PRESS PLAY: New Albums out March 28th

If you’re a PRESS PLAY regular, you might have noticed the often-exhaustive list of titles under the heading “FURTHER LISTENING.” I would strongly encourage you to check out some of this week’s honorable mentions, including stellar comebacks by Great Grandpa and Sacred Paws, a companion soundtrack to the latest Assassins Creed video game by Indie Rock Hit Parade/World Café veterans TEKE::TEKE, and a trio of mind-expanding reissues from the folks at International Anthem. On to the headliners…

Returning to her long-running group after almost a decade and a half, it feels like no time has passed on Alison Krauss & Union Station’s masterful eight album, Arcadia. Working with acclaimed producer Dave Cobb, Mumford & Sons’ Rushmere marks the start of a new chapter for the UK trio. On Forever is a Feeling, her first solo release since the full-length debut from boygenius, Lucy Dacus captures the romance and elegance of fine art in detailed songcraft. 35 years after he produced Galaxie 500’s swansong, Mark Kramer reunites with Dean Wareham for the tender and witty That’s the Price of Loving Me.

Virginia-rooted trio Palmyra deliver on the promise of their recent Free at Noon appearance on their full-length debut, Restless. On his 14^th LP as Destroyer, Dan’s Boogie, Dan Bejar croons and seethes alongside Fiver’s Simone Schmidt and his former New Pornographers bandmate John Collins. Multidisciplinary artist Mike Hadreas presents the most ambitious Perfume Genius album yet; Glory seamlessly veers from brittle rockers to ethereal acoustics.

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

Alison Krauss & Union Station – Arcadia
CHECK OUT: “Looks Like the End of the Road” “Granite Mills”

Mumford & Sons – Rushmere
CHECK OUT: “Rushmere” “Malibou”

Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling
CHECK OUT: “Ankles” “Best Guess”

Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me
CHECK OUT: “You Were the Ones I Had to Betray” “Yesterday’s Hero”

Palmyra – Restless
CHECK OUT: “Arizona” “Shape I’m In”

Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
CHECK OUT: “Bologna (feat. Fiver)” “Hydroplaning off the Edge of the World”

Perfume Genius – Glory
CHECK OUT: “It’s a Mirror” “Clean Heart”

The PRESS PLAY-list

FURTHER LISTENING

Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because a Blade is Whole, Anna St. Louis – Home Recordings EP, Bagdad – They Don’t Know EP, Ben LaMar Gay — Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (IA11 Edition), Branford Marsalis – Belonging, Bria Salmena – Big Dog, Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Loose Talk, Butcher Brown – Letters from the Atlantic, Cactus Lee – Cactus Lee, Carlos Santana – Sentient, Clothing – La Muerte en Realidad no Existe, CoCoRosie – Little Death Wishes, The Darkness – Dreams on Toast, Dead Meadow – Voyager to Voyager, Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone, Free Range – Lost & Found, Fusilier – Ambush, Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (50^th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition), girlpuppy – Sweetness, Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam, Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain, Iry LeJeune – Viens Me Chercher, Janiva Magness – Back for Me, Loren Kramar – Living Legend EP, Makaya McCraven — In the Moment (IA11 Edition), Ministry – The Squirrely Years Revisited, Niis – Niis World, Ohyung – You Are Always on My Mind, Peter Capaldi – Sweet Illusions, Population II – Maintenant Jamais, Ricky Byrd – NYC Made, Rita Donte – Ritual, Rob Mazurek — Alternate Moon Cycles (IA11 Edition), Sacred Paws – Jump into Life, Sam Akpro – Evenfall, SPELLLING – Portrait of My Heart, TEKE::TEKE – Assassins Creed: Shadows – Kage No Iro (Original Game Soundtrack), Unknown Mortal Orchestra – IC-02 Bogotá, Wryn – Shapes, Yukimi – For You