If you used your 11/11 wish to summon new albums, then magic must be real after all! Bruce Springsteen‘s Only the Strong Survive, his, 21st studio album, is a rollicking tour of the Boss’s jukebox favorites. Reigniting his ever-evolving persona as REDCAR, Christine and the Queens takes a night drive to reinvention on les adorables étoiles. Following remixes of their work by Mexican Institute of Sound and Toy Selectah, Run the Jewels present RTJ CU4TRO, a top-to-bottom rework of their fourth album featuring well over a dozen Latin American producers and rappers.
Nashville sister duo Larkin Poe show off familial bonds on their sixth album, Blood Harmony. After several years as Lucy Dacus’s go-to bassist, Philly favorite Dominic Angelella returns to the spotlight for Silver Dreams Don’t Move Me, his tender (and occasionally self-deprecating) solo album. New York combo S.C.A.B. offer a modern take on Creation-era shoegaze on their self-titled second album.
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Bruce Springsteen – Only the Strong Survive
CHECK OUT: “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)” “Don’t Play That Song”
Christine and the Queens – Redcar les adorables étoiles
CHECK OUT: “Je te vois enfin” “rien dire”
Run the Jewels – RTJ CU4TRO
CHECK OUT: “caminando en el nieve”
Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony
CHECK OUT: “Strike Gold” “Bad Spell”
Dominic Angelella – Silver Dreams Don’t Move Me
CHECK OUT: “Duckpin” “Supporting Role”
S.C.A.B. – S.C.A.B.
CHECK OUT: “Tuesday” “Small Talk”
FURTHER LISTENING:
Ben LaMar Gay – Certain Reveries, Bill Frisell – Four, Bill Nace – Through a Room, Bright Eyes – Digital Ash in a Digital Urn: A Companion EP / I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion EP / Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion EP, Busta Rhymes – The Fuse is Lit EP, Colin Stetson – Chimæra I, David Knudson – Undo / Redo EP, Deer Tick – Divine Providence (11th Anniversary Edition), Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel | The 12” Singles, Fitz and the Tantrums – Let Yourself Free, Franz Nicolay – New River, GloRilla – Anyway’s Life’s Great… EP, Groove Armada – GA25, The Human League – The Virgin Years, Jordana – I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking EP, Louis Tomlinson – Faith in the Future, Lyrics Born – Vision Board, MGMT – 11-11-11, Nana Lourdes – Wyoming, Nas – King’s Disease III, Paul Maroon & Jenny Lin – 13 Short Piano Pieces, Pioneer 11 – Humanoid, Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Deluxe Edition), Smut – How the Light Felt
