Out This Week 8/31

August is closing out with some seriously highly-anticipated new albums. Highlights include the fifth album from Baltimore duo Beach House, which KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes as "another beautifully crafted set of atmospheric dream-pop with a floating, reverb-drenched sound combining droning organ, shimmering synths, chiming guitars and hypnotic drum-machine rhythms with Victoria Legrand’s dusky vocals, cryptic lyrics and melancholy melodies."

Veteran band Yo La Tengo follow up their 1990 album Fakebook with another "equally subdued, mostly acoustic set of wide-ranging covers along with two new originals and three new versions of older Yo La Tengo songs." Another veteran band in a different vein, Motorhead, sound "as vital as ever on their 22nd album, an unrepentant set of blistering hard-rock with fiery guitar riffs, frenetic rhythms, snarling vocals and fist-pumping song hooks." And Dan Bejar's Destroyer project returns with his tenth full-length, Poison Season.British band Foals share "another first-rate set of rhythmic post-punk with a massive sound combining ringing guitars, atmospheric keyboards, driving rhythms, soaring vocals and anthemic song hooks." Long Beach, CA trio Tijuana Panthers share "a well-crafted, consistently solid blend of ‘60s-steeped garage-rock, surf, psych-rock and other styles, featuring an energetic blend of jangly guitars, driving rhythms and catchy pop hooks." LA-based artist Mike Krol shares "a first-rate blend of raw garage-punk and hook-filled power pop, featuring a scuzzy, lo-fi sound with crunchy guitars, energetic rhythms, snotty vocals, heart-on-sleeve lyrics and sunny pop melodies." Veter

Chicago-born artist Willis Earl Beal is now living in rural Washington outside of Olympia, and his latest "is a haunting set of late-night soul with atmospheric synths and glacial rhythms accompanying his soulful croon and lovelorn lyrics." The latest from New Zealand expatriate now living in New York Tamaryn "finds her moving away from the shoegazerish guitar-focused sound of her first two records in favor of a more electronic-oriented sound with shimmering synths and drum-machine rhythms accompanying her breathy vocals and intimate lyrics." Jet Age return "The latest album from this DC band led by former Hurricane Lamps frontman Eric Tischler is another fine set combining crunchy power pop with often-politically charged lyrics. "

• Beach House – “Sparks”
• from Depression Cherry on Sub Pop
• Bitchin Bajas / Natural Information Society – “Anemometer”
• from Automaginary on Drag City
• Cold Showers – “Plantlife”
• from Matter of Choice on Dais
• Defeater – “Spared In Hell”
• from Abandoned on Epitaph
• Destroyer – “Dream Lover”
• from Poison Season on Merge
• Dope Body – “Old Grey”
• from Kunk on Drag City
• Foals – “What Went Down”
• from What Went Down on Warner Bros.
• Frog Eyes – “Joe With The Jam”
• from Pickpocket's Locket on Paper Bag Inc.
• Gagakirise and Eye – “The Flash”
• from Gagakirise on Thrill Jockey
• Grandchildren – “Nothing”
• from Zuni on Ernest Jenning
• Halsey – “Drive”
• from Badlands on Astralwerks / Virgin EMI
• Holly Golightly – “Fool Fool Fool (Look In The Mirror)”
• from Slowtown Now! on Damaged Goods
• Hooton Tennis Club – “P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L P.I.E.R.R.E”
• from Highest Point in Cliff Town on Heavenly
• The Jet Age – “It Cuts Both Ways”
• from Destroy. Rebuild on self-released
• Mike Krol – “This Is the News”
• from Turkey on Merge
• Motörhead – “Electricity”
• from XXXX: Bad Magic on UDR
• Pinkcourtesyphone – “Tearsofmodernism”
• from Sentimental Something on Important Records
• Pixx – “Fall In”
• from Fall In on 4AD
• Sékou Kouyaté – “Dela”
• from Sabaru on One World
• Silicon – “Burning Sugar”
• from Personal Computer on Weird World
• Sinkane – “Emilie”
• from Mean Dup on City Slang
• Static Daydream – “Until You're Mine”
• from Static Daydream on Moon Sound / Saint Marie Records
• Steep Canyon Rangers – “Radio”
• from Radio on Rounder
• Sylvan Esso – “H.S.K.T. (Dntel Remix)”
• from H.S.K.T. on Partisan
• Tamaryn – “Cranekiss”
• from Cranekiss on Mexican Summer
• Terranova – “Tell Me Why" ft. Stereo MC's (Danny Daze Mix)
• from Restless Remixes, Vol. 1 on Kompakt
• Tijuana Panthers – “Front Window Down”
• from Poster on Innovative Leisure
• Willis Earl Beal – “Survive”
• from Noctunes on Tender Loving Empire
• Yo La Tengo – “Friday I'm In Love”
• from Stuff Like That There on Matador