PRESS PLAY: New Albums out April 19th

With Record Store Day on the horizon, April’s robust release schedule shows no signs of slowing. Working with producer Andrew Watt (a regular collaborator on Eddie Vedder solo stints), Pearl Jam push their charged rock to its limits on their twelfth album, Dark Matter. Bolstered by the last-minute addition of over a dozen extra tracks, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is a whirlwind of emotions and collaborators like Post Malone and Florence + the Machine. Recorded during the same sessions as last year’s Time Will Wait for No One, Local Natives’ But I’ll Wait for You is both a companion and a solidification of the LA group’s pop songcraft. A longtime keyboardist for The War on Drugs, Grace Potter, and Iron and Wine, Eliza Hardy Jones’s Pickpocket is a deeply personal solo showcase for the Philadelphia mainstay.

T Bone Burnett teamed up with Rosanne Cash, Lucius, and Weyes Blood for The Other Side, the first solo album from the acclaimed producer since 2006. Name Your Sorrow is the third full-length from Dublin’s Pillow Queens; the group cites literary luminaries like Keats and Lewis as inspiration for the songs’ visceral lyrics. A veteran of The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kid Congo Powers returns with his first LP in nearly a decade; That Delicious Vice follows the 2022 publication of Powers’s illuminating memoir, Some New Kind of Kick. The Power of the Heart features Keith Richards, Joan Jett, Lucinda Williams, and others paying tribute to Lou Reed’s immortal work with the Velvet Underground and beyond.

Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
CHECK OUT: “Dark Matter” “Wreckage”

Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
CHECK OUT: “Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)” “But Daddy I Love Him”

Local Natives – But I’ll Wait for You
CHECK OUT: “April” “Alpharetta”

Eliza Hardy Jones – Pickpocket
CHECK OUT: “This is the Year” “Long Winter Shadows”

T Bone Burnett – The Other Side
CHECK OUT: “Waiting for You” “Sometimes I Wonder”

Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow
CHECK OUT: “Gone” “Like a Lesson”

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds – That Delicious Vice
CHECK OUT: “Wicked World” “Ese Vicio Delicioso”

Various Artists – The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed
CHECK OUT: Keith Richards – “I’m Waiting for the Man” Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – “I’m So Free”

FURTHER LISTENING:
A Certain Ratio – It All Comes Down to This, Anne Wilson – REBEL, The Bacon Brothers – Ballad of the Brothers, BIG|BRAVE – A Chaos of Flowers, Bill Frisell – Orchestras, Billy Morrison – The Morrison Project, Blunt Chunks – The Butterfly Myth, Brainstory – Sounds Good, Brian Eno – Eno (The Official Soundtrack), Bruce Springsteen – Best of Bruce Springsteen, Cadence Weapon – ROLLERCOASTER, Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come, claire rousay – sentiment, Cloud Nothings – Final Summer, Dayseeker – Replica, Glen Campbell – Duets: Ghost on the Canvas Sessions, High on Fire – Cometh the Storm, Kassa Overall – Live at Third Man Records, Michael Feuerstack – Eternity Mongers, Nancy Sinatra – How Does That Grab You? (Reissue), Orbital – The Green Album (Reissue), Raffi – Penny Penguin, Seafood Sam – Standing on Giant Shoulders, SeeYouSpaceCowboy – Coup De Grâce, Tourist – Memory Morning, UB40 – UB45, Various Artists – Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers