Another week has come and gone, and that means there is now a new slate of music that came out today to listen to.
We've got The Internet alum Steve Lacy's first full-length record, another album from YG and a surprise return from Billy Ray Cyrus, among a few others artists.
As always, I'm not a music critic. In this column, I'm just aiming to highlight new releases that I like, in hopes of you enjoying them too
If you're looking for even more recommendations check out last weeks post
What I missed out on last Friday
Injury Reserve
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By: Injury Reserve
Alternative rap trio Injury Reserve put out a fun album last Friday for anyone that's looking for something a little weird. While the band's debut album may have thrown back to the sounds of boom-bap rap from the 90's, the latest record has much stronger electronic influences with beats that remind me of a mix of Brockhampton and the Young Fathers.
Either way, these songs slap, and it's slowly turning into one of my favourite rap albums of the year.
Listen to it on , [url=[spotify]
Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music.
What's new this week
Apollo XXI
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By: Steve Lacy
Hailing from The Internet, a band that was part of Tyler, The Creator's Odd Future collective, Steve Lacy has been starting to make waves on his own in the past years with catchy tracks and some solid features. Most notably finding his way onto two tracks from the new Vampire Weekend album.
Lacy sings, plays guitar and base among a handful of other things on this seemingly retro-inspired album. There are tones of funk and 80's inspired crooning present no the record. Some songs like Playground even remind me or more mellow Thundercat tracks that would perfectly soundtrack an 80's romantic comedy or the next time I'm drinking outside with my friends.
Listen to it on , [url=[spotify]
Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music.
The SnakeDoctor Circus
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By: Billy Ray Cyrus
Interestingly enough after securing a spot on the hottest track in North America right now, the legacy country pop artist Billy Ray Cyrus has pushed out a country album of his own.
It's hard to listen to this album without thinking about Cyrus' recent collab with Lil' Nas X on Old Town Road, but it's nothing like the new wave rap-country that Lil' Nas graced us with. SnakeDoctor is a country album through and through. The album comes from the perspective of the working man and addresses some of today's injustices like wage inequality.
Listen to the album on , [url=[spotify]
Spotify], YouTube Music and Apple Music.
Destroyer
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By: Black Mountain
According to the band's description on Spotify, this album is named after the single run 1985 Dodge Destroyer because the band member artist Stephan McBean got his licence and has finally got a taste of the freedom that driving brings, and he's hooked.
Honestly, it sounds like the band just made an album that they'd want to drive to and I absolutely love that. To top it off it's actually a collection of songs from a variety of artists that all had the goal in mind of forming an "endless rock and roll highway." If you've got a road trip coming up, download this one, roll down your windows and enjoy.
Destroyer is available on , YouTube Music and Apple Music.
Complicit
Five-piece Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire dropped a new single called Complicit, a follow-up to last months Familiar Drugs, the band's first new song in 10 years.
George Pettit, the band's frontman, described Complicit as being about "rejecting regressionist ideas of racism, misogyny and hetero-supremacy. It's about accepting that there is no freedom and no future in a world that is not inclusive," in a recent interview with Canadian music publication Exclaim.
It's still unclear if the band has a full-length album in the works, though the release of two singles in such quick succession definitely indicates something larger is likely on the horizon.