Music Adds March 3, 2020

(Left): London-born ALA.NI continues her unique brand of engineered a cappella grooves with only minimal instrumentation on her sophomore album ACCA, featuring cameos from both Iggy Pop and Lakeith Stanfield. (Right): Brooklyn-based drummer and composer Kassa Overall takes on everything from the prison system to mental illness with his sophomore album I Think I’m Good, a stunning fusion of Jazz and Hip Hop with many notable guest voices including Angela Davis. (Below): Check out the star-studded video for Stephen Malkmus‘s second single “Shadowbanned” from his forthcoming release Traditional Techniques due out this Friday.
**HIGHLIGHTS**

**Best post-modern choir featuring Iggy Pop: ALA.NI: ACCA
**Best bridge between Hip Hop and Jazz on which to demonstrate for causes of justice: Kassa Overall: I Think I'm Good
**Best musical storyteller for a long train ride: Aaron Beckum: Songs From A Triangle Room
**Best musical landscape painter for a long train ride: Nathaniel Rateliff: And It’s Still Alright
**Best soundtrack for the modern Western: Sunny Jain: Wild Wild East
**Best exploration of the living soul of the south: Chanda Rule + Sweet Emma Band: Hold On

BAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENRE

Aaron Beckum/Songs From A Triangle Room/Devil In the Woods/Alt Country
ALA.NI/ACCA/s/r/Soul Pop
An American Forrest/O Bronder, Donder Yonder?/OK Records/Americana
Asgeir/Bury the Moon/One Little Indian/Indie Pop
Best Coast/Always Tomorrow/Concord/Power Pop
Caribou/Suddenly/Merge/ElectroPop
Caroline Rose/Superstar/New West/Alt Pop
Caroline Rose/Superstar/New West/Alt Pop
Chanda Rule + Sweet Emma Band/Hold On/PAO Records/Blues, Gospel, Jazz
Cubicolor/Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night/Anjunadeep/ElectroPop
Field Music/Making a New World/Memphis Industries/Art Pop/**vinyl**
Guided By Voices/Surrender Your Poppyfield/GBV Inc./Indie Rock
Hello Forever/Whatever It Is/s/r/Art Pop
James Hunter Six/Nick Of Time/Daptone/Blues & Soul
James Supercave/M.O.W.O./s/r/Indie Pop
Jane Herships/The Home Record/s/r/Dream Pop
John Sneider/The Scrapper/Cellar Music/Jazz
Jupe Jupe/Nightfall EP/s/r/Synth Pop
Kassa Overall/I Think I'm Good/Brownswood Recordings/Hip Hop
Lee Ranaldo & Raul Refree/Names of North End Women/Mute/Experimental Rock
Les Deuxluxes/Lighter Fluid/Bonsound/Garage Rock
Mapache/From Liberty Street/Yep Roc/Folk Rock
Nathaniel Rateliff/And It's Still Alright/Stax/Roots Rock
Niia/II: La Vella Vita/s/r/R&B
Parlor Walls/Heavy Tongue/Famous Swords/Industrial Noise Pop
Port Juvee/Motion Control/Garment District/Post Punk
Purr/Like New/Anti-/Indie Pop
Rachelle Garniez/Gone To Glory/Storysound/Folk Pop
Ratboys/Printer's Devil/Topshelf/Indie Pop
Rustic Overtones/Rustic Overtones/s/r/Psych Soul
Secret Sisters/Saturn Return/New West/Americana
Shady Nasty/Bad Posture EP/Royal Mountain/Post Punk
Spendtime Palace/Room With A View EP/Park the Van/Indie Rock
Sunny Jain/Wild Wild East/Smithsonian Folkways/Folk Fusion
Taylor Ashton/The Romantic/Signature Sounds/Folk Rock
The AJJ/Good Luck, Everybody!/Self-released/Indie Folk Punk/**vinyl**
The Mary Jo Curry Band/Front Porch/s/r/Blues