In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 22, 2024:
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Father John Misty has released his sixth LP, Mahashmashana, via Bella Union (the UK and Europe) and Sub Pop (everywhere else). The 2022’s Chloë and the Next 20th Century. includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Screamland’ (featuring Alan Sparhawk of Low on guitar) and ‘She Cleans Up’, as well as ‘I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All’, which also appeared on a greatest-hits compilation the singer-songwriter released earlier this year. Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, produced the record in Los Angeles with Drew Erickson, while frequent collaborator Jonathan Wilson served as executive producer.
Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More
Kim Deal of the Breeders (and formerly of Pixies) has issued her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, via 4AD. The 10-track effort was previewed by the songs ‘Coast’, ‘Crystal Breath’, ‘A Good Time Pushed’, and the title track. Some of the songs on the record date all the way back to 2011. Collaborators on Nobody Loves You More include past and present members of the Breeders (Mando Lopez, twin sister Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, Britt Walford), as well as Raymond McGinley (Teenage Fanclub), Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), and Savages’ Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. The LP was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry.
Michael Kiwanuka, Small Changes
Michael Kiwanuka has dropped a new album titled Small Changes. He reunited with producers Danger Mouse and Inflo on the record, which marks his first full-length since 2019’s KIWANUKA. It also features contributions from bassist Pino Palladino (D’Angelo, Beyoncé) and Jimmy Jam of Jam & Lewis. The singles ‘Floating Parade’, ‘Lowdown (part i)’ and ‘Lowdown (part ii)’, and ‘The Rest of Me’ arrived ahead of today’s release.
Red Hot Org, TRAИƧA
The Red Hot Organization’s latest compilation, the 46-track TRAИƧA, has arrived. Billed as a “spiritual journey celebrating trans people,” the album brings together artists including André 3000, Sade’s Sade Adu, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes, Yaeji, Perfume Genius, L’Rain, Adrianne Lenker, Sam Smith, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Clairo, and Cassandra Jenkins, among many others. “We hoped to create a narrative that positions trans and non-binary people as leaders in our society insofar as the deep inner work they do to affirm who they are in our current climate,” producer Dust Reid explained. “We felt this is something everybody should do. Whether you identify as trans or non-binary or otherwise, if you took the time to explore your gender, get in touch with the feeling side of yourself, maybe we would have a future oriented around values of community, collaboration, care, and healing.”
LEYA, I Forget Everything
New York-based duo LEYA are back with a new mini-album, I Forget Everything, via NNA Tapes. Following the guest-heavy 2022 mixtape Eyeline, the collection marks harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist/violinist Adam Markiewicz’s first release without collaborators since 2020’s Flood Dream. “I Forget Everything was written amidst confusion and exhaustion,” they explained in a press release. “It speaks through the distortion of memory, an abandonment of the cruelty of utopia, and the imminent loss of the past despite an unimaginable future.”
Various Artists, piano1
section1 has released a new compilation of solo piano music. piano1 features new original compositions from Hand Habits, Youth Lagoon, Mark William Lewis, Kelly Moran, Ichiko Aoba, ML Buch, Laraaji, Alice Boman, and more.
“piano1 is as much about showcasing the artists involved as it is showcasing the piano as an instrument, how different artists approach their creative relationship with the instrument, and how, depending on an artist’s approach, the same 88 keys used by each can produce such drastically different sounds, moods, etc.,” the label said in a statement. “The hope, all the while, was to create an album that accommodates many levels of listening attention (be it active listening, passive listening, or somewhere in between), while inducing calm and creating a space to think. As much as possible, we wanted to make this record as an invitation to the listener(s) into that space.”
Other albums out today:
Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom, A Peace of Us; Lifted, Trellis; Boldy James & Harry Fraud, The Bricktionary; Bibio, Phantom Brickworks (LP II); PAPA M, Ballads of Harry Houdini; Squanderers, If a Body Meet a Body; Opeth, The Last Will and Testament; Soap&Skin, Torso; Daryl Johns, Daryl Johns; Alice Ivy, Do What Makes You Happy; Quiet Husband, Religious Equipment; Fan Club Orchestra, VL_Stay.