New Music Reviews (4/19) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJs Alex, Abbie, and Gabriel Teodros) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
Jupiter & Okwess,
Na Kozonga (Everloving)
The latest release from this Congolese band led by Jupiter Bokondji is an impressive, energetic set of various Congolese styles inflected with funk, rock and more, combining fiery electric guitars, percolating rhythms, call-and-response vocals and hypnotic song hooks. The album’s special guests include Ana Tijoux and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. DY
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Daily Distraction: Float down River 93 with Alex Schaaf of Yellow Ostrich
Listen to a previously unreleased song in advance of Like a Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology (2010-2021), out later this month on Barsuk
Columbus Alive
After spending some years looping his vocals alongside fuzzy guitars in Brooklyn indie-rock act Yellow Ostrich, Alex Schaaf became a touring member of the Tallest Man on Earth, then moved to Minneapolis and started a new, mellower project, Human Heat.
Later this month, Barsuk Records will release
Like a Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology (2010-2021), a compilation of songs released under his own name and his band monikers, plus a new, previously unreleased track with which I ve become smitten. River 93 features Schaaf s smooth-but-searching vocals that call to mind vintage Midlake alongside a perfectly uncomplicated digital beat (think Owen Ashworth) and sparse piano/organ, plus some welcome lap st