Out This Week 8/3

The most exciting new release this week is The Most Lamentable Tragedy by New Jersey band Titus Andronicus. On this 29-song, 94+-minute rock opera, frontman Patrick Stickles details his struggle with manic depression. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says the album, "features a full, grand sound to match with strings (courtesy of Owen Pallett), piano, horns, organ and more fleshing out a fierce, on-point rock band blending anthemic Springsteen rock with blazing hardcore punk, reckless Replacements abandon, stomping Pogues Celtic punk, Stones swagger, choral majesty and more on an impressive variety of literate, live-wire songs that add up to one of the year’s best albums."

Other highlights this week include the latest from Seattle's own Seapony. Yates calls the band's third release, "another captivating set of breezy, well-crafted dream-pop with jangly, surf-inflected guitars, atmospheric keyboards, wistful melodies, soft, airy vocals and melancholy lyrics. The album also features a bit more of an organic sound, mainly due to swapping out the drum machines of their first two records in favor of live drums."

Albert Hammond, Jr., guitarist for The Strokes, shares his third solo album, teaming up again with producer Gus Oberg. Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio shares a new single under his solo project moniker Baio, a sneak peek at his fall full-length The Names.

Purchase College, NY artist Steph Knipe -- recording under the name Adult Mom -- reveals her debut, "a promising set ranging from lilting garage-pop to stark, intimate folk-pop, with her soft, light vocals delivering often brutally honest lyrics revolving around gender identity, heartache, loss and growing up." Breakout UK star Lianne La Havas (who's appeared on releases by Prince and Alt-J) releases her sophomore full-length Blood.

• Adult Mom – “Told Ya So”
• from Momentary Lapse of Happily on Tiny Engines
• Albert Hammond Jr. – “Born Slippy”
• from Momentary Masters on Vagrant
• Astrid Williamson – “Hide In Your Heart”
• from We Go to Dream on One Little Indian
• Baio – “Endless Rhythm”
• from Endless Rhythm on Glassnote
• Beat Detectives – “Napoleon Hat”
• from Climate Change on Not Not Fun
• Best Friends – “Cold Shapes”
• from Cold Shapes on FatCat Records
• Buzzcocks – “E.S.P”
• from Access All Areas: Live 1990 on Edsel
• CFCF – “La Soufrière”
• from Radiance and Submission on Driftless
• Cape Snow – “One More Time”
• from Cape Snow on Burst & Bloom / CTD
• Carina Round – “You And Me [The Beta Machine Remix]”
• from Tigermixes on Do Yourself In
• Chairlift – “Bruises”
• from Does You Inspire You reissue on Kanine
• Daniel Romano – “The One That Got Away (Came Back Today)”
• from If I've Only One Time Askin' on New West
• Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power – “Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn”
• from Today Is the Day That They Take Me Away on Fire Records
• Debauchery – “Ironclad Declaration Of War”
• from Fuck Humanity on Massacre Records
• Finger Eleven – “Wolves And Doors”
• from Five Crooked Lines on Bicycle Music Company
• Fly Golden Eagle – “Horse's Mouth”
• from Quartz Bijou on ATO
• Gunplay – “Commas Freestyle”
• from Living Legend on Def Jam
• Johnny Moped – “Ain't No Rock N Roll Rookie”
• from Ain't No Rock 'n' Roll Rookie on Damaged Goods
• Lianne La Havas – “Green & Gold”
• from Blood on Nonesuch
• The Maccabees – “Marks To Prove It”
• from Marks to Prove It on Caroline
• Meilyr Jones – “Birds”
• from Refugees/Birds on Moshi Moshi Records
• Migos – “Cocaina (Yung Rich Nation)”
• from YRN: Tha Album on 300 Entertainment/Quality Control/Atlantic
• Rat Columns – “Fooling Around”
• from Fooling Around EP on Blackest Ever Black
• Seapony – “Saw the Light”
• from A Vision on self-released
• Seaweed – “What Are We Taking?”
• from Actions and Indications reissue on Merge
• Stornoway – “The Road You Didn't Take”
• from Bonxie on Slimstyle
• Titus Andronicus – “The Magic Mountain”
• from Most Lamentable Tragedy on Merge
• Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores – “El Pescador”
• from Tambolero on Real World Records