Another big week after the holiday lull and artists getting ready for (fingers crossed) the spring into summer tour and festival season. Lots of singles from forthcoming albums, and highly anticipated full lengths.
This Week's New Releases
Individual Releases on Spotify
- Bonobo – Fragments {deep house, electronic} YES! Super excited about this one as Bonobo is easily one of my top 5 favorite artists of the last 15 years. This is going to be in high rotation for a while
- Hypernatural – Hypernatural {electronic} new project from Dan Whitford, of my perennial favorites Cut Copy, Mirko Vogel, and Mike Gamwell aka Knightlife
- Bob Moses – Love Brand New {electronic, indie rock}
- Röyksopp – The Ladder {electronic} Happy to see new music coming from another favorite artist
- Mitski – Love Me More {indie, alternative}
- Sneaker Pimps – Rework Collection 3 {electronic}
- Spoon – Wild {alternative, indie rock}
- Angel Olsen – “Something On Your Mind” (Karen Dalton Cover) {folk}
- Lucius – Next to Normal {indie pop, indie rock}
- Midlake – Bethel Woods {alternative , rock, folk}
- Jack White – Love Is Selfish {rock}
- Shamir – Reproductive {alternative, indie rock}
- Yumi Zouma – In the Eyes of Our Love {indie pop}
- Spiritualized – Crazy {alternative}
- Parquet Courts – Watching Strangers Smile {alternative, indie rock}
- Blue Hawaii – Butterfly {electronic}
- Garcia Peoples – Dodging Dues {rock}
- Cat Power – Covers {indie rock, alternative}
- The Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not The World {indie rock, alternative}
- The Lumineers – BRIGHTSIDE {alternative}
- Fontaines D.C. – Jackie Down The Line {alternative}
- Joseph Ray & Lakou Mizik – Leave the Bones (Remixed) {electronic, melodic house} Yet another bit of Anjunadeep goodness
- FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS {art pop, electronic}
- Dubfire & Kölsch – Ulm {electronic, techno} As half of Deep Dish, Dubfire has put out so much great music through the years that a partnership with Kölsch is something I have to check out
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If {rock}
- Idris Elba & Lime Cordiale – Cordi Elba {alternative, indie}
- Broken Social Scene – Old Dead Young (B-Sides & Rarities) {alternative}
- Sun June – Somewhere (Expanded with extra songs) {indie pop, indie rock}
- Orlando Weeks – Hop Up {alternative, indie} Ex-The Maccabees
- Blood Red Shoes – GHOSTS ON TAPE {alternative, rock}
- Shinichi Atobe – Love of Plastic {electrnic, house, techno} Not on Spotify
- BAYNK – ADOLESCENCE {electronic}
- Dylan Dylan – Euphoria {electronic}
- Earl Sweatshirt – SICK! {hip hop}
- 2 Chainz – Million Dollars Worth of Game {hip hop}
All the releases in one playlist for easy consumption: MUSIC:reflections for 2022-01-14 Spotify Playlist
Last Week's Distilled Gems
Individual Release Spotify Links
- Bonobo – From You {deep house, electronic} Excellent as always and excited for today’s drop
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow “My Own Reality” Re-Write) {alternative, electronic} DJ Shadow killed this remix. So good.
- David Bowie – TOY:BOX {rock, alternative} The mostly unplugged set was actually really good, and arguably should have been released as a standalone album
- The Weeknd – Dawn FM {pop, synthpop}
- SIS – Gnani {electronic, indie, jazz, soul}