Out This Week 4/14

Veteran Tucson band Calexico return with their ninth album today titled Edge Of The Sun. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it "a beautifully crafted set of expansive folk-rock inflected with mariachi, synth-pop, cumbia and more. The album’s vibrant, colorful sound is fleshed out with help from an impressive supporting cast including Neko Case, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell, Devotchka’s Nick Urata and other notables."

Other highlights this week include the collaboration between Montreal-based bands Suuns and Jerusalem In My Heart (read an in-depth review of their release here on the KEXP Blog). Producer/DJ/record label owner Mike Simonetti and Silver Hands vocalist Elizabeth Wight combine forces as the duo Pale Blue. Their debut is "a moody, atmospheric blend of dream-pop with techno and ambient music, combining spacy synths and minimalist beats with Wight’s pristine vocals." Brooklyn band Ava Luna return with their third album, "a bit more polished and streamlined though no less eccentric set of quirky art-pop inflected with R&B, funk, doo wop, No Wave and more." San Francisco band POW! share their sophomore release of "dystopian synth-punk with buzzing synths, rumbling guitars, jittery rhythms and lyrics decrying the increasing gentrification of their hometown." And Tal National (a group with roots in Songhai, Fulani, Hausa, and Tuareg) share their latest release Zoy Zoy.

• Ava Luna – “Billz”
• from Infinite House on Western Vinyl Records
• Avid Dancer – “All Your Words Are Gone”
• from 1st Bath on Grand Jury
• Bodega Bamz – “Bring Em Out” feat. Flatbush Zombies
• from Sidewalk Exec on 100 Keep It/Duck Down
• Calexico – “Cumbia de Donde”
• from Edge of the Sun on Anti
• Charles Lloyd
• from Wild Man Dance: Live at Wroclaw Philharmonic, Wroclaw, Poland, November 24, 2013 on Blue Note
• Cristina Quesada – “Just Like Honey”
• from You Are the One on Elefant
• The Damnwells – “Lost”
• from The Damnwells on Rock Ridge Music
• Delia Gonzalez – “IV”
• from In Remembrance on DFA
• Dinner – “Going Out”
• from Three EPs: 2012-2014 on Captured Tracks
• Dwight Yoakam – “Second Hand Heart”
• from Second Hand Heart on Warner Bros.
• Earl Sweatshirt – “Grief”
• from I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt on Sony Music Entertainment
• Gallows – “Leviathan Rot”
• from Desolation Sounds on Bridge 9 Records
• Jerusalem in My Heart / Suuns – “Gazelles In Flight”
• from Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart on Secretly Canadian
• John Andrews & the Yawns – “I'll Go To Your Funeral (If You Go To Mine)”
• from Bit by the Fang on Woodsist
• Kathryn Calder – “Take A Little Time”
• from Kathryn Calder on File Under: Music
• Lila Downs – “Balas y Chocolate”
• from Balas y Chocolate on Sony Music Latin
• The Lilac Time – “No Sad Songs”
• from No Sad Songs on Tapete Records
• Looper – “Images Of The Shipwreck”
• from Offgrid:Offline on Mute
• Looper – “Mondo '77”
• from These Things 5 CD box set on Mute
• Mikaela Kahn – “Fire & Lace”
• from Milk & Honey on self-released
• Needtobreathe – “Washed By The Water”
• from Live from the Woods at Fontanel on Atlantic
• Now and on Earth – “Intoxicated”
• from Blacked Out on Epitaph
• Pale Blue – “The Past We Leave Behind”
• from The Past We Leave Behind on 2mr / Captured Tracks
• POW! – “Liquid Daydream”
• from Fight Fire on Castle Face
• Refrigerator – “This Woman Here”
• from Temple City on Shrimper
• The Replacements – “Alex Chilton”
• from The Complete Studio Albums: 1981-1990 on Rhino
• Slug – “Greasy Mind”
• from Ripe on Memphis Industries
• Stealing Sheep – “Greed”
• from Not Real on Heavenly
• Stornoway – “Get Low”
• from Bonxie on Cooking Vinyl Records
• Stranger Cat – “Sirens”
• from In the Wilderness on Joyful Noise
• Tal National – “Claire”
• from Zoy Zoy on FatCat Records
• Tom Russell
• from The Rose of Roscrae on Proper Records
• Villagers – “Courage”
• from Darling Arithmetic on Domino
• The Wombats – “Greek Tragedy”
• from Glitterbug on Bright Antenna