New Music Friday - August 31, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Anna Calvi - Hunter Watch: "Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy" Watch: "Hunter" Watch: "As a Man"

Madeleine Peyroux - Anthem Watch: "On My Own" Watch: "We Might as Well Dance"

Saintseneca - Pillar of Na Watch: "Ladder to the Sun" Listen: "Beast in the Garden"

Tash Sultana - Flow State Watch: "Salvation" Watch: "Blackbird" Watch: "Free Mind" Watch: "Cigarettes"

Troye Sivan - Bloom Watch: "Dance to This" (featuring Ariana Grande) Watch: "Bloom" Watch: "Lucky Strike" Watch: "My My My!"

Other Full-Length Releases

Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine Watch: "Forest Green" Watch: "I Won’t Run from It" Watch: "Gratitude"

D+ - Destroy Before Listening

House of Feelings - New Lows Listen: "Touchscreen" (featuring Meredith Graves) Listen: "Shout"

The Kooks - Let’s Go Sunshine Watch: "All the Time" Watch: "Four Leaf Clover" Watch: "No Pressure" Watch: "Chicken Bone"

Mass Gothic - I’ve Tortured You Long Enough Watch: "J.Z.O.K." Watch: "How I Love You" Watch: "Keep on Dying" Watch: "Dark Window"

Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals Watch: "Locked Up" Watch: "Clinic" Watch: "Picture of Health"

Thou - Magus Watch: "The Changeling Prince" Listen: "Inward"

Wild Nothing - Indigo Watch: "Letting Go" Listen: "Canyon on Fire"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Babygirl - Lovers Fevers Watch: "Soft" Listen: "Over in No Time"

The Band - Music from the Big Pink - 50th Anniversary Listen: "This Wheel’s on Fire" Listen: "The Weight"

Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell Singles Collection

The Highwaymen - Highwayman Reissue Watch: "Highwayman" Listen: "The Last Cowboy Song"

Iron & Wine - Weed Garden Listen: "Waves of Galveston" Listen: "What Hurts Worse"

Justice - Woman Worldwide Watch: "Love S.O.S." Listen: "Randy"

KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Listen: Mogwai - "We’re Not Done" Listen: Mogwai - "Donuts"

King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller Listen: Kacey Musgraves - "Kansas City Star" Listen: Loretta Lynn - "Half a Mind"

Paul Simon - One Trick Pony Reissue Listen: "One Trick Pony" Listen: "Late in the Evening"

Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints Watch: "Obvious Child" Listen: "The Rhythm of the Saints"

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche Vinyl Reissue Listen: "The Avalanche" Listen: "Chicago" (Adult Contemporary version)

New Music Friday - August 11, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Frankie Rose - Cage Tropical Cage Tropical is the fourth album from this former member of so many great female bands (Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls). Recorded with Jorge Elbrecht as producer, the album represents a stylistic shift for the artist. The shift coincides with Rose moving from Los Angeles back to New York. She's moved away from the fuzzy guitars that have defined much of her work in favor of '80s-influenced synths. Watch: "Red Museum" Watch: "Trouble"

Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher Jen Cloher is an Australian musician, and as I recently discovered, the wife of fellow Australian musician Courtney Barnett. Barnett features on the album, and Cloher bears a stylistic similarity to her SO's music (I supposed it would be more accurate to say that Barnett's style is similar to Cloher, as she began performing several years earlier). The self-titled record is her fifth. Watch: "Forget Myself" Watch: "Regional Echo"

Other Full-Length Releases

5 Billion in Diamonds - 5 Billion in Diamonds Watch: "I’m Becoming You" Watch: "Gravity Rules"

The Cribs - 24-7 Rock Star Shit Watch: "Rainbow Ridge" Listen: "Sticks Not Twigs"

Guided By Voices - How Do You Spell Heaven Listen: "Just to Show You" Listen: "Diver Dan"

Ice Balloons - Fiesta Listen: "Calypso Heartworm" Listen: "Fiesta"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: Oneohtrix Point Never - "The Pure and the Damned" (featuring Iggy Pop)

House of Feelings - Last Chance EP Listen: "Falling" (featuring Shamir) Listen: "Last Chance"

Lambchop - "The Hustle Unlimited"/"When You Were Mine" Listen: "The Hustle Unlimited"