A lovely new album from San Fran indie-folkers The Dodos
kicks off today's featured releases, but that's not even the half
of it. Yim
Yames (My Morning Jacket's Jim James) and
Julian
Plenti (Interpol's Paul Banks) both go solo, and the
world is richer for it.
Today we've got the debut from Liverpool singer-songwriter
Susan
Enan, whose duet with Sarah McLachlan was featured on
Bones; the new album from YACHT on DFA
Records; the soundtrack
for new rom-com Adam; some classic piano pop from
David
Mead; the debut full-length from Chicago house deejay
Bad Boy
Bill; and more!
New albums from Riceboy
Sleeps (Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson and his
boyfriend Alex Somers), Historics (a
side project of the bassists from Maroon 5 and Amazing Baby,
featuring Kool Keith), Sugar Ray (you
probably know Sugar Ray), Greg Davis (a
classically-trained Kranky Records dronemeister), and more!
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Today brings the debut album from Nasvhille all-girl
country-rockers Those
Darlins (it rules), the newest from Def Jux rapper
Cage, heartbreaking
rock from Scots Broken
Records, and some classic jazz from the
Matt Wilson
Quartet!
Two exclusive pre-releases for you folks today! The long-awaited
LP from Discovery
(Vampire Weekend + Ra Ra Riot), and the debut from Brooklyn
"shwag-rockers" Motel
Motel.
Plus, an insanely good new release from Welsh (post-/meta-) punk
band Future of the
Left, a mixtape from Chicago rapper Naledge (1/2 of
Kidz
in the Hall), and more!
New Mos
Def album! Spin says it's "easily his finest
full-length since Black on Both Sides," featuring
production from Oh No,
Madlib,
J
Dilla, and a special appearance from Talib
Kweli.
Plus, we've got one iPod Shuffle left to give away. Since we
started counting last week, over 2,000 recs have been made; the
2,500th person to rec a song wins!
Today we've got a new J Dilla
collection that Rolling Stone calls "possibly the best
posthumous rap record since the final releases of 2Pac and Biggie,"
along with new music from Baltimore's The Seldon
Plan, Dave Allen from Gang of Four's new band
Faux
Hoax, a free track and $5 album from Butterfly
Boucher, and more!
