In what could be the most on-brand thing to happen on Halloween, Florence + the Machine materialize with their sinister sixth album, Everybody Scream. Halloween birthday boy Robert Pollard scatters hooks like Skittles on Guided by Voice’s latest sweet-and-sour dispatch, Thick Rich and Delicious. Reuniting for their first collaborative project since p.s. eliot, Katie and Allison Crutchfield surprise-release their debut as Snocaps, a new combo that also features MJ Lenderman.

Returning to the Welsh studio where they recorded their seminal 1997 LP Tellin’ Stories, Charlatans UK recruited Stephen Street and Dev Hynes to produce their 14^th studio album, We are Love. Zac Little resurrects his expansive folk-rock project Saintseneca for High Wallow & Supermoon Songs, a sprawling full-length orbited by two satellite appendices. Australian rockers The Belair Lip Bombs crash into the Third Man Records family with their energetic second album, Again.

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Florence + the Machine –
Everybody Scream

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“Everybody Scream”
“One of the Greats”

Guided by Voices –
Thick Rich and Delicious

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“(You Can’t Go Back to) Oxford Talawanda”
“Phantasmagoric Upstarts”

SNOCAPS – Snocaps

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“Avalanche”
“Heathcliff”

Charlatans UK – We are Love

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“We are Love”
“Deeper and Deeper”

Saintseneca –
Highwallow & Supermoon Songs

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“Sweet Nothing”
“Infinity Leaf Clover”

The Belair Lip Bombs –
Again

CHECK OUT:
“Hey You”
“Back of My Hand”

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FURTHER LISTENING

Anna von Hausswolff – Iconoclasts, Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Mercy, Ashes and Diamonds – Ashes and Diamonds are Forever, Astrachan – Signs, Black Polish – Yuna, CG Stanton & the Powerful Stuff – CG Stanton & the Powerful Stuff, Chat Pile + Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again, Chicoutimi – Ghost Town, Chuck Prophet – Night Surfer (10^th Anniversary Edition), claire rousay – a little death, Daniel Avery – Tremor, Eleni Drake – Chuck, Her New Knife – Chrome is Lullaby: RE EP, Ink & Dagger – Ink & Dagger: The Complete Works, IWFYLS – Without/Within, Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider – A Companion for the Spaces Between Dreams, JEFF the Brotherhood & Blanc Du Blanc – Magick Songs in Dub EP, Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba – kwaNTU, Maps – Welcome to the Tudor Gate, Makaya McCraven – Techno Logic EP / The People’s Mixtape EP / Hidden Out! EP / PopUp Shop EP, My Violence – Monday’s Child, Night Teacher – Year of the Snake, Pictureplane – Sex Distortion, Primitive Man – Observance, Radderall & Muzzy Fossa – The Club is Open, Side Hug – New Language, Tape Trash – EDEN, The Who – Who are You (Box Set), Various Artists – A Companion for the Spaces Between Dreams

Robert Finley – “Get It While You Can” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)