PRESS PLAY: New Albums out May 6th
New albums galore for you to check out this week — including Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, Belle and Sebastian, Ibeyi and more.
After a thoroughly busy album release schedule for April, we open the new month with a preposterously packed list of exciting offerings. Returning to their uplifting, anthemic mode after a few years in the digital wilderness, Arcade Fire’s WE is a bombastic tour-de-force. Previewed at her NON-COMM set earlier this week, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong is a powerful and cathartic masterpiece from Sharon Van Etten. Scottish indie institution Belle and Sebastian make their own grand return with the giddily nostalgic A Bit of Previous. Fresh off their own show-stopping NON-COMM set, French experimental pop duo Ibeyi spotlight sister power on Spell 31.
Fans of bright guitar pop will find a lot to love about Endless Rooms, the third full-length from Melbourne’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Power-pop trio Sunflower Bean’s Headful of Sugar is a jittery rush of glam rave-ups with big choruses. Adapted from her recent multimedia show, Leyla McCalla explores the history of Haitian rhythms on Breaking the Thermometer. And LA rockers Warpaint reconvene after a six-year break for the thunderous Radiate Like This. PRESS PLAY on these new releases (and so many more) below…
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous
CHECK OUT: “Unnecessary Drama” “Young and Stupid”
Arcade Fire – WE
CHECK OUT: “The Lightning I, II” “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”
Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
CHECK OUT: “Mistakes” “Born”
Ibeyi – Spell 31
CHECK OUT: “Sister 2 Sister” “Rise Above (feat. BERWYN)”
Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever – Endless Rooms
CHECK OUT: “The Way it Shatters” “My Echo”
Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar
CHECK OUT: “Baby Don’t Cry” “Roll the Dice”
Leyla McCalla – Breaking the Thermometer
CHECK OUT: “You Don’t Know Me” “Vini Wè”
Warpaint – Radiate Like This
CHECK OUT: “Champion” “Stevie”
FURTHER LISTENING:
!!! – Let it Be Blue, Anna Calvi – Tommy EP, Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2, The Black Crowes – 1972 EP, Black Star – No Fear of Time, Bryan Ferry – Love Letters EP, The Builders and The Butchers – Hell and High Water, C Duncan – Alluvium, Desaparecidos – Read Music/Speak Spanish (Reissue), Emeli Sandé – Let’s Say For Instance, George Winston – NIGHT, Graham Nash – Graham Nash: Live, Jens Lekman – The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom, Jon Natchez – Luzzu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Karen Dalton – Shuckin’ Sugar, Kate Stables – Flux Alchemy Part 1 EP, Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island, Norma Tanega – I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings 1964-1971, Pink Mountaintops – Peacock Pools, Richard Thompson – Grizzly Man (Original Soundtrack) (Reissue), Rick Astley – Whenever You Need Somebody (2022 Remaster), Rowan – Does it Make You Happy?, Sadurn – Radiator, Sheryl Crow – Sheryl: Music From the Feature Documentary, Sigrid – How to Let Go, Soft Cell – *Happiness Not Included, STÖNER – totally…, Stoney & Meatloaf – Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings, Strange Parade – The Watchers, Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band – Bloodlines / Smokin the Dummy (Reissues), Timothy B. Schmit – Day By Day, Tommaso Moretti – Inside Out
