New Music Friday - June 21, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Alcest - Les Chants De L’Aurore Watch: "Flamme Jumelle" Watch: "L’Envol"
	Kehlani - CRASH Watch: "Next 2U" Watch: "Crash"
	Peso Pluma - Éxodo Watch: "14 14" Watch: "ME ACTIVO" (with Jasiel Nuñez)
	Rui Gabriel - Compassion Watch: "Summertime Tiger" (featuring Stef Chura) Watch: "Change Your Mind"
	Your Old Droog - Movie Watch: "Mercury Thermometers" Watch: "I Think I Love Her"

Other Full-Length Releases

Islands - What Occurs Watch: "Drown a Fish" Watch: "The End"

Kate Nash - 9 Sad Symphonies Watch: "Millions of Heartbeats" Watch: "Space Odyssey 2001"

Other Half - Dark Ageism Watch: "Farm Games" Listen: "Pastoral Existence"

Moon Diagrams - Cemetery Classics Watch: "Very Much My Promise to You" Watch: "Fifteen Shows at Once"

POND - Stung! Watch: "(I’m) Stung" Watch: "Black Lung"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Burial & Kode9 - "Phoneglow"/"Eyes Go Blank" Listen: "Phoneglow" Listen: "Eyes Go Blank"

Chris Keating - PolyDukes Listen: "Straight Up" Listen: "Devoted"

John Glacier - Duppy Gun Watch: "Cows Come Home" Listen: "Steady as I Am"

Joni Mitchell - The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) Watch: "Coyote" Watch: "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines"

Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra Listen: Laraaji & Kronos Quartet - "Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie" Listen: RP Boo & Armand Hammer - "Blood Running High"

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty Watch: Dolly Parton - "Southern Accents" Watch: Rhiannon Giddens - "Don’t Come Around Here No More" (featuring Silkroad Ensemble and Benmont Tench)

RINSE - STARFISH* Watch: "Breathe" Watch: "Kiss Me (Kill Me)" (featuring Hatchie)

Spiritualized - Songs in A&E Reissue Watch: "Soul on Fire" Watch: "You Lie You Cheat"

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition) Watch: "To Be Alone with You" Watch: "The Dress Looks Nice on You"

Tinashe - Match My Freak Listen: "Nasty" (Match My Heat Remix) Listen: "Nasty" (Match My Tweak Remix)

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)

New Music Tuesday - 12/03/2013

New Full-Length Releases

bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE Brian DeGraw is a founding member of the experimental electronic group Gang Gang Dance. He is releasing his first solo album under the phonetic spelling of his initials (get it? B.D.G.). The sound takes on a more straightforward electronic sound than the work he does with his band. Watch: "Flowers" (featuring Lovefoxx) Listen: "Bricks"

Magic Trick - River of Souls Magic Trick is the side project of garage rock band The Fresh & Onlys' Tim Cohen. This is the third album from this project, which injects some psychedelia into the garage sound. Listen: "Come Inside" Listen: "The Store"

Other New Releases

Beck - "Gimme" Beck continues his run of 2013 single releases with "Gimme," the last of the year. He's set to release a new studio album, Morning Phase, in February! Listen: "Gimme"

Charli XCX - "SuperLove" Charli may have just released her debut, True Romance, in April of this year, but she's already at work on a follow-up (excited to get more adult ideas out there). "SuperLove" will likely be a single from that album. Watch: "SuperLove" Watch: "SuperLove" (Yeasayer Remix)

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Box Set Daft Punk released their highly-regarded fourth album in May. The box set version of the album is now out (for a mere $275) and features artwork, extended tracks and film. Watch: "Instant Crush" (featuring Julian Casablancas) Listen: "Get Lucky" (Daft Punk Remix)

The Flaming Lips - Peace Sword EP The entirety of the Peace Sword EP was written for the film Ender's Game, which was released in early November. The producer's only took the EP's title track, but featured it in the credits of the film. Listen: "Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)" Listen: "Think Like a Machine, Not a Boy"

Franz Ferdinand - Right Action Remixes Franz Ferdinand released their highly-anticipated (by me, at least) fourth album just in time for my birthday in August. The title track is getting the remix treatment with contributions from Liv Spencer, Matias Aguayo, Zero Set and Golden Teacher. Watch: "Right Action" Listen: "Right Action" (Liv Spencer Remix)

Glen Hansard - Drive All Night EP Glen Hansard become known for the Swell Season and the film Once. He released his debut solo album, Rhythm & Repose, last year and is following it up with a short set of songs. Listen: "Drive All Night" Listen: "Pennies in the Fountain"

Inside Llewyn Davis: Original Soundtrack Recording The latest film from The Coen Brothers tells the story of a down-on-his-luck folk musician in the 1960s. The soundtrack follows suit to the style of the time. It features tracks from the film's star, Oscar Isaac, as well as Justin Timberlake and Marcus Mumford. Listen: Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford - "Fare Thee Well" Listen: Justin Timberlake & Carey Mullian - "Five Hundred Miles"

Josh Tillman - The History of Caves Josh Tillman (aka Father John Misty) has a wife, Emma, who is a film-maker. She recently released a film, trailer and information here, and enlisted her man to do the film's score and soundtrack. Listen: "Finish Those Cigarettes & Go to Bed" Listen: "Of Course I Live with Them"

Kate Nash - Have Faith with Kate Nash This Christmas EP British singer Kate Nash invites us to spend Christmas with her. Her EP features new songs along with holiday classics. Watch: "I Hate You This Christmas" Listen: "Auld Lang Syne"

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Live from KCRW Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds released an incredible album earlier this year. In promoting the album, they recorded a session with KCRW in April. It features a few song from that album, as well as earlier work. Listen: "Higgs Boson Blues" (live) Listen: "Wide Lovely Eyes" (live)

ONXRT: Live from the Archives, Vol. 15 Chicago-based radio station WXRT has been releasing highlights from in-studio sessions for 20 years. The latest collection features Jim James, The National and Passion Pit, among others. Listen: The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" Listen: The National - "Don't Swallow the Cap"

She & Him - The Capitol Studios Session Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward released their third album as She & Him, earlier this year. They visited Capitol Studios to record new versions of four tracks off of that album. Listen: "I Could Have Been Your Girl" Listen: "Shadow of Love"

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Reissue The Velvet Underground  released this iconic album more than 45 years ago. This reissue is coming along with mono, instrumental and live versions of many of the album's tracks. Listen: "Sister Ray" Listen: "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore" (Live in New York City/1967)

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Tribute Album To go along with the above reissue is a covers album. Featured artists here include Natural Child, Gap Dream and many others! Listen: Gap Dream - "Sister Ray" Listen: Natural Child - "White Light/White Heat"

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