New Music Friday - May 2, 2025

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars Watch: "Gethsemane" Watch: "CCF (I’m Gonna Stay with You)"
	Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid Watch: "Sometimes" Watch: "Blurry Eyes"
	Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist Watch: "To be a rose" Watch: "The artist is absent"
	Mei Semones - Animaru Watch: "I can do what I want" Watch: "Animaru"
	Thanya Iyer - TIDE/TIED Watch: "Low Tides" Watch: "I am here now"

Other Full-Length Releases

Esther Rose - Want Watch: "New Bad" Watch: "Had To"

James Krivchenia - Performing Belief Watch: "Bracelets for Unicorns" (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams) Watch: "Probably Wizards" (with Sam Wilkes)

Jolie Laide - Creatures Watch: "No Shape I Know" Watch: "Holly"

Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger Watch: "Tell Me How to Be Here" Watch: "Down on the Freeway"

Låpsley - I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE Watch: "HURRICANE" Watch: "WOMAN LIKE THAT"

Lucius - Lucius Watch: "Final Days" Watch: "Old Tape" (featuring Adam Granduciel)

Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry Watch: "Big Mileage" Watch: "Big Wish"

Paco Cathcart - Down on Them Listen: "Bottleneck Blues" Listen: "Oh, Joy"

PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs? Watch: "Hallways" Watch: "Get Dumber" (featuring Jeff Rosenstock)

Pyramids - Pythagoras Watch: "Pretty Pigs" Watch: "Fools Gold (Mi Vida Ha Ido Pa Atras)"

Real Bad Man & Boldy James - Conversational Pieces Watch: "Come Back Around" (featuring Dreamcastmoe) Listen: "Conversational Pieces"

Suzzallo - The Quiet Year Watch: "River" Listen: "Tsunami Waves" (featuring Ben Gibbard)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Benny the Butcher - Excelsior Watch: "Duffel Bag Hottie’s Revenge" (featuring Boldy James) Listen: "Sign Language"

Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light Watch: "For a Fallen Rocket" Watch: "Cracking the Jaw"

Flume & JPEGMAFIA - We Live in a Society Watch: "Track 1" Listen: "The Ocean Is Fake"

Real Estate - The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025 Watch: "Pink Sky" Listen: "Barely Legal"

Say Sue Me - Time Is Not Yours Watch: "Vacation" (featuring Kim Hanjoo) Listen: "In This Mess"

Selena Gomez, benny blanco - I Said I Love You First… And You Said It Back Watch: "Talk" Watch: "Guess You Could Say I'm in Love"

New Music Friday - December 8, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 Watch: "Last Time I Saw You" Watch: "Pink Friday Girls"

Other Full-Length Releases

Ben Lumsdaine - Murmuration Without End Listen: "Dallas" Listen: "Tough One"

HEALTH - RAT WARS Watch: "ASHAMED (OF BEING BORN)" Watch: "UNLOVED"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine Deluxe Watch: "Jasmine" Watch: "Impurities"

Car Seat Headrest - Faces from the Masquerade Watch: "Bodys" (Live at Brooklyn Steel) Watch: "Sober to Death" (Live)

The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull Listen: Cat Power & Iggy Pop - "Working Class Hero" Listen: Tanya Donelly & the Tarkington Sisters - "This Little Bird"

The Killers - Rebel Diamonds Watch: "Spirit" Listen: "Your Side of Town"

Neil Young - Before and After Watch: "If You Got Love" Watch: "I’m the Ocean"

Runnner - like dying stars, we’re reaching out (deluxe) Watch: "another sublet" Listen: "plexiglass"

Wings of Desire - Life Is Infinite Watch: "001 [Tame the War, Feed the Fire]" Watch: "A Gun in Every Home"

Yumi Zouma - EP IV Watch: "KPR" Watch: "Kicking Up Daisies"

New Music Friday - February 16, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You It just over a decade ago that Carlile was a new artist, and one of my first forays into Americana music. Now, on her sixth album, she has become a reliably-excellent figure in the genre. On her latest record, she tackles both personal subjects, like motherhood, and broader issues. Also, fun fact, the cover art was painted by Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers! Watch: "The Joke" Listen: "The Mother"

Fischerspooner - SIR Fischerspooner is Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, an electroclash duo formed two decades ago. Their first album in nearly a decade was self-produced, with some help from Michael Stipe and BOOTS (also with new music this week!, and features Holly Miranda, Andy LeMaster, and Caroline Polachek. Watch: "Togetherness" (featuring Caroline Polachek) Watch: "TopBrazil"

Loma - Loma Loma is a new band, made up of Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and both members of the duo Cross Record. The partnership began when Meiburg was sent Cross Record's debut album by Ben Goldberg of Badabing! Records, and brought them on tour with him soon after. While on tour, they found some common ground and decided to record together, creating this eponymous debut record. Watch: "Black Willow" Watch: "Relay Runner"

POLIÇA/s t a r g a z e - Music for the Long Emergency This is another meeting of minds, this time the Minneapolis band joins forces with the Berlin-based orchestra. The album has some personal elements for the performers, but is anchored by more overtly political tracks. The political aspects of the record continues on POLIÇA's last album, United Crushers, reckoning with the current state of affairs, especially Trump's presidency. Watch: "agree" Listen: "How Is This Happening"

U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited If I had known about U.S. Girls' Half Free before the end of 2015, it easily would have been one of my favorite albums that year. But alas, I only first heard of Meg Remy in 2016, though I almost instantly fell in love with that previous record. She released a couple of amazing singles late last year before announcing this record. I've already listened to this a few times, and I must say, it's an early contender for my favorite of the year! Watch: "Mad as Hell" Watch: "Velvet 4 Sale"

Other Full-Length Releases

American Nightmare - American Nightmare Watch: "The World Is Blue" Watch: "Flowers Under Siege"

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy Watch: "Nervous Young Inhumans" Listen: "Cute Thing"

Everything Is Recorded - Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell Watch: "Mountains of Gold" Watch: "Close but Not Quite"

I’m with Her - See You Around Watch: "Little Lies" Watch: "Game to Lose"

Johanna Warren - Gemini II Watch: "Here to Tell" Watch: "inreverse"

Marlon Williams - Make Way for Love Watch: "Vampire Again" Watch: "Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore" (featuring Aldous Harding)

Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap Watch: "Been Down" (featuring Swizz Beatz) Watch: "Last Time That I Checc’d" (featuring YG)

Ought - Room Inside the World Watch: "These 3 Things" Watch: "Disgraced in America"

Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love Watch: "Charisma" Watch: "Love on Repea

Robert Earl Thomas - Another Age Watch: "What Am I Gonna Do" Listen: "Another Age"

Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive Watch: "What a Time to Be Alive" Watch: "Erasure"

Walter Martin - Reminisce Bar & Grill Listen: "I Can Run Now from the Hellhounds but I Can’t Hide" Listen: "Me & McAlevey"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Beach Boys - Surfin’ Safari Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Surfin’ Safari" Listen: "409"

Belle and Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems, Part 3

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar - Gling-Gló Reissue Listen: "Gling-Gló" Listen: "Ruby Baby"

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 10th Anniversary Reissue Listen: "Flume" Listen: "Skinny Love"

BOOTS - #DARKDAZE Watch: "Delete Delete" (featuring Run the Jewels & Cristin Milioti) Listen: "#DARKDAZE"

Lion Babe - "Honey Dew" Listen: "Honey Dew"

Nina Simone - At Town Hall Reissue Listen: "Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair" Listen: "Cotton Eyed Joe"

Ride - Tomorrow’s Shore Watch: "Catch You Dreaming" Listen: "Keep It Surreal"

Ryan Adams - "Baby I Love You" Watch: "Baby I Love You"

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway Reissue Listen: "Carry Me, Ohio" Listen: "Pancho Villa"

Tanlines - Present

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix Reissue Listen: "Don’t Look Back" Listen: "About You"

Tinashe - "Faded Love" Watch: "Faded Love"

Wild Beasts - Last Night All My Dreams Came True Watch: "All the King’s Men" Listen: "The Devil’s Palace"