Brazilian fun outfit Boogarins are this week’s featured band with two tracks off their latest record, MANUAL, but there’s more to love: 12 new songs by Ludovico Einaudi, M.I.A., David Bowie, The Felice Brothers, Punch Brothers, Kate Tempest, Aaron Lee Tasjan, The Cave Singers, Dylan LeBlanc, Floating Points, Floating Action, and Freddie Gibbs.
Album releases are slowly decreasing as the year comes to a close, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of singles being released. Treat yourself to 14 new songs (and some covers) from Basia Bulat (pictured), Benjamim, Dev Hynes & Connan Mockasin, Sea Of Bees, Adult Mom, Gianna Lauren, Natalie Prass,Frankie Lee, Jeff Buckley, JEFF The Brotherhood, Nap Eyes, Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi, Corb Lund, and The Wainwright Sisters.
This week on our playlist we bring you songs from two nice new records from Americans Alex Bleeker [Real Estate’s bassist] & the Freaks and Israel Nash, while also presenting new Daptone signees The Mystery Lights. There’s also new songs by Rodrigo Amarante (which happens to be Narcos’ theme song), Tindersticks, dvsn, Floating Points, Juçara Marçal, Chris Stapleton’s duet with his wife from his record Traveller, which came out a few months ago, and a cut from Kurt Vile’s latest live Spotify session. Here you go:
We felt like taking a week off from our playlist-making… so here’s a backlog of great songs we listened to in the last couple of weeks: Bolachas Now Playing 41-42/2015! More than a hour and a half of songs for your listening pleasure, featuring Josh Ritter, Jeffrey Lewis, Jacob Faurholt, Rodney Crowell, Nap Eyes, Promised Land Sound, Eleanor Friedberger, Martin Courtney, Red River Dialect, Dave Rawlings Machine, Actual Wolf, Natalie Prass, Rudimental ft. Bobby Womack, yes I’m typing everything and not just pasting names, Ephemerals, Jamie Woon, John Grant, Freddie Gibbs, Blood Orange, The Album Leaf, and Floating Points. Enjoy it.
After some low-key weeks there were plenty of great new albums being released in the last couple of weeks. Joanna Newsom could be the highlight here, but she openly dislikes Spotify, so the Canadian cowboy Corb Lund takes the crown this week. Other highlights include Blitzen Trapper, Amy Speace and Beach House’s new albums (2 songs each). Listen: