Out This Week 9/16

It's another busy fall week, but KEXP's Music Director Don Yates definitely spots some highlights, like the latest from NYC's The Juan Maclean. Now "officially" a duo, producer/musician Juan MacLean and vocalist Nancy Whang share "a strong set of muscular disco, house and related styles, combining bright synths, occasional fiery guitars, propulsive rhythms and Whang’s crisp, confident vocals."

Lia Ices shares her third album, "a bolder, more expansive and wide-ranging sound than her previous releases, blending elements of electro-pop, hip hop, dub, Middle Eastern music and a variety of other styles into vibrant, adventurous pop." You can hear her preview some of those songs LIVE on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios NYC tomorrow morning at 8:30AM.

Oklahoma trio BRONCHO are back with "a more polished and New Wave-influenced take on the band’s hook-filled garage-pop, combining fuzzy guitars and energetic rhythms with an abundance of catchy song hooks." Texas band This Will Destroy You release "another solid set of shoegazer-tinged post-rock instrumentals with dynamic songs that often begin as gentle, melancholy space-rock before building to epic rock crescendos." Generationals release another album "of bubbly electro-pop with bright synths, bouncy rhythms and sunny melodies juxtaposed by often-melancholy lyrics." Spencer Krug, formerly of Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, shares a new release under the moniker Moonface, "a solid set of somber, piano-based ballads." LA band Allah-Las serve up "another well-crafted blend of ‘60s-steeped psych, surf, garage and folk-rock with jangly reverbed guitars and dreamy pop melodies."And Shellac, a long-time project of legendary producer Steve Albini, releases their fifth album Dude Incredible on Touch & Go. Their amusing press release notes, "Other than the informational sheet you hold in your hand (or virtual hand), this record will have no formal promotion. There will be no advertisements, no press or radio promotion, no e-promotion, no promotional or review copies, no promotional gimmick items, and otherwise no free lunch." Dude, incredible.

• Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires (Various Artists) - "Born In The USA"
• from Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A. on Lightning Rod Records
• Public Enemy (Various Artists) - "Fight the Power"
• from Def Jam 30 on Def Jam
• Males (Various Artists) - "Dead Aware"
• from Temporary: Selections from Dunedin's Pop Underground 2011-2014 on Ba Da Bing Records
• Allah-Las - "Buffalo Nickel"
• from Worship the Sun on Innovative Leisure
• Anjou - "Fieldwork"
• from Anjou on Kranky
• Bleached - "For The Feel"
• from For the Feel 7" on Dead Oceans
• BRONCHO - "Class Historian"
• from Just Enough Hip to Be Woman on Dine Alone Records
• Cannibal Corpse - "Sadistic Embodiment"
• from A Skeletal Domain on Metal Blade
• Catfish and the Bottlemen - "Fallout"
• from Balcony on Communion Music
• Dark Horses - "Live On Hunger"
• from Hail Lucid State on Last Gang
• Earls of Leicester - "Till The End Of The World Rolls 'Round"
• from Earls of Leicester on Rounder
• Engineers - "Fight or Flight"
• from Always Returning on KScope
• Generationals - "Black Lemon"
• from Alix on Polyvinyl
• Gut und Irmler - "Noah"
• from 500m on Bureau B
• Hamish Kilgour - "Crazy Radiance"
• from All of It and Nothing on Ba Da Bing Records
• James - "Moving On"
• from La Petite Mort (US release) on BMG
• Joe Jack Talcum - "Sense Of Humor"
• from Home Recordings, Vol. 2 1993-1999 on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records
• Lia Ices - "Thousand Eyes"
• from Ices on Jagjaguwar
• Lowell - "LGBT"
• from We Loved Her Dearly on Arts & Crafts
• Marco Benevento - "At The Show"
• from Swift on Royal Potato Family Records
• Mazes - "Salford"
• from Wooden Aquarium on Fat Cat
• Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - "Sunshine of Your Love"
• from Juice on Indirecto
• Mia Doi Todd
• from Floresta on City Zen
• Mike Doughty - "Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future"
• from Stellar Motel on Megaforce / Snack Bar
• Moonface - "City Wrecker"
• from City Wrecker on Jagjaguwar
• My Brightest Diamond - "This Is My Hand"
• from This Is My Hand on Asthmatic Kitty
• Octave Minds - "In Silence"
• from Octave Minds on Boys Noize
• Paolo Nutini - "Someone Like You"
• from Caustic Love on Atlantic
• Scruffy the Cat - "Big Fat Monkey's Hat"
• from The Good Goodbye: Unreleased Recordings 1984-1990 on Omnivore
• She Keeps Bees - "Is What It Is"
• from Eight Houses on Future Gods/BB*Island
• Shellac - "Dude Incredible"
• from Dude Incredible on Touch & Go
• Shintaro Sakamoto - "Let's Dance Raw"
• from Let's Dance Raw on Other Music Recording Co.
• Slash - "World On Fire"
• from World on Fire on Dik Hayd Records
• So Cow - "Barry Richardson"
• from The Long Con on Goner
• The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Bring Us Together"
• from Bring Us Together on Forced Exposure / Hot Bus / Rough Trade
• The Fauntleroys - "I'm in Love With Everything"
• from Below the Pink Pony on Plowboy
• The Game - "Or Nah"
• from Blood Money La Familia on eOne
• The Juan MacLean - "A Simple Design"
• from In a Dream on DFA
• This Will Destroy You - "Dustism"
• from Another Language on Suicide Squeeze
• Tweedy - "Summer Noon"
• from Sukierae on dBpm
• White Arrows - "Leave It Alone"
• from In Bardo on Votiv