September gets off to a tremendous start with some hot new 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.
Albert Swarm, Wake (Ceremony)
Animal Collective, Centipede Hz (Domino)
The 10th AC album and follow-up to 2009's widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion is the first to feature all four original band members since 2007 (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin). Described as “a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective's unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world.” Check out the official video for "Today's Supernatural" below.
Azure Ray, As Above So Below (Saddle Creek)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Rattle Them Bones (Savoy Jazz)
Karlie Bruce, Paperback Lover (self-release)
California Wives, Art History (Vagrant)
Cat Power, Sun (Matador)
Six years after her last album of original material, Chan Marshall has returned, moving away from her collaborative forays into Memphis soul and Delta blues and back to indie rocking, writing, playing, recording and producing the entirety of Sun by herself.
Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Hot House Live in Concert (Concord Jazz)
Crypts, Crypts (Sargent House)
Cult Of Youth, Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
David Wax Museum, Knock Knock Get Up (Mark of the Leopard)
David Wax and Suz Slezak are the creative core of David Wax Museum, and together with multi-instrumentalist Greg Glassman, they fuse traditional Mexican folk music with American roots and indie rock into a Mexo-Americana aesthetic with Latin rhythms, infectious melodies, and call-and-response hollering. Video for "Harder Before It Gets easier" after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases.
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.