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ALO – Silver Saturdays CD/LP (Brushfire/Republic)

Marking a full circle moment and kicking off a very special 25th anniversary, California rock band ALO return with their first full-length studio LP in eight years and ninth overall. Silver Saturdays isn’t just another album, it’s the rock ‘n’ roll dream made reality. ALO show what happens when a band doesn’t break up and instead enjoys the fruition of their lifelong camaraderie and brotherhood. As such, the music hinges on the near-telepathic cohesion of four master collaborators at the peak of their craft individually and collectively after all this time. The result is ten new original songs, recorded mostly live, that pay direct homage to the journey and the artistic process and further refine ALO’s singular and self-ascribed “jam-pop” genre. [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is available.]

Can’t Swim – Thanks But No Thanks CD/LP (Pure Noise)

“East coast emo rockers Can’t Swim return with their fourth full length Thanks But No Thanks, a well-produced masterclass in storytelling through song. Combining an early 2000s scene ethos and modern values, Can’t Swim spent years jumping between genres from post-hardcore to alt-pop before finding their niche with slightly retro feeling, emo-tinged pop-punk. Evoking bands like Jimmy Eat World, Hawthorne Heights and early Thrice, Can’t Swim’s latest, Thanks But No Thanks, is a refreshingly straightforward and honest album with some unique sonic elements and authentic, relatable lyrics. With a solid combination of playful bangers and powerful, emotional songwriting, Thanks But No Thanks is the culmination of almost a decade of work for Can’t Swim and points towards a bright future for the band.” – Tom Bruce, Noizze [An indie store exclusive black w/ red & white swirl color vinyl pressing is available.]

Drayton Farley – Twenty On High CD/LP (Hargrove/Thirty Tigers)

Alabama native Drayton Farley has as honest a voice as you’re likely to hear in this burgeoning scene of country, folk, roots, and Americana music we’re all wrapped up in. With songs and lyrics pulled from real life experience, there’s a grounded feeling to his stories, a confessional quality that rings true to those who know. His voice fills the room like cigarette smoke, curling into every corner of you, with a fine grit rasp that smooths out every rough edge. It lingers hours, days, after you’ve left the bar – turns of phrase that tumble around your mind, bittersweet and familiar. He sings as deeply about the love he holds as the love he’s lost and there’s something so broken-in and comfortable about that Southern inflection that every song feels like coming home. [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is available.]

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Gracie Abrams – Good Riddance CD (Interscope)

Gracie Abrams’s debut album Good Riddance, produced and co-written by her frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner of The National, finds Abrams documenting her emotional experience with more precision and impact than ever before. As she narrates the end of a fractured relationship and all the confusion, frustration, and longing that come with it, the 23-year-old artist achieves a new level of lyrical honesty and self-possession – an element fully reflected in her quietly captivating vocal work.

Algiers – Shook CD/2xLP+MP3 (Matador)

The world got shook. So, Algiers formed a crew. The band – who have built one of the most exciting catalogs and cult followings of recent years, with 2020’s There Is No Year described as “electrifying and unpredictable” (The Observer) and “precise, thoughtful and powerful” (NME) – gathered a posse of like-minded artists to create their fourth album, Shook. Stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, Shook is a lightning rod for an elusive yet universal energy and feeling. A plurality of voices; a spiritual and geographical homecoming; a strategy of communion in a burning world; the story of an end of a relationship; an Atlanta front porch summer party. Ultimately, it’s a 17-track set of the most mind-expanding and thrilling music that you are likely to hear anytime soon.

Gina Birch – I Play Bass Loud CD/LP (Third Man)

As a founding member and one-half of The Raincoats’ core duo since 1977, Gina Birch is a punk icon with a pop sensibility, an art-schooled adventurer who has painted, filmed, and created music by her own rules for over 45 years – using her visual art to tell stories, charging raw recordings with concepts. Her history converges onto her first solo album, I Play My Bass Loud, its title evoking her singular approach to her instrument as well as an ethos. She won’t hang back or play a supporting role. On I Play My Bass Loud, Gina takes center stage. “The album distils my years of musical, political and artistic life with these genre breaking songs” says Gina Birch, “It’s a personal diary using sounds and lyrics, full of fun, rage and storytelling.” [An indie store exclusive clear vinyl pressing is available.]

[Read more…] about New Releases for February 24, 2023

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Naima Bock – Giant Palm CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)

The roots of Naima Bock’s music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning to England and various homes in South-East London. This heritage combines with more recent pursuits in Naima’s music; from the Brazilian standards that the family would listen to driving to the beach, to the European folk traditions she tapped into on her own, and the pursuits that interest her today – studies in archaeology, work as a gardener, and walking the world’s great trails – Naima’s music draws from family, the earth, and the handing down of music through generations. Naima’s debut album Giant Palm is undoubtedly infused with the Brazilian music of her youth and regular family visits. She found inspiration in “the percussion, the melodies, chords – and particularly the poetic juxtaposition of tragedy and beauty held within the lyrics”. [A limited-edition orange color vinyl pressing is available.]

Fleet Foxes – A Very Lonely Solstice CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes’ A Very Lonely Solstice, a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY’s St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church. Now being released for the first time on CD and vinyl, A Very Lonely Solstice captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcasted as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. Pecknold describes the set as “me by myself on the longest night of the year…honoring the loneliness of 2020 with a nylon string and some songs new and old.” [An indie store exclusive clear vinyl pressing is available.]

Charlie Gabriel – Eighty Nine CD (Sub Pop)

Charlie Gabriel’s first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band then included a young Charles Mingus, later spending nine years with a group led by Cab Calloway drummer J.C. Heard. While he’s also fronted a bebop quintet, played and/or toured with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Aretha Franklin and many more, this is the first time his name appears on the front of a record, as a bandleader. Since 2006, Gabriel has been a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Eighty Nine was different, and not simply due to a smaller ensemble. “We had no particular plan, or any particular insight on what we were gonna do. But we were enjoying what we were doing, jamming, having a musical conversation,” Charlie says, further musing, “Musical conversations cancel out complications.” Eighty Nine includes six standards and three newer pieces on which Gabriel is a writer [Vinyl edition due July 22.]

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