April kicks off with a hunge amount of new music. 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 Hawk and a Hacksaw, You Have Already Gone to the Other World: Music Inspired By Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (LM Duplication)
Alex Metric, Ammunition Pt. 3 EP (Owsla)
Alkaline Trio, My Shame Is True (Epitaph)
Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Summer Sleeves EP (Self-Release)
Ólafur Arnalds, For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)
Authority Zero, The Tipping Point (Hardline Entertainment)
Album number five from the Mesa, Arizona punk-ska rock outfit, and first sans bassist Jeremy Wood; Mike Spero has been tapped to take his place on the road for the time being. Check out the video preview below.
Barren Girls, Hell Hymns EP (Merge)
The Besnard Lakes, Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Outside/Jagjaguwar)
The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon)
Bleached, Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
Bombino, Nomad (Nonesuch)
Bonobo, The North Borders (Ninja Tune)
The UK DJ, producer and instrumentalist presents his thematic fifth full-length and follow-up to 2010's Black Sands. Video for "Cirrus" after the jump along with the rest of this week's new entries.
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.