In this week’s list of new releases, you’ll find a handful of bands you’ve likely heard about first while listening to KEXP or reading this blog. As we’re currently deep into our Spring Membership Drive, we’re asking you to consider all this new... and often free!... music we’ve helped you discover over the years and to help us continue to do so by making a gift of support.
In features like Out This Week, we hunt down the latest MP3s and other downloads, plus many interesting new videos, for you sample at your leisure or load into your portable devices, and most importantly to help keep you current with new music and give you the tools for you to discover even more music on your own.
Just look at this week’s list, which contains some of the bands you probably heard on KEXP first, like Elliot BROOD, Fanfarlo, School of Seven Bells, Plants and Animals, and Dirty Three. We also strive to introduce you to new bands you won’t hear on other stations, like the young and outrageously talented Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny -- you won’t hear her on commercial radio! Or new Sub Pop band Memoryhouse, who will also be live on KEXP on Saturday, March 10, at 12:00pm! And you’ll find a wide array of artists and sounds, from the boy/girl 60′s garage pop of Eux Autres to the glammy rock of Hunx to the epic avant-folk of Anaïs Mitchell and the international multi-genre soul of Nigerian songwriter Nneka.
And that’s just in this week’s new releases. Each week, we offer the latest new tunes provided by labels, artists and promoters, and point you in the direction to other blogs, where you can discover even more great music. All of this, though, wouldn’t be possible without your support.
And now, check out these new releases... click on something you’ve never heard before... discover something new, like Water Liars, First Person Shootr or Y La Bamba... go ahead, we dare ya:
Ólafur Arnalds - Poland
from Another Happy Day Soundtrack on Erased Tapes
Masaki Batoh - Eye Tracking Test (MP3)
from Brain Pulse Music on Drag City
Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands - Especially Your Mother (MP3)
from Muses and Bones (self-released)
Cuff the Duke - Standing on the Edge (MP3)
from Morning Comes on Paper Bag Records
Dirty Three - Rising Below (MP3)
from Toward the Low Sun on Drag City
Elliott BROOD - Northern Air (MP3)
from Days into Years on Paper Bag Records
England In 1819 - Air That We Once Breathed (MP3)
from Alma (self-released)
Eux Autres - Right Again (MP3)
from Sun Is Sunk on Bons Mots Records
Fanfarlo - Replicate (MP3)
from Rooms Filled With Light on Canvasback Music
Jay Farrar/Yim Yames/Anders Parker/Will Johnson - Old LA (MP3)
from New Multitudes: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie on Rounder Records
First Person Shootr - You New Web (MP3)
from Mobility For Gods on Lefse Records
Gabriel and the Hounds - The World Unfolds (MP3)
from Kiss Full of Teeth on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Geographer - Lover’s Game
from Myth on Modern Art Records
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny - Sweet Tooth Bird
from Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose on Mute
Hunx - Always Forever (MP3)
from Hairdresser Blues on Hardly Art
Sophia Knapp - Close to Me (MP3)
from Into the Waves on Drag City
The Mary Onettes - Love’s Taking Strange Ways (MP3)
from Love Forever on Labrador Records
Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong (MP3)
from The Slideshow Effect on Sub Pop
Mind Spiders - On the Radio (MP3)
from Meltdown on Dirt Nap Records
Anaïs Mitchell - Shepherd (MP3)
from Young Man in America on Wilderland Records
Mouse on Mars - Polaroyced
from Parastrophics on Monkeytown Records
Nneka - My Home
from Soul Is Heavy on Yo Mama’s Recordings/Decon
Plants and Animals - Lightshow (MP3)
from The End of That on Secret City Records
Amy Ray - Glow
from Lung of Love on
Rotary Club - Get a Room (MP3)
from Second Year in Swine on Woodside Records
School of Seven Bells - The Night (MP3)
from Ghostory on Vagrant Records/Ghostly Inernational
Soft Swells - Every Little Thing
from Soft Swells on Modern Outsider Records
Sourpatch - Cynthia Ann (MP3)
from Stagger and Fade on HHBTM records
Stars in Coma - Paint My Picture on the Thick Shell (MP3)
from Midnight Puzzle on KinGem Records
PT Walkley - Way That You Are (MP3)
from Thriller on Frisbie Records
Water Liars - $100 (MP3)
from Phantom Limb on Misra Records
Andre Williams - Dirt (MP3)
from Hoods and Shades on Bloodshot Records
The Wooden Sky - Malibu Rum (MP3)
from Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun on Black Box Recordings / Fontana North
Xray Eyeballs - X (MP3)
from Splendor Squalor on Kanine Records
Y La Bamba - Squawk (MP3)
from Court the Storm on Tender Loving Empire
