New Music Friday - June 27, 2025

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Barbra Streisand - The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 Watch: "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (with Hozier) Listen: "The Very Thought of You" (with Bob Dylan)
	Frankie Cosmos - Different Talking Watch: "Vanity" Watch: "Bitch Heart"
	Lorde - Virgin Watch: "What Was That" Watch: "Man of the Year"
	Sharpie Smile - The Staircase Watch: "The Staircase" Watch: "The Slide"
	Wavves - Spun Watch: "Goner" Watch: "Way Down"

Other Full-Length Releases

Cam Muncey & The Delusions of Grandeur - Delusions of Grandeur Watch: "Take a Chance" Listen: "Arryhythmia"

Herbert & Momoko - Clay Watch: "Babystar" Watch: "Need to Run"

Juan Wauters - MVD LUV Watch: "If It’s Not Luv" Watch: "Dime Amiga"

Kevin Abstract - Blush Watch: "Geezer" (featuring Dominic Fike) Listen: "The Introduction"

Laura Stevenson - Late Great Watch: "Honey" Watch: "I Couldn’t Sleep"

Nick Léon - A Tropical Entropy Listen: "Ghost Orchid" (featuring ela minus) Listen: "Entropy"

Public Enemy - Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025

Sean Nicholas Savage - The Knowing Watch: "Your Drug" (featuring Marci) Watch: "Insane 4 U"

TDJ - TDJ Watch: "Where Is My Angel" Watch: "Shoreline" (with Danny L Harle)

Zoh Amba - Sun Listen: "Fruit Gathering" Listen: "Champa Flower"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Blonde Redhead - The Shadow of the Guest Watch: "Before" (Choir Version) (featuring Brooklyn Youth Chorus) Watch: "Rest of Her Life" (Choir Version) (featuring Brooklyn Youth Chorus)

deary - "I Still Think About You"/ "No Ordinary Love" Watch: "I Still Think About You" Listen: "No Ordinary Love"

F1 the Album Watch: Don Toliver - "Lose My Mind" (featuring Doja Cat) Watch: ROSÉ - "Messy"

Lizzo - MY FACE HURTS FROM SMILING Listen: "CRASHOUT" Listen: "JUST 4 FUN"

Oklou - choke enough remixes Watch: "choke enough" (jamesjamesjames Remix) Watch: "choke enough" (Malibu’s ambient city mix)

New Music Friday - March 30, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Frankie Cosmos - Vessel Vessel is the third album for Cosmos and follows her relative break-out, 2016's Next Thing, which earned a few best-of spots for the year. Though Cosmos has served as the stage name for Greta Kline, this album serves as the first outing of Frankie Cosmos as a band, moving the project further away from its bedroom pop beginnings. Watch: "Being Alive" Watch: "Jesse"

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour On her third album, Musgraves makes a combination work that I never would imagined together, disco country! It's not the entire album, but the stand-out track "High Horse" beautifully combines two genres that haven't traditionally been my favorites. The rest of the album is a great listen, as well, though is far more beholden to country sounds from bygone decades. Watch: "High Horse" Watch: "Butterflies"

Kate Nash - Yesterday Was Forever Yesterday Was Forever sees Nash again taking on a crowdfunding approach to recording and releasing her music. 2013's Girl Talk was funded through PledgeMusic, this latest was a Kickstarter campaign. She returns more to her early career sound on this latest record, and tackles subjects like mental illness. Watch: "Drink About You" Watch: "Life in Pink"

MF Doom & Czarface - Czarface Meets Metal Face! MF DOOM has become well-known for his collaborations, which have included work with Danger Mouse, Madlib, and Bishop Nehru. He's back with yet another collab, this time with Czarface, itself a collaboration between Wu-Tang's Inspectah Deck and the duo 7L & Esoteric. Watch: "Bomb Thrown" Listen: "Nautical Depth"

Other Full-Length Releases

Amen Dunes - Freedom Watch: "Miki Dora" Watch: "Blue Rose"

Trace Mountains - A Partner to Lean On Listen: "Cary’s Dream" Listen: "Turn Twice"

The Vaccines - Combat Sports Watch: "I Can’t Quit" Listen: "Nightclub"

The Voidz - Virtue Watch: "QYURRUS" Watch: "All Wordz Are Made Up"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Flame 1 - "Fog"/"Shrine" Listen: "Fog" Listen: "Shrine"

Frou Frou - Details Reissue Watch: "Must Be Dreaming" Listen: "Let Go"

Future Islands - In the Fall Reissue Listen: "In the Fall" (featuring Katrina Ford)

Joan Shelley - Rivers and Vessels EP Listen: "Time Has Told Me" Listen: "Magnolia"

No Joy/Sonic Boom - No Joy/Sonic Boom Watch: "Triangle Probably" Watch: "Obsession"

Pink Floyd - London 1966/1967

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy, Watch: "Call Out My Name" Listen: "I Was Never There" (featuring Gesaffelstein)

New Music Friday - April 1, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Ash Koosha - I AKA I Ash Koosha is an Iranian composer, producer and graduate of the Tehran Conservatory of Music. He is also a software designer for whom visuals and sound often overlap. He released his debut album, GUUD, in 2015 to critical acclaim. He has followed that up in short order with I AKA I, another collection of intricately-constructed tracks. Listen: "Mudafossil" Listen: "Biutiful"

Bleached - Welcome the Worms Welcome the Worms is the second album from this three-piece punk outfit out of California. Since the release of their 2013 debut album, Ride Your Heart, they've experienced the less-pleasant side of life with loss of homes and relationships; experiences which influenced the writing of this album. With producer Joe Chicarelli, their sound also matures greatly on this record. Watch: "Wednesday Night Melody" Watch: "Keep on Keepin’ On"

Bombino - Azel Omara Moctar is a Nigerian Tuareg guitarist whose music often addresses issues impacting his people. He risked his life in pursuit of art. The Nigerian government banned guitars for the Tuareg following the Tuareg Rebellion in 2007, and he saw fellow musicians executed. During a three-year exile, he met filmmaker Ron Wyman, who urged him to formally record his music. He released Agadez in 2011 and the Dan Auerbach-produced Nomad in 2013. His latest record was produced by David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors. Watch: "Inar" Listen: "Akhar Zaman"

Charles Bradley - Changes Charles Bradley became a new recording artist around the same age that other musicians are thinking retirement. Though he had performed for over 40 years, he released his first album, No Time for Dreaming, in 2011 at the age of 62. Positive response to the record kicked off a wave of success for Bradley, who followed it up with 2013's Victim of Love and this latest record, which (of all things) includes a Black Sabbath cover! Watch: "Changes" Watch: "Change for the World"

Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing Frankie Cosmos is the stage name of Greta Kline, daughter of actors Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline. Despite famous parents, she has been making a name for herself since 2011. She has performed with the band Porches and released her debut album, Zentropy, in 2014. Watch: "It Is Possible/Sleep Song" Listen: "Sinister"

Other Full-Length Releases

Andrew Bird - Are You Serious Watch: "Left-Handed Kisses" (featuring Fiona Apple) Watch: "Capsized"

Babyfather - BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow Watch: "Shook"/"Motivation" Listen: "Meditation" (featuring Arca)

Black Mountain - IV Watch: "Florian Saucer Attack" Watch: "Mothers of the Sun"

The Field - The Follower Listen: "Raise the Dead" Listen: "Reflecting Lights"

The Heavy - Hurt & the Merciless Watch: "Since You Been Gone" Watch: "Turn Up"

Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp Listen: "Everybody Wants to Love You" Listen: "That Woman Loves You"

John Congleton & The Nighty Night - Until the Horror Goes Watch: "Until It Goes" Listen: "Your Temporary Custodian"

Kaada/Patton - Bacteria Cult Watch: "Imodium" Listen: "Red Rainbow"

The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You’ve Come to Expect Watch: "Everything You’ve Come to Expect" Watch: "Aviation"

Moderat - III Watch: "Reminder" Listen: "Running"

Operators - Blue Wave Listen: "Cold Light" Listen: "Blue Wave"

Sasha - Scene Delete Listen: "Bring on the Night-time" (featuring Ultraísta) Listen: "View2"

Starwalker - Starwalker Watch: "Le President" Watch: "Holidays"

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits Listen: "Think of You" Listen: "Valdez Off Crenshaw"

Weezer - Weezer (White Album) Watch: "California Kids" Watch: "L.A. Girlz"

Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye Watch: "I Am Chemistry" Listen: "Silly Me"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Battles - EP C/B EP Reissue Listen: "B+T" Listen: "SZ2"

Battles - Gloss Drop Reissue Listen: "Ice Cream" (featuring Matias Aguayo) Listen: "Futura"

Battles - Mirrored Reissue Listen: "Atlas" Listen: "Tonto"

Chelsea Wolfe - "Hypnos"/"Flame" Watch: "Hypnos" Listen: "Flame"

Fool’s Gold Presents: Night Shift Listen: A-Trak & Ookay - "Only One" Listen: KRNE - "I’ll Be Good"

Sia - Colour the Small One Reissue Listen: "Breathe Me" Listen: "Numb"

Small Circle - Melatonin EP Listen: "Please Don’t Touch the Moon"

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Reissue Listen: "Chicago" (Demo) Listen: "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois"

Twenty88 - Twenty88 Watch: "Out of Love" Listen: "Déjà vu"

Willis Earl Beal - Through the Dark Watch: "Through the Dark" Listen: "Lost in a Dream"