PRESS PLAY: New Albums out November 10th

As end-of-year lists and plans begin to loom on the horizon, keep in mind that there are still many new releases arriving in the home stretch of 2023. Recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Cat Power Sings Dylan sees Chan Marshall staging a song-for-song love letter to the songwriter’s much-bootlegged (and regrettably mis-titled) May ’66 set at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall. Sturdy country guitarist Chris Stapleton co-writes with Dan Wilson and Dave Cobb on his fifth solo LP, HIGHER. Following the first installment of a conceptual EP series, Pure Bathing Culture’s Chalice is abundant with the Portland duo’s signature crystalline dream pop.

Inspired by a trip to Norway, Zach Condon folds Scandinavian folk traditions into his globetrotting indie pop on Beirut’s sixth album, Hadsel. Recorded live in-studio with a full band, Be Good the Crazy Boys is the Talking Heads- and Grace Jones-inspired third album from Here We Go Magic’s Luke Temple as Art Feynman. Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa produced the soundtrack to the first season of The Buccaneers; the Edith Wharton adaptation is accompanied by new tracks from Sharon Van Etten, Lucius, Miya Folick, and more.

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.

Cat Power – Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
CHECK OUT: “Like a Rolling Stone” “Ballad of a Thin Man”

Chris Stapleton – Higher
CHECK OUT: “White Horse” “Think I’m in Love with You”

Pure Bathing Culture – Chalice
CHECK OUT: “The Memento” “The River”

Beirut – Hadsel
CHECK OUT: “The Tern” “So Many Plans”

Art Feynman – Be Good the Crazy Boys
CHECK OUT: “All I Can Do” “Early Signs of Rhythm”

Various Artists – The Buccaneers: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
CHECK OUT: Sharon Van Etten – “Close to You” Miya Folick – “What We Wanna”

FURTHER LISTENING:
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Naked Pop Songs Live!, Acid Tongue – Blame it On the Youth EP, Adam Miller – Illusion Pool EP, Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions, Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, and Virginia Bocelli – A Family Christmas (Deluxe Edition), Bear’s Den – White Magnolias EP, The Beatles – 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) / 1967-1970 (2023 Edition), Brandy – Christmas with Brandy, Bush – Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023, Coco & Clair Clair – SEXY (Deluxe Edition), Cosmo Jimmy – Under That Dress, Cuco – Hitchhiker EP, Daneshevskaya – Long is the Tunnel, Fenne Lily – Big Picture (Expanded Edition), Fitz and the Tantrums – Perfect Holiday EP, Foghat – Sonic Mojo, Garth Brooks – Time Traveler, Greg Lake – Magical (The Solo Years), HAAi – DJ Kicks: HAAi, Helmet – Left, Hit Bargain – A Dog A Deer A Seal, Iron & Wine – Who Can See Forever (Soundtrack), Jesse Kivel – Life and Death at Party Rock, Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live at Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967, Joel Paterson – The More the Merrier: Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar, Vol. 2, John Francis Flynn – Look Over the Wall, See the Sky, John Moreland – Live at Third Man Records, King Louie Bankston – Harahan Fats, Like a Doll – Like a Doll, Lori McKenna – 1988 (Deluxe Edition), Måneskin – Rush! (Are U Coming?) (Deluxe Edition), Neil Young – Neil Young Archives Vol. I: 1963-1972 (Reissue), New Order – Substance 1987 (Reissue), Passenger – All the Little Lights (Anniversary Edition), R.E.M. – Up (25th Anniversary Edition), Sara Noelle – Four Songs EP, Seth MacFarlane & Liz Gillies – We Wish You the Merriest, Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster (Reissue), Special Interest – Endure Remixed, Wet Dip – Smell of Money, Yo La Tengo – The Bunker Sessions