New Music Friday - October 18, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Hildegard - Jour 1596 Watch: "Cruel" Watch: "Pour Your Heart Out"
	Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Listen: "All Bets Are Off" Listen: "Chicago"
	Jordana - Lively Premonition Watch: "Like a Dog" Watch: "Anything for You"
	Joy Oladokun - OBSERVATIONS FROM A CROWDED ROOM Watch: "I’D MISS THE BIRDS" Watch: "NO COUNTRY"
	Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Watch: "Love You Got" Watch: "Sunshine"

Other Full-Length Releases

Black Pus - Terrestrial Seethings Listen: "Hungry Animal" Listen: "Terrestrial Heathens"

Christopher Owens - I Wanna Barefoot Through Your Hair Listen: "I Think About Heaven" Listen: "This Is My Guitar"

Cold Cave - Passion Depression Listen: "Siren Song" Listen: "Everlasting"

Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels - Studying Absence Listen: "Old Dead Dogs" (featuring Fatboi Sharif & Beans) Listen: "Raised in the South"

High Vis - Guided Tour Watch: "Mind’s a Lie" Listen: "Drop Me Out"

Kylie Minogue - Tension II Watch: "My Oh My" (with Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo) Watch: "Midnight Ride" (with Orville Peck & Diplo)

Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate Watch: "Dark Mystery Enigma Bird" Listen: "Passageway"

Phantogram - Memory of a Day Watch: "Memory of a Day" Watch: "Attaway"

Pipe-eye - Pipe-defy Watch: "Lords of Lithium" Watch: "Travertine"

Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Watch: "Sick of the Blues" Watch: "A Hole in the Ground"

Silverbacks - Easy Being a Winner Watch: "Something I Know" Listen: "Giving Away an Inch Of"

Tim Heidecker - Slipping Away Watch: "Well’s Running Dry" Watch: "Dad of the Year"

The Voidz - Like All Before You Watch: "Square Waves" Watch: "All the Same"

W. H. Lung - Every Inch of Earth Pulsates Watch: "How to Walk" Listen: "The Painting of the Bay"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

American Football - American Football (Covers) Watch: Iron & Wine - "Never Meant" Watch: Ethel Cain - "For Sure"

Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham - Cunningham Bird Watch: "Crying in the Night" Watch: "Crystal"

The Armed - The Everlasting Gaze Watch: "NEW! Christianity" Listen: "Martyr Song"

Bon Iver - SABLE, Watch: "S P E Y S I D E" Watch: "AWARDS SEASON"

Danny Brown - Quaranta (Deluxe) Listen: "Keep It to Me" Listen: "Cheaters"

Tonight I'll Go Down Swingin': A Tribute to Don Heffington Listen: Fiona Apple - "Lately" Listen: Watkins Family Hour - "Kiss the Moon Goodbye"

New Music Friday - March 9, 2018

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Essential Full-Length Releases

August Greene - August Greene August Greene is a new project from Common, which sees him working again with longtime collaborators Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper. Bringing pianist Glasper into the fold underscores Common's longtime interest in marrying jazz and hip hop. The debut album from the trio also brings in a new collaborator, and a name that I had not heard in a while, Brandy! Watch: "Optimistic" (featuring Brandy) Listen: "Black Kennedy"

Liza Anne - Fine But Dying Fine But Dying is the third album from this artist from Georgia (the U.S. state). On the record, she deals head-on with past struggles with mental illness and the various interpersonal effects, as well as the conflict between internal state and outward appearance. Watch: "Paranoia" Watch: "Closest to Me"

Shamir - Resolution Resolution was a surprise release from Shamir. He had previously announced an EP, Room, and released a few songs from that project. It's not his first surprise release; last year, he released Hope before the more traditional release cycle of Revelations.

Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar Young Fathers are a trio from Edinburgh. Their music is generally described as hip-hop, though that's a limiting descriptor for them. They also incorporate elements of pop, club music, and industrial. Cocoa Sugar is their third record. Watch: "In My View" Watch: "Lord"

Other Full-Length Releases

Albert Hammond Jr. - Francis Trouble Watch: "Muted Beatings" Watch: "Set to Attack"

David Byrne - American Utopia Watch: "Everybody’s Coming to My House" Listen: "This Is That" (featuring Oneohtrix Point Never)

Editors - Violence Watch: "Hallelujah (So Low)" Watch: "Magazine"

Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now Watch: "Every Time the Feeling" Watch: "I’m Bad"

of Montreal - White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood Watch: "Plateau Phase/No Careerism No Corruption" Watch: "Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

David Byrne - Naked in Denver

Guided By Voices - Ogre’s Trumpet

Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides of the Sky Watch: "Lover Man" Listen: "Mannish Boy"

Logic - Bobby Tarantino II Listen: "Wassup" (featuring Big Sean) Listen: "State of Emergency" (featuring 2 Chainz)

Maria Usbeck - Bosque De Bambú Listen: "Bosque De Bambú"

Shamir - "Room" 7” Watch: "Room" Listen: "Caballero"

Tom Waits - Closing Time Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Closing Time" Listen: "Little Trip to Heaven"

Tom Waits - Under the Covers Listen: "Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag"

You Were Never Really Here: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

New Music Friday - February 5, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

DIIV - Is the Is Are Following their well-received debut, Oshin, in 2012, DIIV hit a rough patch. They had an unfruitful recording session with Chet White, their bassist said some really stupid things online, and two members of the band, frontman Zachary Cole Smith and drummer Colby Hewitt, struggled with drug addiction; leading to Smith's arrest and Hewitt's departure from the band. The experiences fed into the band's music, which earned them another praised record. Listen: "Bent (Roi’s Song)" Listen: "Dopamine"

Junior Boys - Big Black Coat Following their previous album, 2011's It's All True, the two members of Junior Boys embarked on a series of side projects. They came back together with Yellow Magic Orchestra and Robert Hood as inspirations and wrote an album about the lonely guy downtown. The "big black coat" is a metaphor representing an escape from the bleakness of life. Watch: "Over It" Watch: "Big Black Coat"

Other Full-Length Releases

Field Music - Commontime Watch: "The Noisy Days Are Over" Listen: "Disappointed"

Future - EVOL Listen: "In Her Mouth" Listen: "Ain't No Time"

John Cale - M:FANS Watch: "Close Watch" (featuring Amber Coffman) Listen: "Thoughtless Kind"

Luther Dickinson - Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook Volumes I & II) Listen: "Hurry Up Sunrise" Listen: "Ain’t No Grave" (featuring Mavis Staples)

Majid Jordan - Majid Jordan Watch: "King City" Watch: "Something About You"

Mass Gothic - Mass Gothic Watch: "Every Night You’ve Got to Save Me" Watch: "Nice Night"

Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale Listen: "Lion in Chains" Listen: "Mixer"

Shirlette Ammons - Language Barrier Listen: "Aviator" (featuring Amelia Meath) Listen: "Earth Intro" (featuring Indigo Girls)

Trae Tha Truth - Tha Truth Pt. 2 Listen: "All Good" Listen: "Spray" (featuring Jay'ton)

Working for a Nuclear Free City - What Do People Do All Day? Listen: "Bottlerocket" Listen: "New Day"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Holy Ghost! - "Crime Cutz" Watch: "Crime Cutz"

Jherek Bischoff & Amanda Palmer - Strung out in Heaven Listen: "Space Oddity" Listen: "Ashes to Ashes"

Nick Grant - ‘88 Listen: "Royalty (Remix)" (featuring Killer Mike & Big K.R.I.T.) Listen: "Somethin to Say"

The Soft Moon - Deeper Remixed Vol. 1 Listen: "Desertion" (Phase Fatale Remix) Listen: "Being" (Ancient Methods Remix)