2015 is off to a great start for new releases! Highlights include the latest from Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes that the fifth release from this experimental artist "is a typically adventurous, brightly colored set of warped psych-pop with swirling, often-disoriented synths, trippy ambient textures, occasional hip hop breakbeats, celestial melodies, multi-layered vocals and quasi-cryptic reflections on mortality."
Additional highlights include the latest from Amherst, MA, band California X whose second album is "an impressive set of ‘90s-steeped guitar-rock reminiscent at times of a more punkish Dinosaur Jr. or Built To Spill, combining loud, fuzzy guitars with energetic rhythms and anthemic song hooks." Justin Townes Earle returns with a companion album to 2014’s Single Mothers, this one titled Absent Fathers. "Like that album, it’s a melancholy, deeply personal set blending roots-rock, Southern soul, country, folk, blues and more." The latest from Canadian quartet Dan Mangan + Blacksmith "finds him continuing his evolution towards a darker, more experimental sound with this expansive set of prog-steeped pop-rock combining a densely produced sound with moody melodies and reflective lyrics."
It's an impressive week for new releases! Beloved Northwest band Sleater-Kinney end their hiatus with the release of No Cities To Love. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes, "The recently reunited trio’s eighth album (and first in 10 years) is a strong return-to-form, with an intense blend of punk, …
The new releases list gets smaller and smaller as we get closer and closer to the end of the year. A few highlights do stand out, especially the long-awaited new album from R&B artist D'Angelo. After 15 years, he returns with his third album, Black Messiah, featuring production by ?uestlove. (S…
