New Music Valentines

This Valentines KBGA has lots of love to give to the new music in our library. Here are the new releases that have stolen our hearts so far this year.

Local Love:

Wilma Laverne Miner, Used To

Wilma Laverne Miner is our true valentine today. Kaylen Alan Krebsbach can break our hearts any day singing songs to dance and cry to. Her voice has softness and grit. The EP is strung together with catchy country melodies and subtle-yet-epic synth. Sad bangers turn heartache into healing and we are so here for it.

Panther Car, Pomegranate

Panther Car’s has our hearts full, eyes teary and ears tingling. Their new album is full of lush songs that lull with surreal swagger. Dynamic bass and rhythm drive watery guitar and airy vocals.

Dolt 45, Dolt 45

Local hip hop sweetheart Thin Truk and his sonic-soulmate of a producer Hound Sound have created a mouthwatering new album. Each song is intentional and meticulous without losing a chaotic, fresh nature. Thin Truk’s lyricism flows with humor, humility and confidence. This poppy album is full of saccharine auto-tune. It will have you bouncing off the walls and dancing your dungarees on a sugar high.

Katana Boy, Realm of Resilience

Everything local beats producer Katana Boy creates just keeps getting more and more dynamic. These beats are sedated and saturated, calm as clouds but with an underlying current. We love these songs because they are perfect to tune out or focus on. No matter what you are doing they instantly bring you into a relaxed, meditative mind-space.

Our other new release crushes…

Hey Cowboy!, Get in my fanny pack and let’s go

You know how love sometimes make you feel like you are listening to lounge music in outer space riding a horse? Hey Cowboy! Takes you there. These wonky synth grooves are fantastical and fun loving and will comfort you in all your love sickness, so just “Get in my fanny pack and let’s go.”

Sløtface, Sorry for the Late Reply

We have a big crush on Sløtface. This witty Norwegian band makes pragmatic punk that doesn’t have to reach far to grasp you by the collar and shake you. It dismantles daily internal dialogue with relatable ponderings of telecommunication, materialism, and “new year, new me” mythologies. Sløtface slams down with menacing guitar riffs and poppy vocals.

Torres, Silver Tongue

We have fallen deeply into the dark and celestial world of “Silver Tongue.” This album is laced in ephemeral moments of despair through lyrics sung with cosmic delivery. We are fully under Torres’s spell and loving every moment of moody guitar and spacey electropop.

Ethan Gruska, En Garde

This album has atmospheric attention-to-detail that will make your heart thump. Throughout, dreamy sound scapes coat lush R&B pop melodies. The album is graced by likes of Lianne La Havas, Moses Summey and Phoebe Bridgers. Gruska, who helped produce Bridger’s debut album “Stranger in the Alps,” is known for his eerie and whimsical production, enveloping raw piano into ethereal echo. Throughout, he traces the roots of his nostalgia and finds meaningful reflection in present life.

La Roux, Supervision

Thank god La Roux is back with another album of absolute bops. After a six year hiatus, “Supervision” beams with groovy soul-tinged pop. The songs are full of positivity that feels unforced. Upbeat and catchy melodies will get you off your ass dancing and singing along.

Assembled by music director Noelle Huser