New Music Friday - May 7, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Czarface & MF DOOM - Super What? Listen: "The King and Eye" Listen: "DOOM Unto Others"
	Iceage - Seek Shelter Watch: "The Holding Hand" Watch: "Vendetta"
	Mia Joy - Spirit Tamer Watch: "Freak" Watch: "Saturn"
	nasimiYu - P O T I O N S Watch: "watercolor" Watch: "secretsecret"
	Tony Allen - There Is No End Watch: "Osmosis" (featuring Skepta & Ben Okri) Watch: "Stumbling Down" (featuring Sampa the Great)

Other Full-Length Releases

ALLBLACK - TY4FWM Watch: "Ego" (featuring Drakeo The Ruler) Watch: "We Straight" (Cal-A & Vince Staples)

Daniel Bachman - Axacan Listen: "Blues in the Anthropocene" Listen: "Coronach"

Little Snake - A Fragmented Love Story, Written by the Infinite Helix Architect Watch: "Fallen Angels" (featuring Flying Lotus) Listen: "Raining Teeth" (with Tutara Peak)

Pile - In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room Listen: In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room

Sophia Kennedy - Monsters Watch: "Cat on My Tongue" Watch: "I Can See You"

Squid - Bright Green Field Watch: "Narrator" (featuring Martha Skye Murphy) Watch: "Paddling"

Sufjan Stevens - Convocations Watch: "Meditation V" Watch: "Lamentation II"

Undo K from Hot - G.A.S. Get a Star Watch: "750 Dispel" Listen: "Get a Star"

Weezer - Van Weezer Watch: "Grapes of Wrath" Watch: "I Need Some of That"

Wiki & NAH - Telephonebooth Watch: "Hip Hop" Watch: "Things Stuff"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Angel Olsen - Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories Watch: "Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)" Watch: "More Than This"

Anjimile - Reunion Watch: "In Your Eyes (Reflection)" (featuring Jay Som) Watch: "1978 (Reunion)" (featuring Lomelda)

Axis: Sova - Fractal Watch: "(Don’t Wanna Have That) Dream" Listen: "Fractal USA"

Iron & Wine - Archive Series Vol. 5: Tallahassee Recordings Watch: "This Solemn Day" Listen: "Calm on the Valley"

Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 2 Watch: "Until I Fall" Watch: "Torch Song"

Mitski - This Is Where We Fall Soundtrack Listen: "The Baddy Man" Listen: "The End"

New Order - Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace)' Watch: "The Perfect Kiss" (Live at Alexandra Palace) Watch: "Bizarre Love Triangle" (Live at Alexandra Palace)

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 Friday - May 20, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Adult Jazz - Earrings Off! While I appreciate when bands take some time between albums, I do love it when there's a quick return on a great record. Adult Jazz's debut, Gist Is, was one of my favorites of 2014, and they are back in almost no time with this new album. They haven't lost any bit of their strange, jazz-inflected brand of indie rock. It's a short album at just seven songs, but still a sweet listen. Watch: "Earrings Off!" Watch: "Eggshell"

Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman Maybe it's my tastes that are changing, but I think pop music is better now than it has been in 20 years and miss Ariana herself is one of the bright points. She's attempting a "bad girl" re-branding on her third album. It's not very convincing, but that doesn't mean the music's not good, or that she doesn't sound the best she ever has. Watch: "Dangerous Woman" Watch: "Into You"

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo may be young, but he's been incredibly prolific in his six-year career. At 23 years old, he'd already self-released 11 albums on his Bandcamp before his debut, Teens of Style, for Matador last year. While he doesn't regard his earliest releases as representative of his musical approach now, he does not shy away from their existence and they remain available for fans. While similar in name to his previous record, this album is not a sequel or outtakes record, but a new album in its own right. Watch: "Vincent" Watch: "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales"

Marissa Nadler - Strangers Marissa Nadler employs a dreamy, doomed-sounding style of folk that makes her one of my favorite female folk singers. Her previous record, July, was a favorite of mine a couple of years ago. On her follow-up, she departs from telling her own personal stories of love and heartbreak, and focuses on stories of other characters, losing the first-person perspective. Watch: "All the Colors of the Dark" Watch: "Janie in Love"

Yuna - Chapters Yuna is a Malaysian pop singer who first started writing and performing songs as a creative outlet while she was in law school. Obviously, it has since become her career. She released her first album in 2008 in her native country. Over the past eight years, she has alternated between native and international releases. Chapters is her third international album, following the Malaysian release of Material, last year. Watch: "Crush" (featuring Usher) Watch: "Places to Go"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels Listen: "Melancholy Mood" Listen: "All the Way"

Eric Clapton - I Still Do Watch: "Can’t Let You Do It" Watch: "Spiral"

Richard Ashcroft - These People Watch: "This Is How It Feels" Watch: "Hold On"

William Ryan Fritch - New Words for Old Wounds Listen: "Vantage Point" Listen: "Conflicted"

Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks Watch: "Into the Night" Listen: "Falling"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Boys - Love on Tour EP Listen: "Happy Hour" Listen: "All My Friends"

Braids - Companion Watch: "Companion" Watch: "Joni"

Day of the Dead Watch: Perfume Genius, Sharon van Etten, & Friends - "To Lay Me Down" Watch: Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis & Friends - "Sugaree"

The Highwaymen - Live: American Outlaws Watch: "Desperados Waiting for a Train" Listen: "I Still Miss Someone"

The Highwaymen - The Very Best Of Watch: "Highwayman" Listen: "Big River"

MF DOOM - Live from Planet X Reissue

Songs from Lahore

Wolf Parade - EP 4 Listen: "Automatic" Listen: "Mr. Startup"