New Music

Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak produces Perfect Shapes, the second album for the Oakland-based songwriter and musician, out Oct. 5.

The band's latest song and video, "Caravan," dreams of a more inclusive, kinder world.

The release, An American Treasure, is due out Sept. 28 and will include more unreleased songs, outtakes, alternate versions, rarities, live tracks and deep cuts.

On this week's playlist, Spanish rapper Mala Rodríguez returns with her first solo track in five years, Gaby Moreno delivers an old pro-immigrant anthem with renewed fervor, and Cubaton goes global.

The Compton rapper enlists the R&B stalwart's sultry vocals to give fans another candidate for song of the summer.

Love doesn't come easy. Just ask some of the artists on this week's show whose songs reflect the sour, absurd, and heartrending aspects of intimacy.

John Prine takes us around Nashville for his "Knockin' on Your Screen Door" video, featuring friends like Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and Dan Auerbach.

Roy Montgomery's music is like swimming through phantoms. The New Zealand guitarist enlists Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr, Julianna Barwick and others to sing on Suffuse, out Aug. 17.

The Russian electronic musician's oddly meditative music is set to the domestic comforts of the mundane.

David Bazan brings the downcast indie-rock banger to its raging crisis. In the process, he resurrects the sonic sphere of Pedro the Lion.

On the group's second album, Kam Franklin and The Suffers revel in the multidimensional, multicultural possibilities of their take on soul.

On Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the band's first album in three years, Deafheaven leans more fully than ever before into elements that inspire alternate outrage and obsession.