New Music Friday - March 22, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future Watch: "sadness as a gift" Watch: "fool"
	Empress Of - For Your Consideration Watch: "Femenine" Watch: "For Your Consideration"
	Jlin - Akoma Listen: "The Precision of Infinity" (featuring Philip Glass) Listen: "Eye Am"
	Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves Watch: "Spinning" Watch: "Evening Mood"
	Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Watch: "Right Back to It" (featuring MJ Lenderman) Watch: "365"

Other Full-Length Releases

Cakes Da Killa - Svengali Watch: "Mind Reader" (featuring Stout) Watch: "Svengali"

Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO Watch: "Lovers’ Leap" Watch: "Balu"

Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse Watch: "Blue Tuesday" Watch: "Give It Back to Me"

Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW Watch: "JPEG RAW" Watch: "This Is Who We Are" (featuring Naala)

Gossip - Real Power Watch: "Crazy Again" Watch: "Real Power"

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes Watch: "Chemical Animal" Watch: "jamcod"

Magic Tuber Stringband - Needlefall Listen: "Needlefall" Listen: "Twelfth House"

Matt Champion - Mika’s Laundry Watch: "Slow Motion" (with JENNIE) Watch: "Dogfish"

Restorations - Restorations Listen: "Field Recordings" Listen: "Charm"

Rosie Tucker - UTOPIA NOW Watch: "All My Exes Live in Vortexes" Watch: "Paperclip Maximizer"

Sam Evian - Plunge Watch: "Wild Days" Watch: "Rollin’ In"

SiR - Heavy Watch: "HEAVY" Watch: "YOU"

The Staves - All Now Watch: "All Now" Watch: "I Don’t Say It, But I Feel It"

ZOMBI - Direct Inject Listen: "The Post-Atomic Horror" Listen: "Direct Inject"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Maynard James Keenan - Cinquanta

Wild Pink - Strawberry Eraser Listen: "Unconcious Pilot" Listen: "Air Drumming Fix You"

Wye Oak - Shriek: Variations Listen: "Shriek" (Variation) Listen: "Logic of Color" (Variation)

New Music Friday - March 24, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Drake - More Life Word of this "playlist" (his words) from Drake first surfaced late last year. I had initially heard it was set for release on December 23, but that date came and went with no news of the record. It wasn't until March that it got its final release date. More Life is meant to bridge the gap between releases from the rapper, but has become an acclaimed set of songs in its own right, and another hit for Drake.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy It's been 19 years since The Jesus and Mary Chain's last record, 1998's Munki, which they released just before splitting the next year. It's been ten years since they reformed, but much of that time was spent re-releasing old music and touring. Jim Reid announced that the band was back in the studio in 2015. Damage and Joy is the result of those sessions, produced by Youth. Watch: "Amputation" Watch: "Always Sad"

Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens This is the debut album from Kelly Lee Owens, who was formerly the bassist for the History of Apple Pie before they parted in 2013. Her solo work can be broadly described as electronic, though she mixes elements of various substyles of the genre. She is indebted to various influences on her debut, ranging from Massive Attack to Arthur Russell, and includes a feature from another, Jenny Hval. Watch: "Anxi" (featuring Jenny Hval) Listen: "Throwing Lines"

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me For 13 years, Mount Eerie (Phil Elverum) was married to Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée. She passed away last year following a battle with pancreatic cancer, also leaving behind a young daughter. While he was always intensely private about his marriage, his eighth studio album deals with the grief of his loss head-on. Stylistically, it's looser than his past work, representing less an effort to write traditional songs, but to exorcise his pain. Watch: "Ravens" Listen: "Crow"

Red Baraat - Bhangra Pirates Red Baraat is a bhangra band out of Brooklyn who also incorporate jazz and R&B. The band was founded by Sunny Jain in 2007 and released their debut, Chaal Baby, in 2010. They've become renowned for their live shows. Bhangra Pirates is their third studio release, which includes a contribution from the incredible guitarist, Steve Marion! Listen: "Bhangale" (featuring Delicate Steve) Listen: "Layers"

Other Full-Length Releases

Becca Stevens - Regina Watch: "Queen Mab" Watch: "Well Loved" (featuring Laura Mvula)

The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Earth Listen: "Don’t Walk These Streets" Listen: "Snakes Vs Rats"

Johnny Flynn - Sillion Watch: "Raising the Dead" Listen: "Heart Sunk Hank"

Matthew Stevens - Preverbal Listen: "Our Reunion" (featuring Esperanza Spalding) Listen: "Undertow"

Mike-WiLL Made-It - Ransom 2 Watch: "Gucci on My" (featuring 21 Savage, YG, & Migos) Listen: "Come Down" (featuring Chief Keef & Rae Sremmurd)

Pallbearer - Heartless Watch: "I Saw the End" Listen: "Thorns"

Spiral Stairs - Doris & the Daggers Watch: "Dundee Man" Watch: "Dance (Cry Wolf)"

Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer Listen: "Breathe" Listen: "Sorcerer"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Fucked Up - Year of the Snake Listen: "Year of the Snake"

Hannah Lou Clark - The Heart and All Its Sin EP Watch: "Don’t Sweat It"

Paul McCartney - Flowers in the Dirt Deluxe Reissue Watch: "My Brave Face" Listen: "Twenty Fine Fingers" (featuring Elvis Costello) (demo)

PINS - Bad Thing EP Watch: "Aggrophobe" (featuring Iggy Pop) Watch: "All Hail"

Tactus Tempus

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending December 10)

Last week's exciting album announcement may have turned out to have been a bit of a false promise. The new record from Yasiin Bey had been promised for yesterday, but I have yet to see any evidence that anything was actually released. Le sigh... we can only hope that something will come eventually. Check out a list of more assured new albums on my Upcoming Releases page!

This week, The Jesus and Mary Chain announced their first album in nearly 20 years, Damage and Joy.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain formed in 1983 and became one of the progenitors of shoegazing music, which gained some popularity in the years that followed. The band released six albums over a 13 years span, but broke up just a year after 1998's Munki.

In 2007, the band got back together, but spent much of the time since touring. A new album was regularly teased, being alluded to in an interview with Uncut magazine in 2008, then mentioned again by the band in 2012. The band returned to the studio last year and have now made the official announcement of that new record.

We have a new song from the band, "Amputation," to hold us over until the album's release on March 24.

Also announced this week:

Ab-Soul - DWTW (out now)
Hooray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (March 10)
M83 - Road Blaster EP (out now)
New Order - New Order Presents Be Music (February 17)
Ryan Adams - Prisoner (February 17)
Tim Kingsbury - Yeah You, and I (February 17)
Yasiin Bey - Negus in Natural Person (December 21)*
Yasiin Bey & Mannie Fresh - As Promised (December 21)*

* I'm taking these announcements with a grain of salt...

New Music Friday - July 31, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Albert Hammond Jr. - Momentary Masters When The Strokes got back together in 2009; I wasn't nearly as excited for it as teenage Joy would have been. During the years that they had been on break, several of the members released solo or side projects that were just incredible; including Albert Hammond Jr., who released a solo debut, Yours to Keep, in 2006. The albums that followed The Strokes' return were far from my favorites, so I am excited to see the members back in the solo game! Watch: "Losing Touch" Watch: "Born Slippy"

Lianne La Havas - Blood Lianne La Havas is a British folk and R&B singer of Jamaican and Greek heritage who released her first album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, three years ago. She became a critical and commercial darling following its release and found other artists like Alt-J and Prince among her fans (she appears on both of their albums last year). Compared to her first album, her follow-up is more soulful and upbeat. Watch: "What You Won’t Do" Watch: "Unstoppable"

Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy Titus Andronicus have never been a band to shy away from conceptual albums. They've already made albums inspired by Seinfeld and the American Civil War, but this album may be their most ambitious yet. The Most Lamentable Tragedy is a "rock opera" following "Our Hero" over five acts; it's a statement on manic depression. They remain one of the few acts who make concept albums palatable and they've done it again! Watch: "Fatal Flaw" Watch: "Dimed Out"

Other Full-Length Releases

Adult Mom - Momentary Lapse of Happily Listen: "Survival" Listen: "Laying on My Floor"

Gunplay - Living Legend Watch: "Wuzhanindoe" Watch: "John Gotti Freestyle"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

BEAK - BEAK KAEB Watch: "The Broken Window" Watch: "There's No One"

Chet Faker - "1998" Listen: "1998" (featuring BANKS)

Ibeyi - "Exhibit Diaz" Watch: "Exhibit Diaz"

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Live at Barrowlands Listen: "Reverence"

Led Zeppelin - Coda Reissue Listen: "Sugar Mama" (Mix) Listen: "Darlene" (Remastered)

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door Reissue Listen: "In the Evening" (Remastered) Listen: "Fool in the Rain"

Led Zeppelin - Presence Reissue Listen: "Achilles Last Stand" Listen: "Hots on for Nowhere" (Reference Mix)

Les Mouches - You’re Worth More to Me Than 1000 Christians Reissue Listen: "Cities Become Less Important" Listen: "Carload of Whatever"

Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds - High-Flying Birds in 3D Listen: "The Right Stuff" (3D Remix - Version 1)

The Prophet: Music from the Motion Picture Watch: Damien Rice - "Hypnosis" Listen: Damien Rice - "On Children"

Thou - "Eyehatethou" Listen: "Eyehatethou"