New Music Friday - September 10, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I Die Watch: "Let’s Sing Let’s Dance" Listen: "I Need You"
	Common - A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2 Watch: "Imagine" (featuring PJ) Watch: "A Beautiful Chicago Kid" (featuring PJ)
	Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed Watch: "star-crossed" Watch: "justified"
	Low - HEY WHAT Watch: "Days Like These" Watch: "Disappearing"
	Martina Topley-Bird - Forever I Wait Watch: "Pure Heart" Listen: "Love"

Other Full-Length Releases

Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort to Me Watch: "Guided By Angels" Watch: "Security"

Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue Watch: "family ties" (with Kendrick Lamar) Watch: "issues"

Black Meteoric Star - NYC Beat Boxx Listen: "Bells" Listen: "Billy Stopless"

Colleen Green - Cool Watch: "I Wanna Be a Dog" Watch: "It’s Nice to Be Nice"

Heartless Bastards - A Beautiful Life Watch: "How Low" Watch: "You Never Know"

Homeshake - Under the Weather Watch: "Vacuum" Watch: "I Know I Know I Know"

Matthew E. White - K Bay Watch: "Genuine Hesitation" Watch: "Electric"

Saint Etienne - I’ve Been Trying to Tell You Watch: "Pond House" Watch: "Penlop"

Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals Watch: "Rushes Recede" Watch: "Border of Mind"

Sleigh Bells - Texis Watch: "Locust Laced" Watch: "Justine Go Genesis"

Slothrust - Parallel Timeline Watch: "Strange Astrology" Watch: "Once More for the Ocean"

The Vaccines - Back in Love City Watch: "Back in Love City" Watch: "Headphones Baby"

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View Watch: "Fat Chance" Watch: "Not Me Anymore"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness Reissue Listen: "Bees" Listen: "Drumheller"

Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart Reissue Listen: "Happy Ending" Listen: "Dundas, Ontario"

Caribou - Up in Flames Reissue Listen: "Jacknuggeted" Listen: "Skunks"

Deb Never - Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Watch: "Disassociate" Watch: "Sorry"

King Krule - You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down (Live) Watch: "Stoned Again" (Live) Listen: "Out Getting Ribs" (Live)

Lorde - Te Ao Mārama Watch: "Te Ao Mārama" Watch: "Hine-i-te-Awatea"

Metallica - The Metallica Blacklist Watch: St. Vincent - "Sad but True" Watch: OFF! - "Holier Than Thou"

My Morning Jacket - Live 2015 Listen: "Tropics"

The North Water (Original Score) Listen: Tim Hecker - "Seasick" Listen: Tim Hecker - "First on Deck"

Ray Charles - True Genius Watch: "Hit the Road Jack" Watch: "A Song for You"

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Reissue Listen: "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" Listen: "Broken Heart"

My Favorite Things of the Week

Oscar-winning director Damian Chazelle is making a move towards television glory with a new Netflix show, The Eddy. He is not, however, moving away from jazz. The show, like his most recent film, La La Land, centers on jazz musicians. The show came bundled with a new soundtrack with tracks by St. Vincent and Jorja Smith. Both the show and album are available to stream now.

If the show gets renewed for additional seasons, and those seasons get their own soundtracks, be sure to check them out on my Upcoming Releases page!

Kacey Musgraves is amazing, and Mountain Man is amazing. So it stands to reason that the two combined would be amazing. Mountain Man has been on a covers kick lately and their latest is a cover of a track from Musgraves' incredible Golden Hour. They put their own folk twist on "Slow Burn."

Folk-ish band Woods has long been a favorite band of mine, and recently announced a new album, Strange to Explain. They released a new song from the album last week, "Can't Get Out."

Dirty Projectors released an amazing one-two punch of new records in 2017 and 2018. They are embarking on another spate of new releases, this time in EP form. They released Windows Open earlier this year and announced another new EP, Flight Tower, this week. That EP is set for release on June 26.

Also announced this week:

Bibio - Sleep on the Wing (June 12)

Blitzen Trapper - Holy Smokes Future Jokes (September 11)

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways (June 19)

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death (July 31)

Lady Gaga - Chromatica (May 29)

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas (July 17)

No Joy - Motherhood (August 21)

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)