New music being released this week includes AFI, Foxygen, and Kid Koala. Watch for them on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play on Friday, January 20th.
A new week means new music! The year is off to kind of a slow start but we’ve got a few great albums coming out this Friday.
AFI, AFI (The Blood Album)
AFI’s new self-titled album, also called The Blood Album, marks somewhat of a comeback for the alt-rock group. Like a few other bands that hit it big in the early 00s, AFI seems to be banking on the nostalgia factor with hopes of attracting the former emo kids who are now in their late 20s and have more buying power. AFI’s scene-kid fans have matured and so have they as you’ll hear on The Blood Album, the band’s tenth studio album. For those who enjoy collecting vinyl albums, you’ll have four color variants to choose from, one for each blood type — A, O, B, and AB. AFI has been dropping hints about the new album for a few months now, including the release of two singles from the album, “Snow Cats” and “White Offerings.” This will be AFI’s first album since their 2013 release, Burials.
Track listing
1. “Dark Snow”
2. “Still a Stranger”
3. “Aurelia”
4. “Hidden Knives”
5. “Get Hurt”
6. “Above the Bridge”
7. “So Beneath You”
8. “Snow Cats”
9. “Dumb Kids”
10. “Pink Eyes”
11. “Feed from the Floor”
12. “White Offerings”
13. “She Speaks the Language”
14. “The Wind That Carries Me Away”
Foxygen, Hang
The quirky, psychedelic, indie-rock duo known as Foxygen will release their third album under the Jagjaguwar label, titled Hang . The album features appearances by Steven Drozd from The Flaming Lips and Brian and Michael D’Addorio from the Lemon Twigs. Each track on the album also features 40+ piece symphony orchestra. How ambitious! The result is a very Bowie-esque audio treat that’s fun to listen to.
Track listing:
1. Follow the Leader
2. Avalon
3. Mrs. Adams
4. America
5. On Lankershim
6. Upon a Hill
7. Trauma
8. Rise Up
Kid Koala, Music to Draw To: Satellite
The Canadian DJ known as Kid Koala — real name: Eric San — will release his fifth studio album, Music to Draw To: Satellite this Friday. The album features vocals by Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini. San describes it as “an emotional work of expansive instrumental soundscapes and chilling vocal ballads” that “tells a heartrending tale of discovery and loss through the lens of lovers separated by a one-way space mission to Mars”. If you’re always on the lookout for something to listen to while studying or just relaxing, add Kid Koala’s new album to your “to buy” list.
Track listing
1. The Observable Universe
2. Adrift (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
3. Transmission 1
4. Fallaway (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
5. Perihelion
6. Photons
7. Beneath The Heat (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
8. Novachord
9. Transmission 2
10. Collapser (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
11. Transmission 3
12. The Hubble Constant
13. Satellite (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
14. Apoapsis
15. Nightfall
16. The Darkest Day (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
17. Epilogue
18. Nightfall Pale Blue (ft. Emilíana Torrini)
Joan of Arc, He’s Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands
Unlike some of their previous albums, Joan of Arc’s new album features a fairly normal number of tracks. He’s Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands will be the first album from the Chicago-based indie rock group in five years. The lineup includes Tim Kinsella, Bobby Burg, Theo Katsaounis, Melina Ausikaitis, and Jeremy Boyle. When describing how the album came about, Kinsella says “We hit Record and played, and our collective tastes emerged.”
Track listing
1. Smooshed That Cocoon
2.This Must Be The Placenta
3. Stranged That Egg Yolk
4. Full Moon and Rainbo Repair
5. Cha Cha Cha Chakra
6. Grange Hex Stream
7. Two-Toothed Troll
8. New Wave Hippies
9. Never Wintersbone You
10. F is for Fake
11. Ta-ta Terrordome
Austra, Future Politics
If electronic synth-pop is your thing, you’ll want to check out Austra’s newest album, Future Politics. Katie Stelmanis, the Canadian artist who founded Austra in 2009, paints a bleak picture in a few of the album’s songs. The title track, however, spreads Austra’s message of hope. The video for “Future Politics” starts out with a caption that reads, in part, “a world can be created only if we can imagine it.” Austra also attempts to find the silver lining with songs like “Utopia” and “We Were Alive”. Future Politics is the band’s third album.
1. We Were Alive
2. Future Politics
3. Utopia
4. I’m A Monster
5. I Love You More Than You Love Yourself
6. Angel In Your Eye
7. Freepower
8. Gaia
9. Beyond A Mortal
10. Deep Thought
11. 43
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Come back next Tuesday to see what albums we have to look forward to next week.