New Music Friday: May 1

The best new albums out this week include an upside down sound from Car Seat Headrest, the technicolor world of Chicano Batman, a mind-blowing debut from actor Caleb Landry Jones and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Car Seat Headrest — Making a Door Less Open
Featured Songs: "Hollywood" and "There Must Be More Than Blood"
2. American Aquarium — Lamentations
Featured Song: "Me + Mine"
3. Diet Cig — Do You Wonder About Me?
Featured Song: "Broken Body"
4. Chicano Batman — Invisible People
Featured Song: "Blank Slate"
5. DELANILA — Overloaded
Featured Song: "The Philosopher"
6. Damien Jurado — What's New, Tomboy?
Featured Song: "Arthur Aware"
7. Johanna Warren — Chaotic Good
Featured Song: "Faking Amnesia"
8. Caleb Landry Jones — The Mother Stone
Featured Song: "Flag Day / Mother Stone"

Other notable releases for May 1: Austra — HiRUDiN; Ben Lukas Boysen — Mirage; Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric; The Goods — II; Hot Country Knights — The K Is Silent; Joan as Police Woman — Cover Two; Jojo — Good to Know; Kenny Chesney — Here and Now; Man Man — Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between.

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