De La Soul | photo by Robert Adam Mayer, courtesy of the artist
PRESS PLAY: New Albums out November 21st
Before you get tripped out on tryptophan, dig into this week’s new albums…
This week’s assortment of new albums is proof that late-year release days can still be full of surprises.
Sharing a title with the groundbreaking 1943 Vincente Minelli film, De La Soul’s Cabin in the Sky features unreleased recordings from late member Trugoy the Dove. On shine, his first album in a decade, singer turned in-demand songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. cracks open the door to his intimate performance space. Portland, Oregon’s Haley Heynderickx and Portland, Maine’s Max García Conover team up for What of Our Nature, a set of Woody Guthrie-inspired folk duets.
Cadet is the seventh album (and second of the year) from George Lewis Jr.’s long-running project Twin Shadow; retaining the atmosphere of Georgie, it bears more of the signature rhythmic textures of his earlier catalogue. Genre-scrambling producer Daniel Lopatin mined a now-defunct Internet Archive sample library for his 11th album as Oneohtrix Point Never, Tranquilizer. The solo venture of Chicago’s Kai Slater, Sharp Pins are at the peak of their lo-fi DIY powers on Balloon Balloon Balloon, the follow-up to their March 2025 breakthrough, Radio DDR.
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
De La Soul – Cabin in the Sky
CHECK OUT: “The Package”
“Day in the Sun (Getting’ wit U)”
Tobias Jesso Jr. – s h i n e
CHECK OUT: “I Love You”
“Everything May Soon Be Gone”
Twin Shadow – Cadet
CHECK OUT: “Dominoes”
“Awkward Backward”
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
CHECK OUT: “Lifeworld”
“Cherry Blue”
Haley Heynderickx
& Max García Conover –
What of Our Nature
CHECK OUT: “Fluorescent Light” “Boars”
Sharp Pins –
Balloon Balloon Balloon
CHECK OUT: “I Don’t Have the Heart”
“(I Wanna) Be Your Girl”
The PRESS PLAY-list
FURTHER LISTENING
Bad Trips – Nothing But Trouble, The Beatles – Anthology (Box Set), Béla Fleck & the Flecktones – Jingle All the Way (Reissue), Big Bill – Sick Myth, Bill Evans Trio – Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings, Burs – Significance, Gabriel Zucker – Confession, Goldfrapp – Supernature (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), The Dead Betties – Whitey EP, Glyders – Forever, Haunted Like Human – American Mythology, Jimi Tenor – Selenites, Selenites!, Keaton Henson – Parader, KISS – Alive! (50th Anniversary Edition), Laney Jones & the Spirits – Laney Jones & the Spirits, Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello – Trinity, Lou Salome – Just Something You Cared About in High School, Magic Fig – Valerian Tea, Max Jaffe – You Want That, Too!, Mischa Blanos – Take Control, Obongjayar – PARADISE NOW & FOREVER, Old Crow Medicine Show – OCMS XMAS, Paul Winter – Horn of Plenty, Prince and the Revolution – Around the World in a Day (40th Anniversary Edition), Queen Quail – Narcissus EP, The Replacements – Let it Be (Deluxe Edition), Rise Carmine – Come in Closer EP, Rufus Wainwright and the Pacific Jazz Orchestra – I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill, S.C.A.B. – Somebody in New York Loves You!, Sam Salmon & the Manan Bandits – Down for Life, The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition), Spanish Love Songs – A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time EP, Winter Andrews – til the moon fades away EP, Wreckless Eric – England Screaming, Various Artists – Across the Horizon Alumni Singles Series: Fall 2025