The New Releases Thread - new releases to check out (or avoid)

Post new releases that have piqued your attention or raised your ire, any genre, anything to check out or avoid. Shpuld be pretty recent, let's say the last 3 months as a general rule. The goal, as I see it, is to provide pointers for people actively looking for new music, not so much to blather about it. Your context will help - is the artist new to you, or are you a long time fan etc. I'll go first.

I've started listening to new releases with absolutely no preconception or prior knowledge since I subbed to Qobuz. Sometimes it works - I've been listening to Obongjayar: "Some nights I dream of doors" and it has impressed me.

Obonjayar is Nigerian-born living in London, creating a kind of West African infused electric soul kind of sound. If you like Khruangbin and Leon Bridges and Ismael LoDavid Bowie and Eminem are in your collection there's good chance you'll like this.

 

New album from Big Thief. This is the first song on the album. My kiddo asks me why I listen to sad music when this is playing. I don't really see it as sad music but whatever. I dig it.

 

Much of the new music I find myself liking is released by old people. Today's example:



Sources: https://songwhip.com/the-dream-syndicate/ultraviolet-battle-hymns-and-true-confessions

 

The new Florence and the Machine "Dance Fever" is pretty impressive. I especially liked the pro-Ukraine video for "Free":