New Music Friday - October 4, 2024

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise Listen: "Breath Out" Listen: "Diets"
	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” Listen: "GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS" Listen: "BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD"
	Half Waif - See You at the Maypole Watch: "Figurine" Watch: "The Museum"
	Leon Bridges - Leon Watch: "Peaceful Place" Watch: "That’s What I Love"
	The Smile - Cutouts Watch: "Zero Sum" Watch: "Foreign Spies"

Other Full-Length Releases

Abstract Crimewave - The Longest Night Watch: "The Gambler" (featuring Lykke Li) Watch: "Flyga Fram" (featuring Dungen)

The Bug - Machine Watch: "Bodied (Send for the Hearse)" Watch: "Buried (Your Life Is Short)"

Caribou - Honey Watch: "VOLUME" Watch: "Broke My Heart"

Coldplay - Moon Music Watch: "ALL MY LOVE" Watch: "JUPiTER"

cumgirl8 - the 8th cumming Watch: "Karma Police" Watch: "ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)"

Drug Church - PRUDE Watch: "Demolition Man" Watch: "Slide 2 Me"

FINNEAS - For Cryin’ Out Loud! Watch: "For Cryin’ Out Loud!" Watch: "Cleats"

Geordie Greep - The New Sound Watch: "Holy, Holy" Listen: "Blues"

The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet Watch: "Rio’s Song" Watch: "Earth Hater"

Jonah Yano - Jonah Yano & the Heavy Loop Watch: "The Heavy Loop" Listen: "Snowpath" (featuring Clairo)

A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer Watch: "Disgust" Watch: "You Got Me"

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight Watch: "Electra" Watch: "The South Atlantic" (featuring This Is the Kit)

Spirit Night - Time Won’t Tell Watch: "Darker Now" Listen: "A.M."

Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns Watch: "The Fences of Stonehenge" Watch: "Sprinter Brain"

Verböten - Verböten Watch: "Kicking Away" Watch: "Bodily Autonomy"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Ada Lea - notes Watch: "come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera" Watch: "i-95"

Alison Moyet - Key Watch: "Such Small Ale" (Key Version) Watch: "So Am I" (Key Version)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel Listen: "Kids on Holiday" (Live)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) Listen: "#19" Listen: "#1"

Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Listen: Kurt Vile - "Sins of My Youth" Listen: The War on Drugs - "You Wreck Me"

Cadence Weapon - ROLLERCOASTER DELUXE Watch: "Wormhole" Watch: "Surreal" (with The 2 Bears)

Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (10th Anniversary) Watch: "Now Here In" Watch: "I’m Not Part of Me" (Live at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, 1-15-2015)

The Fiery Furnaces - Stuck in My Head Listen: "My Dog Was Lost but Now He’s Found" Listen: "Chris Michaels"

Joan Shelley - Mood Ring Listen: "Mood Ring" Listen: "Fire of the Morning"

Joni Mitchell - Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) Watch: "Intro to Coyote” / “Coyote" Watch: "Traveling (Hejira)"

Maya Hawke - Clipped Wings Listen: "Kamikaze Comic" Listen: "You Won’t Feel a Thing"

Noeline Hoffman - Purple Gas Watch: "Purple Gas" Watch: "August"

Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers (Deluxe Edition) Watch: "Wildflowers in the Sky" Watch: "Just Like Paradise"

yunè pinku - Scarlet Lamb Watch: "Believe" Watch: "Half Alive"

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending October 8)

I'll admit to being somewhat old-fashioned and have been stubbornly attempting to continue using my iPod two years after it has been discontinued. I discovered this week that Apple has made it incredibly difficult to organize and maintain my music the way that I want to. Oh well, I will be re-evaluating my music listening methods over the coming months, which will impact how I listen to some of the new music coming out soon. {Hold for shameless plug}, check out some of that new music over at my Upcoming Releases page!

This week, Dawn Richard (aka D∆WN) announced her third studio album, Redemption.

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It took me a little while to come around to Dawn's music. She got her start on the third season of Making the Band, eventually becoming a member of the loathsome Danity Kane. When I started hearing about her solo career about three years ago, I figured it had to be more of the same.

But, I kept hearing praise for her work. Her debut, Goldenheart earned rave reviews from some of my most trusted resources and that praise continued through her sophomore effort, Blackheart. When I finally did check her out, which admittedly wasn't until earlier this year, I was blown away by her music. Her style is more fitting in with a newer class of R&B, that makes use of experimentation and incorporates disparate genres, rather than simply representing the status quo of the genre.

Redemption completes a trilogy which started with Goldenheart, one that covers love, loss, and redemption. Yesterday's announcement of the record was accompanied by a new song, "Renegades."



Also announced this week:

Alicia Keys - Here (November 4)
D.R.A.M. - Big Baby D.R.A.M. (October 21)
Gone Is Gone - Echolocation (January 6)
Pink Floyd - Animals Reissue (November 18)
The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome (December 2)
Thee Oh Sees - A Strange Entrances (November 18)
Uniform - Ghosthouse (October 28)