Moist Leg’s Moisturizer is likely one of the summer season’s most anticipated albums.
Alice Backham
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Alice Backham
It isn’t extraordinary for artists and labels to sluggish issues down a bit in the summertime, usually holding their largest albums for late August or early September, simply forward of autumn. However this summer season we get one of many 12 months’s most anticipated releases with Weg Leg’s sophomore full-length, moisturizer. We have additionally received the return of the veteran indie rock group Superchunk, new music from Large Thief and extra, to not point out Lorde’s Virgin, Laufey’s A Matter of Time, and The Swell Season’s first new album in additional than 15 years.
This week we discuss a number of the ones we’re most enthusiastic about, with WNXP’s Celia Gregory, NPR Music editor Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton.
Featured artists and albums:
1. Moist Leg: ‘moisturizer’ (featured tune: “CPR”)
2. Marissa Nadler: ‘New Radiations’ (featured tune: “New Radiations”)
3. Superchunk: ‘Songs within the Key of Yikes’ (featured tune: “Everyone Dies”)
4. Indigo De Souza: ‘Precipice’ (featured tune; “Crying Over Nothing”)
5. Lucrecia Dalt: ‘A Hazard to Ourselves’ (featured tune: “divina”)
6. Kokoroko: ‘TUFF TIMES NEVER LAST’ (featured tune: “Three Piece Swimsuit”)
7. Parcels: ‘LOVED’ (featured tune: “yougotmefeeling”)
8. Large Thief: ‘Double Infinity’ (featured tune: “Incomprehensible”)
9. Georgia Harmer: ‘Eye Of The Storm’ (featured tune: “Can We Be Nonetheless”)