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Saturday, May 3, 2025

New Music Friday - May 2, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars Watch: "Gethsemane" Watch: "CCF (I’m Gonna Stay with You)"
	Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid Watch: "Sometimes" Watch: "Blurry Eyes"
	Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist Watch: "To be a rose" Watch: "The artist is absent"
	Mei Semones - Animaru Watch: "I can do what I want" Watch: "Animaru"
	Thanya Iyer - TIDE/TIED Watch: "Low Tides" Watch: "I am here now"

Other Full-Length Releases

Esther Rose - Want

Watch: "New Bad"
Watch: "Had To"

James Krivchenia - Performing Belief

Watch: "Bracelets for Unicorns" (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams)
Watch: "Probably Wizards" (with Sam Wilkes)

Jolie Laide - Creatures

Watch: "No Shape I Know"
Watch: "Holly"

Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger

Watch: "Tell Me How to Be Here"
Watch: "Down on the Freeway"

Låpsley - I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE

Watch: "HURRICANE"
Watch: "WOMAN LIKE THAT"

Lucius - Lucius

Watch: "Final Days"
Watch: "Old Tape" (featuring Adam Granduciel)

Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry

Watch: "Big Mileage"
Watch: "Big Wish"

Paco Cathcart - Down on Them

Listen: "Bottleneck Blues"
Listen: "Oh, Joy"

PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs?

Watch: "Hallways"
Watch: "Get Dumber" (featuring Jeff Rosenstock)

Pyramids - Pythagoras

Watch: "Pretty Pigs"
Watch: "Fools Gold (Mi Vida Ha Ido Pa Atras)"

Real Bad Man & Boldy James - Conversational Pieces

Watch: "Come Back Around" (featuring Dreamcastmoe)
Listen: "Conversational Pieces"

Suzzallo - The Quiet Year

Watch: "River"
Listen: "Tsunami Waves" (featuring Ben Gibbard)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Benny the Butcher - Excelsior

Watch: "Duffel Bag Hottie’s Revenge" (featuring Boldy James)
Listen: "Sign Language"

Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light

Watch: "For a Fallen Rocket"
Watch: "Cracking the Jaw"

Flume & JPEGMAFIA - We Live in a Society

Watch: "Track 1"
Listen: "The Ocean Is Fake"

Real Estate - The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025

Watch: "Pink Sky"
Listen: "Barely Legal"

Say Sue Me - Time Is Not Yours

Watch: "Vacation" (featuring Kim Hanjoo)
Listen: "In This Mess"

Selena Gomez, benny blanco - I Said I Love You First… And You Said It Back

Watch: "Talk"
Watch: "Guess You Could Say I'm in Love"

Sunday, December 9, 2018

New Music Friday - May 25, 2018

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Aisha Burns - Argonauta

Aisha Burns is a violinist from Texas who contributed to the Balmorhea ensemble before going solo in 2013 with Life in the Midwater. On her sophomore record, she deals with both loss and love.

Listen: "Must Be a Way"
Listen: "We Were Worn"

CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead

This third album from the Scottish trio is their first not to be self-produced, and probably their "poppiest" outing. Interestingly, though representing the band at their most pop, the sole feature on the record comes from the frontman for an established indie band, Matt Berninger of The National.

Watch: "Get Out"
Watch: "Miracle"

Tracyanne & Danny - Tracyanne & Danny

Tracyanne is Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura; Danny is Danny Coughlan, also known as Crybaby. The two are close friends, but joined up for a new project following the death of Camera Obscura's Carey Lander from a rare form of cancer in 2015. Her main act is on hiatus, but this album provides the 60s-inspired guitar pop that Campbell has become known for.

Watch: "Alabama"
Watch: "It Can't Be Love Unless It Hurts"

Other Full-Length Releases

Michael Feuerstack - Natural Weather

Watch: "Nobody Knows"
Watch: "Love Is All Around"

Pusha T - DAYTONA

Listen: "Infrared"
Listen: "What Would Meek Do?"

Wand - Perfume

Watch: "Pure Romance"

Zaytoven - Trap Holizay

Listen: "Back on It" (featuring Offset & Young Scooter)
Listen: "Show It" (featuring Kodak Black, T.I., & Offset)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Destroyer - City of Daughters Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "School, and the Girls Who Go There"
Listen: "No Cease Fires! (Crimes Against the State of Our Love, Baby)"

Destroyer - Thief Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "The Temple"
Listen: "Thief"

Hatchie - Sugar & Spice

Watch: "Sugar & Spice"
Watch: "Sure"

Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep

Watch: "Spells"
Listen: "The Long Sleep"

Sunday, November 6, 2016

New Music Friday - September 30, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

BANKS - The Altar

BANKS had a break-out album with her 2014 debut, Goddess. The record charted respectably and earned her praise from a number of music critics. She's looking to continue the magic on her sophomore follow-up. It's a more personal affair, as she lays herself bare. So far, the album has charted fairly well, though it hasn't yet hit the same level as her debut.

Watch: "Fuck with Myself"
Watch: "Gemini Feed"

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

It's been a little while since we last heard from Justin Vernon in the form of his Bon Iver project; five years have passed since the last record, though there have been one-off songs and shows since. Vernon has focused on other projects including The Shouting Matches, Volcano Choir, Jason Feathers, and a new label, Chigliak. With 22, A Million, he returns to the project that made him famous, with a collection of oddly-named, but still spectacular, songs.

Watch: "33 ‘God’"
Watch: "00000 Million"

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown is a bit of a hip-hop outlier. His style, influences, and personality makes him stand apart from his contemporaries, but he has flow to rival any of them. His fourth record, and first for Warp Records, has him rejoining with producer Paul White. He mines influences like Talking Heads and Joy Division (the album is named for one of their songs), but works with other celebrated hip-hop artists like Earl Sweatshirt, Kelela, and Kendrick Lamar.

Watch: "When It Rain"
Watch: "Really Doe" (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, & Earl Sweatshirt)

Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life

Regina Spektor may always be best known for her 2006 single, "Fidelity," but she was an active and consistent artist before and has remained so after. Remember Us to Life is her seventh album. The record doesn't see her straying far from her distinctive voice and sound, though she does record for the first time with a full orchestra.

Watch: "Small Bill$"
Listen: "Bleeding Heart"

Solange - A Seat at the Table

Following the release of this third album from Solange, the Knowles sisters made history. Both released number one albums this year. Beyoncé topped the charts with Lemonade in April, an album with immensely personal subject matter. Solange went number one last month with this record, one that is at times deeply personal and at other, taking on broader themes. Both sisters have released spectacular work this year.

Watch: "Cranes in the Sky"
Watch: "Don’t Touch My Hair"

Other Full-Length Releases