Monday Music News

08/10/2015

Janice Headley

Anticipation is high for the forthcoming full-length from dream-pop duo Beach House. Today, you can enjoy two more tracks from their upcoming album, Depression Cherry, out August 28th on Sub Pop. Stream the singles "PPP," "Beyond Love," and the previously-released "Sparks" via a player on their website here. The band explained on Facebook, "For us, it’s always a strange moment when a single has to be chosen. No one song ever feels like a perfect representative for a record. This device allows you all to choose the 3 songs you have enjoyed most in the past and have a “single” chosen for you based loosely on what we consider to be musical similarities. enjoy." [Consequence of Sound]

Another highly-anticipated release is the first full-length in five years from Joanna Newsom: her fourth album, Divers, will hits the streets October 23rd on Drag City. Check out the first single "Sapokanikan" below with a video directed by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, just to name a couple). A press release describes the album thusly: "The music of Divers is a wonder of considered arrangements, immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity... At the center of the mythos and the maelstrom is the woman. Divers reminds us that Newsom is a melodist, above all-an acolyte of melody and beauty in form, a crackerjack of emotional truth conveyed with undiluted immediacy." [Under the Radar]

In one of the cutest collaborations ever, Eddie Vedder has teamed up with his six-year-old daughter, Harper, for the song "The Traveler." Stream the single below, featuring the eldest Vedder on ukulele. The song was recorded for the soundtrack to the latest Cameron Crowe film Aloha. Vedder's Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready, on the other hand, is collaborating an older crowd -- Duff McKagan, Barrett Martin, and Mark Arm -- for a special KEXP benefit on Sunday, August 23rd on the roof of Pike Place Market. [Consequence of Sound]

Congenial cutie Mac DeMarco takes to the water to perform a charming Casio-version of the track "No Other One" off his brand-new release Another One. Watch him in his rowboat off the coast of Far Rockaway, Queens, via NPR Music below. DeMarco arrives on Seattle's shore on Thursday, October 29th at The Moore. [Pitchfork]

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