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Plus Stream the New Albums from TORRES, Frances Quinlan, Dan Deacon, Drive-By Truckers, POLIÇA, and More
Jan 31, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Destroyer (the project of Dan Bejar) has released a new album, Have We Met, today via Merge and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: TORRES, Frances Quinlan, Wild Nothing, Dan Deacon, Drive-By Truckers, POLIÇA, and Squirrel Flower. More
Plus Stream the New Albums from Georgia and Beach Slang
Jan 10, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Britain’s Field Music (anchored by brothers Peter and David Brewis) have released a new album, Making a New World, inspired by the aftermath and repercussions of World War I, today via Memphis Industries and it’s our first Album of the Week of 2020. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today: Georgia and Beach Slang. More
Plus Stream the New Albums from Swans, Little Scream, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Kanye West, and More
Oct 25, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
British experimental musician Anna Meredith has released a new album, FIBS, today via Black Prince Fury and it’s our Album of the Week. Also stream the new albums by Swans, Little Scream, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Kanye West, and Mikal Cronin. More
Big Thief is the Runner-Up; Plus Stream the New Albums from Kim Gordon, Lindstrøm, Allah Las, Cursive, Mark Kozelek with Petra Haden, and More
Oct 11, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Elbow have released a new album, Giants of All Sizes, today via Polydor/Verve Label Group and it’s our Album of the Week. Big Thief‘s Two Hands, on 4AD, is our close runner-up. Find more info on both albums below. More
Plus Stream the New Albums from DIIV, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wilco, Chromatics, that dog., Lightning Dust, and Danny Brown
Oct 04, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Olsen released a new album, All Mirrors, today via Jagjaguwar and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album here. Also here are streams of other notable albums released today: DIIV, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wilco, Chromatics, that dog., Lightning Dust, and Danny Brown. More
Plus Stream the New Albums from Iggy Pop, Lower Dens, Death Cab for Cutie, Frankie Cosmos, Miles Davis, and Kindness
Sep 06, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has released a new album, Lost Girls, today via AWAL Recordings and it’s our Album of the Week. We also have streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: Iggy Pop, Lower Dens, Death Cab for Cutie, Frankie Cosmos, Miles Davis, and Kindness. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Sheer Mag, Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott, Joyero, BROCKHAMPTON, and More
Aug 23, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has released a new album, Anak Ko, today via Polyvinyl and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: Sheer Mag, Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott, Joyero, BROCKHAMPTON, Raphael Saadiq, and Shannon Lay. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Ride, Friendly Fires, Shura, Amason, Blanck Mass, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and More
Aug 16, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Sleater-Kinney have released a new album, The Center Won’t Hold, today via Mom + Pop and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today: Amason, Blanck Mass, Friendly Fires, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Hold Steady, Oso Oso, Ride, and Shura. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Bon Iver, Electric Youth, Ra Ra Riot, WHY?, and More
Aug 09, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
British singer/songwriter Marika Hackman released a new album, Any Human Friend, today via Sub Pop and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today: Bon Iver, Electric Youth, Ra Ra Riot, WHY?, The Regrettes, and G&D. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Mark Ronson, Bedouine, Hot Chip, The Raconteurs, Kirin J Callinan, Richard Reed Parry, and More
Jun 21, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Her debut album, Keepsake, was released today via Double Double Whammy and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Palehound, Younghusband, Silversun Pickups, Pixx, Stef Chura, and More
Jun 07, 2019
By Mark Redfern
The Divine Comedy, the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon, has released a new album, Office Politics, today via Hannon’s own Divine Comedy Records and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. More
Hayden Thorpe Is the Runner-up (Plus Stream New Albums from Flying Lotus, Mavis Staples, Black Mountain, Morrissey, and More)
May 24, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Welsh singer/songwriter/guitarist Cate Le Bon has released a new album, Reward, today via Mexican Summer and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album here, as well as on a strong runner-up that was almost our Album of the Week, Hayden Thorpe‘s Diviner. Plus there are streams of other notable albums released today. More
Alex Lahey Is the Runner-up (Plus Stream New Albums and EPs from Interpol; Carly Rae Jepsen; Tyler, The Creator; and More)
May 17, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
The National released a new album, I Am Easy to Find, today via 4AD and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album her, as well as on a strong runner-up that was almost our Album of the Week. There are also streams of other notable albums released today. More
HÆLOS and Clinic Are Runner-ups (Plus Stream New Albums from Mac DeMarco, Maps, The Get Up Kids, and More)
May 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, today via Barsuk and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More
Barrie and Big Thief Are Runner-ups (Plus Stream New Albums from Editors, Filthy Friends, L7, Tacocat, and More)
May 03, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Vampire Weekend have released a new album, Father of the Bride, today via Columbia/Spring Snow and it’s our Album of the Week. Find into on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More
Wand is the Runner Up (Plus Stream New Albums from Lizzo, Drugdealer, Diane Coffee, and More)
Apr 19, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
England’s Fat White Family have released a new album, Serfs Up!, today via Domino, their first for the label (and third album overall) and it’s our Album of the Week. Find out more info on it below. Also below are streams for other albums released today, including close runner-up Laughing Matter, by Wand. More
Runners Up Include: Jenny Lewis, Andrew Bird, Tamaryn, Sleeper, Nilüfer Yanya, and These New Puritans
Mar 22, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
We haven’t done an Album of the Week post since January, but there are some upcoming albums truly worthy of the title, starting with the new one by Strand of Oaks (the project of Timothy Showalter), Eraserland, released today via Dead Oceans.Here is more info on the album, as well as a round up and streams for other notable albums released today. More
Love Is Magic Out Now via Partisan and Bella Union
Oct 12, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
John Grant released a new album, Love Is Magic, today via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere) and it’s our Album of the Week. It was a strong week for new albums and the new albums by Kurt Vile and Jaakko Eino Kalevi could’ve just as easily taken the crown and there are eight runner-ups this week in total. More
The Lamb Out Now via Hardly Art
Sep 28, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out today via Hardly Art and it’s our Album of the Week. In his review for Under the Radar, our writer Timothy Michalik declared The Lamb “perhaps one of this year’s finest indie rock records to come out of Chicago, if not the country.” More
Double Negative Out Now via Sub Pop
Sep 14, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Low released a new album, Double Negative, today via Sub Pop and it’s our Album of the Week. Double Negative is the follow-up to 2015’s Ones and Sixes. A press release announcing the album described Double Negative as Low’s “most brazen, abrasive (and, paradoxically, most empowering) album.” In our review of Double Negative, our writer Adam Turner-Heffer calls the album “their most inventive yet.” More
And Nothing Hurt Out Now via Fat Possum and Bella Union
Sep 07, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Spiritualized (aka Jason Pierce and backing band) released a new album, And Nothing Hurt, today via Fat Possum (and Bella Union in the U.K.) and it’s easily our Album of the Week. More
Anna Calvi's Hunter Out Now via Domino and Wild Nothing's Indigo Out Now via Captured Tracks
Aug 31, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
This week we have a tie for Album of the Week: Anna Calvi‘s Hunter and Wild Nothing‘s Indigo. We couldn’t decide which album we liked better, so they are joint Album of the Week. Below is info on both albums, as well as full album streams and videos from each record. More
Songs You Make At Night Out Now via Full Time Hobby
Aug 24, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Tunng released a new album, Songs You Make At Night, today via Full Time Hobby. It’s the first album with the original lineup (including founding members Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay) since 2007’s Good Arrows. While we are not doing a full-on Album of the Week post on it, we wanted to acknowledge it as this week’s Album of the Week. More
At Weddings Out Now via Saddle Creek
Aug 10, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Tomberlin is the project of Sarah Beth Tomberlin. Her debut album, At Weddings, came out today via Saddle Creek. While we are not doing a full-on Album of the Week post on it, we wanted to acknowledge it as this week’s Album of the Week. More
I'm All Ears Out Now via Transgressive
Jun 29, 2018
By Michael Watkins
On their debut album, it would have been easy to see Let’s Eat Grandma‘s duo of Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth as somewhat of a novelty. Not in the traditional sense of a jokey, one-hit wonder novelty act, as they lacked the commercial appeal. More
Heaven and Earth Out Now via Young Turks
Jun 22, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
There is an interesting debate going on within the Jazz world about Kamasi Washington, the current crossover wunderkind who is achieving major attention from more traditionally “indie-rock” crowds. On the one hand, from his work with Kendrick Lamar and the Brainfeeder label, he is bringing a wider audience to jazz, a genre that has historically gone misunderstood or mistrusted. More
Hope Downs Out Now via Sub Pop
Jun 15, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
After last year’s excellent EP The French Press, young Melbournians Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have amassed quite the deal of hype. And justifiably so, the title track in particular went down as of the best tracks of 2017, excelling a considerable amount of excitement towards their first full length, when it comes. More
Jun 08, 2018
By Michael Watkins
In Lindsey Jordan’s short time as Snail Mail, the 18-year-old has cultivated an assured but dedicated following. Harking back to her ‘90s indie rock predecessors such as Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, and even further back to the likes of The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, she offers guitar-centerd songs that don’t whine or moan or even look for a nostalgia in a past that she hasn’t even lived-as seems to be one of the millennial trends nowadays-but find beauty in the mundane and the small details, the likes of which has been done as successfully by only a handful of her contemporaries in recent years. More
Tracyanne & Danny Out Now via Merge
May 25, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Tracyanne & Danny, is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, came out today via Merge. More
Tell Me How You Really Feel Out Today via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records
May 18, 2018
By Michael Watkins
In the now four years since her double EP A Sea of Split Peas announced Courtney Barnett as a force to be reckoned with in the indie singer/songwriter sphere, there has been little-to-no let up in the proficiency of this Australian 30-year-old. More
World’s Strongest Man Out Now via Hot Fruit/Caroline International
May 04, 2018
By Ian Rushbury
World’s Strongest Man is a ride down the road less travelled for former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes. If you were expecting endless variations on a Supergrass theme, then you’ll be slightly confused and annoyed by his third solo record. The tunes are still very much intact and will eat into your brain and live there for days, but the approach is a little, shall we say, esoteric. More
New Material Out Now via Jagjaguwar
Mar 23, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
Those looking for a return to Viet Cong, look away now. At this point it might just be easier to think of Preoccupations as a different band, as their latest album New Material shares a lot more in common with the first, self-titled Preoccupations album than their debut under their former name. Luckily, this is no bad thing, even if different, as Preoccupations have yet again created a gothy, atmospheric post-punk cracker. More
Now Only Out Now via P.W. Elverum & Sun
Mar 16, 2018
By Michael James Hall
This week’s album of the week serves as a follow-up to the most stark, moving and genuinely heartbreaking records of last year, Mount Eerie‘s A Crow Looked At Me. Charting Phil Elverum’s immediate situation and emotional response to the death of his wife Geneviève in 2016, not long after the birth of the couple’s only child, a daughter, the album was a brutally honest document of death and grief delivered with remarkable, soft, melodic directness. More
Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune
Mar 09, 2018
By Lee Adcock
For this week’s album of the week, we could begin in a tired tirade on how we should forefront any dialogue on resistance, and especially from people of color. And that’s true, but to label Cocoa Sugar as “protest music” would overlook the electrified soul of Young Fathers that swerves in a love-drunk stupor through their 10-year output. More
Historian Out Now via Matador
Mar 02, 2018
By Lee Adcock
Debate the credibility of the term “indie” all you want-but even in today’s landscape of monolithic labels and bustling support crews, we still expect the independent artist to follow their own vision. To say, then, that rising star Lucy Dacus may have almost single-handedly penned a cinematic masterpiece in Historian shouldn’t surprise you that much. More
Phases Out Now via Jagjaguwar
Nov 10, 2017
By Kyle Mullin
Phases is the name of Angel Olsen‘s new release, and that might seem to be accurate enough when you consider it’s a collection of rarities that span the St. Louis songstress’ burgeoning career. More
Turn Out the Lights Out Now via Matador
Oct 27, 2017
By Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Stephen Wyatt
Singer/songwriter Julien Baker is on the cover of Under the Radar‘s current print issue (Issue 62/Fall 2017) and earlier this week we gave her new album Turn Out the Lights a rave 9/10 review. So it should come as no surprise that Turn Out the Lights is our Album of the Week. We liked it so much that we’ve had two of our writers, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Stephen Wyatt, write about how great it is. Read both their write-ups below. More
Visions of a Life Out Now via Dirty Hit/RCA
Sep 29, 2017
By Scott Dransfield
Brandon Flowers, of The Killers fame, was recently lambasted in some indie-blog circles for claiming in a recent interview with Noisey that rock bands haven’t gained a commercial traction comparable to their own lately because there “hasn’t been anybody good enough.” More
V Out Now via Wolftone/Caroline
Sep 22, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
The Horrors released their fifth album, the fittingly titled V, today via Wolftone/Caroline. Usually for our Album of the Week posts we have an especially written detailed write up of why the album is the week’s best, but these week various factors prevented us from pulling that off. More
Sleep Well Beast Out Now via 4AD
Sep 08, 2017
By Billy Hamilton
The National is The National is The National. After 18 years and six albums, the Ohio spawned ensemble make a sound you can spot a mile off: that rich rumble of Matt Berninger’s moribund baritone; those quivering, tear-duct moistening laments; the spiralling weaves of delicate guitar. More
American Dream Out Now via Columbia/DFA
Sep 01, 2017
By Will Butler
When LCD Soundsystem announced their official return at Christmas 2015, more people were upset about it than you’d think. Having left us at their prime, James Murphy’s bohemian brigade released an grandiose but heart-warming final concert movie called Shut Up and Play the Hits. More
Painted Ruins Out Now via RCA
Aug 18, 2017
By Ryan Meaney
The kaleidoscopic sound the four members of Grizzly Bear create is a juxtaposition unto itself. It is Earth shatteringly loud yet serene and tranquil. It speaks on the larger human psyche while observing the minutia of everyday life. More
Cage Tropical Out Now via Slumberland/Grey Market
Aug 11, 2017
By Matthew Berlyant
If anyone expects a complete reinvention from Frankie Rose following a four-year absence (her last album being 2013’s Herein Wild, her only record for Fat Possum), especially given that this is a return after a series of personal setbacks sent her back to Brooklyn after a stint in her native Los Angeles, they’ll be disappointed. More
Earl Grey Out Now via Moshi Moshi
Aug 04, 2017
By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Londoners Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell, and Sophie Moss were 16 years old when they formed Girl Ray and recorded their first single, “Trouble.” They’re still just 19. Being a teenager is about feeling every emotion right down to the core and crowding round your friends to sink into these feelings with every might, because who knows? They might just consume you. More
Universal High Out Today via Marathon Artists
Jul 21, 2017
By Will Butler
The state of U.K. indie in the early 2010s had an atmosphere of light revolution. The fallout from the 2006 wave of Arctic Monkeys-inspired bands had cleared and a new dawn had arrived for the alternative youth of the U.K. More