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Saturday, October 19, 2019

New music from Rorie Kelly, The West Coast Feed, Jimmy Eat World, Foals, Beck

We're pleased to present our latest, wide-ranging selection of New Musick. Read, and listen!

Rorie Kelly - Magick Comin'

This singer-songwriter from New York's Long Island describes her genre as "ladybeast music." Her latest single, she says, is "a song about purposely stepping into your power." The theme of empowerment - of recognizing one's own strength and becoming one's own hero - runs through many of her songs, delivered in an earnest, powerful voice with an alt-rock backing.

The West Coast Feed - Blame It On Me

The latest single from this powerful nine-piece Seattle outfit starts out rocking and builds to an "explosion in slow motion" about half way through. Frontman Jesse Butterworth says the track is about dealing with a narcissist ("You've got a way of taking all the fault you see / You take it all off you and put it all on me") and about "finding freedom from that vicious circle."

Jimmy Eat World - Love Never

This Arizona-based group just released its 10th album, Surviving. AllMusic calls it "a late-career peak" and says it "continues the band's sonic evolution with maturity and confidence, taking the glimmers of moody experimentation from [2016's Integrity Blues] and cranking up the urgency." We're featuring the high-energy "Love Never" in our New Music bin.

Foals - Wash Off

"Complex" is the adjective most often used to describe the music of this band from Oxford, England. For example, The Associated Press describes this year's two-part opus, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, as "complex, brilliant music" from a band at the top of its game. The two albums form a song cycle about destruction and survival. From the just-released Part 2, we're featuring one of the more straightforward tracks, "Wash Off." NME says it "takes the band’s signature math-rock dance vibes and piles on the muscle and bravado with zero fucks given: “because life’s a lie / so roll the die.”

Beck - Uneventful Days

His upcoming 14th album Hyperspace is being pitched as "new colors" from a "cultural chameleon." But the sound is certainly recognizable as the maverick master of post-modern pop. Like his spring release “Saw Lightning,” this track was co-written and co-produced by Pharrell Williams. Rolling Stone says "While the previous single blended Beck’s slacker folk leanings with Williams’ upbeat hip-hop productions, their latest collaboration takes a more polished, synth-heavy approach."

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