Seattle band Special Explosion release their second album, To Infinity, which KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls "a softer, dreamier and more melodic take on the band's dynamic, '90s-steeped Northwest rock, combining jangly guitars, shape-shifting rhythms, emotive lyrics and shimmering pop melodies."
Belle and Sebastian returns with How To Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 1, the first in a planned trio of EPs that "ranges from prog-tinged dance-pop and motorik post-punk to slow-burning folk-pop." My Morning Jacket's Jim James covers artists from Bob Dylan to Beach Boys on Tribute to 2, offering up "sweetly melancholy, mostly low-key and acoustic-oriented set of imaginatively arranged cover songs."
After seven years away, the Pharrell helmed N.E.R.D. makes their comeback with their fifth album, No One Ever Really Dies, which features tracks with Kendrick Lamar, Future, Gucci Mane, Rihanna, and M.I.A.. Legendary producer and ambient artist Brian Eno teams up with pianist Tom Rogerson with a new experimental album Finding Shore. And Charli XCX squeezes in one final mixtape before the end of the year with Pop2, which sees the pop star collaborating with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen and MØ.
Former Bomb The Music Industry frontman Jeff Rosenstock returns with his sixth solo LP, Post-, and maybe the first major album to come out in 2018 with a New Year's Day release. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the record as "ranging from soaring, anthemic punk-pop to wistful indie-rock and …
L.A. artist Miguel shares his fourth full-length, an album KEXP Music Director Don Yates declares "a potent set of psych-tinged R&B and funk featuring a hazy, groove-driven sound with echoing psych-rock guitars, spacey keyboards, and blunted beats accompanying his soulful vocals and lyrics of t…
