50% Hipster: The Magnetic Fields

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Saturday, February 5, 2022

New Music Friday - January 28, 2022

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep Watch: "Softly" Watch: "Bliss"
	Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell Watch: "Bright Star" Watch: "Brooklyn Bridge"
	Imarhan - Aboogi Watch: "Tamiditin" (featuring Japonais) Watch: "Adar Newlan"
	Thyla - Thyla Watch: "Flush" Watch: "Kin"

Other Full-Length Releases

Babyface Ray - FACE

Watch: "My Thoughts 3”/“Pop’s Prayer"
Watch: "Sincerely Face"

CLOAKROOM - Dissolution Wave

Watch: "Fear of Being Fixed"
Watch: "Doubts"

EELS - Extreme Witchcraft

Watch: "Good Night on Earth"
Watch: "Steam Engine"

katie dey - forever music

Watch: "unfurl"
Watch: "real love"

Pinegrove - 11:11

Watch: "Alaska"
Watch: "Habitat"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Fruits Bats - Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021)

Listen: "Rips Me Up"
Listen: "Goodnight Sun & Hello Moon"

Jacques Greene - Fantasy

Listen: "Taurus"
Listen: "Relay"

The Magnetic Fields - The House of Tomorrow Vinyl Reissue

Listen: "Young and Insane"
Listen: "Love Goes Home to Paris in the Spring"

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - Demos

Listen: "Let England Shake" (Demo)
Listen: "Hanging in the Wire" (Demo)

Squirrel Flower - Planet EP

Watch: "unravel"
Watch: "your love is a disaster"

Sunday, May 24, 2020

New Music Friday - May 15, 2020

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

ALMA - Have U Seen Her?

This is the debut album from this Finnish singer who started her career on the country's version of Idol, where she finished fifth. She spent the past couple of years working with fellow Nords MØ and Tove Lo, as well as Charli XCX and Miley Cyrus.

Watch: "Have U Seen Her?"
Watch: "LA Money"

The Magnetic Fields - Quickies

This new album from The Magnetic Fields follows 2017's 50 Song Memoir. Their albums usually have some interesting concept to them, and this is no different. As the title suggests, the album is made up of super-short songs, none longer than two minutes 35 seconds.

Watch: "Kraftwerk in a Blackout"
Watch: "I’ve Got a Date with Jesus"

Moses Sumney - græ

This seems to be the year of releasing albums in pieces. Hayley Williams released half of her debut album several months before the full release, and Moses Sumney has done something similar for his follow up to 2017's Aromanticism. The first half of græ was released February. Now, we get the full release of the beautiful new record.

Watch: "and so I come to isolation"
Watch: "Bystanders"

Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

Perfume Genius has steadily released one incredible album after another. His latest may be his best, receiving the highest average ratings for his career. Inspiration for the album came out of Mike Hadreas' 2019 dance collaboration with Kate Wallich.

Watch: "Describe"
Watch: "On the Floor"

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Temple

To introduce their fifth album, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down set the standard for great quarantine music videos. I know that I've mentioned the "Phenom" video before, but it is just such a great show of creativity in our new reality.

Watch: "Temple"
Watch: "Phenom"

Other Full-Length Releases

Charli XCX - How I’m Feeling Now

Watch: "Forever"
Watch: "anthems"

The Dears - Lovers Rock

Watch: "The Worst in Us"
Watch: "Heart of an Animal"

Future - High Off Life

Watch: "Hard to Choose One"
Listen: "Solitaires" (featuring Travis Scott)

Jess Williamson - Sorceress

Watch: "Wind on Tin"
Watch: "Infinite Scroll"

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Music of Transformation

Watch: "The Steady Heart"
Watch: "Expanding Electricity"

Memory Pearl - Music for 7 Paintings

Watch: "Number 28, 1950"
Watch: "Red and Brown Scene, 1961"

The Neverly Boys - Dark Side of Everything

Watch: "Never Come Down"
Listen: "Burn Hollywood"

Nick Hakim - WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

Watch: "QADIR"
Listen: "WTMMG"

Peaking Lights - E S C A P E

Listen: "EVP (DKMNTL081)"
Listen: "The Damned"

Porcelain Raft - Come Rain

Watch: "Come Rain"
Watch: "Out of Time"

Public Practice - Gentle Grip

Watch: "Compromised"
Watch: "Disposable"

Retirement Party - Runaway Dog

Watch: "Runaway Dog"
Watch: "Compensation"

Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Watch: "Self-Effacing"
Watch: "Lawnmower"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Becoming - Music from the Netflix Original Documentary

Brain - The World EP

Listen: "Boss"

Charlie Cunningham - Pieces

Listen: "All This"
Listen: "Pieces"

Henry Jamison - Tourism

Watch: "Still Life" (featuring Joseph)
Listen: "Tourism" (featuring Fenne Lily)

Parsnip - Adding Up

Watch: "Treacle Toffee World"
Listen: "Adding Up"

Sleaford Mods - All That Glue

Watch: "Second"
Listen: "Reef of Grief"

Saturday, April 1, 2017

New Music Friday - March 10, 2017

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Navigator

Hurray for the Riff Raff is a Americana, folk and blues band fronted by Alyndra Segarra. Influenced by a wide range of artists from Bob Dylan to David Bowie, their sixth album stretches the bounds of their past work. It is part autobiography, part political essay, and part concept album, loosely following the character of a Puerta-Rican punk-folk musician named Navita. The content and risks that the album takes has earned an already-celebrated band even more rave reviews!

Watch: "The Navigator"
Watch: "Hungry Ghost"

Jay Som - Everybody Works

2016 was a year of hype for Jay Som, aka Melina Duterte. A collection of songs that were initially posted to Bandcamp in 2015 got re-released twice as her debut, Turn Into; initially released in July of last year. She is a true bedroom musician, recording all of her music in a bedroom studio. Where her debut was a collection of demos not necessarily meant for release, her follow-up is more polished, more fully showing the strength of her music and lyrics.

Watch: "Baybee"
Listen: "1 Billion Dogs"

Laura Marling - Semper Femina

I often forget, and find it surprising, that Marling has been so prolific for her age. She is 27 years old and Semper Femina is her sixth album. All of her records are spectacular and she is deftly capable of style progression with each one. She's grown on each release, but has yet to produce anything out of place in her discography. The album's title roughly translates to either "always a woman" or "a woman is a fickle thing," and is Marling's expert take on other women.

Watch: "Nothing, Not Nearly"
Watch: "Next Time"

The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir

The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt has been on this earth for 50 years and, for the band's 11th album, he has written a song for each of them. It's hardly the first time they have put out such a daunting collection of tracks, nor the biggest. That honor belongs to 1999's 69 Love Songs. The band started recording this album on Merritt's 50th birthday (February 9, 2015). It's autobiography presented in the form of music; Merritt is one of very few who could pull it off.

Watch: "‘81 How to Play the Synthesizer"
Watch: "‘83 Foxx and I"

Tennis - Yours Conditionally

Yours Conditionally is the fourth album from this husband-and-wife duo. The pair are starting over following 2014's Ritual in Repeat. They are seeking the same inspiration that drove them at the beginning of their career, the sea. They have returned, somewhat, to the sound of their debut album, 2011's Cape Dory. I liked their early stuff, but was far more drawn to their sound on Ritual in Repeat. This is a good record, but not quite my favorite of theirs.

Watch: "Modern Woman"
Watch: "In the Morning I’ll Be Better"

Other Full-Length Releases