It's one of those weeks that sees artists dropping new albums on both Monday and Tuesday, confusing the normal system entirely. I've included info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
A Life Once Lost, Ecstatic Trance (Season of Mist)
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Lost Songs (Superball)
Autumn Owls, Between Buildings, Toward the Sea (Epitonic)
Anita Baker, Only Forever (Blue Note)
Paul Banks, Banks (Matador)
The deep-singing frontman, lyricist and guitarist of Interpol presents a solo outing, his second.
Bat For Lashes, The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Bat For Lashes — aka Natasha Khan, the British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist — finally issues her much-anticipated third album. Listen to "Laura" below.
Matt Bauer, No Shape Can Hold Me Now (Crossbill Records)
Being As An Ocean, Dear G-d… (Invogue)
Tony Bennett, Viva Duets (Columbia Records)
Black Moth Super Rainbow, Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
A period of BMSR inactivity followed the release of 2009's Eating Us while visionary songwriter Tobacco did his solo thing. He finally returns with his fizzy experimental-psych rock outfit to present Cobra Juicy, a sort of R&B roller disco electro fizz pop album marked by dreamy-sighing vocoder-lite vocals, '80s skating rink grooves, and scattered doses of familiar synth fuzz and bit-damaged texture. Listen to "Windshield Smasher" after the jump and check out the rest of this week's releases, with more media included…
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.