New Music Friday - August 2, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Killer Mike - Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs for Sinners and Saints Watch: "Nobody Knows" Listen: "LORD PREPARE ME"
	Orville Peck - Stampede Watch: "Midnight Ride" (with Kylie Minogue & Diplo) Watch: "Death Valley High" (with Beck)
	Smashing Pumpkins - Aghora Mhori Mei Listen: "Pentecost" Listen: "Murnau"

Other Full-Length Releases

Jack White - No Name Listen: "That’s How I’m Feeling" Listen: "Old Scratch Blues"

Khalid - Sincere Watch: "Heatstroke" Watch: "Ground"

WHY? - The Well I Fell Into Watch: "G-dzillah G’Dolah" Watch: "Jump"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper into the Well Watch: "Cardinal" Watch: "Flower Child"

Maren Morris - Intermission Watch: "cut!" (with Julia Michaels) Watch: "i hope i never fall in love"

Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin Listen: "Raise the Roof" Listen: "Thus Sayeth the Lord"

Moses Sumney - Sophcore Watch: "Gold Coast" Watch: "Vintage"

Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour 10th Anniversary Edition Watch: "I’m Not the Only One" (featuring Alicia Keys) Watch: "I’ve Told You Now"

New Music Friday - January 27, 2023

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Complete Mountain Almanac - Complete Mountain Almanac Watch: "May" Listen: "February"
	Fucked Up - One Day Watch: "One Day" Watch: "Cicada"
	John Cale - MERCY Watch: "STORY OF BLOOD" (featuring Weyes Blood) Watch: "NOISE OF YOU"
	Popcaan - Great Is He Watch: "We Caa Done" (featuring Drake) Watch: "Aboboyaa" (featuring Burna Boy)
	Sam Smith - Gloria Watch: "Unholy" (with Kim Petras) Watch: "Gloria"

Other Full-Length Releases

The Arcs - Electrophonic Chronic Watch: "Keep On Dreamin’" Watch: "Heaven Is a Place"

Dave Rowntree - Radio Songs Watch: "Devil's Island" Watch: "Tape Measure"

H.C. McEntire - Every Acre Watch: "Soft Crook" Watch: "New View"

Jonah Yano - Portrait of a Dog Watch: "portrait of a dog" Watch: "always"

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust Watch: "Smalltown Stardust" Watch: "Portrait of God"

Meg Baird - Furling Watch: "Will You Follow Me Home?" Watch: "Star Hill Song"

R. Ring - War Poems, We Rested Watch: "Still Life" Watch: "Def Sup"

Samia - Honey Watch: "Kill Her Freak Out" Watch: "Mad at Me" (featuring Papa MBye)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Deluxe Vinyl Reissue Listen: "No Future/No Past" Listen: "Fall In"

Gone to Color - The RMXS Watch: "The 606" (The Field Remix) Watch: "Suicide" (Daniel Myer Remix)

New Order - Low Life (Definitive) Listen: "Love Vigilantes" Listen: "Sunrise"

Winspear Volume 01 Listen: Amy O - "Strategies of Self" Listen: Barrie - "Doesn’t Really Matter"

New Music Friday - October 30, 2020

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Ariana Grande - positions positions is the sixth album from Grande, and her third in just over two years. The new album, which is primarily focused on the theme of sex, features contributions from the Weeknd, Doja Cat, and Ty Dolla $ign. Watch: "positions" Watch: "34+35"

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full This is an interesting combination, Thou's sludge metal meeting ERR's ambient folk. Together, they present something beyond just Thou with a different lead singer, but a new style that combines them both and brings in elements of 90s-era alternative rock. Listen: "Ancestral Recall" Listen: "The Valley"

Mourn - Self Worth This has been a pretty good year for female-led indie rock out of Spain. We got a new album from Melenas in May and one from Hinds in June. Now, Catalonian Mourn is releasing their fourth album, following 2018's Sorpresa Familia. Watch: "This Feeling Is Disgusting" Watch: "Men"

Sam Smith - Love Goes Smith's follow-up to 2017's The Thrill of It All was originally supposed to be released in June, but COVID changed a lot of album release plans. Now, they are releasing the record with a new title and new cover art, but still a record that aims to drive them away from the ballad-driven work of prior records and in more of a pop-focused direction. Watch: "How Do You Sleep?" Watch: "Dancing with a Stranger" (featuring Normani)

War on Women - Wonderful Hell War on Women is a band about as political as one may assume from their name. They often tackle subjects like abortion, rape, and misogyny. Wonderful Hell is their third album, released in what may be a turning point of a year relative to women's rights. Watch: "Wonderful Hell" Watch: "White Lies"

Other Full-Length Releases

Autechre - PLUS Listen: "DekDre Scap B" Listen: "ecol4"

Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface Watch: "We Are All Cowards Now" Watch: "Hetty O’Hara Confidential"

Jim-E Stack - EPHEMERA Watch: "Note to Self" (featuring Empress Of) Watch: "Can We" (featuring Kacy Hill)

MadeInTYO - Never Forgotten Watch: "BET Uncut" (featuring Chance The Rapper & Smino) Listen: "Money Up" (featuring Toro Y Moi)

Nothing - The Great Dismal Watch: "Say Less" Watch: "Bernie Sanders"

Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Watch: "Long Road Home" Listen: "Auto & Allo"

Puscifer - Existential Reckoning Watch: "Apocalyptical" Watch: "Theorem"

Sinai Vessel - Ground Aswim Watch: "Shameplant" Watch: "Guest in Your Life"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell Archives Vol 1.: The Early Years (1963 to 1967) Watch: "House of the Rising Sun" Watch: "Urge for Going"

Okkervil River - A Dream in the Dark: Two Decades of Okkervil River

OutKast - Stankonia 20th Anniversary Reissue Watch: "B.O.B." Watch: "So Fresh, So Clean"

Stevie Nicks - Live in Concert: The 24 Karat Gold Tour Watch: "Gypsy" Watch: "Rhiannon"

Suuns - FICTION Watch: "Pray" Watch: "FICTION"

Yumi Zouma - Truth or Consequences (Alternate Versions) Watch: "Lie Like You Want Me Back" Watch: "My Palms Are Your Reference to Hold to Your Heart"

New Music Friday - October 23, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Joanna Newsom - Divers It may have been five years since Joanna Newsom's last album, Have One on Me, but she kept herself pretty busy in the interim. She appeared on Austin City Limits and Portlandia in 2012, was featured on Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's We the Common and married Andy Samberg in 2013 and narrated Inherent Vice, last year. With all of that, she found time to work on this latest record, her fourth. Watch: "Sapokanikan" Watch: "Divers"

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle Julien Baker is a 19-year-old singer and songwriter from Memphis. Despite her age, she's already been through and done a lot. She was a member of the band Forrister before heading off to college. She began making her own music after missing her friends, who then encouraged her to record. She hints at past issues with substance abuse and writes openly about death. She recorded her debut album at Matthew E. White's Spacebomb Studios. Watch: "Sprained Ankle" Listen: "Brittle Boned"

Pure Bathing Culture - Pray for Rain Pure Bathing Culture is an indie pop duo hailing from New Jersey, but currently based in Portland, Oregon. With a style that some compared to Fleetwood Mac, they released their debut album, Moon Tides, in 2013. They've worked with some impressive indie rock producers in their short career so far; Richard Swift for an 2012 EP and John Congleton for this sophomore album. Watch: "Pray for Rain" Watch: "Palest Pearl"

Other Full-Length Releases

D.R.A.M. - Gahdamn! Watch: "$" (featuring Donnie Trumpet) Listen: "Caretaker" (featuring SZA)

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Angels & Ghosts Watch: "All of This and Nothing" Listen: "Shine"

Fuzz - II Listen: "Pollinate" Listen: "Rat Race"

Long Beard - Sleepwalker Watch: "Turkeys" Listen: "Porch"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album

Sam Smith - "Writing’s on the Wall" Watch: "Writing’s on the Wall"

Yogi - "SIRI" Listen: "SIRI" (featuring Elephant & Pusha T)