PRESS PLAY: New Albums out June 6th

Highlighted by the anticipated returns of several musical legends, June’s first new releases offer an eclectic start to the month. On More, their first album since 2001, Jarvis Cocker and Pulp present a playful collection of wizened anthems reflecting on their legacy and decades-long hiatus. Fusing rap and experimental soul, Little Simz cuts to the core of her own self on Lotus, the sixth album from the Mercury Prize winner. Teaming up with multidisciplinary artist Beatie Wolfe for a matched pair of albums, Brian Eno’s incomparable production is at the heart of the “electric-country-dream-music” of Luminal and the “ambient-landscape-dream-music” of Lateral.

Now based in Chicago, the stylistically omnivorous McKinley Dixon draws inspiration from Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston on the high-concept (and guest-packed) Magic, Alive!. Their 16^th album overall, Walk This Road is the first batch of new material from The Doobie Brothers to feature Michael McDonald since 1980; warm and homey, the songs include guest appearances from Mavis Staples and Mick Fleetwood. Coinciding with the release of the documentary It’s All Gonna Break, ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot it in People reimagines the 2002 opus with fresh renditions by Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso, Toro y Moi, and others.

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

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FURTHER LISTENING

After Ours – Imaginary Friend, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett – Braided Together, Attention Bird Utopia – Best of Kings, Ben LaMar Gay – Yowzers, Black Moth Super Rainbow – New Magic Dream, Christian Lee Hutson – Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe Edition), Cynthia Erivo – I Forgive You, Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra – Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall, David J Haskins – The Mother Tree, Dispatch – Yellow Jacket, Eli Paperboy Reed – Sings Walkin’ and Talkin’ and Other Smash Hits! (20^th  Anniversary Edition), Frankie & the Witch Fingers – Trash Classic, Fruit LoOops – Everything is Clear to Me EP, Gunnar – Sun Faded, Hailey Whitters – Corn Queen, Hayden Pedigo – I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away, The Knocks & Dragonette – Revelation, Landlady – Make Up / Lost Time, Lenny Pickett & John Hadfield – Heard by Others II, Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn, Marianne Faithfull – Burning Moonlight EP, MARINA – PRINCESS OF POWER, Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History, My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition), Object Collection – Possible Thieves, Orthodox – A Door Left Open, Peter Manheim – Early Waves, Phoebe Rings – Aseurai, Portugal. The Man – uLu Selects Vol. 2, Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, & Hahn Rowe – Second, Soccer Mommy – Evergreen (stripped) EP, The Ting Tings – Home, Tracy Bonham – Sky Too Wide, Turnstile – Never Enough, WAR – Why Can’t We Be Friends? (50^th Anniversary Collector’s Edition), WAVVES – SPUN