In Stores Now 6/20

Brooklyn band Caveman are back with their first new album since their 2013 self-titled LP. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it "a well-crafted blend of driving, War On Drugs-style rock and atmospheric, '80s-steeped pop-rock." We can't wait to hear the new songs live when the band perform at Concerts at the Mural on Friday, August 12th at Seattle Center.

Other highlights this week include the debut from case/lang/veirs, a collaboration from k.d. lang, Neko Case, and Laura Veirs. The project was initiated when lang moved to Portland, and simply emailed Case and Veirs saying, "I think we should make a record." They each replied "yes" in 30 minutes, and the rest is history. Speaking of supergroups, we have the debut LP from Male Gaze, a project of Matt Jones (ex-Blasted Canyons), Mark Kaiser (ex-Mayyors), and Adam Cimino (ex-The Mall), with special guest former Blasted Canyons and Tiaras member Adam Finken. (Watch their 2015 KEXP in-studio here.)

Seattle band VHS share their debut, "a potent set of aggressive post-punk with bristling guitars, driving rhythms, gloomy vocals and bleak, dystopian lyrics." Scottish band PAWS had some unusual help on their latest: Mark Hoppus of blink-182. And Arcade Fire's Will Butler releases Friday Night, a concert album recorded mostly during a June 2015 performance at Chicago's Lincoln Hall. In a press release, Butler says, "Think of this as a comedy record. In some ways literally-Brooklyn comedian Jo Firestone does the introduction and the "solo" in "Friday Night"-but also, it's an album based on working out ideas in a room full of people, playing off their energy and expectations. It's about taking complicated emotions and wringing communal joy from them, and then translating that joy onto record. So here you go!"

• Ali Beletic – “Ends Of The Earth”
• from Legends of These Lands Left to Live on Lightning
• ALTO! – “Piece Fourteen”
• from LP3 on Trouble in Mind
• Anthony D'Amato – “Golden Gloves”
• from Cold Snap on New West
• Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers – “Celestial Railroad" featuring Mavis Staples
• from Rehab Reunion on 429 Records / Savoy
• case/lang/veirs – “Atomic Number”
• from case/lang/veirs on Anti-
• Caveman – “Never Going Back”
• from Otero War on Relativity Entertainment
• Elizabeth Cook – “Methadone Blues”
• from Exodus of Venus on Agent Love Records
• FAWNN – “Galaxies”
• from Ultimate Oceans on Quite Scientific
• Flowering Inferno / Quantic – “A Life Worth Living” featuring U-Roy & Alice Russell
• from 1000 Watts on Tru Thoughts
• The Game – “Death Row Chain”
• from Streets of Compton on eOne
• Gojira – “Silvera”
• from Magma on Roadrunner Records
• Jake Bugg – “Love, Hope And Misery”
• from On My One on Island / Virgin EMI
• Jambinai – “For Everything That You Lost”
• from A Hermitage on Bella Union
• Jay Arner – “Like A Dracula”
• from Jay II on Mint Records
• Jon Pardi – “California Sunrise”
• from California Sunrise on Capitol Nashville / Universal
• The Kingbees
• from The Big Rock on Omnivore
• Let's Eat Grandma – “Eat Shiitake Mushrooms”
• from I, Gemini on Transgressive
• Linda Guilala – “Cosas Nuevas”
• from Psiconáutica on Elefant
• The Low Anthem – “Ozzie”
• from Eyeland on Washington Square
• M. Craft – “Blood Moon”
• from Blood Moon on Heavenly
• Male Gaze – “Lesser Demons”
• from King Leer on Castle Face
• Margaret Glaspy – “Emotions And Math”
• from Emotions and Math on ATO
• Mitski – “Your Best American Girl”
• from Puberty 2 on Dead Oceans
• Mumford & Sons
• from Johannesburg on Glassnote Entertainment Group
• Night School – “Last Disaster”
• from Blush on Graveface Records
• Odonis Odonis – “Nervous”
• from Post Plague on Felte
• Parlour – “Fempire”
• from Parlour on Temporary Residence
• PAWS – “No Grace”
• from No Grace on FatCat Records
• Popincourt – “The First Flower Of Spring”
• from A New Dimension to Modern Love on Jigsaw Records
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
• from The Getaway on Atlantic / Elektra / Warner Bros. / Warner Music
• Red Sleeping Beauty – “If You Want Affection”
• from Kristina on Shelflife
• Starflyer 59 – “Wrongtime”
• from Slow on Tooth & Nail
• Swans – “When Will I Return”
• from The Glowing Man on Young God
• T.O.L.D. – “The Hermit”
• from It's Not About the Witches on Iamsound
• Weaves – “One More”
• from Weaves on Kanine/Buzz/Memphis Industries
• Will Butler – “Take My Side”
• from Friday Night on Merge
• YG – “Still Brazy”
• from Still Brazy on Def Jam
• VHS – “Wheelchair”
• from Gift of Life on Suicide Squeeze