New Music Friday - May 5, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps Watch: "FaceTime" (featuring Samuel T. Herring) Watch: "Soft Landing"
	Brian Eno & Fred again.. - Secret Life Listen: "Cmon" Listen: "Enough"
	Emily King - Special Occasion Watch: "Medal" Listen: "Special Occasion"
	felicita - Spalarkle Watch: "Spalarke (Alys)" (featuring Caroline Polachek) Listen: "Afraid"
	SBTRKT - The Rat Road Watch: "L.F.O." (featuring Sampha & George Riley) Watch: "Days Go By" (featuring Toro Y Moi)

Other Full-Length Releases

The Album Leaf - Future Falling Watch: "Future Falling" Watch: "Prologue"/ "Epilogue"

Conway The Machine - Won’t He Do It Watch: "Won’t He Do It" (with 7xvethegenius) Watch: "Brooklyn Chop House" (with Fabolous & Benny the Butcher)

The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony Watch: "Any Time of Day" Watch: "In My Head"

Rodney Crowell - The Chicago Sessions Watch: "Everything at Once" (featuring Jeff Tweedy) Watch: "Lucky"

The Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM: Act 3 Watch: "Empires" Listen: "Fireflies"

SQÜRL - Silver Haze Watch: "Berlin ’87" Watch: "John Ashbery Takes a Walk" (featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg)

Westerman - In Inbuilt Fault Watch: "CSI: Petrolona" Watch: "Take"

yMusic - yMusic Watch: "Cloud" Listen: "Baragon"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Body/Head - Come On

Flasher - In My Myth Watch: "Eastern Ave" Listen: "Hands On"

Flume - Arrived Anxious, Left Bored Watch: "Arrived Anxious, Left Bored 1.4" (2020 Export Wav) Watch: "All There 1.9" (2019 Export Wav)

Spinebreaker - Cavern of Inoculated Cognition Listen: "Inoculated" Listen: "Beneath Our Blood Stained Sun"

New Music Friday - February 17, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now Through his music, Lekman has always been a detailed story-teller. That quality lent itself well to two projects he undertook between 2014's I Know What Love Isn't and this follow-up. His Postcards project had him writing a new song each week, and with Ghostwriting, he wrote songs based on ideas submitted by the public (he did a night in Cincinnati). Both influenced his approach to writing the new album; he considers it less constrained than his 2014 record. Watch: "What’s That Perfume That You Wear?" Listen: "Evening Prayer"

Jidenna - The Chief Perhaps the most dapper man in hip hop, Jidenna's style mixes his Nigerian roots with western influences. This is true of both his music and his fashion. He's built up a lot of hype over the past couple of years with the singles "Classic Man", "Long Live the Chief", and "Knickers". His debut album, out on Wondaland Records, serves as a perfect culmination of the reputation that he's built. Watch: "Bambi" Watch: "The Let Out" (featuring Nana Kwabena)

Molly Burch - Please Be Mine Molly Burch is a performer out of Los Angeles with a penchant for 1960s-style vocal pop. She studied vocal jazz at UNC Asheville, then relocated to Austin to begin her career. Her debut album is a collection of love songs, released just a little late for Valentine's Day. Watch: "Try" Listen: "Wrong for You"

Ryan Adams - Prisoner Prisoner is Ryan Adams' first album since his divorce from Mandy Moore last year, but he's been adamant that the album was not born of sadness. Some sense of heartbreak shows throughout the record, but Adams does not linger on his pain. It's also a bit of a return to older Ryan Adams, before he was covering Taylor Swift albums, which has garnered him some of his highest praise in years. Watch: "Do You Still Love Me?" Listen: "Doomsday"

Other Full-Length Releases

Dutch Uncle - Big Balloon Watch: "Big Balloon" Watch: "Oh Yeah"

Future - Future Watch: "Draco" Watch: "Poppin' Tags"

Novella - Change of State Watch: "Does the Island Know" Watch: "Change of State"

Sam Patch - Yeah You, and I Listen: "Listening" Listen: "St. Sebastien"

Strand of Oaks - Hard Love Watch: "Rest of It" Watch: "Radio Kids"

Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I & I Watch: "Letter to the Editor" Listen: "Let the Chalice Blaze"

Tim Darcy - Saturday Night Watch: "Still Waking Up" Watch: "Tall Glass of Water"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act II Watch: "Coconuts"

Animal Collective - The Painters EP Watch: "Kinda Bonkers" Listen: "Jimmy Mack"

Flume - Skin Companion II EP Listen: "Enough" (featuring Pusha T) Listen: "Depth Charge"

Gavin Turek - Good Look for You Listen: "Good Look for You"

Gold (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Listen: Iggy Pop - "Gold"

Maggie Rogers - Now That the Light Is Fading Out Watch: "On + Off" Watch: "Dog Years"

New Order - New Order Presents Be Music

New Music Friday - November 25, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

The Weeknd - Starboy The Weeknd's first two albums, Kiss Land and Beauty Behind the Madness, made him a bona fide star. For his third record, he looked to two recently-departed icons for inspiration. Elements of the album's sound are influenced by Prince, while the album's title is a take on David Bowie's "Starman." With this record, The Weeknd has earned himself another hit; the album hit number one on the Billboard charts. Watch: "Starboy" (featuring Daft Punk) Watch: "False Alarm"

Other Full-Length Releases

Young Legionnaire - Zero Worship Watch: "Disappear" Watch: "Candidate"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Afghan Whigs - Black Love 20th Anniversary Reissue Listen: "Regret" Listen: "Bulletproof"

Bleed for This (Original Soundtrack Album) Listen: Julia Holter - "Fighting Duran" Listen: Willis Earl Beal - "Too Dry to Cry"

Dowager - Title Track Listen: "Sleep Paralysis" Listen: "Gutterflower"

Flume - Skin Companion Listen: "v" Listen: "Heater"

Gillian Welch - Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg Listen: "Dry Town " (Demo) Listen: "One More Dollar" (Demo)

Minor Victories - Orchestral Versions Watch: "Give Up the Ghost" (Orchestral Version) Watch: "Cogs" (Orchestral Version)

Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl Listen: Beach Slang - "Younger Us" Listen: The Dodos - "Never Meant"

Prince - Prince4Ever

YG - Red Friday Watch: "I’m a Thug Pt. 2" Listen: "Down Bitch"

New Music Friday - May 27, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate Kristin Welchez (née Gundred, aka Dee Dee) is primarily known for the Dum Dum Girls, a band for whom she has been the frontwoman since 2008. This year, she's breaking out on her own under the name Kristin Kontrol. Taking inspiration from a number of female musicians from the 80s and 90s, it's meant to be a non-genre-specific record, and serves as a way for her to reclaim her artistic identity. Listen: "X-Communicate" Listen: "Show Me"

Leyla McCalla - A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey Leyla McCalla is an American-born singer and cellist of Haitian descent. She was a member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, but left to start her solo career. Her first album, Vari-Colored Songs, was a tribute to Langston Hughes, consisting of interpretations of his poems. The follow-up album continues on the same themes from her debut, though without the Hughes poems as the starting point. Watch: "A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey" Listen: "Little Sparrow"

Maria Usbeck - Amparo Usbeck is also stepping away from a band to begin a solo project. She was formerly the lead singer of Selebrities. Though she's of Ecuadorian descent, she's never sung in her native Spanish. Her solo debut is also her first Spanish-language album. The album was co-produced by Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. Watch: "Uno De Tus Ojos" Watch: "Moai Y Yo"

Olga Bell - Tempo Olga Bell is a Russian-born American composer and musician who has performed with Chairlift and Dirty Projectors. For her third album she is turning her talents towards electronic music. The album follows her 2014 Russian-language album, Krai, and last year's Incitation EP. Watch: "Randomness" Watch: "ATA"

Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla Yumi Zouma is a band out of New Zealand, fronted by Christie Simpson, and this is their debut album. The album incorporates a variety of pop styles, from 70s-style disco pop to the goth pop of fellow Kiwi Lorde. Listen: "Keep It Close to Me" Listen: "Barricade (Matter of Fact)"

Other Full-Length Releases

Band of Skulls - By Default Watch: "Killer" Watch: "So Good"

Beth Orton - Kidsticks Watch: "Moon" Listen: "Snow"

Flume - Skin Watch: "Never Be Like You" (featuring Kai) Listen: "Wall Fuck"

Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites Listen: "Win" Listen: "Amanda"

Mistah F.A.B. - Son of a Pimp 2 Listen: "Survive" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) Listen: "What Yo Hood Like" (featuring Jadakiss)

Nicholas Allbrook - Pure Gardiya Watch: "Advance" Watch: "A Fool There Was"

PUP - The Dream Is Over Watch: "If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You, I Will" Watch: "DVP"

Sonny & the Sunsets - Moods Baby Moods Watch: "Well but Strangely Hung Man" Listen: "Moods"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Brenda’s Friend - House Down Listen: "House Down" Listen: "Horoscope"

Jarvis Cocker - Music from Likely Stories

Joey Purp - iiiDrops Listen: "Girls@" (featuring Chance The Rapper) Listen: "Photobooth"

Mattie Safer - All We Are Listen: "Sea Change" Listen: "All We Are"

Miles Davis & Robert Glasper - Everything’s Beautiful Listen: "Ghetto Walkin’" (featuring Bilal) Listen: "I’m Leaving You" (featuring Ledisi & John Scofield)

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves Reissue Listen: "Golden " (Original Demo) Listen: "One Big Holiday"

Peaches - Rub Remixes Listen: "Rub" (Paula Temple Remix) Listen: "I Mean Something" (JD Samson Remix)

The Strokes - Future Present Past EP Watch: "Drag Queen" Watch: "Threat of Joy"

Sunn O))) - NOLIFE: Alive in Moscow 11 August 2015

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "First World Problem" Listen: "First World Problem"