PRESS PLAY: New Albums out April 26th

What light through yonder window breaks? Hark! It is April’s last batch of new albums. Annie Clark reboots St. Vincent with her intense (and self-produced) seventh album, All Born Screaming. Not counting the wonderful 2019 Calexico collab Years to Burn, Light Verse is the first Iron and Wine album in seven years; its lush arrangements and tender lyrics are well worth the wait. Following the longest gap between studio albums in the duo’s history (only four years, a testament to their relentless productivity), Pet Shop Boys sound invigorated on Nonetheless, their 15^th full-length. With a title that evokes his streetcorner busking roots, Charley Crockett’s $10 Cowboy is a lively set of soulful honky-tonk swagger.

French duo Justice team up with Tame Impala, Miguel, and Thundercat on Hyperdrama, their fourth album of maximalist electro revival. Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick combines humor with existential dread and jittery art-rock melodies on his third solo album, New Age Rage. Since the twin 2021 releases of Good Morning America and Not a Son, Lawrence Rothman has shifted their focus to film scoring; The Plow That Broke the Plains is an appropriately cinematic return to songwriting. The Zutons were breakout stars of the mid-‘00s Liverpool scene; more than 15 years after their last album, The Big Decider re-establishes the trio’s trademark danceable guitar pop.

PRESS PLAY on these new releases below. Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every week on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.

St. Vincent – All Born Screaming
CHECK OUT: “Broken Man” “Flea (feat. Dave Grohl)”

Iron and Wine – Light Verse
CHECK OUT: “You Never Know” “All in Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple)”

Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless
CHECK OUT: “Loneliness” “Dancing Star”

Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
CHECK OUT: “$10 Cowboy” “Solitary Road”

Justice – Hyperdrama
CHECK OUT: “One Night/All Night (feat. Tame Impala)” “Generator”

Eric Slick – New Age Rage
CHECK OUT: “Anxious to Please” “New Age Rage”

Lawrence Rothman – The Plow That Broke the Plains
CHECK OUT: “Poster Child” “LAX”

The Zutons – The Big Decider
CHECK OUT: “Creeping on the Dancefloor” “The Big Decider”

FUTHER LISTENING:
Alien Ant Farm – ~mAntras~, Anders Osborne – Picasso’s Villa, Art Tatum – Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings, Babehoven – Water’s Here in You, Billy Idol – Rebel Yell (40^th Anniversary Edition), Blitz Vega – Northern Gentlemen, Bodies of Water – The Journey is Our Home, Brother Ali – Love & Service, Bullion – Affection, Corridor – Mimi, Daisy World – Toothpick, Def Leppard – Pyromania (40^th Anniversary Edition), E – Living Waters, Ellis – No Place That Feels Like, Fat White Family – Forgiveness is Yours, Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss, The Ghost Club – King Whatever, Greg Saunier – We Sang, Therefore We Were, GospelbeacH – Wiggle Your Fingers, Hovvdy – Hovvdy, Kyshona – Legacy, Loren Kramer – Glovemaker, Maggie Rogers – Heard it in a Past Life (5 Year Anniversary Edition), Mandy – Lawn Girl, Margaret Glaspy – The Sun Doesn’t Think EP, Maria Chiara Argirò – Closer, Mister Goblin – Frog Poems, Neil Young & Crazy Horse – FU##IN’ UP, Owen – The Falls of Sioux, Parsnip – Behold, Personal Trainer – What Was There Before? EP, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong – Day in Time, Raul Midón – Lost & Found, Ringo Starr – Crooked Boy EP, Sen Morimoto – BONK! The Cops, The Banks, The Legislature: Outtakes from the Album ‘Diagnosis’ EP, Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges, Six Organs of Admittance – Time is Glass, Stephen Sanchez – Angel Face (Club Deluxe), Sun Ra – Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago, Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (Remastered and Expanded Edition)