In Stores Now 3/28

In Stores Now
03/28/2016
Janice Headley

We're so excited to have Bob Mould joining us next month for KEXP's New Home Grand Opening on Saturday, April 16th! KEXP Music Director Don Yates observes that on Mould's latest solo album, "the former Husker Du/Sugar frontman continues his latter-day resurgence with another impressive set of anthemic, punkish pop-rock reminiscent of the music made by his former bands, combining loud, fuzzy guitars, punchy rhythms and bright pop melodies juxtaposed with dark lyrics revolving around lost love, depression and mortality."

Other highlights this week include the latest from Portland trio The Thermals, described as "another fine set of anthemic pop-punk with crunchy guitars, punchy, mostly uptempo rhythms and mostly dark lyrics revolving around lost love and mortality." Austin band White Denim return with their sixth album, "a fun set of bluesy, '70s-steeped guitar rock inflected at times with funk, soul and other styles, combining fiery guitar solos, playful keyboards and shifting time signatures with fist-pumping song hooks." Swedish band The Sun Days debut with an album of "hook-filled pop-rock combining jangly guitars, driving rhythms and sunny melodies with Elsa Fredriksson Holmgren's plaintive vocals and often-melancholy lyrics."

Former Archers Of Loaf/Crooked Fingers frontman Eric Bachmann shares his sophomore solo release, "an often-poignant set of well-crafted folk-pop ranging from jaunty, '60s/'70s-steeped pop-rock to spacious, piano-based ballads." And Minneapolis duo Night Moves return with a "well-crafted set of '70s-steeped psych-pop reminiscent of Todd Rundgren and George Harrison, with gleaming guitars and keyboards, yearning vocals, melancholy lyrics and wistful melodies."

  • Bob Mould – “Voices in My Head”
  • from Patch the Sky on Merge
  • The Body / Full of Hell – “The Little Death”
  • from One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache on Neurot
  • Charli XCX – “Trophy”
  • from Vroom Vroom EP on Vroom Vroom
  • Domo Genesis – “KWYM (Keep Working Young Man)”
  • from Genesis on Odd Future
  • Elliphant – “Living Life Golden”
  • from Living Life Golden on Kemosabe
  • Eric Bachmann – “Mercy”
  • from Eric Bachmann on Merge
  • Jesse Lacey / Kevin Devine – “Imitation Of Life [R.E.M. Cover]”
  • from Devinyl Splits No. 6 7" on Bad Timing
  • The Joy Formidable – “The Last Thing On My Mind”
  • from Hitch on C'Mon Let's Drift/Caroline/Membran/MapleMusic
  • Littler – “Of Wandering”
  • from Of Wandering on Birdtapes
  • Lontalius – “Glow”
  • from I'll Forget 17 on Partisan
  • Margo Price – “Hands Of Time”
  • from Midwest Farmer's Daughter on Third Man
  • Matthewdavid's Mindflight – “Unfolding Atlantis”
  • from Trust the Guide and Glide on Leaving
  • Moiré – “Red Circle (ft Bones)”
  • from Lines + Colours EP on Ghostly
  • N.O.R.E. – “My Skin feat. Dave East & Tweez”
  • from Drunk Uncle on Thugged Out Militainment
  • Night Moves – “Carl Sagan”
  • from Pennied Days on Domino
  • Open Mike Eagle / Paul White – “Check to Check”
  • from Hella Personal Music Festival on Mello
  • The Range – “Copper Wire”
  • from Potential on Domino
  • RJD2 – “Peace Of What”
  • from Dame Fortune on RJ's Electrical Connections
  • Scott Yoder – “Looking Back In Blue”
  • from Looking Back in Blue on Annibale
  • The Sun Days – “Don't Need To Be Them”
  • from Album on Run for Cover
  • The Thermals – “Into the Code”
  • from We Disappear on Saddle Creek
  • (Various) Deitrick Haddon & Big Boi – “Sinners (Saved By Grace)”
  • from Saints & Sinners OST on Entertainment One/Bounce
  • Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – “Passages”
  • from A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke on ECM
  • White Denim – “Holda You (I'm Psycho)”
  • from Stiff on Downtown
  • The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – “Katamari Duquette”
  • from Long Live Happy Birthday 7" on Topshelf
  • Young Thug – “With Them”
  • from Slime Season 3 on 300/Atlantic
  • Zayn – “iT's YoU”
  • from Mind of Mine on RCA

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