After a blistering in-studio session at KEXP, young Benjamin Booker has released his self-titled debut album, which KEXP's Music Director Don Yates calls "a powerful blend of energetic garage rock and postpunk with gritty blues and soul, featuring a variety of visceral songs with explosive guitar riffs, rollicking organ and often-frenetic rhythms accompanying Booker’s raspy vocals and spiritually troubled lyrics."
Other highlights this week include the latest from New York band Bishop Allen, returning with their first new album in five years, "a fine set of bittersweet indie-pop with jangly guitars, bright synths, bouncy rhythms, wistful melodies and often-melancholy lyrics." Swedish duo JJ return with "an often-entrancing blend of moody electro-pop, hip hop/R&B, orchestral pop and other styles, combining an ethereal, heavily atmospheric sound with soaring pop melodies and Elin Kastlander’s airy vocals." Iconic indiepop label Slumberland Records release the latest from Literature, "a fine set of C86-inspired pop-rock with jangly guitars, bright keyboards, relentlessly uptempo rhythms, hazy vocals and sunny melodies." And UK band The Fat White Family domestically reissue last year's debut, "a scabrous set of lo-fi garage-rock tinged with elements of psych-rock, spaghetti western and other styles, combining a ramshackle sound with half-buried vocals and seedy, misanthropic lyrics."
From J Dilla to J Mascis, there is something for everyone this week in new releases! While the Dilla self-releases his 40-track The King of Beats’ Ma Dukes Yancey Collector’s Edition Box Set, Mascis shares his latest solo release, which KEXP's Music Director Don Yates describes as "another strong a…
It's a quiet week for new releases, but at the front of the pack is the debut full-length from UK artist FKA Twigs. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the album as "a knockout set of futuristic R&B with a spacious, slow-burning sound combing glitchy electronic textures and eerie narcotic b…
