New Music Reviews (5/24) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) 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 Mdou Moctar, Afrique Victime (Matador) This Agadez, Niger-based guitarist’s sixth studio album is a powerful blend of traditional Tuareg music and fiery psych-rock, combining acoustic and electric guitars (including lots of incendiary, sky-scraping solos) with call-and-response vocals, hypnotic melodies and lyrics blending the political and the personal. DY
Listen to As Big as All Outside now Published Apr 13, 2021 Toronto jangle-pop duo Ducks Unlimited earned international attention upon the release of their debut EP, Get Bleak, at the tail end of 2019, but their impending world domination was stymied by, well, everything that happened after that. Undeterred, the group have changed their name to Ducks Ltd. and signed to Royal Mountain and Carpark Records for an expanded reissue of Get Bleak, due for release on May 21. The Get Bleak reissue features the EP s original four songs followed by three new ones. The band have shared one of the new numbers, As Big as All Outside, which furthers the band s groove-heavy, Real Estate-like sound by adding strings to the mix.