Out This Week 6/24

It's the first batch of new releases for the summer, and highlights include the latest from Chicago-based artist Tom Krell, who records under the name How To Dress Well. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes his third album, What Is This Heart?, as a "more expansive take on his intimate blend of spectral R&B and electro-pop, featuring a cleaner and more sophisticated sound accompanying his delicate, angelic vocals and deeply personal lyrics."

Philly band A Sunny Day In Glasgow are back with a fourth album filled with "a brighter, more melodic sound to the band’s shoegazerish dream-pop, cutting back on the heavy reverb of previous releases while putting lead vocals and melody more upfront."

Former Royal Trux guitarist/vocalist Jennifer Herrema is back with her new project, Black Bananas. Their sophomore release for Drag City Records is "a warped, sometimes chaotic blend of psych-rock, funk, metal, industrial, glam-rock and more, combining a dense, noise-addled sound with an abundance of potent song hooks." Louisville trio White Reaper share a new EP of "raucous, hook-filled garage-punk with buzzing guitars, urgent rhythms, occasional keyboards, half-buried vocals and bright pop melodies." Captured Tracks shares the debut album from Donovan Blanc, "a well-crafted blend of ‘80s dream-pop and ‘60s psych-pop and folk-rock with a moody, atmospheric sound combining jangly guitars, mellotron, hazy vocals and wistful melodies." And Congolese collective Kasai Allstars share an adventurous 2-CD set of "hypnotic West African grooves combining electric guitars and amplified thumb pianos with xylophones and traditional percussion."

• (Various Artists) Opal - "Ain't No Way"
• from Horse Meat Disco IV on Strut
• (Various Artists) The Occasions - "There's No You"
• from Eccentric Soul: Capitol City Soul on Numero Group
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "Bye Bye Big Ocean (The End)"
• from Sea When Absent on Lefse Records
• Ab-Soul - "Stigmata ft. Action Bronson & Asaad"
• from These Days on Top Dawg Entertainment
• Alraune - "Exordium"
• from The Process Of Self-Immolation on Gilead Media
• Alias - "Crimson Across It feat. Doseone"
• from Pitch Black Prism on Anticon
• Peter Matthew Bauer - "Latin American Ficciones"
• from Liberation! on Mexican Summer
• Black Bananas - "Physical Emotions"
• from Electric Brick Wall on Drag City
• Donovan Blanc - "Minha Menina"
• from Donovan Blanc on Captured Tracks
• Blut Aus Nord / P.H.O.B.O.S. - "De Librio Arbitrio"
• from Triunity on Debemur Morti
• Brownout - "Hand Of Doom"
• from Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath on Ubiquity Records
• Circulatory System - "Stars And Molecules"
• from Mosaics Within Mosaics on Cloud Recordings
• Corrosion Of Conformity - "On Your Way"
• from IX on Candlelight Records
• Danielson / Jad Fair - "Rockin on the Good Side"
• from Solid Gold Heart on Sounds Familyre
• Godflesh - "Ringer"
• from Decline & Fall EP on Avalanche Recordings
• GusGus - "Crossfade"
• from Mexico on Kompakt
• Hedvig Mollestad Trio - "Arigato, Bitch"
• from Enfant Terrible on Rune Grammofon
• The History of Colour TV - "Split Blood"
• from When Shapes of Spilt Blood Spelt Love on Saint Marie Records
• How to Dress Well - "Repeat Pleasure"
• from What Is This Heart? on Weird World
• Kasai Allstars - "Yangye, The Evil Leopard"
• from Beware the Fetish on Crammed Discs
• Kitten - "Like A Stranger"
• from Kitten on Elektra
• Craig Leon - "Nommo"
• from Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music, Vol. 1 on Rvng Intl.
• Mastodon - "High Road"
• from Once More 'Round the Sun on Warner Bros.
• People Get Ready - "Physiques"
• from Physiques on Brassland
• PHOX - "Slow Motion"
• from PHOX on Partisan
• Salaam Remi - "One: In the Chamber"
• from One: In the Chamber on Flying Buddha
• Sons Of Magdalene - "Can't Won't Don't Want To"
• from Move to Pain on Audraglint
• Strand of Oaks - "Strand of Oaks"
• from Heal on Dead Oceans Records
• Vacationer - "In the Grass"
• from Relief on Downtown Records
• White Hex - "Sisters"
• from Gold Nights on Felte
• White Reaper - "Cool"
• from White Reaper on Polyvinyl
• Xeno & Oaklander - "Interface"
• from Par Avion on Ghostly International
• Young Liars - "Young Again"
• from Tidal Wave on Nettwerk
• Zig Zags - "Brainded Warrior"
• from Zig Zags on In the Red Records