This week's a doozie for new music. Tons of albums out, so many I just couldn't keep up. 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.
Anders & Kendall, Wild Chorus (Nine Mile Records)
Apparat, Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) (Mute)
As They Burn, Will, Love, Life (Victory)
Atlas Genius, When It Was Now (Warner Bros.)
Beach Fossils, Clash The Truth (Captured Tracks)
bentcousin, Everybody's Gone One (Team Love Records)
Big Wreck, Albatross (Zoe/Rounder)
Buckcherry, Confessions (Century Media)
Camp Fires, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (Fire Talk)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away (Anti-)
Deep-voiced gothic/post-punk Aussie rocker Cave delivers his 15th album with the Bad Seeds; according to Cave, its songs illustrating how the internet has influenced "significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities" and "question how we might recognize and assign weight to what's genuinely important." Video for the album's first track, "We No Who U R," after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases …
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2013.