New York duo Phantogram release their sophomore album, Voices, today, which KEXP Music Director Don Yates claims is a, "sleek set of moody electro-pop with a dark, atmospheric sound featuring buzzing synths, spiky guitars, hip hop-influenced beats, breathy vocals and catchy pop hooks." Another highlight for the week comes from Angel Olsen, former member of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s band, whose second album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, adds some electricity to her psych-folk-rock sound. (She'll be live on KEXP on Friday, March 7th.) Longtime indie-icons Guided By Voices released their twentieth album today, Motivational Jumpsuit, and you know that album #21 isn't far behind.Perfectly timed for the day after Presidents' Day, local band The Presidents of the United States of America have released their sixth album, Kudos to You. Davila 666 frontman AJ Davila shares his lo-fi glam debut, Terror Amor, and Brazilian Girls vocalist Sabina releases her debut today, too, titled Toujours. William Fitzsimmons shares a new album, Lions, which was produced by Seattle's own Chris Walla. And a band with the hard-to-Google name, No, say "yes" to their darkly brooding debut, out today on Arts & Crafts. (You can hear an exclusive in-studio from them on The Morning Show on KEXP on Monday, April 7th.) Check it all out below!
Bear Hands - Giants from Distraction on Cantora Records
Com Truise - Subsonic from Wave 1 EP on Ghostly
Cripple Bastards - Malato Terminale from Nero in Metastasi on Relapse
AJ Davila - Media Naranja from Terror Amor on Nacional Records
Guided By Voices - Littlest League Possible from Motivational Jumpsuit on Fire
The Hotelier - Life In Drag from Home, Like No Place Is There on Tiny Engines
Krill - Turd from Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears on Exploding in Sound
Dawn Landes - Cry No More from Bluebird on Western Vinyl
Lost in the Trees - Rites from Past Life on Anti-
Lydia Loveless - To Love Somebody from Somewhere Else on Bloodshot
Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition - White Angel from Dark Night of the Soul on Fat Possum
New Bums - Black Bough from Voices in a Rented Room on Drag City
NO - Leave The Door Wide Open from El Prado on Arts & Crafts
Phantogram - Fall In Love from Voices on Republic
Planningtorock - All Love's Legal from All Love's Legal on Human Level Recordings
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Crown Victoria (feat. John Roderick) from Kudos to You! on Burnside
Sabina - Toujours from Toujours on Bar/None Records
Shocking Pinks - Not Gambling from Guilt Mirrors on Stars & Mirrors
Solids - Traces from Blame Confusion on Fat Possum
St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Sugar Dyed Honey Pants from Half the City on Single Lock Records
Tomas Barfod - Pulsing (feat. Nina K) from Pulsing EP on Secretly Canadian
William Fitzsimmons - Fortune from Lions on Nettwerk Records
It's been six years, but a new album from Beck is finally here. KEXP's Music Director, Don Yates, describes his twelfth studio album, Morning Phase, as "a gorgeous set of downtempo, psych-tinged folk-pop that’s a sequel of sorts to his 2002 album Sea Change, with somber, slow-moving songs featuring…
There's lots to love in the record stores this Valentine's Day week, like the aptly titled Hotel Valentine, the first release in fifteen years from New York City duo Cibo Matto. If you're in a more somber mood, check out the album Benji from Sun Kil Moon aka Mark Kozelek (ex-Red House Painters), fe…
