Friday already? July already??!? Truly unbelievable stuff. This week, PJ Harvey makes her return on the spacious and arboreal I Inside the Old Year Dying. On Time Will Wait for No One, their fifth album, Local Natives blend delicate harmonies with high-energy percussion. Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, AHNONI and the Johnsons‘ My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross tackles both the struggles of queer individuals and the strength of community. Featured this month on Echoes, Child of Venus is the debut album by multi-disciplinary dream pop artist AMAARA.
Carrying on the tradition of his father, Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes, Arthur Jeffes leads his own Penguin Cafe combo through a transfixing suite of minimalist chamber pop on Rain Before Seven…. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of her debut as Lady Lamb, Aly Spaltro nearly triples Ripely Pine‘s tracklist with new studio recordings and reimagined readings. A rogue’s gallery of celebrants, including Fontaines D.C., Liz Phair, and Elbow’s Guy Garvey offer creative interpretations on The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake.
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.
PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
CHECK OUT: “A Child’s Question, August” “I Inside the Old I Dying”
Local Natives – Time Will Wait for No One
CHECK OUT: “Just Before the Morning” “Paradise”
ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
CHECK OUT: “It Must Change” “Sliver of Ice”
AMAARA – Child of Venus
CHECK OUT: “Bright Lights” “Still”
Penguin Cafe – Rain Before Seven…
CHECK OUT: “In Re Budd” “Welcome to London”
Lady Lamb – In the Mammoth Nothing of the Night (Ripley Pine 10th Anniversary Box Set)
CHECK OUT: “Between Two Trees” “Crane Your Neck (Still Hungry Version)”
Various Artists – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake
CHECK OUT: Fontaines D.C. – “‘ Cello Song” Mike Lindsay and Guy Garvey – “Saturday Sun”
FURTHER LISTENING:
12 Rods – If We Stayed Alive, Alice Phoebe Lou – Shelter, Bad History Month – Delusion EP, Chris Stamey – The Great Escape, Citizen Cope – The Victory March EP, Dominic Fike – Sunburn, Grouplove – I Want it All Right Now, Hot Tuna – 3, Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings, Little Dragon – Slugs of Love, The Stranglers – 4, Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Tony Allen, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID018, WHAM! – The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven
