PRESS PLAY: New Albums out March 24th
From new wave to dream pop to avant-jazz, there’s something for everyone in this week’s batch of new albums
No matter what shape you’re stomach’s in, you’ll find a satisfying treat in this week’s assortment of newly released albums. New wave icons Depeche Mode respond to the tragic death of founding member Andy Fletcher with Memento Mori, their strongest and most graceful album in years. Caroline Rose gets similarly introspective on The Art of Forgetting, exploring vulnerable corners of emotion with cathartic fury. With lyrics that twist and turn through sun-washed locales, Lana Del Rey teams up with a host of notable friends on her ninth album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
On Celebrants, their first album in nearly a decade, progressive-bluegrass purveyors Nickel Creek show off their incomparable music chops for an inviting set. Rebounding from the ‘workingman’s Hiss’ diversion of his solo debut, Philly mainstay Mike Pollize revives Purling Hiss to its ear-bleeding country glory with Drag on Girard. Requiem for Jazz is a jaw-dropping, head-turning, mind-expanding multimedia suite by Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid; the full production interpolates the 1959 film The Cry of Jazz alongside vintage performances by Sun Ra and his Arkestra.
PRESS PLAY on these new releases below. Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every Friday on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
CHECK OUT: “Ghosts Again” “My Cosmos is Mine”
Caroline Rose – The Art of Forgetting
CHECK OUT: “Miami” “Tell Me What You Want”
Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
CHECK OUT: “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” “The Grants”
Nickel Creek – Celebrants
CHECK OUT: “Strangers” “Holding Pattern”
Purling Hiss – Drag on Girard
CHECK OUT: “Yer All in My Dreams” “Drag on Girard”
Angel Bat Dawid – Requiem for Jazz
CHECK OUT: “RECORDARE-Recall the Joy”
FUTHER LISTENING…
Aoife O’Donovan – Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily – Love in Exile, August Burns Red – Death Below, Benny Sings – Young Hearts, Black Country, New Road – Live at Bush Hall, Bouncing Souls – Ten Stories High, Cécile McLorin Salvant – Mélusine, The Cinematic Orchestra – Every Day (20th Anniversary Edition), Connections – Cool Change, Debby Friday – GOOD LUCK, Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire, Eaves Wilder – Hookey EP, Elton John – Honky Château (50th Anniversary Edition), Fall Out Boy – So Much (for) Stardust, The HIRS Collective – We’re Still Here, Jeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – Plays Well with Others EP, Jenny Conlee – Tides: Pieces for Accordion and Piano, The Kinks – The Journey, Pt. 1, Matt Corby – Everything’s Fine, Meg Myers – TZIA, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood – Nancy & Lee Again (Remastered), Noble Rot – Heavenly Bodies, Repetition, Control, Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (Live at Wembley 1974) / The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary Box Set), The Reds, Pinks & Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name, Rosalía & Rauw Alejandro – RR EP, Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Anniversary Edition), Sophie B. Hawkins – Free Myself, The Velvet Underground – Loaded (Fully Re-Loaded Edition), Wilder Woods – FEVER / SKY, YoshimiO – To the Forest to Live a Truer Life, Yours Are the Only Ears – We Know the Sky, Zack Rosen – SYZYGY, Zorn – Zorn
