Need some new tunes to stave off those winter blahs? Or maybe just to escape the crushing realities of the world for a while? These are some of the new sights and sounds that have been pleasing the eyeholes and earholes of Wet Thud over the course of January.
#VIDEOS
BIG SEAN / BRITISH SEA POWER / CHERRY GLAZERR / DIRTY PROJECTORS / ELBOW / FATHER JOHN MISTY / JAMIROQUAI / JENS LEKMAN / THE MAGNETIC FIELDS / MISSY ELLIOTT X LAMB / NELLY FURTADO / POND / REAL ESTATE / SAMPHA / SLEAFORD MODS
#SONGS
ANOHNI / ARCADE FIRE X MAVIS STAPLES / THE BLACK MADONNA / GRANDADDY / JAPANDROIDS / MAGGIE ROGERS / MAJOR LAZER X NICKI MINAJ X PARTYNEXTDOOR / MEW / THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS / PINS X IGGY POP / SLOWDIVE / SYD / THUNDERCAT X MICHAEL MCDONALD X KENNY LOGGINS / VEILHYMN / WIRE / YOUNG FATHERS X LEITH CONGREGATIONAL CHOIR
#ALBUMS
AUSTRA / CLOUD NOTHINGS / MATT MARTIANS / RUN THE JEWELS / THE XX
#VIDEOS
Big Sean "Moves" (GOOD Music/Def Jam)
British Sea Power "Bad Bohemian" (Caroline International/Golden Chariot)
Cherry Glazerr "Nuclear Bomb" (Secretly Canadian)
Dirty Projectors "Little Bubble" (Domino)
Elbow "Gentle Storm" (Polydor)
Father John Misty "Pure Comedy" (Sub Pop)
Jamiroquai "Automaton" (Virgin EMI)
Jens Lekman "What's That Perfume That You Wear?" (Secretly Canadian)
The Magnetic Fields "'83: Foxx And I" (Nonesuch)
Missy Elliott X Lamb "I'm Better" (Atlantic/The Gold Mind)
Nelly Furtado "Pipe Dreams" (Nelstar)
Pond "Sweep Me Off My Feet" (Spinning Top)
Real Estate "Darling" (Domino)
Sampha "(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano" (Young Turks)
Sleaford Mods "B.H.S." (Rough Trade)
#SONGS
ANOHNI "Paradise"
From the forthcoming Paradise EP, out March 17 on Secretly Canadian
Arcade Fire X Mavis Staples "I Give You Power"
Single out now on Infinite Content
The Black Madonna "He Is The Voice I Hear"
Single out now on We Still Believe
Grandaddy "Evermore"
From the forthcoming Last Place, out in March on 30th Century Records
Japandroids "Near To The Wild Heart Of Life"
From the album of the same name, out now on Anti-
Maggie Rogers "On + Off"
Single out now on Debay Sounds
Major Lazer X Nicki Minaj X PARTYNEXTDOOR "Run Up"
From the forthcoming Music Is The Weapon, on Mad Decent
Mew "Carry Me To Safety"
From the forthcoming Visuals, out April 28 on Play It Again Sam
The New Pornographers "High Ticket Attractions"
From the forthcoming Whiteout Conditions, out April 7 from Concord Music Group
PINS X Iggy Pop "Aggrophobe"
From the forthcoming Bad Thing EP, out March 24 on Haus Of Pins
Slowdive "Star Roving"
Single out now on Dead Oceans
Syd "Body"
From the forthcoming Fin, out February 3 on Columbia
Thundercat X Michael McDonald X Kenny Loggins "Show You The Way"
From the forthcoming Drunk, out February 24 on Brainfeeder
VeilHymn "Hymn"
Single out now on Domino
Wire "Short Elevated Period"
From the forthcoming Silver/Lead, out March 31 on pinkflag
Young Fathers X Leith Congregational Choir "Only God Knows"
From the soundtrack to 'T2 Trainspotting,' out now on Polydor
#ALBUMS
👍ALBUM OF THE MONTH: The XX I See You (Young Turks)
Standouts: Dangerous, Replica, On Hold, Say Something Loving
Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound (Carpark)
Standouts: Modern Act, Enter Entirely, Internal World
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 3 (Run The Jewels Inc.)
Standouts: Talk To Me, 2100, Legend Has It, Call Ticketron
Matt Martians The Drum Chord Theory (Three Quarter)
Standouts: Diamond In Da Ruff, Dent Jusay, Spend The Night/If You Were My GF
Austra Future Politics (Hip Harp)
Standouts: Utopia, Future Politics, Gaia, I Love You More Than You Love Yourself
title photo: halle ferrier