Music Adds April 30, 2020

(Left): Well worth the wait, Fiona Apple‘s stunning new album Fetch the Boltcutters, recorded largely at home in Venice, CA, defies convention and provides a truly enjoyable and constantly surprising musical journey through sound experimentations with everything from her own voice to dog barks to found percussion. (Right): Colombian/Canadian artist Lido Pimienta asserts her station in the musical mainstream with her genre-defying and exquisitely crafted sophomore album Miss Colombia. (Below): Watch Laura Marling‘s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, a lovely companion piece for her beautiful new album Song For Our Daughter.
**HIGHLIGHTS**

**Best crowning of a modern Cumbia queen: Lido Pimienta: Miss Colombia
**Best audio porthole into the musical experimentations of a master: Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
**Best complexly feminine musings of a sublime troubador: Laura Marling: Song For Our Daughter
**Best short and very sweet interlude: Dirty Projectors: Windows Open EP
**Best musical demonstration of our global connectedness: Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn: Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn
**Best satisfyingly crafted pop to just shut up and dance to: Peter Bjorn & John: Endless Dream
**Best old sounds for new times: Pokey LaFarge: Rock Bottom Rhapsody
**Best gorgeous journey to the Meaning stage of grief: Zelma Stone: Dreamland

BAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENRE

Bait Bag/Consider This A Warning/s/r/Indie Rock
Basia Bulat/Are You In Love?/Secret City Records/Indie Pop
Bloodshot Bill/Get Loose Or Get Lost/Goner Records/Garage Rock
Catholic Action/Celebrated By Strangers/Palo Santo/Indie Rock
CocoRosie/Put The Shine On/Marathon Artists/Indie Pop
Damaged Bug/Bug On Yonkers/Castle Face/Psych Rock
Deap Lips/Deap Lips/Cooking Vinyl/Space Synth Pop
Dirty Projectors/Windows Open EP/Domino/Indie Rock
Emancipator/Mountain of Memory/Loci/Electronic
EOB/Earth/Capitol/Electronic
Fiona Apple/Fetch the Bolt Cutters/Epic/Indie Pop
Flat Worms/Antarctica/God? Records/Post Punk
Jah9/Note To Self/VP Records/Reggae
Jaunt/All In One/s/r/Indie Pop
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/Chunky Shrapnel/ATO/Fuzz Rock
Laura Marling/Song For Our Daughter/Chrysalis/Partisan/Indie Folk Pop
Lido Pimienta/Miss Colombia/ANTI-/Indie Cumbia Pop
Lilly Hiatt/Walking Proof/New West/Roots Rock
Logan Ledger/Logan Ledger /Rounder/Country
M. Ward/Migration Stories/Anti-/Folk Rock
Myrkur/Folkesange/Relapse/Folk
Nduduzo Makhathini/Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds/Blue Note/Jazz
Once and Future Band/Deleted Scenes/Castle Face/Space Soul Pop
Peter Bjorn & John/Endless Dream/s/r/Indie Pop
Pokey LaFarge/Rock Bottom Rhapsody/New West/Vintage Pop
RJD2/The Fun Ones/RJ's Electrical Connections/Hip Hop
Sam Huber/Gravity Insanity/True Groove/Future Funk
Skylar Gudasz/Cinema/Suah Sounds/Indie Folk Pop
The Exbats/Kicks, Hits, and Fits/Burger Records/Garage Punk
The Mobros/Characters/s/r/Blues Rock
The Reverend Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood/Blue Sky/Put Together Music/Blues
Thundercat/It Is What It Is/Brainfeeder/Hip Hop Fusion
Ultraista/Sister/Partisan/Indie Pop
Various Artists/Penrose Records Vol 1/Daptone/Soul
Waxahatchee/Saint Cloud/Merge/Indie Rock
Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn/Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn/Smithsonian Folkways/Folk
Yves Tumor/Heaven To A Tortured Mind/Warp/Indie Pop
Zelma Stone/Dreamland/s/r/Indie Rock