Thursday Music News

09/08/2016

Janice Headley

All throughout the Midday Show on KEXP today, DJ Cheryl Waters has been sharing tracks from the forthcoming Cymbals Eat Guitars album, Pretty Years. Miss a few songs? Had to go into a meeting? You can stream the entire album here, via NPR Music. The band will be crashing through (argh, puns! I can't help it...) Seattle on Wednesday, October 5th at Barboza. Pretty Years hits stores next Friday, September 16th via Sinderlyn. [Spin]

Despite having released a full-length earlier this year (the hauntingly beautiful Strangers), singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler has a new EP hitting stores later this month. Bury Your Name will feature eight home recordings that Nadler made around the same time as Strangers. Check out the first single, "The Best You Ever Had", below. Bury Your Name hits stores on September 23rd via Sacred Bones. [Stereogum]

West coast rapper Vince Staples stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last night in support of his new EP, Prima Donna (full review here). Watch him tackle the track "Smile" with house band The Roots behind him. [Consequence of Sound]

It's eleven minutes long, and worth every second: check out the track "Memory" from Preoccupations (aka the band formerly known as Viet Cong). The song is being called "the album's keystone," and features special guest vocals from Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, and Handsome Furs). Guitarist Scott "Monty" Munro explains, "The idea we had for it's arc made it necessary to put more work into it than any of the other tracks. The finished result was worked on in 6 different studios over almost two years. Getting Dan in to record the vocals was the final piece of the puzzle and was Matt's idea. We were tracking in Montreal and cold-called him to see if he wanted to sing a duet of sorts, but his vocal was so perfect for it that we didn't use Matt's for most of it." The band's new self-titled LP hits stores on September 16th via Jagjaguwar. [Pitchfork]

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