PRESS PLAY: 9 Albums out April 30th

On what is perhaps the busiest album release day of the year so far, this week’s PRESS PLAY arrives with no further ado. An invigorating reclamation of space for Black women in the world of electronic music, Dawn Richard makes her New Orleans-inspired Merge debut with Second Line: An Electro Revival. Also out on Merge this week, Scottish guitar-pop icons Teenage Fanclub return with Endless Arcade, another warm entry in their decades-long discography. Following a Grammy nomination for her most recent Pistol Annies album, Ashley Monroe returns with her fifth solo release, Rosegold. The latest from (former Philadelphia resident) Carsie Blanton, Love & Rage channels the spirit of protest music for the present moment. Alaskan musician Nicholas Galanin’s debut as Ya Tseen, Indian Yard, is an energetic and guest-packed exploration of Galanin’s Tlingit and Unangax̂ heritage. Returning for their first album since 2012, Bowerbirds present the intricate becalmyounglovers. Announced mere weeks ago, buzzy New York indie rockers Crumb‘s sophomore album Ice Melt is a moody and groove-driven collection. Best known for her long-running collaboration with her brother Angus, Australian singer Julia Stone‘s third solo album, Sixty Summers, features production by St. Vincent. The folks at Daptone Records expand their horizons with the release of LILA, the label debut of Moroccan expats Innov Gnawa. PRESS PLAY on these releases (and many, many more) below…

Dawn Richard – Second Line: An Electro Revival
WE LOVE: “Jacuzzi” “Bussifame” “Mornin | Streetlights”

Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
WE LOVE: “I’m More Inclined” “Home”

Ashley Monroe – Rosegold 
WE LOVE: “Groove” “Drive”

Carsie Blanton – Love & Rage
WE LOVE: “Be Good” “Party at the End of the World”

Ya Tseen – Indian Yard
WE LOVE: “Knives” “Synthetic Gods”

Bowerbirds – becalmyounglovers 
WE LOVE: “Seems Impossible” “The Party”

Crumb – Ice Melt
WE LOVE: “Balloon” “Trophy”

Julia Stone – Sixty Summers
WE LOVE: “We All Have” “Fire in Me”

Innov Gnawa – LILA 
WE LOVE: “El Ghaba” “Chorfa”

Paul Jacobs – Pink Dogs on the Green Grass
WE LOVE: “Half Rich Loner” “Underneath the Roses”

EXTENDED PLAYS (even more things out this week):
Guided By Voices – Earth Man Blues, Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme, Luwten – Draft, Angel Bat Dawid, Hanne De Backer, and Signe Emmeluth – Angel Bat Dawid, Hanne De Backer, and Signe Emmeluth, Tōth – You and Me and Everything, Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial, Beachy Head – Beachy Head, Will Graefe – Marine Life, Birdy – Young Heart, Far Lands – There Be Monsters, Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – She Walks in Beauty, Royal Blood – Typhoons, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Superwolves, Manchester Orchestra – The Millions Masks of God, Glüme – The Internet, New Madrid – New Madrid, Pet Shop Boys – Discovery: Live in Rio 1994, Róisín Murphy – Crooked Machine, Metronomy – The English Riviera (10th Anniversary Edition)