Not only are they today's Song of the Day, but Swedish group The Amazing have one of the best new releases this week. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes the group's fourth LP is "a somewhat bleaker, more intimate take on the band's atmospheric psych-pop, combining shimmering guitars, celestial keyboards, unhurried rhythms, airy melodies and wistful melodies."
Other highlights this week include the live version of Björk’s highly-acclaimed album Vulnicura, comprised of performances from her 2015 tour with the Alarm Will Sound & Heritage Orchestras, and critically acclaimed artists The Haxan Cloak & Arca. (If you can wait until September, there will be a Luxury Edition boxset edition with a double LP, CD, 320kbps MP3 download card, a set of 6 photo prints housed in a glassine sleeve, and an exclusive 3D Low Polygon Björk Moth Paper Mask.)
Producer Sam Shepherd (better known as Floating Points) shares a new two-track EP of jazz and classical-infused electronica. Gabe Fulvimar (aka Gap Dream) brings the garage-rock fun you would expect from a Burger Records release. And Radric Davis (aka Inmate 65556-019, or Gucci Mane) shares his ninth studio album, his first since being released from prison. And, finally, '90s power-pop bad Velvet Crush (aka, y'know, Velvet Crush) share a collection of 16 previously unreleased tracks, including eight demos and eight tracks recorded live in 1995 at Cabaret Metro in Chicago.
Adam Payne - "Nightmare"
from Famous Blondes on Selection Records
Ævangelist / Blut aus Nord - "Threshold of the Miraculous"
from Codex Obscura Nomina on Debemur Morti
The Amazing - "Floating"
from Ambulance on Partisan / PTKF
Björk - "Come to Me"
from Vulnicura Live on One Little Indian
The Body - "Lathspell I Name You"
from All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood on At A Loss Recordings
Charlie Hunter - "Latin For Travelers"
from Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth on Decca / Ground Up Records
Conveyor - "What a Low Heart"
from Ready Not Ready on Gold Robot
DragonForce - "The Last Journey Home"
from Killer Elite: Greatest Hits on Spinefarm Records
Elysia Crampton - "The Demon City"
from Demon City on Break World
Endgame - "Felony Riddim"
from Flesh on Hyperdub
Euge Groove - "Still Euge"
from Still Euge on Shanachie Records
Faun Fables - "Country House Waits"
from Born of the Sun on Drag City
Floating Points - "Kuiper"
from Kuiper on Luaka Bop/Pluto
Florian Kupfer - "Erika"
from Unfinished on Technicolour
Gap Dream - "College Music"
from This Is Gap Dream on Burger Records
Gucci Mane - "On Me feat. 2Pac"
from Everybody Looking on Atlantic
Heavy Drag - "Kinda Slow"
from Sábana Ghost on Limited Fanfare
Jamie Kilstein & the Agenda - "Fuck The NRA"
from A Bit Much on Don Giovanni
Jeff McDonald - "To You"
from Jeff McDonald on Bang! Records
Lil Durk - "Super Powers"
from Durk 2X on Def Jam
Look Park - "Aeroplane"
from Look Park on Yep Roc
Mary Lattimore / Jeff Zeigler
from Le Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel's le Révélateur on Thrill Jockey
MSTRKRFT - "Party Line"
from Operator on Last Gang Records
Nao - "Girlfriend"
from For All We Know on Little Tokyo/RCA
Nedelle Torrisi - "Double Horizon"
from Advice from Paradise on Tin Angel
Ornette Coleman Quartet - "The Tribes Of New York"
from Tribes of New York on Jeanne Dielman
Pan Sonic
from Atomin Paluu [A Film Soundtrack] on Blast First Petite
Quays - "Falling Down On Me"
from Swoo on R&S/Chewy Motto
Rhyton - "D.D. Damage"
from Redshift on Thrill Jockey
Sonzeira - "Nós Precisamos De Você (feat. Moses Boyd)"
from Tam Tam Tam Reimagined on Brownswood
Space Dimension Controller - "Gullfire"
from Orange Melamine on Ninja Tune
Stephen Marley - "Revelation Party" ft. Jo Mersa Marley
from Revelation, Pt. 2: The Fruit of Life on INgrooves
Sun Ra - "Blue York"
from Blue York on Jeanne Dielman
Tristan Perich - "Noise Patterns: Excerpt"
from Noise Patterns on Physical Editions
Trust Punks - "Good Luck With That"
from Double Bind on Faux Discx / Spunk / Wharf Cat Records
Velvet Crush - "Weird Summer (Demo)"
from Pre-Teen Symphonies on Omnivore
Witherscape - "Wake Of Infinity"
from The Northern Sanctuary on Century Media
Wreck & Reference - "Powders"
from Indifferent Rivers Romance End on The Flenser
August kicks off with some strong new releases, like the latest from local group Iji. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says, "the latest album from this Seattle band led by Zach Burba (and currently also featuring members of Sick Sad World, Pill Wonder and Neighbors) is a fine set of wistful, '80s-ste…
