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Saturday, February 23, 2019

New Music Friday - January 18, 2019

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases



Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

Eight albums in and Deerhunter is as good as ever. It's been a minute since the band's last album, 2015's Fading Frontier, though we got an album from one side project (Moses Archuleta's Moon Diagrams released Lifetime of Love in 2017) and an instrumental tour-only cassette from the band. Their record includes production from Cate Le Bon and Ben H. Allen III, who they have worked with previously.

Watch: "Death in Midsummer"




James Blake - Assume Form

At the start of his career, James Blake's sound was more sonic, with his voice serving as an additional instrument, rather than being lyric-driven. That's gradually changed with each album, culminating in this record, which has many references to his relationship with actress Jameela Jamil.

Watch: "Don’t Miss It"
Watch: "Mile High" (featuring Travis Scott & Metro Boomin)




Ronnie Milsap - Ronnie Milsap: The Duets

Ronnie Milsap has been an influential figure in country music for more than half of a century. On his 29th album, he partners up with some contemporaries and some younger artists for a collection of duets. Collaborators on the record include Luke Bryan, Dolly Parton, Kacey Musgraves, and Willie Nelson.

Listen: "No Getting Over Me" (featuring Kacey Musgraves)
Listen: "A Woman’s Love" (featuring Willie Nelson)




Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

Across her previous four studio albums, Van Etten's sound has been an often-forlorn folk. On her fifth album, she's changing things up more than a bit. Written while she was pregnant with her child and delving into acting, its lyrics show someone more at ease in life and looking back a bit. It's also a more rock-driven sound, showcasing a different instrumentation than her previous records.

Watch: "Comeback Kid"
Watch: "Seventeen"




Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace

Following the release of his 2017 album, Boo Boo, Chaz Bear eschewed the standard promotional tour in favor of playing a series of DJ sets. He's influenced by those club sounds for this latest record, his sixth.

Watch: "Freelance"
Watch: "Ordinary Pleasure"


Other Full-Length Releases



Buke & Gase - Scholars

Watch: "Scholars"
Watch: "Derby"


Future - The WIZRD

Watch: "Crushed Up"
Watch: "Jumpin on a Jet"


Guster - Look Alive

Watch: "Don’t Go"
Listen: "Look Alive"


Joe Jackson - Fool

Watch: "Fabulously Absolute"
Listen: "Big Black Cloud"


Lost Under Heaven - Love Hates What You Become

Watch: "For the Wild"
Watch: "Post Millennial Tension"


Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life

Watch: "Light On"
Watch: "Give a Little"


M. Ward - What a Wonderful Industry

Listen: "Motorcycle Ride"
Listen: "War & Peace"


Steve Gunn - The Unseen in Between

Watch: "New Moon"
Watch: "Vagabond"


The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All the Time

Watch: "VTr"
Listen: "Videograms"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.



Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "Open Spaces"
Listen: "Future Markets"


Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Tides: Music for Yoga and Meditation

Listen: "Tides I"
Listen: "Tides II"


New Order - Total Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "Ceremony"
Listen: "Hellbent"


Prince - The Little Box of Prince

Listen: "Let’s Go Crazy"
Listen: "Computer Blue"

Saturday, March 26, 2016

New Music Friday - March 4, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases



Fatima Al Qadiri - Brute

Fatima Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti producer and artist who has built to strong solo career for herself starting with a 2010 mixtape for DIS Magazine under the name Ayshay. Last year, she partner with three other musicians as Future Brown and released a self-titled album with them. Incorporating sounds from protests, her sophomore album was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and her own experiences with demonstrators clashing with authority.

Listen: "Battery"
Listen: "Oubliette"




Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered

Kendrick sure loves his surprise releases; last year's opus, To Pimp a Butterfly, was released in March with little forewarning and this follow-up is no different. The album consists of demos from the recording of To Pimp a Butterfly and contains many of the same themes. None of the tracks have names, they are just identified by a datestamp.





Loretta Lynn - Full Circle

Loretta Lynn is a strong enough songwriter-singer (that's the order she prefers it) that I can overlook some questionable political endorsements. The legendary country star is 83 years old and in her sixth decade of creating music. She's slowing down just a little bit, this is her first album in 12 years, but she still shows the same prowess in the songs she's created.

Listen: "Everything It Takes" (featuring Elvis Costello)
Listen: "Who’s Gonna Miss Me?"




Poliça - United Crushers

United Crushers comes after a bit of a whirlwind period for Poliça, and especially members Channy Leaneagh and Ryan Olson who got married and had a child last year. Through all of that, the band finished writing and recording the album. This is another record inspired by protest, as protests were erupting in the band's home city of Minneapolis as they were preparing the album.

Watch: "Wedding"
Watch: "Lime Habit"




Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's fourth album was produced by tUnE-yArDs' frontwoman Merrill Garbus. It's a move that marries Garbus' signature idiosyncratic funk with Thao Nguyen's unique brand of folk. The album is also a more personal outing for Nguyen, who has often tackled social issues in her music. Here, she deals with her own past and her relationship with her father.

Watch: "Astonished Man"
Watch: "Nobody Dies"


Other Full-Length Releases



Big Ups - Before a Million Universes

Watch: "National Parks"
Listen: "Hope for Someone"


Carter Tanton - Jettison the Valley

Listen: "Through the Garden Gates"
Listen: "Twentynine Palms" (featuring Sharon Van Etten)


The Coral - Distance Inbetween

Watch: "Chasing the Tail of a Dream"
Watch: "Miss Fortune"


Guerilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer

Listen: "Diamond Girls"
Listen: "Grass Shack"


Kano - Made in the Manor

Watch: "3 Wheel-ups" (featuring Giggs)
Watch: "Endz"


The Knocks - 55

Watch: "I Wish (My Taylor Swift)" (featuring Matthew Koma)
Listen: "Best for Last" (featuring Walk the Moon)


La Sera - Music for Listening to Music To

Watch: "10 Headed Goat Wizard"
Watch: "I Need an Angel"


Låpsley - Long Way Home

Watch: "Love Is Blind"
Watch: "Cliff"


Lionlimb - Shoo

Watch: "Bored Today"
Listen: "Just Because"


M. Ward - More Rain

Watch: "Girl from Conejo Valley"
Watch: "Confession"


Melaena Cadiz - Sunfair

Watch: "At the Symphony"
Listen: "Last Night in My Dream"


Miike Snow - iii

Watch: "Genghis Khan"
Watch: "Heart Is Full"


Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are

Watch: "Rushing"
Watch: "Cold to See Clear"


Prince Rama - Xtreme Now

Listen: "Bahia"
Listen: "Now Is the Time of Emotion"


Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros

Watch: "Hey, No Pressure"
Listen: "In My Own Way"


Robert Pollard - Of Course You Are

Listen: "My Daughter Yes She Knows"
Listen: "Of Course You Are"


Samiyam - Animals Have Feelings

Listen: "Dartgun"
Listen: "Mr. Wonderful" (featuring Action Bronson)


Sound of Ceres - Nostalgia for Infinity

Watch: "Bryn Marina"
Listen: "My Spiral Arm"


Tiga - No Fantasy Required

Listen: "Planet E"
Listen: "Don’t Break My Heart"


TOKiMONSTA - Fovere

Watch: "Put It Down" (featuring Anderson .Paak & KRNE)
Listen: "Giving Up" (featuring Jonny Pierce)


Violent Femmes - We Can Do Anything

Watch: "Memory"
Listen: "Issues"


Wussy - Forever Sounds

Watch: "Dropping Houses"
Watch: "She’s Killed Hundreds"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.



The Big Pink - Empire Underground EP

Watch: "Hightimes"
Listen: "Beautiful Criminal"


Day Wave - Hard to Read EP

Listen: "Stuck"
Listen: "Hard to Read"


et aliae - Rose EP

Listen: "Sober" (featuring D∆WN)
Listen: "Only U"


Innerspace Orchestra - "One Way Glass"

Listen: "One Way Glass"


Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - "Sunny Afternoon"

Watch: "Sunny Afternoon"
Listen: "Lucid Sapphire"


The Little Flames - The Day Is Not Today

Listen: "The Day Is Not Today"
Listen: "Close My Eyes"


The Long Road

Listen: Robert Plant - "The Blanket of Night"
Listen: Kindness - "A Retelling"