New Music Friday - March 28, 2025

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	CocoRosie - Little Death Wishes Watch: "Cut Stitch Scar" Watch: "Least I Have You"
	Destroyer - Dan’s Boogie Watch: "Cataract Time" Watch: "Dan’s Boogie"
	Lucy Dacus - Forever Is a Feeling Watch: "Ankles" Watch: "Best Guess"
	Perfume Genius - Glory Watch: "It’s a Mirror" Watch: "No Front Teeth" (featuring Aldous Harding)
	SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart Watch: "Portrait of My Heart" Watch: "Destiny Arrives"

Other Full-Length Releases

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia Watch: "Looks Like the End of the Road" Watch: "Granite Mills"

BACKXWASH - Only Dust Remains Watch: "WAKE UP" Watch: "9th Heaven"

Bria Salmena - Big Dog Watch: "Stretch the Struggle" Watch: "Hammer"

Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk Watch: "Orchestra" Watch: "Loose Talk"

Butler, Blake & Grant - Butler, Blake & Grant Watch: "Bring an End" Listen: "The 90s"

Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power Watch: "Magnolia" Watch: "Heathen"

Dean Wareham - That’s the Price of Loving Me Watch: "You Were the Ones I Had to Betray" Watch: "That’s the Price of Loving Me"

Great Grandpa - Patience Moonbeam Watch: "Junior" Watch: "Ladybug"

Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Morning Watch: "Draggin’" Watch: "Dusty"

Jessie Reyez - Paid in Memories Watch: "NYB" Watch: "L.O.Y.L."

Mess Esque - Jay Marie, Comfort Me Watch: "Take Me to Your Infinite Garden" Watch: "Let Me Know You"

Mumford & Sons - Rushmere Watch: "Rushmere" Watch: "Caroline"

Yukimi - For You Watch: "Stream of Consciousness" (featuring Lianne La Havas) Watch: "Make Me Whole"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Anna St. Louis - Home Recordings Watch: "Everything" (Demo) Watch: "Visitor" (Demo)

Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead Watch: "dandelion" Watch: "past life"

GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times (Deluxe Edition) Watch: "Telescope" Watch: "Uncharted Waters"

New Music Friday - November 17, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	André 3000 - New Blue Sun Listen: "Ants to You, Gods to Who ?" Listen: "Ninety Three ’Til Infinity and Beyoncé"
	Danny Brown - Quaranta Watch: "Tantor" Watch: "Jenn’s Terrific Vacation"
	H31R - HeadSpace Watch: "Right Here" Watch: "Backwards"
	Jolie Laide - Jolie Laide Watch: "Pacific Coast Highway" Watch: "Move Away Towns"
	Smoke Fairies - Carried in Sound Watch: "Vanishing Line" Listen: "Carried in Sound"

Other Full-Length Releases

2 Chains & Lil Wayne - Welcome 2 Collegrove Watch: "Presha" Watch: "Transparency" (with Usher)

Busty and the Bass - Forever Never Cares Listen: "Starstruck" Listen: "No Self Control"

Daniel Bachman - When the Roses Come Again Listen: "Now the Roses Come Again" Listen: "Till the Roses Come Again"

Spencer Zahn - Statues II Watch: "High Touch" Listen: "Morning"

Vince Clarke - Songs of Silence Watch: "The Lamentations of Jeremiah" Watch: "White Rabbit"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Bryan Ferry - Mamouna Deluxe Reissue Watch: "Your Painted Smile" (Instrumental First Draft ’89) Watch: "Mamouna"

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) Watch: "Within" (Drumless Edition) Watch: "Motherboard" (Drumless Edition)

Deafheaven - Sunbather 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster Watch: "Please Remember" Watch: "Sunbather"

Dolly Parton - Rockstar Watch: "World on Fire" Watch: "What’s Up" (featuring Linda Perry)

Drake - For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition Listen: "Red Button" Listen: "Evil Ways" (featuring J. Cole)

Iron & Wine - Who Can See Forever Soundtrack Watch: "Thomas County Law" (Live) Watch: "Dearest Forsaken" (Live)

Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh - Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh Listen: "Velocity! What About the Inertia!?" Listen: "Entropy Increasing"

Kurt Vile - Back to Moon Beach Watch: "Another good year for the roses" Listen: "Back to Moon Beach"

MJ Lenderman - And the Wind (Live and Loose!) Watch: "You Have Bought Yourself a Boat" (Live) Watch: "Hangover Game"

Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition) Listen: "Gary" Listen: "Plough"

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II (10 Year Anniversary Reissue) Listen: "Two Generations of Excess"

Water from Your Eyes - Crushed By Everyone Watch: "True Life" (with Nourished by Time) Watch: "Structure" (with The Cradle)

New Music Friday - October 2, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency Autre Ne Veut has a somewhat unique style of singing. It's pleading, emotional, and borders almost on whiny, stopping just short enough to be still be enjoyable. He released his sophomore album, Anxiety, in 2013 to broad critical acclaim, getting featured on numerous year-end lists. On his follow-up, he doesn't stray from his brand of twisted R&B, crafting another great collection of songs. Watch: "Age of Transparency" Watch: "World War Pt. 2"

Deafheaven - New Bermuda Deafheaven is one of those rare black metal bands who have also gained a certain degree of "hipster cred." Their sophomore album, Sunbather, saw them getting rave reviews from traditionally indie-focused sites like Pitchfork and Stereogum. And like Autre Ne Veut, they have a well-received second album to live up to. They've done so by digging into the heavier elements of their sound. The stray somewhat from the shoegaze elements that helped make them popular with the likes of Pitchfork, but somehow not alienating any of that fanbase. Listen: "Brought to the Water" Listen: "Come Back"

Janet Jackson - Unbreakable All hail! It seems forever since we last heard from Miss Jackson (yeah, I'm nasty); she released her last album, Discipline, back in 2008. At nearly 50 years old, Janet proves that she still has it, this 11th studio album was her seventh to hit number one on the charts and made her one of very few artists to top the charts four decades in row. She continues to do what she does well with a great collection of dance floor-ready tunes. Watch: "No Sleep" (featuring J. Cole) Watch: "BURNITUP!" (featuring Missy Elliott)

Nicolas Godin - Contrepoint Nicolas Godin is one-half of the French ambient duo Air. Though the two have 20 years and eight albums together, this is just Godin's first solo record (his music partner, Jean-Benoît Dunckel, released his first nine years ago). Many artists are inspired by those who came before, but Godin is looking way back for this one, with an album of neo-classical compositions inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach. Watch: "Widerstehe Doch Der Sunde" Watch: "Orca"

Wavves - V Though I started listening to Wavves back in their days of irreverent pop punk, around and before the release of King of the Beach, it was their last album  (Afraid of Heights) that put them on another level in terms of my feelings of their music. The music was still had punk influences, but seemed far more mature in subject matter. They continue with that maturity on this, their fifth album (duh). If anything, they've calmed down even more on this one, but it's another great record from the band. Watch: "Way Too Much" Listen: "My Head Hurts"

Other Full-Length Releases

Blitzen Trapper - All Across This Land Watch: "All Across This Land" Listen: "Lonesome Angel"

Chad Valley - Entirely New Blue Watch: "True" Watch: "Seventeen"

Childbirth - Women’s Rights Listen: "Let’s Be Bad" Listen: "Cool Mom"

Darkstar - Foam Island Watch: "Pin Secure" Watch: "Stoke the Fire"

Eagles of Death Metal - Zipper Down Watch: "Complexity" Listen: "Silverlake"

Editors - In Dream Watch: "Life Is a Fear" Watch: "No Harm"

The Foetals - Meet The Foetals Listen: "Fine"

Gemma - As Ever Listen: "As Ever"

Jessica Care Moore - Black Tea: The Legend of Jesse James Watch: "This Is a Bus with Wings" Watch: "Catch Me If You Can" (featuring Talib Kweli)

Joe Jackson - Fast Forward Listen: "Fast Forward" Listen: "A Little Smile"

Kyle - Smyle Watch: "Really? Yeah!" Listen: "Remember Me?" (featuring Chance The Rapper)

Line & Circle - Split Figure Watch: "Mine Is Mine" Listen: "Split Figure"

Monika - Secret in the Dark Watch: "Secret in the Dark" Listen: "Shake Your Hands" (featuring Andrew Wyatt)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

A-Trak - "We All Fall Down" Watch: "We All Fall Down" (featuring Jamie Lidell)

Baloji - 64 Bits & Malachite EP Watch: "Capture" (featuring Petite Noir & Muanza)

Dear Janet Naytronix & tUnE-yArDs - "What Have You Done for Me Lately"

Garbage - Garbage Reissue Listen: "Queer"

Hamilton Leithauser & Paul Maroon - I Could Have Sworn Listen: "Cry Out for Me" Listen: "Utica Avenue"

Hippo Campus - South EP Watch: "South" Watch: "Violet"

Kamasi Washington - The Epic LP Reissue Listen: "Re Run Home" Listen: "Miss Understanding"

No Escape Soundtrack Watch: Jim James - "Take Care of You"

Paul McCartney - The Pipes of Peace Reissue Watch: "Say Say Say"

Paul McCartney - Tug of War Reissue Listen: "Ebony & Ivory"

Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna