PRESS PLAY: New Albums out September 4th
Discover this week’s newly released albums by Medium Build, Paris Paloma, Angus & Julia Stone, ADÉLA, and more…
Medium Build | photo by Beth Garrabrant, courtesy of the artist
Do you remember! The first albums released in September…
Few performers appear to have as much fun onstage as Nick Carpenter; the Nashville troubadour’s sixth LP as Medium Build, King of Having Fun, lives up to its exuberant title. Still riding high from the breakthrough success “Labour,” Paris Paloma returns with The Fatal Flaw, examining the intersections of love, art, and human connection.
Stunning vistas in the Greek Isles were the backdrop for the writing of Karaoke Bar, the seventh album by Australia’s preeminent folk-pop siblings, Angus and Julia Stone. Prima is the debut album from rising Slovak sensation ADÉLA; she cites American television, specifically Hannah Montana, as formative in her desire to achieve pop stardom.
Multi-disciplinary Austrian artist Sofie Royer reflects on her own adventures (and misadventures) on the witty and sleek before/after. On Spiral Bound, their full-length debut, New York’s Diary make revved-up jangle pop that’s equal parts sweet and sour.
A pair of notable re-imagined albums are also out this week: To commemorate the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut, Ben Folds Five have unearthed a ‘Shelved First Attempt’ at the record, which was tracked in Philly with producer Dave “Stiff” Johnson. Reworking the songs from last year’s Fatal Optimist into not-quite-acoustic arrangements, Madi Diaz offers up an ‘UN-unplugged’ edition that recasts the material in unexpected ways.
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
Medium Build – King of Having Fun
CHECK OUT: “Home Depot” “Armor”
Paris Paloma – The Fatal Flaw
CHECK OUT: “Good Boy” “Miyazaki”
Angus & Julia Stone – Karaoke Bar
CHECK OUT: “Karaoke Bar” “Monroe”
ADÉLA – Prima
CHECK OUT: “Ain’t in LA” “KGB”
Sofie Royer – before/after
CHECK OUT: “Cowboy Mouth” “Sesquicentennial”
Diary – Spiral Bound
CHECK OUT: “Keep Comin’ Up” “Drive It”
Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five
(30th Anniversary Edition)
CHECK OUT: “Underground”
“Philosophy”
Madi Diaz –
Fatal Optimist (UN-unplugged)
CHECK OUT: “Heavy Metal”
“This is How a Woman Leaves”
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FURTHER LISTENING
A. Lee Edwards – Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. II, Angelo Badalamenti – Blue Velvet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Reissue), Anne-Claire – Do You Dream of Me Too?, Arab Strap – Half-Told Tales, Bayonne – Filters, Black Bananas – Bad Bunch, Chat Pile – Who Loves the Sun, Dexys Midnight Runners – LOVE, Ellie Goulding – I Know Too Much, Faux Real – Poison Time, Futurebirds – Far Out Country, The Go – Free Electricity, Hannah Cole – Switchbacks, Late Again – I Dreamt I Was Awake EP, The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, Melissa Auf Der Maur – BASS WOMB ROOM: My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings, Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Psychedelia in White, Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia (Reissue), Movements – Happier Now, Mykki Blanco – Little Feet, Natalie Imbruglia – Algorithm, Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs – case/lang/veirs (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), Noah Hill – Ok ok now, Pete Fij – Up’s the New Down, Personal Trainer – Human Assholes, Phillip Phillips – Let’s Go Far: Vol. 1 EP, PUREST FORM – RESISTANCE EP, Rebecca Black – Age of the Exhibitionist, Soft Science – Sand, Sova – Alight!, Stick Men – Let’s THRAK Again, The Thermals – Under Crushing Rain, Todd Slant – What’s Up, Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Buddha and the Chocolate Box (Reissue), Various Artists – Sergio Mendes Tribute
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