Out This Week 7/22

Highlights for this sleepy summer week include the debut from Toronto-based band Alvvays (pronounced "always," if you were wonderin'). KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the release as "a promising set of hazy, surf-inflected dream-pop. Produced by Chad VanGaalen, the album features a reverb-drenched sound with fuzzy guitars, energetic rhythms, wistful melodies, melancholy lyrics and Molly Rankin’s soaring vocals."

Los Angeles artist Tim Presley, aka White Fence, is back with his sixth full-length, but his first to be recorded in an actual studio with a live drummer. Produced by Ty Segall, Yates notes the new one "the album is a more focused, polished and melodic take on Presley’s jangly, ‘60s-steeped blend of garage-rock, psych-pop and folk-rock." Ontario duo PS I Love You bring "a more dynamic, diverse and slightly more polished approach to their visceral blend of energetic post-punk and anthemic garage-rock." Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead team up as the duo Got a Girl, whose debut of retro, lounge-y pop has one of the best album titles of the year: I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now.If you missed out on The Black Angels' Clear Lake Forest EP on Record Store Day, you'll be glad to know the Austin psych-troupe are re-releasing the mini-album on 12” clear vinyl, CD, and digitally today. Australian dance-masters Cut Copy are also reissuing last year's album, Free Your Mind, in a deluxe edition including five new songs taken from that album’s recording sessions. And Drag City Records reissues Matthew Young's 1981 experimental electronic debut, Recurring Dreams.

• (Various Artists) Jessy Lanza - You and Me
• from Hyperdub 10.2 on Hyperdub
• Alvvays - "Archie, Marry Me"
• from Alvvays on Polyvinyl / Royal Mountain
• Anberlin - "Stranger Ways"
• from Lowborn on Tooth & Nail
• Anti-Flag - "Turncoat"
• from A Document of Dissent: 1993-2013 on Fat Wreck Chords
• Liam Betson - "Pocket Knife"
• from The Cover of Hunter on Double Double Whammy
• The Black Angels - "Diamond Eyes"
• from Clear Lake Forest EP on Polyvinyl / Royal Mountain
• Common - "Kingdom" feat. Vince Staples
• from Nobody's Smiling on Def Jam
• Cut Copy - "Lights Shine On"
• from Free Your Mind [Bonus Tracks] deluxe edition on Loma Vista Recordings
• Entrails - "Blood Red"
• from Resurrected from the Grave: Demo Collection on Metal Blade
• Aaron Freeman - "(For A While) I Couldn't Play My Guitar Like A Man"
• from Freeman on Partisan / PTKF
• Got a Girl - "Did We Live Too Fast"
• from I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now on Bulk Recordings
• Neil Hamburger - "Endless Roll"
• from First of Dismay on Drag City
• Joyce Manor - "Catalina Fight Song"
• from Never Hungover Again on Epitaph
• Kaskade - "I Remember" (w/ Deadmau5)
• from I Remember Greatest Hits compilation on Ultra
• King of Asgard - "The Runes Of Hel"
• from Karg on Metal Blade
• King Creosote - "For One Night Only"
• from From Scotland with Love on Domino
• Kodomo - "Orange Ocean"
• from Patterns & Light on Kodomo
• La Hell Gang - "Sweet Dear"
• from Thru Me Again on Mexican Summer
• La Roux - "Let Me Down Gently"
• from Trouble in Paradise on Cherrytree Records / Interscope / Polydor
• Martyrdöd - "Elddop"
• from Elddop on Southern Lord Records
• Monomyth - "Something Else"
• from Saturnalia Regalia! on Mint
• The Muffs - "Up And Down Around"
• from Whoop Dee Doo on Cherry Red
• Nona - "Give"
• from Through the Head on 6131
• Overkill - "Armorist"
• from White Devil Armory on eOne / Nuclear Blast
• Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Mr. Upsetter"
• from Master Piece on Born Free / Megawave Records / Wienerworld
• PS I Love You - "For Those Who Stay"
• from For Those Who Stay on Paper Bag Records
• RX Bandits - "Meow! Meow! Space Tiger"
• from Gemini, Her Majesty on Mashdown Babylon
• White Fence - "Like That"
• from For the Recently Found Innocent on Drag City
• Matthew Young - "First Blood"
• from Recurring Dreams reissue on Drag City