Out This Week 2/3

The legendary Bob Dylan releases "an album of vintage songs associated with legendary crooner Frank Sinatra." KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes, "it works beautifully, with spare, low-key accompaniment (ethereal pedal steel, softly plucked bass, gentle guitars and occasional muted brass) and his craggy vocals sounding surprisingly smooth and assured on a variety of bleary-eyed, world-weary songs of love and loss." Indie rock icon Robert Pollard returns under the moniker Ricked Wicky, and with former Guided By Voices band members Todd Tobias and Kevin March along for the ride. Yates describes their debut as "similar to GBV’s crunchy blend of power-pop and psych-rock, though with a stronger arena-rock vibe at times." And filmmaker John Carpenter releases his first non-soundtrack album, "an evocative set of dark, cinematic instrumentals with ominous keyboards and guitars and urgent, tension-building rhythms." (You can read a more in-depth review of the release here on the KEXP Blog.)

Other highlights this week include the fifth album from San Francisco duo Two Gallants, "another expansive set of roots-tinged rock ranging from aggressive, blues-tinged hard-rock to atmospheric, acoustic-oriented folk ballads." Pennsylvania band Title Fight "move away from the emo-punk of their earlier records in favor of a more textured and atmospheric sound with flanged, shoegazerish guitars, half-buried vocals, enigmatic lyrics and moody melodies." And veteran Australian band The Church release their 21st album, "a typically solid though often-sedate set of atmospheric psych-rock with spiraling, sometimes effects-drenched guitars, stately rhythms and majestic pop hooks."

• All We Are – “Stone”
• from All We Are on Domino / Double Six
• Andy Shauf – “I'm Not Falling Asleep”
• from The Bearer of Bad News on Party Damage / Tender Loving Empire
• Asaf Avidan – “The Jail That Sets You Free”
• from Gold Shadow on Universal
• Big Noble – “PEG”
• from First Light on Affiliates Sound/Kobalt
• Bob Dylan – “Stay With Me”
• from Shadows in the Night on Columbia
• Breakfast in Fur – “Portrait”
• from Flyaway Garden on Bar/None Records
• Butch Walker – “Bed of Fire”
• from Afraid of Ghosts on Dangerbird Records
• The Church – “Pride Before A Fall”
• from Further/Deeper on Unorthodox
• Cornershop – “Born Disco; Died Heavy”
• from Hold on It's Easy on Ample Play
• Etienne Jaumet – “Metallik Cages”
• from La Visite on Versatile
• Freak Heat Waves – “Plastic-Coated Dancers”
• from Bonnie's State of Mind on Hockey Dad
• H. Hawkline – “Moons In My Mirror”
• from In the Pink of Condition on Heavenly
• Henry Kaiser / Ray Russell – “GuKTen LIMPo”
• from The Celestial Squid on Cuneiform Records
• Hiss Golden Messenger – “Southern Grammar”
• from Southern Grammar on Merge
• John Carpenter – “Vortex”
• from Lost Themes on Sacred Bones
• Jonny Faith – “Neon”
• from Sundial on Tru Thoughts
• Kind of Like Spitting/Warren Franklin & the Founding Fathers – “Stress Cadet”
• from It’s Always Nice to See You split EP on Top Shelf Records
• Matana Roberts – “always say your name / nema nema nema”
• from Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee on Constellation
• Michna – “She Exists In My Mind”
• from Thousand Thursday on Ghostly International
• Mount Eerie – “Sauna”
• from Sauna on P.W. Elverum & Sun
• Murder by Death – “Send Me Home”
• from Big Dark Love on Bloodshot
• Nite Fields – “You I Never Knew”
• from Depersonalisation on Felte
• Ólafur Arnalds – “Beth's Theme”
• from Broadchurch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Mercury Classics
• Ricked Wicky – “Mobility”
• from I Sell the Circus on Fire
• The Staves – “Steady”
• from If I Was on Atlantic
• Title Fight – “Chlorine”
• from Hyperview on Anti
• Two Gallants – “We Are Undone”
• from We Are Undone on ATO