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Albums Out Today: Clairo, Cassandra Jenkins, Remi Wolf, Johnny Blue Skies, and More

by Konstantinos Pappis

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on July 12, 2024:

Clairo, Charm

Clairo is back with her third studio album, Charm. The follow-up to 2021’s Sling was preceded by the singles ‘Sexy to Someone’ and ‘Nomad’. After working with Rostam Batmanglij on her 2019 debut Immunity and Jack Antonoff on Sling, Clairo co-produced Charm with El Michels Affair’s Leon Michels. She recorded the album live to tape at two New York studios, Queens’ Diamond Mine and Shokan’s Allaire Studios. “Charm,” she said in an interview with Crack Magazine, “is a feeling you have. When you’re charmed, it’s that perfect blend of being goofy-eyed over a person – platonically, romantically – and not knowing how long it will last.”

Cassandra Jenkins, My Light, My Destroyer

Cassandra Jenkins has released a new album, My Light, My Destroyer, via Dead Oceans. The follow-up to 2021’s An Overview on Phenomenal Nature includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Only One’, ‘Delphinium Blue’, and ‘Petco’. “Awe is a function of nature that keeps us from losing connection,” Jenkins said of the album title. “Staying in touch with awe, that light, is the best antidote to fear, and the powers that try to control us with fear. So in that sense, staying in touch with awe is to keep my light intact, and that is my greatest tool for destroying and dismantling the parts of myself and the world around me that have the potential to cause harm. Frankly, this is what keeps me from quitting—it serves as a reminder to pause and appreciate my time on earth, for all its chaos and its beauty.”

Remi Wolf, Big Ideas

Remi Wolf has dropped her sophomore album, Big Ideas, via EMI. The follow-up to her 2021 debut Juno was previewed by the tracks ‘Toro’, ‘Alone in Miami’, ‘Motorcycle’, and ‘Cinderella’. “Big Ideas in essence is my mid 20s coming of age album,” Wolf said in a statement. “It documents all my wild nights, situationships, and jet lagged high highs, low lows and evolving thoughts on my identity and purpose in this world. ALL THE BIG IDEAS!!! Also it sounds sick af and was very fun to make. Please enjoy my children.”

Johnny Blue Skies, Passage du Desir

Sturgill Simpson has put his first album under the moniker Johnny Blue Skies, Passage du Desir. Out now on Simpson’s High Top Mountain Records, the 8-track LP was co-produced with David Ferguson and recorded at Nashville’s Clement House Recording Studio and London’s Abbey Road Studios. Simpson had promised to release only five studio albums under his own name, telling Rolling Stone: “I always said there would be five, and I wondered if I’d go back on that. But it really has cemented every step of the way how much I don’t want to carry all that weigh. Not having to stand up there behind my name would allow me to be even more vulnerable, in a way.”

Eminem, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)

Eminem has dropped The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), his first studio LP since 2020. The follow-up to 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By was promoted with the singles ‘Tobey’ and ‘Houdini’. The Detroit rapper teased the album with an obituary for his alter ego, Slim Shady, in the May 13 issue of the Detroit Free Press newspaper. “Ultimately, the very things that seemed to be the tools he used became calling cards that defined an existence that could only come to a sudden and horrific end,” the eulogy read. “His complex and tortured existence has come to a close, and the legacy he leaves behind is no closer to resolution than the manner in which this character departed this world.”

Cigarettes After Sex, X’s

Cigarettes After Sex have returned with a new LP, X’s, out now on Partisan. “The record feels brutal,” bandleader Greg Gonzalez said in press materials. “I could sit and talk about this loss to someone, but that wouldn’t scratch the surface. I have to really write about it, sing about it, have the music, and then I can start to analyse and learn from it. Or just relive it—in a good way. I don’t have that Eternal Sunshine-thing of wanting to forget.” The singles ‘Tejano Blue’, ‘Dark Vacay’, and ‘Baby Blue Movie’ preceded the allbum.

Font, Strange Burden

Austin quintet Font have released their debut album, Strange Burden, via Acrophase Records. It includes the previously shared singles ‘Sentence I’, ‘It’, ‘Hey Kekulé’, ‘Natalie’s Song’. In a statement about ‘Hey Kekulé’, bandleader Thom Waddill shared, “As with the other songs on the record, there is no intentional meaning to the symbols, references, phrases, and images I use. Iʼm not trying to ʻsayʼ anything about the subconscious – Iʼm only trying to channel it.”

Webbed Wing, Vol. III

Vol. III is the latest album by Webbed Wing, the Philadelphia band featuring Superheaven’s Taylor Madison on vocals and guitar and Jake Clarke on drums, plus Mike Paulshock on bass. The follow-up to 2021’s What’s So Fucking Funny? was produced by Will Yip and is out via his label Memory Music. The singles ‘Tortuga’, ‘My Front Door’, ‘Further’, and ‘Burn It Down’ arrived ahead of the release.

Jake Xerxes Fussell, When I’m Called

Jake Xerxes Fussell has issued a new album, When I’m Called, through Fat Possum. The Good and Green Again follow-up was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. It features contributions from Elkington on guitar, piano, dobro, synth, organ, pedal steel, mandola, harmonica, and arrangements, Blake Mills on guitar, Joan Shelley on vocals, Ben Whiteley on bass, Joe Westerlund on drums and percussion, Robin Holcomb on vocals, Anna Jacobson on horns, Jean Cook on strings, and Hunter Diamond on woodwinds.

Chris Cohen, Paint a Room

Chris Cohen has released Paint a Room, his first album in five years and debut for Hardly Art. The album features Cohen’s longtime bandmates Davin Givhan on bass, Josh da Costa on drums, and Jay Israelson on keyboards, as well as contributions from Jeff Parker and Josh Johnson. “If Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone,” a press release notes, “they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time.”

Other albums out today:

Armlock, Seashell Angel Lucky Charm; KUČKA, Can You Hear Me Dreaming?; Macseal, Permanent Repeat; Griff, Vertigo; Phish, Evolve; Common & Pete Rock, The Auditorium, Vol. 1; Speed, Only One Mode; berlioz, open this wall; Brijean, Macro; OneRepublic, Artificial Paradise; Travis, L.A. Times; Zacari, Bliss; Rema, Heis; 潘PAN, Pan the Pansexual.

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