LA-via-San Francisco band Thee Oh Sees return with their 11th album, a release KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls, "a more jam-oriented take on the band's adventurous blend of raw garage-rock, trippy psych-rock and motorik prog." Veteran Minneapolis duo Atmosphere release "a potent set of emotive hip hop inflected with R&B, funk, jazz, blues and other styles, combining a warm sound with trenchant raps from Slug blending the personal and the political." Portland's Blind Pilot share a "solid set of wistful folk-pop combining a lushly produced, mostly low-key sound with lyrics of loss and resilience." Australian band Hockey Dad debut with "a promising set of hook-filled pop-rock with surf-inflected guitars, bouncy rhythms, breezy vocals and sparkling pop melodies."
Nashville garage rock duo JEFF The Brotherhood release their 10th album, recorded in a converted warehouse with assistance from producer Collin Dupuis and Bully's Alicia Bognanno. The album is the third and final installment in a spiritual trilogy that includes 2009’s Heavy Days and 2011’s We Are The Champions. Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning drops another solo release, featuring fellow BSS members Sam Goldberg and Justin Peroff, and former Stills keyboardist Liam O'Neil. And Of Montreal mark their twentieth anniversary as a band (well, mostly a project of Kevin Barnes) with their fourteenth full-length.
Windy City singer/songwriter Ryley Walker shares his third album this week, which KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls, "his strongest and most sophisticated set to date, combining fluid guitar lines, intricate rhythms and elliptical lyrics on expansive songs that masterfully blend elements of folk-…
Alternarock icons Dinosaur Jr. return with their eleventh album, their fourth together since reuniting in 2005. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it "another strong set of muscular, psych-tinged rock with fiery, fleet-fingered guitar solos, pounding rhythms, drawling vocals and potent song hooks."
