New Music Friday - April 12, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	English Teacher - This Could Be Texas Watch: "Albert Road" Watch: "Nearly Daffodils"
	Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat Watch: "Sun Without the Heat" Watch: "Scaled to Survive"
	Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud Watch: "Unfinished Business" Watch: "Silence Is Loud"
	Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Watch: "I’ll Do Whatever You Want" (featuring Floating Points & Laraaji) Watch: "End of Innocence"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bad Bad Hats - Bad Bad Hats Watch: "TPA" Watch: "My Heart Your Heart"

girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! Watch: "Too Much" Watch: "DOING IT AGAIN BABY"

Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me Watch: "Don’t Forget Me" Listen: "It Was Coming All Along"

METZ - Up on Gravity Hill Watch: "99" Watch: "Light Your Way Home"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

FACS - "North America Endless"/"Take Me to Your Heart" Watch: "North America Endless" Listen: "Take Me to Your Heart"

My Black Country - The Songs of Alice Randall Watch: Rhiannon Giddens - "The Ballad of Sally Anne" Watch: Adia Victoria - "Went for a Ride"

The Ophelias - Ribbon Watch: "Soft and Tame" Watch: "Black Ribbon"

Patrick Shiroishi - "A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest"/"The Light Is Not Afraid" Watch: "The Light Is Not Afraid" Listen: "A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest"

New Music Friday - May 6, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Arcade Fire - WE Watch: "The Lightning I, II" Watch: "WE"
	Ibeyi - Spell 31 Watch: "Sister 2 Sister" Watch: "Lavender & Red Roses" (featuring Jorja Smith)
	Leyla McCalla - Breaking the Thermometer Watch: "Vini Wè" Listen: "Artibonite"
	Otoboke Beaver - Super Champon Watch: "PARDON?" Watch: "YAKITORI"
	Sharon Van Etten - Weʼve Been Going About This All Wrong Watch: "Mistakes" Listen: "Darkness Fades"

Other Full-Length Releases

!!! - Let It Be Blue Watch: "Here’s What I Need to Know" Watch: "Storm Around the World" (featuring Maria Uzor)

Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous Watch: "Young and Stupid" Watch: "Talk to Me, Talk to Me"

C Duncan - Alluvium Watch: "Heaven" Watch: "Bell Toll"

Ella Mai - Heart on My Sleeve Watch: "DFMU" Watch: "Break My Heart"

Hater - Sincere Watch: "Something" Watch: "Far from a Mind"

IDK - Simple Watch: "Dog Food" (with Denzel Curry) Watch: "Taco"

Jack Harlow - Come Home the Kids Miss You Watch: "First Class" Watch: "Nail Tech"

Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island Watch: "Gomugomu" Watch: "Cardboard Pile"

Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools Watch: "Lights of the City" Watch: "Nervous Breakdown"

Praise - All in a Dream Watch: "All in a Dream" Watch: "Hotline to Memory"

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms Watch: "The Way It Shatters" Watch: "My Echo"

Sigrid - How to Let Go Watch: "It Gets Dark" Watch: "Burning Bridges"

Sunflower Bean - Headful of Sugar Watch: "Who Put You Up to This?" Watch: "Roll the Dice"

Warpaint - Radiate Like This Watch: "Champion" Watch: "Stevie"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Absolutely Free - How to Repaint Clouds Listen: "How to Paint Clouds" (Scattered Clouds Remix) Listen: "How to Paint Clouds" (Joseph Shabason Remix)

Anna Calvi - Tommy Listen: "Red Right Hand" Listen: "Burning Down"

Jens Lekman - The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom Watch: "The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom" Watch: "A Little Lost"

Karen Dalton - Shuckin’ Sugar Listen: "Shuckin’ Sugar Blues" Listen: "When I Get Home"

Tindersticks - Past Imperfect - The Best of Tindersticks ’92 - ‘21 Watch: "Both Sides of the Blade" Watch: "Willow" (Stuart A. Staples Version)

New Music Friday - January 25, 2019

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Essential Full-Length Releases

DAWN - new breed Maybe it's due to Mardi Gras, but I feel like I've been learning a lot about the culture of New Orleans and Mardi Gras recently. Members of Arcade Fire recorded a version of "Iko Iko" (you know the melody even if you don't know the song), and there's this fifth album from Dawn Richard. The artist explore her home city on the record, which includes references to Mardi Gras Indians. Watch: "jealousy" Watch: "sauce"

Eerie Wanda - Pet Town Eerie Wanda is Marina Tadic, a Dutch-Croatian singer, songwriter, and visual artist signed to Indiana's Joyful Noise Recordings. Pet Town is her second album, though first for the label. Watch: "Pet Town" Watch: "Moon"

Leyla McCalla - Capitalist Blues This is the third album from this talented folk cellist. The Capitalist Blues will not be her only album of 2019, though. She is also reuniting with former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Rhiannon Giddens for Our Native Daughters (along with Amethyst Kiah and Allison Russell) for a self-titled record. Watch: "Money Is King" Watch: "Capitalist Blues"

Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center This album from Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst was released with fairly little press ahead of the record, but did not come from nowhere. The two first met in 2016 and Oberst featured on a song from Bridgers' debut album, Stranger in the Alps. They started recording their first full album together last summer. Watch: "Dylan Thomas" Listen: "Didn’t Know What I Was in For"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bring Me the Horizon - amo Watch: "wonderful life" (featuring Dani Filth) Watch: "nihilist blues" (featuring Grimes)

Keuning - Prismism Watch: "Restless Legs" Watch: "Prismism"

FIDLAR - Almost Free Watch: "By Myself" Watch: "Too Real"

Mike Krol - Power Chords Watch: "What’s the Rhythm" Listen: "An Ambulance"

Swervedriver - Future Ruins Watch: "The Lonely Crowd Fades in the Air" Watch: "Drone Lover"

TOY - Happy in the Hollow Watch: "Sequence One" Watch: "You Make Me Forget Myself"

William Tyler - Goes West Watch: "Fail Safe" Listen: "Call Me When I’m Breathing Again"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Doors - Stockholm ‘68

Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy Vinyl Reissue Watch: "I Want You So Hard" Watch: "I Got a Feeling (Just Nineteen)"

Florence + The Machine - "Moderation" Listen: "Moderation" Listen: "Haunted House"

Iggy Pop - New Values Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Tell Me a Story" Listen: "New Values"

Makthaverskan - "Demands"/"Onkel" Listen: "Demands" Listen: "Onkel"

Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days Remixes Listen: "Baltic Birch" (Steve Moore Remix) Listen: "Hello from the Edge of Earth" (Kjartan Holm Remix)

Weezer - Weezer (Teal Album) Watch: "Take On Me" Listen: "Billie Jean"

Zola Jesus - Remixed By Johnny Jewel Watch: "Ash to Bone" Listen: "Wiseblood"