In Part One of this week’s Best New Releases, there are many lead singles off of new albums, bonus tracks and flashback tracks from artists like fun, Princeton, Grimes, Wild Nothing, Dirty Ghosts and Perfume Genius. We decided to split last week’s new releases into two posts, since we wanted the Part One installment to focus on profiles and songs of our favorite releases of the week.
Today’s post, Part Two, contains many worthy lead tracks from new albums out now covering a wide range of styles and genres from singer/songwriter to alternative rock, punk to pop. The artists include Damien Jurado, Terry Malts, Lampchop, Tindersticks, Sara Radle, Inca Gold, Archers of Loaf, and a few IRC exclusives from DIY artists like Minneapolis alternative rock bands Jean George and Vague-à-Bonde, and Mexico‘s rockers Nousis. Each of these artists independently dropped their albums in the past week, but had no coverage on the web that we could find in a Google search.
“Museum of Flight” –Damien Jurado from Maraqopa
Special Bonus Track: “Nothing Is the News” – Damien Jurado from Maraqopa
Gone Tomorrow – Lambchop from Mr. M
“The Pins” – Sara Radle from Same Sun Shines
“The Sun and The Moon” – Cursive from I Am A Gemini
“Atom” – Inca Gold from Inca Gold III
“Nauseous” – Terry Malts from Killing Time
“Frozen” – Tindersticks from The Something Rain
“Pink Diamond” – Dustin Wong from Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
“Harnessed in Slums” – Archers of Loaf from Vee Vee (reissue)
“Lions of Least” – Pontiak from Echo Ono
“Like Rain” – Ducky from The Whether EP (self-released)
“Loose Ends” – Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters from Lungs, Dirt, and Dreams
IRC DIY Releases Out This Week: Jean George, Vague-a-Bonde and Nousis
“Vietnam” – Jean George from – (DIY) – IRC Exclusive
“Voices” – Vague-à-Bonde from Involution/Evolution (DIY) – IRC Exclusive
“Stoplight” – Nousis from single demo (DIY) – IRC Exclusive
Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter Songs from New Albums Out Week of Feb. 21
We thought it would be a cool idea to create a mini-playlist by itself that focused on this week’s most note-worthy country, folk and singer/songwriter MP3 singles from new albums by Barna Howard, Water Tower Bucket Boys (only in America, could you have a band name like that), Guy Capecelatro III, and others. Sound off in the Comments section, via Twitter (@indierockcafe) or Facebook.
“Promise, I Won’t Laugh” – Barna Howard from Barna Howard
“Meet Me Where the Crow Don’t Fly” – Water Tower Bucket Boys from Where the Crow Don’t Fly (self-released)
“Girlfriends” – Guy Capecelatro III from North for the Winter
“Apparition” – Leland Sundries from The Foundry EP