New Music Friday - May 23, 2025

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Florry - Sounds Like… Watch: "Hey Baby" Watch: "First it was a movie, then it was a book"
	Lindstrøm - Sirius Syntoms Listen: "cirkl" Listen: "Sirius Syntoms"
	Moontype - I Let the Wind Push Down on Me Watch: "Four Hands ii" Listen: "Starry Eyed"
	Shamir - Ten Watch: "Recording 291" Watch: "Neverwannago"
	Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film Watch: "Aerial Troubles" Watch: "Melodie Is a Wound"

Other Full-Length Releases

Age of Apocalypse - In Oblivion Watch: "Mortal Coil" Listen: "Impulse" (featuring High Vis)

Boldy James & Your Boy Posco - Magnolia LeFlore Listen: "Nancy Botwin" Listen: "Heavy Rooted"

Sparks - MAD! Watch: "JanSports Backpack" Watch: "Drowned in a Sea of Tears"

Sports Team - Boys These Days Watch: "Sensible" Watch: "Bang Bang Bang"

These New Puritans - Crooked Wing Watch: "Industrial Love Song" (featuring Caroline Polachek) Watch: "A Season in Hell"

New Music Friday - October 2, 2020

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Bartees Strange - Live Forever Watch: "Boomer" Watch: "Mustang"
	BLACKPINK - The Album Watch: "Ice Cream" (featuring Selena Gomez) Watch: "Lovesick Girls"
	Cartalk - Pass Like Pollen Watch: "Noonday Devil" Listen: "Los Manos"
	Deradoorian - Find the Sun Watch: "Saturnine Night" Watch: "Monk’s Robes"
	Shamir - Shamir Watch: "I Wonder" Watch: "Running"

Other Full-Length Releases

Aloe Blacc - All Love Everything Watch: "All Love Everything" Watch: "Hold On Tight"

Bryson Tiller - A N N I V E R S A R Y Watch: "Outta Time" (featuring Drake) Watch: "Years Go By"

Dawes - Good Luck with Whatever Watch: "Who Do You Think You’re Talking To?" Watch: "St. Augustine at Night"

Death Valley Girls - Under the Spell of Joy Watch: "Hold My Hand" Watch: "I’d Rather Be Dreaming"

Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin Watch: "How to Fight" Listen: "Below the Clavicle"

Jonsí - Shiver Watch: "Swill" Watch: "Cannibal" (featuring Liz Fraser)

Roísín Murphy - Roísín Machine Watch: "Narcissus" Watch: "Shellfish Mademoiselle"

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension Watch: "America" Watch: "Video Game"

YG - My Life 4Hunnid Watch: "Swag" Watch: "Equinox" (featuring Day Sulan)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Agent blå - Atopos Listen: "Atopos" Listen: "Lay in My Arms"

Dirty Projectors - Earth Crisis Listen: "Eyes on the Road" Listen: "Bird’s Eye"

Hot Chip - Late Night Tales Watch: Hot Chip - "None of These Things" Watch: Hot Chip - "Nothing’s Changed"

Isola - EP1 Listen: "Said It Again" Listen: "Any Day"

The Jaded Hearts Club - You’ve Always Been Here Watch: "Reach Out I’ll Be There" Watch: "I Put a Spell on You"

John Parish & PJ Harvey - Dance Hall at Louse Point Vinyl Reissue Watch: "That Was My Veil" Listen: "Dance Hall at Louse Point"

Kurt Vile - Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep) Watch: "How Lucky" (with John Prine) Listen: "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"

Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass Listen: "LA Who Am I to Love You"

Mariah Carey - The Rarities Listen: "Here Wo Go Round Again" Listen: "Can You Hear Me"

Miranda Winters - All Purpose Listen: "Double Mirror Light" Listen: "Little Baby Dead Bird"

mxmtoom - dusk Watch: "ok on your own" (featuring Carly Rae Jepsen) Listen: "wallflower"

New Neighborhoods

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies Definitive Edition Watch: "Age of Consent" Listen: "We All Stand"

Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory [25th Anniversary Edition] Watch: "Morning Glory" Watch: "Wonderwall"

Rilo Kiley - Rilo Kiley Reissue Listen: "85"

Robert Plant - Digging Deep: Subterranea Listen: "Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up, Pt. 1)" Listen: "Too Much Alike" (featuring Patty Griffin)

We Are Who We Are (Original Series Score) Listen: Devonté Hynes - "The Long Ride II" Listen: Devonté Hynes - "Let Yourself Go"

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