This week, the long-awaited – eight years as a matter of fact – new album, Random Access Memories, from the most famous helmeted musical group on this planet, Daft Punk, saw its official release, and fans from around the world are celebrating its electro-dance pop mastery. In fact, at the time of this posting, Random Access Memories‘ CD version is the No. 1 album on the Amazon CDs chart, and No. 3 for the MP3 version. If you you don’t have a copy of this album, it’s a must-have for your 2013 music collection.
Following right behind, the MP3 version of The National’s new album, Trouble Will Find Me, is No. 2 right now on the Amazon MP3 Albums charts, while the CD version is No. 2 on the CD Album chart, while last week’s No. 1 CD album, Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City is holding it’s own right behind The National at No. 3.
The latest releases from Daft Punk and The National are easily the top two albums out this week, but there are also plenty of terrific singles from a dozen other new albums by Dirty Beaches, Man or Astro-Man, Radiation City, Club 8, The Baptist Generals, Jesse Ruins, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Shannon and the Clams, Majical Cloudz, Attic Lights and the remastered release of The Talking Heads‘ classic 1980’s LP, Speaking in Tongues, while the new MP3 version includes bonus tracks, making it a no brainer purchase for die-hard Talking Heads’ fans. You can read more at the end of this post about the BNMR’s playlist.
“Get Lucky” – Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams from Random Access Memories (CD) from on Daft Life/Columbia
“Sea Of Love” – The National from Trouble Will Find Me (CD) on 4AD
“Love Is The Devil” – Dirty Beaches from Drifters/Love Is the Devil on Zoo
“Defcon 5” – Man or Astro-Man from Defcon 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 on Communicating Vessels/Chunklet
“Dog That Bit You” – The Baptist Generals from Jackleg Devotional to the Heart on Sub Pop
“Laura Is Fading” – Jesse Ruins from A Film on Lefse Records
“Say You Love Me” – Attic Lights from Super De Luxe on Elefant
“Childhood’s End” – Majical Cloudz from Impersonator on Matador Records
“Hollow” – Linda Draper from Edgewise (self-released)
“Zombies” – Radiation City from Animals In The Median on Tender Loving Empire
“Rouse Yourself” – JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound from Howl on Bloodshot Records
“Into A Dream” – Shannon and the Clams from Dreams in the Rat on Hardly Art
“Stop Taking My Time” – Club 8 from Above The City on Labrador Records
The Uses of the Built-in Yahoo Player
The other singles from this week’s top new releases are available for streaming with the built-in player; support your favorite artists and bands by clicking on the album link to quickly and easily make a purchase via Amazon, which offers the best deals of all online music stores. By default, all album links are for the MP3 version of the album, and often, there is a separate link to click to purchase the CD version. Like all the Best New Music Releases playlists on IRC, we like to include a diversity of tracks from the week’s top releases, and where, noted also include DIY releases; however, the majority of DIY releases are usually posted in other playlists besides the weekly BNMR playlists. The great thing about the built-in Yahoo media player is that you can just click the first track and it will automatically play through all the singles, but you still have the ability to go back, pause, go forward, or simply click the play button beside only the singles you want to listen to.
No better way to end this week’s playlist of singles then with a remastered version of The Talking Head’s classic track, “Burning Down The House.”
“Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads from Speaking In Tongues(CD) on Sire Records