PRESS PLAY: New Albums out April 21st
Dig deep into this week’s new releases for surprising returns and delightful discoveries
Leading the pack of this week’s new releases is an comeback nearly a quarter-century in the making. After shifting their focus to separate projects, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt resurrect Everything But the Girl for Fuse, their first album since 1999. Paul Janeway expands St. Paul & the Broken Bones‘ R&B sound to the cosmos on their fifth album, Angels in Science Fiction. British garage-soul rockers The Heavy mesh gospel harmonies with their signature thunder on AMEN. On their sixth album, In Between Thoughts… A New World, inventive guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela fold synths and strings into their distinctive, percussive technique.
Mott the Hoople leader Ian Hunter is joined by famous friends Ringo Starr, Jeff Beck, and more on the wry and reflective Defiance Part 1. Los Angeles-based minimalist Lael Neale percolates and meditates on Star Eaters Delight, her second full-length. Splitting time between New Orleans and Santa Fe, Esther Rose brings the heartland to life on Safe to Run. Inspired by the City Pop of Haruomi Hosono and the Space Age sounds of Stereolab, Pearl & the Oysters‘ Coast 2 Coast is a sleek and stylish collection of bubbling pop.
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.
Everything But the Girl – Fuse
CHECK OUT: “Nothing Left to Lose” “Caution to the Wind”
St. Paul & the Broken Bones – Angels in Science Fiction
CHECK OUT: “Sea Star” “”Lonely Love Song”
The Heavy – AMEN
CHECK OUT: “Hurricane Coming” “Stone Cold Killer”
Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts… A New World
CHECK OUT: “Descending to Nowhere” “The Eye That Catches the Dream”
Ian Hunter – Defiance Part 1
CHECK OUT: “Bed of Roses (feat. Ringo Starr and Mike Campbell” “I Hate Hate”
Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight
CHECK OUT: “I Am the River” “Faster Than the Medicine”
Esther Rose – Safe to Run
CHECK OUT: “Chet Baker” “Safe to Run (feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff)”
Pearl & the Oysters – Coast 2 Coast
CHECK OUT: “Read the Room (feat. Laetitia Sadier)” “Paraiso”
FURTHER LISTENING…
Alfa Mist – Variables, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT – Darling the Dawn, Annie Hart – The Weight of a Wave, Beach House – Become EP, Bell Witch – Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate, Blood, Sweat & Tears – What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? (Original Soundtrack), Dorthia Cottrell – Death Folk Country, Easy Star All-Stars – Ziggy Stardub, House of All – House of All, Hüsker Dü – TONITE LONGHORN, Ivan Neville – Touch My Soul, The Infamous Stringdusters – A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs, JAIN – The Fool, Kae Tempest – Nice Idea, The Mars Volta – Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon, Naomi Yang – Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody (Original Soundtrack), Nathan Connolly – The Strange Order of Things, OFF! – FLSD EP, Paper Bee – Thaw, Freeze, Thaw, Portrayal of Guilt – Devil Music, Roger Eno – Rarities, Rose City Band – Garden Party, Silver Moth – Black Bay, The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: Act 3, Stars – Capelton Hill Deluxe, Sublime – $5 at the Door (Live at Tressel Tavern, 1994), superviolet – Infinite Spring, Swizz Beatz – Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2 EP, Trapper Schoepp – Siren Songs, Valley Queen – Chord of Sympathy, Various Artists – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (50th Anniversary Edition)
