Get ready to wrap yourself in Big Black Coat, the fifth album (and first in five years) from Canadian duo Junior Boys. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls the release, "a more forceful, rhythm-driven take on their spacious electro-pop, masterfully blending house, techno and disco grooves with R&B, funk, motorikprog and more on moody, aching songs combining bubbly synths and propulsive rhythms with hushed vocals and passion-fueled lyrics."
Other highlights this week include the latest from Brooklyn band DIIV, led by Zachary Cole Smith, "an impressive set of shimmering, surf-tinged post-punk. Recorded and produced by Smith himself, this lengthy album features 17 songs that rarely flag with a dreamy blend of jangly guitars, driving rhythms, murky vocals and wistful melodies." Porches, a New York-based band led by Aaron Maine, release their sophomore album, "an excellent set of brooding, '80s-tinged electro-pop combining dark electronic soundscapes with Maine's plaintive vocals, wistful lyrics and melancholy melodies."
UK sibling group Field Music share "a more immediate and emotionally direct take on the band's quirky, jazz and funk-tinged prog-pop." Brooklyn duo Beacon present "a solid set of dark, R&B-tinged electro-pop with icy synths, pulsing rhythms and silky vocals." And, Philadelphia-based band Dr. Dog unleash their ninth full-length, "a concept album about a lysergic underworld that were first written by Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken and Tony Leaman before the band was even named. Those early songs have now been revisited on this sprawling set of eccentric, sometimes carnivalesque psych-pop."
Anna Homler / Steve Moshier – “Ee Chê”
from Breadwoman & Other Tales on Rvng Intl.
Beacon – “Running Out”
from Escapements on Ghostly International
Bert Jansch – “Kittiwake”
from Avocet on Earth Records
Burnt Palms – “Fold”
from Back on My Wall on We Were Never Being Boring
C Duncan – “Garden”
from Architect on Fat Cat
Chimurenga Renaissance – “Girlz With Gunz”
from Girlz With Gunz on Glitterbeat
Cloudland Canyon – “An Arabesque”
from An Arabesque on Medical Records
The Cult – “Hinterland”
from Hidden City on Cooking Vinyl
DIIV – “Bent (Roi's Song)”
from Is the Is Are on Captured Tracks
Dr. Dog – “Bring My Baby Back”
from The Psychedelic Swamp on Anti
Dressy Bessy – “Lady Liberty”
from Kingsized on Yep Roc
Drowning Pool – “By The Blood”
from Hellelujah on Entertainment One Music
Elliott Smith – “Coast To Coast”
from Heaven Adores You: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Universal
Eric Prydz – “Opus”
from Opus on Astralwerks / Virgin EMI
Field Music – “The Noisy Days Are Over”
from Commontime on Memphis Industries
Freakwater – “The Asp and the Albatross”
from Scheherazade on Bloodshot
Game Theory
from Lolita Nation [Deluxe Edition] on Omnivore
Hanz – “Capsule”
from Reducer on Tri Angle
Immersion – “Organic Cities”
from Analogue Creatures on Swim
Infamous Stringdusters – “Old Whiskey Bottle”
from Ladies & Gentlemen on Compass
The James Hunter Six – “(Baby) Hold On”
from Hold On! on Daptone
Jeb Loy Nichols – “Lonely King Of The Country”
from Long Time Traveller on On-U Sound
Junior Boys – “Big Black Coat”
from Big Black Coat on City Slang
King – “The Greatest”
from We Are King on King Creative
King Mud – “Back It Up”
from Victory Motel Sessions on Alive Naturalsound Records
Lafawndah – “Tan”
from Tan EP on Warp
The London Suede – “Like Kids”
from Night Thoughts on Rhino
Lou Doillon – “Lay Low”
from Lay Low on Verve
Lucinda Williams – “The Ghost Of Highway 20”
from The Ghosts of Highway 20 on Highway 20 Records
Luther Dickinson
from Blues & Ballads: A Folksinger's Songbook, Vols. 1-2 on New West
Majid Jordan – “Something About You”
from Majid Jordan on Warner Bros./OVO Sound
Mass Gothic – “Nice Night”
from Mass Gothic on Sub Pop
Media Jeweler – “Passport Invalid”
from $99 R/T Hawaii on Redeye Music Distribution
Nap Eyes – “Lion in Chains”
from Thought Rock Fish Scale on Paradise of Bachelors / You've Changed Records
Nonkeen – “re:turn!”
from The Gamble on R&S
Pizza Time – “Hasta Luego”
from Todo on Burger Records
Porches – “Car”
from Pool on Domino
The Prettiots – “Move To L.A.”
from Funs Cool on Rough Trade
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys – “The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn”
from The Complete Jessup Recordings Plus! on Real Gone Music
Rihanna – “American Oxygen”
from Anti on Def Jam / Roc Nation
The Soft Moon – “Far (Blush Response Remix)”
from Deeper Remixed Vol. 1 on Captured Tracks / aufnahme + wiedergabe
KEXP premiered an album stream of the latest from Portland band Radiation City last week, and it's now in stores. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes their latest, "features a more synth-driven sound for their eclectic dream-pop, combining bright synths and glittering guitars with funk-inflected rh…
February kicks off with plenty of new music for you to love, including the debut from Nevermen, a super group featuring TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More's Mike Patton, and rapper Doseone. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls the release "an adventurous blend of avant-rock, hip hop, so…
