New Music :: January 2022

This month’s must-catch new releases and awesome new music from the artists you already love and the musicians you need to know. 

Years & Years

Night Call

The third studio album and exciting new music by Years & Years, the solo project of British musician, songwriter, actor, and screenwriter Olly Alexander, kicks off the year. The thrilling new chapter for the artist is inspired by the imagery of the muse: a beautiful, beckoning lure of love, fantasy, and sexuality. Being marked as one of the world’s most trailblazing modern pop stars, Night Call pushes the boundaries of mainstream with fantastical songs about pleasure and seduction. Escape with the new Years & Years tracks, and sink into the bliss of sin. 

The Lumineers

Brightside

The Colorado-based, American folk-rock band The Lumineers release their latest, full-length studio album with Brightside. Naming it their “most joyous and spontaneous piece of work thus far,” the band sings of love, glory, and heartbreak as they transcend the loneliness of isolation and social distancing. Incorporating the signature blues stylings paired with reverberating, bluegrass guitars, the vocals ring tried and true from track to track and envelope listeners into a warm embrace of sentimentality and desire.

Orlando Weeks

Hop Up

The Maccabees lead singer, Orlando Weeks, releases his second solo album and explores brighter and lighter themes than the previous release. Hop Up features upbeat and infectious songs full of joy. Wanting to fill in some of the blanks from his first solo effort, Weeks had a newfound intention and makes bold choices that strongly pay off. With his well-known, throaty vocals and undeniable melodies, the songs create a vignette of a life journey that is positive, self-reflective, and life affirming.

Underoath

Voyeurist

Metalcore veterans Underoath have returned to the studio and produced their most collaborative and emotional collection of songs yet. Voyeurist features tracks that lean into the unmistakable sound of manic drumming, hardcore screaming, and headbang-worthy metal while also exploring depths of rhythmic, haunting melodies. While there is nothing obviously sweet about these songs, there is a beauty in the anthemic hooks and a raw flowyness that is surprising and welcoming.

Aurora

The Gods We Can Touch

Told through the narrative paradigm of Greek mythology, the new, 15- track album by Aurora features an exploration and correspondence to the different gods and goddesses. The Norwegian singer, songwriter, dancer, and producer navigates a tricky terrain as she unveils the relationship between human and faith. Questioning the role of religion while seeking the divine connection, The Gods We Can Touch takes a look at suppression, beauty, war, death, and redemption alongside the perfect imperfection of the human condition. 

Pinegrove

11:11

Indie-rock five-piece Pinegrove ring in the new year with new music and the new album, 11:11. Featuring an ethos of unity, collectivity, and community, the new songs are given as a gift to listeners to create space, dig in, and feel. Guided by guitar-driven riffs and messages of challenging the status-quo, the tracks metabolize the grief we’ve been wrestling, condense it into something sweet, and return with songs of greater understanding of the need to let go and dance it out.