New Releases: Aug. 28, 2020
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Allman Betts Band | “Bless Your Heart” (first single: “Magnolia Road”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Arca | “KiCk i” (guests: Björk, Rosalía, etc.; new single: “Mequetrefe”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download, released June 26; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(XL Recordings) |
| The Atomic Bitchwax (helmed by past and present members of Monster Magnet) | “Scorpio” (See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Tee Pee) |
| The Avett Brothers | “The Third Gleam” (first single: “Victory”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) |
(Loma Vista Recordings) |
| Tim Bowness | “Late Night Laments” (mixed by his longtime No-Man partner Steven Wilson and mastered by Calum Malcolm; producers: Bowness, Brian Hulse; new single: “Northern Rain”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Toni Braxton | “Spell My Name” (her 10th studio album; guests: Missy Elliott, H.E.R.; new single: “Dance”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Island) |
| Dianne Davidson | “Perigon: Full Circle” (her first album in more than three decades features 10 original songs and covers of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” and Gretchen Peters’ “Over Africa”; producers: Davidson, Larry Chaney; guests: Ruthie Foster, Mac Gayden; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Perigon Music) |
| Disclosure | “Energy” (guests: Common, Kelis, Kehlani, slowthai, Syd, Mick Jenkins, Aminé, Channel Tres, etc.; first single: “ENERGY”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with nine extra songs; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol) |
| The Empty Hearts (Elliot Easton, Clem Burke, Wally Palmar and Andy Babiuk) | “The Second Album” (producers: Ed Stasium, The Empty Hearts; guest: Ringo Starr; new single: “The Best That I Can”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Wicked Cool) |
| From Ashes to New | “Panic” (producer: Colin Brittain; new single: “What I Get”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Better Noise Music) |
| Karen Jonas | “The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams” (first single: “Tuesday”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Yellow Brick Road) |
| KEM | “Love Always Wins” (guests: Toni Braxton, Erica Campbell, Brian Culbertson; new single: “Live Out Your Love”; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Motown) |
| Bettye LaVette | “Blackbirds” (featuring songs popularized by women who were the “bridge she came across on”; producer: Steve Jordan; first single: “I Hold No Grudge”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Verve) |
| Ledisi | “The Wild Card” (guests: Babyface, Robert Glasper, Rex Rideout; first single: “Anything for You”; See here; Download; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Listen Back Entertainment / BMG Rights Management) |
| lovelytheband | “conversations with myself about you” (new single: “idwgtyp” [an acronym for the chorus’ lyrics “i don’t want to go to your party anymore”]; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Another Century) |
| Metallica | “Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2” (live album recorded in September 2019; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Box, includes vinyl, CD and Blu-ray, plus sheet music, guitar picks and artwork; Vinyl Box Set, four LPs; Download; Apple Music; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Blackened Recordings) |
| Jason Mraz | “Look for the Good” (producer: Michael Goldwasser; guests: Tiffany Haddish, Sister Carol; first single: “Look for the Good”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released June 19; Apple Music; Target; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| My Morning Jacket | “The Waterfall II” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released on July 10; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(ATO) |
| NEEDTOBREATHE | “Out of Body” (new single: “Banks”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Elektra / Centricity Music) |
| Angel Olsen | “Whole New Mess” (nine of the 11 tracks are new acoustic versions of songs off her 2019 album “All Mirrors,” recorded at a Catholic church in Anacortes, Wash., that was converted into a studio; producer: Nicholas Wilbur; first single: “Whole New Mess”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Jagjaguwar) |
| Kelly Lee Owens | “Inner Song” (producer: James Greenwood; guest: John Cale; first single: “Melt!”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Smalltown Supersound) |
| Dan Penn (wrote “I’m Your Puppet,” “Cry Like a Baby,” etc.) | “Living On Mercy” (his first album since 1995; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(The Last Music Company) |
| Katy Perry | “Smile” (new single: “Smile”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song and voice memo; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, translucent cobalt LP, with one extra song and voice memo; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol) |
| Gregory Porter | “All Rise” (producer: Troy Miller; first single: “Revival”; See here; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; Deluxe Triple LP Edition, pressed on teal vinyl; Download; Deluxe Digital Edition, with two extra songs; Apple Music; Target; On Tour, with Ledisi) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note) |
| Powerman 5000 | “The Noble Rot” (first single: “Black Lipstick”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cleopatra) |
| PVRIS | “Use Me” (new single: “Dead Weight”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Target; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| Daniel Rodriguez (former Elephant Revival co-founder) | “Sojourn of a Burning Sun” (new single: “Brother John”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Renew / BMG Rights Management) |
| Bobby Rush | “Rawer Than Raw” (acoustic blues album pays homage to the great bluesmen from Mississippi; first single: “Shake It for Me”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Deep Rush / Thirty Tigers) |
| Seether | “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” (album title is Latin for “If you want peace, prepare for war”; producer: frontman Shaun Morgan; engineered and mixed by Matt Hyde; new single: “Dangerous”; See here; Walmart-Exclusive CD, with bonus live songs; Vinyl; FYE-Exclusive Orange & Red Swirl Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Toots and the Maytals | “Got to Be Tough” (their first album in 10 years; guest: Ziggy Marley; new single: “Got to Be Tough”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Trojan Jamaica, Ltd. / BMG Rights Management) |
| Walter Trout | “Ordinary Madness” (first single: “Wanna Dance”; Hear here; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Molly Tuttle | “… but i’d rather be with you” (all-covers album; producer: Tony Berg; new single: Grateful Dead’s “Standing on the Moon”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Compass) |
| Various artists | “Back To Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music” (17-song collection recorded at Leon Russell’s Paradise Studio at Grand Lake, performed by 20 Tulsa musicians, including John Fullbright, Paul Benjaman, Jesse Aycock, etc.; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW | (Horton) |
| Sarah Walk | “Another Me” (producer: Leo Abrahams; new single: “unravel”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(One Little Independent) |
More Releases for Aug. 28, 2020 »
Other Notable Releases
“The Waltz of the Moonshine Blind,” The Beautiful Fear (Addictaclique)
“The Fire Still Burns,” Alan Braufman (Valley of Search)
“Someday,” Falu & Karyshma (Monsoon)
“What Could Be Better,” The Happy Fits (Diamond City)
“Death of the Cosmic,” HINAYANA (Napalm)
“Still Laughing,” Gag (Iron Lung)
“Renaissance Boy,” Galimatias (Galimatias)
“Good at Losing Everything,” The Ghost of Paul Revere (The Ghost of Paul Revere)
“To Live to Kill to Live,” Manticora (ViciSolum Productions)
“Misunderstood,” May Have (May Have)
“Desire,” Bob Moses (Domin)
“The All Is One,” Motorpsycho (Rune Grammofon)
“Lobotomy,” Nuclear Warfare (MDD)
“Listening to the Music,” Zephaniah OHora (Last Roundup)
“PANTHER,” Pain of Salvation (InsideOutMusic)
“Terminal Velocity,” John Petrucci (Sound Mind Music)
“Aleph,” Private World (Dais)
“Arcadia,” Smash Into Pieces (Smash Into Pieces)
“Many Moons,” Jeremy Squires (Blackbird)
“Imagine That! The Sesame Street Music of Joe Raposo & Jeff Moss,” Rena Strober and Friends (Rena Strober)
“The United State,” Justin Wells (Singular Recordings)
“Evidence Unearthed,” Alan Williams (Blue Gentian)
“Love Language,” ZIMINY (Battle Creek Recordings)
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Zella Day | “Where Does the Devil Hide” (five-song EP; new single: “People Are Strangers”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Concord) |
| Katrina (of Katrina and the Waves) | “Hearts, Loves & Babys” (new single: “Drive”) » BUY NOW |
(Music Manager) |
| Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon | “Noon” (their first album together in 15 years; first singles: “Ants” and “I Am Random”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Nov. 20; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Megaplum / ATO) |
| Seth MacFarlane | “Great Songs From Stage & Screen” (arranged and conducted by Bruce Broughton; CD, out Oct. 9) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| PJ Morton | “Gospel According to PJ: From the Songbook of PJ Morton” (the Maroon 5 keyboardist’s first gospel album; guests: The Clark Sisters, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, Kim Burrell, Smokie Norful, Commissioned, etc.; new single: “So in Love”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Morton Inspiration / Tyscot) |
| Protoje | “In Search of Lost Time” (producers: Protoje, Supa Dups, Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor, Winta James; guests: Koffee, Wiz Khalifa, Lila Iké, Popcaan; new single: “Like Royalty”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(In.Digg.Nation Collective / Six Course Music / RCA) |
| Sam the Astronaut | “Midnight Carlight” (new single: “High for You”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Sam the Astronaut) |
| The Score | “Carry On” (new single: “All of Me”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Spar Marta | “Spar Marta” (six-song EP; new single: “Let It Go”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Spar Marta) |
| Paul van Dyk | “Guiding Light” (guests: Danny Eaton, Elated, Kinetica, Bo Bruce, Vini Vici, Chris Bekker, Will Atkinson, Sue McLaren, etc.; CD out Oct. 9; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(VANDIT) |
More Digital Releases for Aug. 28, 2020 »
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| America | “Half Century” (eight-disc box set includes rare archival studio recordings consisting of alternate mixes, demos and rehearsals, circa 1970-2000, along with the remastered “Bremen 1973” in-studio performance, two CDs of radio interviews and a DVD of Super 8 “Home Movies,” from 1972-1975; plus a new track, “Remembering”; See here; Amazon UK; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(America Archives) |
| Back Street Crawler | “Atlantic Years 1975-1976” (four-CD capacity wallet box set; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(HNE / Cherry Red) |
| Barclay James Harvest | “Barclay James Harvest and Other Short Stories (Expanded & Remastered)” (1971 album; remastered from the original master tapes; includes a new stereo mix on a second CD and a high resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix, new stereo mix and original stereo mix on an NTSTC / Region free DVD, plus rare U.S. album versions of “Medicine Man,” “Harry’s Song” and “Someone There You Know,” along with five BBC Radio session tracks and two John Lees demo recordings; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Solomon Burke | “The King of Rock ‘N’ Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1968)” (three CDs, 79 songs; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Jeremy Camp | “The Story’s Not Over (Deluxe Edition)” (2019 album; with six bonus tracks) » BUY NOW |
(Sparrow) |
| Dokken | “The Lost Songs: 1978-1981” (11-song collection; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Silver Lining Music) |
| In Flames | “Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2000 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks; Vinyl, orange/white splatter; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Nuclear Blast) |
| Josh Ritter | “See Here, I Have Built You a Mansion” (a collection of rare and unreleased tracks and performances, handpicked by Ritter; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Pytheus Recordings) |
| Elliott Smith | “Elliott Smith: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition” (1995 album; remastered, with a bonus disc of the earliest known recording of Smith performing as a solo act, from Sept. 17, 1994 at Portland’s café and “art salon” Umbra Penumbra; encased within a 52-page coffee table book with handwritten lyrics, reminiscences from Smith’s friends and colleagues and two dozen previously unseen photographs from the era by JJ Gonson, who shot the image on the album’s cover; first single: “Big Decision [Live at Umbra Penumbra – September 17th, 1994]”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Kill Rock Stars) |
| The Tremeloes | “The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-72” (six-CD clamshell box set; 165 tracks in mono, full stereo and electronically processed stereo; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “The Land of Sensations & Delights: The Psych Pop Sounds of White Whale Records (1965-1970)” (26-track collection) » BUY NOW | (Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Roy Wood & Wizzard | “Main Street (Expanded & Remastered Edition)” (unreleased album from 1976, issued on CD in 1999 but out of print for two decades; with one bonus track, “Human Cannonball”; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
More Releases for Aug. 28, 2020 »
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