New Music Friday - December 1, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	CZARFACE - Czartificial Intelligence Watch: "You Know My Style" (featuring NEMS) Watch: "Czarsenic"
	Harp - Albion Watch: "I Am the Seed" Watch: "A Fountain"
	Thy Slaughter - Soft Rock Watch: "Reign" Watch: "Lost Everything"

Other Full-Length Releases

Full of Hell and Nothing - When No Birds Sang Watch: "Spend the Grace" Watch: "Like Stars in the Firmament"

Tiga & Hudson Mohawke - L’Ecstasy Watch: "Ascending into the Clouds" (featuring Elisabeth Troy) Watch: "IN ORDER 2"

Trevor Horn - Echoes: Ancient & Modern Listen: "Drive" Listen: "Relax"

We Owe - Major Inconvenience Watch: "Time Suck" Watch: "Slight Inconvenience" (featuring Phil Puleo)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Dweller - Dweller Watch: "Leave This Home" Listen: "Hollow"

Moping in Style: A Tribute to Adam Green Watch: Ben Kweller - "Her Father and Her" Watch: Vincent Delerm - "Friends of Mine"

New Music Friday - May 7, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Czarface & MF DOOM - Super What? Listen: "The King and Eye" Listen: "DOOM Unto Others"
	Iceage - Seek Shelter Watch: "The Holding Hand" Watch: "Vendetta"
	Mia Joy - Spirit Tamer Watch: "Freak" Watch: "Saturn"
	nasimiYu - P O T I O N S Watch: "watercolor" Watch: "secretsecret"
	Tony Allen - There Is No End Watch: "Osmosis" (featuring Skepta & Ben Okri) Watch: "Stumbling Down" (featuring Sampa the Great)

Other Full-Length Releases

ALLBLACK - TY4FWM Watch: "Ego" (featuring Drakeo The Ruler) Watch: "We Straight" (Cal-A & Vince Staples)

Daniel Bachman - Axacan Listen: "Blues in the Anthropocene" Listen: "Coronach"

Little Snake - A Fragmented Love Story, Written by the Infinite Helix Architect Watch: "Fallen Angels" (featuring Flying Lotus) Listen: "Raining Teeth" (with Tutara Peak)

Pile - In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room Listen: In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room

Sophia Kennedy - Monsters Watch: "Cat on My Tongue" Watch: "I Can See You"

Squid - Bright Green Field Watch: "Narrator" (featuring Martha Skye Murphy) Watch: "Paddling"

Sufjan Stevens - Convocations Watch: "Meditation V" Watch: "Lamentation II"

Undo K from Hot - G.A.S. Get a Star Watch: "750 Dispel" Listen: "Get a Star"

Weezer - Van Weezer Watch: "Grapes of Wrath" Watch: "I Need Some of That"

Wiki & NAH - Telephonebooth Watch: "Hip Hop" Watch: "Things Stuff"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Angel Olsen - Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories Watch: "Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)" Watch: "More Than This"

Anjimile - Reunion Watch: "In Your Eyes (Reflection)" (featuring Jay Som) Watch: "1978 (Reunion)" (featuring Lomelda)

Axis: Sova - Fractal Watch: "(Don’t Wanna Have That) Dream" Listen: "Fractal USA"

Iron & Wine - Archive Series Vol. 5: Tallahassee Recordings Watch: "This Solemn Day" Listen: "Calm on the Valley"

Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 2 Watch: "Until I Fall" Watch: "Torch Song"

Mitski - This Is Where We Fall Soundtrack Listen: "The Baddy Man" Listen: "The End"

New Order - Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace)' Watch: "The Perfect Kiss" (Live at Alexandra Palace) Watch: "Bizarre Love Triangle" (Live at Alexandra Palace)

New Music Friday - March 30, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Frankie Cosmos - Vessel Vessel is the third album for Cosmos and follows her relative break-out, 2016's Next Thing, which earned a few best-of spots for the year. Though Cosmos has served as the stage name for Greta Kline, this album serves as the first outing of Frankie Cosmos as a band, moving the project further away from its bedroom pop beginnings. Watch: "Being Alive" Watch: "Jesse"

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour On her third album, Musgraves makes a combination work that I never would imagined together, disco country! It's not the entire album, but the stand-out track "High Horse" beautifully combines two genres that haven't traditionally been my favorites. The rest of the album is a great listen, as well, though is far more beholden to country sounds from bygone decades. Watch: "High Horse" Watch: "Butterflies"

Kate Nash - Yesterday Was Forever Yesterday Was Forever sees Nash again taking on a crowdfunding approach to recording and releasing her music. 2013's Girl Talk was funded through PledgeMusic, this latest was a Kickstarter campaign. She returns more to her early career sound on this latest record, and tackles subjects like mental illness. Watch: "Drink About You" Watch: "Life in Pink"

MF Doom & Czarface - Czarface Meets Metal Face! MF DOOM has become well-known for his collaborations, which have included work with Danger Mouse, Madlib, and Bishop Nehru. He's back with yet another collab, this time with Czarface, itself a collaboration between Wu-Tang's Inspectah Deck and the duo 7L & Esoteric. Watch: "Bomb Thrown" Listen: "Nautical Depth"

Other Full-Length Releases

Amen Dunes - Freedom Watch: "Miki Dora" Watch: "Blue Rose"

Trace Mountains - A Partner to Lean On Listen: "Cary’s Dream" Listen: "Turn Twice"

The Vaccines - Combat Sports Watch: "I Can’t Quit" Listen: "Nightclub"

The Voidz - Virtue Watch: "QYURRUS" Watch: "All Wordz Are Made Up"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Flame 1 - "Fog"/"Shrine" Listen: "Fog" Listen: "Shrine"

Frou Frou - Details Reissue Watch: "Must Be Dreaming" Listen: "Let Go"

Future Islands - In the Fall Reissue Listen: "In the Fall" (featuring Katrina Ford)

Joan Shelley - Rivers and Vessels EP Listen: "Time Has Told Me" Listen: "Magnolia"

No Joy/Sonic Boom - No Joy/Sonic Boom Watch: "Triangle Probably" Watch: "Obsession"

Pink Floyd - London 1966/1967

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy, Watch: "Call Out My Name" Listen: "I Was Never There" (featuring Gesaffelstein)

New Music Tuesday - June 16, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Active Child - Mercy Mercy is the sophomore album from Pat Grossi, who released his incredible debut You Are All I See, in 2011. His debut received rave reviews and even spawned a cover by Ellie Goulding of the song "Hanging On" a year later on her Halcyon album. On the follow-up, he has partnered with producer Van Rivers, who helped him to push and develop his writing and vocals. Watch: "1999" Listen: "Never Far Away"

Ben Browning - Turns Ben Browning daylights as the bassist for Australian band Cut Copy. He began his solo career in 2012 with the EP Lover Motion. He is following that up with his debut full-length. There's no word yet on whether to expect new music soon from his band, who released Free Your Mind in November 2013. Watch: "Make It Easy" Watch: "Friends of Mine"

Giorgio Moroder - Déjà Vu Giorgio Moroder was a disco-era icon, though his career dried up a bit as disco waned in popularity. Dance, electronic, and even disco, have had a big resurgence over the past few years, making it a prime time for Moroder to come back. His first album in 30 years features vocals from a bevy of younger performers, including: Charli XCX, Kelis, Britney Spears, and Sia. Watch: "Déjà Vu" (featuring Sia) Watch: "Right Here, Right Now" (featuring Kylie Minogue)

Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones Over their five albums, this Cincinnati-based band has often been compared to another Ohio act, The Black Keys. Both bands started with a minimalist blues rock sound. Recently, The Black Keys have started to stray from that sound; the Heartless Bastards seem to be following suit. Frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom promises that the album is a departure, allowing the band to grow and avoid making the same record twice. Watch: "Gates of Dawn" Watch: "Hi-Line"

Ryn Weaver - The Fool Ryn Weaver is one of the latest benefactors (or maybe victim - not a statement of her talent) of the hype cycle. She became an overnight sensation last summer with the release of the single "OctaHate." Her debut EP, Promises, followed not long after and now she's out with her full-length debut. Watch: "OctaHate" Watch: "The Fool"

Other Full-Length Releases

Czarface - Every Hero Needs a Villain Listen: "Ka-Bang" (featuring MF DOOM) Listen: "Deadly Class" (featuring Meyhem Lauren)

Hudson Mohawke - Lantern Watch: "Very First Breath" (featuring Irfane) Watch: "Warriors" (featuring Ruckazoid & Devaeux)

John Metcalfe - The Appearance of Colour Watch: "Gold Green" Watch: "Parsal"

Nate Ruess - Grand Romantic Watch: "AhHa" Watch: "Grand Romantic"

Outfit - Slowness Watch: "New Air" Watch: "Framed"

Purple - Silence & Remorse Listen: "The Deepest Night" Listen: "Never Come Back"

Slum Village - Yes! Watch: "Love Is" (featuring Bilal & Illa J) Listen: "Right Back" (featuring De La Soul)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Air - The Virgin Suicides - 15th Anniversary Edition Listen: "Playground Love" (KCRW LA Radio Jan 2000)

The Antlers - Live in London Watch: "Director" Watch: "Doppelgänger"

Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon Listen: "Nausea, the Earth, and Me"

Dave Monks - All Signs Point to Yes EP Watch: "Gasoline" Listen: "The Rules"

Dope: Music from the Motion Picture Listen: Nas - "The World Is Yours" Listen: Public Enemy - "Rebel Without a Pause"

Fucked Up - Year of the Hare Listen: "California Cold"

Gener8ion - Bromance #21 Watch: "The New International Sound Pt. II" (featuring M.I.A.) Listen: "Walled City"

Hotei - "How the Cookie Crumbles" Watch: "How the Cookie Crumbles" (featuring Iggy Pop)

Mates of State - You're Going to Make It Watch: "Staring Contest" Listen: "Beautiful Kids"

Protomartyr/R. Ring - A Half of Seven Listen: Protomartyr - "Blues Festival" (featuring Kelley Deal)

The Radio Dept. - Occupied EP Listen: "Occupied" Listen: "It Looked Like Heaven (But Feels Like Hell)"

Raury - "Devil's Whisper" Listen: "Devil's Whisper"

Tobias Jesso Jr. - "True Love"/"Without You" 7" Listen: "True Love" Listen: "Without You" (Alternate Version)

The Twilight Sad - "It Was Never the Same" Watch: "It Was Never the Same" Listen: The Cure - "There's a Girl in the Corner"