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Saturday, January 18, 2025

OK Go, My Morning Jacket, Deep Sea Diver, Coheed and Cambria, Inhaler bring the new music


OK Go: A Stone Only Rolls Downhill


The difficult-to-characterize band from Chicago (AllMusic.com calls it "retro indie pop") has announced a new album, called And the Adjacent Possible, coming later this year - its first new release since 2014's Hungry Ghosts. Of this first single, frontman Damian Kulash, says: “It’s a tough time to be optimistic. ... What do we tell [our children]? That’s what this song is about: trying to be honest but keeping your head up at the same time.”

My Morning Jacket: Time Waited


Also coming this year, a new MMJ album with the understated (or pretentious?) title is. Bandleader Jim James says this lead single starts with a sample of a piano part from a "lost album" by pedal-steel virtuoso Buddy Emmons. "I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk and all these melodies started coming to me."

Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart


This Seattle-based group headed by Jessica Dobson will release its fourth studio album in late February. Dobson says this title track is "a song that felt like a strange transmission, a new emotion, and a spirit-filled dream when it came. ... It is about being present and embracing the future while wholeheartedly letting go of any amount of control that I think I have in this life. ‘Billboard Heart’ is both a longing for something that may not exist and a place where I can be free.”

Coheed and Cambria: Someone Who Can


This band from suburban New York is known for metal-ish, prog-ish rock, and for sci-fi concept albums. But this single from its upcoming The Father of Make Believe reaches beyond its core audience. Lead guitarist Claudio Sanchez says of the song: "When you’re growing up, you’re perpetually trying to understand the world that’s changing around you. Over time, it’s comforting to reach the conclusion that you’ll never truly have things figured out."

Inhaler: A Question of You


Here's another taste of the Dublin quartet's third album, Open Wide, coming out in a few weeks, Frontman Elijah Hewson says, "This is love song territory for me, about how in order to be honest with someone else you’ve got to be honest with yourself."

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