This week, future pop duo Purity Ring, spiky indie trio Eternal Summers, energetic guitar-wreckers Fang Island, metal troupe Slipknot, and comedian Todd Barry all have new albums, and Jennifer Lopez is releasing her greatest hits.
As always, there’s tons more: check our playlist notes and sample this week’s releases on the New Music Tuesday playlist, below, and find all of this week’s new albums in the New Releases.
Playlist Notes
The Antlers - Undersea
The Brooklyn indie rock act made their name with emotive, propulsive tracks that reached towering climaxes. Their latest EP finds them in a more introspective mood, happy to float along mesmerizing, synth-y passages with warbling melodies.Passion Pit - Gossamer
Michael Angelakos’ electropop outfit hit it big with debut Manners, but its follow-up, Gossamer, is earmarked to be even bigger. Angelakos’ knack for pop hooks remains intact, but he’s put even more of himself into this one, meaning there’s more emotion infused into these dance-floor tunes than ever.Rodriguez - Searching for Sugar Man
The psychedelic folk-rocker brings his guitar stylings and gravely voice to a soundtrack for the film Searching for Sugar Man.The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
The Jersey band’s fourth album harkens back to their first — big, Springsteen-esque choruses and arrangements, and more punk leanings than folk.The-Dream - “Dope Bitch”
The R&B auteur’s new track is a cruising, piano-led beat featuring his trademark mellifluous tenor.Two Door Cinema Club - “Sleep Alone”
The Irish dance-y post-punk trio debuted “Sleep Alone” at last year’s Glastonbury, and now it’s available for your Rdio collection, in all it’s hi-hat tapping glory.
