PRESS PLAY: New Albums out September 13th

This week’s batch of newly released albums is like a seven-leaf clover at the end of a double rainbow. Nilüfer Yanya conjures a dreamlike world on My Method Actor; the London singer reunited with producer Wilma Archer for their third full-length collaboration. On Moon Mirror, their 10^th studio album, Nada Surf offer a refreshed take on their trademark anthemic indie rock. Self-described “Model, Actress, Whatever” Suki Waterhouse packs fizzy energy and lyrical reflection on her sprawling second album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin. Inspired by Japanese City Pop and Philly Soul, SHINBANGUMI is Cameron Lew’s confident and irresistible fourth album as Ginger Root.

Snow Patrol’s eighth album, The Forest is the Path, is the venerable group’s first as a trio after the departure of their longtime rhythm section. Teaming up once again with masked guitar heroes Los Straitjackets for his first album in over a decade, Nick Lowe is reeling and rocking on Indoor Safari. The members of Lunar Vacation shared close quarters during the writing and recording of Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire; the Atlanta group’s second album plays like a song circle among lifelong friends. A document of nearly two years on the road, The War on Drugs’ Live Drugs Again is a postcard from the Philadelphia band’s never-ending world tour.

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

PRESS PLAY on these new releases

Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor
CHECK OUT: “Like I Say (I runaway)” “Mutations”

Nada Surf – Moon Mirror
CHECK OUT: “In Front of Me Now” “New Propeller”

Suki Waterhouse – Memoir of a Sparklemuffin
CHECK OUT: “Supersad” “My Fun”

Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI
CHECK OUT: “No Problems” “All Night”

Snow Patrol – The Forest is the Path
CHECK OUT: “The Beginning” “This is the Sound of Your Voice”

Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
CHECK OUT: “Went to a Party” “Jet Pac Boomerang”

Lunar Vacation – Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire
CHECK OUT: “Set the Stage” “Tom”

The War on Drugs – Live Drugs Again
CHECK OUT: “Burning” “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”

The PRESS PLAY-list

FURTHER LISTENING

Abbey Blackwell – Big Big Motion, Allegra Krieger – Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, Angie McMahon – Light Sides EP, Annabel (lee) – If I Align with the Moon and Sun, Beau – Girl Cried Wolf, Big Bend – Last Circle in a Slowdown, Caleb Landry Jones – Hey Gary, Hey Dawn (Deluxe Edition), Cass McCombs – Seed Cake on Leap Year, Chance Peña – Ever-Shifting, Continual Blossoming, Chilly Gonzales – GONZO, Clark – In Camera, Colin Stetson – The Love it Took to Leave You, COIN – I’m Not Afraid of Music Anymore, Cursive – Devourer, The Damned – AD 2022: Live in Manchester, Dark Brown – American Instrument, Divine Sweater – A Time for Everything, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors – Strangers No More Volume Two, Floating Points – Cascade, Foxing – Foxing, Gardens & Villa – Ultra Terrestrial, Hello Mary – Emita Ox, Hugo Largo – Huge, Large, and Electric (Box Set), Jade Hairpins – Get Me the Good Stuff, The Jesus Lizard – Rack, John Early – Now More Than Ever, julie – my anti-aircraft friend, Kal Marks – Wasteland Baby, London Grammar – The Greatest Love, M. Ward – For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward, moondaddy – Lightwave Lightwave, Miranda Lambert – Postcards from Texas, My Brightest Diamond – Fight the Real Terror, The Mystery Lights – Purgatory, Old City – Old City, Porches – Shift, Robyn Hitchcock – 1967: Vacations in the Past, Tindersticks – Soft Tissue, Trentemøller – Dreamweaver, TR/ST – Performance, Vince Gill & Amy Grant – When I Think of Christmas, Wendy Eisenberg – Viewfinder, Willie Watson – Willie Watson, Yon Loader – Yon Loader