New Music Friday - September 24, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Andy Shauf - Wilds Watch: "Jaywalker" Watch: "Spanish on the Beach"
	Esperanza Spalding - SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB Watch: "Formwela 10" Watch: "Formwela 7"
	Macie Stewart - Mouth Full of Glass Watch: "Finally" Watch: "Mouthful of Glass"
	NAO - And Then Life Was Beautiful Watch: "Messy Love" Watch: "Wait"
	Natalie Imbruglia - Firebird Watch: "Build It Better" Watch: "On My Way"

Other Full-Length Releases

Absolutely Free - Aftertouch Watch: "How to Paint Clouds" Watch: "Interface"

Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden Watch: "damn" Watch: "partner"

Ashley Shadow - Only the End Watch: "For Love" Watch: "Grey"

The Body & BIG|BRAVE - Leaving None but Small Birds Listen: "Blackest Crow" Listen: "Oh Sinner"

Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself Watch: "Dawn Bends" Watch: "Circling Around"

The Ophelias - Crocus Watch: "Neil Young on High" (featuring Julien Baker) Watch: "Sacrificial Lamb"

POP. 1280 - Museum on the Horizon Watch: "Brennschluss" Watch: "Not Too Deep"

Poppy - Flux Watch: "Flux" Watch: "So Mean"

Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic Watch: "Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale" Watch: "People, Let’s Dance" (featuring EERA)

Stranded - Midnight Sun Watch: "Hesitation" Watch: "Back Country"

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind Watch: "Reach Out" Watch: "Back to Oz"

Third Eye Blind - Our Bande Apart Watch: "Again" Watch: "Box of Bones"

Zella Day - Sunday in Heaven Watch: "Golden" Watch: "Girls"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Bria - Cuntry Covers Vol. 1 Watch: "Green Rocky Road" Watch: "The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore"

Brittany Howard - Jaime Reimagined Listen: "Stay High" (Childish Gambino Version) Listen: "Short and Sweet" (Bon Iver Remix)

Dear Evan Hansen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watch: Sam Smith - "You Will Be Found" (featuring Summer Walker) Watch: SZA - "The Anonymous Ones"

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... Reissue Watch: "Midnight in a Perfect World" Listen: "Number Song"

Join the Ritual Listen: Jamila Woods - "Fast Car" Listen: Spencer Krug - "Red Dress"

Incidental: Music for the Stage Listen: These New Puritans - "Brave New World (iii)" (featuring John Heffernan)

I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico Watch: Kurt Vile - "Run Run Run" Watch: Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney - "European Son"

Mas Aya - Máscaras Watch: "Momento Presente" Listen: "Tiempo Ahora" (featuring Lido Pimienta)

Ringo Starr - Change the World Watch: "Let’s Change the World" Listen: "Coming Undone"

Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Watch: Japanese Breakfast - "Glider" Listen: Japanese Breakfast - "Better the Mask"

New Music Friday - February 10, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Hand Habits - Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) Hand Habits is Meg Duffy, a young artist who's amassed a pretty impressive list of collaborations over the past couple of years. She's work with Kevin Morby and Mega Bog, and played guitar on albums released by Weyes Blood and Amber Arcades last year. Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) is her first solo record, and first release since a 2014 split EP with Peg. Watch: "Demand It" Listen: "All the While"

Jessica Hoop - Memories Are Now I first heard of Jesca Hoop thanks to a collaborative album she released with Sam Beam (aka Iron & Wine) last year. She's had a interesting path in her career. She grew up singing hymns and folk tunes with her Mormon family, worked as a survival guide (which provided her time to develop her style), then babysat for Tom Waits, who helped her reach out to people who could help her career. Aside from Beam, she's worked with other favorites of mine like Shearwater and Andrew Bird. Memories Are Now is her fifth solo record. Watch: "The Lost Sky" Watch: "Memories Are Now"

Sinkane - Life & Livin’ It This is the sixth album from Sinkane, aka Ahmed Gallab. On the album, he does not vary far from the sound of his previous record, 2014's Mean Love. It has the same, funky fusion of rock, afrobeat, and even some krautrock sounds. While complicated in his mix of genres, he creates music that is easy to listen to; and is one of the most upbeat artists in indie rock. Watch: "U’Huh" Watch: "Telephone"

Tinariwen - Elwan Tinariwen is a group of Tuareg musicians whose mere existence is an act of rebellion. More than 35 years after they started, they have become one of the most celebrated artists to come from Africa. The band was unable to record the album in their home country of Mali, having fled following the denouncement of popular music as satanic by the regime Ansar Dine. They still exist as a rebellion, with some help from a slew of Western musicians. Watch: "Ténéré Tàqqàl" Listen: "Assàwt"

Other Full-Length Releases

Alexander F - Alexander F Watch: "Call Me Pretty" (featuring Kimbra)

Lowly - Heba Watch: "Word" Watch: "Deer Eyes"

Palberta - Bye Bye Berta Watch: "Filling Empty/Jaws" Listen: "Ode to Honey"

The Sadies - Northern Passages Listen: "It’s Easy (Like Walking)" (featuring Kurt Vile) Listen: "Riverview Fog"

Teen Daze - Themes for a Dying Earth Listen: "Cycle" Listen: "First Rain" (featuring S. Carey)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Beach Slang - Here, I Made This for You (Beach Slang Mixtape Vol. 2) Listen: "Bored Teenagers" Listen: "Sometimes Always"

Paul White - Accelerator Watch: "Accelerator" (featuring Danny Brown)

Fifty Shades Darker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watch: ZAYN & Taylor Swift - "I Don’t Want to Live Forever" Listen: Sia - "Helium"

Moonbase - "It Don’t Matter" Watch: "It Don’t Matter" (featuring Anderson .Paak)

NAO - FAWK Remix EP

New Music Friday - July 29, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

NAO - For All We Know NAO is Neo Joshua, a soul and funk singer hailing from Nottingham, England. She studied jazz in college before going on to provide vocals for Kwabs and Jarvis Cocker. She also served as a member of The Boxettes, an a cappella group. She began her solo career in 2014, releasing an EP that neared the top of the British charts. For All We Know is her first full solo record. Watch: "Fool to Love" Watch: "Bad Blood"

Trim - 1-800 DINOSAUR Presents Trim The weirdly-named 1-800 DINOSAUR is James Blake's own music label. Though he specializes in electronic-tinged R&B, he's shown a great deal of love for hip-hop, both with his collaborations and the artists he signs to his label. Trim is one of his latest signees. Trim's been in the British rap game for over a decade, but this is his first proper album following a large number of mixtapes and EPs. Watch: "RPG" Listen: "Before I Lied"

True Neutral Crew - Soft Rules Daveed Diggs is a busy man. He just ended his run as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson on Hamilton, released a new album and EP with Clipping., and somehow found the time to also release this new album with his other group, True Neutral Crew. This is the first album with this band, following EPs released in 2013 and 2014. Listen: "Modern Art" Listen: "More a Kid"

Other Full-Length Releases

Owen - The King of Whys Listen: "Settled Down" Listen: "Lost"

Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland Listen: "Through My Fingers" Listen: "Carry On"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson and Friends Listen: "Fun Fun Fun" Listen: "Our Prayer"

Father John Misty - "Real Love Baby" Listen: "Real Love Baby"

The Land: Music from the Motion Picture Listen: Nas & Erykah Badu - "This Bitter Land" Listen: Pusha T & Jeremih - "Paid"

Massive Attack - "The Spoils"/"Come Near Me" Watch: "Come Near Me" (featuring Ghostpoet) Watch: "The Spoils" (featuring Hope Sandoval)

New Order - "People on the High Line" Listen: "People on the High Line"

R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office Reissue Watch: "Wolves, Lower" Listen: "Gardening at Night"

R.E.M. - Eponymous Reissue Listen: "Radio Free Europe" Listen: "Driver 8"

R.E.M. - Life’s Rich Pageant Reissue Listen: "I Believe" Listen: "Begin the Begin"

Ramones - Ramones Deluxe Edition Reissue Listen: "Blitzkrieg Bop" Listen: "Beat on the Brat"

Star Trek Beyond: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: Rihanna - "Sledgehammer"

Titus Andronicus - S+@dium Rock: Five Nights at the Opera Watch: "69 Stones"