Notable New Releases – April 5, 2024

Notable New Releases – April 5, 2024

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AMBLAREAMBLARE

Shortly before he passed away in 2021, Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere finished tracking the drums for the self-titled debut album from Amblare.

In addition to St. Pere, the trio consists of Matt McGuyer of Mock Orange and Alex Wallwork of Faerie Ring. Amblare was produced by Hum frontman Matt Talbott.

StreamMelodic Virtue • 2024


BAYSIDETHERE ARE WORSE THINGS THAN BEING ALIVE

Bayside‘s latest album, There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive, is the New York-based punk band’s first new album since 2019.

In addition to releasing three singles this year, six of the album’s eleven tracks were previously available on 2022’s The Red EP and 2023’s The Blue EP. The new album (as well as The Blue EP) contains a collaboration with Ice Nine Kills called “How to Ruin Everything (Patience).”

StreamHopeless • 2024


THE BLACK KEYSOHIO PLAYERS

Ohio Players is the 12th studio album from The Black Keys, and the follow up to their 2022 Grammy-nominated Dropout Boogie. The new album features guest appearances from Beck and Noel Gallagher, among others.

StreamNonesuch • 2024


BLACKTOP MOJOPOLLEN

Texas rockers Blacktop Mojo are set to release the crowded funded Pollen, this week. The band’s fifth album is the follow up to 2021’s Blacktop Mojo.

StreamRecord Label • 2024


GRACE CUMMINGSRAMONA

Musician and producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Dawes, Angel Olsen, Conor Oberst) produces Ramona from the beautifully smokey voiced Austrialian singer, Grace Cummings.

Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. With its visceral reflection on grief and self-destruction and emotional violence, Ramona brings a stunning new grandeur to Cummings’ music while refusing to soften or temper its humanity.

Bandcamp

StreamATO • 2024


EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTENRAMPEN – APM: ALIEN POP MUSIC

Rampen – apm: alien pop music is the 13th studio album from experimental German rockers Einstürzende Neubauten. The double album is the follow up to 2020’s Alles in Allem.

StreamPotomak • 2024


ERRACURE

Cure is the sixth albums from metalcore band Erra. Guitarist and clean vocalist Jesse Cash describes Cure as “the most groove-centric record we’ve made. It’s very rhythmically oriented. A lot of the technicality is in the right hand with the riffs more so than in the left hand. I found a cozy little spot in that heavy mood, and I leaned into it a lot.” (KERRANG!)

Erra’s self-titled 2021 album peaked at #4 on Billboards US Heatseekers chart.

StreamUNFD • 2024


FEEDERBLACK/RED

Welsh duo Feeder return this week with their 12th studio album, Black/Red.

As the follow up to 2022’s Torpedo, the double album Black/Red completes the trilogy begun with the aforementioned album.

StreamBig Teeth • 2024


GARBAGEBLEED LIKE ME EXPANDED REISSUE

The expanded reissue of Garbage‘s highest-charting album (#4 of the Billboard 200), Bleed Like Me, contains 28 tracks with the addition of new mixes, b-sides, rarities and alternate versions.

StreamBMG/Stunvolume • 2024


CALEB LANDRY JONESHEY GARY, HEY DAWN

Actor Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is also a multi-instrumentalist musician who releases well-received eccentric psychedelic rock. Hey Gary, Hey Dawn is his fourth such album and follows The Mother Stone (2020), Gadzooks Vol. 1 (2021) and Gadzooks Vol. 2 (2022).

StreamSacred Bones • 2024


DUSTIN KENSRUEDESERT DREAMING

Including a 2008 Christmas album and a 2016 set of live covers, Desert Dreaming is the sixth solo album from Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue.

The self-produced alt-country album from Kensure mixes fictional stories with childhood memories of trips through the Mojave Desert to visit his grandparents.

StreamBMG • 2024


KHRUANGBINA LA SALA

In 2020, Khruangbin finally charted on the US Billboard 200 with their third album, Mordechai. This week, they return with their fourth studio album, A La Sala.

StreamDead Oceans • 2024


MARCUS KINGMOOD SWINGS

Marcus King‘s blues/southern rock/R&B album, Mood Swings, is the Grammy-nominated musician’s third solo album.

StreamAmerican/Republic • 2024


LO MOONI WISH YOU WAY MORE THAN LUCK

I Wish You Way More Than Luck is the third LP from Los Angeles-based pop/rock band, Lo Moon. The new LP contains the single “Water” which reached #28 on Billboard’s Adult Album Alternative charts.

StreamSTRNGR Recordings • 2024


MODEST MOUSEGOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION

Modest Mouse has recruited some famous friends for an expanded 20th anniversary edition of their fourth album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News.

The reissue includes remixes from artists like Poolside, Dan the Automator and Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT. Good News for People Who Love Bad News was released in 2004 and includes the band’s highest-charting hit, “Float On”, which went to #1 Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart.

StreamEpic • 2024


OLD 97’SAMERICAN PRIMITIVE

American Primitive is the 13th studio album from the Old 97’s and the second since their appearance in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special where they portrayed an alien rock called Bzermikitokolok and the Knowheremen.

StreamATO • 2024


PERNICE BROTHERSWHO WILL YOU BELIEVE

Joe Pernice brings his consistently great songwriting back to the Pernice Brothers for the first time in five years with the release of Who Will You Believe.

StreamNew West • 2024


PHOSPHORESCENTREVELATOR

Phosphorescent‘s Revelator is the eigth album from the musician and is his first release of all new material since the well-received C’est La Vie in 2018.

In 2022, Phosphorescent launched the Full Moon Project, releasing a new cover song during each full moon of the year. The project included covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Randy Newman and more.

StreamVerve • 2024


STRUNG OUTDEAD REBELLION

Dead Rebellion, the 10th LP from Strung Out, “packs that same familiar punch, but with a new focus on melody, showing a band that is still evolving more than three decades into their distinguished career.” (Bandcamp)

StreamFat Wreck • 2024


VAMPIRE WEEKENDONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US

Only God Was Above Us is the highly-anticipated fifth album from NYC’s Vampire Weekend. Pitchfork rated the album 8.6 out of 10 and highlighted it amongst music’s Best New Albums.

Vampire Weekend‘s previous three albums all went gold and went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 charts.

StreamColumbia • 2024


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