NEW CDS
IN STORES THIS WEEK
Mumford & Sons,
“Wilder Mind” (Glassnote). Propelled to fame after two albums and pummeled for a Coldplay-style approach to roots music, this London band puts away the banjos, leader Marcus Mumford looks somewhat inward, and the songs on this third album turn up the rock volume, increasing the Coldplay resemblance.
My Morning Jacket, “The Waterfall” (Ato/capitol). The Louisville band led gently by Jim James revisits its alt-country origins on its seventh album, although, with all the left turns and tangents My Morning Jacket has taken, the route it takes is circuitous and scenic.
Torres, “Sprinter” (Partisan). Mackenzie Scott, whose stage name is her grandfather’s surname, is not at all the Georgia peach of her upbringing as she burns through a scary, and scarily good, second indie-rock album that stares at her Baptist background and her long conflicted relationship with it.
Audio Adrenaline, “Sound of the Saints” (Fair Trade Services). Contemporary Christian rock band originally formed in Kentucky in the mid-1980s and reformed with an altered lineup in 2012, keeps up its new phase with its second post-reformation album.
Best Coast,
“California Nights” (Harvest). L.A. indierock duo of one man, one woman, creates a third album with less fuzz than the previous two, revealing even more of a tendency toward gawkiness and wooziness.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Live in Paris” (Vagrant). On Feb. 24 last year, a French crowd at the Theatre Trianon got sweaty with the San Francisco psych-rock trio BRMC, and it was preserved for posterity on this double-lp and single-dvd set.
Breakage,
“When the Night Comes” (Digital Soundboy). London DJ and producer James Boyle brings out his nighttime alter ego, Breakage, for a disc of drum-and-bass, house and other EDM excursions given human life by several guest vocalists.
Cantalouper, “Reproduction” (Invisible Library). Previously associated with Urge Overkill favorite Kramer and Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan, this Columbia, Mo., indie band has used fan financing to get its second album of jangly guitar stuff out there.
Chui Wan,
“Chui Wan” (Maybe Mars). There’s an experimentalmusic scene in Beijing, and Chui Wan is at its forefront, dropping a second album that makes the quartet sound somewhat like an Eastern cousin to Stereolab and Radiohead.
Ciara, “Jackie” (Epic). Cici, as some call the R&B singer and starlet, is making sure everyone knows about her sixth album and isn’t letting it wither for lack of guest stars and producers, including Dr. Luke, Pitbull and Missy Elliott.
Mikal Cronin,
“MCIII” (Merge). Occasionally an ancillary member of Ty Segall’s band, Cronin prefers taking the do-it-yourself belief to pleasant extremes. On his third LP, he once again plays every instrument himself and turns the last six songs into a suite about his days in school in the Pacific Northwest.
— By Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel Read more about new CD releases at jsonline.com/music.