In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on August 2, 2024:
Jack White, No Name
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Jack White has officially released No Name, his sixth studio album. Initially a surprise, vinyl-only release distributed in his Third Man Records stores in Nashville, Detroit, and London, the record was formally announced earlier this week. The guitar-heavy LP follows Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive, which came out within months of each other in 2022.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Aghori Mhori Mei
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The Smashing Pumpkins have put out Aghori Mhori Mei, the follow-up to last year’s triple-album ATUM. The band didn’t release any advance singles to promote the LP. “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again,'” Billy Corgan said in a statement. “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
Chrystabell & David Lynch, Cellophane Memories
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Chrystabell and David Lynch have joined forces for a new LP, Cellophane Memories, out now via Sacred Bones Records. The artists first worked together on the soundtrack for 2006’s Inland Empire, and Lynch worked on Chrystabell’s 2011 debut LP This Train as well as her 2016 effort Somewhere in the Nowhere. According to Chrystabell, Cellophane Memories contains “many doors that are left open to wonder, wander and get turned around in.” She added, “It’s like mood music, not that it creates mood, but more that it reflects your own.”
Navy Blue, Memoirs in Armour
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Sage Elsesser, the rapper, producer, skateboarder, artist, and model known as Navy Blue, is back with a new album. Out now via his own Freedom Sounds, Memoirs in Armour marks his first independent release since signing with Def Jam in 2021. The follow-up to last year’s Ways of Knowing spans 10 tracks, including the previously unveiled ‘Low Threshold’, and features guest production from Child Actor, Budgie, Chuck Strangers, Nicholas Craven, and more.
WHY?, The Well I Fell Into
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WHY? – the band led by Cincinnati songwriter Yoni Wolf – have dropped their eighth LP, The Well I Fell Into. The record features contributions from Gia Margaret, Finom’s Macie Stewart, Lala Lala’s Lillie West, Serengeti, and Ada Lea. “Making a WHY? album is an opportunity for me to button up a period of my life,” Wolf reflected. “I’m bad at realising how I feel or how something is affecting me in the moment. Things just sit inside me, but writing is a way to really take stock.” He added: “This is not a bitter kiss off. While the songwriting was cathartic, I can see my life beyond some story or mythology I’ve cornered myself into artistically. I’m not getting stuck in sentiment like I might have in my 20s.”
Orville Peck, Stampede
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Orville Peck’s duets album Stampede has arrived via Warner Records. It includes the previously released ‘Midnight Ride’ with Kylie Minogue and Diplo and ‘Death Valley High’ with Beck, as well as collaborations with Margo Price, Mickey Guyton, Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, Debbii Dawson, Teddy Swims, and more. The duets from Stampede Vol. 1 which came out in May and featured Elton John, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell, and Noah Cyrus, among others, are also collected here. “This project has always been something I’ve fantasized about, so to see it finally come to fruition really is a dream come true,” Peck said in a statement.
Other albums out today:
X, Smoke & Fiction; I Love Your Lifestyle, Summerland (Torpa Or Nothing); Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin; Pixey, Million Dollar Baby; G.O.O.N., God’s Only Option Now; Joe Ely, Driven to Drive; Anberlin, Vega; Blood, Loving You Backwards; Khalid, Sincere.