It's a blockbuster week for new albums and the singles from those albums. Anticipated record releases from The Raveonettes, The xx, St. Vincent & David Byrne are some of the highlights of this week's new releases. There are also new albums by Thee Oh Sees, Turbo Fruits, Seapony, Calexico, Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter (Universal) O que um carpinteiro faz (além aparecer em várias histórias)? Ele pega a rusticidade da madeira e talha, esculpe, modela, e com um toque de verniz, arredonda as pontas, retira as farpas e faz da madeira um produto final, domado. Nesse caso, o carpinteiro dos irmãos Avett é definitivamente o produtor lendário Rick Rubin , que fez de The Carpenter o álbum mais suave, confortável e acessível do grupo de "indie-bluegrass". Mas essa aparência domada não é um ponto negativo em si, [...]

Here's what's on our radar from this week's list of new releases; Neil Halstead; Palindrome Hunches Neil Halstead; Digging Shelters Hello Echo; Coffee Cups Hello Echo; Country Helvetia; Nothing In Rambling Helvetia; RyBro The Raveonettes; Observator The Raveonettes; She [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including new stuff from The Raveonettes , Seapony , The Vaccines , David Byrne and St. Vincent , and the highly anticipated sophomore effort from The xx . As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy [...]

It's a mind-blowing list of new releases on perhaps the biggest release date of the year, so let's get started. You're going to need all the time you can get to pick these up. First up, the long-awaited second album by The xx is potentially KEXP listeners' album of the year. While it's but one of a number of hotly anticipated this year - others come from Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear - The xx strip down their sound to a sultry murmur, like a whisper in your ear. Oliver Sims and Romy Madley-Croft never sounded [...]

T-minus 28 days, 4 weeks, 1 lunar cycle to Seapony's new LP Go With Me 's release on Hardly Art. We can hardly wait! "Blue Star" sounds a bit like what The Raveonettes might have sounded like had they broke in 2011 instead of 2003, loud hazy overdriven guitar layers, vapor-like male v. female vocals, a pulsing slomo 1-2 rhythm. Yeah, kinda like that! Seapony - Blue Star Seapony: ( Myspace ) ( Bandcamp ) ( Facebook ) Rating: 8.0