New Music Friday - February 9, 2024

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Brittany Howard - WHAT NOW Watch: "What Now" Watch: "Prove It to You"
	Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Watch: "Tunnel Lights" Watch: "Everything Turns Blue"
	Helado Negro - Phasor Watch: "LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)" Watch: "Best for You and Me"
	Pylon Reenactment Society - Magnet Factory Watch: "3 x 3" Watch: "Fix It" (featuring Kate Pierson)

Other Full-Length Releases

Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way Watch: "Hollowed Out" Watch: "Train Full of Gasoline"

Itasca - Imitation of War Watch: "Imitation of War" Watch: "Milk"

Madi Diaz - Weird Faith Watch: "Same Risk" Watch: "Don’t Do Me Good" (with Kacey Musgraves)

Pouty - Forgot About Me Listen: "TV on TV" Listen: "Virgos Need More Love"

Usher - Coming Home Watch: "Good Good" (with Summer Walker & 21 Savage) Watch: "Ruin" (with Pheelz)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Burial - "Dreamfear"/"Boy Sent from Above" Listen: "Dreamfear" Listen: "Boy Sent from Above"

Little Simz - Drop 7 Watch: "Mood Swings" Watch: "Far Away"

Shygirl - Club Shy Watch: "f@k€" Watch: "thicc"

Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears Listen: "I Love Her All the Time" Listen: "C.B."

Thomas Bangalter - DAAAAAALÍ! Watch: "DAAAAAALÍ !"

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (Deluxe Edition) Watch: "Gone Daddy Gone" (Live) Listen: "Blister in the Sun"

New Music Friday - July 21, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life Del Rey's work has always been marked by her penchant for moodiness. The smile on the cover of her latest album indicates a slightly lighter mood for the record. She's an artist who just keeps getting better, expanding her stylistic influences, guest vocalists, and moods on this latest record. Watch: "Lust for Life" (featuring The Weeknd) Watch: "Love"

Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee Nicole Atkins fourth album comes ten years after her debut, Neptune City, and follows a period of transition for the artist. She's on a new record label, has relocated from New Jersey to Nashville, and is working with a new production team. Rhonda Lee is a reference to Atkins' self-professed alter ego, one that comes out when she's acting up. Perhaps the album is an attempt to exorcise that part of herself. Watch: "Listen Up" Listen: "Goodnight Rhonda Lee"

Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy This latest album from Tyler, The Creator, seems to expose some revelatory truths about the rapper. Response to much of his early work was punctuated by accusations of homophobia (not totally undeserved). On this album, though, he seems to reference his own homosexual experiences. He's matured quite a bit since starting his career; Flower Boy is the apex of that maturation and the first time I've been able to take him really seriously. Listen: "Ain’t Got Time" Listen: "Boredom"

Other Full-Length Releases

Avey Tare - Eucalyptus Listen: "Roamer" Listen: "Melody Unfair"

Meek Mill - Wins & Losses Watch: "Issues" Watch: "Young Black America" (featuring The-Dream)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Deap Vally - Femejism Unplugged Watch: "Turn It Off"

Denitia - Ceilings Listen: "Planes" Listen: "Ceilings"

En Route - Then Is a Song Listen: "I Am the Problem" Listen: "Dumb"

Violent Femmes - 2 Mics & the Truth Listen: "Untrue Love" Listen: "It’s Gonna Rain"

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending December 18)

Now that you have all your Christmas shopping done (cough cough), you can spend some time with my Upcoming Releases page. Safe travels this holiday season, everyone!

It's been awhile since we last heard from the Violent Femmes, who announced a new album, We Can Do Anything, this week. It will be their first album in 16 years.

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The Violent Femmes have been around for 35 years. At the very beginning of their career, they released a series of songs that may not have charted at the time, but which came to define their sound, including "Gone Daddy Gone" and "Blister in the Sun." With only one short break, from 1987 to 1988, the band performed together until 2009 and did achieve chart success with a couple of singles in the late 80s and early 90s.

The members went their separate ways in 2009 due to a lawsuit initiated by a former member. They reunited four years later with a slightly different lineup; Dresden Dolls' drummer Brian Viglione replaced original drummer Victor DeLorenzo. They previously released a four-song EP for year's Record Store Day and are now back with their first album since their reunion.

We Can Do Anything is set to be released March 4.

Also announced this week:

Ariana Grande - Christmas & Chill (out now)
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land (March 18)
Death Index - Death Index (February 26)
East India Youth - REMIX EP (out now)
Eliza Hardy Jones - Because Become (2016)
God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (February 26)
Stephen O’Malley - F**k Fundamentalist Pigs (out now)
Thee Oh Sees - “Fortress” (February 12)
Thom Fekete - Burner (out now)
Working for a Nuclear Free City - What Do People Do All Day? (February 5)