# New Music Fridays **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-music-fridays/785436 "2017-04-28T13:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-music-fridays/785436/1 "2017-04-28T13:48:50Z")
Music is a constantly evolving and updating art form. The way we can access it has changed so much from when I would go to a record store and buy tapes at 12:01am on a [Tuesday](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/music-industry-sets-friday-as-new-global-release-day-20150226). Now, we can listen to whole albums on phones and computers with streaming apps and services. It’s easier to find new music, except now we’re almost spoilt for choice. So how about a thread for discussing the new music getting released on Fridays? [Here’s what’s out 28 April, 2017 (album-artist)](http://www.allmusic.com/newreleases) Humanz -Gorillaz More Life -Drake Pleasure -Feist God’s Problem Child -Willie Nelson Sad Clowns & Hillbillies -John Mellencamp 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde -Old Crow Medicine Show Volume 1 -BNQT Let the Dancers Inherit the Party -British Sea Power Parking Lot Symphony -Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews The Dreamer is the Dream -Chris Potter Form of Play: A Retrospective -The Sneetches Gargoyle -Mark Lanegan All This I Do for Glory -Colin Stetson Here on Earth -Jenny Scheinman Flowers: Beautiful Life, Vol. 2 -Jimmy Greene Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm -Robert Cray / Hi Rhythm Band async -Ryuichi Sakamoto Everything So Far -Pinegrove New Trick -Skating Polly Places -Lea Michele Still Life -Little Cub Los Angeles Police Department -Los Angeles Police Department Modern Plagues -The Whistles & the Bells Untitled -WALL Rímur -Arve Henriksen / Trio Mediæval Liszt & Wagner -Imogen Cooper Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter: Princess, nun and musician -Celestial Sirens / Musica Secreta / Deborah Roberts / Laurie Stras British Tone Poems, Vol. 1 -Rumon Gamba / BBC National Orchestra of Wales Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Works -Sandro Russo ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-music-fridays/785436/2 "2017-04-28T13:59:14Z")
Gorillaz’s new collection Humanz is typically something I would skip. Their previous albums never really did much for me. There just never seemed to connect with me and I’m not sure why. It’s got the ingredients that could appeal, but it’s baked at the wrong temperature or there’s too much salt. “Halfway to the Halfway House” is a perfect example of that. The vocals are great, it’s got a good beat, but then there’s the repeated sound of someone playing a saw with a bow on a theremin that is sonically displeasing. The one stand out track for me is "Let Me Out (feat Mavis Staples & Pusha T). Lyrics are topical and political without being heavy handed. The soulful pleading of Mavis Staples really rounds out the emotion that is lacking on some of the other tracks. A second track, “We Got the Power (feat Jehnny Beth)” could have been another good track, a more upbeat track but it ends too soon and makes it feel like almost a throw away.