There's so much music and yet so little time to listen to it, which means you barely have enough time to find it. Let us help you with this little roundup of some albums you can stream online this week.
Artist: Tinashe
Album: Amethyst
Where: Stereogum
"The seven-track tape features production from internet beat genius Ryan Hemsworth and the Bay Area’s rising star Iamsu!, among others."
Artist: Courtney Barnett
Album: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Where: NME
"My songs follow me as a normal human with normal emotions, so there are great highs and great lows. They span everything in my life."
Artist: Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Album: Moorka
Where: Exclaim.ca
"Sounding unlike anything else out there, the new album combines traditional musical styles with a raucous energy, bringing deep-rooted culture from afar into a modern, Canadian setting."
Artist: Dave Segedy
Album: Schrodego
Where: Exclaim.ca
"The album opens with what Segedy knows best — drums. 'Kevin Durant' is a minute-and-a-half drum solo tribute to the titular basketball star that rolls into the rest of the record... [i]t's lo-fi one-man rock 'n' roll at its finest."
Artist: Van Morrison
Album: Duets: Re-working the Catalogue
Where: CBC Music
"[T]he appeal of this record: all of these marquee vocalists sing with Morrison the way we've been singing with Morrison's records for more than 50 years — openly, joyously, freely."
Artist: Hayden
Album: hey love
Where: Exclaim.ca
"Hey Love is a continuation of a music career that 'has woven one of the most consistent through-lines of musical narratives imaginable, leading his audience through a scrapbook of downtimes fought and resolved, love lost and love solved.'"
Artists: Various
Album: Catch the Throne: The Mixtape Vol II
Where: Soundcloud
"Last year, someone at HBO had the frankly absurd idea to put together Catch the Throne, a mixtape compilation built around Game of Thrones. This year, they’ve made another one, and they’ve gone ahead and made it even weirder."