PRESS PLAY: New Albums out March 10th

If the artists behind this week’s assortment of newly released albums seem a bit… unconventional, that’s a good thing! Discover a new favorite when you dig into these records. For Radical Romantics, their third album as Fever Ray, Swedish experimentalist Karin Dreijer reunites with their brother (and former bandmate in The Knife) Olof for a set of impossible-to-ignore earworms. Ex-Dum Dum Girls/Beverly drummer Frankie Rose charts a course through moody new wave on her fourth solo LP, Love as Projection. With her band La Luz, Shana Cleveland explores psychedelic garage frontiers; on her third solo album, Manzanita, she turns inward for campfire-lit ruminations.

Rockin’ soul duo The War and Treaty return with their gospel-influenced third album, Lover’s Game. Countrified indie rockers The Nude Party are on the road again with their barn-burning third album, Rides On. Multidisciplinary artist Lonnie Holley is joined by Michael Stipe, Bon Iver, Moor Mother, and others on the impressionistic Oh Me Oh My. Up-and-coming indie songwriter Shalom delivers one of the year’s strongest debuts with the lively and engaging Sublimation.

PRESS PLAY on these new releases below. Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every Friday on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.

Fever Ray – Radical Romantics
CHECK OUT: “Kandy” “What They Call Us”

Frankie Rose – Love as Projection
CHECK OUT: “Anything” “Sixteen Ways”

Shana Cleveland – Manzanita
CHECK OUT: “Faces in the Firelight” “A Ghost”

The War & and Treaty – Lover’s Game
CHECK OUT: “That’s How Love is Made” “Ain’t No Harmin’ Me”

The Nude Party – Rides On
CHECK OUT: “Ride On” “Sold Out of Love”

Lonnie Hollie – Oh Me Oh My
CHECK OUT: “Oh Me, Oh My (feat. Michael Stipe)” “Kindness Will Follow Your Tears (feat. Bon Iver)”

Shalom – Sublimation
CHECK OUT: “Happenstance” “Soccer Mommy”

FURTHER LISTENING:
Ali Farka Touré – Voyageur, Death Cab for Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic), Dutch Uncles – True Entertainment, Eyelids – A Colossal Waste of Light, Godcaster – Godcaster, King Khan – The Nature of Things, Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation, Ripe – Bright Blues, Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM, The Smile – Europe: Live Recordings 2022 EP, Starcrawler – Acoustic Sessions EP, taali – taali, Van Morrison – Moving on Skiffle