New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: January 17, 2025

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It’s New Music Friday and we’ve got something for everyone today…everything from the Avant-pop of FKA twigs to a post-rock blast from Mogwai.

The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda picks these five new releases for your consideration:

  1. Larkin Poe –Bloom (Trick-Woo)  Larkin Poe is the GRAMMY® Award-winning duo of Georgia-bred, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell and…   “Bloom is about finding oneself amidst the noise of the world,” says Rebecca, “about wholeheartedly embracing the flaws and idiosyncrasies that make us real. In one way or another, pretty much all of the songs on this album are about finding yourself, knowing yourself, and separating the truth of who you are from societal expectations.”

Larkin Poe

2. The Veils – Asphodels (V2) Asphodels was recorded live to tape over five days at Roundhead Studios in Aotearoa New Zealand, in the spring of 2023 and is the seventh album from Finn Andrews and Co. “It’s a beautiful thing to watch this album finally seeing the light of day. It is an album obsessed with matters of love, life and death – I hope these songs help people to process these rather hefty matters in the same way they’ve helped me,” says Andrews.

 

3. FKA twigs – EUSEXUA (Young/Atlantic) Eusexua is FKA twigs’ first album in half a decade. “What is ‘Eeusexua’? Eusexua is a state of being. A feeling of momentary transcendence often evoked by art, music, sex, and unity. Eusexua can be followed by a state of bliss and feelings of limitless possibility. Also used to refer to: ‘The pinnacle of Human Experience’,” reads a press release. “It’s a nebulous concept, ever-evolving with those who experience it. But it is united through any moment in which we are fully embodying ourselves, present in the moment, disconnected from technology, synthesised with those around us. Click here to read the 13th Floor album review. 

FKA twigs

4. Charles “Wigg” Walker – This Love Is Gonna Last (Missing Piece) “Nashville’s reigning sultan of soul”   A masterclass collection of timeless R&B about love, trust and commitment, This Love Is Gonna Last shifts seamlessly between definitive eras of soul as it bounces from Philly and Detroit to Memphis and more. It’s the kind of album he’s been building towards for his entire career, a showcase not only for his unforgettable vocals but also for the unparalleled emotional range that’s defined his work for more than half a century.

Charles Wigg Walker

5. Mogwai – The Bad Fire (Rock Action) It’s the thirtieth anniversary of Mogwai! The arrival of a new Mogwai album – their eleventh – is therefore a cause for great celebration. The album’s title, The Bad Fire, is a working-class Scottish term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through, particularly keyboardist Barry Burns. ‘Trauma’s a weird thing. I’m still not through it,’ he admits. ‘We were getting ready to start making the album and the doctors were saying my daughter was lucky to be alive. She’s had a bone marrow transplant, she’s come through the chemo and she’s going to be fine. But I’ve had an awful two years. I can only say that the whole time was a complete fucking nightmare.’ This may be Mogwai’s thirtieth anniversary, but you will not hear that in this record. Dwelling in the past, after all, is only an option for those bands who have not found Eternity. Click here to read the 13th Floor album review. 

Mogwai

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