Our Most Anticipated Albums (Quarter 3)

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Dirty Projectors album art courtesy of Domino

While much of the country is in a drought, we are not want for new music during the summer months. Your grass might be brown, and your air conditioner might be bending under the burden of 100 degree weather, but your new album release cup runneth over. Don't believe us? Check out the albums we're most looking forward to from July - September.

July 10th
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)

July 17th
Alberta Cross - Songs of Patience (ATO)
Com Truise - In Decay (Ghostly International)
JEFF the Brotherhood – Hypnotic Nights (Warner Bros.)
Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back (ATO)

July 18th
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium (Astralwerks)

July 24th
The Antlers – Undersea [EP] (ANTI-)
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (Mercury)
Passion Pit – Gossamer (Columbia)

August 7th
Antony and the Johnsons - CUT THE WORLD (Secretly Canadian) 
Birds and Batteries - Stray Light (Eightmaps)

August 21st
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
Yeasayer – Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian)

September 4th
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz (Domino)
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance (Mexican Summer)
Stars - The North (ATO)

September 11th
The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter (American)
Cat Power – Sun (Matador)
Firewater - International Orange! (Bloodshot)
St. Vincent and David Byrne – Love This Giant (4AD/Todo Mundo)

September 18th
Aimee Mann - Charmer (Superego)
Menomena - Moms (Barsuk)

September 25th
Murder by Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
Tristan Prettyman - Cedar + Gold (Capitol)

On Our Radar: 
The Love Language - TBA (Merge)
Matt & Kim - Lightning (FADER)

MP3 | The Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall

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Picture a black '65 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors, speeding down Mulholland Drive at 3 o'clock in the morning. A cigarette burns out in the ashtray and a worn out copy of The Dharma Bums is haphazardly tossed on the passenger seat, along with the day's paper.

Top down on a cool October night, our Jam of the Day, "Waterfall," by California's The Fresh & Onlys is blaring from the speakers while the tires squeal lightly as the car turns sharply left, then right working it's way up the winding hill. Lights glitter below and the air holds the smell of burnt tobacco and wild rosemary from the roadside. Gasoline and aftershave.

Gloomy guitars jangle flawlessly as angelic voices call out of the tugging wind and darkness, pleading with singer Tim Cohen to deliver the hazy, yet romantic vocals. Circulating, these elements then combine, creating a setting that accentuates the mood perfectly.

Close your eyes and download the song below, although it was made for vinyl. If you like it, make sure to check out the band's third LP Play It Strange on October 12th via In The Red Records.

The Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall