This week’s New Music Friday is rather light, but that’s to be expected for mid-August. Just wait a few weeks and we’ll have more new music than we’ll be able to deal with. Meanwhile, let’s keep the summer sounds coming best we can.
Singles
1. The Smile, Don’t Get Me Started (XL Recordings)
If you are on The Smile’s mailing list, you already know about the password-protected digital 12-inch that arrived in your inbox earlier this week. Now everyone else can hear the track along with its rather creepy GGI video created by a company called Weirdcore. It’s not Radiohead, but it’s awfully close.
2. Phantogram, Happy Again (Neon Gold Records)
Phantogram (aka Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter) is spending the next while touring with Kings of Leon this summer and into the fall. The group says this song “captures that optimistic feeling of holding onto hope. It’s about reawakening to a new day and another turn to try again. And so long as we are all alive, there is always an opportunity to be happy again.”
Listen here.
3. The Offspring, Light It Up (Columbia)
Believe it or not, The Offspring have now been together for 40(!!!) years and show no signs of calling it a day. A new album entitled Supercharged will arrive October 11. If you like old-school angry pop-punk Offspring, this is just the thing you need.
4. Snow Patrol, All (Republic Records)
Here’s another single–the third–ahead of Snow Patrol’s The Forest is the Path (due September 13) and the first album in six years. Apparently it took so long because the first time they recorded the album it, as singer Gary Lightbody says, “didn’t work out.” It took a change in producer to get things moving forward.
5. The Killers, Bright Lights (Universal)
The Killers have been teasing this song for the last week or so through a bunch of social media posts. They’re also getting ready for a residency in their hometown of Las Vegas.
Albums
1. F-ed Up, Another Day, Another Day (Merge)
Last year, Toronto’s F-ed Up released a concept album entitled One Day. Here’s your follow-up. There are a lot of big guitars here and if you’re on Team Cannabis, there will be plenty to cheer about. Frontman Damian Abraham is a big fan. “My relationship with cannabis began by turning to it as a medicine. While I had briefly experimented with smoking it in my early teen years, it wasn’t until the side effects from anti-anxiety medication became too much that I considered cannabis anything other than some hippie bullshit. It would wind complete changing my life and opened eyes to my ignorance.”‘
2. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Flight b741 (p(doom) records)
One of the most prolific Australian rock bands ever has just released their 26th studio album over the last 14 years along with a cache of live albums available on Bandcamp. And frankly, it’s been a long time (relatively speaking) since the last King Gizzard album. Fans have been waiting since last October for something new. This is their first album on their new label. Lots of blues and boogie here, making it a back-to-basics move for the band. I have a feeling that they were listening to a lot of early Doobie Brothers, Steve Miller Band, and BTO.
3. beabadoobee, This is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
It’s album number three from the Filipino-English singer and the possessor of the most fun name in all of music. If we’re looking for a theme for this record, let’s just go with “adulting” as the 24-year-old ponders the mysteries of growing up. Time to take accountability, you know?
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