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

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New Music Friday is here and there’s plenty of new music to choose from this week. Among picks for your attention are new albums by The Weather Station, David Gray, Victoria Canal and more!

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

  1. The Weather Station – Humanhood (Fat Possum) Tamara Lindeman has made the album with co-producer Marcus Paquin, drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, woodwind player Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley, along with contributions from Sam Amidon, James Elkington, and Joseph Shabason. Where 2021’s great Ignorance put the climate crisis through a personal lens, Humanhood looks even more inwardly as Lindeman went through a very difficult period of her life as she struggled with a mental health crisis.

The Weather Station

2. Victoria Canal – Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone) Singer/songwriter/actor Victoria Canal can count Coldplay’s Chris Martin as a fan and now you can hear why. Canal releases her debut album today, an album she calls, “unapologetically chaotic”. The culmination of a lifetime of musical knowledge, experimentation and a fearless approach to her craft, Canal’s debut full-length album marks a new chapter: a moment of newfound clarity about the artist she wants to be. Click here to watch the 13th Floor MusicTalk interview with Victoria Canal. 

Victoria Canal

3. Sophie Jamieson – I Still Want To Share (Bella Union) This is Sophie’s second album for Bella Union. The London-based artist has created an album full of intimate, visceral, uncomfortably honest songs. “We’ve made this thing that feels very, very much like me, but there are also a lot of different sonic flavours,” Sophie explains. “There’s a lot of warm autumnal colours, and then more glittery, dark, starry skies. Something about it all has really come together to illustrate some things that I didn’t know I needed to articulate in this way.”  Click here to watch the 13th Floor MusicTalk interview with Sophie Jamieson

Sophie Jamieson

4. David Gray – Dear Life (Secretly) Gray’s first new album since 2021 features new songs about the ups and downs of the human experience. “A lot has happened to me,” Gray said in a statement. “There’s been change on so many levels, all the ups and downs and dramas and tragedies and joys that the slow movement through life brings. This record has been a reckoning with stuff that’s been building up like static for years. But I say this with joy and a smile on my face. I know what I’ve done is as good as anything I could possibly do.”

David Gray

 

5. Songhoy Blues – Héritage (Transgressive) Héritage, the much-awaited new album by Songhoy Blues, sees one of Mali’s most lauded groups move into a more acoustic & creative re-imagining of the “desert blues” style that has brought them global acclaim; it represents a marked contrast to the heavier sound of their prior album, and deeper exploration of their musical roots. Click here to read the 13th Floor album review.

Songhoy Blues

 

 

 

 

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