New Music Friday - April 12, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	English Teacher - This Could Be Texas Watch: "Albert Road" Watch: "Nearly Daffodils"
	Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat Watch: "Sun Without the Heat" Watch: "Scaled to Survive"
	Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud Watch: "Unfinished Business" Watch: "Silence Is Loud"
	Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Watch: "I’ll Do Whatever You Want" (featuring Floating Points & Laraaji) Watch: "End of Innocence"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bad Bad Hats - Bad Bad Hats Watch: "TPA" Watch: "My Heart Your Heart"

girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! Watch: "Too Much" Watch: "DOING IT AGAIN BABY"

Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me Watch: "Don’t Forget Me" Listen: "It Was Coming All Along"

METZ - Up on Gravity Hill Watch: "99" Watch: "Light Your Way Home"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

FACS - "North America Endless"/"Take Me to Your Heart" Watch: "North America Endless" Listen: "Take Me to Your Heart"

My Black Country - The Songs of Alice Randall Watch: Rhiannon Giddens - "The Ballad of Sally Anne" Watch: Adia Victoria - "Went for a Ride"

The Ophelias - Ribbon Watch: "Soft and Tame" Watch: "Black Ribbon"

Patrick Shiroishi - "A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest"/"The Light Is Not Afraid" Watch: "The Light Is Not Afraid" Listen: "A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest"

New Music Friday - July 29, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Beyoncé - Renaissance Watch: "BREAK MY SOUL" Watch: "SUMMER RENAISSANCE"
	DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT Watch: "SMiLE" Watch: "TAKE A CHANCE" (with Anderson .Paak)
	Jamie T - The Theory of Whatever Watch: "The Old Style Raiders" Watch: "St George Wharf Tower"
	King Princess - Hold On Baby Watch: "Change the Locks" Watch: "Let Us Die"
	Maggie Rogers - Surrender Watch: "That’s Where I Am" Watch: "Want Want"

Other Full-Length Releases

Amanda Shires - Take It Like a Man Watch: "Hawk for the Dove" Watch: "Bad Behavior"

Deaton Chris Anthony - SID THE KID Watch: "iScream" (with beabadoobee) Watch: "I Don’t Care About My Parents"

Florist - Florist Watch: "Red Bird Pt. 2" Watch: "Spring in Hours"

of Montreal - Freewave Lucifer f<ck f^ck f>ck Watch: "Marijuana’s a Working Woman" Watch: "Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden"

Tallies - Patina Watch: "Hearts Underground" Watch: "No Dreams of Fayres"

Wilder Maker - Male Models Watch: "Letter of Apology" Watch: "Static" (featuring V.V. Lightbody)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Reissue Watch: "Block Rockin’ Beats" Watch: "Elektrobank"

Emily Yacina - All the Things Watch: "DB Cooper" Listen: "White Bull"

Homeboy Sandman - Anjelitu Deluxe Edition Watch: "Go Hard" Listen: "Cow’s Milk"

Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God (Deluxe Reissue) Watch: "Read Between (Begin Again)" Watch: "State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U)"

Purity Ring - Shrines X Watch: "x inovein" Watch: "Fineshrine"

Sun’s Signature - Sun’s Signature Watch: "Golden Air" Watch: "Underwater"

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Reissue Watch: "Sugarcube" Watch: "Autumn Sweater"

New Music Friday - January 18, 2019

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Eight albums in and Deerhunter is as good as ever. It's been a minute since the band's last album, 2015's Fading Frontier, though we got an album from one side project (Moses Archuleta's Moon Diagrams released Lifetime of Love in 2017) and an instrumental tour-only cassette from the band. Their record includes production from Cate Le Bon and Ben H. Allen III, who they have worked with previously. Watch: "Death in Midsummer"

James Blake - Assume Form At the start of his career, James Blake's sound was more sonic, with his voice serving as an additional instrument, rather than being lyric-driven. That's gradually changed with each album, culminating in this record, which has many references to his relationship with actress Jameela Jamil. Watch: "Don’t Miss It" Watch: "Mile High" (featuring Travis Scott & Metro Boomin)

Ronnie Milsap - Ronnie Milsap: The Duets Ronnie Milsap has been an influential figure in country music for more than half of a century. On his 29th album, he partners up with some contemporaries and some younger artists for a collection of duets. Collaborators on the record include Luke Bryan, Dolly Parton, Kacey Musgraves, and Willie Nelson. Listen: "No Getting Over Me" (featuring Kacey Musgraves) Listen: "A Woman’s Love" (featuring Willie Nelson)

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Across her previous four studio albums, Van Etten's sound has been an often-forlorn folk. On her fifth album, she's changing things up more than a bit. Written while she was pregnant with her child and delving into acting, its lyrics show someone more at ease in life and looking back a bit. It's also a more rock-driven sound, showcasing a different instrumentation than her previous records. Watch: "Comeback Kid" Watch: "Seventeen"

Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace Following the release of his 2017 album, Boo Boo, Chaz Bear eschewed the standard promotional tour in favor of playing a series of DJ sets. He's influenced by those club sounds for this latest record, his sixth. Watch: "Freelance" Watch: "Ordinary Pleasure"

Other Full-Length Releases

Buke & Gase - Scholars Watch: "Scholars" Watch: "Derby"

Future - The WIZRD Watch: "Crushed Up" Watch: "Jumpin on a Jet"

Guster - Look Alive Watch: "Don’t Go" Listen: "Look Alive"

Joe Jackson - Fool Watch: "Fabulously Absolute" Listen: "Big Black Cloud"

Lost Under Heaven - Love Hates What You Become Watch: "For the Wild" Watch: "Post Millennial Tension"

Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life Watch: "Light On" Watch: "Give a Little"

M. Ward - What a Wonderful Industry Listen: "Motorcycle Ride" Listen: "War & Peace"

Steve Gunn - The Unseen in Between Watch: "New Moon" Watch: "Vagabond"

The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All the Time Watch: "VTr" Listen: "Videograms"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Open Spaces" Listen: "Future Markets"

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Tides: Music for Yoga and Meditation Listen: "Tides I" Listen: "Tides II"

New Order - Total Vinyl Reissue Listen: "Ceremony" Listen: "Hellbent"

Prince - The Little Box of Prince Listen: "Let’s Go Crazy" Listen: "Computer Blue"