New Releases 6/16
![Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance: Deluxe [LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467242027:500 "Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance: Deluxe [LP]")
Gracie Abrams's debut album Good Riddance, produced and co-written by her frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner of The National, finds Abrams documenting her emotional experience with more precision and impact than ever before. As she narrates the end of a fractured relationship and all the confusion, frustration, and longing that come with it, the 23-year-old artist achieves a new level of lyrical honesty and self-possession — an element fully reflected in her quietly captivating vocal work.
![Ambush - Desecrator [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/06/4204806-2967079.jpg "Ambush - Desecrator [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)")
![Ambush - Firestorm [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/05/4204805-2967077.jpg "Ambush - Firestorm [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)")
![Ambush - Infidel [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/16/4204816-2967081.jpg "Ambush - Infidel [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)")
![Bailey's Nervous - Nervous Kats - Northwind Splatter [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/40/4196240-2961121.jpg "Bailey's Nervous - Nervous Kats - Northwind Splatter [Colored Vinyl] (Spla)")
![Thomas Bangalter - Mythologies [3LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/371/418467237371/418467237371:500.jpg "Thomas Bangalter - Mythologies [3LP]")
![Roger Bekono - Roger Bekono [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/200/418467240200/418467240200:500.jpg "Roger Bekono - Roger Bekono [LP]")
Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor, ribald intensity of bikutsi. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in the European “world music” scene as the 90s began. But the relentless sound of bikutsi developed in Yaoundé at the hands of Bekono and many others, as it developed from a village-based singing style performed mostly by women into a cosmopolitan music force that rivaled the popularity of established musics like Congolese rhumba, merengue and makossa. With his unique—some say suave—voice, Bekono contributed much over a period of more than 10 years as part of the evolution of this traditional rhythm-turned-urban dance movement.
![Bigwig - Stay Asleep - Yellow/Black Splatter (Blk) [Colored Vinyl]](https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/80/4206880-2969403.jpg "Bigwig - Stay Asleep - Yellow/Black Splatter (Blk) [Colored Vinyl]")
![Bjork - Selma Songs [Import]](https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/5/1/3/9/1399315.jpg "Bjork - Selma Songs [Import]")
![Bjork - Telegram [Limited Edition] (Tgv) [Remastered] [Reissue]](https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/6/1/3/9/1399316.jpg "Bjork - Telegram [Limited Edition] (Tgv) [Remastered] [Reissue]")
![Bonny Doon - Let There Be Music [LP]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/743/418467232743/418467232743:500.jpg "Bonny Doon - Let There Be Music [LP]")
Throughout the ten tracks in their new album Let There Be Music, you can hear the spaciousness Bonny Doon allowed themselves since their 2018 sleeper cult-classic Longwave. Their latest musical journey is one that has big payoffs for devoted followers and undeniable rewards for anyone just stumbling across the band for the first time. After extensively touring Longwave by supporting Band of Horses, Snail Mail and Waxahatchee, Lennox and Colombo were invited by Katie Crutchfield to collaborate on Waxahatchee’s critically acclaimed album Saint Cloud. “The experience raised the ceiling on our imagination,” Colombo said.
Soon after, Colombo and Kmiecik, whose steady percussion and devotion to the songs creates a container for the indelible guitar lines, both entered a time of serious healing, Jake tending to complications of his Crohn’s disease and Bobby to a brain injury and undiagnosed Lyme disease. While these detours of doctors’ appointments and experimental care were taking place, the members of Bonny Doon were also playing on Waxahatachee’s Saint Cloud tour. These obstacles and commitments drew out the making of Let There Be Music for several additional years, and in the process, redefined the record as an achievement in perseverance for the band.
On their long-awaited third album, we get a glimpse into the pure joy of Bonny Doon. The album serves as less of one conceptual story, and each song as their own individual offerings of putting words to the ordinary experience of being alive. The band is at their most dynamic and the songwriting deftly explores new terrain. Let There Be Music is brimming with small truths - both profound and mundane, comforting and difficult - and we are invited to revel in them all.
![Boo Radleys - Eight [Import Transparent Red LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467245925:500 "Boo Radleys - Eight [Import Transparent Red LP]")
![Bright Eyes - Cassadaga [Yellow 2P]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467243270:500 "Bright Eyes - Cassadaga [Yellow 2P]")
One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty-plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People’s Key, the band’s most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYC’s Town Hall. What’s more grown-up rock-star than that? And yet ...“Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now,” Oberst says, shaking his head. “There’s something affirming and disheartening about it. It’s like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe it’s just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning."
![Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) [Champagne Wave 2LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467243264:500 "Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) [Champagne Wave 2LP]")
One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty-plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People’s Key, the band’s most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYC’s Town Hall. What’s more grown-up rock-star than that? And yet ...“Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now,” Oberst says, shaking his head. “There’s something affirming and disheartening about it. It’s like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe it’s just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning."
![Bright Eyes - The People's Key [Tangerine Orange LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467243277:500 "Bright Eyes - The People's Key [Tangerine Orange LP]")
One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty-plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The People’s Key, the band’s most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured Cassadega they performed an epic 7 sold-out nights at NYC’s Town Hall. What’s more grown-up rock-star than that? And yet ...“Thematically those early songs are not that different than the songs I make now,” Oberst says, shaking his head. “There’s something affirming and disheartening about it. It’s like, have I really changed or grown? But maybe it’s just that I knew what I wanted to write about from the beginning."
![J. Cole - Born Sinner [2 LP]](https://img.broadtime.com/Photo/418467288604:500 "J. Cole - Born Sinner [2 LP]")
