{"id":564727,"date":"2026-03-27T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564727\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:03:09","slug":"12-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-robyn-snail-mail-chief-keef-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564727\/","title":{"rendered":"12 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Robyn, Snail Mail, Chief Keef, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than two decades have passed since Paula Kelley, a co-founding singer-guitarist of Boston shoegazers Drop Nineteens<\/a>, came out of the studio with a solo album. \u201cIt took getting sober, learning how to exist as maybe not a whole person or a well person, but a person who is on the way to becoming those things,\u201d she says of the writing process. A couple of years after Drop Nineteens\u2019 own comeback<\/a>, Kelley\u2019s new LP, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out, pulls up her shoegaze roots and fashions them into vaporous, alt-rock gems that shimmer all the way to the stars.<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a>
Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a>
Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtney Barnett:\u00a0Creature of Habit\u00a0[Mom+Pop]\"Courtney<\/p>\n

In the realm of garage rock, Courtney Barnett<\/a> is one of the more existential practioners\u2014whether she’s kicking back into pure butt rock or leaning towards post-punk, she\u2019s always on the hunt for greater meaning and generative purpose. Recorded largely at a Joshua Tree sublet, her new album Creature of Habit has a worn-in, dusty feel worthy of its title, courtesy of clanging guitars, sharp bass and blown-out drum loops. Barnett taps Waxahatchee for a guest verse and John Congleton for co-production duties.<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a>
Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a>
Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

Chief Keef: Skeletor [43B]\"Image<\/p>\n

Three years after the critically acclaimed Almighty So 2,<\/a> Chief Keef returns with the surprise release of Skeletor. The Chicago-grown rapper, now 30, is at his most mature here, continuing the polished sound of Almighty 2 while leaning into horror-show aesthetics\u2014ominous bells, mischievous piano flourishes, bass you can feel in your chest. His deadpan humor is still intact too. Just listen to the outro from \u201cHarry Potter\u201d: \u201cNiggas chasin’ like Ron Stoppable,\u00a0Kim Possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two decades have passed since Paula Kelley, a co-founding singer-guitarist of Boston shoegazers Drop Nineteens, came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,19157],"class_list":{"0":"post-564727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-out-this-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}