This week’s highlight on Bolachas Now Playing is the new, superb Shearwater record, Jet Plane and Oxbow, perhaps their best album to date. So good we’ve put three songs off it on our playlist this week. But there’s more! We’re visiting other latitudes this week, through new tracks by Robbie Fulks, Suuns, Eric Bachmann, Luís Severo, Promise and the Monster, Gangly, Dawn Richard, Babyfather, Fat White Family, Massive Attack, and Made of Oak.
Those who follow our Facebook page knew about this last Friday, but we’ve forgotten to post this on the website… Well, better late than never, as cliché as that sounds. Half Japanese’s new record, Perfect, was the highlight last week!
Bolachas Now Playing is back with plenty of new music after the holiday season. David Bowie would still be featured even if he was alive – his latest record, Blackstar, is undoubtedly the first highlight of 2016. Some old favorites will be releasing new records this winter/spring (Explosions in the Sky, Tortoise, Woods, Yeasayer, Basia Bulat, Eleanor Friedberger), some are just starting (Cam, Anderson Paak, Margo Price) but there’s so much more: new tracks by Villagers, Jacob Faurholt, Matthew E. White & Natalie Prass, Santigold, and Brandy Clark. Here’s the first Bolachas Now Playing of the year, the 49th since we first started.
Like every single year, provided you’re interested in searching for new music, 2015 was a pretty good year. The Bolachas team has chosen 55 songs by 55 different artists – and yes, of course, we’ve created a Spotify playlist so you can sample our 2015. Shuffle through the 4 hours of music by clicking on the widget below!