PRESS PLAY: New Albums out April 8th!

The perfect end to this rainy week in Philadelphia is a mammoth deluge of new albums! At long last, XPN Artist to Watch Wet Leg release their self-titled debut, and it’s everything you could hope for from the effervescent indie duo. On his ambitious fifth album, Chloë and the Next 20th Century, Father John Misty re-emerges with a sweeping new sound. After years as the go-to backing vocalists for Brandi Carlile and The War on Drugs, Lucius step back into the glimmering spotlight on the Carlile-produced Second Nature. The first of two records he’ll release this year, Fear of the Dawn is an exhilarating and unpredictable comeback from Jack White. 

Teen (and pre-teen) punks The Linda Lindas make their bottle rocket of a debut with Growing Up. On This is for the Barbarians, Philly favorite Mondo Cozmo channels a mixture of big beat and Madchester rhythms. Songwriter/poet Kae Tempest is joined by Lianne La Havas and Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. on their fourth solo album, The Line is a Curve. Iconic mysterioso Orville Peck expands his noir-country style on his long-awaited second LP, Bronco. PRESS PLAY on these new releases (and so, so many more) below… 

Wet Leg – Wet Leg 
CHECK OUT: “Chaise Longue” “Angelica”  

Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century 
CHECK OUT: “Goodbye Mr. Blue” “Funny Girl”  

Lucius – Second Nature 
CHECK OUT: “Next to Normal” “Dance Around It (feat. Brandi Carlile & Sheryl Crow)”  

Jack White – Fear of the Dawn 
CHECK OUT: “Taking Me Back” “Hi-De-Ho (feat. Q-Tip)”  

The Linda Lindas – Growing Up 
CHECK OUT: “Oh!” “Talking to Myself”  

Mondo Cozmo – This is for the Barbarians 
CHECK OUT: “Feel Good” “Meant for Livin’”  

Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve 
CHECK OUT: “Salt Coast” “No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas)”  

Orville Peck – Bronco 
CHECK OUT: “C’mon Baby, Cry” “The Curse of the Blackened Eye”  

FURTHER LISTENING: 
Amy Speace – Tuscon, Andy Partridge – My Failed Songwriting Career Volume 2 EP, Banks – Serpentina, Calexico – El Mirador, Camila Cabello – Familia, Daniel Rossen – You Belong There, Envy of None – Envy of None, HEALTH – DISCO4 :: PART II, Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Variant, Girl Talk, Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA – Full Court Press, Good Looks – Bummer Year, John Carroll Kirby – Dance Ancestral, JOHNNYSWIM – JOHNNYSWIM, Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons, Lizzy McAlpine – five seconds flat, Mic King – iCONIC EP, Oceanator – Nothing’s Ever Fine, Omar Apollo – IVORY, ORANGEPURPLEBEACH – d E A T h ~ b U g, Pavement – Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal Edition, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong – Perspective, The Regrettes – Further Joy, Renata Zeiguer – Picnic in the Dark, River Whyless – Monoflora, Rosie Thomas – Lullabies for Parents, Vol. 1 EP, Ryan Egan – Soft Power, Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Syd – Broken Hearts Club, Tool – Fear Inoculum (Ultra Deluxe Edition), The Vaccines – Planet of the Youth, Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart, Wet Tuna – Warping All By Yourself, Whatever the Weather – Whatever the Weather