Friday again! New music again! Today is going to be a great day because today is:
Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog – Hop Along is one of my favorite bands running so this is easily what I’m most excited for today. Frances Quinlan’s voice is a powerful, volatile weapon – ugly, messy, beautiful, selling songs with an emotional punch that just hits me in all the right ways. I’ve gotten addicted to it, hell, I’ve dreamed of her voice once. I can’t stand how much I love her singing. The first single from the album, “How Simple” is one of the best songs I’ve heard this year so far and lord here’s hoping the whole album (their third) is great.
Below, again, a list taken from Consequence of Sound (edited to remove things that don’t matter):
30 Seconds to Mars – AMERICA
The Aces – I Don’t Like Being Honest EP
Air Waves – Warrior
Alison Wonderland – AWAKE
The Amazing – In Transit
Ängie – Suicidal Since 1995
Bambara – Shadow of Everything
Birds of Passage – The Death Of Our Invention
Black Salvation – Uncertainty Is Bliss
Blackberry Smoke – Find A Light
The California Honeydrops – Call It Home: Vol. 1 & 2
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha
Death By Unga Bunga – So Far So Good So Cool
Del The Funky Homosapien + Amp Live – Wheel of Fortune
Dr. Octagon – Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation
DUSTED (Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt) – Blackout Summer
The Family Crest – The War: Act I
Flatbush Zombies – Vacation in Hell
Eels – The Deconstruction
Fenne Lily – On Hold
GLORIOR BELLI – The Apostates
Goat Girl – Goat Girl
Good Looking Kids – Settle In, Decay
GUM (Tame Impala’s Jay Watson) – The Underdog
Hinds – I Don’t Run
Island – Feel Like Air
Kali Uchis – Isolation
Kamelot – The Shadow Theory
kwes. – Songs of Midi EP
Kylie Minogue – Golden
Lil Xan – TOTAL XANARCHY
Lisa Stansfield – Deeper
Little Boots – Burn EP
Makeness – Loud Patterns
Mastersystem (feat. members of Frightened Rabbit, Editors, and Minor Victories) – Dance Music
MIEN (feat. members of The Black Angels and The Horrors) – MIEN
Mind Over Matter – Bellowing Sun
Mipso – Edges Run
Moon Hooch – Light It Up EP
No Thank You – All It Takes To Ruin It All
Nonpareils (Aaron Hemphill) – Scented Pictures
Partials – Glossolalia
Paul de Jong (of The Books) – You Fucken Sucker
Peelander-Z – Go PZ Go
Rafiq Bhatia (of Son Lux) – Breaking English
Rainbow Kitten Surprise – How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
Rich Girls – Black City
Ross From Friends – Aphelion EP
Sabb – Radiant
SD – Pay Attention
Sloan – Sloan 12
Steve Bug & Langenberg – Paradise Sold
Tom Misch – Geography
Underøath – Erase Me
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
Valhalla Lights – My Gracious Highway
Wallows – Spring EP
The Wonder Years – Sister Cities
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Young Galaxy – Down Time
Zola Jesus – Okovi: Additions
And, let me toss in a song by Miya Folick that came out this week. She’s released a few really solid songs over the last year and seems to keep getting better:
