Brooklyn band The Antlers release their fifth album, Familiars, today, and KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it, "a gorgeous, deeply felt set of dreamy ambient-pop tinged with elements of elegiac jazz and southern soul on lengthy, slowly swelling songs featuring muted guitars, mournful trumpets, atmospheric keyboards, slow, stately rhythms, plaintive vocals and reflective lyrics exploring the inner lives of people."
Another highlight of the week is the sophomore release from Vancouver, BC punks White Lung. Yates describes their latest as "an even-better full-length of ferocious punk that finds them upgrading to a cleaner sound and stronger song hooks on a flab-free set of burners combining blistering guitars, urgent rhythms and Mish Way’s full-throated, often-melodic vocals and confrontational lyrics."
Danish band Lower share their debut for Matador Records, "a promising set of brooding post-punk with a muscular, intense sound on shape-shifting songs combining jagged, clanging guitars, pummeling rhythms, declaimed vocals and personal, dread-filled lyrics." New York band The Felice Brothers are back with "another solid set of expansive folk-pop with a warm, beautifully layered sound combining a variety of acoustic and electric instrumentation with Ian Felice’s Dylanesque vocals, escapist lyrics and wistful melodies." Seattle's Say Hi shares his latest full-length on beloved local label, Barsuk. Film composer and former Redd Kross band member Brian Reitzell releases his solo debut album, featuring guest appearances by Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) and Jim James (My Morning Jacket). Scottish post-punkers Mogwai reissue their gorgeous 1999 album, Come On Die Young, with 17 bonus tracks, including demos, alternate mixes, and unreleased tracks. Weirdo Swedish siblings The Knife release the mini-album Shaken Up Versions, featuring re-recorded versions of songs from their Shaking the Habitual Tour. And another loved local label, Light in the Attic, releases more from the Donnie & Joe Emerson discography with a new collection of previously unreleased work.
It's the first batch of new releases for the summer, and highlights include the latest from Chicago-based artist Tom Krell, who records under the name How To Dress Well. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes his third album, What Is This Heart?, as a "more expansive take on his intimate blend of …
It's a release as big as his mouth -- the latest from trouble-making troubadour Jack White is titled Lazaretto. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the album as, "a typically masterful set of rootsy rock ranging from high-stepping blues-rock and brooding, spaghetti western-influenced rock to pl…
