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New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
ARTIST
TITLE
LABEL
Laurie Anderson
“Amelia” (22-track album tells the story of the tragic last flight by aviator Amelia Earhart; featuring the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies; guests: ANOHNI, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, Kenny Wolleson; new single: “Road to Mandalay”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)
“I Hear Thunder” (Louisiana blues guitarist’s first album in 13 years; producer: Benoit; guests: George Porter Jr., Anders Osborne; new single: “Why, Why”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
Whiskey Bayou Records
Big Sean
“Better Me Than You” (his sixth solo album; guests: Drake, Nas, Kanye West, Future, A$AP Rocky, Earlly Mac, Madeintyo; new single: “On Up”; Hear here; Read here)
Def Jam
Betty Boo
“Rip Up the Rulebook” (British hip-hop pioneer’s fourth album; producers: Andy Wright, Betty Boo, Gavin Goldberg; guests: HEX, “Rapper’s Delight” co-writer Grandmaster Caz; new single: “It Was Beautiful”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)
“Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes” (Double CD; Tony Award-winning actress-singer performs songs that are touchstones and reflections on her life growing up in America; producer: Michael Croiter; Hear here; Download released on July 19; On Tour)
Center Stage Records
Megan Thee Stallion
“MEGAN” (Amazon Bonus Track Version; her third album; producers: Bankroll Got It, Derrick Milano, Shawn “Source” Jarrett, LilJuMadeDaBeat; new single: “Boa”; See here; Download released on June 28; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch)
“Loving You” (Gospel Music Hall of Fame quartet’s final album, completed shortly before three members were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming on July 26; producers: Jason Clark, Gordon Mote, Wayne Haun, Bill Gaither; Vinyl out Oct. 4; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)
“Eastern Montana” (solo piano album, the first in a series of posthumous LPs; the platinum-selling pianist died of cancer on June 4, 2023, at age 74; new single: “High Plains Lullaby 2”; See here; Download)
“Stick Season (Live From Fenway Park)” (recorded in July 2024 during his back-to-back sold-out shows in Boston, featuring the unreleased track, “Pain Is Cold Water”; guest: Gracie Abrams; Hear here; On Tour)
Mercury / Republic
Lia Kohl
“Normal Sounds” (Chicago-based artist’s third album; guests: Ka Baird, Patrick Shiroishi; new single: “Ignition, Sneakers”; Hear here; Apple Music)
“EVERY KIND OF UH-OH” (producers: Peacock, son Sam Ashworth; guests: Charlie McCoy, Sara Groves, Ruby Amanfu, Vicki Hampton, Darwin Hobbs; new single: “Turtle in a Chinese Food Box”; Hear here; Apple Music)
It’s Time to Art / Re:Think / Universal Music Group
“Folklórica” (solo album from member of Danish experimentalists SVIN; new single: “11°11′N 4°17′W”; Hear here)
Momeatdad Records
Rachel Platten
“I Am Rachel Platten” (“Fight Song” singer’s fifth album and first since 2017; producers: Jason Evigan, Gian Stone; guest: Michael Bolton; new single: “I Know”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music)
Violet, Sept. 3
Ploho
“Почва” (Siberian post-punk band’s 11th album; new single: “красота не спасёт мир”; Hear here; Apple Music)
Artoffact
Ellen Reid
“Big Majestic” (Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and sound artist assembles music from Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a GPS-enabled work of public art that reimagines urban parks as interactive soundscapes; producers: Reid, James Lemkin, Nadia Sirota; new single: “Big Majestic”; Hear here; Apple Music)
New Amsterdam / Eclipse Projects
RZA
“A Ballet Through Mud” (classical music album, composed and scored by the Wu-Tang mastermind, performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Dragon; Hear here; Apple Music)
“Free (2024 Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1991 album, featuring “Cry for Help” and “Move Right Out”; remastered at Abbey Road Studios, with 18 bonus songs, including previously unreleased tracks, B-sides and remixes; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour)
BMG Rights Management
Autograph
“The Anthology” (two CDs, 32 songs, including “Turn Up the Radio”)
Deadline Music
The Beau Brummels
“Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964-1970” (eight-CD clamshell box set, featuring original stereo album masters, outtakes, alternate mixes, 45 RPM versions, rarities and unreleased demos drawn from the band’s own archives; Read here; Amazon UK)
Now Sounds / Cherry Red
Blues Image
“Open” (1970 album, featuring the Top 5 hit “Ride Captain Ride”)
“I Like Dreamin’: Best of Kenny Nolan” (two albums, “Kenny Nolan” and “A Song Between Us,” on one CD, with a bonus track, “Us and Love [We Go Together]”)
“Paul Robeson — Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings” (14-CD box set, documenting his complete major-label discography, recorded 1925–1947, including the first restoration of his famous 1944 Othello stage production with Uta Hagen and José Ferrer from the original 33 master disc sides; also contains an illustrated 160-page book with essays by Shana L. Redmond and Susan Robeson, plus photos and facsimiles from the archives of The Paul Robeson Trust, the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, and Columbia Records, etc.; Amazon UK)
