New Music Friday - November 6, 2015

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Jamie Woon - Making Time Woon released a pretty awesome album, Mirrorwriting, back in 2011, then when almost completely silent. He started popping up again earlier this year, contributing vocals to Portico's Living Fields. At one point, he was considered to be a purveyor of post-dubstep music, but shifted more towards traditional R&B with this long-awaited follow-up. Listen: "Celebration" Listen: "Skin"

Grimes - Art Angels "Surprise"-releases are very popular lately, which is becoming a bit frustrating. After teasing this latest release with a series of one-off singles since her 2012 album, Visions, Grimes announced that the album would be surprise released on iTunes with just one day's notice back in September. She became more forgiving with a timeline later on, giving the official release date at the end of October. I'm always happy to have a more solid date to look forward to, but even happier that it's a great album! Watch: "Flesh without Blood”/“Life in the Vivid Dream" Watch: "REALiTi"

Kate Boy - One It's been a long wait for a debut album from this synthpop band. They received praise for a number of singles released over the past three years. The band waited longer to release an album than many other purveyors of their style. Some of whom, like Chvrches, Poliça, and Purity Ring, have released multiple records in that time. The band were perfectionists about this first album, putting in three years' worth of time to put out their best work. Watch: "Midnight Sun" Watch: "Higher"

Other Full-Length Releases

Haybaby - Sleepy Kids Watch: "Doored" Listen: "Elevator Song"

Made of Oak - Penumbra Watch: "Side Rides" Watch: "Pinebender"

Noun - Throw Your Body on the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood Watch: "Loveblood" Listen: "Pain"

Palm - Trading Basics Watch: "Ankles" Listen: "Crank"

Rustie - EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE Watch: "First Mythz" Listen: "Peace Upzzz"

Soldiers of Fortune - Early Risers Listen: "Nails" Listen: "Campus Swagger" (featuring Stephen Malkmus)

Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder - Indie 500 Watch: "Every Ghetto" (featuring Rapsody) Listen: "Understand" (featuring Brother Ali & Planet Asia)

The Unspeakable Practices - The Unspeakable Practices Listen: "Early Warning System" Listen: "A Steadying Effect"

W-X - W-X Listen: "Clean It Glen"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Busdriver - Thumbs Watch: "Much" Listen: "Surrounded By Millionaires" (featuring Daveed Diggs)

Björk - Vulnicura Strings (Vulnicura: The Acoustic Version) Listen: "Lionsong"

Blanck Mass - The Great Confuso EP Listen: "The Great Confuso Pt. 1" Listen: "No Lite"

Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 Watch: "Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues" Listen: "Just Like a Woman"

GØGGS - "She Got Harder" Listen: "She Got Harder"

Kurt Vile - Spotify Sessions EP

Puff Daddy - MMM Watch: "Workin’" Listen: "MMM" (featuring Future & King Loss)

Ride - Nowhere Reissue Listen: "Nowhere" Listen: "Vapour Trail"

Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour: The Drowning Shadows Edition Listen: "Drowning Shadows"

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New Music Tuesday - March 3, 2015

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New Full-Length Releases

Beech Creeps - Beech Creeps Beech Creeps is a Brooklyn band made up of members of a variety of bands including People Get Ready, Pterodactyl, and Yeasayer, just to name a few. They've been releasing music since 2013, but this self-titled, self-produced record is their official debut. Watch: "Sun of Sud" Listen: "Arms of the T-Rex"

Brandi Carlile - The Firewatcher’s Daughter Brandi Carlile was one of the first artists that actually got me into listening to country music. Well...alternative country, at least. Her 2007 sophomore album, The Story and its title track were among my most listened to for that year. She's released two other incredible albums since then, but her latest comes after some pretty big milestones in her life. She married her girlfriend, Catherine Shepherd, in 2012 and welcomed a daughter last year. Watch: "The Eye" Listen: "Wherever Is Your Heart"

Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin Cannibal Ox is a hip hop duo who have been performing together since 1998. They released their debut album, The Cold Vein (produced by El-P), in 2001, then went fairly silent for more than a decade. There were a few singles, a live record, and a compilation in the meantime, but this is only their second full-length record. Listen: "Swing Blades" (featuring Jean Grae) Listen: "Iron Rose" (featuring MF Doom)

Fluoride - Material Fluoride is a side project of Beach Fossils frontman Dustin Payseur, started in 2012 with Rene Nuñez. The project, along with Payseur's primary band, is one of several acts which are now a part of the Bayonet record label, which was started last year by Payseur and his wife, Katie Garcia. Material is the first full-length from the label, though it has also previously released a single from Warehouse. Listen: "Sleep"

Gill Landry - Gill Landry Gill Landry is a member of the folk and Americana group Old Crow Medicine Show. He's also been active as a solo artist since 2007, when he released The Ballad of Lawless Soirez. On his latest solo offering, he has enlisted some help from a fellow folk musician from across the pond; one of my favorites, Laura Marling. Watch: "Just Like You" Listen: "Take This Body" (featuring Laura Marling)

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - After Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, real name Aly Spaltro, is an artist I jumped into knowing little more about her than a couple of glowing write-ups on Stereogum. After a couple of spins of her record, and the incredible track "Violent Clementine," she has become of my new favorite musicians. Watch: "Spat Out Spit" Watch: "Billions of Eyes"

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday Both Gallagher brothers have kept themselves busy since the predictable break-up of their Oasis. In his solo work, however, Noel Gallagher has shown more consistency and proved why he was the primary songwriter for his former band. Chasing Yesterday is his second album with High Flying Birds. Watch: "Ballad of the Mighty I" Watch: "In the Heat of the Moment"

of Montreal - Aureate Gloom Even after 18 years together, of Montreal remains a weird and prolific band. Aureate Gloom is their thirteenth album. Following the experimentation with country on 2013's Lousy with Sylvianbriar, they return to their familiar psychedelic pop sound. Watch: "Bassem Sabry" Listen: "Empyrean Abattoir"

Purity Ring - another eternity Purity Ring made a big impact in 2012 with their debut album, Shrines. They began the often-daunting task of recording a sophomore follow-up last year. The album continues their synthy dream pop sound. Response to the record hasn't been as glowing as for their debut, but is still garnering the duo many positive reviews. Watch: "push pull" Watch: "begin again"

Other New Releases

BOOTS - Motorcycle Jesus EP BOOTS become a semi-household name in December of 2013 when it was revealed that he served as one of the primary producers and songwriters on Beyoncé's surprise self-titled record. His latest EP shows how he arrived in such an esteemed place in pop music with dark, brooding, and yet strangely catchy pop-rock. Watch: Motorcycle Jesus (Short Film)

Jon Hopkins - Late Night Tales The latest compilation from Late Night Tales was compiled by electronica musician Jon Hopkins. In addition to a new track from the man himself (a cover of Yeasayer's "I Remember"), he brings together favorite tracks from Alela Diane, School of Seven Bells, and Darkstar. Watch: Jon Hopkins - "I Remember" Listen: Darkstar - "Hold Me Down"

Kate Boy - Kate Boy EP Kate Boy is a electropop group from Stockholm who have been working together since 2012. There has not yet been a official album from the band (their output has consisted on singles and EPs). Their latest EP brings us five new songs from the band. Watch: "Northern Lights" Watch: "The Way We Are"

Mastodon - Blood Mountain Reissue Mastodon will be reissuing a number of their albums throughout this year. They begin with their third studio album, originally released in 2006. It was a concept album revolving around a character who is searching for a crystal skull to place upon the titular mountain. Watch: "The Wolf Is Loose" Listen: "Crystal Skull"

Oh Land - Head Up High Remixes Oh Land released her fourth album, Earth Sick, in November of last year. One of the tracks from the record, "Head Up High," has gotten the now-standard remix treatment from a number of other prominent musicians and producers. Reworks of the track from Mercury, Lauren Flax, MS MR, and CSS are collected in this latest release from the musician. Listen: MS MR - "Head Up High" Listen: CSS - "Head Up High"

Parquet Courts - Live at Third Man Records Parquet Courts have been garnering a lot of positive attention ever since the release of their 2012 debut album, Light Up Gold. They've caught the attention of Jack White, who invited them to play at his record label, Third Man. They performed there on June 5 of last year. Listen: "Duckin & Dodgin"

Ramona Lisa - Piano Versions Caroline Polachek of Chairlift released her debut album, Arcadia, as Ramona Lisa last year. She's already released one follow-up EP, Dominic, but her latest introduces alternative versions of some of that album's tracks. Watch: "I Love Our World" Listen: "Walking in the Cemetery"

Warehouse - Tesseract In addition to the debut album from Fluoride, Bayonet records is also re-releasing the debut record for Atlanta's Warehouse. The record was originally self-released by the band in July of last year. Listen: "Omission" Listen: "Promethean Gaze"