NEW ALBUMS
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – TIME SKIFFS
Experimental psychedelic indie rockers Animal Collective release their eleventh album this week. AV Club calls Time Skiffs “consistently compelling” while Glide Magazine refers to the album as a “proper follow-up” to the band’s eighth, and biggest-selling album, 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Stream • Domino • 2022
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD – ANTS FROM UP THERE
Black Country, New Road‘s anticipated sophomore album, Ants From Up There, arrives less than a week after their frontman announced (Monday, January 31) that he is leaving the band due to “sad and afraid feeling(s)” which make it hard for him to sing and play guitar at the same time. In the statement, the band stated their intention to continue writing music as Black Country, New Road.
Stream • Ninja Tune • 2022
HIPPO CAMPUS – LP3
The third album (LP3) from St. Paul, MN’s Hippo Campus finds the band “bursting with tender glee and intricate self-reflection” as they “expand their ever-evolving dimensions.”
Stream • Grand Jury • 2022
KORN – REQUIEM
Korn‘s fourteenth LP, Requiem, is their first new album since their #1 2019 album, The Nothing.
Hysteriamag.com has rated Requiem a 9 out of 10 and stated, “After 28 years, Korn are still very much the masters of the world they created.”
Stream • Loma Vista/Concord • 2022
MITSKI – LAUREL HELL
Mitski‘s fifth album, Be the Cowboy, earned her high praise with *many publications calling it the best album of 2019.
Her follow-up album, the highly-anticipated Laurel Hell, features the single “The Only Heartbreaker”, which was co-written with Dan Wilson of Semisonic/Trip Shakespeare.
*(Consequence of Sound, Flood, The Line of Best Fit, Pitchfork, Vulture)
Stream • Dead Oceans • 2022
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – SEE THROUGH YOU
Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers have returned (after another lineup change) with See Through You; their sixth LP of shozegaze, post-rock and psychedelic space rock.
Stream • Dedstrange • 2022