Featured New Releases for
May 22, 2020

Dedicated Side B

Interscope / Schoolboy
The songs that didn't quite make it onto 2019's Dedicated make for a fun, catchy, and heartwarming album in their own right.

— Heather Phares

Look Long

Rounder
The folk duo take a long look outside of themselves on this empathetic, slyly adventurous album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Strange to Explain

Woodsist
Fifteen years into a tirelessly curious evolution, this psychedelic indie folk band sounds more inspired and driven than ever.

— Fred Thomas

Kidbug

Joyful Noise
Members of Eerie Wanda and Dumb Numbers team up on a love letter to the alt-rock sounds of the early '90s, especially grunge.

— Tim Sendra

Mutable Set

Blake Mills
On his fourth long-player, the producer, songwriter, and guitarist looks simultaneously in the rearview and toward the uncertain horizon.

— Thom Jurek

Discourses

ECM
Four years after his groundbreaking Warp, the pianist follows with a no less ambitious approach to the fissures in societal communication.

— Thom Jurek

Hollywood Park

Rounder
The musical soundtrack to frontman Mikel Jollett's autobiography of the same name dials back the trashy glam rock of its predecessor in favor of big, earnest indie rock.

— James Christopher Monger

W

Wonderwheel Recordings
The Italian producer celebrates feminine creativity with a bevy of collaborators and stylish, inclusive sounds.

— Heather Phares

Home Time

Fika Recordings
The prolific English indie pop songwriter turns his gaze inward on an intimate collection of breakup songs recorded acoustically at home.

— Timothy Monger

Jetstream Pony

Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten / Shelflife
Indie pop vets Beth Arzy and Shaun Charman settle into a lush and hazy, dissatisfied noise pop for the quartet's full-length debut.

— Marcy Donelson

Enter the Mirage

Heavy Psych Sounds
Enter the Mirage delivers another tie-dyed blast from the past; a lo-fi, acid-socked transmission from a mirror dimension where the Summer of Love never ended

— James Christopher Monger

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