Recover from the holiday weekend with some new music, like the latest from KEXP favorite Sharon Van Etten. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes her fourth release as, "a masterful set of brooding folk-pop... the album features a sparsely produced, mostly slow-burning sound with solemn piano and organ, muted guitars, stately rhythms and occasional horns accompanying her rich, emotive vocals and often-dark, intimate lyrics of troubled relationships."
Montreal-based composer/violinist Owen Pallett shares his fourth solo album, a "more personal lyrical perspective to his sumptuous, neo-classical orchestral pop while also injecting a bit more rock energy into these intricately arranged songs with often-looped violin and other lush strings, brass, piano, synths and more accompanying his wan vocals and lyrics revolving around love and insanity."
Southern band Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires share "a fiery blend of roots-rock, garage and Southern rock, combining blistering guitar riffs, chooglin’ rhythms and Bains’ whiskey-stained vocals and literate, often-politically charged lyrics." Soundway Records shares Sound of Siam, the second volume in their Thai music compilation series, that's "a fascinating set that focuses on ‘70s-era sounds from northeast Thailand, with many of the songs combining traditional Thai styles with psych-rock, funk and other more modern influences." Hercules & Love Affair recruited a new batch of guest vocalists, including John Grant and Andy Butler, for their third release, The Feast of the Broken Heart.Long-time collaborators Robyn and Röyksopp pair up for a new release, Do It Again. And Dum Dum Girls’ Dee Dee and Crocodiles’ Brandon Welchez team up for the new project Haunted Hearts. Yates calls their debut mini-album, "a solid outing of psych-tinged pop-rock with fuzzy shoegazer guitars and hazy vocals."
What a great way to kick off June! Just look at this list of new releases. A clear highlight for KEXP has been the latest from indie rock veteran Bob Mould. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the latest from the former Husker Du/Sugar frontman as, "in the same vein as 2012’s excellent Silver A…
Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst returns with his latest solo release, Upside Down Mountain. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says the new album, "features a warm, rich sound with acoustic and electric guitars and keyboards along with occasional horns, pedal steel, woodwinds and gorgeous harmonies co…
