My Morning Jacket, Ringo Starr, Blondshell & 7 New Songs to Stream Right Now

Each week, the Jacksonville Music Experience team shares a list of new songs to stream. No genre restrictions, just songs we thought were worth your ears. Want this list to arrive weekly to your inbox? Sign up for the JME newsletter.

Rock

My Morning Jacket – “Time Waited”

Recommended If You Like: Wings, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses

Opening with a melancholic piano loop, “Time Waited” finds the enduring alternative-rock band My Morning Jacket entering its classic rock phase. From the band’s forthcoming is (due out March 21 on ATO), the song/album was produced by stadium-rock soothsayer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam), and “Time Waited” certainly has anthemic ambitions.

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Indie Folk 

Samia – “Bovine Excision” 

Recommended If You Like: Waxahatchee, Sasami, Courtney Barnett

“I want to be impossible,” sings the talented singer-songwriter Samia on the chorus to “Bovine Excision” the evocatively-titled and sonically eerie first single from a new album Bloodless (out April 25 on Grand Jury). The line encapsulates a new posture for the 28-year old artist, known for cryptic lyricism (Example from the new song: “Diet Dr Pepper, Raymond Carver, Sitting in the bathtub while they’re knocking”), who said about her new record, “”It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible.”

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Country/Rock

Ringo Starr – “Look Up” (feat. Molly Tuttle) 

Recommended If You Like: Rolling Stones, John Cale, The Beatles

A (Ringo) (Country) Starr is Born! Get it? The famed Beatle has a new album of country-inclined songs. The album’s title-track, the brief country-rocker “Look Up” features Molly Tuttle. Written by T-Bone Burnett, the song finds the Brit sounding a bit like a less-cryptic Vintage Violence-era John Cale with more Bakersfield influence, studio sheen and plenty of that Starkey charm.

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Indie/Grunge

Blondshell – “T&A”

Recommended If You Like: Snail Mail, Bully, Squirrel Flower

No contemporary indie artist has intuited the soft-loud dynamics, the teeth-cracking crunch, the apathetic pose of grunge better than Blondshell. On the acerbically funny (and rocking) “T&A,” the first single from her sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture (out May 2 on Partisan), the singer-songwriter proves a deft armchair psychologist, nonchalantly applying Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler’s theory of compensation as defense mechanism. 

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LoFi Beats/Hip Hop

Adrian Quesada – “Tent City” 

Recommended If You Like: Pharcyde, Black Pumas, Jurassic 5 

For the soundtrack to the new film Home Free, Adrian Quesada, the psych-soul super-producer behind Black Pumas, enlisted an eclectic group of collaborators – from alt-country artist Neil Francis to guitar icon J. Mascis to famed Beastie Boys keyboard/melodica player Money Mark. On the laidback “Tent City” Quesada teams with two golden-era hip-hop legends, The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 and Jurassic 5’s Akil the MC on a jazzed-up, socially conscious track.   

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Electronic/Pop

Maribou State – “All I Need”

Recommended If You Like: Bonobo, SAULT, Fatboy Slim

London electronic duo Maribou State has shared “All I Need,” a new single from the forthcoming Hallucinating In Love (out January 31 on Ninja Tune). Driven by a glitchy, Aphex-Twin-referencing beat, and awash in watercolor smears of organ, the song – which features syrupy vocals by Andreya Triana – sounds like a You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby B-side (in the best way) and showcases the duo’s soulful eclecticism. 

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Electronic/Hip Hop

TOKiMONSTA – “Feel It” (feat. Grouptherapy)

Recommended If You Like: Flying Lotus, KAYTRANADA, Little Dragon

Grammy-nominated polymath TOKiMONSTA (aka Jennifer Lee)’s forthcoming Eternal Reverie (out March 7 on her own label, Young Art) overfloweth with collaborations with a murderer’s row of innovative artists, from Cakes Da Killa to Anderson. Paak. On the house-inflected “Feel It,” the DJ, producer and labelhead teams up with LA dub duo Grouptherapy for a hip-hop-straddling four-on-the-floor groover. 

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