New Music Friday - October 14, 2022

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language Watch: "Part of the Band" Watch: "Happiness"
	Black Lips - Apocalypse Love Watch: "Lost Angel" Watch: "No Rave"
	Mykki Blanco - Stay Close to Music Watch: "French Lessons" (featuring Kelsey Lu) Watch: "Pink Diamond Bezel"
	Plains - I Walked with You a Ways Watch: "Problem with It" Watch: "Abilene"
	Tove Lo - Dirt Femme Watch: "True Romance" Watch: "2 Die 4"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ Watch: "Coyotes" Listen: "Natural Information"

Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE Watch: "There Were Bells" Watch: "We Let It In"

Julianna Riolino - All Blue Watch: "Lone Ranger" Listen: "You"

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim Listen: "The Land Before Timeland" Listen: "Hypertension"

Meat Wave - Malign Hex Watch: "What Would You Like Me to Do" Watch: "Ridiculous Car"

Palm - Nicks and Grazes Watch: "Feathers" Watch: "Parable Lickers"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen Watch: "Tippa My Tongue" Watch: "Eddie"

Sam Gendel - blueblue Listen: "Uroko (鱗, fish scales)" Listen: "Tate-waku (竪沸く, rising steam)"

Skullcrusher - Quiet the Room Watch: "Whatever Fits Together" Watch: "Quiet the Room"

Surprise Chef - Education & Recreation Listen: "Money Music" Listen: "Velodrome"

Wild Pink - ILYSM Watch: "ILYSM" Watch: "Hold My Hand" (featuring Julien Baker)

Winter - What Kind of Blue Are You? Watch: "atonement" (featuring Hatchie) Watch: "good" (featuring SASAMI)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Ecstatic International - Ecstatic International Listen: "High Violence"

Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen Watch: Norah Jones - "Steer Your Way" Watch: Iggy Pop - "You Want It Darker"

Poppy - Stagger Watch: "FYB" Watch: "Stagger"

Robert Glasper - Black Radio III: Supreme Edition Watch: "Voyage to Atlantis" (featuring Bilal & Alex Isley) Watch: "Therapy pt. 2" (featuring Mac Miller)

Stars at Noon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: tindersticks - "Stars at Noon"

New Music Friday - September 16, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

AlunaGeorge - I Remember AlunaGeorge have always been a band built on collaborations. Even before their debut album, 2013's Body Music, they had worked with Disclosure on the track "White Noise." On their sophomore album, they bring in another young production powerhouse in Flume, and rappers Leikeli47 and Popcaan, along with many others. Watch: "Mean What I Mean" Watch: "I Remember"

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years Thanks to gradual line-up changes since the band formed in 2007; only one original member of Cymbals Eat Guitars remains on this record, frontman Joe D'Agostino. It's clear that D'Agostino was the primary arbiter of the band's sound, the album is a sensible continuation of their style. The album also sees the band working with another influential producer. After two records with John Agnello, they join up with John Congleton for the first time. Watch: "4th of July, Philadelphia (SANDY)" Listen: "Wish"

Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust Kishi Bashi is Kaoru Ishibashi, a violinist and songwriter who has toured and played with Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche, and of Montreal. He released his debut album, 151a, in 2012, following it up with Lighght two years later. He seems to be holding to a two-year album release schedule. He gets some help from of Montreal in return on this one, Kevin Barnes provides bass on a track. Watch: "Hey Big Star" Watch: "Say Yeah"

Mykki Blanco - Mykki Hip-hop is often a hyper-masculine industry, but there are a few artists seeking to change that view of the genre. Mykki Blanco is one of them. He has described himself as transgendered and multi-gendered, and often touches on these subjects in his music. He's claimed that he may not continue his music career and would be interested in a career as an investigative reporter focusing on LGBT issues. If he does, it would not be before releasing this debut album. Watch: "High School Never Ends" Listen: "The Plug Won’t"

A Tribe Called Red - We Are the Halluci Nation A Tribe Called Red is a group of Canadian DJs, all members of First Nations tribes. Their name is an homage to the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest and, similar to that group, they tackle issues that impact their community. We Are the Halluci Nation is their third album and features contributions from Tanya Tagaq, Saul Williams, and Yasiin Bey. Watch: "R.E.D." Watch: "We Are the Halluci Nation"

Other Full-Length Releases

Chivalrous Amoekans - Fanatic Voyage

Dawes - We’re All Gonna Die Watch: "When the Tequila Runs Out" Watch: "From a Window Seat"

Deap Vally - Femejism Watch: "Gonnawanna" Watch: "Smile More"

El Perro del Mar - KoKoro Watch: "In the Woods" Watch: "Breadandbutter"

Hush Moss - It Takes a Lot Watch: "It Takes a Lot" Watch: "Slowly Disappear"

Kool Keith - Feature Magnetic Watch: "World Wide Lamper" (featuring B.a.R.S. Murre & Dirt Nasty) Watch: "Super Hero" (featuring MF DOOM)

Mac Miller - The Divine Feminine Watch: "Dang!" (featuring Anderson .Paak) Watch: "We" (featuring CeeLo Green)

Preoccupations - Preoccupations Watch: "Degraded" Watch: "Anxiety"

Sin Fang - Spaceland Watch: "Candyland" (featuring Jónsi) Listen: "Snow-blind"

Touché Amoré - Stage Four Watch: "Rapture" Watch: "Skyscraper" (featuring Julien Baker)

Trentemøller - Fixion Watch: "River in Me" Watch: "Redefine"

Usher - Hard II Love Watch: "Rivals" (featuring Future) Listen: "Missin U"

Willie Nelson - For the Love: A Tribute to Ray Price Watch: "Heartaches By the Number" Listen: "Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley - Sketches for the Musical JIB Listen: "The Wolf Song" Listen: "The Boat Song"

Bright Eyes - The Studio Albums 2000-2011

Communions - "Don’t Hold Anything Back"/"Eternity" Listen: "Don’t Hold Anything Back"

Led Zeppelin - The Complete BBC Sessions Watch: "What Is and What Should Never Be"

The Luyas - Says You Watch: "Says You" Watch: "Engineers"

MADEIRA - Bad Humors EP Watch: "Manipulator" Listen: "Come on Thru"

Peter Silberman - Transcendless Summer  Listen: "ii"

Summer Moon - "With You Tonight" Watch: "With You Tonight"

Upcoming Release of the Week (Ending July 23)

The Republican National Convention was this week, which means another round of politicians using artists' music without permission or approval. This time, we got some Rolling Stones and George Harrison. I'm not convinced it's not done for any other reason than to generate more publicity for the politicians through the temporary outrage that it generates. But, it's the artists who deserve that publicity! So, check out some new music over at my Upcoming Releases page!

This week, rapper Mykki Blanco announced his debut album, Mykki.

pitchfork.com

Blanco has made a big name for himself over the past several years by defying the norms both of hip hop music and hip hop personas. He is openly gay and often plays with the idea of gender non-conformity.

He is both a musician and a poet, he released a book of poetry in 2011 before making his musical debut with his 2012 EP, Mykki Blanco and the Mutant Angels. He's released a variety of singles, EPs and mixtapes since, but seemed poised to retire from music to focus on activism and journalism.

For now, he's staying in the music biz. A couple of months prior to the album announcement, he released a new track and video for "High School Never Ends" and released another single, "The Plug Won't" this week, as well.

Mykki is set to be released on September 16.



Also announced this week:

Ablebody - Adult Contemporaries (October 14)
Alex Bleeker - Bet Your Ass (July 23)
Bright Eyes - The Studio Albums 2000-2011 (September 16)
David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (September 23)
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - "A 1000 Times" (out now)
I.L.y. - Scum with Boundaries (out now)
JEFF The Brotherhood - Zone (August 12)
Kestrels - Kestrels (September 30)
Led Zeppelin - Complete BBC Sessions (September 16)
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound (September 23)
Mono - Requiem for Hell (October 14)
Oasis - Be Here Now Reissue (October 7)
Partynextdoor - P3 (August 16)
Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life (September 30)
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood (February 28)
Wilco - Schmilco (September 9)