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JUST RELEASED: THE BEST NEW MUSIC REVIEWED

Music is definitely hard to keep up with. What with new albums being released at an incredible rate, it’s a complicated practice just even staying afloat. But still, it’s not as if the art of music-listening is entirely dead and with many resources available, there is a great hope rising. A dying breed, sure, there is always new music to enjoy and here are some hopeful releases for you to discover. TXT: BRYAN SANCHEZ

July 5: Kendrick Lamar – Section.80 (Top Dawg) [Hip-Hop, Rap] Straight out of Compton, Kendrick Lamar holds the slightest of connections to Dr. Dre’s gangsta-funk mentality and instead, raps about life as the sincere 24-year old man he is. Knowing well that music is about finding one’s strengths, Section.80 finds Lamar rapping about the broken epoch he lives in. Noticing life through a smoothly-layered set of beats that recall 90s-era jazz swagger with ambience and bite, it’s clear Lamar is a highly talented individual that breeds his ideas through the framework that ‘more is better’ and Section.80 is a blossoming winner because of it.

July 5: Clams Casino – Rainforest EP (Tri Angle) [Electronic, Post-Dubstep] Based around the unspoiled scheme of staying connected to Earth and its terrestrial tendencies, this colorful rain forest finds the enveloping musician delving into rich textures. Relishing in beats that are as much indebted to Four Tet as they are dubstep primer, Clams Casino decorates the songs on this five-track EP with environmental atmospherics and tender compositions. Previously working as someone rappers could hire to get music from, Rainforest is proof that perhaps the best is yet to come from Clams Casino.

July 12: R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant {Remastered} (EMI) [Indie-Rock, Alternative Rock] Without trying to be too preachy, it’s paramount to reckon the substantial influence R.E.M. continue to have on music. Lifes Rich Pageant was released during a time where R.E.M. was pushing past their ‘college crowd’ scene and into mainstream success with an album that features memorable songs like “Fall On Me.” To this day bands like Radiohead praise the Michael Stipe-fronted collective for being what many consider to be one of the greatest American bands of our time and now their fourth album realizes a 25-year anniversary edition where the marvelous sounds are remastered.

July 12: Washed Out – Within and Without (Sub Pop) [Electronic/Pop, Chillwave] Where other chillwave artists like Toro Y Moi and Neon Indian continued to bask in the genre’s success, Washed Out’s Ernest Greene quietly supplemented his contributions with two neatly-dressed EPs. Stepping out of the bedroom with his debut, Within and Without pairs lush and dreamy beats with Greene’s tremulous voice for a warmly layered triumph. Greene’s beats are effervescent and undeniably dancefloor-ready but their intimacy beguiles the music’s tendency to creep into softer affairs leaving the album both dynamic and diverse enough for any two lovers to get lost in.

July 12: William Elliott Whitmore – Field Songs (ANTI-) [Folk, Singer-Songwriter] With his eighth album, William Elliott Whitmore scales back almost everything to reveal nothing more than his fractured voice and an acoustic support. With Field Songs Whitmore celebrates the sheer fact that growing up on a horse farm in Iowa, and still living in one, continues to shape his character’s music. Here the songs are allowed to reign free with chirping birds and the lone sound of Whitmore’s voice, as he recalls intimate moments throughout the album’s eight songs with either his acoustic guitar or banjo

July 12: Zomby – Dedication (4AD) [Dubstep, Electronic] Hype can be a pungent practice to rely on and often leaves the impression that something is far different than it should be. Dedication was momentarily billed as the answer to dubstep fanatics’ dreams: the kind of album that could bridge all the gaps in one tidy swoop. Unfortunately, dubstep producer Zomby opted to make a sprawling album that covers the dubstep genre with excellent skill. This kind of electronic is jittery and scattered but with a gorgeous extension of radiant beats, Dedication doesn’t need to answer to anybody’s shallow expectations when it’s this solid.

July 19: Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror (Recreation Ltd.) [Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock/ Pop] When you look back at the Long Beach band’s catalog, music has always been genuinely rooted in solid hooks and swells for Crystal Antlers. The band’s stretch of gritty, gnarly rock is the kind that propels with rhythmic decadence and an ability to take all of that, flatten it and destroy it with battling drums, organ-fueled melodies and sweltering vocals. Tightening the reigns on the cross-over and following a departure from their former label – psychedelic and frenzied to some degree – Two-Way Mirror is an inviting look into the band’s evident potential.

July 26: Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Peacefrog) [Dream Pop, Electronic] Through two albums that married pop sensibilities with singer Yukimi Nagano’s stunning voice, Little Dragon has always maintained a dreamy aesthetic. Much like something close to Blonde Redhead – albeit with much more dance-leaning grooves – Little Dragon have now developed a more refined and subtle brand of electronic music on Ritual Union. Nagano’s vocals continue to haunt with a special beauty with song’s allowing her to be much more direct and affecting, and paired with the album’s aggressive leanings make up for yet another warm reception.



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