Three Tuesday Listens

My best of March is coming, but here are three albums I'd highly recommend to listen to today.

Dawes' new album is streaming on Amazon. Stories Don't End releases next Tuesday.

The new album by the Cold War Kids is out today!

I really enjoyed the new album by the Villagers, streaming now on NPR Music. 

For a follow-up, O'Brien looked outside himself to craft {Awayland}, an idiosyncratic and surprising collection of songs that aren't so simple, in part because the singer recruited outside collaborators and listened to their ideas. The result is a mix of thoughtful approachability ("My Lighthouse") and an assortment of trips down more surprising side roads. A stormy epic, "The Waves" billows out majestically, while "Earthly Pleasure" packs roughly eight minutes worth of song — murder, intrigue, the devil, an array of human failings — into a tidy four-minute package.

All three are worth downloading once available.