After years of excellent mixtapes and stardom in the hip-hop world, the big day has finally come for Migos. Their first official studio album drops this week and the red carpet is long overdue. In addition to that, we’ve got new records from Titus Andronicus, Teenage Time Killers, Albert Hammond, Jr., Gunplay and more. Here are the new albums you need to hear this week.
Migos – Yung Rich Nation
This album truly feels like a victory lap for the Atlanta trio Migos. While members Quavo and Takeoff wait on Offset to be released from jail, the two are doing their best to carry on the group’s trap legacy.
“One Time,” “Migos Origin,” and “Spray The Champagne” have already been hot tracks, and the album boasts guest appearances from Young Thug and Chris Brown to name a few. Besides, when you have Tom Brady going hard to your music, it’s gotta feel like nobody can touch you.
Teenage Time Killers – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Dave Grohl has essentially established himself as rock’s most fervent historian and librarian. Both the Sound City and Sonic Highways projects have put his nerdiness about music history on full display. The megagroup Teenage Time Killers, while not started by Grohl, is the exact thing he would attach himself to and help facilitate.
The “greatest hits” compilation features so many punk and hard-rock legends, from bands like Queens Of The Stone Age, Corrosion of Conformity, Dead Kennedys, Lamb Of God, Bad Religion and more. He told Rolling Stone it was like “Hardcore Karaoke.” If there was any partner to have for such a thing, Dave would be the first choice.
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters
With his third solo album, Albert Hammond, Jr. is back with another collection packed with riffs and ideas that are great but don’t fit his day job with The Strokes. And from what we’ve heard so far in “Born Slippy,” “Side Boob,” and “Losing Touch,” this may be Hammond’s poppiest effort yet. With the more experimental direction that Julian Casablancas went in with his solo effort, Tyranny, last year, it’s a a little clearer to see how the two minds came together and combined to write some of the best rock songs of the 2000s.
Here are the other album releases of the week:
Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Gunplay – Living Legend
Lianne La Havas – Blood
Lil Dicky – Professional Rapper
Natalie Imbruglia – Male
Joss Stone – Water For Your Soul
The Prodigy – The Night Is My Friend EP
The Mynabirds – Lovers Know
Finger Eleven – Five Crooked Lines
Roy Woods – Exis EP
Insane Clown Posse – The Marvelous Missing Link (Found)
The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It