PRESS PLAY: New Albums out July 25th
New directions and clever collaborations highlight the last new releases of the month…
In addition to the featured new albums that are out this week, I’d like to draw your attention to a trio of notable reissues: Nick Drake was barely out of his teens when he recorded his 1969 debut; The Making of Five Leaves Left includes Drake’s first-ever recording session at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea. The third and final album from Elliott Smith’s band Heatmiser, 1995’s Mic City Sons, gets its own expansion courtesy of Third Man with previously unheard demos and outtakes. Originally planned as a companion release to 1998’s Ray of Light, Madonna’s remix collection Veronica Eletronica finally surfaces with sought-after reworks by William Orbit, BT, and others.
On Crown of Roses, her first all-new LP since 2019, Patty Griffin reflects on childhood and motherhood. Tyler Childers’ seventh album, Snipe Hunter, continues the Kentucky songwriter’s collaboration with Rick Rubin and adds Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn to the mix. North Carolina mainstay Indigo De Souza navigated the devastation of Hurricane Helene while recording Precipice; the resulting album is a resilient set of gripping melodies.
A spiritual sequel to 2004’s Studio 150, Paul Weller digs up golden pop nuggets on the covers collection Find El Dorado. Now Would Be a Good Time is the debut album from Folk Bitch Trio, an Australian harmony-forward combo who previously toured with King Gizzard and Alex G. Blurring the line between his main band and his solo work, Cory Hanson’s I Love People features the same musicians as Wand’s Vertigo; this time crafting Laurel Canyon choogle rather than sunbaked psychedelia.
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PRESS PLAY on these new releases
Patty Griffin – Crown of Roses
CHECK OUT: “Back at the Start” “Born in a Cage”
Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter
CHECK OUT: “Nose on the Grindstone” “Oneida”
Indigo De Souza – Precipice
CHECK OUT: “Heartthrob” “Be Like the Water”
Paul Weller – Find El Dorado
CHECK OUT: “I Started a Joke” “Pinball”
Folk Bitch Trio –
Now Would Be a Good Time
CHECK OUT: “The Actor”
“God’s a Different Sword”
Cory Hanson –
I Love People
CHECK OUT: “Bird on a Swing”
“Lou Reed”
The PRESS PLAY-list
FURTHER LISTENING
Alice Cooper Band – The Revenge of Alice Cooper, Avalon Emerson – Perpetual Emotion Machine, Ben Nichols – In the Heart of the Mountain, Bleary Eyed – Easy, Bruce Dickinson – More Balls to Picasso, Cody Jinks – In My Blood, Coffin Break – Revival, The Dirty Nil – The Lash, Devon Allman – The Blues Summit, Dog Eyes – Blue Bird Rain Cloud EP, Editrix – The Big E, Elton John – Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper, Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantics, Fitz and the Tantrums – Man on the Moon, Gary Numan – A Perfect Circle: Live, Golomb – The Beat Goes On, GWAR – The Return of Gor Gor, Heatmiser – Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary Edition), John Also Bennett – Στoν Eλαιώνα / Ston Elaióna, Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts – Classic Love EP, Mádé Kuti – Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?, Madonna – Veronica Electronica, Manslaughter 777 – God’s World, The Mighty Rootsmen – The Mighty Rootsmen, Molly Horses – Clang Clang, Nick Drake – The Making of Five Leaves Left, Rebecca Schiffman – Before the Future, Post Animal – IRON, Pretty Bitter – Pleaser, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – New Threats from the Soul, Samantha Schmütz and Adrian Younge – Samantha e Adrian, Tyler, the Creator – Don’t Tap on Glass, Why Bonnie – The Bedroom EP