PRESS PLAY: New Albums out August 2nd

The new month brings a sizzling selection of new albums. Chicago’s Brigitte Calls Me Baby deliver supercharged New Romantic anthems on their full-length debut, The Future is Our Way Out. On Smoke & Fiction, their final LP, Los Angeles punk legends X set aside wistful nostalgia for rollicking hardcore energy. Following a clandestine release where white-label copies were secretly slipped into the possession of unsuspecting Third Man Records shoppers, Jack White officially presents his sixth solo album, No Name.

Expanding on the EP he released earlier this year, country mysterio Orville Peck welcomes Beck, Kylie, and others to his rodeo on Stampede. Meshell Ndegeocello celebrates the spirits of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (on the 100^th anniversary of the former’s birth) on No More Water. Following appearances in Twin Peaks: The Return and Inland Empire, Texas singer Chrystabell furthers her collaboration with director David Lynch on Cellophane Memories, their first full-length musical team-up.

Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every week on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.

PRESS PLAY on these new releases

Brigitte Calls Me Baby – The Future is Our Way Out
CHECK OUT: “We Were Never Alive” “Too Easy”

X – Smoke & Fiction
CHECK OUT: “Big Black X” “Ruby Church”

Jack White – No Name
CHECK OUT: “That’s How I’m Feeling” “What’s the Rumpus?”

Orville Peck – Stampede
CHECK OUT: “Death Valley High (feat. Beck)” “Midnight Ride (feat. Kylie Minogue and Diplo)

Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
CHECK OUT: “Love” “Raise the Roof”

Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories
CHECK OUT: “Sublime Eternal Love” “The Answers to the Questions”

The PRESS PLAY-list

FURTHER LISTENING

Brian Ray – My Town, Charles Brown – I Just Want to Talk to You, Charlie & the Tropicales – Jump Up, Cowboy Boy – Lipstick on a Pig, Footballhead – Overthinking Everything, Howard Jones – Live at the O2, Los Lonely Boys – Resurrection, Maren Morris – Intermission EP, Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival – Song for Sinners & Saints, Moses Sumney – Sophcore EP, Nick Zanca – Hindsight, Personal Trainer – Still Willing, Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour (10 Year Anniversary Edition), Simon Fisher Turner – Instability of the Signal, Smashing Pumpkins – Aghori Mhori Mei, Sonagi – Everything is Longing EP, Teen Daze – Elegant Rhythms, Tones and I – Beautifully Ordinary, Ween – Chocolate and Cheese (Deluxe Edition), WHY? – The Well I Fell Into, Zack Clarke – Plunge, ZEBEDEE – Going Nowhere Fast