The third wave of October music releases. 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.
Trey Anastasio, Traveler (JEMP)
Phish's guitar-slaying frontman is ever-busy playing with his behemoth rock main band, joining the odd symphony to direct and perform orchestral presentations of his compositions, and in the midst of it all, writing plenty of solo material. This is his seventh (proper) studio full-length. Check out a recording studio mash-up below featuring badass dub-and-groove single, "Land of Nod."
Anberlin, Vital (Republic)
Jason Aldean, Night Train (Broken Bow)
Blackbird Blackbird, Boracay Planet EP (Lavish Habits)
Boys Noize, Out Of The Black (Boys Noize Records)
Brandy, Two Eleven (RCA)
Culture Queer, Nightmare Band (self-release)
Current Swell, Long Time Ago (Nettwerk)
Daphni, JIAOLONG (Jiaolong / Hostess / Merge)
Dan Snaith, a.k.a. Caribou, presents an album under his new dance-oriented moniker.
Mac Demarco, 2 (Captured Tracks)
Reviving soft rock one cock-eyed, mildly lackadaisical song at a time is Montreal singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco. This is his sophomore full-length. Listen to single "Ode to Viceroy" after the jump and check out the rest of this week's releases.
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.