Lots of great releases this week for your Spring soundtrack: L.A. duo Best Coast return with what KEXP's Music Director Don Yates describes as a "consistently strong set of ‘90s-influenced power pop, featuring a big, punchy sound with fuzzy guitars, energetic rhythms and Bethany Cosentino’s honeyed, often multi-tracked vocals and emotive, often-melancholy lyrics, along with an abundance of sparkling pop hooks."
My Morning Jacket also re-emerge with their seventh album that "bounces from epic prog-rock to soul-tinged ‘80s rock and plaintive, acoustic-oriented ballads." UK group Palma Violets share "another strong set of ramshackle garage-rock with buzzing guitars, droning organ, shifting rhythms, anthemic song hooks and rowdy gang sing-along choruses." Django Django bring "a smoother, more polished take on the band’s blend of electro-pop and psych-pop, combining propulsive dance-friendly rhythms with trippy song textures and sunny harmonies."
Other Lives release "their most adventurous set to date, featuring a moody, densely layered prog-pop sound with atmospheric synths and guitars, piano, horns, strings and other instrumentation accompanying Jesse Tabish’s ethereal vocals." And Sub Pop band METZ share "another excellent set of blistering post-hardcore with scuzzy, angular guitars, pile-driving rhythms, anguished vocals and dark lyrics of loss and alienation."
Best Coast – “California Nights”
from California Nights on Harvest / Virgin EMI
Chris Stapleton – “Traveller”
from Traveller on Mercury Nashville
Coliseum – “Sunlight In A Snowstorm”
from Anxiety's Kiss on Deathwish Inc.
Death and Vanilla – “Arcana”
from To Where the Wild Things Are on Fire Records
Django Django – “First Light”
from Born Under Saturn on Ribbon Records
Downtown Boys – “Future Police”
from Full Communism on Don Giovanni
Gacha – “Let Me Love You”
from Send Two Sunsets on R&S
Giant Sand – “Hurtin' Habit”
from Heartbreak Pass on New West
Grave with No Name – “I Will Ride A Horse”
from Feathers Wet, Under the Moon on Lefse Records
Hiatus Kaiyote – “Breathing Underwater”
from Choose Your Weapon on Flying Buddha
Ivan & Alyosha – “All This Wandering Around”
from It's All Just Pretend on Dualtone Music
Jacco Gardner – “Find Yourself”
from Hypnophobia on Polyvinyl
Kamasi Washington – “Re Run Home”
from The Epic on Brainfeeder
King Tuff / Ty Segall – “Queen Lullabye”
from Live at Pickathon on Easy Sound Recording Company
Knxwledge – “Jstowee”
from Hud Dreems on Stones Throw
Lindstrøm / Emil Nikolaisen / Todd Rundgren – “Put Your Arms Around Me”
from Runddans on Smalltown Supersound
Mac McCaughan – “Lost Again”
from Non-Believers on Merge
Marshmallow Coast – “Hash Out Cash Out”
from Vangelis Rides Again on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records
METZ – “Acetate”
from II on Sub Pop
Michael Rault – “Suckcess”
from Living Daylight on Burger Records
Mikal Cronin – “ii) Gold”
from MCIII on Merge
Mumford & Sons – “Believe”
from Wilder Mind on Glassnote
My Morning Jacket – “Under The Waterfall”
from The Waterfall on ATO / Capitol
Nosaj Thing – "Cold Stares" feat. Chance The Rapper
from Fated on Timetable
Oddisee – “That's Love”
from The Good Fight on Mello Music Group
The Orange Peels – “Head Cleaner”
from Begin the Begone on Mystery Lawn Music
Other Lives – “Reconfiguration”
from Rituals on Play It Again Sam
Palma Violets – “Danger In The Club”
from Danger in the Club on Rough Trade
Penguin Prison – “Show Me The Way”
from Lost in New York on Downtown Records
RJD2 / STS – “Hold On, Here It Go”
from STS X RJD2 on RJ's Electrical Connections
Rose Windows – “Strip Mall Babylon”
from Rose Windows on Sub Pop
Shelby Lynne – “I Can't Imagine”
from I Can't Imagine on Concord / New Rounder
Super Furry Animals – “Ymaelodi Â'r Ymylon”
from MWNG on Domino
Superheaven – “I've Been Bored”
from Ours Is Chrome on Side One Dummy
Torres – “Cowboy Guilt”
from Sprinter on PTKF
Twinsmith – “Alligator Years”
from Alligator Years on Saddle Creek Records
Van Hunt – “The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets”
from The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets on Godless-Hotspot
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