PRESS PLAY: New Albums out October 25th

I have returned from my vacation and, lucky me, there are just about a billion new albums to enjoy this week. Evergreen, Sophie Allison’s fourth Soccer Mommy album, continues the young artist’s genre-pushing trajectory; this time she worked with Animal Collective/Deerhunter producer Ben H. Allen. With Band of Skulls bassist Emma Richardson serving as the group’s newest member, Pixies enter their newest era with their ominous 10^th album, The Night the Zombies Came. For Still + Bright, her third solo album, Tennessee songwriter Amythyst Kiah teamed up with Billy Strings, Butch Walker, and more to bring her gothic folk anthems to life. On her last album, Laura Marling penned odes to an imagined daughter; four years later, Marling’s actual newborn serves as the primary muse for Patterns in Repeat.

Bolstered by their Tiny Desk Contest-winning composition “wonder eye,” Utah ensemble Little Moon showcase the acrobatic vocals of Emma Hardyman on their second LP, Dear Divine. On her solo debut, What a Relief, Muna member Katie Gavin veers away from her main project’s widescreen pop into more acoustic, intimate sonic territories. Drawing inspiration from Through the Looking Glass, Mia Berrin conjures a psychedelic world on Pom Pom Squad’s bold second album, Mirror Starts Moving Without Me. The first release from Maria McKee’s beloved group Lone Justice since 1986, Viva Lone Justice features new and archival recordings from the Los Angeles combo’s original lineup.

PRESS PLAY on these new releases

Soccer Mommy – Evergreen
CHECK OUT: “Driver” “M”

Pixies – The Night the Zombies Came
CHECK OUT: “You’re So Impatient” “Chicken”

Amythyst Kiah – Still + Bright
CHECK OUT: “Silk and Petals (feat. Butch Walker)” “I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings)”

Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
CHECK OUT: “Patterns” “Child of Mine”

Little Moon – Dear Divine
CHECK OUT: “wonder eye” “blue”

Katie Gavin – What a Relief
CHECK OUT: “Aftertaste” “Inconsolable”

Pom Pom Squad – Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
CHECK OUT: “Downhill” “Spinning”

Lone Justice – Viva Lone Justice
CHECK OUT: “Skull and Cross Bones” “Teenage Kicks”

The PRESS PLAY-list

FURTHER LISTENING

ABBA – The Singles: The First Fifty Years, Allen Stone – Mystery EP, Allman Brothers Band – Final Concert 10-28-14, Amyl & the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness, Andrea Bocelli – Duets, Anna McLellan – Electric Bouquet, Bardo Pond – Melt Away, Bastille – &, Ben Folds – Sleigher, Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible, Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls (Reissue) / Girls Get Busy (Reissue), Bryan Ferry – Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, Charlie Parker – Bird in Kansas City, Chuck Prophet & ¿Qiensave? – Wake the Dead, Chuck Ragan – Love and Lore, Courteneers – Pink Cactus Café, Crosby Stills Nash and Young – Live at the Fillmore East 1969, Elias Rønnenfelt – Heavy Glory, Elke – Divine Urge, Fashion Club – A Love You Cannot Shake, Flora Cash – behind every beautiful thing, Florence + the Machine with Jules Buckley and his Orchestra – Symphony of Lungs: BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Gold Connections – Fortune, Green Day – American Idiot (20^th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), Greg Lisher – Underwater Detection Method, Grumpy – Wolfed EP, Halsey – The Great Impersonator, Ian Hunter – Short Back n’ Sides (Reissue) / You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic (Reissue), Jason Mraz – YES! (Deluxe Edition), King Crimson – Red (50^th Anniversary Edition), Korean Boyfriend – Simple Face, Ladytron – Time’s Arrow Remixed, Linda Ronstadt – Live in Hollywood (Deluxe Edition), Madi Diaz – Weird Faith (Deluxe Edition), Megan Thee Stallion – MEGAN: ACT II, Miranda and the Beat – Can’t Take It, Motörhead – We Take No Prisoners: The Singles: 1995 – 2006, The Oak Ridge Boys – Mama’s Boys, Paul Cauthen – Black on Black, Peach Pit – Magpie, Porno for Pyros – Pyrotechnics, Queen – Queen (Collector’s Edition), RATT – Out of the Cellar (40^th Anniversary Edition), Razorlight – Planet Nowhere, 2^nd Grade – Scheduled Explosions, S.C.A.B. – Rose Colored Glasses EP, Shigeto – Cherry Blossom Baby, Slint – tweez (35^th Anniversary Edition), Sparks – Annette: An Opera by Sparks (The Original 2013 Recordings), Squint – Big Hand, St. Lenox – Ten Modern American Work Songs, Sun Ra & his Arkestra – Kingdom of Discipline, Susanna Hoffs – The Lost Record, Tears for Fears – Songs for a Nervous Planet, Tess Parks – Pomegranate, They Might Be Giants – Beast of Horns, 311 – Full Bloom, Trauma Ray – Chameleon, Whitesnake – Into the Light: The Solo Albums, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal – Midnight at the Castle Moorlands EP, Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott – Merci