This is your weekly source of info on the anticipated album
releases of the week and where you can stream each in its entirety!
POP: Fanfarlo
released their debut album, Reservoir,
three years ago, and this week they finally return to the scene with their
second LP, Rooms Filled with Light. This time around, Fanfarlo seems to
have dropped the softer, folkier elements of their previous sound, and instead
have amped up the orchestral crescendos, heavy brass melodies, and mysterious
synths. Rooms Filled with Light boasts a bigger, more complex sound than
we’ve heard from Fanfarlo, and while it isn’t as immediately accessible as Reservoir, when given a little time it
proves itself to be a stronger and more satisfying listen. 
FOLK: Middlebury
College alum Anaïs Mitchell releases her fourth full-length album, Young
Man in America, today on her brand new independent label, Wilderland
Records. Mitchell has always been known for her musical storytelling and this
is no less true on her new album, whose title character she describes as “a
restless character on a feverish hunt for pleasure and success.” Unlike her previous albums, Young Man in America features two
percussionists, who add the heaviness necessary to create Mitchell’s
part-modern, part-mythical world.
Because this album is not as concept oriented as her last release, the
epic folk-opera Hadestown, each song
on Young Man in America seems more
individually accessible, while still cohering beautifully into an album worthy of listening to from start to finish.
ELECTRONIC: Mouse
on Mars is known as perhaps one of the most prolific bands in electronic music. I don’t think I can even try to explain
them better than they did on their own website so, for fear of failing, here is
how they describe themselves (in the third person): “Mouse on Mars is one of
the few electronic bands to stand the test of time. Constantly reinventing
themselves, they have taken electronica to new heights with a unique blend of
sound annihilation, fragmented melodies and an impassioned hatred of
conformity. For nearly two deacades, Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have sweated
over burning consoles to create a new musical language, only to twist it again
into thousands of myriad distortions.”
Now, after an uncharacteristic six-year break, Mouse on Mars is
releasing their 10th LP, Parastrophic. The album is 46 minutes of pulsating
synths, looping vocals, and heavy, but not overpowering bass all brought
together and presented seamlessly such that you barely have time to process
what you are hearing.
Stream a few more of
this week’s best new releases here:
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