Music Monday (2/2): This Week's New Albums + Videos

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This week's new album releases

Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, February 3 unless otherwise indicated.

Bob Dylan
. Shadows in the Night

Dylan's first studio album since 2012's Tempest (and 36th overall) is composed entirely of Frank Sinatra covers. Shadows in the Night finds the singer backed by a 5-piece band (rather than the larger orchestra typically accompanying Sinatra) on 10 tracks that include "I'm a Fool to Want You," "Autumn Leaves," and "That Lucky Old Sun."

Mount Eerie
Sauna

Recorded over a 15-month period, Phil Elverum's latest Mount Eerie release follows a pair of studio albums (Ocean Roar and Clear Moon) in 2012, and a re-recording of some of those tracks (Pre-Human Ideas) the following year. Note that the 12-song Sauna will bypass a CD release in favor of vinyl and digital formats.

Additional releases

All We Are . All We Are LISTEN (Noisey)
Ólafur Arnalds Broadchurch OST
Asaf Avidan Gold Shadow LISTEN (NPR)
Big Noble First Light
Debut for the duo of Interpol's Daniel Kessler and sound designer Joseph Fraioli
Blind Guardian Beyond The Red Mirror
Breakfast In Fur Flyaway Garden
John Carpenter . Lost Themes LISTEN (NPR)
First official solo album from the veteran film director and composer consists of new recordings that serve as themes to imaginary films
Chip Z'Nuff Strange Time
The Church Further/Deeper
Cornershop Hold On It’s Easy
Orchestral remake of the band's debut album Hold On It Hurts
Tinsley Ellis Tough Love
Fifth Harmony Reflection
Freak Heat Waves Bonnie's State of Mind
Hiss Golden Messenger Southern Grammar EP
Kid Ink Full Speed
Kind of Like Spitting/Warren Franklin & the Founding Fathers It’s Always Nice to See You LISTEN (CoS)
Split LP
Diana Krall . Wallflower
Michna Thousand Thursday LISTEN (Billboard)
Murder by Death . Big Dark Love
Nite Fields Depersonalisation LISTEN (Stereogum)
Open Mike Eagle A Special Episode Of EP
Ricked Wicky I Sell The Circus
The latest band from Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) makes its debut with this 15-song album
LeAnn Rimes All-Time Greatest Hits
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee
Andy Shauf The Bearer of Bad News
The Staves If I Was
Sun Hotel Rational Expectations
John Tejada Signs Under Test
Title Fight Hyperview LISTEN (NPR)
Two Gallants . We Are Undone LISTEN (NY Times)
Various Now 53: That's What I Call Music
Various Now That's What I Call Movies
Victor Villarreal Sleep Talk
Butch Walker . Afraid of Ghosts LISTEN (Billboard)
Bob Mould and Johnny Depp guest, and Ryan Adams produces

Stream upcoming albums and new tracks

The Amazing
TRACK "Safe Island" streaming at SoundCloud.
Angel Haze
TRACK "Candlxs" streaming at SoundCloud.
Big Sean
TRACK "Blessings" (feat. Drake) streaming at YouTube.
Calexico
TRACK "Cumbia de Donde" streaming at Stereogum.
Cannibal Ox
TRACK "Iron Rose" (feat. MF Doom) streaming at SoundCloud.
The Cribs
TRACK "Burning for No One" streaming at YouTube.
The Districts
ALBUM A Flourish And A Spoil streaming until its 2/10 release at NPR.
Rhiannon Giddens
ALBUM Tomorrow Is My Turn streaming until its 2/10 release at NPR.
Colleen Green
TRACK "TV" streaming at SoundCloud.
Hayden
TRACK "Nowhere We Cannot Go" streaming at SoundCloud.
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
TRACK "Spat Out Spit" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
Lower Dens
TRACK "To Die in L.A." streaming at YouTube.
JD McPherson
ALBUM Let the Good Times Roll streaming until its 2/10 release at NPR.
Paperhaus
ALBUM Paperhaus streaming until its 2/10 release at NPR.
Pile
TRACK "Mr. Fish" streaming at NPR.
The Prodigy
TRACK "The Day Is My Enemy" streaming at YouTube.
Quarterbacks
ALBUM Quarterbacks streaming until its 2/10 release at NPR.
Sia
TRACK "Salted Wound" (from the Fifty Shades of Grey OST) streaming at YouTube.
Torche
TRACK "Loose Men" streaming at Rolling Stone.
The Twilight Sad
TRACK "The Airport" (new non-album B-side) streaming at SoundCloud.
The Very Best
TRACK "Let Go" streaming at Pitchfork.
Matthew E. White
TRACK "Tranquility" streaming at SoundCloud.

On TV this week (new episodes only)

  • Monday: Alt-J (Carson Daly), Kid Ink feat. Elle Varner (Meyers), Sharon Jones (Letterman), Seinabo Sey (Conan), Gwen Stefani (Fallon), Weezer+ZZ Top (Kimmel)

  • Tuesday: The Budos Band (Carson Daly), Charli XCX (Kimmel), Diana Krall (Letterman), Neil Young (Fallon)

  • Wednesday: Dierks Bentley (Letterman), Jeff Bridges (Kimmel), Cage the Elephant (Conan), J Mascis (Meyers), The Re-Licked Project (Carson Daly)

  • Thursday: King Tuff (Carson Daly), Bettye Lavette (Letterman), Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators (Conan), Bob Weir (Late Late Show), Jack White (Fallon)

  • Friday: Bob Mould (Letterman), Ed Sheeran (Late Late Show)

  • Saturday: Foo Fighters (Austin City Limits)

Recent artist and industry news

  • Suge Knight was arrested on murder charges last week following a fatal hit-and-run accident. - Billboard

  • Southern California band Avi Buffalo have called it quits. - Stereogum

  • Billboard has a small update (and a follow-up) on the recent turmoil within Blink-182.

  • Has Aphex Twin been posting dozens of unreleased tracks to SoundCloud? - Pitchfork

The latest music videos

Kanye West feat. Paul McCartney, "Only One" [directed by Spike Jonze]:

Run the Jewels, "Lie, Cheat, Steal":

Will Butler, "Anna":

Courtney Barnett, "Pedestrian at Best":

Zola Jesus, "Hunger":

Giorgio Moroder feat. Kylie Minogue, "Right Here, Right Now":

Múm, "Slow Down":

Deerhoof, "Black Pitch":

Mew, "Satellites":

Purity Ring, "Push Pull":

In the studio / coming soon

  • Brian Wilson's next album has been titled No Pier Pressure, and it hits stores on April 7th. The guest roster includes She & Him, Kacey Musgraves, and members of the Beach Boys (though not Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey, who had recorded material for the album). - Rolling Stone

  • Artist Jamie Hewlett has confirmed that Gorillaz will return in the future, something that band leader Damon Albarn also suggested last year. - Billboard

  • Passion Pit's new album has been titled Kindred, and it will be out sometime in April. Watch the new album trailer.

  • Courtney Barnett's debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit will be out on March 24 via Mom + Pop.

  • A new Lower Dens album, Escape From Evil, arrives March 31st.

  • Big Sean has set a February 24 date for his third studio album, Dark Sky Paradise. Guests include Kanye West, Drake, Ariana Grande, and John Legend. - Billboard

  • Nile Rogers is currently at work on the first Chic album in 25 years, which is scheduled for a June release on Warner Bros.

  • Calexico's new studio album, Edge of the Sun, arrives on April 14th. Guests include Neko Case, Sam Beam, and Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses).

  • Conor Oberst's Desaparecidos project are expected to release their first LP in over a dozen years later this year. - Stereogum

  • Kelly Clarkson's Piece by Piece, her first album since 2011, will be out on March 3rd.

Visit Metacritic's Album Release Calendar for a full listing of upcoming release dates, updated daily.

Tours and festivals

  • Faith No More will tour this spring in support of their upcoming comeback album. - Pitchfork

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain will perform their 30-year-old classic Psychocandy in full on an upcoming tour. - CoS

  • Mark Knopfler's North American tour launches in September. - Pollstar

  • L7 have reunited for their first live dates in 15 years. So far, only 2 stops have been announced, but more will follow. - CoS

  • Liturgy will tour in April. - Pitchfork

  • Primal Scream have added North American dates in May. - Pollstar

  • Purity Ring's world tour runs from April through June. - CoS

  • Toro y Moi tours North America this spring. - Pitchfork