• New Release Round-Up 10-29-21

  

  Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean - Decca
  In spite of the various crises that have occurred since 2017's Native Invader, Tori Amos has emerged with Ocean To Ocean, her most personal work in years - an album bursting with warmth and connection, with deep roots in her earliest song writing. Written during the third lockdown in Cornwall this year, Ocean to Ocean is a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again.
  
    

  

  Mastodon - Hushed And Grim - Reprise
  Mastodon release their anxiously awaited ninth full-length album, Hushed And Grim, via Reprise Records. Over the past year, the group recorded the album in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill [Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel] behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work to date, it consists of 15 tracks, surveying sonic landscapes of rock, psychedelia, punk, metal, alternative, and prog threaded together by the innately expressive musical interplay of these four musicians. At the same time, an atmosphere of loss, loneliness, and longing permeates through the trio of cathartic vocals as they musically say goodbye to old friend, confidant, and longtime manager the late Nick John by architecting a magnum opus that bears the influence of his eternal memory.
  
    

  

  Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color: Deluxe Edition - ATO Records
  Deluxe edition of the groundbreaking, genre-defying second album by Alabama Shakes. Certified gold and the winner of four Grammys, Rolling Stone called "Sound & Color” a "weirder, woozier, fiercer and sexier record than their debut in nearly every way.” This repackaged set features revised artwork, new photos, and seven bonus tracks pulled from unreleased studio material, b-sides and live songs cut at the world renowned Capitol Records Studio A.
  
    

  

  SUSTO - Time In The Sun - New West Records
  Time In The Sun is the 4th full length album from Charleston, SC band SUSTO. The album was written and recorded in the midst of a lot of life changing events for lead writer/singer Justin Osborne. Like everyone around the world, Osborne was navigating the global issues felt from the pandemic while normal life continued with its own blessings and challenges.. "We were navigating the global and national issues that everyone else was dealing with, but also I became a father and also lost my father. There was a lot of contemplation going on in my brain, a lot of personal evolution going on in my life, and songwriting was my way of working through it all. The title Time in the Sun is meant to be a monument to my own human existence and also a tribute to the human experience in general. I wouldn’t claim to understand what it means to be a human, from the countless different perspectives of the world, but I do have my own experience to reflect on and I want to be able to express and explain that in some way. I guess this album is an attempt at that. At the core though, it’s just a collection of songs about my life and my feelings."
  
    

  

  Bad Wolves - Dear Monsters - Better Noise Music
  Expectations never mattered to Bad Wolves. Instead, the Los Angeles band fused unpredictable metallic intensity and impressive instrumental proficiency to arena-ready hooks, transforming from underdogs into elite platinum-certified hard rock contenders without compromise or apology. Since 2017, the core group-John Boecklin [drums], Doc Coyle [lead guitar, backing vocals], Chris Cain [rhythm guitar], and Kyle Konkiel [bass, backing vocals]-have consistently subverted expectations and accomplished the seemingly impossible. In 2018, the band earned a platinum plaque, topped iTunes, and ruled Active Rock at #1 for three weeks straight. This momentum also propelled their debut album, Disobey, to a Top 25 debut on the Billboard Top 200. In between performing to sold out audiences on multiple continents with heavyweights such as Five Finger Death Punch and Megadeth, 2019's N.A.T.I.O.N. yielded their fifth straight #1 at Active Rock, "Sober," and brought their total stream tally past the half-billionmark-unprecedented for a modern rock band. Not to mention, LoudWire hailed it among the "50 Best Rock Albums of 2019" as Billboard and Consequence of Sound chronicled their rise. In the midst of 2021, Bad Wolves welcomed Daniel "DL" Laskiewicz-previously of The Acacia Strain-as lead vocalist, ushering in a new chapter with their third full-length offering, Dear Monsters,[Better Noise Music], led by the single "Lifeline."
  
    

  

  Save Face - Another Kill For The Highlight Reel - Epitaph
  Save Face are a band who have always prided themselves on taking risks and the New Jersey band have doubled down on that sentiment with their sophomore album, Another Kill For The Highlight Reel. Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, which features indelibly human performances, including a guest appearance from Thursday’s Geoff Rickly on “A.M. Gothic”. “There’s something about the New Jersey kinship [between Geoff and I] that really resonates with me,” Tyler Povanda explains. “New Jersey’s music scene is really something special.” Musically, the album—which was produced by the Movielife’s Brett Romnes—sees Povanda taking influence from his Jersey brethren like Thursday but adds a theatrical twist. “‘GLITTER’ was the first song I wrote that ended up being on this album and it bridges the gap between Merci and Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, ” Povanda says. “I think that song serves as a cool sonic metaphor for the transformation of the band. I would say this album isn’t narrative in the same way as the last one, but it does feel much more immersive.”
  
    

  

  Spice Girls - Spice: 25th Anniversary - Virgin Records US
  Originally released on November 4, 1996, The Spice Girls' debut album Spice celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! The album features the smash singles "Wannabe," "2 Become 1," and "Say You'll Be There" and is the best-selling album in music history by a girl group and one of the best-selling albums of all time. The 2CD set includes the original album along with bonus tracks, B-sides from the hit singles, remixes commissioned for the singles, and previously unreleased demos.
  
  
  

  

  Nat King Cole - A Sentimental Christmas With Nat King Cole And Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined - Capitol
  The new album 'A Sentimental Christmas With Nat King Cole And Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined' weaves Nat King Cole's unparalleled, beautifully restored vocals with new arrangements and contemporary artists creating beautiful sentimental duets of holiday classics. Taking its lead from the GRAMMY award-winning virtual duet of “Unforgettable,” by Natalie Cole with her father, this holiday album features brand new duets with John Legend, Kristen Chenoweth, Calum Scott, Gloria Estefan & Johnny Mathis.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Ed Sheeran - = [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP]
  Black Veil Brides - The Phantom Tomorrow
  Dave Chappelle - 8:46
  Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes
  R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi: 25th Anniversary Edition
  The War On Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Blue 2LP]
  Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
  Billy Bragg - The Million Things That Never Happened
  Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason: Remixed & Updated
  Emily Scott Robinson - American Siren
  Sam Evian - Time To Melt [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Pink LP]
  Iggy Azalea - The End of an Era
  Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Nothing Rhymes With Blorange Orange LP]
  Eddie Vedder/Glen Hansard/Cat Power - Flag Day (Original Soundtrack)
  The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms: 10th Anniversary Edition
  Bremer/McCoy - Natten (The Night)
  Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend: Deluxe [Limited Edition]
  Bnny - Everything
  Lindsay Lohan - A Little More Personal (Raw)
  Nightmares On Wax - Shout Out! To Freedom...
  The The - The Comeback Special [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set]
  Tipper - The Seamless Unspeakable Something
  Hayes Carll - You Get It All
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  The Black Keys - El Camino: 10th Anniversary Edition - Nonesuch
  The Black Keys release a special tenth anniversary edition of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino via Nonesuch Records on November 5, 2021. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be available in several formats including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs or four CDs, featuring a remastered version of the original album, a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording, a BBC radio Zane Lowe session from 2012, a 2011 Electro-Vox session, a limited-edition photo book, poster, and lithograph, and a “new car scent” air freshener. A three-LP Deluxe edition, which includes the remastered album and the live recording, also will be available.
  
    

  

  Diana Ross - Thank You - Verve
  Diana Ross sings “Thank You” to the world.  “This collection of songs is my gift to you with appreciation and love. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to record this glorious music at this time,” said Ms. Ross. Recorded in her home studio, “Thank You" offers a powerful, inclusive musical message of love and togetherness.  With its songs of happiness, appreciation and joy, it wholeheartedly acknowledges that we are in this all together. Her family, friends and loyal and loving audiences all around the globe have been an integral part of her wonderful life’s story. In this special moment, it is time to step into the light. Ms. Ross co-wrote and collaborated on the 13 songs along with award-winning songwriters and producers including: Jack Antonoff, Troy Miller,Triangle Park, Spike Stent, Prince Charlez, Amy Wadge, Neff-U, Freddie Wexler, Jimmy Napes, Tayla Parx, Fred White, and Nathanial Ledgewick. Let us come together in harmony and gratitude with Diana Ross now and for the future. “I dedicate this songbook of love to all of you, the listeners. As you hear my voice you hear my heart.  "Let Love Lead the Way”
  
    

  

  Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet For My Valentine - Spinefarm
  Metal vets Bullet For My Valentine announces their self-titled, seventh album which will be released via Spinefarm Records. It sees the band open a bold new chapter and is easily their heaviest, fiercest album so far.
  
   

  

  Garbage - beautifulgarbage: 20th Anniversary - Geffen
  beautifulgarbage is the third studio album from Garbage, initially released on October 1, 2001. The album expanded on the band's musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds mixing rock with electronica, new wave, hip hop, and girl groups. Featuring newly remastered audio by Billy Bush & Butch Vig, this deluxe edition includes Beautiful Garbage on 2 x 180g Black Vinyl, as well as a 12" 180g of B-Sides and memorabilia.
  
  

  

  Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers - Anti
  Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength-a full gamut of emotions. Today his voice takes on an optimistic lilt with his his new album, If Words Were Flowers. If Words Were Flowers is Harding's first new music since 2018, a follow up to his critically acclaimed 'Face Your Fears" album. It features songs like " Hopeful", where Harding croons with devotion over a classic soul groove, textured with infectious horn playing, background singers and modern psychedelic flourishes. Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn't bound by it. Instead, his songs convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour around the country as a child to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips' Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life's darkest intricacies and conjures dynamic, addictive melodies
  
    

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• New Release Round-Up 10-22-21

  

  My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket - ATO Records
  On their new full-length - the first new music since The Waterfall (2015) - My Morning Jacket reaffirm the rarefied magic that has made them so beloved, embedding each song with moments of discovery, revelation and ecstatic catharsis. It comes after a near permanent hiatus for the band until performing four shows in summer '19 left them with a new energy. Jim James engineered/produced at 64 Sound in LA where the band spent weeks in intentional seclusion emerging with their self-titled 9th album.
  
    

  

  The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary Edition - Interscope
  Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with the release of a brand new Super Deluxe 5 LP Boxset which includes the newly remastered version of Tattoo You, Lost & Found: Rarities, and Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982. Also included is a 124-page book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions and their world tour, plus interviews with producer Chris Kimsey and photographer Hubert Kretzscmar. The package includes a special lenticular sleeve. Also available: CD, 2CD, 4CD/Picture Disc Box Set, LP and 2LP
  
  

  

  John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle - Impulse!
  This newly discovered live-recording of a performance of the Love Supreme suite is a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history. While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. This version is also of the full suite and features an expanded band that includes the same Classic Quartet and Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig as part of Coltrane’s group.
  
    

  

  Every Time I Die - Radical - Epitaph
  Every Time I Die is a loud rock institution committed to leaving an outpouring of chaotic passion and blissful malcontent all over their records and on the stage. With boiling charisma and unrelenting energy to spare, the Buffalo, NY band manages not one but two near-impossible tasks. They’ve survived two decades as an underground entity cherished for coloring outside the lines, and contrary to most career arcs, continually improving with each successive album as they charge ahead. ETID makes a glorious hardcore-punk noise. Alchemized by a swampy summoning of Southern rock and coarse poetry, the music swirls beneath sardonic and clever wordplay, cementing them as leaders, not followers. The band’s ninth studio album, Radical, is 16 tracks of peak-ETID, including raucous new anthems. They deliver what you have come to know and love and then diverge into new paths. To say that “All This And War” featuring guest vocals by Josh Scogins from The ‘68 is absolute brutal heaviness is an understatement. It’s an addictive punch in the face, you’ll want on repeat. The boys then run off to explore the dark haunted woods of a more somber and melodic side in the track “Thing With Feathers” featuring Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra. Radical proves with every track that it is a distillation of the strengths of their past, injected with their unyielding revelry and signature sarcasm while cognizant – and fiercely combative – of the present state of world affairs.
  
    

  

  Jackson + Sellers - Breaking Point - Anti
  Introducing Jackson + Sellers and their debut album Breaking Point, on ANTI records. Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers, two rising stars who aligned during the pandemic to write one of the most compelling duo albums of the last decade. Drawn together by instant chemistry, cosmic forces and their ability to write intuitive romantic breakup songs for each other, their album is a window into the dissolution of two different relationships and the formation of another: a perfect, platonic, creative union. United in their desire to write a record that reflected their expansive musical interest from 70s rock to raucous roots to indie pop, their LA written, Nashville recorded album is a masterclass in unexpected vocal harmonic convergence. With Breaking Point, Jackson + Sellers will establish themselves as two individual artists who together, share a deep friendship, musical kinship and the ability to craft tight singular pop rock songs that will embed themselves in your ears for the rest of time.
  
    

  

  Sixx: A.M. - Hits - Better Noise Music
  Sixx: A.M. Hits is the Ultimate Sixx: A.M. Collection featuring the first new song in six years and song that compliments his new book - 'The First 21', 2 more unreleased tracks "Penetrate' + "Waiting All My Life" and new mixes of "Talk to Me", " Skin" and the iconic "Life is Beautiful". Sixx: A.M. formed in 2007 by Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, renowned guitarist DJ Ashba, and producer /songwriter James Michael, and has had #3 US top 20 albums with #9 US Top 20 singles and is best known for their debut album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack and the #1 hits "Life Is Beautiful" and "Lies of the Beautiful People". Available via limited edition CD digi pack and color vinyl.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
  Duran Duran - FUTURE PAST [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Red LP]
  Paul McCartney - McCartney III: 3333 Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow/Black Splatter LP]
  Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
  Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions
  The White Stripes - White Blood Cells: 20th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peppermint Pinwheel LP]
  Starset - Horizons
  The Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East 1970 [Limited Edition Pink LP]
  NCT 127 - The 3rd Album 'Sticker' [Sticker Ver.]
  Deerhoof - Actually, You Can
  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities: Part II
  The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash: Deluxe Edition [4CD/LP]
  Wale - Folarin II
  BIA - FOR CERTAIN
  Spiritualized - Let It Come Down: Reissue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ivory LP]
  Jarvis Cocker - Chansons D'ennui Tip-Top
  Superchunk - Here's to Shutting Up: 20th Anniversary Reissue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak LP+CD]
  Lady A - What A Song Can Do
  Pennywise - Pennywise [Blue With Black Splatter LP]
  Hiss Golden Messenger - O Come All Ye Faithful [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone Green Red Tri-Color Segment 2LP]
  Guided By Voices - It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
  Seether - Wasteland - The Purgatory EP
  Hawthorne Heights - The Rain Just Follows Me
  Seventeen - SEVENTEEN 9th Mini Album ‘Attacca’ [Op.1]
  Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia Of The Air [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Seaglass Wave LP]
  Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Tan 2LP+CD]
  The Convenience - Accelerator [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Red LP]
  NOFX - Ribbed: 30th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red with Black Splatter LP]
  Clinic - Fantasy Island [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
  
  
  & More .....
  

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 10-15-21

  

  The Beatles - Let It Be: Special Edition - Capitol
  Newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in stereo as guided by the original "reproduced for disc" version by Phil Spector. The Super Deluxe Edition includes 27 unreleased session recordings, a 4-track Let It Be EP, the 1969 unreleased 14-track "Get Back" stereo LP mix by Glyn Johns, and a 100-page hardback book with an intro by Paul McCartney, track-by-track recording information, and many unseen photos, notes, and more. A slipcase box set houses the 4 LPs, 12" EP, and hardbound book. Also available Limited Edition Super Deluxe 5CD/Blu-ray Audio Box Set, Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Picture Disc LP, Deluxe 2CD, LP and CD.
  
  

  

  Pokey LaFarge - In The Blossom Of Their Shade - New West Records
  Pokey LaFarge's 7th studio solo album, In The Blossom Of Their Shade, showcases the positivity of coming out of the darkness and into the light. When the 2020 global pandemic hit, LaFarge’s rigorous work ethic powered him through the potentially challenging creative period. As days became a couple months, songs blossomed from embryonic ideas into full-formed ones and he was ready to move on, which typified his mindset as a working artist. With this record LaFarge captures the thematic notion of being the perfect summer afternoon soundtrack...the type of music you want to listen to while having a cocktail with your significant other. It makes sense musically as well — LaFarge intentionally crafted songs that created space and have melodies that can glide throughout a composition that’s a far cry from the swing and blues-infused songs of his earlier work. LaFarge is an artist who refuses to rest on his laurels and compromise. He’s always motivated and ready to create. With In the Blossom of Their Shade the album is one of LaFarge’s strongest and most mature efforts to date.  
  
    

  

  North Americans - Going Steady - Third Man Records
  Official reissue of North Americans' 2018 breakthrough album, Going Steady. Originally limited to 100 vinyl LPs. "For a piece that feels as if it could float away into nothing, GOING STEADY becomes the night." - NPR. 
  
    

  

  Toby Keith - Peso In My Pocket - Show Dog, LLC
  Singer, songwriter and entertainer Toby Keith releases his first all-new Show Dog Nashville album in more than five years. Peso In My Pocket was co-produced by Kenny Greenberg and Keith, and features the highest Billboard Country Airplay chart debut of his career with the lead single "Old School." Though Keith has accomplished much since the 2015 release of 35 MPH Town - perhaps most notably in writing the Clint Eastwood inspired "Don't Let The Old Man In" - a new studio album was long overdue. And Peso In My Pocket has more than a little to do with the worldwide pandemic. "My whole musical career, I haven't been off the road this long," Keith says, calling 2020 "a reset button I never would have hit." Also deserving of credit for the collection is Mexico, where Keith has a house he stayed at for the first several months of the crisis. "It was like being on the moon," he says. "A lot of my friends down there were afraid they wouldn't be let back in the U.S., so they all went home. I wasn't on the road and nobody could go anywhere, so I thought, 'You've written a long list of songs by yourself, dumbass. Get up and get busy!' I went through the ideas I keep on my phone and thought, 'Shit, I need to write these.'"
  
    

  

  Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa - Anti
  Xenia Rubinos is a New York City based artist who's been revered for her innovative voice and maze-like knack for melody. Una Rosa is Rubinos' third album, her second on Anti- Records, following up her critically acclaimed Black Terry Cat (2016).Xenia Rubinos dips in and out of genre and structure to create movingly powerful songs. Her powerhouse vocals stem from a combination of R&B, Hip-Hop and Jazz influences, all delivered with a soulful punk aura. Pitchfork has lauded the radiant singer as "a unique new pop personality" while The New Yorker described her work as "rhythmically fierce, vocally generous music that slips through the net of any known genre."Having previously collaborated and toured with acts as diverse as Battles, Deerhoof, Man Man and Tune-Yards, Rubinos' energetic live show echoes some of the larger than life icons she admired as a child like Nina Simone and Erykah Badu, while wielding a space in music that is utterly her own. "I think my sound is a collage of different music coming together on a visceral level, connecting the dots with my voice and imagination," she said.Una Rosa is produced by Rubinos along with her longtime collaborator and drummer Marco Buccelli, and is full of color- drawing much of it's multichromatic sound from the bright colors of pop art, which Xenia was immersed in during the writing process.
  
    

  

  Jon Batiste - WE ARE: Deluxe - Verve
  WE ARE is a career-changing, chart-topping album from musician & activist Jon Batiste. WE ARE celebrates Black American culture & music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence & evolution. This album is about honoring roots & traditions, while looking forward to the future & constantly evolving. Featuring Mavis Staples, Zadie Smith, Kizzo, & many more. This expanded deluxe edition includes new features from Tori Kelly, BJ The Chicago Kid, & a new remix from Big Freedia.
  
    

  

  Norah Jones - I Dream Of Christmas - Blue Note
  Norah Jones has been a warm voice of comfort and reassurance for nearly 20 years since her cozy 2002 debut, Come Away With Me. Now, the 9x GRAMMY-winning artist has made her first holiday album with I Dream Of Christmas, a collection of timeless seasonal favorites (“White Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Christmas Time Is Here”) and profound new originals that explore the complicated emotions of the past year and our hopes that this holiday season will be full of joy and togetherness.
  
    

  
  

  

  cleopatrick - BUMMER - Nowhere Special Recordings
  "Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, population 19,000), grow up completely inseparable, form a band and, against numerous obstacles, blossom into a genuine, global underground sensation. There are heroes and villains, highs and lows and, crucially, some of the most poetic plot twists that could seem almost too perfect, were they not completely true.
  
  Take the story of 2017 breakthrough track ‘hometown’ for example. “It’s one of the craziest, most ironic things that’s ever happened,” begins vocalist and guitarist Luke Gruntz. “I was going to college because I was too scared to put all my chips in the band pile, and that’s what ‘hometown’ is about: it’s a song about feeling like we’re doing all this stuff and we’re working so hard and we’re just never going to be heard. It’s literally a song about people probably never hearing our songs. And then by some act of the universe, that song ended up unlocking all the doors for us.”
  
  Today, cleopatrick has logged 77 million streams and counting - all from an increasingly dedicated fanbase who’ve found the duo, completed by drummer Ian Fraser, their own way: no major label, no big budget, just two best pals knuckling down, cementing a unique sonic alchemy and filling a space of honest, empathetic yet undeniably heavy-hitting rock music that they’d been searching for themselves for years. Between multiple sold out tours in Canada, the US and the UK/EU and appearances at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and Reading/Leeds, the pair have been crafting BUMMER: a debut album that sees cleopatrick harness all the magic they’ve been brewing over their two-decade friendship and funnel it into a record that aims to reinvigorate the rock landscape from the ground up. Taking the ethos of their New Rock Mafia collective - a group of friends and fellow bands, united in making a more inclusive, equality-driven space in rock music - and imbuing it with the sonic ambition and ferocity of a record designed to be played hard and loud, it’s an album about two friends, who’ve been with each other since the formative first steps that adorn ‘BUMMER’’s heartwarming cover image and made something that’s a testament to the power of sticking to your guns."
  
     
  

  

  Various Artists - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes - Polydor
  Curated by director Todd Haynes, the official soundtrack to his feature documentary (out Oct 15 on Apple TV+) about the highly influential, iconic New York band, The Velvet Underground.
  
  Also Available: I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico, which is a contemporary tribute to the Velvets debut album.
  
   
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground Fire  
   
  
  Coldplay - Music of the Spheres
  Mac Miller - Faces [Limited Edition Transparent Coke Bottle Clear, Transparent Cobalt, Transparent Ruby 3LP]
  The Alarm - History Repeating 1981-2021
  Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Sticky [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Blue + Solid Red Splatter LP]
  Judas Priest - Reflections - 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music
  Zac Brown Band - The Comeback
  Melvins - Five Legged Dog
  ENHYPEN - DIMENSION : DILEMMA [CHARYBDIS version]
  Hayden Thorpe - Moondust For My Diamond [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black LP + Signed Print]
  Santana - Blessings And Miracles
  Fuckin Whatever - Fuckin Whatever EP
  Chelsea Cutler - When I Close My Eyes [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Signed CD]
  The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes (OST)
  Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopia Ashes [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Color LP]
  Lucinda Williams - Lu's Jukebox Vol. 3: Bob's Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs
  Lucinda Williams - Lu's Jukebox Vol. 4: Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of 60's Country Classics
  Various Artists - Pokémon 25: The Album
  FINNEAS - Optimist [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition CD w/ Signed Insert]
  Yes - The Quest
  Seether - Vicennial – 2 Decades of Seether
  Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej - Divine Tides
  The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Gold and Black Marble LP]
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 10-08-21

  

  Thrice - Horizons/East - Epitaph
  To emerge from a global pandemic with a renewed sense of situational awareness, hard won insight, and a new album is the kind of move we’ve come to expect from Thrice over the last twenty years. With Horizons/East, Dustin Kensrue and his bandmates address, with candor and courage, the fragile and awkward arrangements that pass for civilization, while inviting us to dwell more knowingly within our own lives. Without surrendering any of the energy and hard edge of their previous albums, they’ve given us a profoundly meditative work which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness. Since forming THRICE with guitarist Teppei Teranishi, bassist Eddie Breckenridge, and drummer Riley Breckenridge in 1998, Kensrue has never been one to back down from a mental fight. This mood is set by the opening synth-driven number “Color of the Sky,” which sounds well-suited to accompany the closing credits of the Stranger Things season finale. Think Flying Lotus giving way to Elbow and setting the listener down in a new dimension. A self-recorded effort, Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.
  
    

  

  Reba McEntire - Revived Remixed Revisited - MCA Nashville
  Revived Remixed Revisited is a reimagined collection of Reba McEntire's most iconic songs. REVIVED features exciting new arrangements of fan favorites like “Is There Life Out There” and “Can’t Even Get The Blues” recorded with Reba’s touring band. REMIXED takes songs like “Little Rock” and “I’m A Survivor” and spins them in ways like you’ve never heard Reba before. REVISITED produced by the Grammy® award-winning Dave Cobb strips back songs like “Somebody Should Leave” and “Consider Me Gone” to let the raw power of Reba’s vocals shine and features a long-awaited pairing between Reba and Dolly Parton on Reba’s most famous duet, “Does He Love You.” The collection spans Reba’s entire career and offers something for every Reba fan.
  
    

  

  The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Illusory Walls - Epitaph
  Sometimes, the best place to begin is at the end. If you really want to dig deep into Illusory Walls, the fourth album by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, it definitely helps to do that. That’s because epic closer “Fewer Afraid”—all 19 minutes, 44 seconds of it—doesn’t just revisit the themes and ideas on the ten songs that precede it, but also offers a self-aware summary of the Connecticut band’s entire history. It’s the conclusion of all the stories within the record as well as a nod to all the lives that helped make them—little glimpses of everything that’s come before, on both a micro, immediate level, and a more universal one. “That song is a higher level look at my whole life and the whole world,” explains vocalist/guitarist David F. Bello, “as well as the album, our band and our discography. It places the band in the context of the rest of the world, as if we’re listening to everything that came before. It touches on all the themes of the previous songs, but there are also callbacks to songs
  from earlier in our career. But in this song, they’re the object, not the subject—I’m talking about a world in which these things happen, not talking about these things happening.”  Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the band—completed by Steven K. Buttery (drums and percussion), Joshua Cyr (bass/vocals) and Katie Dvorak (vocals/synth)—had nothing but time to realize the full extent of their musical and thematic aspirations. And so, four years on from lauded third album Always Foreign, they were able to make what is undoubtedly the band’s most ambitious and epic record to date. Written and recorded remotely—a first for the band—Illusory Walls takes on the weight of human existence while it’s buckling under the pressure of today’s near-dystopian society. Personal anxieties and political struggles collide with a series of portentous, apocalyptic and dramatic tunes, resulting in some of the darkest music the band has made since forming in 2009.
  
    

  

  Various Artists - The Best Of Bond...James Bond - Capitol
  The Best Of Bond...James Bond is a compilation featuring celebrated theme songs from the longest-running franchise in the history of cinema. This updated collection includes "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish, the title theme song from the highly anticipated new film. New additions also include Adele's "Skyfall" and Sam Smith's "Writing's On The Wall," Oscar winners for Best Song in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
  
  

  

  Darren Criss - A Very Darren Crissmas - Decca
  Celebrate the holidays with A Very Darren Crissmas! Darren Criss is a multitalented musician, songwriter, Broadway star, and Emmy/Golden Globe-winning actor famous for his award-winning roles on VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, GLEE, and HOLLYWOOD. His holiday record with Decca Records will be his first full-length album. It showcases creative reimagining of classic tunes and rarely covered hidden gems. Featuring guest artists Lainey Wilson, Adam Lambert, and Evan Rachel Wood.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Sleigh Bells - Texis  
  The Wild Feathers - Alvarado  
  
  James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver LP]
  We Are Scientists - Huffy
  Noah Gundersen - A Pillar Of Salt
  Various Artists - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
  The Record Company - Play Loud [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition CD + Poster]
  the Velveteers - Nightmare Daydream
  Oh Wonder - 22 Break
  Violent Femmes - Why Do Birds Sing?: Deluxe Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Smoke LP]
  S. Raekwon - Where I'm At Now [Orange Custard LP]
  Badbadnotgood - Talk Memory [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White 2LP]
  Tiberius B - Stains EP [Vinyl]
  Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now: Deluxe Anniversary Edition [Cloudy Clear LP + 7in]
  Josh Turner - King Size Manger
  Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon [Deluxe]
  Old Dominion - Time, Tequila & Therapy
  Sublime - Sublime [25th Anniversary Cassette]
  Atmosphere - WORD?
  Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
  Carolyn Wonderland - Tempting Fate
  Julia Bardo - Bauhaus, L'Appartamento
  Cimafunk - El Alimento
  Alien Weaponry - Tangaroa
  Newton Faulkner - Interference (Of Light)
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 10-01-21

  

  Strand Of Oaks - In Heaven - Galacticana Records
  To say In Heaven is about conquering grief would be oversimplifying everything Tim Showalter has achieved on the eighth studio album from Strand Of Oaks. A stunning, hopeful reflection on love, loss, and enlightenment, In Heaven is a triumph in music making, and a preeminent addition to the Strand of Oaks discography.
  
    

  

  Roger Taylor - Outsider - UMe
  Rock icon and multi-instrumentalist Roger Taylor introduces his new solo album Outsider. With much of Outsider recorded during lockdown, this new album finds Taylor in a reflective mood, conveying a palpable sense of isolation, concerns over the passing of time, and tellingly dedicated "to all the outsiders, those who feel left on the sidelines". A highly personal project, Outsider's instrumentation is almost entirely performed by Taylor, with his vocals matching the mood-piece atmosphere.
  
  

  

  Hans Zimmer - No Time To Die (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Decca
  The Hans Zimmer produced soundtrack for the 25th installment in the James Bond film franchise, No Time To Die. The soundtrack includes Billie Eilish's electrifying title track No Time To Die, co-written (with brother Finneas O'Connell) and performed by Eilish. Joining Zimmer on scoring the soundtrack is Johnny Marr, who is also the featured guitarist on the album, with additional music by composer and score producer Steve Mazzaro.
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Gold LP]
  Metallica - The Metallica Blacklist [Limited Edition 7LP]
  Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Love For Sale
  Explosions In The Sky - Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television)
  Taylor Swift - Fearless: Taylor's Version [Gold 3 LP]
  Flying Lotus - Yasuke
  JW Francis - Wanderkid
  Asking Alexandria - See What's On The Inside
  Hans Zimmer - No Time To Die (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  Hovvdy - True Love [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Hot Pink LP]
  Neil Young - Carnegie Hall 1970
  Jojo - Trying Not To Think About It
  Various Artists - The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live! At the Apollo [Limited Edition Translucent Tie-Eye Teal 3LP]
  Plain White T's - American Nights [Limited Edition Pink LP]
  Ministry - Moral Hygiene
  John Prine - Fair & Square [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  The Specials - Protest Songs 1924 – 2012
  audiobooks - Astro Tough
  Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out
  Jeremy Zucker - CRUSHER [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Signed CD]
  
  
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  WE ARE STILL LISTENING TO...

  

  Jungle - Loving In Stereo - Caiola Records
  Jungle's new album ‘Loving In Stereo’ is the soundtrack for a summer quite unlike any other. The British producer duo have created a huge disco record for the post-social distancing age, with a life-affirming, dancefloor-igniting, sun-kissed celebration of all the things that make music irresistibly joyful. Both their Mercury Prize-nominated, Gold-certified debut and 2018’s follow-up ‘For Ever’ landed in the UK Top 10 & charted globally. Those two records have since accumulated 750,000 equivalent album sales and close to a billion streams worldwide. Atop that, Jungle have embarked on global sell out tours - notably in the UK, London’s 10k capacity Alexandra Palace & filling the Hollywood Palladium - two coveted Glastonbury performances, slots at numerous International festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Roskilde, Primavera & enjoyed shows across five continents.
  
  

  

  VP Records
  From humble beginnings as a small Kingston record store, VP Records has gone on to release some of the best known international artists in reggae, dancehall and soca, including Sean Paul, Chaka Demus, Maxi Priest, Shaggy, Vybz Kartel and Wayne Wonder. Recently we have been listening to some of their latest releases and we highly reccomend that you do too.
  
  REGGAE GOLD 2021 - Celebrate the spirit of Summer with Reggae Gold 2021, featuring dancehall's finest for this annual collection of hits, featuring the smash summer anthems "Go Down Deh" by Spice, featuring Shaggy and Sean Paul and the reggae version of "Heartbreak Anniversary," the massive R&B streaming hit, covered by Tarrus Riley. Recent his "Nice Up The Dance' by Kabaka Pyramid and "Ginal (feat. Collie Buddz)" from international star Alborosie add to the set.
  
  Celebrate the spirit of Carnival with SOCA GOLD 2021, featuring Soca champions Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and others, plus South African artist Master KG and the monster hit "Jerusalema," which has dominated world music charts since its release in January. The disc also includes six recent Soca Gold anthems from Rupee, Iwer George, Kevin Yearwood and others. Soca Gold 2021 is a non-stop party with a bonus mega-mix disc performed by DJ Puffy (available only in the physical package). Let the spirit of Caribbean carnival get into you through the sounds of Soca Gold 2021.
  
  SPICE is the reigning Queen of Dancehall and a media powerhouse, with multi-million streaming videos and 3.5 million Instagram "Besties," often attracting 20,000 plus fans to her impromptu IG live sessions. She has built a loyal following on social media and on the live show circuit over years, and now her debut album. "10" features productions from Shaggy, Supa Dups, Stephen 'Di Genius' McGregor, Costantin "Costi" Ionita, Shane Hoosong, Ainsley Morris, and Grace Hamilton (Spice), among others. Guest vocalists include Melissa Musique, Olaf Blackwood, Sean Paul and Shaggy.  Stand out tracks include "Send It Up," "Po-Po (feat. Nicho)," her breakthrough anthem "So Mi Like It," and current smash single "Go Down Deh (feat.Shaggy & Sean Paul)," which is currently impacting at US radio and official music video is approaching 20 million YouTube views. The song has consistently been among top trending releases on Shazam, Twitter, and Tik Tok. The trio kicked off a US-based mainstream TV blitz in June, with Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Wendy Williams Show. These marked Spice's performance debut on National television in the U.S.

  
  
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 09-24-21

  

  Quicksand - Distant Populations - Epitaph
  Distant Populations, just the fourth full-length album of Quicksand's career, comes as a comparatively swift follow-up to Interiors--which itself came a full 22 years after its predecessor, 1995’s Manic Compression. Critically lauded and deemed very much worth the wait, Interiors succeeded in reestablishing the band as the powerful and contemporary entity they had always been. Distant Populations has a punchier, more up-tempo sound than its predecessor; its 11 songs are concise, carved sonic jewels boasting not a single wasted note; and its raw power, its gripping lyricism, leaps out from the very first listening. It is a striking step up for the band.
  
    

  

  Ringo Starr - Change The World EP - UMe
  Change The World, recorded at Ringo Starr's Roccabella West, includes "Let's Change The World" (Joseph Williams/Steve Lukather) that delivers a welcome dose of hope and optimism, the reggae-infused "Just That Way" (Ringo Starr/Bruce Sugar,) the Country-esque "Coming Undone," Starr's first collaboration with Linda Perry who wrote and plays on the track (also with Trombone Shorty,) and Ringo rocks his version of "Rock Around The Clock" revved up by the unmistakable Joe Walsh on guitar.
  
  

  

  Steely Dan - Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! - Geffen
  Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! is the first live Steely Dan album in over 25 years. Featuring Hey Nineteen, Aja, Reelin' in the Years & more.
  
  

  

  Donald Fagen - Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live - Geffen
  Donald Fagen’s acclaimed solo album performed live by The Steely Dan Band. Featuring I.G.Y., New Frontier & more.
  
  

  

  Various Artists - I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico - Verve
  I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico, is a contemporary tribute to the Velvets debut, with each of the album’s songs performed by one of the band’s noteworthy artistic descendants.  Featured artists include Kurt Vile & the Violators, Sharon Van Etten, Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, Michael Stipe, Matt Berninger of The National, Courtney Barnett, King Princess, Fontaines D.C. and more.
  
    

  

  DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....: 25th anniversary [Half-Speed Master 2 LP] - Mercury
  Celebrate the 25th anniversary of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing..... A seminal, incredibly influential hip-hop release, Endtroducing..... is simply one of the defining albums of the ‘90s. Now available as an Abbey Road Half-Speed Mastered Edition LP.
  
  

  

  Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name - Capitol Nashville
  Capitol Nashville’s Mickey Guyton releases her album, Remember Her Name. Mickey co-penned 15 of the 16 songs on the album. Remember Her Name follows the release of her critically acclaimed Bridges EP which included “Black Like Me” for which she went on to receive a historic GRAMMY nomination. Her performance on the prestigious GRAMMY show was the first by a black female country artist and was touted by NPR as “the night’s most affecting live performance.”
  
    

  

  Carrie Underwood - My Gift: Special Edition - Capitol Nashville
  Carrie Underwood releases a Special Edition of her Christmas album, My Gift. This new version includes all 11 tracks from the 2020 release as well as 3 new tracks, including “Favorite TimeOf Year,” “All Is Well,” and “Let There Be Peace/Something In The Water” that was performed on her HBO Max special, My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood.
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Jordan Rakei - What We Call Life [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Green LP]  
  
  Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Aqua with Neon and Magenta Splatter LP]
  Brittany Howard - Jaime Reimagined
  Alessia Cara - In The Meantime
  Taylor McCall - Black Powder Soul
  Migos - Culture III
  X Ambassadors - The Beautiful Liar
  The Connells - Steadman's Wake
  William Shatner - Bill
  Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Olympus Perseus Shield Gold [LP]
  Third Eye Blind - Our Bande Apart
  Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli & Yasiin Bey - The Midnight Miracle
  Anthony Hamilton - Love Is The New Black
  Hiro Kone - Silvercoat the throng [Purple LP]
  Angel Olsen - Aisles EP
  SOJA - Beauty In The Silence
  Badflower - This Is How The World Ends
  Itzy - Crazy In Love
  The Milk Carton Kids - Prologue: 10th Anniversary [3LP Box Set]
  Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak LP]
  Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Mettal / Jazz EP
  Twiztid - Rose Petal [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Picture Disc 12in]
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 09-17-21

  

  Charley Crockett - Music City USA - Son of Davy
  The album cover you’re looking at might lead you to conclude Charley Crockett is on one hell of a roll. You wouldn’t be wrong. Ten records in six years is some kind of prolific. The latest, a double album, suggests the artist has some songs worth paying attention to. It’s clear that he’s invested as much time in the studio, recording storytelling songs, and making storytelling videos, as he has barnstorming around the United States and Europe playing live shows.  Not bad for a thirty-seven-year-old late bloomer.
  
    

  

  NCT 127 - The 3rd Album 'Sticker' (Sticky Ver.) - SM Entertainment Co., Ltd
  NCT 127’s 3rd full-length album ‘Sticker’ will be released worldwide this week with 11 songs of various genres including the lead single ‘Sticker.’ The album highlights NCT 127’s unique musical sensibility and outstanding performances. In March 2020, NCT 127 became a million-seller with their 2nd album, NCT #127 Neo Zone, which reached #5 on the Billboard 200. The album includes 1 photo book, 1 folded poster, sticker, photo card, postcard (sticker, photo card, postcard: random 1 out of 9). Dimensions 144mm x 205mm x 8.5mm.
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Jordan Rakei - What We Call Life [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Green LP]  
  
  José González - Local Valley [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe Bookpack]
  Bob Dylan - Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985)
  The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Live On Copacabana Beach [Limited Edition Multi Color 3 LP]
  Royksopp - Lost Tapes
  Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone
  James Vincent McMorrow - Grapefruit Season
  Colin Linden - bLOW
  The Plot In You - Swan Song
  Ronnie Wood - Mr. Luck - A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue 2LP]
  Billy Idol - The Roadside EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue Vinyl]
  Della Mae - Family Reunion
  Mild High Club - Going Going Gone [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  Spiritbox - Eternal Blue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
  Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
  Rumer - Live From Lafayette
  Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic
  Vince Guaraldi - It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [Orange Pumpkin Shaped LP]
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 09-10-21

  

  Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed - MCA Nashville
  Kacey Musgraves’ new album star-crossed is a bold, empowering, and personal series of songs that displays the 6x GRAMMY Award winner's continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time. It's the follow-up to Golden Hour, which earned Musgraves her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and distinguished her as only the third artist ever to take home Album of the Year at the GRAMMY Awards, CMA Awards, and ACM Awards.
  
    

  

  Slothrust - Parallel Timeline - Dangerbird
  On Slothrust's latest album, bandleader Leah Wellbaum pushed herself to try and understand her own spirituality on a deeper level, putting a lens on the core wound of the human experience, the idea that we’re alone. With Parallel Timeline, Wellbaum explores the feeling of being trapped inside her own consciousness while simultaneously searching for a meaningful connection to the universe, and all the mysteries it contains.
  
    

  

  Low - Hey What - Sub Pop
  Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present HEY WHAT. These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft. Layers of distorted sound accrete with each new verse - building, breaking, colossal then restrained, a solemn vow only whispered. There will be time to unravel and attribute meaning to the music and art of these times, but the creative moment looks FORWARD, with teeth. HEY WHAT is Low's thirteenth full-length release in twenty-seven years, and their third with producer BJ Burton.
  
    

  

  Heartless Bastards - A Beautiful Life - Sweet Unknown Records
  A Beautiful Life is the first new music from Heartless Bastards since 2015’s Restless Ones. The album was produced by Kevin Ratterman (Strand Of Oaks, Jim James, White Reaper). Album performers include Andrew Bird on “The River,” Greggory Clifford (White Denim) on drums, Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake) on keys, flute, clarinet; David Pulkingham (Patty Griffin) on guitar, Bo Koster (My Morning Jacket) on keys. The music is a melange of blues rock, rock and singer-songwriter which surround themes about self-love and awareness, mental health, the environment, and consumerism.
  
    

  

  Elvis Costello - Spanish Model - UMe
  Elvis Costello and award-winning producer, Sebastian Krys, have brought together a stunning international cast of some of the biggest Latin rock and pop artists from around the globe to interpret Elvis Costello and The Attractions' album, This Year's Model, entirely in Spanish. The inspired Spanish-language adaptations are set to the band's classic studio performances, culled from the original master recordings, which have been newly mixed by Krys. Available on black Vinyl.  Also available, This Year's Model, which has been newly remastered. Available on 180-gram black vinyl with the addition of "Big Tears" and "Radio Radio."
  
  

  

  Dori Freeman - Ten Thousand Roses - Blue Hens Music
  Dori Freeman's inimitable signature sound is in peak form on her fourth studio album, Ten Thousand Roses. Raised among a family of musicians in the Blue Ridge Mountains and hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the most authentic vocalists to emerge from the hills of southwestern Virginia in recent years,” she’s a bonafide Appalachian artist, while simultaneously shattering the archetype by empowering the characters in her songs with personal strength and homegrown wisdom. 
  
    

  

  Ray Charles - True Genius - Exceleration Music / Tangerine
  Every Ray Charles album post-1960 is represented here, along with singles not available on any of his previously released albums. Most of these recordings will be available on major streaming services for the very first time in a decade or more. Released on Ray Charles own Tangerine Records and remastered from the original masters, you can now stream all of your favorite hits. The True Genius box set consists of 6 discs including a never before released live concert from Stockholm in 1972. A beautifully designed, coffee table style book includes rare, unseen photos and other Charles memorabilia. The liner notes were written by Quincy Jones, Valerie Ervin and A. Scott Galloway. This prestigious release and the campaign that surrounds it will create long awaited access to Ray’s music to generations of fans around the world as well as target new fans that will hear his music for the very first time.
  
  

  

  Andrea Bocelli - Concerto: One Night In Central Park - 10th Anniversary - Verve
  Digitally remastered 10th Anniversary edition. Andrea Bocelli's One Night In Central Park concert is undoubtedly a seminal moment in his career, the concert was not only a childhood dream turning into reality but the validation of Andrea as one of the world's true superstars. The concert had an all-star cast including Celine Dion, Tony Bennet, David Foster, and more. The original album was one of the best-selling live albums of all time.
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Frances Forever - Paranoia Party EP [Baby Blue Vinyl]  
  
  Andrew W.K. - God Is Partying [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Turquoise LP+Poster]
  Metallica - Metallica: Remastered [Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set]
  The Band CAMINO - The Band Camino [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Milky Clear LP]
  Matthew E. White - K Bay
  Samantha Fish - Faster
  Andrea von Kampen - That Spell [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Sky Blue LP]
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 [English Cover LP]
  Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Color 2LP]
  Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Session [LP]
  Twiztid - Unlikely Prescription [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Long Box]
  Belly - See You Next Wednesday
  The Vaccines - Back In Love City
  Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Romer Red LP]
  Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space: Remastered [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neptune Blue LP]
  UFO - Force It: Deluxe Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy The View [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP]
  Donny Osmond - Start Again
  Chicago - Chicago At Carnegie Hall - Complete [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 16CD Box Set]
  Bela Fleck - My Bluegrass Heart
  Sincere Engineer - Bless My Psyche [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Purple LP]
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 09-03-21

  

  Lauren Alaina - Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World - Mercury Nashville
  Lauren Alaina releases her third studio album, Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World. The 15 tracks include the Top 40 Country hit "Getting Over Him," which features Jon Pardi and her signature powerhouse vocals, as well as "Run" which addresses the rat race of life we are all on.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors  
  
  Imagine Dragons - Mercury – Act 1
  Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
  Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red & Yellow 2LP]
  Tedeschi Trucks Band - Layla Revisited [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Blue 3LP]
  Rudimental - Ground Control [Transparent Green 2LP]
  Nils Frahm & FS Blumm - 2x1=4
  Tipper - The Seamless Unspeakable Something
  Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Capitol Session '73
  Liz Cooper - Hot Sass
  My Morning Jacket - Live 2015 [White 3LP]
  Lady Gaga - Born This Way: The Tenth Anniversary
  Cinderella Original Motion Picture Cast - Cinderella (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  Grizfolk - Grizfolk
  LANY - gg bb xx
  Jinjer - Wallflowers [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Grey LP]
  Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers - Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (1990)
  Kat Von D - Love Made Me Do It [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Glow In The Dark LP]
  Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World: 20th Anniversary Edition
  Early James - Tumbleweed b/w Mama Can Be My Valentine [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 7in Single]
  
  
  
  
  
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• The Beatles - Let It Be: Special Edition

  

  Following on from the global success of ‘Abbey Road’, Apple Corps and USM are proud to present the next multi-format Beatles album reissue of ‘Let It Be’. 
  
  January 1969 –The Beatles planned to return to live performance, setting up in Twickenham Film Studios, London, for 21 days of rehearsals. They then decamped to their new studio in their Apple office building in Saville Row and on January 30th performed their last ever live group performance on the rooftop. All of this was filmed for aproposed documentary (eventually released in 1970). During the rehearsal process, they asked Glyn Johns, who had been hired to help with the live sound, to attempt a mix to create an album. This was never released, becoming known as one of the great ‘lost’ albums in rock history and is now included in this Super Deluxe Set. The album was delayed further and in fact became their 12th and final official album release on 8th May 1970 following additional production by American producer Phil Spector.
  
  Watch the unboxing video below and pre-order your copy of the album on Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Picture Disc LP, Super Deluxe 4LP + 12in EP, Super Deluxe 5CD/Blu-ray, Deluxe 2CD, LP or CD.
  
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 08-27-21

  

  Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Capitol
  Halsey's fourth studio album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power is a career-defining body of work. Produced By Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross, the album is a bold concept record that pushes creative boundaries. Halsey has surpassed 60 million RIAA-certified units across albums, singles and features. Worldwide, she has sold over 150 million adjusted singles. If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power follows Manic, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart.
  
    

  

  Madi Diaz - History Of A Feeling - Epitaph
  Rage, confusion, despair, self-deception, and introspection—Madi Diaz cycles through the full spectrum of emotions on History Of A Feeling, her debut on ANTI-. It’s an album that undeniably marks Diaz’s status as a first-rate songwriter, a craft she’s spent years refining, and one wherein Diaz establishes herself as an artist capable of distilling profound feelings with ease. Diaz pulls from a range of folk, country, and pop leanings—she is as much influ- enced by Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna as she is the sonics of PJ Harvey and di- rectness of Kathleen Hanna. On History Of A Feeling, the Nashville based songwriter comes to terms with the dissolution of a meaningful relationship. By the end of it, she wills herself into a self-reflective state where she doesn’t hate herself for being so heartbroken. The songs on History Of A Feeling, are the most direct and introspective songs Diaz has ever written. In the few times she’s gotten to perform them live in front of an audience, Diaz describes the experience as one where she feels acutely present even though she’s singing about emotions that started to take root years ago. It’s relatable to anyone who has experienced heartbreak and great change in some manner, and this profound sense of intimacy and camaraderie she seamlessly weaves into the songs was important to her. “I wanted it to sound conversational, like I had just walked over to your house and we’re sitting and at the end of your driveway talking—just like we’re hashing it out in the same way that you’d call a best friend at one in the morning because you needed to talk about what just happened.”
  
    
  

  

  The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 - Capitol
  The Beach Boys ‘Feel Flows’ collection is based on the landmark 1970/1971 albums ‘Sunflower’ and ‘Surf’s Up’. This 4LP features remastered versions of the original albums and has 64 tracks including 44 previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions, alternate mixes and vocals. Available in 4LP, 5CD, 2LP and 2CD sets.
  
  
  

  

  Boris - NO - Third Man Vinyl
  Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. Furiously recorded in the early days of the covid-19 pandemic and surprise-released in July 2020, NO was met with immediate and widespread praise. Meant to serve as a mirror that redirects the negativity of the global lockdown to something more positive, the content on NO can be characterized as “extreme healing music”. Musically, it draws from influential noise-heavy hardcore group Gudon, even including a cover of their song “Fundamental Error”. NO is a classic hardcore thrash record and is one of the band’s strongest efforts from start to finish. This will also serve as the release of NO on streaming services worldwide. "Their most compelling album in more than a decade." - Pitchfork
  
    
  

  

  Boris - Flood - Third Man Vinyl
  Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. This is the first-ever and particularly-anticipated official vinyl release of Boris's essential 2000 album, Flood. The album was originally released in Japan, only on CD. Delivered in four equally important movements, Flood is simultaneously delicate, dense, undulating, devastating, emancipating, hypnotic and triumphant. Each season of the album has its own sense of place, best revealed listen-by-listen. With the album, Boris broaden their vision of musical possibility, with a notable and imaginative influence from visionary American minimalist Steve Reich, weaving in prog, drone and slowcore into a multifaceted symphony. There simply has never been another piece of music like Flood.
  
  
  

  

  Diane Warren - Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions, Vol. 1 - BMG
  After three decades of penning massive hits for Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Toni Braxton, and many more, songwriting great Diane Warren is stepping out on her own with The Cave Sessions, Vol. 1, out August 27th via Di-Namic Records/BMG. The album's eclectic guest list mixes legendary artists like Carlos Santana and Celine Dion with contemporary stars G-Eazy, Ty Dolla $ign, Maren Morris, and Luis Fonsi. Other notable contributors include Darius Rucker, John Legend, Leona Lewis, and Lauren Jauregui. Rounding out the features are Rita Ora, Batiste, Pentatonix, Sofia Reyes, Reik, James Arthur, Jimmie Allen, LP, Paloma Faith, and James Morrison.
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  The Bug - Fire  
  
  Chvrches - Screen Violence [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear Red LP]
  DMX - Exodus
  John Mellencamp - The Good Samaritan Tour 2000
  OneRepublic - Human
  The Bronx - The Bronx VI
  Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album
  Masego - Capitol Cuts - Live From Studio A
  Donna Missal - Capitol Cuts - Live From Studio A
  Yann Tiersen - Kerber [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP]
  TesseracT - P O R T A L S
  Spice Girls - Wannabe 25 [Picture Disc]
  Lil Tecca - WE LOVE YOU TECCA 2
  (Hed) P.E. - Sandmine EP
  Toyah - Posh Pop [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Signed Space Grey LP]
  Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? [Red LP]
  J. Cole - The Off-Season
  Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
  Brian Setzer - Gotta Have The Rumble
  Death Cab for Cutie - The Georgia EP
  
  
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 08-20-21

  

  Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood and Juanita - High Top Mountain
  Sturgill Simpson releases his new concept album, The Ballad of Dood and Juanita, on CD, vinyl release will be December 3rd.  This is the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter's third album in twelve months and his most ambitious project to date.. Written and recorded in less than a week, and featuring the same ace musicians who played on last year's Cuttin' Grass albums, the record tells a classic American story of a Civil War-era couple torn apart by violence and reunited by love—what Simpson calls "a simple tale of either redemption or revenge." “I just wanted to write a story—not a collection of songs that tell a story, but an actual story, front to back,” says Simpson. He describes the concept album as a “rollercoaster ride through all the styles of traditional country and bluegrass and mountain music that I love, including gospel and a cappella.” In a career marked by risk-taking and rule-breaking, Simpson has previously challenged genre conventions with 2016’s soul-inflected A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, which won the Grammy award for Country Album of the Year and was nominated for Album of the Year, and 2019’s Sound & Fury, which was nominated for Rock Album of the Year. The Ballad of Dood and Juanita is available on an indie record store-exclusive CD that includes a printed illustration from the album artwork. A standard CD is also available. On 12/3/21, the vinyl will be available on indie-exclusive Translucent Natural vinyl, and will include another 11x11 print of the illustration on the front cover. Standard black vinyl is also available. 

  

  Bob's Burgers [TV Series] - The Bob's Burgers Music Album Vol.2 - Sub Pop
  The Bob's Burgers Music Album Vol.2 includes nearly every single musical morsel from seasons 7 through 9. This 90-song smorgasbord will feature the Belcher family - Bob (H. Jon Benjamin), Linda (John Roberts), Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise (Kristen Schaal) - as well as the show’s numerous recurring and special guests. This includes actors, comedians, and musicians Adam Driver, Tiffany Haddish, Jenny Slate, Daveed Diggs, Max Greenfield, Toddrick Hall, Aparna Nancherla, and Matt Berninger (of the National). For fans of the show, enjoying the music of Bob’s Burgers on its own is both an irresistible to-go bag and ultimately a world unto itself. Lose yourself in the strangely epic disco celebration “Hot Pants Rain Dance”, sing along with the musical theater gem, “The Wedding Is My Warzone,” or do whatever you’re gonna do to “Sexy Little Tiger” but don’t miss the Bob’s Burgers Music Album Vol. 2. Fans, your order is up.
  
    
  

  

  James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds - New West Records
  In James McMurtry’s new effort, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimed songwriter backs personal narratives with effortless elegance (“Canola Fields”) and endless energy (“If It Don’t Bleed”). This first collection in seven years spotlights a seasoned tunesmith in peak form as he turns toward reflection (“Vaquero”) and revelation (closer “Blackberry Winter”). Familiar foundations guide the journey. “There’s a definite Los Angeles vibe to this record,” McMurtry says. “The ghost of Warren Zevon seems to be stomping around among the guitar tracks. Don’t know how he got in there. He never signed on for work for hire.” The Horses and the Hounds is a reunion of sorts. McMurtry recorded the new album with legendary producer Ross Hogarth (Ozzy Osbourne, John Fogerty, Van Halen, Keb’ Mo’) at Jackson Browne’s Groovemaster’s in Santa Monica, California. Hogarth recorded McMurtry’s first two albums, Too Long in the Wasteland and Candyland and later mixed McMurtry’s first self-produced album, Saint Mary of the Woods. Another veteran of those three releases, guitarist David Grissom (Joe Ely, John Mellencamp, Dixie Chicks), returns with some of his finest work.
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Fink - IIUII [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bronze 2LP]  
  
  Lorde - Solar Power [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Brown LP]
  Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
  AJR - Ok Orchestra [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP]
  Connie Smith - The Cry of the Heart
  Shannon & The Clams - Year Of The Spider [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Midnight Wine LP]
  Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan
  Caravan - Who Do You Think We Are? [37 Disc Deluxe Box Set]
  Various Artists - Smithsonian Anthology Of Hip-Hop & Rap [9CD Box Set]
  Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
  Trey Anastasio - Burn It Down (Live)
  Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
  TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE [FIGHT version]
  Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Olive Green LP]
  Wanda Jackson - Encore
  Kool & The Gang - Perfect Union
  Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn
  Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [2LP+7in]
  MG [Martin Gore] - The Third Chimpanzee Remixed
  Switchfoot - Interrobang
  John Coltrane - Another Side of John Coltrane
  Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP]
  Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
  The Offspring - We Never Have Sex Anymore [Translucent Green 7in Single]
  
  
  
  
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