The Smile — Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner — launched their second LP of 2024, Cutouts, on Friday.
ShinKatan x Weirdcore/Courtesy of XL Recordings
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The Smile — Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner — launched their second LP of 2024, Cutouts, on Friday.
ShinKatan x Weirdcore/Courtesy of XL Recordings
NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce spherical up probably the most thrilling albums out this Friday, and mirror on the historical past of instrumental music as protest.
Featured albums
• The Smile, Cutouts
• Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere
• Half Waif, Meet Me on the Maypole
• Darius Jones, Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)
• Yasmin Williams, Acadia
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor, NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD
Different notable albums out Oct. 4
Rock/Various/Indie
• A Place To Bury Strangers, Synthesizer
• Ada Lea, notes EP
• Alison Moyet, Key
• Stability and Composure, with you in spirit
• Cumgirl8, the eighth cumming
• Chubby and The Gang, And Then There Was…
• Drug Church, PRUDE
• Fred Thomas, Window within the Rhythm
• Geordie Greep, The New Sound
• Human Impression, Gone Darkish
• Jake Bugg, A Trendy Day Distraction
• James Bay, Adjustments All The Time
• Joni Mitchell, Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980
• Karl D’Silva, Love Is A Flame In The Darkish
• La Sonora Mazurén, Magnetismo Anímal
• MEMORIALS, Waterslides
• Orla Gartland, All people Wants a Hero
• Pete Townshend, Stay: In Live performance 1985-2001
• Public Service Broadcasting, The Final Flight
• Intercourse Swing, Golden Triangle
• Sixpence None the Richer, Rosemary Hill EP
• Temples, Different Constructions EP
• Trash Boat, Heaven Can Wait
• The Laborious Quartet (Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White), s/t
• Wild Pink, Dulling the Horns
• V/A, American Soccer (Covers)
Jazz
• Adrian Younge, Jazz is Useless 021
• Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate
• Michael Mayo, Fly
• Spencer Zahn & Daybreak Richard, Quiet in a World Filled with Noise
• Bizarre of Mouth (Mette Rasmussen, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith), s/t
• Ben Wendel’s Understory, Stay on the Village Vanguard.
Hip-Hop
• 310babii, 310degrees
• Jabee, The Spirit is Keen, however the Flesh is Weak
• Joey Cool, Curler Coaster
• M1llionz, Ghetto Life
• Rome Streetz & Daringer, Hatton Backyard Holdup
• Tee Grizzley, Put up Traumatic
• Toosii, JADED
Nation/Americana/People
• Conner Smith, Storyteller EP
• Hayes and The Heathens, s/t
• Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Stay From The Ryman Vol. 2
• Jett Holden, The Phoenix
• Joan Shelley, Temper Ring EP
• Little Massive City, The Christmas Report
• Mindy Smith, Quiet City
• Nate Smith, California Gold
• Noeline Hofmann, Purple Fuel EP
• The Wild Feathers, Sirens
• Tucker Wetmore, Waves On A Sundown
Pop
• Andy Grammer, Monster
• Coldplay, Moon Music
• FINNEAS, For Cryin’ Out Loud!
• Genevieve Stokes, With a Lightning Strike
• Maya Hawke, Clipped Wings EP
• V/A, Joker: Folie à Deux OST
R&B/Soul
• Leon Bridges, Leon
• Thee Sacred Souls, Obtained a Story to Inform
Classical
• San Francisco Symphony, Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
• Danil Trifonov, My American Story: North
• Maurizio Pollini, Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
Digital/Out There
• Alessandro Cortini, NATI INFINITI
• Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, HOAX
• Aphex Twin, Chosen Ambient Works Quantity II (Expanded Version)
• Caribou, Honey
• Frost Kids x Haru Nemuri, Soul Kiss EP
• James William Blades, Pare De Sufrir OST
• John Davis, Landlines
• Jonah Yano, Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop
• Maelstrom, The FM Tapes
• Midland, Fragments of Us
• Peni Candra Rini, Wani
• Pharmakon, Maggot Mass
• The Bug, Machines I-V
• Weval, Night time Variations EP
• V/A, ELECTRO THROWDOWN: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Assault on Planet Earth 1982-89
