Out This Week 7/27

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07/27/2015
Janice Headley

It's been a long wait, but last week Montreal-born, Woodstock, NY-based artist Thomas Arsenault (aka Mas Ysa) released his debut full-length. (Watch his 2014 KEXP session here.) KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls the album, "a potent set of moody electro-pop with bright synths, propulsive rhythms, dramatic, tremulous vocals, emotive lyrics and epic sing-along choruses."

Gwenno, the solo debut album from the former Pipettes frontwoman, brings "an impressive set of psych-tinged space-pop with eerie analog synths, hypnotic rhythms, breathy vocals and dystopian lyrics of a totalitarian future. Seven of the album’s eight songs are sung in Welsh while the other is sung in Cornish."

Seattle-based band Grave Babies release their third album, "a fine set of dark, industrial-tinged goth-rock with buzzing, noisy synths, grinding guitars, stark industrial rhythms, gloomy vocals and dystopian lyrics." Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard shares a sophomore album from his project Ricked Wicky, "a stronger hard-rock/heavy metal edge to Pollard’s crunchy power-pop." Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile shares a new release from his solo project Ducktails, "a beautifully crafted, summery set of psych-tinged baroque pop." And legendary hip hop group Public Enemy return with their thirteenth full-length, their first new album in three years.

  • (Various) Ear Pwr – “Beyond The Arc”
  • from Carpark Sweet Sixteen Basketball Picture Disc 12 on Carpark
  • (Various) Eminem – “Phenomenal”
  • from Southpaw OST on Shady/Interscope
  • Ashley Monroe – “The Blade”
  • from The Blade on Warner
  • Barry Thomas Goldberg – “Hollywood”
  • from Misty Flats on Light in the Attic
  • Bill Wyman – “What & How & If & When & Why”
  • from Back to Basics on Redeye
  • Capone-N-Noreaga – “U.M.A.R (feat.Tragedy)”
  • from Lessons on Thugged Out Militainment/Penalty
  • Creeping Pink – “Mirror Woods”
  • from Mirror Woods on Castle Face
  • Ducktails – “Surreal Exposure”
  • from St. Catherine on Domino
  • Eleni Mandell – “Someone To Love Like You”
  • from Dark Lights Up on Yep Roc
  • Eleventh Dream Day – “The People's History”
  • from Works for Tomorrow on Thrill Jockey
  • Field Music – “Casting Out Pts 2 And 3”
  • from Music for Drifters on Memphis Industries
  • Fox Millions Duo
  • from Lost Time on Thrill Jockey
  • Grave Babies – “Eternal (On & On)”
  • from Holographic Violence on Hardly Art
  • Gwenno – “Patriarchaeth”
  • from Y Dydd Olaf on Heavenly
  • Jessie Jones – “Sugar Coated”
  • from Jessie Jones on Burger Records
  • Jessy Lanza – “You Never Show Your Love”
  • from You Never Show Your Love EP on Hyperdub
  • Jill Scott – “Fool's Gold”
  • from Woman on Atlantic
  • Joe Satriani – “On Peregrine Wings”
  • from Shockwave Supernova on Sony Music
  • Kasey Chambers – “Bittersweet”
  • from Bittersweet on Rounder / Sugar Hill
  • Lamb of God – “512”
  • from VII: Sturm und Drang on Epic
  • Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires – “Sweet Disorder!”
  • from Sweet Disorder! on Sub Pop
  • Locrian – “An Index of Air”
  • from Infinite Dissolution on Relapse
  • Loop – “Precession”
  • from Array 1 on ATP
  • Mas Ysa – “Look Up”
  • from Seraph on Downtown
  • Mocky – “Living In The Snow”
  • from Key Change on Heavy Sheet
  • Omar Souleyman – “Enssa El Aatab prod. by Modeselektor”
  • from Bahdeni Nami on Monkeytown
  • Philadelphia Collins – “Sofa Queen”
  • from Derp Swervin' on Exploding in Sound
  • Prince Royce – “Double Vision”
  • from Double Vision on RCA
  • Public Enemy – “Man Plans God Laughs”
  • from Man Plans God Laughs on Cobraside
  • Ricked Wicky – “This Has Been My Picture”
  • from King Heavy Metal on GBV
  • Roger Waters – “Amused to Death”
  • from Amused to Death reissue on Columbia/Legacy
  • Seven Davis Jr. – “Fighters”
  • from Universes on Ninja Tune
  • Strange Wilds – “Pronoia”
  • from Subjective Concepts on Sub Pop
  • Vacation – “Decaying”
  • from Non-Person on Don Giovanni
  • Warren Haynes – “Spots Of Time”
  • from Ashes & Dust on Concord
  • Watkins Family Hour – “Steal Your Heart Away”
  • from Watkins Family Hour on Family Hour Records

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