New Music Friday - May 6, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

ANOHNI - Hopelessness ANOHNI has had a long career spanning more than fifteen years. She has previously performed as Antony and the Johnsons, releasing four albums over then years. Hopelessness is her first solo album, and first under a new name. The album covers a range of social and political issues, from drone strikes, to the environment, and the culture of masculinity. Watch: "Drone Bomb Me" Listen: "Crisis"

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit You can't always believe a band when they say they're done. Even though they announced their "disbandment" in 2014, Death Grips has released an album, a soundtrack, and an EP since then. Now, they've released yet another album. The release follows their Interview 2016 EP, released with a strange long-form music video, earlier this year. Listen: "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" Listen: "Eh"

James Blake - The Colour in Anything While I'm often annoyed by surprise releases, sometimes they're just about the best news I can get. That was the case when James Blake announced his third album for release just hours later. On the album, he continues his blend of ambient, post-dubstep, and soul, and he sounds better than ever. The record features old collaborators like Bon Iver and new, Frank Ocean, as well as artwork from Sir Quentin Blake. Watch: "I Need a Forest Fire" (featuring Bon Iver) Listen: "Radio Silence"

Julianna Barwick - Will Julianna Barwick has made a career out of using her own voice as an orchestral instrument, looping and layering it in ways that make you forget that she doesn't use much traditional instrumentation. She continues this work on her third full-length, with contributions from Mas Ysa and Chairlift drummer Jamie Ingalls. Watch: "Nebula" Watch: "Same" (featuring Mas Ysa)

Little Scream - Cult Following I really don't remember how or when I first heard of Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, but I know that absolutely loved her debut album, The Golden Record. It's been quite a while since that album, five years to be exact. She strays a bit from the sound on that first album. She started with a fairly traditional folk style, but adds elements of pop, avant garde, and funk on Cult Following. Watch: "Love as a Weapon" Listen: "Someone Will Notice"

Other Full-Length Releases

Beverly - The Blue Swell Watch: "South Collins" Watch: "Victoria"

Carlos Niño - Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening! Watch: "Calimayan" Listen: "It’s All Happening!"

Chris Cohen - As If Apart Watch: "As If Apart" Listen: "Torrey Pine"

Dieterich & Barnes - The Coral Casino

Half Waif - Probably Depths Watch: "Nest" Listen: "Turn Me Around"

Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise Watch: "What You Want" (featuring Peaches) Watch: "Exit" (featuring Edward Snowden)

JMSN - It Is. Watch: "Most of All" Watch: "Cruel Intentions"/"Good Ol' Case of the Blues"

Kaytranada - 99.9% Watch: "Glowed Up" (featuring Anderson .Paak) Watch: "Lite Spots"

LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing Watch: "Beneath the Concrete" Watch: "I&I"

Shit Robot - What Follows Watch: "End of the Trail" Watch: "Lose Control" (featuring Nancy Whang)

Tourist - U Watch: "To Have You Back" Watch: "Run"

White Lung - Paradise Watch: "Below" Watch: "Hungry"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Beach Boys - Live at the Fillmore East

Bonnie “Prince” Billy - More Revery Reissue Listen: "A Dream of the Sea"

Cream - Classic Album Selection Listen: "Sunshine of Your Love" Listen: "Spoonful"

D∆WN - Infrared EP Listen: "How I Get" Listen: "Paint It Blue"

Destroyer - My Mystery 12” Watch: "My Mystery" (DJ johnedward-collins@gmail.com remix) Listen: "My Mystery"

Fir - "Summer Wasn’t There" 7” Listen: "Summer Wasn’t There" Listen: "Winter Doesn’t Care"

Frank Zappa - The New Maternity Reissue

J Dilla - Jay Love Japan Reissue Listen: "Yesterday" Listen: "Believe in God" (featuring Ma Dukes)

Michael Jackson - Bad Reissue Watch: "Bad" Watch: "Smooth Criminal"

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Reissue Watch: "Rock with You" Watch: "Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough"

Michael Jackson - Thriller Reissue Watch: "Thriller" Watch: "Billie Jean"

Miles Davis - Chicago Jazz Festival 1990 Listen: "Hannibal" Listen: "Human Nature"

Miles Davis and John Coltrane - Copenhagen March 24th 1960 Listen: "So What"

MUNA - The Loudspeaker EP Watch: "Winterbreak" Listen: "Loudspeaker"

Patience - "The Church"/"My Own Intervention" Watch: "The Church" Listen: "My Own Invention"

Rufus Wainwright - Poses Reissue Watch: "Going to a Town" Listen: "Poses"

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Deluxe Box Set Listen: "Locked Away" (Outtake)

New Album Tuesday - February 10, 2015

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New Full-Length Albums

Caught on Tape - Full Bleed Former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston More engages in some freak-out noise rock improvisational sessions with John Moloney (who he collaborated with as Chelsea Light Moving). It follows his 2014 solo album and the album with Chelsea Light Moving released the year before. Listen: "Full Bleed" Listen: "Age Limit"

Death Grips - The Power That B This should, theoretically, be the last release from Death Grips, who "broke up" last year (though this is their second release this year). The new album completes a double album project, the first half of which, Niggas on the Moon, was released in June of last year. Technically, its companion record, Jenny Death, has not yet been released, but presumably those tracks are featured here. Watch: "Inanimate Sensation" Listen: "Up My Sleeves"

The Dø - Shake Shook Shaken The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop group with a fairly obvious nod towards Björk's unique brand of pop. I found out about them following a feature of lead singer, Olivia Merilahti, in Lucky magazine. I didn't know anything about them, but was intrigued by the magazine's description of their music. I've loved them ever since. Shake Shook Shaken is their third album. Watch: "Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy" Listen: "Miracles (Back in Time)"

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear Father John Misty, real name Josh Tillman, continues his swaggering indie folk persona on his second album under the newer name. The album is a concept record about himself; it deals with his personal life, regretted behaviors, and his relationship with his wife. Watch: "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" Listen: "Bored in the USA"

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year with 13 Moons Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is a multi-instrumentalist and record label owner who has been involved with a number of bands during his career. He has also worked with many other artists in the drone and ambient community, including Grouper and Oneohtrix Point Never. Cantu-Ledesma is extremely prolific and A Year with 13 Moons follows a long string of both solo and collaborative work. Watch: "Pale Flower" Watch: "Love After Love"

Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow Is My Turn Rhiannon Giddens made a name for herself as a member of the Grammy-winning Americana group, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She was also the sole female member of The New Basement Tapes, who released an album of songs based off of unrecorded Bob Dylan lyrics last year. She is following that up with her first solo album, which consists of songs previously made famous by other female artists. Listen: "Black Is the Color" Listen: "Shake Sugaree"

Rone - Creatures Rone is a French electronic musician with three studio albums and six EPs under his belt. In 2013, he collaborated with The National on their album Trouble Will Find Me, providing electronic instrumentation. He gets some help in return for his latest album; one of the band's twin guitarists, Brian Dessner, features on a track. Listen: "Elle" (featuring Brian Dessner) Listen: "Ouija"

William Ryan Fritch - Revisionist William Ryan Fritch is one of an increasing number of musicians affiliated in some way with Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver). He played with Volcano Choir member Jon Mueller in Death Blues. This is his sixth studio album. Watch: "Thankless Deeds" Watch: "Still" (featuring Esmé Patterson)

Other New Releases

St. Vincent - St. Vincent Deluxe Edition St. Vincent released one of, if not the best album last year, and won her first Grammy earlier this year for it! The album is getting the reissue treatment this year, with the two songs she released for Black Friday Record Store Day, along with a few other new tracks, added to the record. Listen: "Bad Believer" Listen: "Pieta"

The Twilight Sad - "I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want" The Twilight Sad released the long-winded Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave in October of last year. The second longest song (title-wise) after the title track is getting released as a single this year, backed with a much shorter new song from the Scottish band. Watch: "I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want" Listen: "The Airport"

Zola Jesus - "Hunger"/"Compass" Zola Jesus also released her latest album in October of last year. Her newest single release comes with a brand new song of her own. Watch: "Hunger" Listen: "Compass"

New Music Tuesday - January 6, 2015

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New Full-Length Releases

Death Grips - Fashion Week For a band that broke up in July of last year they sure don't seem very broken up. They're in the process of releasing a new album, The Powers That B, is two parts. The first part, Niggas on the Moon, was dropped in June before the disbandment. The album as a whole is set for a March release. In between those two, they're dropping a new surprise record; a supposed soundtrack to an unnamed film. This release lacks their frontman MC Ride, but he'll be back on the next one. Listen: "Runway J" Listen: "Runway E"

Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2013, Rae Sremmurd (Ear Drummers, their label, backwards) were largely unknown. Thanks to a pair of hit singles, "No Flex Zone" and "No Type," they became one of the most hyped acts of the year. They've wasted no time in putting out their debut record, though timing is a little strange (very little new material gets released in the first week of a new year). Early praise, however, seems to indicate that this was no rushed effort. Watch: "Up Like Trump" Watch: "No Flex Zone"

Other New Releases

Kindness - Who Do You Love Remixes Kindness released his sophomore album, Otherness, in October of last year. He's helping to fill to usual early year dearth of new music with a collection of remixes of one of the tracks from that record. "Who Do You Love" originally featured guest vocals from Robyn; this collection brings together versions of the song from The Jam, Jeremy Sylvester, and Joakim. Listen: "Who Do You Love" (Joakim Remix)