Crucial Releases: Rest of April

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The last two main release days of April had some serious volume. I bookmarked and listened to 40+ albums across both weeks and ended up picking 5 featured releases and 16 honorable mentions from that group.

I probably liked the new Foo Fighters and Noah Kahan albums enough to include them in the featured section, but they are two shouldn’t be new to anyone who’s reading this blog, so I left the focus to the smaller artists.

With that said, there’s plenty to listen to in this post. To help out, I built out two mixtapes in the app to give you a track from almost every artist in this post, so be sure to give those a listen!

Volume One - the rambunctious one
Volume Two - the chill one

Honorable Mentions

This month also had many excellent releases worth exploring. Stay tuned for more discoveries.

Hotwire Trip Switch by Prince Daddy + the Hyena

💿 Released: 17 April on Counter Intuitive Records
🤘 FFO: Free Throw, oso oso, Mom Jeans, Origami Angel, Weezer, Liquid Mike, emo/pop punk
🎧 Your first song: “Big-box Store Heart”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Fidelity by Yaya Bey

💿 Released: 17 April on drink sum wtr
🤘 FFO: Sudan Archives, L’Rain, Jamila Woods, Nilufer Yanya, KeiyaA
🎧 Your first song: “Forty Days”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Superbloom by Jessie Ware

💿 Released: 17 April on EMI
🤘 FFO: charli xcx, Dua Lipa, Madonna, SZA, disco/soul
🎧 Your first song: “Automatic”
💰 Support: Official

Little Miss Sunshine by Eaves Wilder

💿 Released: 17 April on Secretly Canadian
🤘 FFO: Hatchie, Japanese Breakfast, Mazzy Star
🎧 Your first song: “The Great Plains”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Nude descending staircase headless by Teen Suicide

💿 Released: 17 April on Run for Cover Records
🤘 FFO: Alex G, Duster, Current Joys, Horse Jumper of Love, Into it. Over it., FIDLAR
🎧 Your first song: “Suffering (Mike’s way)”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Dust by Accessory

💿 Released: 17 April on ACX
🤘 FFO: Water From Your Eyes, Greg Freeman, Sword II, Sharp Pins
🎧 Your first song: “Angelfire”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Still Suffer by Terror

💿 Released: 24 April on Flatspot Records
🤘 FFO: Madball, Hatebreed, Buried Alive, Agnostic Front, Trapped Under Ice, Incendiary
🎧 Your first song: “Fear the Panic”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

What’s Left Now by Death Lens

💿 Released: 24 April on Epitaph
🤘 FFO: Together Pangea, Militarie Gun, Teen Mortgage, Fake Tides
🎧 Your first song: “Waiting to Know”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Angel in Plainclothes by Angelo De Augustine

💿 Released: 24 April on Asthmatic Kitty
🤘 FFO: Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith
🎧 Your first song: “The Cure”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 by Quiet Light

💿 Released: 24 April on True Panther Records
🤘 FFO: Chanel Beads, bedroom indie pop
🎧 Your first song: “You Say I Love You”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Graceland Way by Mikaela Davis

💿 Released: 24 April on Kill Rock Stars
🤘 FFO: alt country/folk x Heart x Fleetwood Mac
🎧 Your first song: “Nothin’s on the Radio”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Music for Heads by TV Star

💿 Released: 24 April on Father/Daughter Records
🤘 FFO: PONY, Dazy, Cranberries, Velocity Girl, Alvvays
🎧 Your first song: “The Package”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Acknowledge Kindess by The Reds, Pinks and Purples

💿 Released: 24 April on Fire Records
🤘 FFO: Ducks Ltd, Quivers, Wild Pink, The Cure, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
🎧 Your first song: “Heaven of Love”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

Location Lost by Failure

💿 Released: 24 April on Failure Records
🤘 FFO: Hum, Spotlights, Shiner, Year of the Rabbit, Far, Swervedriver
🎧 Your first song: “The Rising Skyline”
💰 Support: Bandcamp

The Great Divide by Noah Kahan

💿 Released: 24 April on Mercury Records
🎧 Your first song: “End of August”
💰 Support: Official

Your Favorite Toy by Foo Fighters

💿 Released: 24 April on RCA
🎧 Your first song: “Caught in the Echo”
💰 Support: Official

Crucial Releases: Rest of April

New music from Friko, Blu & Exile, Gia Margaret, Sean Solomon, Kehlani, Prince Daddy + the Hyena, Yaya Bey, Failure, Noah Kahan, Foo Fighters, and many more.

TLDR: This Week's Featured Albums

Something Worth Waiting For by Friko

Time Heals Everything by Blu & Exile

Singing by Gia Margaret

The World Is Not Good Enough by Sean Solomon

Kehlani by Kehlani

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Honorable Mentions