PRESS PLAY: New Albums out May 13th

No matter what the calendar says, today is your lucky day when it comes to newly released albums of distinction. Florence + the Machine return with their majestic and euphoric fifth album, Dance Fever. The taut Dropout Boogie finds The Black Keys firing on all cylinders (and collaborating with members of ZZ Top and Reigning Sound). Though still mostly unheard as of this writing, Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers is all but certain to be another jewel in the crown of the elusive rap superstar. 

Kevin Morby confronts personal ghosts on the rollicking This is a Photograph. New Orleans party-starters Tank and the Bangas pump it up on Red Balloon. Lyle Lovett’s 12th of June is the first new album in a decade from the XPN cornerstone. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood team up with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner to form The Smile; their debut, A Light for Attracting Attention, is a corrosive collision of each group’s style. PRESS PLAY on these new releases (and plenty more) below… 

Florence + the Machine – Dance Fever
CHECK OUT: “My Love” “King” 

The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie
CHECK OUT: “Wild Child” “It Ain’t Over” 

Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
CHECK OUT: “The Heart Part 5” 

Kevin Morby – This is a Photograph
CHECK OUT: “This is a Photograph” “Rock Bottom” 

Tank and the Bangas – Red Balloon
CHECK OUT: “No ID” “Stolen Fruit” 

Lyle Lovett – 12th of June
CHECK OUT: “12th of June” “Pants is Overrated” 

The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
CHECK OUT: “You Will Never Work in Television Again” “Free in the Knowledge” 

FURTHER LISTENING: 
Amyl & the Sniffers – Comfort to Me (Expanded Edition), The Associates – Sulk (40th Anniversary Edition), Bear’s Den – Blue Home, Circuit Des Yeux – Live from Chicago EP, Dana Buoy – Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. I, David Knudson – The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything, Delbert McClinton – Outdated Emotion, Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter, FredAtLast – Banner of a Lost Belief EP, Mallrat – Butterfly Blue, Mandy Moore – In Real Life, Moderat – MORE D4TA, Monophonics – Sage Motel, Moon Tooth – Phototroph, The Muffs – Really Really Happy (Deluxe Edition), Obongjayar – Some Nights I Dream of Doors, Post Animal – Love Gibberish, Raavi – It Grows On Trees EP, The Rolling Stones – Live at the El Mocambo, Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left, Sonny Singh – Chardi Kala, Sofía Valdés – In Bloom EP, Steve Forbert – Moving Through America, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – Pretty Good for a Girl Band EP, TOPS – Empty Seats EP, Van Morrison – What’s it Gonna Take?, Yves Jarvis – The Zug