PRESS PLAY: New Albums out January 28th

Another week is ushered to a close by a crop of new releases from all across the musical spectrum. Anaïs Mitchell‘s self-titled album is the first solo release in well over a decade from the award-winning songwriter behind the Broadway smash Hadestown; the record was produced by Mitchell’s Bonny Light Horseman bandmate Josh Kaufman. On IRÉ, New York’s Combo Chimbita meld their dynamic Afro-Caribbean rock with striking visuals in a sprawling multimedia collaboration with queer and trans performance artists. Nashville mainstay Ryan Culwell shows off his sturdy songcraft on Run Like a Bull, a ruminative set inspired by his childhood in the Texas panhandle.

St. Paul & the Broken Bones take their lively funk to intergalactic heights on The Alien Coast. Extreme Witchcraft, the 14th album by veteran alt-rockers eels, is Mark Oliver Everett’s first collaboration with producer John Parish since 2001’s similarly scuzzy Souljacker. Lady Wray‘s soulful style gets a retro makeover from members of The Dap-Kings on Piece of Me, her third solo album. Zach Condon collects early Beirut rarities and outtakes (including the beloved Lon Gisland EP) on Artifacts. PRESS PLAY on these new releases and more below…

Anaïs Mitchell – Anaïs Mitchell
CHECK OUT: “Bright Star” “On Your Way (Felix Song)”

Combo Chimbita – IRÉ
CHECK OUT: “Memoria” “Yo Me Lo Merezco”

Ryan Cullwell – Run Like a Bull
CHECK OUT: “All I Got” “Colorado Blues”

St. Paul & the Broken Bones – The Alien Coast
CHECK OUT: “The Last Dance” “Minotaur”

eels – Extreme Witchcraft
CHECK OUT: “Good Night on Earth” “The Magic”

Lady Wray – Piece of Me
CHECK OUT: “Under the Sun” “Come On In”

Beirut – Artifacts
CHECK OUT: “Fisher Island Sound” “Fyodor Dormant”

EXTENDED PLAYS:
Alice Glass – PREY//IV, Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep, Bad Suns – Apocalypse Whenever, Boy Harsher – The Runner (Soundtrack), Brent Cobb – And Now, Let’s Turn to Page…, Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave, Eric Gales – Crown, Fruit Bats – Sometimes a Cloud is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021), The Furniture – The Furniture, Leo Sayer – Northern Songs: Leo Sayer Sings the Beatles, Marissa Burwell – Bittersweet, MØ – Motordrome, Mother Mother – Inside (Deluxe Edition), North Mississippi All Stars – Set Sail, Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines II, PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Demos, Pinegrove – 11:11, Samm Henshaw – Untidy Soul, Simone Felice – All the Bright Coins, Squirrel Flower – Planet EP, Steve Gunn – Nakama EP, The Temptations – Temptations 60, Urge Overkill – Oui