50% Hipster: Chvrches

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Sunday, August 29, 2021

New Music Friday - August 27, 2021

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? Watch: "The Ghost of Cincinnati" Watch: "Latter Days" (featuring Anaïs Mitchell)
	Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Watch: "I am not a woman, I am a god" Watch: "Bells in Sante Fe"
	Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take Watch: "Hold U" Watch: "Kill Me"
	Madi Diaz - A History of Feeling Watch: "Woman in My Heart" Watch: "New Person, Old Place"
	Nite Jewel - No Sun Watch: "This Time" Listen: "Before I Go"

Other Full-Length Releases

a l l i e - Tabula Rasa

Watch: "Clean Sight" (with Casey MQ)
Watch: "Coop"

Belly - See You Next Wednesday

Watch: "Die for It" (Featuring The Weeknd & Nas)
Watch: "Zero Love" (Moneybagg Yo)

Breeze - Only Up

Watch: "Come Around" (featuring Cadence Weapon)
Watch: "Let It In"

The Bug - Fire

Watch: "Pressure" (featuring Flowdan)
Listen: "Clash" (featuring Logan)

Chvrches - Screen Violence

Watch: "How Not to Drown " (featuring Robert Smith)
Watch: "Good Girls"

Florry - Big Fall

Watch: "You Don’t Know"
Listen: "Everyone I Love You"

Marisa Anderson/William Tyler - Lost Futures

Listen: "At the Edge of the World"
Listen: "Hurricane Light"

Men I Trust - Untourable Album

Listen: "Sugar"
Listen: "Lifelong Song"

Steve Gunn - Other You

Watch: "Reflection"
Watch: "Other You"

Turnstile - Glow On

Watch: "ALIEN LOVE CALL" (featuring Blood Orange)
Watch: "BLACKOUT"

Water from Your Eyes - Structure

Watch: "Track Five"
Listen: "When You’re Around"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Beach Boys - Feel Flows - The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

Watch: "White Hot Glistening"
Watch: "I See Love"

Gorillaz - Meanwhile

Watch: "Meanwhile…" (featuring Jelani Blackman & Barrington Levy)
Watch: "Jimmy Jimmy" (featuring AJ Tracey)

Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album

Watch: Scott Tanner - "Cold Water" (featuring Duke Silver)
Watch: "Catch Your Dream" (featuring Duke Silver)

Superstate Soundtrack

Watch: Superstate - "Yoga Town" (featuring Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo)
Listen: Superstate - "L.I.L.Y." (featuring Graham Coxon)

Sunday, December 9, 2018

New Music Friday - May 25, 2018

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Aisha Burns - Argonauta

Aisha Burns is a violinist from Texas who contributed to the Balmorhea ensemble before going solo in 2013 with Life in the Midwater. On her sophomore record, she deals with both loss and love.

Listen: "Must Be a Way"
Listen: "We Were Worn"

CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead

This third album from the Scottish trio is their first not to be self-produced, and probably their "poppiest" outing. Interestingly, though representing the band at their most pop, the sole feature on the record comes from the frontman for an established indie band, Matt Berninger of The National.

Watch: "Get Out"
Watch: "Miracle"

Tracyanne & Danny - Tracyanne & Danny

Tracyanne is Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura; Danny is Danny Coughlan, also known as Crybaby. The two are close friends, but joined up for a new project following the death of Camera Obscura's Carey Lander from a rare form of cancer in 2015. Her main act is on hiatus, but this album provides the 60s-inspired guitar pop that Campbell has become known for.

Watch: "Alabama"
Watch: "It Can't Be Love Unless It Hurts"

Other Full-Length Releases

Michael Feuerstack - Natural Weather

Watch: "Nobody Knows"
Watch: "Love Is All Around"

Pusha T - DAYTONA

Listen: "Infrared"
Listen: "What Would Meek Do?"

Wand - Perfume

Watch: "Pure Romance"

Zaytoven - Trap Holizay

Listen: "Back on It" (featuring Offset & Young Scooter)
Listen: "Show It" (featuring Kodak Black, T.I., & Offset)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Destroyer - City of Daughters Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "School, and the Girls Who Go There"
Listen: "No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)"

Destroyer - Thief Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "The Temple"
Listen: "Thief"

Hatchie - Sugar & Spice

Watch: "Sugar & Spice"
Watch: "Sure"

Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep

Watch: "Spells"
Listen: "The Long Sleep"

Sunday, November 8, 2015

New Music Tuesday - September 25, 2015

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Chvrches - Every Open Eye

Chvrches became a fast favorite of mine following the release of their 2013 debut album, The Bones of What You Believe. The timing of this follow-up came as no surprise; the band kept their fans updated at nearly every point of the process, which began just earlier this year. With a quick turn-around and high expectations, I was expecting to be a little disappointed by this. The band dug in their heels on their style, though, and crafted another album of epic pop tracks, just as incredible as their first.

Watch: "Leave a Trace"
Watch: "Clearest Blue"

The Dead Weather - Dodge & Burn

Jack White is a smart man when it comes to the music industry and he pulled one of his smartest moves with this side project, selecting Alison Mosshart as the primary vocalist. She is easily one of my favorite voices in rock, but with four years since her last recorded material (Blood Pressures with The Kills), I was getting a little antsy to hear her again. This latest album from White's best post-White Stripes band is a welcome return, and an amazing release.

Watch: "I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)"
Listen: "Cop and Go"

Disclosure - Caracal

Disclosure also had a beloved debut album to live up to. They became another favorite of mine after 2013's Settle. Like that album, the follow-up contains a bunch of club-ready tracks featuring a bevy of guests vocalists. Sam Smith is back on this album; Disclosure also enlisted Miguel, The Weekend, and Lorde for this go-around. The result is maybe not as good as their first, but still a collection of songs bound to make me bust a move.

Watch: "Magnets" (featuring Lorde)
Watch: "Omen" (featuring Sam Smith)

Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness

Julia Holter provides one of the most simply pleasurable listening experiences. Although there's an experimental edge, her style of songwriting and instrumentation creates an incredibly calming mood. With four albums in five years, she's also a rare musician who can be incredibly prolific and not somehow misstep.

Watch: "Feel You"
Watch: "Sea Calls Me Home"

Kurt Vile - b’lieve i’m goin down

Vile is another artist who seems unable to do wrong. He's released six albums in seven years and each is as good as, if not better than, the last. He's always been a great songwriter, but outdoes himself on each record. This almost feels like peak Vile, with some truly mind-boggling lyrical moves.

Watch: "Life Like This"
Watch: "Pretty Pimpin"

Other Full-Length Releases