PRESS PLAY: New Albums out October 28th!

Don your plastic fangs and load up your cauldron with this week’s shocking new releases! Benjamin Clementine presents And I Have Been, the first half of what might turn out to be his final album; the composer and poet has indicated that 2023 might bring his retirement from music. On Waiting to Spill, Utah quartet The Backseat Lovers offer dynamic arrangements perfectly suited for warm autumn days. With Jeff Tweedy in the producer’s seat, adventurous folk combo Trampled by Turtles deliver some of their strongest material yet on Alpenglow. Northern Irish singer Aoife Nessa Frances returns to her home town and rediscovers family connections on her second album, Protector.

Canadian electronic duo Junior Boys reflect on isolation and connection on Waiting Game, their first album in six years. Hermanos Gutiérrez fuse their dusty take on instrumental western music with Dan Auerbach’s production on the rough riding El Bueno y el Malo. Soul veteran Lee Fields hooks up with the Daptone team for Sentimental Fool, a blues-inspired scorcher. Cosmic country fans should chart a course for Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky, the second release from the Atlanta duo-turned-ensemble. 

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.

Benjamin Clementine – And I Have Been
CHECK OUT: “Genesis” “Delighted”

The Backseat Lovers – Waiting to Spill
CHECK OUT: “Growing/Dying” “Close Your Eyes”

Trampled by Turtles – Alpenglow
CHECK OUT: “It’s So Hard to Hold On” “On the Highway”

Aoife Nessa Frances – Protector
CHECK OUT: “This Still Life” “Chariot”

Junior Boys – Waiting Game
CHECK OUT: “Night Walk” “Waiting Game”

Hermanos Gutiérrez – El Bueno y el Malo
CHECK OUT: “Tres Hermanos (feat. Dan Auerbach)” “Hermosa Drive”

Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool
CHECK OUT: “Ordinary Lives” “Sentimental Fool”

Honey Harper – Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky
CHECK OUT: “Broken Token” “Boots Mine Gold”

FURTHER LISTENING:
Allman Brothers Band – Syria Mosque: Pittsburgh, PA January 17, 1971, Ásgeir – Time on My Hands, Babehoven – Light Moving Time, Backxwash – HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING, The Beatles – Revolver (Special Edition), The Cribs – The Cribs vs. The Moths… College Sessions 2001, Daisy the Great – All You Need is Time, The Damned – A Night of a Thousand Vampires, Dan Mangan – Being Somewhere, Dead Cross – II, Dear Nora – human futures, Devin Townsend – Nightwork, Fred again… – Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022), Garbage – Anthology, girlpuppy – When I’m Alone, Guided by Voices – Scalping the Guru, Hammered Hulls – Careening, Holly Humberstone – Can You Afford to Lose Me? EP, INXS – Shabooh Shoobah (Deluxe Edition), JARV IS… – This is Going to Hurt (Original Soundtrack), Jerry Only – Anti-Hero, JOHNNYSWIM and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors – Goodbye Road: Volume Two, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Changes, Luke Haines & Peter Buck – All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out, Mauskovic Dance Band – Bukaroo Bank, Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back, Mdou Moctar – Niger Vol. 2 EP, Natalia Lafourcade – De Todas Las Flores, Neil Diamond – A Neil Diamond Christmas, Nosaj Thing – Continua, Ólafur Arnalds – some kind of peace: piano reworks, Robert Glasper – Black Radio (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), Scout Gillett – no roof no floor, Sigur Rós – ( ) (Expanded Reissue), Show Me the Body – Trouble the Water, Sobs – Air Guitar, Superorganism – World Wide Pop Reeeemix! EP, Tigers Jaw – Old Clothes EP, Wand – Spiders in the Rain, Working Men’s Club – Steel City Remix EP