We already have your Labor Day weekend soundtrack covered with XPN Thru the Decades, but if you’re in the mood for something new, you’ve come to the right place.
Recent World Café guests Speedy Ortiz enter a new era with Rabbit Rabbit, their fourth album of guitar-driven art rock. Where their 2017 self-titled album was an unlikely (but welcome) return, Slowdive’s everything is alive reinforces the group’s boundary-blurring style. Now four years removed from his time as leader of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman offers Summer of No Light, his second collection of big-hearted anthems as The Natvral. Prolific punk Jeff Rosenstock finds joy in chaos (and chaos in joy) on his latest full-length, HELLMODE.
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.
Speedy Ortiz – Rabbit Rabbit
CHECK OUT: “Plus One” “Ghostwriter”
Slowdive – everything is alive
CHECK OUT: “kisses” “alife”
The Natvral – Summer of No Light
CHECK OUT: “Lucifer’s Glory” “Summer of Hell”
Jeff Rosenstock – HELLMODE
CHECK OUT: “LIKED U BETTER” “DOUBT”
FUTHER LISTENING:
The 1975 – The 1975 (10th Anniversary Edition), Aesop Rock – Skelethon (10th Anniversary Edition), Augustus Muller – Cellulosed Bodies (Original Score), The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps (Reissue), The Cinematic Orchestra – Man With a Movie Camera (20th Anniversary Edition), Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Data Doom, Ghost of Vroom – Ghost of Vroom 3, Grandaddy – Sumday Twunny, GWAR – Battle Maximus (10th Anniversary Edition), Icona Pop – Club Romantech, Jethro Tull – Broadsword and the Beast (40th Anniversary Edition), Love Tractor – Around the Bend (40th Anniversary Edition), Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Phantasmagoria in Blue, mssv – Human Reaction, The Paper Kites – At the Roadhouse, Peter Frampton – At Royal Albert Hall Spirit of the Beehive – i’m so lucky EP, Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years (Reissue) / Rain Dogs (Reissue) / Swordfishtrombones (Reissue), Various Artists – Yellowjackets Season 2 Official Soundtrack: Music from the Original Series
