New Releases: April 30, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Tony Allen | “There Is No End” (posthumous album from the legendary Afrobeat drummer; producers: Allen, Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle; guests: Sampa The Great, Danny Brown, Lava La Rue, Skepta, Jeremiah Jae, Nate Bone, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Blue Note) |
| The Coral | “Coral Island” (their 10th studio LP; 24-song double album; new single: “Faceless Angel”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Modern Sky) |
| The Dropkick Murphys | “Turn Up That Dial” (new single: “Middle Finger”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Born & Bred) |
| Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis | “She Walks in Beauty” (a collection of poetry set to “sound collage compositions”; guests: Nick Cave, Brian Eno, French cellist Vincent Ségal; Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Mick Fleetwood & Friends | “Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac” (all-star concert from Feb. 25, 2020 at the Palladium in London, featuring Christine McVie, David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Billy Gibbons, John Mayall, Zak Starkey, Steven Tyler, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher, Neil Finn, Kirk Hammett, Jeremy Spencer; three-CD set; Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| GOJIRA | “Fortitude” (first single: “Born for One Thing”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Roadrunner) |
| Guided By Voices | “Earth Man Blues” (Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(GBV Inc) |
| KUČKA | “Wrestling” (new single: “No Good For Me”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(LuckyMe) |
| Manchester Orchestra | “The Million Masks of God” (producers: guitarists Andy Hull and Robert McDowell, Catherine Marks, Ethan Gruska; first single: “Bed Head”; See here; Light Blue Vinyl; Pink + White Deluxe Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Violet Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Loma Vista Recordings) |
| Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. | “Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons” (their first studio album in three decades; guests: Yancyy, Natalie Hanna Mendoza, James Gadson; first single: “Blackbird”; Read here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Encore Endeavor 1 / BMG Rights Management) |
| MercyMe | “inhale (exhale)” (producers: Tedd T., Brown Bannister and Jordan Mohilowski; guests: Gloria Gaynor, Gary LeVox, Sam Wesley; new single: “Say I Won’t”; See here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Fair Trade Services / Columbia) |
| Julia Michaels | “Not In Chronological Order” (new single: “Love Is Weird”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song and alternate cover; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Ronnie Milsap | “A Better Word For Love” (producer: Rob Galbraith; guest: Vince Gill; new single: “Wild Honey”; See here; Read here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Black River Entertainment) |
| Ashley Monroe | “Rosegold” (first single: “Drive”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mountainrose Sparrow / Thirty Tigers) |
| MONSTA X | “Flavors of love” (new single: “Flavors of love”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Universal Music Group, May 5) |
| Purgatory (Midwest hardcore band) | “Lawless to Grave” (new single: “No One Gets Out Alive”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released on April 9; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Unbeaten) |
| Thomas Rhett | “Country Again, Side A” (producers: Dann Huff, Jesse Frasure; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine) |
| Dawn Richard | “Second Line: An Electro Revival” (new single: “Bussifame”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Merge) |
| Royal Blood | “Typhoons” (producers: Royal Blood, Josh Homme, Paul Epworth; new single: “Typhoons”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| Shovels & Rope | “Busted Juicebox, Volume 3” (10 kid-friendly covers; guests: Sharon Van Etten, The War and Treaty, M. Ward, Deer Tick, The Felice Brothers, John Paul White, T. Hardy Morris, The Secret Sisters, Shrimp Records Family Band; first single: “In My Room”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released on Feb. 5) » BUY NOW |
(Dualtone) |
| Julia Stone | “Sixty Summers” (her first solo album since 2012; producers: St. Vincent, Thomas Bartlett; guests: The National’s Matt Berninger and Bryce Dessner; new single: “Dance”; See here; Gold Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Teenage Fanclub | “Endless Arcade” (their first album since 2016; new single: “I’m More Inclined”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download, released on March 5; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Merge) |
| Touch | “Tomorrow Never Comes” (the melodic rock band’s first album in 40 years; new single: “Tomorrow Never Comes”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Deko Entertainment) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 78” (24 songs; Download) » BUY NOW |
(NOW Music) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Big Scary | “Daisy” (their first since 2016’s “Animal”; first single: “Stay”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Pieater) |
| Birdy | “Young Heart” (the British singer-songwriter’s first album in nearly six years; new single: “Surrender”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Atlantic) |
| Bowerbirds | “becalmyounglovers” (their first album in more than eight years; guests: Matt McCaughan of Bon Iver, Alex Bingham of Hiss Golden Messenger, Libby Rodenbough, Chessa Rich, Joseph Terrell, Wood Robinson, Ari Picker, Zach Hansen; new single: “Moon Phase”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Psychic Hotline) |
| Serge Bulat (NYC-based electronic artist) | “Similarities Between Fish and a Chair” (producer: Bulat; guests: Oyme, Dai Sekiguchi, Nino Errera, Katie Buckley, Hirokazu Ishida, Pavel Vit; first single: “Sanity Mantra”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Serge Bulat) |
| Crumb | “Ice Melt” (producer: Jonathan Rado; new single: “BNR”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Crumb) |
| Dark Tea | “Dark Tea” (new single: “Finally on Time”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fire Talk) |
| Jackson Dean | “Jackson Dean” (five-song EP; new single: “Wings”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Big Machine) |
| Flight of Icarus | “Cleo” (new single: “Our Burning Star”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Blindfoldead International) |
| Paul Jacobs (of the Canadian band Pottery) | “Pink Dogs on the Green Grass” (first single: “Half Rich Loner”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Blow the Fuse) |
| Miloš Karadaglić | “The Moon & The Forest” (featuring two original concertos written especially for him by Howard Shore and Joby Talbot; Hear here; Read here; CD, out May 28; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca Classics) |
| Róisín Murphy | “Crooked Machine” (a reinterpretation of 2020’s “Róisín Machine” LP, remixed and reduced by The Crooked Man, aka DJ Parrot; first single: “Assimilation”; Apple Music; Deezer) » BUY NOW |
(Skint) |
| Noa | “Afterallogy” (new single: “Anything Goes”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Naïve) |
| Ruby Bones (New Jersey indie rock quartet) | “Laser Tooth Tiger” (new single: “Rooftops”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mint 400) |
| Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade | “There Used to Be Horses Here” (first single: “There Used to Be Horses Here”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Proper / Wind Bone) |
| Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy | “Superwolves” (first single: “Hall of Death”; See/read here; CD, Vinyl and Cassette out June 18) » BUY NOW |
(Drag City) |
| Rosie Tucker | “Sucker Supreme” (new single: “Habanero”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Epitaph) |
| Various artists | “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Cinderella’ (Original Cast Recording)” (its West End opening has been postponed to spring 2021; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out June 25; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Polydor) |
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Jon Anderson | “Animation (Remastered & Expanded Edition)” (1982 album; remastered from the original master tapes, with two bonus tracks; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Dickey Betts & Great Southern | “Official Bootleg Vol. 1” (two-CD set of live recordings from 2003-2008) » BUY NOW |
(Sunset Blvd.) |
| Dr. Feelgood | “Greatest Hits” (two CDs, 41 songs) » BUY NOW |
(Grand) |
| Ray Fenwick | “Playing Through the Changes: Anthology 1964-2020” (three CDs, 61 songs; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Lemon / Cherry Red) |
| Howard Jones | “In the Running (Deluxe Edition)” (1992 album, featuring “Lift Me Up”; three-CD, one-DVD set containing previously unreleased studio versions, edits, instrumentals, live versions and remixes plus newly remastered tracks; See here; Read here; Translucent Clear Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Cherry Red) |
| Gary Moore | “How Blue Can You Get” (a collection of unreleased material and alternate song versions; See here; Light Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Michael Nesmith | “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” (22 songs mixed from the original multitracks by Andrew Sandoval and mastered by Vic Anesini at Sony’s Battery Studios) » BUY NOW |
(Second Disc / Real Gone Music) |
| Pet Shop Boys | “Discovery: Live in Rio 1994” (concert film, originally issued on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995, is released as a two-CD, one-DVD set; new booklet includes an on-tour diary by Neil Tennant; Amazon UK; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Pink Floyd | “Live At Knebworth 1990” (remixed from the original master tapes, with 24-page booklet; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Saga | “The Best of Saga” (two-CD collection, “all the hits since 1978”) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC) |
| Steppenwolf | “The ABC/Dunhill Singles Collection” (two CDs, 38 songs; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Amii Stewart | “Best Of: Knock On Wood” (two CDs, 36 songs; Track List) » BUY NOW |
(Music on CD) |
| Telex | “This Is Telex” (14-song compilation includes a recently discovered cover of “Dear Prudence”; See here; Pink and Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mute) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call a Decade 1990s” (Target) » BUY NOW |
(NOW Music) |
| Various artists | “What Goes On: The Songs of Lou Reed” (20 covers, featuring Beck, Bryan Ferry, Cowboy Junkies, Iggy Pop, Detroit Featuring Mitch Ryder, Nico, Swervedriver, etc.; Hear/Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Ace) |
| Bobby Womack | “The Poet” (1981 album; remastered; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW, “The Poet II” (1984 album, featuring Patti LaBelle on three songs; remastered; Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(ABKCO) |
| Yello | “YELL40 Years” (two-CD compilation, featuring “Oh Yeah,” “Desire,” “I Love You,” “The Rhythm Divine” and “Vicious Games”; Deluxe Edition, four-CD box set; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury / UMe) |
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Swell Maps | “Mayday Signals” (compilation of rare and unreleased tracks from the vaults of band founder Jowe Head; CD and Vinyl out June 4) » BUY NOW |
(Easy Action) |
Next Week: May 7, 2021
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