New Music Friday - October 4, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise Listen: "Breath Out" Listen: "Diets"
	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” Listen: "GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS" Listen: "BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD"
	Half Waif - See You at the Maypole Watch: "Figurine" Watch: "The Museum"
	Leon Bridges - Leon Watch: "Peaceful Place" Watch: "That’s What I Love"
	The Smile - Cutouts Watch: "Zero Sum" Watch: "Foreign Spies"

Other Full-Length Releases

Abstract Crimewave - The Longest Night Watch: "The Gambler" (featuring Lykke Li) Watch: "Flyga Fram" (featuring Dungen)

The Bug - Machine Watch: "Bodied (Send for the Hearse)" Watch: "Buried (Your Life Is Short)"

Caribou - Honey Watch: "VOLUME" Watch: "Broke My Heart"

Coldplay - Moon Music Watch: "ALL MY LOVE" Watch: "JUPiTER"

cumgirl8 - the 8th cumming Watch: "Karma Police" Watch: "ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)"

Drug Church - PRUDE Watch: "Demolition Man" Watch: "Slide 2 Me"

FINNEAS - For Cryin’ Out Loud! Watch: "For Cryin’ Out Loud!" Watch: "Cleats"

Geordie Greep - The New Sound Watch: "Holy, Holy" Listen: "Blues"

The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet Watch: "Rio’s Song" Watch: "Earth Hater"

Jonah Yano - Jonah Yano & the Heavy Loop Watch: "The Heavy Loop" Listen: "Snowpath" (featuring Clairo)

A Place to Bury Strangers - Synthesizer Watch: "Disgust" Watch: "You Got Me"

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight Watch: "Electra" Watch: "The South Atlantic" (featuring This Is the Kit)

Spirit Night - Time Won’t Tell Watch: "Darker Now" Listen: "A.M."

Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns Watch: "The Fences of Stonehenge" Watch: "Sprinter Brain"

Verböten - Verböten Watch: "Kicking Away" Watch: "Bodily Autonomy"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Ada Lea - notes Watch: "come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera" Watch: "i-95"

Alison Moyet - Key Watch: "Such Small Ale" (Key Version) Watch: "So Am I" (Key Version)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel Listen: "Kids on Holiday" (Live)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) Listen: "#19" Listen: "#1"

Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Listen: Kurt Vile - "Sins of My Youth" Listen: The War on Drugs - "You Wreck Me"

Cadence Weapon - ROLLERCOASTER DELUXE Watch: "Wormhole" Watch: "Surreal" (with The 2 Bears)

Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (10th Anniversary) Watch: "Now Here In" Watch: "I’m Not Part of Me" (Live at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, 1-15-2015)

The Fiery Furnaces - Stuck in My Head Listen: "My Dog Was Lost but Now He’s Found" Listen: "Chris Michaels"

Joan Shelley - Mood Ring Listen: "Mood Ring" Listen: "Fire of the Morning"

Joni Mitchell - Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) Watch: "Intro to Coyote” / “Coyote" Watch: "Traveling (Hejira)"

Maya Hawke - Clipped Wings Listen: "Kamikaze Comic" Listen: "You Won’t Feel a Thing"

Noeline Hoffman - Purple Gas Watch: "Purple Gas" Watch: "August"

Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers (Deluxe Edition) Watch: "Wildflowers in the Sky" Watch: "Just Like Paradise"

yunè pinku - Scarlet Lamb Watch: "Believe" Watch: "Half Alive"

New Music Friday - March 12, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Allie Crow Buckley - Moonlit and Devious This L.A.-based musician pulls in Dylan Day, Rilo Kiley's Jason Boesel, and Sharon Van Etten for a haunting new album. Watch: "Nothing Sacred" Watch: "Taming Shadows"

Other Full-Length Releases

Pino Palladino, Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments Listen: "Ekuté" Listen: "Just Wrong"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Caribou - Suddenly Remixes Watch: "Home" (Toro Y Moi Remix) Listen: "Never Come Back" (Koreless Remix)

The Horrors - Lout Watch: "Lout" Listen: "Whiplash"

Gang of Four - Gang of Four: 77-81 Watch: "Elevator" (demo) Watch: "Damaged Goods"

Lorenzo Wolff - Down Where the Valleys Are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill Watch: "The Pearl" (featuring Bartees Strange) Listen: "Down Where the Valleys Are Low" (featuring Mary Elaine Jenkins)

Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison Watch: "Let It Be" Watch: "Then You Can’t Tell Me Goodbye"

Perfume Genius - Immediately Remixes Watch: "Your Body Changes Everything" (Boy Harsher Remix) Watch: "Describe" (A. G. Cooke Remix)

The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??! Watch: "Proceed" Listen: "Silent Treatment" (Street Mix)

Selena Gomez - REVELACIÓN Watch: "De Una Vez" Watch: "Baila Conmigo" (featuring Rauw Alejandro)

Sorry - A Night at the Windmill Listen: "Round the Clock" (Live) Listen: "In Unison" (Live)

New Music Tuesday - March 10, 2015

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New Full-Length Releases

Aero Flynn - Aero Flynn Strangely, despite the intentionally off spelling, searching for this band always returns a lot of results for the actor Errol Flynn. The band is the project of Josh Scott, the latest member of the Bon Iver family tree to release new music. He hails from the same Wisconsin music scene and has played with members of DeYarmond Edison (a former project of Justin Vernon) in his former band Amateur Love. Listen: "Dk/Pi" Listen: "Twist"

Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida Dick Diver is an indie pop band hailing from Melbourne, Australia; not Florida as the album title may imply (though that is a real place). Though their name sounds dirty on first pass, it is taken from a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. This is their third album, though the first to be released in the States. Listen: "Waste the Alphabet" Listen: "Tearing the Posters Down"

Heems - Eat, Pray, Thug Heems, Himanshu Suri, was a member of the now-defunct trio Das Racist. He released two mixtapes in 2012, the same year that the band broke up, but this is first his solo album. On the record, he goes in a much more serious direction than he was known for in Das Racist; he has said that the album was recorded during one of the darkest periods of his life. Listen: "Home" (featuring Dev Hynes) Listen: "Sometimes"

Laura Welsh - Soft Control Laura Welsh is a young British singer and a member of a new class of young, female, British singers, which includes Florence Welch and Jessie Ware. With her lush vocals, she's already been garnering comparisons to those two ladies. Soft Control is her debut record. Watch: "Ghosts" Listen: "Hardest Part" (featuring John Legend)

Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood Matthew E. White had a big year in 2012 with the release of his debut album, Big Inner, which saw him named eMusic's breakout artist of the year and was included in numerous best-of lists. 2015 is another big year for him, but he's sharing the love. He co-produced Natalie Prass' well-received debut album and is looking to recreate the magic of his debut a second time around. Watch: "Rock & Roll Is Cold" Listen: "Golden Robes"

Sasha Siem - Most of the Boys Siem is another young British singer, but with a less conventional style. Also on her debut album, she built up her career working as a composer, writing music for the London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Opera House, and Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, among many other. She's also received awards for her work. She applies that same compositional eye to her own music, which has seen her getting comparisons to a broad group of musicians, including: Björk, Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, and Leonard Cohen. Watch: "So Polite" Watch: "My Friend"

Will Butler - Policy Arcade Fire released their fourth album, Reflektor, in October of 2013. Since then, we've gotten one solo album from a member, Richard Reed Parry, who released Music for Heart and Breath last year. Will Butler is the first to follow suit with this debut album. Watch: "Anna" Listen: "Take My Side"

Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv Another member of a prominent Canadian indie band is breaking out on his own! Ben Cook is best known as the drummer for Fucked Up. With his debut album as Young Guv, he separates himself considerably from the hardcore punk sound of his main project, creating a lighter pop sound. Watch: "Crushing Sensation" Watch: "Ripe 4 Luv"

Other New Releases

The Band - Palladium Circles In 1976, The Band played a show at New York's Palladium, just two months before their farewell concert, The Last Waltz. The concert was broadcast live by WNEW; that broadcast is being released here. Purchase: Amazon

Caribou - Our Love Expanded Edition Dan Snaith released his fourth album under the Caribou name in October of last year. This year, it is getting the reissue treatment, with seven remixed versions added to the album's original tracklist. Listen: "Second Chance" (Cyril Hahn Edit) Listen: "Mars" (Head High’s Core Remix)

Charlie Cunningham - Breather EP This talented singer-songwriter released his debut EP, Outside Things, in November of last year. He's following that up with another short collection of tracks. Listen: "Less Leg" (Live)

Head Wound City - Head Wound City EP Reissue Head Wound City was a supergroup, of sorts, made up of The Locust, Holy Molar, The Blood Brothers, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They formed in 2004 and one self-titled EP in 2005. They continue to perform together occasionally, but have released no other music under the name. This year, that one EP is getting a reissue. Listen: "Street College"

Jimmy Napes - The Making of Me EP Jimmy Napes is the writer and producer behind recent hits from Disclosure, Sam Smith, and even Mary J. Blige (he worked on her latest album). He had a big 2014 with releases from both Blige and Smith, but is making 2015 his own, with the release of his debut EP. Watch: "Give It Up" Listen: "Making of Me"

MusicNow - 10 Years MusicNow is a Cincinnati-based music festival, curated by Aaron Dessner of The National, which has been going strong for ten years. In that time, the festival has attracted artists like Owen Pallett, Richard Reed Parry, Sharon Van Etten, and Bon Iver. To celebrate its tenth year, many of those artists have come together to collect festival highlights onto this new compilation. Listen: Sounds of the South - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"