Out This Week 1/25

It's unquestionably the strongest week of new releases this year (especially since it's only the third week of new releases). Leading the pack is the highly-anticipated sophomore releases from UK group Savages. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says, "this British band's excellent second album features a more expansive take on the band's urgent post-punk with a visceral blend of serrated angular guitars, taut rhythms, commanding vocals and impassioned lyrics embracing love and life in all their messy, often risky glory."

Seattle trio Night Beats release their third full-length, "their strongest set to date, expertly blending fiery psych-rock with raw garage-rock along with elements of R&B, prog, Latin rock and more on a variety of sharply crafted songs with stinging guitars, hypnotic rhythms and potent song hooks." Austin-based veterans Shearwater share their ninth album, which "finds them continuing in the more immediate and uptempo vein of their previous regular studio album (2012's Animal Joy) with this expertly crafted set of majestic, '80s-steeped pop-rock featuring energetic rhythms, brooding vocals, anthemic choruses and often-politically charged lyrics."

King of KEXP's first in-studio, Ty Segall, releases "an uncompromising set of ultra-raw garage-punk with noisy gnarled guitars, pounding, sometimes tempo-shifting rhythmsand dark lyrics about instant gratification and warped emotions." Former Fiery Furnaces vocalist Eleanor Friedberger shares another "strong set of well-crafted folk-pop combining a warm, '70s-steeped sound with her honeyed vocals, wistful melodies and personal lyrics of love and loss." And LA-based producer/multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge provides a sequel to his 2011 album, Something About April, "another strong set blending moody soul and funk with atmospheric psych-rock. The album features a dark, cinematic sound combining vintage analog keyboards and fuzzy psych-guitars with a variety of guest vocalists including Raphael Saadiq, Bilal and Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier."

• Abbath – “Winterbane”
• from Abbath on Season of Mist
• Adrian Younge – “Memories of War (feat. Laetitia Sadier)”
• from Something About April II on Linear Labs
• Alex Smoke – “Manacles”
• from Love Over Will on R&S
• The Besnard Lakes – “Golden Lion”
• from A Coliseum Complex Museum on Jagjaguwar
• Chairlift – “Ch-Ching”
• from Moth on Columbia
• Conrad Keely – “In Words Of A Not So Famous Man ”
• from Original Machines on Superball
• DUST – “Alien Prey”
• from Agony Planet on 2MR
• Eleanor Friedberger – “He Didn't Mention His Mother”
• from New View on Frenchkiss
• Fat White Family – “Whitest Boy On The Beach”
• from Songs for Our Mothers on Without Consent/Fat Possum
• Half Japanese – “That Is That”
• from Perfect on Joyful Noise
• Jesu / Sun Kil Moon – “A Song of Shadows”
• from Jesu / Sun Kil Moon on Caldo Verde Records
• John Cale – “Close Watch”
• from M:FANS on Double Six/Domino
• Lord Raja – “Shook”
• from Para on Ghostly International
• Lush – “Sweetness and Light”
• from Chorus compilation on 4AD
• Majeure – “Appalachian Winter Blues”
• from Union of Worlds on Constellation Tatsu
• Megadeth – “Dystopia”
• from Dystopia on Universal
• METZ – “Eraser”
• from "Eraser" b/w "Pure Auto" 7" on Sub Pop
• Night Beats – “Sunday Mourning”
• from No Cops on Heavenly
• Penetration Moon – “Sluts In The City”
• from Penetration Moon on Burger Records
• Plus 8 (aka Richie Hawtin) – “Gymnastiks”
• from From My Mind to Yours on !K7 / Plus 8
• Pop. 1280 – “Pyramids On Mars”
• from Paradise on Sacred Bones
• Roly Porter – “4101”
• from Third Law on Tri Angle
• Ryan Hemsworth – “Surrounded feat. Kotomi & Doss”
• from Surrounded on Last Gang Records
• Savages – “Adore”
• from Adore Life on Matador
• The Senior Service – “Hall of Mirrors”
• from Depth Charge on Damaged Goods
• Shearwater – “Quiet Americans”
• from Jet Plane and Oxbow on Sub Pop
• Tricky Presents Skilled Mechanics – “Boy”
• from Skilled Mechanics on False Idols
• Suede – “No Tomorrow”
• from Night Thoughts on Suede Limited
• This Heat – “Sleep”
• from Deceit reissue on Light in the Attic
• This Heat – “Health and Efficiency”
• from Health and Efficiency reissue on Light in the Attic
• This Heat – “24 Track Loop”
• from This Heat reissue on Light in the Attic
• Tindersticks – “Hey Lucinda”
• from The Waiting Room on City Slang
• Tortoise – “Gesceap”
• from The Catastrophist on Thrill Jockey
• Ty Segall
• from Emotional Mugger on Drag City
• Yoko Ono/Death Cab for Cutie – “Forgive Me My Love”
• from Yes, I'm a Witch Too on Manimal