New Music Friday - October 18, 2024

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Hildegard - Jour 1596 Watch: "Cruel" Watch: "Pour Your Heart Out"
	Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Listen: "All Bets Are Off" Listen: "Chicago"
	Jordana - Lively Premonition Watch: "Like a Dog" Watch: "Anything for You"
	Joy Oladokun - OBSERVATIONS FROM A CROWDED ROOM Watch: "I’D MISS THE BIRDS" Watch: "NO COUNTRY"
	Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Watch: "Love You Got" Watch: "Sunshine"

Other Full-Length Releases

Black Pus - Terrestrial Seethings Listen: "Hungry Animal" Listen: "Terrestrial Heathens"

Christopher Owens - I Wanna Barefoot Through Your Hair Listen: "I Think About Heaven" Listen: "This Is My Guitar"

Cold Cave - Passion Depression Listen: "Siren Song" Listen: "Everlasting"

Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels - Studying Absence Listen: "Old Dead Dogs" (featuring Fatboi Sharif & Beans) Listen: "Raised in the South"

High Vis - Guided Tour Watch: "Mind’s a Lie" Listen: "Drop Me Out"

Kylie Minogue - Tension II Watch: "My Oh My" (with Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo) Watch: "Midnight Ride" (with Orville Peck & Diplo)

Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate Watch: "Dark Mystery Enigma Bird" Listen: "Passageway"

Phantogram - Memory of a Day Watch: "Memory of a Day" Watch: "Attaway"

Pipe-eye - Pipe-defy Watch: "Lords of Lithium" Watch: "Travertine"

Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Watch: "Sick of the Blues" Watch: "A Hole in the Ground"

Silverbacks - Easy Being a Winner Watch: "Something I Know" Listen: "Giving Away an Inch Of"

Tim Heidecker - Slipping Away Watch: "Well’s Running Dry" Watch: "Dad of the Year"

The Voidz - Like All Before You Watch: "Square Waves" Watch: "All the Same"

W. H. Lung - Every Inch of Earth Pulsates Watch: "How to Walk" Listen: "The Painting of the Bay"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

American Football - American Football (Covers) Watch: Iron & Wine - "Never Meant" Watch: Ethel Cain - "For Sure"

Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham - Cunningham Bird Watch: "Crying in the Night" Watch: "Crystal"

The Armed - The Everlasting Gaze Watch: "NEW! Christianity" Listen: "Martyr Song"

Bon Iver - SABLE, Watch: "S P E Y S I D E" Watch: "AWARDS SEASON"

Danny Brown - Quaranta (Deluxe) Listen: "Keep It to Me" Listen: "Cheaters"

Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin': A Tribute to Don Heffington Listen: Fiona Apple - "Lately" Listen: Watkins Family Hour - "Kiss the Moon Goodbye"

New Music Friday - January 27, 2017

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town Allison Crutchfield is the twin sister of Katie Crutchfield, who performs as Waxahatchee, and a former member of Swearin'. The band broke up in 2015 following Crutchfield's breakup with the band's guitarist, and she started her solo career. Tourist in This Town is her first record. On the album, she reflects on the end of the relationship and the band. Lyrically and creatively, she comes into her own, distinguishing herself from both her former band and her sister. Watch: "I Don’t Ever Want to Leave California" Watch: "Dean’s Room"

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life Japandroids are strangely quiet between records. They'll put out a short, hard-rocking, much-celebrated record, tour a little bit, then go quiet. The silence between records creates a fear, in me at least, that perhaps the band is no more. Those fears started to crack back in August when the band announced a few shows in the later part of the year. As expected, an album announcement soon followed. It's as good as their first two, let's just hope we don't wait another five years for the next. Listen: "Arc of Bar" Listen: "Near to the Wild Heart of Life"

Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Not Even Happiness is the second album from Julie Byrne, who released Rooms with Walls and Windows in 2014. Her style is a throwback to 1970s folk and has earned her comparisons to older artists like Joni Mitchell, as well as some contemporaries, including Weyes Blood. Her music is calm and serene, perfect for cold winter nights indoors (though we don't seem to be getting many of those lately). Listen: "Follow My Voice" Listen: "I Live Now As a Singer"

Kehlani - SweetSexySavage The beginning of last year was a tough time for Kehlani; following a break up with Kyrie Irving, and a less than positive public reaction to the circumstances of that relationship's end, she found herself hospitalized after an attempt at self-harm. The back half of the year was a sharp contrast to that. She went on a creative streak, releasing five singles, almost all with videos, including one for the Suicide Squad soundtrack. Several of those tracks also appear on her debut album. Watch: "CRZY" Watch: "Distraction"

Matt Martians - The Drum Chord Theory Matt Martians is part of the Odd Future sub-group The Internet. He seems to be trying pre-empt bandmate Syd's debut album (released February 3) with a debut release of his own. The album dabbles in neo soul, jazz, experimental, and psychedelic sounds. It also, as is common with Odd Future albums, features contributions from other members of the group, including Steve Lacy and Syd. Watch: "Dent Jusay" (featuring Syd & Steve Lacy) Listen: "Diamond in Da Ruff"

Other Full-Length Releases

Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sounds Watch: "Modern Act" Watch: "Internal World"

Delicate Steve - This Is Steve Watch: "Winners" Watch: "Cartoon Rock"

Fancey - Love Mirage Listen: "Dream All Night" Listen: "Baby Sunshine"

Fred Thomas - Changer Watch: "Voiceover" Listen: "Brickwall"

Miles Mosley - UPRISING Listen: "Abraham" Listen: "Young Lion"

P.O.S. - Chill, dummy Watch: "Lanes" Listen: "Wearing a Bear"

Sloppy Heads - Useless Smile Listen: "Always Running"

Stef Chura - Messes Watch: "Spotted Gold" Watch: "Slow Motion"

Ty Segall - Ty Segall Listen: "Break a Guitar" Listen: "Orange Color Queen"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Avalanches - Since I Left You Reissue Watch: "Since I Left You" Listen: "Stay Another Season"

Banana - LIVE

Cate Le Bon - Rock Pool Watch: "Rock Pool"

D∆WN - Infrared Deluxe Listen: "Paint It Blue" (Rizzla Remix)

Major Lazer - "Run Up" Watch: "Run Up" (featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR & Nicki Minaj)

Sleater-Kinney - Live in Paris Listen: "Surface Envy"

Weyes Blood & Ariel Pink - Myths 002 Listen: "Tears on Fire" Listen: "On Another Day"

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending November 5)

If there's anything I've learned over the past couple of weeks of album announcements is that we should never assume that a band or artist is finished, they may still have a lot left in them. Recent weeks has seen new album announcements from Foxygen (who appeared to be breaking up only a couple of years ago) and A Tribe Called Quest (their first since 1998 and released after the passing of a central member). Check out those upcoming albums over at my Upcoming Release page!

Another band announced a new album this week, ending speculation that they may be no more. Japandroids announced their third album, Near to the Wild Heart of Life.

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Silence between records is nothing new for the duo. Following the release of their debut, Post-Nothing, in 2009, they were fairly inactive until 2012's follow-up, Celebration Rock.

The gap between those two album would be nothing in comparison to the time that has passed since. They ended the Celebration Rock tour with a farewell message and went radio silent for about three years; no website updates, no performances, no news. They started touring again a couple of months ago and fan-shot videos started popping up of the band playing new music at their shows.

This proved to be in anticipation of the new record, which was announced on Monday, with the title single following a couple of days later.

Near to the Wild Heart of Life will be released on January 27.



Also announced this week:

A-Trak - In the Loop: A Decade of Remixes (November 11)
Bonobo - The North Borders (January 13)
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 - Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2 (March 31)
Delicate Steve - This Is Steve (January 27)
Emel Mathlouthi - Ensen (February 24)
Foxygen - Hang (January 20)
GUM - Flash in the Pan (November 11)
Hideout - So Many Hoops/So Little Time (February 3)
Homeshake - Fresh Air (February 3)
John Cale - Fragment of a Rainy Season Reissue (December 9)
John Legend - Darkness and Light (December 2)
Porcelain Raft - Microclimate (February 3)
Sampha - Process (February 3)
Surfer Blood - Snowdonia (February 3)
Thelma - Thelma (February 24)
Tinashe - Nightride (out now)
YG - Red Friday (November 25)