New Music Monday (Vol. 321)
New releases from A Place For Owls, Youth League, SOHN, The Callous Daoboys, plus singles from The Wonder Years, Compltr, Architects, Arctic Monkeys, Bearclaw Camp, Polyphia, & more
Bandcamp Friday
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Albums of the Week
A Place For Owls - A Place For Owls
A Place For Owls create the kind of midwestern-tinged emo indie that feels familiar enough to reel you in and creative enough to keep you there. With hints of Get Up Kids, Elder Brother, and more, the Denver band’s self-titled debut shows off a band seasoned beyond their years.
A Place For Owls is out now
Youth League - Somehow Those Were Days
North Carolina trio, Youth League, have dropped their new album — an energetic and math-y collection tapped guitar riffs, pent-up punk aggression, and a fierce rhythm section that will sink its hooks into you from the opening notes. Fans of bands like Minus The Bear, Damiera, and Delta Sleep will not be disappointed.
Somehow Those Were Days is out now on Wiretap Records
SOHN - Trust
After a half-decade of silence, SOHN — English singer / songwriter / record producer Christopher Michael Taylor — has returned with his fourth studio album, Trust. It evolves on the sound he’s carved out, soulful vocals atop intimate songwriting expanded with electronic elements.
Trust is out now on 4AD
The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
If you’re a fan of chaos, pure musical entropy, the new Callous Daoboys album is for you. Their one-of-a-kind brand of frenetic math-/metal-/hardcore is a musical free-for-all and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
Celebrity Therapist is out now on MNRK Heavy / Modern Static
Singles Spotlight
The Wonder Years - “Old Friends Like Lost Teeth”
Not sure what else I can say about the new Wonder Years at this point… every single has been better than the last, and I’m wildly excited to hear it in full in a few weeks!
The Hum Goes on Forever is out 9/23 on Loneliest Place On Earth / Hopeless Records
Compltr - “There We’ll Be”
Compltr — the latest project from Jeff Wright (Unconditional Arms, The American Scene) — released the lead single off their upcoming debut LP. It’s a stark and vulnerable alt-rock track that builds and bursts in all the right places.
You Won’t Get A Gold Medal is out 10/7
Architects - “deep fake”
Another day, another banger from the UK metalcore heroes.
the classic symptoms of a broken spirit is out 10/21 via Epitaph
Arctic Monkeys - “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball”
British rock kings, Arctic Monkeys, broke their silence with a new single announcing their latest album, The Car. “Mirrorball” is a swimming and cinematic track, equipped with a hypnotic string motif supporting Alex Turner’s signature croon.
The Car is out 10/21 on Domino Recording Co.
Bearclaw Camp - “Bunker”
South Australia’s Bearclaw Camp return with their stellar new single, “Bunker”, and it’s a slice of picture-perfect, energetic pop-punk.
Top Picks
Cataldo - Dumber (EP)
New Albums
8 Graves - Phantoms (EP)
New Songs
Listen to these tracks (and more) in this playlist, which will be updated weekly.
The 1975 - I'm In Love With You
Adam Garrett - Make It Easy
Alex Lahey - Congratulations
Amarionette - Criminal
Amos Lee - Game Show
Angel Number - Long May I Reign
Architects - deep fake
Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball
Arkells - Teenage Tears (feat. Tegan & Sara)
AXTY - Roses For You
Baby Got Back Talk - Season Premiere
Bearclaw Camp - Bunker
Boston Manor - Inertia
Cemetery Sun - Metamorphosis
Chet Faker - It Could Be Nice
Compltr - There We'll Be
Crywolf - D D D N N N A A A [the most fun a boy can have without ripping his skin off]
DE'WAYNE - TAKE THIS CROWN (feat. Good Charlotte)
Dosser - Joy Thief
Editors - Vibe
Enumclaw - Park Lodge
Fantasy Camp - blood moon
FLETCHER - Sting
flor - Every Night
Gorillaz - New Gold (feat. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown)
Hippie Trim - Steady Dreaming
John-Allison Weiss - Different Now
Knifeplay - Promise
Living In Fiction - Pieces of Me
Low Island - Kid Gloves
Mallbangs - New Face
MILLY - Marcy
Nerv - Blue
New Pagans - Better People
Outline In Color - Bitter
Pierce The Veil - Pass The Nirvana
Polyphia - ABC (feat. Sophia Black)
Quicksand - Giving The Past Away
Quiet Hounds - Clumsy
Rayland Baxter - If I Were A Butterfly
Richard Edwards - Ketamine
Rocky Votolato - Becoming Human
Seven Lions - Call On Me (feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic)
Shannen Moser - Ben
Shutups - Televised Hit & Run
Stepson - Eraser
Sunsleeper - Quitter
The Tisburys - Language Of Luxury
Titus Andronicus - An Anomaly
Vundabar - Shadow Boxing
Weezer - Records (feat. Noga Erez)
Weird Nightmare - I Think You Know
Winona Forever - Butterflies
The Wonder Years - Old Friends Like Lost Teeth
Young Jesus - Rose Eater