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New Music Reviews (4/5) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Abbie) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from serpentwithfeet, DEACON (Secretly Canadian) The excellent second album from this Baltimore-bred, LA-based artist (aka Josiah Wise) brings a more optimistic perspective to his expansive R&B/gospel-influenced sound, forsaking the dark, sometimes stormy textures and tor...

  After a four-year absence, Spoon returned in 2014 with They Want My Soul, one of their loosest recordings to date. Britt Daniels returns to Spoon with a new psychedelic groove along with new keyboardist/guitarist Alex Fischel. They Want My Soul feels more like a follow-up to 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. “Rent I Pay” and “Inside Out” open the album with a one-two punch, in classic Spoon fashion. They Want My Soul is deeply entrenched in Spoon’s signature organic sounding recording, with a warm bass, crisp drums, and crunchy guitars, with room for progress and innovation to make th...

FRITZ – ‘Pastel’ review: coming-of-age album balances dream-pop effects and alt-rock attack Newcastle’s Tilly Murphy farewells her teen years with a diaristic yet energising second record 4 Credit: Press Coming-of-age albums don’t often feel as fresh and raw as Tilly Murphy’s second record as FRITZ. That’s because the Newcastle singer-songwriter is chronicling the tumult of her youth in real time. Following 2017’s self-titled (and self-produced) debut album, released when she was just 17, ‘Pastel’ maps the intense highs and lows of her subseq...

Blimey, that went quickly! The end of 2014 is nigh, and we’ve heard some cracking songs in its oh so brief existence. From Future Islands to ‘Fancy’, everyone’s got their favourite and they’re all completely different from each other. To find some order in the chaos, we asked over 30 Drowned In Sound staffers to vote for their top five singles of the year, then added up the results and made a list of the 40 most popular choices. Read on for the final, definitive compendium and then subscribe to our Spotify playlist to listen to all the tracks in order.