PRESS PLAY: New Albums out August 26th!
Cinematic pop, clever covers, and hard-rocking riffs populate this week’s roundup of new releases.
As we close the book on another month, you can rest easy in knowing that the barrage of quality albums shows no signs of letting up. Julia Jacklin makes her long-awaited return with PRE PLEASURE, a bright and cinematic set of intricately crafted pop melodies. Once again stepping away from his namesake band, Marcus King stakes his hard-rocking claim on the Dan Auerbach-produced Young Blood. Stella Donnelly’s Flood is a welcome second set from the heartbreakingly clever Perth songwriter. On All of Us Flames, her sixth solo album, Ezra Furman completes a three-album story arc about queer agency and fury.
Collecting the band’s first six albums (and dozens of outtakes and rarities), Blondie’s Against the Odds is an essential survey of the iconic New York rockers. Ahead of her XPNFest appearance, Valerie June gives meditative renditions of songs by Mazzy Star, Nick Drake, and Frank Ocean on her Under Cover EP. An ambitious, summer-long project, Tedeschi Trucks Band offer the final installment of I Am the Moon, a multi-part suite inspired by the 7th century Persian poem Layla and Majnun. PRESS PLAY on these new releases (and more) below…
Julia Jacklin – PRE PLEASURE
CHECK OUT: “I Was Neon” “Love, Try Not to Let Go”
Marcus King – Young Blood
CHECK OUT: “Hard Working Man” “Rescue Me”
Stella Donnelly – Flood
CHECK OUT: “Lungs” “How Was Your Day?”
Ezra Furman – All of Us Flames
CHECK OUT: “Forever in Sunset” “Point Me Toward the Real”
Blondie – Against the Odds 1974-1982
CHECK OUT: “Moonlight Drive” “Mr. Sightseer”
Valerie June – Under Cover EP
CHECK OUT: “Fade into You” “Look at Miss Ohio”
Tedeschi Trucks Band – I Am the Moon: IV. Farewell
CHECK OUT: “Soul Sweet Song”
FURTHER LISTENING:
Bastille – Give Me the Future + Dreams of the Past, Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Art/Empire/Industry: The Complete Red Noise, Bret McKenzie – Songs Without Jokes, Butch Walker – Butch Walker as… Glenn, Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come, Cryalot – Icarus EP, Dendrons – 5-3-8, Dirty Heads – Midnight Control, Duncan Sheik – Claptrap, Eyedress – FULL TIME LOVER, FLOSSING – World of Mirth EP, The Happy Fits – Under the Shade of Green, Jim Lauderdale – Game Changer, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Let’s Turn it Into Sound, MUSE – Will of the People, Pantha du Prince – Garden Gala, Pianos Become the Teeth – Drift, Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing, Regina Spektor – 11:11 (Deluxe Edition), Thee Sacred Souls – Thee Sacred Souls, Sports Team – Gulp!, Vince Guaraldi – It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording), William Orbit – The Painter
