Out This Week 3/17

If you're hoping to spend St. Patrick's Day doing some record shopping, you are indeed in luck, as there are some great new releases at the end of the rainbow this week. Highlights include the latest from Modest Mouse. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes, "the latest album (and first in eight years) from the veteran Issaquah-bred band is a vibrant, wide-ranging affair moving from jagged indie-rock and quirky dance-pop to feverish sea chanteys and campfire ballads, combining a dynamic, adventurous sound with Isaac Brock’s off-kilter melodies and sardonic, often-bleak lyrics."

Tobias Jesso Jr.'s debut release shines through this week, "an impeccably crafted set of intimate orchestral pop combining a warm, spacious and ‘70s-steeped sound with stately melodies, wistful vocals and lovelorn lyrics." King Khan & BBQ Show return with "a strong set of raw garage-rock blended with elements of soul, doo wop, hardcore punk and other styles, combining scratchy guitars and stomping rhythms with the duo’s soulful vocals and often-irreverent lyrics."

Two memorial albums come out this week. Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield share a loving tribute to Elliott Smith. Yates says, "While many of their versions of Smith’s songs are spare, intimate and haunting, there are also some jauntier pop-rock interpretations of Smith’s comparatively more sprightly material." And Glen Hansard releases an EP of Jason Molina songs in tribute to the Songs:Ohia songwriter.

• Allison Moorer – “EPK”
• from Down to Believing on Entertainment One
• Connie Converse – “Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)”
• from How Sad, How Lovely on Squirrel Thing
• Game Theory
• from Real Nighttime [Deluxe Edition] on Omnivore
• Glen Hansard – “Being In Love”
• from It Was Triumph We Once Proposed… Songs of Jason Molina EP on Overcoat Recordings
• Inventions – “Springworlds”
• from Maze of Woods on Temporary Residence
• King Khan & BBQ Show – “Alone Again”
• from Bad News Boys on In the Red Records
• Lilacs & Champagne – “Made Flesh”
• from Midnight Features, Vol. 2: Made Flesh on Temporary Residence
• Modest Mouse – “Coyotes”
• from Strangers to Ourselves on Columbia
• The Monochrome Set – “Spaces Everywhere”
• from Spaces Everywhere on Tapete Records
• The Notations – “A New Day”
• from Still Here: 1967-1973 on Numero
• Pyramids – “Indigo Birds”
• from A Northern Meadow on Profound Lore
• Scharpling & Wurster
• from The Best of the Best Show on Numero Group
• Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield
• from Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith on Ramseur Records
• Shlohmo – “Emerge From Smoke”
• from "Emerge From Smoke" b/w "Ode 2 tha Whip" 7" on True Panther/Wedidit
• Tobias Jesso Jr. – “True Love”
• from Goon on True Panther
• Twin Shadow – “I'm Ready”
• from Eclipse on Warner Bros.
• The Wave Pictures – “Pea Green Coat”
• from Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon on Team Love
• Xavier Rudd & the United Nations – “Come People”
• from Nanna on Nettwerk