New Music Friday - November 1, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Watch: "Alone" Watch: "A Fragile Thing"
	Flying Lotus - Spirit Box Watch: "Let Me Cook" (featuring Dawn Richard) Listen: "Ingo Swann"
	Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed Watch: "Foxglove" Watch: "Seed of a Seed"
	mxmtoon - liminal space Watch: "the situation" (featuring Kero Kero Bonito) Watch: "dramatic escape"
	Tyler, the Creator - CHROMAKOPIA Watch: "Noid" Watch: "Thought I Was Dead"

Other Full-Length Releases

Autre Ne Veut - Love, Guess Who?? Watch: "About to Lose" Watch: "Itchy Blood"

Contour - Take Off from Mercy Watch: "Theresa" Watch: "Mercy"

EarthGang - Perfect Fantasy Watch: "U Gotta" (featuring @Pharrell) Watch: "Godly" (featuring Damon Albarn)

Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 1nce Watch: "On the Set" Watch: "Cosmo Freestyle"

Jennifer Castle - Camelot Watch: "Lucky #8" Watch: "Earthsong"

Katrina Ford - H.E.A.R.T. Watch: "Cry Wolf" Watch: "Killing It"

Mount Eerie - Night Palace Watch: "Broom of Wind" Watch: "I Saw Another Bird"

Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon - First Sounds Watch: "Maria" Watch: "Circular"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

deary - Aurelia Watch: "The Drift" Watch: "Selene"

Elvis Costello - King of American & Other Realms Listen: "Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line" (Live) Listen: "I’ll Wear It Proudly"

Hosono House Revisited Watch: Haruomi Hosono & Mac DeMarco - "Boku Wa Chotto" Listen: Haruomi Hosono & Sam Gendel - "My Love Is Peach-Colored"

J Spaceman & John Coxon - Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton Watch: "Mother’s Milk" Listen: "I Was Stranded"

Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope Deluxe Watch: "Here Today" Listen: "Nothing to Lose"

Weezer - Blue Album (30th Anniversary Edition) Watch: "Undone - The Sweater Song" (Third Practice) Listen: "My Name Is Jonas"

Willie Nelson - Last Leaf on the Tree Watch: "Do You Realize??" Watch: "Last Leaf"

New Music Friday - March 16, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Bishop Nehru - Elevators: Act I & II Bishop Nehru is young, born in 1996, but has been active for half a decade. He released his first album at 16; Elevators is his sixth solo release. On it, he reconnects with a past collaborator, MF DOOM, with whom he's performed as NehruvianDOOM, and partners with producer Kaytranada for the first time. Watch: "Rooftops" Listen: "No Idea"

The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl No, The Decemberists' line-up has not changed and it is frontman Colin Meloy singing "I'll Be Your Girl". The latest record from The Decemberists is intentionally absurd, facing the current political state with a strange sort of humor. The album also sees the band moving away a bit from the epic folk rock they've become known for and introducing a bit a synth pop. It's an interesting combination... Watch: "Severed" Listen: "Once in My Life"

JB Dunckel - H+ JB Dunckel is best known as one-half of Air. Both members have struck out with solo work in recent years, though Dunckel was the first to do so in 2006, releasing an album under the name Darkel. H+ is his first album under his (mostly, considering the initialization) given name. It follows his partner Nicolas Godin's 2015 solo debut, Contrepoint. Come to think of it, it's been a long time since we last heard from Air, let's hope they rejoin forces soon! Watch: "Love Machine" Watch: "Hold On"

Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On The title of Yo La Tengo's 15th album is a nod towards a Sly & The Family Stone album of a similar name. In a way, it is the band's reaction to the current state of things, and like The Decemberists, they have chosen not to react with abject horror or despair. Instead, they employ the chilled-out, hushed sound they've become known for, with very calming results. Listen: "For You Too"

Other Full-Length Releases

Dungen / Woods - Myths 003 Listen: "Loop" Listen: "Turn Around"

The Fratellis - In Your Own Sweet Time Watch: "Stand Up Tragedy" Watch: "Starcrossed Lovers"

Mount Eerie - Now Only Listen: "Distortion" Listen: "Tintin in Tibet"

PRhyme - PRhyme 2 Watch: "Era" (featuring Dave East) Listen: "Flirt" (featuring 2 Chainz)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement Vinyl Reissue Watch: "Underneath" Watch: "Not as We"

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Unmasked: The Ultimate Collection Watch: Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston - "Pie Jesu" Listen: Lana Del Rey - "You Must Love Me"

Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels Reissue Listen: "When Mama Was Moth" Listen: "In the Gold Dust Rush"

Cocteau Twins - Treasure Reissue Listen: "Pandora" Listen: "Ivo"

Lady Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: HAIM - "Little of Your Love" Listen: John Cale - "Days of Steam"

Love, Simon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: Bleachers - "Alfie’s Song (Not So Typical Love Song)" Listen: Walk the Moon - "Surrender"

Roxy Music - Roxy Music Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Remake/Remodel" Listen: "Ladytron"

Thundercat - Drank Purple Listen: "Drink Dat" (featuring OG Ron & The Chopstars) Listen: "Jethro" (featuring DJ Slopped Up)

Sorority Noise - YNAAYT Listen: "No Halo" Listen: "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"

New Music Friday - March 24, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Drake - More Life Word of this "playlist" (his words) from Drake first surfaced late last year. I had initially heard it was set for release on December 23, but that date came and went with no news of the record. It wasn't until March that it got its final release date. More Life is meant to bridge the gap between releases from the rapper, but has become an acclaimed set of songs in its own right, and another hit for Drake.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy It's been 19 years since The Jesus and Mary Chain's last record, 1998's Munki, which they released just before splitting the next year. It's been ten years since they reformed, but much of that time was spent re-releasing old music and touring. Jim Reid announced that the band was back in the studio in 2015. Damage and Joy is the result of those sessions, produced by Youth. Watch: "Amputation" Watch: "Always Sad"

Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens This is the debut album from Kelly Lee Owens, who was formerly the bassist for the History of Apple Pie before they parted in 2013. Her solo work can be broadly described as electronic, though she mixes elements of various substyles of the genre. She is indebted to various influences on her debut, ranging from Massive Attack to Arthur Russell, and includes a feature from another, Jenny Hval. Watch: "Anxi" (featuring Jenny Hval) Listen: "Throwing Lines"

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me For 13 years, Mount Eerie (Phil Elverum) was married to Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée. She passed away last year following a battle with pancreatic cancer, also leaving behind a young daughter. While he was always intensely private about his marriage, his eighth studio album deals with the grief of his loss head-on. Stylistically, it's looser than his past work, representing less an effort to write traditional songs, but to exorcise his pain. Watch: "Ravens" Listen: "Crow"

Red Baraat - Bhangra Pirates Red Baraat is a bhangra band out of Brooklyn who also incorporate jazz and R&B. The band was founded by Sunny Jain in 2007 and released their debut, Chaal Baby, in 2010. They've become renowned for their live shows. Bhangra Pirates is their third studio release, which includes a contribution from the incredible guitarist, Steve Marion! Listen: "Bhangale" (featuring Delicate Steve) Listen: "Layers"

Other Full-Length Releases

Becca Stevens - Regina Watch: "Queen Mab" Watch: "Well Loved" (featuring Laura Mvula)

The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Earth Listen: "Don’t Walk These Streets" Listen: "Snakes Vs Rats"

Johnny Flynn - Sillion Watch: "Raising the Dead" Listen: "Heart Sunk Hank"

Matthew Stevens - Preverbal Listen: "Our Reunion" (featuring Esperanza Spalding) Listen: "Undertow"

Mike-WiLL Made-It - Ransom 2 Watch: "Gucci on My" (featuring 21 Savage, YG, & Migos) Listen: "Come Down" (featuring Chief Keef & Rae Sremmurd)

Pallbearer - Heartless Watch: "I Saw the End" Listen: "Thorns"

Spiral Stairs - Doris & the Daggers Watch: "Dundee Man" Watch: "Dance (Cry Wolf)"

Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer Listen: "Breathe" Listen: "Sorcerer"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Fucked Up - Year of the Snake Listen: "Year of the Snake"

Hannah Lou Clark - The Heart and All Its Sin EP Watch: "Don’t Sweat It"

Paul McCartney - Flowers in the Dirt Deluxe Reissue Watch: "My Brave Face" Listen: "Twenty Fine Fingers" (featuring Elvis Costello) (demo)

PINS - Bad Thing EP Watch: "Aggrophobe" (featuring Iggy Pop) Watch: "All Hail"

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