Shovels & Rope - By Blood (Dualtone)

Throughout their career, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have constantly been touring, and all the while they've made music wherever they can, and recently they've taken on two giant new challenges; raising a (growing) family, and helming a successful music festival, Charleston's High Water Festival. Their new album By Blood is a gritty, powerful look into their lives and the world around them, with tender songs commenting on their relationship, and human stories weaving throughout.

Diane Coffee - Internet Arms (Polyvinyl)

Internet Arms, Shaun Fleming's third full-length album as Diane Coffee, came to fruition in 2018 after he performed as King Herod in the Lyric Opera's critically-acclaimed run of Jesus Christ Superstar. Born from the fear and uncertainty of a future in which humankind is both dependent on and poisoned by technology, the album finds Diane Coffee trapped in a digital world, enslaved by AI.

Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation (Western Vinyl)

Invitation is about rediscovering the everyday magic and healing potential found in nature. It's also about recognizing that even though it's not easy, we can shift our perspectives on our lives when our circumstances seem bleak. Ultimately it's about accepting the myriad little invitations the universe sends us to keep moving forward, and in so doing, redefining one's self-perception, in order to establish a new sense of equilibrium and inner peace. HWB's last album Glider was called "ethereal and perfect" by NPR, "exquisitely beautiful" by Mojo, and "Stunning" by The Sunday Times.

Cage The Elephant - Social Cues (RCA)

Social Cues was produced by John Hill (Santigold, Florence + The Machine, Portugal. The Man, tUnE-yArDs), recorded at Battle Tapes Recording, Blackbird Studio and Sound Emporium in Nashville and The Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst and mastered by Randy Merrill in New York City. This latest release features the new singles Ready to Let Go, House of Glass and the track Night Running featuring Beck.

Drugdealer - Raw Honey (Mexican Summer)

On Raw Honey, his second album as Drugdealer, Michael Collins grapples with some of the largest, most everyday existential conundrums of our time: In a world where everything seems like it's been done before, what's the point of creating? If everything is referential, or derivative, can anything be original? Is originality, or authenticity even possible in our networked matrix?

Wand - Laughing Matter (Drag City)

The new Wand album is a generous double-album, a record of love and terror experienced in epic doses. 'Laughing Matter' is part fuzzy parable, travel diary, pep talk and lullaby, with Wand going as far they can, from concise guitar rock to multifarious, eclectic pastiche, rich with disruption and ascendant choruses. Wand form new music from the ashes of a world that can no longer suffer its human abusers, to inspire us to hold the spirit close and do whats next.

Also New This Week

Herbie Hancock - LP reissues (Antarctica Starts Here)
Jade Bird - s/t (Glassnote)
Angelique Kidjo - Celia (Verve)
Lady Lamb - Even in the Tremor (Ba Da Bing)
Wynton Marsalis - Bolden OST (Blue Engine)
Maze - s/t LP (Lumpy)
Merry Airbrakes (Watermelon Slim) - s/t (Scissor Tail)
Thee Oh Sees - Cool Death Of Island Raiders [LP reissue] (Castle Face)
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation (Profound Lore)
The Resonars - No Exit (Trouble in Mind)
Scientists - 9H2O.SiO2 (In The Red)
Sonny And The Sunsets - Hairdressers From Heaven (Rocks In Your Head)
The World - Reddish LP (Lumpy)
The Yawpers - Human Question (Bloodshot)