with actor Andrew Garfield (she recently spoke of the experience on Song Exploder). Another track came about from a photo of a friend's cat. Both tracks are below! Watch: "Goose Snow Cone" Watch: "Patient Zero"

Bob Dylan - Triplicate In his old age, Dylan is finding his second wind. He's released an album for each of the past three years. It's become fairly stereotypical for aging rock stars to record standards albums and Dylan has been no different. His output has been better than most, though. So many other artists have transformed his music, it's interesting to hear him transform this music...and he's proven that his singing voice isn't nearly that bad. Watch: "I Could Have Told You" Listen: "My One and Only Love"

Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice This album represents a bit of a resurrection for Gibbs. There is, of course, the obvious imagery of the resurrection of Jesus on the cover, but the album also follows a difficult year for the rapper. He was arrested in France last year for rape and eventually charged with sexual assault. The charges were later dropped. He processes the experience alone. A rarity in hip hop, there are no features on the album. Watch: "Crushed Glass" Listen: "Alexys"

Goldfrapp - Silver Eye Silver Eye is the seventh album from Goldfrapp and one that stands in contrast to their 2013 record, Tales of Us. That record, with its more folk-focused sound, was also more somber than much of their work. They enlist producers Leo Abrahams, John Congleton, and The Haxan Cloak to help execute on the return to a more dancefloor ready sound. Watch: "Anymore" Watch: "Systemagic"

Tei Shi - Crawl Space Crawl Space is the debut album from this Argentinean singer. It follows a pair of well-received EPs, Saudade and Verde, released in 2013 and 2015 respectively. She combines elements of art-pop, R&B, and electronica for something she has, jokingly, called "mermaid music". Watch: "Keep Running" Watch: "How Far"

Other Full-Length Releases

Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 - Star Stuff Watch: "Star Stuff" Listen: "Disco Kid"

Dave Davies & Russ Davies - Open Road Listen: "Path Is Long"

Geotic - Abysma Watch: "Actually Smiling" Watch: "Nav"

Lydia Ainsworth - Darling of the Afterglow Watch: "Afterglow" Watch: "The Road"

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand Watch: "Show Yourself" Listen: "Andromeda"

Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset Listen: "Disappeared Planets" Listen: "Lil Dead Eye-d"

Timothy Seth Avett as Darling - IV Watch: "Your World" Watch: "Should We Move"

You’ll Never Get to Heaven - Images Listen: "Images" Listen: "Beyond the Clouds"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Black Mountain Songs

The Doors - The Doors Reissue Listen: "Light My Fire" Listen: "The End"

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night Reissue Listen: "Seven Wonders" (Early Version)

Gold Connections - Gold Connections Watch: "Faith in Anyone" Listen: "Isabel"

Julia Holter - In the Same Room Listen: "So Lillies" Listen: "Horns Surrounding Me"

Johnny Cash - The Original Sun Albums 1957-1964

New Music Friday - December 2, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

John Legend - Darkness and Light Sonically and thematically, John Legend doesn't stray far from 2013's Love in the Future on this album; many of the songs still read as love letters to his wife. One difference on his fifth album are the range of musicians he worked with. Some aren't too surprising, with other R&B/hip hop impresarios like Chance The Rapper and Miguel. Others I found more unexpected; Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy), two artists I wouldn't have expected to be on Legend's radar. Watch: "Love Me Now" Listen: "Penthouse Floor" (featuring Chance The Rapper)

Vaults - Caught in Still Life Vaults formed in 2013 and makes synthpop that feels like the midway point of Poliça and Chvrches. They first caught my ear with their early singles, "Lifespan" and "Vultures." They've released two EPs, 2014's Vultures and Cry No More last year. Caught in Still Life is their debut full-length. Watch: "Lifespan" Watch: "Poison"

Other Full-Length Releases

Peter Doherty - The Hamburg Demonstrations Watch: "I Don’t Love Anyone (But You’re Not Just Anyone)" Listen: "Kolly Kibbler"

The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome Watch: "Hate to See You Go" Watch: "Ride ‘Em on Down"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Bob Dylan - The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert Listen: "Tell Me, Momma"

Hamilton Mixtape Listen: Usher - "Wait for It" Listen: Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda, & Aloe Blacc - "Wrote My Way Out"

Jean-Michel Jarre -Oxygène 3

Kweku Collins - "jump.i" Watch: "jump.i"

Lady Lamb - Tender Warriors Club Listen: "See You" Listen: "We Are Nobody Else"

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Dream Synopsis EP Watch: "Le Cactus" Watch: "Is This What You Wanted"

The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees Remastered Listen: "Lovers from the Moon" Listen: "The Saddest Story Ever Told"

Nathan Fake - "Degreeless" Watch: "Degreeless" (featuring Prurient)

Permit - Vol. 1 Listen: "Track #6" Listen: "Track #5"

Star Slinger - We Could Be More Listen: "We Could Be More" (featuring D∆WN) Listen: "Pardon" (featuring Tunji Ige)