New Releases: Aug. 20, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| After 7 | “Unfinished Business” (their first album without Melvin Edmonds, who died in 2019; See here; Download) » BUY NOW  |
(SoNo Recording Group) |
| Jake Bugg | “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” (producer: Steve Mac; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Arista) |
| CousteauX | “Stray Gods” (producer: band member Davey Ray Moor; first single: a cover of Miley Cyrus’ “Karen Don’t Be Sad”; Hear here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Silent X) |
| Deafheaven | “Infinite Granite” (producer: Justin Meldal-Johnsen; new single: “Great Mass of Color”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Sargent House) |
| Anderson East | “Maybe We Never Die” (producers: Dave Cobb, Philip Towns; new single: “Madelyn”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Low Country Sound / Elektra) |
| Sierra Ferrell | “Long Time Coming” (producers: Gary Paczosa, Stu Hibberd; guests: Sarah Jarosz, Jerry Douglas, Billy Strings, etc.; new single: “The Sea”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rounder) |
| Orla Gartland | “Woman on the Internet” (Dublin singer-songwriter-producer’s debut album; new single: “Do You Mind?”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(New Friends / The Orchard) |
| Debbie Gibson | “The Body Remembers” (her first album in 20 years features 15 new tracks written or co-written by Gibson, along with a studio version remake of her 1989 hit power ballad “Lost in Your Eyes,” now a duet with Joey McIntyre; new single: “One Step Closer”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Stargirl) |
| Danny Gokey | “Jesus People” (guests: Angie Rose, Karyn Hawthorne, Christine D’Clario; new single: “He Believes In You”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Sparrow) |
| Martin Gore | “The Third Chimpanzee Remixed” (remixes and reworkings of tracks from his 2021 album by ANNA, Chris Liebing, Rrose, Jlin, Barker, Wehbba, JakoJako, The Exaltics, Kangding and MoReVoX; Hear here; Orange & Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mute) |
| Chrissie Hynde | “Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan” (recorded last year during the lockdown with her Pretenders bandmate, James Walbourne; mixed by Tchad Blake; Vinyl; Download, released on May 21; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Wanda Jackson | “Encore” (the Queen of Rockabilly’s final album; producers: Joan Jett, Kenny Laguna; guests: Jett, Elle King, Angaleena Presley, Candi Carpenter; first single: “It Keeps Right On a Hurtin'”; Hear here; Read here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Blackheart / Big Machine) |
| Kool & The Gang | “Perfect Union” (the band’s 25th album and its first in 10 years; producer: the late Ronald Khalis Bell; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Ru-Jac / Omnivore Recordings) |
| Lorde | “Solar Power [Vinyl]” (Lorde says the album will not be released on CD; producer: Jack Antonoff; first single: “Solar Power”; See here; Target-Exclusive Marbled Orange Vinyl; Discless Music Box, featuring 100% biodegradable box includes Hi-Res album Download Card w/ bonus tracks, access to exclusive content, 32-page booklet, poster and limited 4-card set, does not include a CD; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Lava Music / Republic) |
| LTtheMonk | “On the Wall” (new single: “Devante [In Your Hands]”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Sonic Unyon) |
| James McMurtry | “The Horses and the Hounds” (his first album in seven years; producer: Ross Hogarth; guest: David Grissom; first single: “Canola Fields”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(New West) |
| Maggie Rose | “Have a Seat” (producer: Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes; recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala.; guest: Marcus King; first single: “Do It”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Starstruck) |
| Shannon and the Clams | “Year of the Spider” (producer: Dan Auerbach; first single: “Midnight Wine”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Easy Eye Sound) |
| Sturgill Simpson | “The Ballad of Dood & Juanita” (concept album; guest: Willie Nelson; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(High Top Mountain) |
| Connie Smith | “The Cry of the Heart” (producer: husband Marty Stuart; first single: “Look Out Heart”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Fat Possum) |
| Switchfoot | “interrobang” (producer: Tony Berg; new single: “fluorescent”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Trifecta (Nick Beggs, Adam Holzman and Craig Blundell of Steven Wilson’s band) | “Fragments” (producers: Trifecta; first single: “Pavlov’s Dog Killed Schrodinger’s Cat”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Kscope) |
| Joe Troop (leader of Grammy-nominated Che Apalache) | “Borrowed Time” (producers: Troop, Jason Richmond; guests: Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Tim O’Brien, Charlie Hunter; new single: “Monte oscuro”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Free Dirt) |
| Various artists | “The Bob’s Burgers Music Album Vol. 2” (two CDs, 90 songs; Target-Exclusive CD, with six-piece sticker pack; Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set, with 56-page hardbound lyric book, 62-page softcover song book, two posters, die-cut colorform clings and custom dust sleeves; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with full poster; Cassette; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Sub Pop) |
| Various artists | “Girl From The North Country (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (written and directed by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan; the cast recorded the album on March 9, 2020, three days before the Broadway shutdown; producers: Dean Sharenow, Simon Hale, McPherson; cast includes Todd Almond, Jeannette Bayardelle, Caitlin Houlahan and Mare Winningham; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Villagers | “Fever Dreams” (new single: “The First Day”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Domino) |
| Martha Wainwright | “Love Will Be Reborn” (her first album in five years; producer: Pierre Marchand; new single: “Hole In My Heart”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Pheromone Records / Cooking Vinyl) |
| Wolves in the Throne Room | “Primordial Arcana” (first single: “Mountain Magick”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Between the Buried and Me | “Colors II” (producers: Jamie King, Between the Buried and Me; new single: “Revolution in Limbo”; Hear here; CD out Oct. 8) » BUY NOW |
(Sumerian) |
| Bnny (Chicago rock quintet) | “Everything” (new single: “August”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Sept. 24; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fire Talk) |
| Mia Doi Todd | “Ten Views of Music Life” (remixes of songs from her 2021 album “Music Life” by Julia Holter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Carlos Niño & Friends, etc.; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(City Zen) |
| Freestylers | “Other Worlds” (guests: Plump DJs, Blapps Posse, Tenor Fly, Mad Doctor X, Scarlett Quinn, etc.; new single: “Happiness”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Mama’s Pie) |
| GA-20 | “GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor – Try It … You Might Like It!” (10-song tribute to Chicago blues legends Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers; first single: “She’s Gone”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Colemine) |
| Eric Hilton (Thievery Corporation co-founder) | “Ceremony” (new single: “Who are You?”; Hear here; CD out Sept. 24; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Montserrat House) |
| The Joy Formidable | “Into the Blue” (new single: “Back to Nothing”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 1; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Hassle) |
| KAM-BU (South London rapper) | “Black on Black” (guests: Leon Vynehall, Pullen, Hylnu, Tom Henry, Knucks; new single: “Stuck”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Atlas Artists / Parlophone) |
| Lil Lotus | “ERRØR BØY” (guests: Travis Barker, Lil Aaron, Chrissy Costanza; new single: “Romantic Disaster”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Epitaph) |
| Angel Olsen | “Aisles” (five-song EP of ’80s covers; first single: “Gloria”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, out Sept. 24; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(somethingscosmic / Jagjaguwar) |
| Lorkin O’Reilly | “Marriage Material” (new single: “Still You”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Team Love) |
| Andy Peake | “Mood Swings” (singer-drummer’s debut album; producer: Peake; guests: John Cowan, Will McFarlane, James Pennebaker, Chris Leuzinger, Andy Reiss, Sam Broussard, John Prestia, Paul Ossola, Bob Marinelli, Al Hill, Kevin McKendree, Scott Ducaj, Miqui Gutierrez, Jeff Taylor; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Biglittle) |
| Strange Bones (U.K. indie rock quartet) | “England Screams” (producer: frontman Bobby Bentham; new single: “England Screams”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(FRKST / 300 Entertainment) |
| Various artists | “Flag Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (starring and directed by Academy Award winner Sean Penn and co-starring his daughter Dylan Penn; featuring tracks by Cat Power, Glen Hansard, Eddie Vedder and his daughter Olivia Vedder, etc.; Trailer) » BUY NOW | (Seattle Surf / Republic) |
| Sam Williams (son of Hank Williams Jr.) | “Glasshouse Children” (the Nashville singer-songwriter’s debut album; guests: Dolly Parton, Keith Urban; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury Nashville) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Aaliyah | “One in a Million” (1996 album, featuring “If Your Girl Only Knew,” “One in a Million,” “Got to Give It Up,” “4 Page Letter,” “Hot Like Fire” and “The One I Gave My Heart To”; remastered, with a bonus track, “Hot Like Fire [Timbaland’s Groove Mix]”; Vinyl, out March 25, 2022; Download; Read here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Blackground / EMPIRE) |
| Caravan | “Who Do You Think We Are?” (37-disc, career-spanning box set featuring remastered albums, unreleased concerts, a Steven Wilson 5.1 mix, etc.; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Madfish) |
| Eric Clapton | “Eric Clapton (Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1970 solo debut album, featuring “After Midnight” and “Let It Rain”; remastered four-CD box set includes The Tom Dowd Mix, The Eric Clapton Mix and The Delaney Bramlett Mix, plus singles, alternate versions and session outtakes; Read here; Amazon UK; Standard Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Polydor / UMe) |
| John Coltrane | “Another Side of John Coltrane” (compilation of some of his best work in sessions led by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and Art Taylor; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Gray Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Joe Hisasihi | “Songs of Hope: The Essential Joe Hisaishi Vol. 2” (two-CD, 28-song set features more of the composer’s greatest hits from award-winning films, such as “Spirited Away” and “Porco Rosso,” orchestral works and solo piano recordings, plus two new tracks, “Kids Return” and “HANA-BI”; Hear here; Read here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca Gold) |
| Lissie | “Catching a Tiger (Anniversary Edition)” (2010 album; with five new songs, four of them previously unreleased, all recorded during the original sessions in 2009 with producers Jacquire King and Bill Reynolds; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Lionboy / The Orchard) |
| Lee Morgan | “The Complete Live at the Lighthouse” (eight-CD box set contains all 12 sets of music the trumpeter’s quintet of saxophonist Bennie Maupin, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummer Mickey Roker recorded at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, CA, on July 10-12, 1970; mixed from the original half-inch 4-track tapes by Steve Genewick at Capitol Studios with LP mastering by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio; Hear here; Vinyl, 12-LP box set; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note / UMe) |
| Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | “The Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon” (55-CD box set includes a previously unreleased recording of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from 2018) » BUY NOW |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Various artists | “Disco 75” (three-CD, 55-song collection of disco hits from 1975, mastered by Simon Murphy; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap” (nine-CD, 130-track box set, with a 300-page book; See here) » BUY NOW | (Smithsonian Folkways) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Dawes | “Nothing Is Wrong (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2011 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; Milky Clear Vinyl, with a 7-inch single and download card; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(ATO) |
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