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 - March 25, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Aldous Harding - Warm Chris Watch: "Lawn" Watch: "Fever"
	Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future Watch: "Zatoichi" (featuring slowthai) Watch: "Walkin"
	Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity Watch: "Protection from Evil" Watch: "Electricity"
	Kilo Kish - AMERICAN GURL Watch: "DEATH FANTASY" (with Miguel) Watch: "AMERICAN GURL"
	Phife Dawg - Forever Watch: "French Kiss Trois" (featuring Redman & Illa J) Watch: "Nutshell Pt. 2" (featuring Busta Rhymes & Redman)

Other Full-Length Releases

Anand Wilder - I Don’t Know My Words Watch: "Fever Seizure" Watch: "Delirium Passes"

Barrie - Barbara Watch: "Quarry" Watch: "Concrete"

Bellows - Next of Kin Watch: "McNally Jackson" Watch: "Rancher’s Pride"

Buddy - Superghetto Watch: "Wait Too Long" (featuring Blxst) Watch: "Hoochie Mama"

Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane Listen: "Jealous" Listen: "Running with the Hurricane"

Destroyer - Labrynthitis Watch: "Tintoretto, It’s for You" Watch: "June"

Ginla - Everything Watch: "Carousel" (featuring Adrienne Lenker) Watch: "You"

Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive Watch: "Cannibal Capital" Watch: "Famously Alive"

Kevin Devine - Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong Watch: "Albatross" Watch: "How Can I Help You?"

Maren Morris - Humble Quest Watch: "Circles Around This Town" Watch: "Background Music"

Nigo - I Know Nigo Watch: "Hear Me Clearly" (with Pusha T) Watch: "Arya" (featuring A$AP Rocky)

P.E. - The Leather Leon Watch: "Blue Nude (Reclined)" Watch: "Tears in the Rain" (featuring A. Savage)

Walter Martin - The Bear Watch: "The Bear" Watch: "Hunters in the Snow"

Young Prisms - Drifter Watch: "Honeydew" Watch: "Outside Air"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Cadence Weapon - Parallel World Deluxe Edition Watch: "SENNA" (Remix) (featuring Logan & Jacques Greene) Watch: "Play No Games" (Harrison Remix)

Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back Listen: "Pump Organ Song" Listen: "Gilded Cage"

Fucked Up - Do All Words Can Do Listen: "Do All Words Can Do" Listen: "What Would You Do"

The Killers - Pressure Machine Deluxe Edition Watch: "Quiet Town" Watch: "The Getting By II"

Tinariwen - Amassakoul Reissue Watch: "Taskiwt Tadjat" Listen: "Amassakoul N’Ténéré"

Tinariwen - Radio Tisdas Sessions Reissue Listen: "Zin Es Gourdemen" Listen: "Nar Djenetbouba"

Weezer - SZNZ: Spring Watch: "A Little Bit of Love" Watch: "Opening Night"

My Favorite Things of the Week

I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We spent it, as usual, visiting family in North Carolina. New music tends to slow down during holiday weeks, but here are some of the things I've found recently and love!

I don't have a favorite cover this week, but instead a remix. Jlin is an IDM and electronic music artist from Indiana, known for a percussion-heavy, rhythmic sound. She has brought that sound to St. Vincent's "Smoking Section," from her most recent album.

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib released a collaborative album, Bandana, back in June. They've released numerous music videos for tracks from the album, most revolving around a drug lord character played by Gibbs. In the latest, for "Gat Damn," he plays a cantankerous 80s-style R&B frontman. What amuses me most about the video is the fictional band's violinist; whether intentional or not, I get a kick out of how he holds the instrument.

Dan Bejar sat out the most recent albums from The New Pornographers but will be returning with a new album from Destroyer in January. He has already released one new song, "Crimson Tide," from the album and returned last week with "It Just Doesn't Happen."

Stormzy announced a new album!

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He is a grime and hip hop artist from London. He developed an appeal far beyond his home country with his debut album, 2017's Gang Signs & Prayer. After releasing a handful of songs, he recently announced his follow-up, Heavy Is the Head, which is set for release on December 13.

Some more albums to get excited about!

Avey Tare - Conference of Birds/Birds in Disguise (December 5)
Max Bloom - “Bottle” (out now)
Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (March)
Nada Surf - Never Not Together (February 7)
Nicolas Godin - Concrete and Glass (January 24)
PARTYNEXTDOOR - TBA (January)
Rebecca Foon - Waxing Moon (February 21)
Selena Gomez - TBA (January 10)
The Turning (Original Music Picture Soundtrack) (January 24)

My Favorite Things of the Week

Sudan Archives, aka Brittney Denise Parks, released her debut album, Athena, this week. Also this week, the artist, who I found out is from Cincinnati, sat down with Stereogum to discuss the story behind each of the album's 14 songs.

Vince Staples has a new show, aptly called "The Vince Staples Show," which has served as his vehicle for new music. This week, he released the second single tied to the project, "Sheet Music." As always, his lyrics are amazing.

Sleigh Bells got their start making blown-out, high-octane music, but have reigned it in considerably since their 2008 debut. Their latest song takes on a blues feel, large due to it being a cover of Leadbelly's classic, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night." The song was recorded for The Rhythm Section's soundtrack.

I am somewhat fascinated by Igor, the character Tyler, The Creator, created for his latest album of the same name. The characters has shown up in a couple of interesting music videos already, and last week, Tyler released another video for a track from the album, "I THINK," featuring the character.

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The New Pornographers released a new album just a couple of short months ago. That album was the second that did not feature long-time member Dan Bejar. I assumed his absence was due to him working on the latest album from his other major project, Destroyer, and this week that seems to be confirmed. He announced Have We Met, due on January 31 of next year.

Check out my Upcoming Releases page for more new music to come and see a list of other newly-announced albums below:

Algiers - There Is No Year (January 17)
Amy Klein - Winter/Time (November 22)
Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline (January 24)
Banoffee - Look At Us Now Dad (February 21)
Ben Watt - Storm Damage (January 31)
Billy Corgan - Cotillions (November 22)
Burial - Tunes 2011-2019 (December 6)
Clams Casino - Moon Trip Radio (November 7)
CocoRosie - Put the Shine On (March 6)
Coldplay - Everyday Life (November 22)
Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar (January 31)
Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (November 15)
Earl Sweatshirt - Feet of Clay (out now)
Empty Country - Empty Country (February 14)
Frances Quinlan - Likewise (January 31)
Hannah Diamond - Reflections (November 22)
The Innocence Mission - See You Tomorrow (January 17)
Juana Molina - Forfun (out now)
Kesha - High Road (January 10)
Mura Masa - R.Y.C. (January 17)
Pinegrove - Marigold (January 17)
Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming (January 31)
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush (February 14)
TNGHT - II (November 12)
Torres - Silver Tongue (January 31)
Uncut Gems (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (December 13)
Wire - Mind Hive (January 24)

New Music Friday - May 25, 2018

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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"