New Music Friday - August 19, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Cass McCombs - Heartmind Watch: "Unproud Warrior" Watch: "Karaoke"
	jennylee - Heart Tax Watch: "Stop Speaking" (featuring Dave Gahan) Listen: "Heart Tax"
	Loudon Wainwright III - Lifetime Achievement Watch: "Town & Country" Watch: "Lifetime Achievement"
	Marketa Irglova - LILA Watch: "My Roots Go Deep" Watch: "The Season"
	Watkins Family Hour - Vol. II Watch: "She Left Me Standing on the Mountain" (featuring Willie Watson) Listen: "(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You" (featuring Fiona Apple)

Other Full-Length Releases

Eli Winter - Eli Winter Watch: "Davening in Threes" Listen: "For a Chisos Bluebonnet"

Hot Chip - Freakout/Release Watch: "Down" Watch: "Eleanor"

The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out Watch: "Training Montage" Watch: "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome"

Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries II Watch: "Unity" (featuring Karen Harding) Watch: "Oh, Lover" (featuring Susanne Sundfør)

Russian Circles - Gnosis Watch: "Gnosis" Listen: "Betrayal"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Gordi - Inhuman Watch: "Way I Go" Watch: "Inhuman"

Hayden Thorpe - Moondust for My Diamond — Every Piece of Dust Watch: "Polygod" Watch: "Metafeeling" (James Adrian Brown remix)

Matthew E. White - Only in America Listen: "Prelude" Listen: "It Feels Like This"

R.E.M. - Chronic Town 40th Anniversary Reissue Listen: "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" Listen: "Gardening at Night"

The Soft Pink Truth - Was It Ever Real? Watch: "Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?" (Dark Room Mix) Watch: "The Anal Staircase"

New Music Tuesday - May 19, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Cale Parks - Lagoon Fool Cale Parks is a drummer who began performing with Yeasayer in 2012, but is perhaps best known for his time with Aloha. He has also performed on tour with Chet Faker and Tanlines. This year, he is releasing his third album under his own name after a long break from solo recording. He released solo albums in 2006 and 2008. Listen: "Lagoon Fool" Listen: "Appalachia"

Hot Chip - Why Make Sense? Why Make Sense? is the sixth album from this synthpop and electronic band, who most recently released their In Our Heads in 2012. The follow-up record features artwork with a moiré pattern and was printed in such a way that almost no two records would look exactly the same (501 different background colors were used and the lines were placed at various angles on the covers). Watch: "Huarache Lights" Watch: "Need You Now"

Shamir - Ratchet Shamir is a young singer out of Las Vegas who has taken the music world by storm throughout the early part of this year. He has become notable for his androgynous voice and wise-beyond-his-years (he's 20 years old) songwriting. Both his 2014 debut EP and this first full-length album have received rave reviews from critics. Watch: "Darker" Watch: "On the Regular"

Tanlines - Highlights For their sophomore album, this electronic duo seem to have been inspired by the movies. To promote the album, they created  Netflix-style website, complete with "movie" posters for each track, tour date, and previous release. Additionally, the music videos that they've released for the album have each had a cinematic edge. Watch: "Pieces" Watch: "Palace"

Total Babes - Heydays Total Babes is a Cleveland band who share at least one member with another great band from the area; Jayson Gerycz, who is also the drummer for Cloud Nothings. The band released their debut in 2011. For their follow-up, they get some help from another member of Cloud Nothings, lead singer Dylan Baldi. Watch: "Heydays" Listen: "Circling" (featuring Dylan Baldi)

Other Full-Length Releases

Barbarossa - Imager Watch: "Imager" Listen: "Home" (featuring José González)

Bryce Dessner - Music for Wood & Strings Listen: "Section 8" Listen: "Section 1"

Du Blonde - Welcome Back to Milk Watch: "Black Flag" Listen: "Mind Is on My Mind" (featuring Samuel T. Herring)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Far from Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Listen: "Loin des hommes"

Fink - Horizontalism Watch: "Fall into the Light" Watch: "Pilgrim"

Pavo Pavo - "Ran Ran Run"/"Annie Hall" Listen: "Ran Ran Run" Listen: "Annie Hall"

While We're Young: Motion Picture Soundtrack Listen: James Murphy - "Only the Stars Above Welcome Me Home" Listen: James Murphy - "We Used to Dance"

New Music Tuesday - July 30, 2013

New Full-Length Releases

AlunaGeorge - Body Music 2013 may prove to be the year of the hyped-up British artists. Next up to live up to their hype, duo AlunaGeorge. The two got together when producer George Reid mixed a track from Aluna Francis' prior band My Toys Like Me. The rest is, as they say, is history. Since they hooked up in 2009, they have released a series of singles and one EP. This, however, is their first full-length together! Listen/Watch: "You Know You Like It"

Other New Releases

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Little Moments EP Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's latest output was actually released as a Bandcamp download late last week. It features four new songs from the band, who released their latest full-length, Hysterical, in 2011. If you're willing to wait, you can also order the EP on vinyl (you'll get it in October). Listen: "Little Moments"

Hot Chip - Dark and Stormy Hot Chip released their latest album, In Our Heads, in June of last year. Members of the band have kept busy since, with 2 Bears, About Group and Alexis Taylor's solo EP. The group has rejoined to release a 12" featuring some new songs and mixes (this one, of course). Listen: "Dark and Stormy"

Sampha - Dual EP Sampha has been a "featuring" staple over the past few years on many other artists' works. He's been used heavily in SBTRKT's work, including the tracks "Hold On" and "Never Never." This is his first foray into solo work. We've gotten to see how he features into others' works, and it will be great to see what he does on his own. Listen: "Without"