New Music Friday - April 5, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Dana Gavanski - LATE SLAP Watch: "How to Feel Uncomfortable" Watch: "Singular Coincidence"
	Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 Watch: "Starting and Staring" Watch: "Here Hair / Hard Hair"
	RiTchie - Triple Digits [112] Watch: "Dizzy" (featuring Aminé) Watch: "RiTchie Valens"
	Sinkane - We Belong Watch: "How Sweet Is Your Love" Watch: "We Belong"
	Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Watch: "Capricorn" Watch: "Gen-X Cops"

Other Full-Length Releases

The Black Keys - Ohio Players Watch: "Beautiful People (Stay High)" Watch: "I Forgot to Be Your Lover"

Bryson Tiller - Bryson Tiller Watch: "Whatever She Wants" Watch: "Undertow"

Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle Watch: "Romantic Worlds" Watch: "Love in Constant Spectacle"

Khruangbin - A LA SALA Watch: "A Love International" Watch: "May Ninth"

The Libertines - All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade Watch: "Night of the Hunter" Watch: "Shiver"

Lillie West - if i were a real man i would be able to break the neck of a suffering bird Watch: "holyholyholy" Listen: "1"

Maxband - On Ice Listen: "Slipping on Ice" Listen: "Lines"

Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent Watch: "Fishbrain" Watch: "Empty and Silent" (featuring King Krule)

Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe Listen: "Who Will You Believe" Listen: "I Don’t Need That Anymore" (featuring Neko Case)

Phosphorescent - Revelator Watch: "Revelator" Watch: "Impossible House"

Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Shabason, Krgovich, Sage Watch: "Bridget" Listen: "Bruce"

Still Corners - Dream Talk Watch: "The Dream" Watch: "Secret World"

We/Or/Me - Days Outside of Time Watch: "Lights Over London" (featuring Joan Shelley & Rachel Grimes) Listen: "Days Out of Time"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Drums - Jonny (Deluxe) Watch: "The Impossible" Listen: "Noah"

Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIII: Songs of Bruce Cockburn Listen: Eli Winter - "Foxglove" Listen: Jerry David DeCicca - "Forty Years in the Wilderness" (featuring Bill Callahan)

Jane Penny - Surfacing Watch: "Messages" Watch: "Wear You Out"

Varg2™ - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 6: Outlaw Music Watch: "Lucky" (featuring Eartheater & Earth) Watch: "H2D" (featuring Bladee & Ecco2K)

Rebel Moon—Songs of the Rebellion Listen: Jessie Reyez- "Child of Fire" Listen: aespa & TOKiMONSTA - "Die Trying"

So Many Things at Once Listen: The Natvral- "Pink Wine"

Tanlines - "Vanishing Point"/"Barefoot" Listen: "Vanishing Point" Listen: "Barefoot"

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 Tuesday - September 2, 2014

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New Full-Length Releases

Blonde Redhead - Barragán Four years after the release of Penny Sparkle, Blonde Redhead are attempting to reinvent their sound. Over their nine albums and 21 years together, they've moved towards a quieter, softer sound. This may be a disappointment for some fans, but I feel that most bands and musicians are more interesting if they evolve their sound over time. Listen: "Dripping" Listen: "No More Honey"

Earth - Primitive and Deadly Earth is a well-established drone metal band who released their first album in 1993. They separated for six years in 1997 and they've been pretty active since. Their latest features guest vocals from Mark Lanegan. Listen: "From the Zodiacal Light" Listen: "Even Hell Has Its Heroes"

Jeezy - Seen It All I've known the name Jeezy for quite awhile, but never been particularly interested in the music. While I'm exploring more hip hop artists and finding any that I liked, I'm also finding that they work with each other... a lot. I'm still not enthralled by his music, but his latest record includes contributions from Future, Rick Ross, and Jay-Z. Watch: "Me OK" Watch: "No Tears"

Sinkane - Mean Love Sinkane is the stage name of Sudanese musician Ahmed Gallab. He worked as a studio musician for such artists as Eleanor Friedberger, Caribou, and Yeasayer. He released a few EPs and albums starting in 2008, but broke out with the release of 2012's Mars. It was a great record, but he's recreating (even improving on) that magic. His music is a fusion of styles, influenced by the cultures that he grew up in, and the music he loves. Watch: "How We Be" Listen: "New Name"

Steven James Adams - House Music Steven James Adams has been performing for more than ten years and was a founding member of the Broken Family Band. This year, though, he's breaking out as a solo musician and enlisting some help from Emily Barker and The Vaccines. Watch: "Tears of Happiness"

The Vines - Wicked Nature The Vines rode in on the garage rock wave of the early-2000s and, like many of their contemporaries, faded into seeming obscurity for several years. It's been shorter than it seems, though, their previous record, Future Primitive, was released in 2011. This is still being pitched as a come-back record and is marked by a few big changes in the band. Lead singer Craig Nicholls takes producing credit for the first time and there's been some changes in the band's lineup. Watch: "Metal Zone" Listen: "Everything Else"

Zammuto - Anchor Nick Zammuto part of the duo The Books with Paul de Jong until the project ended in 2012. He released his first solo album following the disbandment, self-titled, in 2012. Anchor is the follow-up, recording with a full band. Watch: "IO" Watch: "Great Equator"

Zoot Woman - Star Climbing Zoot Woman is an electronic synthpop trio from England. They've been together for nearly twenty years, though this is just their fourth album. The band promises that this record is a departure for them, and has allowed them to incorporate all of their individual styles. Watch: "Don't Tear Yourself Apart"

Other New Releases

God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack God Help the Girl has been a long-term project for Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. The project was begun in 2009, when Murdoch brought together a group of female vocalists. That incarnation released a few singles, an album, and an EP; but he had larger sights set. He began developing a script for a movie that starting filming in 2012 and was released this year, starring Emily Browning as the main character. Watch: "God Help the Girl" Watch: Trailer

Julianna Barwick - Florine Reissue Julianna Barwick has become a bigger name in indie music over the past few years, but is not forgetting where she came from. She's re-releasing her first two EPs this weel. Florine was her second release, which originally came out in 2009. Listen: "Cloudbank" Listen: "Anjos"

Julianna Barwick - Sanguine Reissue Sanguine was the performer's very first release, coming out in 2006. It was where she first displayed her use of vocal loops and use of sounds over lyrics. It also serves as a show of how she creates music, allowing ideas to come to her spontaneously, rather than going through writing and re-writing processes. Listen: "Dancing with Friends" Listen: "Scary Cat"

Sam Smith - I'm Not the Only One Remix EP Sam Smith released his debut album, In the Lonely Hour, in June, riding in on a wave of hype created through early singles and guest appearances. He's releasing one of the songs, "I'm Not the Only One," from that record, with a few remixed versions. Watch: "I'm Not the Only One" Listen: "I'm Not the Only One" (Armand van Helden Remix)

Vaults - "Lifespan" Vaults were one of my newly-discovered favorites recently. I absolutely love their take on synthpop and, while they only have a few singles out as of yet, am looking forward to the release of their first record. Watch: "Lifespan"