Happy release day to Andy Shauf, whose record The Party is our album of the week! Old favorites Super Furry Animals and Wolf Parade are also back with their first new songs in a while. Plus: new songs by Okkervil River, Karl Blau, Marissa Nadler, Brandy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fruit Bats, White Denim, Speedy Ortiz, Mitski, Cullen Omori, Plaid, and Kaytranada.
Plenty of familiar faces on our 16th playlist of the year, and 64th overall. Bolachas Now Playing is getting old, but it won’t retire. Just like the Jayhawks.
The latest Grant-Lee Phillips album and the Jason Molina RSD 7″ (with two previously unreleased Townes Van Zandt covers) are our records of the week.
The new Plastic Flowers album is on the spotlight this week, along with other fine records by David Thomas Broughton and Sturgill Simpson.
This week on our playlist we focus on not one, but two records: Kevin Morby’s Singing Saw and Cate Le Bon’s Crab Day. But that’s not all we’ve got: take a sneak peek at Day of the Dead, that Grateful Dead cover album everyone’s talking about, with songs by The War on Drugs, The National, and Courtney Barnett. Extra: Alexi Lalas, Parquet Courts, William Tyler, Destroyer, Fujiya & Miyagi, Dave Harrington Group, and dvsn.