PRESS PLAY: New Albums out August 7th
Discover this week’s newly released albums by Margaret Glaspy, the Mountain Giats, Dinner Party, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Role Model, and more…
Margaret Glaspy | photo by Ebru Yildiz, courtesy of the artist
Start the new month on the right foot with the first new releases of August…
Margaret Glaspy’s songwriting has always felt timeless; on I am Both, Glaspy unplugs from the chaos of the modern world for a reflective set of hard-earned self-empowerment. Barely a year after the stellar Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan, John Darnielle returns with the Mountain Goats’ 24th studio album; Days is as lyrically addictive an album as you are likely to find this year.
Dinner Party is the multi-headed hydra supergroup centered around Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder; a feeling of joyous camaraderie courses through their fourth offering, Watchu Bringing?. With a name like Man/Woman/Chainsaw, it has to be good; Cannonball is the long-awaited debut from the UK art rock sextet.
Tucker Pillsbury makes wide-ranging, genre-busting music as Role Model; the songs on Chuck Timely & the Hourglass recount Pillsbury’s journey from his darkest moments to the light of love. On molly picture, their second collab as god of war, Douglas Dulgarian (They Are Gutting a Body of Water) and Scott Turner and Sam Silbert (Hooky) conjure a lost world of Y2K beats and squishy synths.
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
Margaret Glaspy –
I am Both
CHECK OUT: “Michigan”
“That Rose”
the Mountain Goats –
Days
CHECK OUT: “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds”
“Candlebox”
Dinner Party –
Watchu Bringing?
CHECK OUT: “If it Ain’t Broke (Love Wins)”
“Peace of Mind”
Man/Woman/Chainsaw –
Cannonball
CHECK OUT: “Nosedive”
“Get Up and Dance”
Role Model –
Chuck Timely & the Hourglass
CHECK OUT: “High Hopes 3000”
“Joy”
god of war –
molly picture
CHECK OUT: “mickey don’t pose”
“new deal”
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FURTHER LISTENING
Blums – Sunk Cost Fantasy, Ceremony – Tell Me Your Dream, Citizen – Halcyon Blues, Crazy Clue – Where the Dregs Dwell, Effe – Solder EP, Ela Minus and Nick León – qué les pasó a mis amigos?, Fana Hues – Catch N’ Release, The Hollywood Vampires – At Montreux Jazz Festival, Jason Calhoun – revelations of divine love, John Carpenter – Cathedral, Mac Luster – Ritual EP, mclusky – My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours (Reissue), Megasound – Megasound, Militarie Gun – God Save The Gun (Deluxe), Morgan Freeman – Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience, Neptune’s Core – Pivot, Overmono – Pure Devotion, Public Opinion – The Curse of Public Opinion, Rowena Wise – Bad Things Feel Good*, Slack Key ʻOhana – The ʻOhana Sessions, Slow Fiction – dollhouse, Sunken Cages – Neram Pularumbol (As the Dawn Breaks), Uh Huh Her – Nocturnes: Redux
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