New Music Friday - September 13, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Foushée - Pointy Heights Watch: "still around" Watch: "war"
	LSDXOXO - DOGMA Watch: "GHOST" (featuring Kelela) Watch: "4LUVN"
	My Brightest Diamond - Fight the Real Terror Watch: "Have You Ever Seen an Angel" Watch: "Safe House"
	Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor Watch: "Method Actor" Watch: "Call It Love"
	Tindersticks - Soft Tissue Watch: "New World" Watch: "Always a Stranger"

Other Full-Length Releases

Allegra Krieger - The Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine Watch: "Never Arriving" Watch: "Came"

Cass McCombs - Seed Cake on Leap Year Watch: "Anchor Child" Watch: "Baby"

Chastity - Chastity Watch: "Offing" Watch: "Buzzed and Bleached"

Chilly Gonzales - Gonzo Watch: "I.C.E." Watch: "Open the Kimono" (featuring Bruiser Wolf)

Colin Stetson - The love it took to leave you Watch: "The Love It Took to Leave You" Watch: "So say the soaring bullbats"

Cursive - Devourer Watch: "Up and Away" Watch: "Botch Job"

Dale Crover - Glossolalia Watch: "Doug Yuletide" Listen: "I Quit"

Floating Points - Cascade Watch: "Key103" Watch: "Fast Forward"

Foxing - Foxing Watch: "Greyhound" Watch: "Hell 99"

Jade Hairpins - Get Me the Good Stuff Watch: "Drifting Superstition" Watch: "My Feet on Your Ground"

Kal Marks - Wasteland Baby Watch: "A Functional Earth" Watch: "Wasteland Baby"

London Grammar - The Greatest Love Watch: "House" Watch: "Kind of Man"

Mermaid Chunky - slif slaf slof Watch: "Céilí" Listen: "chaperone"

Nada Surf - Moon Mirror Watch: "In Front of Me Now" Watch: "New Propeller"

Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Man Reading Room Watch: "Wish You Well" Watch: "Dawn"

Porches - Shirt Watch: "Joker" Watch: "Rag"

Sarah Davachi - The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir Watch: "Possente Spirto" Watch: "Night Horns"

Suki Waterhouse - Memoir of a Sparklemuffin Watch: "Supersad" Watch: "Blackout Drunk"

trentemøller - Dreamweaver Watch: "A Different Light" Watch: "Dreamweavers"

We Are Winter’s Blue and Radiant Children - No More Apocalypse Father Listen: "No More Apocalypse Father" Listen: "Unclouded Days"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Clark - In Camera Listen: "Green Breaking" Listen: "Superstar"

M. Ward - For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward Listen: "For Beginners" Listen: "Chinese Translation"

The War on Drugs - Live Drugs Again Watch: "Burning" (Live…Again) Listen: "I Don’t Wanna Wait" (Live…Again)

New Music Friday - March 5, 2021

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	AZITA - Glen Echo Latest album in long career from Azita Youssefi, who also moonlights (or daylights?) as a voice and piano teacher in Chicago. Watch: "If U Die" Listen: "Online Life"
	Bernice - Eau de Bonjourno A jazz-inflected experimental pop record from this Canadian trio. Watch: "It’s Me, Robin" Watch: "Groove Elation"
	IAN SWEET - Show Me How You Disappear After a strong showing with her 2016 debut, Shapeshifter, Jillian Medford and her band are still going strong on number three. Watch: "Drink the Lake" Watch: "Sing Till I Cry"
	Jane Weaver - Flock With a interesting mix of influences (Lebanese torch songs! Russian aerobic records! Australian punk!), Jane Weaver continues her unique brand of pop. Watch: "Heartlow" Watch: "The Revolution of Super Visions"
	Painted Shrines - Heaven and Holy After a great album from his main project, Woods, last year, Jeremy Earl is back with a new project and a new album. Listen: "Gone" Listen: "Heaven and Holy"

Other Full-Length Releases

Alex Bleeker - Heaven on the Faultline Watch: "La La La" Watch: "Reach for My Brain"

Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark Watch: "Here Comes Comus!" Watch: "The Turning of Our Bones"

Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird - These 13 Listen: "Poor Lost Souls" Listen: "Stonewall (1863)"

tindersticks - Distractions Watch: "Man alone (can’t stop the fadin’)" Listen: "You’ll have to scream louder"

Zara Larsson - Poster Girl Watch: "Talk About Love" (Young Thug) Watch: "Need Someone"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Coming 2 America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: Bobby Sessions & Megan Thee Stallion - "I’m a King" Watch: YG - "Go Big" (featuring Big Sean)

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED 1.5 Watch: "Track07" (Georgia Anne Muldrow Version featuring Arlo Parks) Watch: "So.Incredible" (Robert Glasper Version featuring Smino)

Drake - Scary Hours 2 Watch: "What’s Next" Listen: "Wants and Needs"

Ian Daniel Kehoe - Disco Body Buzz Watch: "Colour Application" Listen: "Solid Gold"

Intermission Listen: Jlin & SOPHIE - "JSLOIPNHIE" Listen: Tim Hecker, Agata Harz, & Katarzyna Smoluk - "Demeter & Johannes’ Song of Pandemia"

RINSE - Wherever I Am Watch: "Tamaryn (Wherever I Am)" Watch: "Back into Your Arms" (featuring Hatchie)

Tokyo Police Club - Champ Watch: "Gone" (Matt and Kim Remix) Listen: "Not Sick"

The Vaccines - Cosy Karaoke Watch: "High Horse" Watch: "Fire"

New Music Friday - January 22, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Chairlift - Moth Following the release of a solo album and an EP from frontwoman Caroline Polachek (under the name Ramona Lisa) in 2014, it seemed that this band was in the midst of a break. Turns out, the band was still hard at work, preparing their third album. They continue making their special brand of artsy pop. The album was highly anticipated and received glowing reviews upon its release. Watch: "Romeo" Watch: "Ch-Ching"

Eleanor Friedberger - New View Eleanor Friedberger is a member of a band currently on hiatus. She was one-half of The Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew, but they went their separate ways in 2011, both embarking on solo careers. New View is her third album, on which she grapples with life as a solo artist and approaching 40. Watch: "Sweetest Girls" Watch: "He Didn’t Mention His Mother"

Savages - Adore Life Savages had a hard act to follow in their 2013 debut, Silence Yourself. In a statement released along with the album's announcement back in October, they seemed to acknowledge some of the inherent difficulty in following up a much celebrated record, stating it was about "recognizing your potential" and "self-doubt and inaction," and so on. Watch: "The Answer" Watch: "Adore"

Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow Shearwater is one of those reliably consistent bands with a fairly well-defined sound and lyrical content. That consistency doesn't keep them from trying to expand and improve. On their latest, they've enlisted previous collaborators, tour mates, and film composer Brian Reitzell. The result is an album that still fits within my purview of the band's sound, but manages to add something new into that equation. Watch: "Quiet Americans" Listen: "Only Child"

Other Full-Length Releases

Adrian Younge - Something About April II Listen: "Memories of War" (featuring Laetitia Sadler) Listen: "Sittin’ By the Radio" (featuring Loren Oden)

The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum Watch: "The Plain Moon" Listen: "Nightingale"

Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Pond Scum Watch: "When Thy Song Flows Through Me" Listen: "Rich Wife Full of Happiness"

Charlie Hilton - Palana Listen: "100 Million" (featuring Mac DeMarco) Listen: "Funny Anyway"

The I Don’t Cares - Wild Stab Listen: "Born for Me" Listen: "King of America"

Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Listen: "America’s Most Wanted Mark Kozelek & John Dillinger" Listen: "Exodus"

Sam Means - 10 Songs Watch: "We’re Alone"

Tindersticks - The Waiting Room Watch: "Were We Once Lovers?" Watch: "Hey Lucinda"

Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger Listen: "Diversion" Listen: "Leopard Priestess"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

METZ - "Eraser"/"Pure Auto" Watch: "Eraser" Listen: "Pure Auto"

SAD13 & Lizzo - "Basement Queens" Listen: "Basement Queens"

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star Reissue Listen: "Winner’s Blues" Listen: "Bull in the Heather"

Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts and Flowers Reissue Listen: "Free City Rhymes" Listen: "Renegade Princess"