Music Monday (4/27): 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, April 28 unless otherwise indicated.

Blur
. The Magic Whip

After flirting with reunions (including performances and a few new songs) over the past six years, the veteran Britpop band surprised fans this spring by announcing that they had completed work on a new album. Recorded in a Hong Kong studio in just five days but then fine-tuned over the course of the past year, The Magic Whip is Blur's first studio LP since 2003's Think Tank and their first album with guitarist Graham Coxon since 1999's 13. And even if Blur had released a few albums over the past decade, The Magic Whip would probably be the group's best album in years anyway; critics mostly love it so far.

Zac Brown Band
. Jekyll + Hyde

The first album in three years for the country rockers is their first released in conjunction with a new record label run by fashion designer John Varvatos. Guests on the 16-track set—which leans more heavily on the rock side of country-rock—include Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Sara Bareilles.

Raekwon
. Fly International Luxurious Art

The Wu-Tang member's sixth solo album and first since 2011's Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, FILA features collaborations with A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, Estelle, Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah, French Montana, and Busta Rhymes.

Additional releases

10,000 Maniacs Twice Told Tales
ADVAETA Death and the Internet LISTEN (CoS)
Ambrosia Parsley Weeping Cherry
Craig Armstrong Far From the Madding Crowd OST
Bell Witch Four Phantoms
Bent Denim Romances You LISTEN (Stereogum)
Braids . Deep in the Iris LISTEN (NPR)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre Musique De Film Imaginé
Brown Bird Axis Mundi LISTEN (NPR)
Nick Catchdubs Smoke Machine
Debut album for the Fool's Gold label co-founder features appearances by Heems, IAMSU!, and more
Cat's Eyes The Duke of Burgundy OST
Olivia Chaney The Longest River
Eric Clapton Forever Man 3xCD
Greatest hits compilation
Clear Soul Forces Fab Five
Sam Cohen Cool It
Jesse Cook One World
Paul de Jong IF LISTEN (NPR)
Solo debut for former member of The Books
Eaves What Green Feels Like
Everclear Black Is the New Black
Tyler Farr Suffer in Peace
Fauna Shade Baton Rouge
Bill Fay Who Is the Sender? LISTEN (NPR)
George FitzGerald Fading Love
Delia Gonzalez In Remembrance
Josh Groban Stages
Insane Clown Posse The Marvelous Missing Link (Lost)
The Japanese House Pools To Bathe In EP
Joakim Each Other EP
JSoul The Purple Symphony
The Leisure Society . The Fine Art of Hanging On
Heather Maloney Making Me Break LISTEN (CoS)
Mew . +- LISTEN (NPR)
MG . MG
All-instrumental solo album for Depeche Mode's Martin Gore
Millencolin True Brew
Mittenfields Optimists
Monolord Vænir
Elliot Moss Highspeeds LISTEN (Stereogum)
Nai Harvest . Hairball LISTEN (Stereogum)
Charlie Parr Stumpjumper
Prefuse 73 Forsyth Gardens EP
First of three planned 2015 releases for Prefuse 73 (to be followed by an album and a 2nd EP)
Jon Regen Stop Time
Roomful of Teeth and Wally Gunn Render LISTEN (NY Times)
Samo Sound Boy Begging Please LISTEN (Stereogum)
Jackson Scott . Sunshine Redux LISTEN (NPR)
Split Single Live EP
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufield . Never Were the Way She Was LISTEN (CoS)
Timeshares Already Dead
Turn To Crime Actions
Tyler, the Creator . Cherry Bomb
CD release
Various A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night OST
The Weepies Sirens
The Young Novelists Made Us Strangers
Young Zee Musical Meltdown
Hans Zimmer Chappie OST

Stream upcoming albums and new tracks

Mariah Carey
TRACK "Infinity" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
The Chemical Brothers
TRACK "Sometimes I Feel So Deserted" streaming at YouTube.
Kurt Cobain
TRACK "And I Love Her" (unreleased Beatles cover) streaming at YouTube.
De La Soul
TRACK "God It" (feat. Nas) streaming at SoundCloud.
Django Django
TRACK "Beginning to Fade" streaming at YouTube.
Elbow
TRACK "What Time Do You Call This?" streaming at YouTube.
Eternal Summers
TRACK "Gold and Stone" streaming at SoundCloud.
FFS [Franz Ferdinand + Sparks]
TRACK "Collaborations Don’t Work" streaming at YouTube.
Jacco Gardner
ALBUM Hypnophobia (out 5/5) streaming at Hype Machine.
Hot Chip
TRACK "Burning Up" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
Lianne La Havas
TRACK "Unstoppable" streaming at SoundCloud.
Mac McCaughan
ALBUM Non-Believers streaming until its 5/4 release at NPR.
METZ
ALBUM II streaming until its 5/4 release at NPR.
Other Lives
ALBUM Rituals (out 5/4) streaming at CoS.
Refused
TRACK "Elektra" streaming at YouTube.
Rihanna
TRACK "James Joint" streaming at the official artist site.
Sweet Spirit & Britt Daniel
TRACK "Have Mercy" streaming at SoundCloud.
The Tallest Man on Earth
ALBUM A Dark Bird Is Home streaming until its 5/12 release at NPR.
Teenage Time Killers [new Dave Grohl project]
TRACK "Hung Out To Dry" streaming at YouTube.
Thee Oh Sees
TRACK "The Ceiling" streaming at SoundCloud.
TRACK "Withered Hand" streaming at SoundCloud.
Torres
TRACK "Cowboy Guilt" streaming at SoundCloud.
ALBUM Sprinter streaming until its 5/4 release at NPR.
Violent Femmes
ALBUM Happy New Year EP streaming at CoS.
Watkins Family Hour
TRACK "Steal Your Heart Away" streaming at SoundCloud.

On TV this week (new episodes only)

  • Monday: Zac Brown Band (Fallon), Marina and the Diamonds (Conan), John Mellencamp (Letterman), Stromae (Kimmel), The Ting Tings (Corden), The Wombats (Meyers)

  • Tuesday: Future Islands (Letterman), Tori Kelly (Fallon), The Lone Bellow (Conan), Tim McGraw (Kimmel)

  • Wednesday: Josh Groban (Fallon), Kodaline (Corden), Modest Mouse (Kimmel), Shakey Graves (Meyers)

  • Thursday: Blur (Fallon), Hootie and the Blowfish (Letterman), Manic Street Preachers (Corden), Yelawolf feat. Travis Barker (Kimmel)

  • Friday: My Morning Jacket (Fallon)

  • Saturday: San Fermin (CBS This Morning Saturday Sessions), Wiz Khalifa (Saturday Night Live)

The latest music videos

Violent Femmes, "Love Love Love Love Love":

Mac McCaughan, "Wet Leaves":

Against Me!, "Two Coffins":

Calexico, "Falling From the Sky":

Iron & Wine, "Everyone's Summer of '95":

Sia, "Fire Meet Gasoline" [starring Heidi Klum]:

Jamie xx, "Gosh":

Killer Mike, "Ric Flair":

Freddie Gibbs, "Pronto":

Brandon Flowers, "Lonely Town":

Palma Violets, "English Tongue":

Tennis, "Mean Streets":

Speedy Ortiz, "The Graduates":

In the studio / coming soon

  • The Chemical Brothers return July 17th with Born in the Echoes, their first studio album since 2010. Guests include St. Vincent, Beck, Q-Tip, and Cate Le Bon.

  • Billboard reports that The Replacements have recently recorded "seven or eight" new songs, with recording to resume after the band's current tour.

  • HEALTH will release Death Magic on August 7th. It's their first studio album since 2009. - Pitchfork

  • Sweden's Refused have recorded their first album since 1998. Freedom hits stores on June 30th via Epitaph. - Pitchfork

  • Teenage Time Killers is a new "supergroup" consisting of Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), and Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio). Their debut, Greatest Hits Vol. 1, drops July 31st.

  • Mac DeMarco will release an eight-song mini-album titled Another One on August 7th via Captured Tracks. - Rolling Stone

  • The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach has recorded an "extra weird" solo album under the name the Arcs. No word yet on a release date, though a single will drop May 2nd. - Rolling Stone

  • A new DIIV album, Is The Is Are, is expected to arrive this fall.

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

Tours and festivals

  • Charli XCX is touring with Bleachers this summer. - Billboard

  • D'Angelo's summer tour begins in June. - Pitchfork

  • The Grateful Dead may tour this fall with John Mayer, even though their upcoming Bay Area and Chicago shows were billed as the band's last-ever performances. - Billboard

  • Smashing Pumpkins will launch their first-ever acoustic tour in June. - Rolling Stone

  • Social Distortion will perform their eponymous 1990 album in its entirety on a summer tour. - Pollstar