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Sylvan Esso was Live on KEXP at Home back in September 2020 - check it out: youtu.be

Canadian musician Dan Snaith has said, "the primary impulse on this record was to make something that was generous in the sense that it was for everybody, not just for me locked in a studio by myself." The album features contributions from Jessy Lanza and Owen Pallett. Our Love contains R&B and hip hop influences. Snaith described the lyrics as being more personal compared to previous Caribou releases, saying, "Part of it’s just getting older and being more reflective, thinking, 'What is it that I want to have in my music when I look back on it? What are the things that matter to me?' And they are clichéd things: the love in my life, whether that be my family or my friends."[4] Snaith cited the birth of his daughter as a major reason for the more personal lyrics. bit.ly

The debut full-length from this London DJ/vocalist (aka Blane Muise). Support the artist below: 0800shygirl.bandcamp.com

Brand new music from Nation of Language! "“From The Hill” is a song reflecting on times when friendships fall apart over romantic entanglement, accompanied by the sensation that you’re somehow watching it happen from above with a more zoomed-out perspective. It can feel at times like certain parts of life are a story with which you’re just following along – the characters enter, they play their role, and then they leave. Often it’ll feel sudden and catch you off guard, and other times you’re able to see that it’s the only way things could have played out despite what you may have wanted." -bit.ly

Vocalist Samuel T. Herring explained the song's meaning. "Seasons was an idea to explain the passage of time in a rocky relationship," he said. "It means as the winter falls apart, by the summer we'll feel love again. Then, as the winter comes, it will get rid of those things we're holding onto." --- The song sums up a tumultuous two-and-a-half year relationship. Herring said: "I was trying to get her to change so that she would love me the way I wanted to be loved. And I tried to change too, until I realized that you can't do that. That's just one of those tragedies of love: it's not always going to work out, even if there is something there." -- Watch the official video: www.youtube.com

he band say the ten-year gap [since their last release] was unintentional, but it was the "collective trauma" of the early days of the pandemic, coupled with the fear of never being able to tour again, that pushed them back into the studio. The results are eight tender tracks that see the band stretching their creative limits and scaling down their propensity for bombast. They may no longer rebel by means of beer-drenched live sets or dangerous five-foot falls from the stage, but by creating from inspiration instead of expectation, they’ve managed to stage a revolt of sorts. bit.ly

Check out this stellar performance from Real Estate live on KEXP back in 2017: www.youtube.com

Watch this extraordinary performance by Australian artist in the KEXP studio in 2019: www.youtube.com

Spoon performed this track live in the KEXP studio in 2014. Check out the full session here: youtu.be spoontheband.bandcamp.com www.spoontheband.com

"The new single from Phoenix’s forthcoming album Alpha Zulu marks the first time the French quartet has ever officially featured another singer on one of their songs, but frontman Thomas Mars and Vampire Weekend leader Ezra Koenig sound as if they’ve been trading cryptically charming lyrics for years...." In this interview, the frontmen talk about their friendship and collaboration. Read it and see the official video for "Tonight": bit.ly

New Music from the London-based singer/rapper, artist, illustrator, and sculptor, of Ethiopian and Egyptian-descent, Alewya. "The feeling of being on the precipice of something new but not there yet - it’s uncomfortable. I'm freeing myself up, getting more confident in how lost I feel. With 'Panther In Mode', I was coming from a more poised space. The next phase is more wild. I won't hold back anymore." Video! youtu.be

"Right Now" is from the 2014 'Seeds' album. It was the band's first album since the 2011 death of their bassist, Gerard Smith. NME observed that "grief and anger are channelled into a propulsive energy, driving the quartet's synthetic pop explorations with added garage-rock urgency" and ultimately concluding that the band "have returned from an uncertain period sounding remarkably fresh." web.archive.org

Jungle have two wickedly groovy KEXP in-studios on our website & YouTube channel! Check it out here: bit.ly

Featured on the deluxe re-release of their latest album released earlier this year. The duo shared their thoughts on their latest track in a statement: “Sheringham is a small seaside town and there was barely anyone there at that time of year, it was pretty rainy and cold, but we went for walks and sat by the sea and talked a lot. I think you can really hear the surroundings seeping into the song; it’s one of our most emotionally raw songs, but it felt very cathartic to write because of it. We were both writing about different things, but tying them together in a way which felt like it came together really naturally. We wrote a lot of the songs on Two Ribbons individually after this, so it feels nice to release something that we wrote completely together.” Let’s Eat Grandma played live on KEXP back in 2018 - check out the full performance here: www.youtube.com Let's Eat Grandma are on tour! They'll perform at The Crocodile -- it's an all-ages show on Friday, November 18. Tickets: tinyurl.com They're also scoring the upcoming Netflix series "The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself", due out on October 28 Learn more: tinyurl.com

2014 The War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel recently shared his favorite live tracks with NPR - www.npr.org

Philly singer-songwriter Alex G will be at The Showbox on Sunday, October 16th. -- This single is on his new album, "God Save the Animals," out this Friday, September 23rd. Watch him perform it live on The Tonight Show in July: www.youtube.com

Brand new from The Beths! “I really do believe that love is learned over time,” explains Elizabeth Stokes in a statement. “In the course of knowing a person, you accumulate so much information: their favorite movies, how they take their tea, how to make them laugh, how that makes you feel. And when relationships between people change, or end, all that knowledge doesn’t just disappear. The phrase ‘Expert in a Dying Field’ had been floating around my head for a few years, I was glad to finally capture it when writing this tune.” thebethsnz.bandcamp.com

Check out Warpaint's full performance Live on KEXP here: www.youtube.com

Run the Jewels performed live on KEXP back in 2017 - check out it out here: www.youtube.com

After the Disco is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Broken Bells. It was recorded with the seventeen-piece Angel City String Orchestra and a four-piece choir. www.brokenbells.com

The band has created this single for Noah Baumbach's upcoming Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. "Like LCD hits of yore, 'new body rhumba' is a geometric, cowbell-friendly dance-punk track that looks warily at modern society," and serves as the backdrop for a massive dance number during the film’s closing credits. bit.ly

Blue Note Re:imagined returns in 2022 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note Records vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul, and R&B scene's most hotly-tipped rising stars. South London vocalist Ego Ella May's reimagining of visionary drummer Chico Hamilton's "The Morning Side Of Love," which first appeared on Hamilton's 1975 Blue Note album Peregrinations.

Frontman Dave Bayley told The Quietus the story of the song: "'Gooey' started off as a beat I'd made for a hip hop artist," he said. "I was just going through some beats I had made for someone, choosing which to send off, and I got to this one and listened to it a couple times. At that point it was just the bass line, drums, percussion, and little glock riff. All of a sudden those chords popped into my head and I got the piano out and started tinkering and then the, 'Right, my little Pooh Bear' vocal line popped into my head, and then the rest. I ended up making this eight-minute groove track. Then I showed it to the guys and we took it to the studio where we shaved off a few minutes." bit.ly Enjoy this video for "Gooey": youtu.be

The third full-length album from South London producer, musician, and songwriter George FitzGerald is another sharp set of immersive, elegant, exceptionally-produced electronic-pop that balances hypnotic club-ready rhythms with strong vocal-pop flourishes. Panda Bear, SOAK, and LondonGrammar make guest appearances.

This Atlanta-bred producer’s official debut album is a strong set of hip hop incorporating elements of soul, funk, jazz and other styles, combining a variety of hip hop beats and a blend of live and sampled instrumentation and vocals with rapping from an impressive guest roster including multiple appearances from longtime collaborator Sa-Roc along with features from Evidence, Murs, Slug, Aesop Rock, members of Dead Prez, Zion I and other notables.

The debut album from this Brooklyn-based trio composed of Piya Malik (frequent collaborator with El Michels Affair and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham, and Nya Gazelle Brown is a stellar set of throwback "discodelic soul" that captures a magnetic brew of nostalgic R&B, timeless funk, fuzzy disco, and the pristine pop of 1970's girl groups. Prism gets assists from current and former members of the Dap-Kings, The Extraordinaires, Orgone, The Shacks, Chicano -*Batman, Antibalas, and more. saysheshe.bandcamp.com

Mitski performed live on KEXP back in 2018, check out the full performance here: www.youtube.com

What's Tacocat spelled backwards? Don't miss this live performance of "Bridge to Hawaii by palindromic band Tacocat in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com

The second album from this LA-via-Cincinnati singer/songwriter/violinist (aka Brittany Parks) is an impressive blend of hip hop, R&B, disco, house, electro-pop, folk, various African styles and more, combining a diverse, intricately detailed and shapeshifting sound with her confident blend of rapping and singing and lyrics of identity and autonomy.

ODESZA is Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, known individually as Catacombkid and BeachesBeaches. They formed in Bellingham, WA in 2012, shortly before Mills and Knight graduated from Western Washington University. KEXP has hosted ODESZA Live in the KEXP Studio on multiple occasions, including this 2017 set with DJ Cheryl Waters: youtu.be odesza.bandcamp.com

Following her breakout 2021 debut mixtape interest rates, a tape, London-based vocalist George Riley teams up with enigmatic producer Vegyn for her second release and it's another impressive set of expansive R&B that ranges from swelling orchestral ballads to skittering club-tinted jams for a wide-ranging sound reminiscent of Kelela and Dawn Richard.

The second EP from this Seattle artist (aka Olivia Thomas) is an impressive seven-song set of soulful R&B and hip hop, with an often laid-back sound combining atmospheric keyboards and mostly gently propulsive rhythms with her agile vocals and lyrics of love, desire, change and self-confidence Check out Livt's KEXP performance from April here: www.youtube.com

Charli XCX's second album, released in 2014.

Perfume Genius, aka Michael Hadreas, describes "Queen" as a song inspired by "gay panic", and the power one can derive from knowing their mere being is making everyone around them extremely uncomfortable. -- This great live performance from Seattle's Triple Door, exclusively for KEXP VIP Club members, featured "Queen" as its final song: youtu.be

Debut full-length from this LA duo, released in 2020

The debut solo album from this member of London band The xx is a solid set of dark electro-pop and moody post-punk. Produced by Jamie xx, the album combines atmospheric keyboards and often-skeletal beats with haunting melodies and personal lyrics of moving from shame and fear towards love and self-acceptance.

The New Pornographers - Full Performance (Live on KEXP): www.youtube.com

So Tonight That I Might See was released on this day in 1993! This 1994 single was written by lyricist Hope Sandoval and composer David Roback, who also served as producer. Read an in-depth exploration of this hauntingly beautiful song: ourculturemag.com