Gold Soundz: November 15, 2024

This week's suggested new music, curated by omg!nyc

November continues on and this week picks up the momentum just a bit as we head towards the final month of new releases for the year. Earlier this year, St. Vincent delivered her seventh album, All Born Screaming, and today she’s back with the Spanish version of the record. She kept the music stems from the original recordings and redid the vocals in Spanish with only slight melodic alterations to the translations.

Coming straight from the Sahara, Tinariwen have shared a new collection of tracks that were recorded live with no overdubs. Some of the songs are demos versions of tunes that appear on other albums and others are making their debut with this release.

As they prepare for their first shows in half a decade, TV on the Radio are reissuing their debut record Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes for its twentieth anniversary and it includes some demos and alternate mixes of tracks as well as some resurrected jams from their past.

The iconic underground hip-hop record MM…Food by the legendary MF DOOM is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a special edition that includes eleven bonus tracks and remixes as well as brand new artwork and interview clips from the weeks leading up to the album’s original release.

Over the summer, guitar god Jack White stealthily released his new album No Name and went on a tour in which the tour dates were announced with very little notice. Now White has officially announced a new world tour in support of the excellent record and he’s dropped a rip-roaring new single as well that features vintage White riffs and a bumping blues stomping beat.

British post-punks Squid have announced their third album, Coward, and with it dropped the new single “Crispy Skin.” The track follows the band’s chaotic energy and comes alive with colorful twists and turns that are driven by complex rhythms and turbulent synths.

The new album from FKA twigs is coming in early 2025 and the third single, “Drums of Death,” is a glitchy electro heater that goes hard on the beats, picking up the pace from the previous singles and brings on the clubby dance vibes, peeling back new layers as to where this record may be headed.

Following the end of his bands Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Shabaka dropped his last name and released his debut solo album earlier in the year. He’s announced a new EP will be out next month and the opening track features a sharp and humbling verse from the iconic billy woods making for one of the hottest collabs of the year.

It’s been three years since Lil Nas X dropped his debut album and while we still don;t have the official word on his follow-up, today the rapper shared a new song called “LIGHT AGAIN” and it was produced by Thomas Bangaltar of Daft Punk.

Austin, Texas band Sun June make blissful, featherweight dream-pop and their new single is another sparkling, delicate gem that hits like a salve, its delicate nature and twinkling guitar hitting like sweet morning dew or a cool breeze of a summer evening.

Sludge rockers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have a bruising new song out this week that continues their course of pummeling rhythms with punishing beats and brutal guitars. It’s a sonic onslaught that’s full of raw intensity and satisfying hits of hard grooves.

In September, hardcore noise punks The Jesus Lizard released their first new album in 26 years and it’s a killer. This week the band shared an outtake from the album that sounds perfectly in line with their existing catalogue and wastes no time going in for the kill.

Last year, Zach Condon returned with a new Beirut album and now he’s about to embark on the project’s first tour in over half a decade. This week he shared a new song from an upcoming soundtrack and it’s a more meditative tune that moves with subtle grace and a soft focus.

Albums:

MAXO KREAM | Personification
070 SHAKE | Petrichor
WUSSY | Cincinnati Ohio
RAUW ALEJANDRO | Cosa Nuestra
ST. VINCENT | Todos Nacen Gritando
JON BATISTE | Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1)
TINARIWEN | Idrache (Traces Of The Past)
TV ON THE RADIO | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (20th Anniversary Edition)
MF DOOM | MM..FOOD (20th Anniversary Edition)
HOTLINE TNT | Trilogy
GEORGE HARRISON | Living in the Material World (50th Anniversary Edition)

Songs:

JACK WHITE | “You Got Me Searching”
SQUID | “Crispy Skin”
FKA TWIGS | “Drums of Death” (ft Koreless)
LIL NAS X | “LIGHT AGAIN”
SHABAKA | “Timepieces” (ft billy woods)
SUN JUNE | “41 Dollars”
YOLA | “Symphony”
JAMES BLAKE | “Like the End”
THE JESUS LIZARD | “The Cost of Living”
PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS | “Detroit”
BEIRUT | “Caspian Tiger”
SALUTE | “Heaven in Your Arms” (ft Jessie Ware)
SUPERHEAVEN | “Long Gone”

If you’re a Spotify user, you can listen to these songs (and more from 2024) here!