New Releases: Feb. 16, 2018
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Reverend Shawn Amos | “The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down” (producers: Amos, James Saez; new single: “2017”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Put Together Music / AWAL) |
| Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet | “Landfall” (a companion book, titled “Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood,” was released on Feb. 6; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Angra | “ØMNI” (new single: “War Horns”; See here; Download) |
(earMUSIC) |
| Belle and Sebastian | “How To Solve Our Human Problems” (EP trilogy; vinyl box set; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Matador) |
| Born Ruffians | “Uncle, Duke & The Chief” (first single: “Forget Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Yep Roc) |
| Brandi Carlile | “By the Way, I Forgive You” (producers: Dave Cobb, Shooter Jennings; first single: “The Joke”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Autographed Version; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl, with download card; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Low Country Sound / Elektra) |
| Car Seat Headrest | “Twin Fantasy” (re-recorded and re-imagined version of Will Toledo’s 2011 album of the same name; first single: “Nervous Young Inhumans”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Matador) |
| Lee DeWyze | “Paranoia” (first single: “The Breakdown”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Shanachie) |
| Everything Is Recorded (artist collective formed by producer and XL Recordings co-founder Richard Russell) | “Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell” (guests: Peter Gabriel, Damon Albarn, Green Gartside, Owen Pallett, Sampha, Obongjayar, Kamasi Washington, Giggs, Ibeyi, Wiki, Syd, Rachel Zeffira, Infinite; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download) |
(XL Recordings) |
| For the Fallen Dreams | “Six” (first single: “Stone”; Hear here; See here; Download) |
(Rise) |
| Glass Tiger | “31” (11 Glass Tiger hits reimagined with traditional acoustic instruments, along with two new tracks, “Wae Yer Family” and “Fire It Up”; producer: Johnny Reid; guests: Julian Lennon, Johnny Reid, Véronic DiCaire, Susan Aglukark, David R. Maracle; Amazon.ca; eBay; On Tour) |
(Halo Entertainment / Warner Music Canada) |
| I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan) | “See You Around” (first single: “See You Around”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Rounder) |
| Felix Jaehn (23-year-old German producer, remixer, DJ) | “I” (guests: Gucci Mane, Marc E. Bassy, R. City, Clara Mae, Andrew Jackson, Troi Irons, Jasmine Thompson, ALMA, Polina, etc.; new single: “Cool”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Casablanca / Republic) |
| Loma | “Loma” (debut album from Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and Cross Record members Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski; new single: “Joy”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sub Pop) |
| Neal Morse | “Life & Times” (new single: “He Died At Home”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Radiant / Metal Blade) |
| Nipsey Hussle | “Victory Lap” (new single: “Rap Niggas”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(All Money In No Money Out / Atlantic) |
| Ought | “Room Inside the World” (producer: Nicolas Vernhes; first single: “These 3 Things”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Merge) |
| Pianos Become the Teeth | “Wait For Love” (producer: Will Yip; first single: “Charisma”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Epitaph) |
| The Plot in You (Ohio metalcore band) | “Dispose” (producers: frontman Landon Tewers, Drew Fulk; new single: “Not Just Breathing”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fearless) |
| Poliça and s t a r g a z e | “Music for the Long Emergency” (first single: “How Is This Happening”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Totally Gross National Product / Transgressive) |
| Pop Evil (Michigan hard-rock band) | “Pop Evil” (producer: Kato Khandwala; first single: “Waking Lions”; Hear here; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) |
(eOne Music) |
| Senses Fail | “If There Is Light, It Will Find You” (first single: “Double Cross”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Pure Noise) |
| Shannon & the Clams | “Onion” (producer: Dan Auerbach; first single: “The Boy”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch) |
| Michael W. Smith | “A Million Lights” (first single: “A Million Lights”; Hear here; See here; Amazon.ca; Download; eBay; On Tour) |
(Rocketown / The Fuel Music) |
| Superchunk | “What a Time To Be Alive” (producer: Beau Sorenson; guests: Stephin Merritt, Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, David Bazan, Sabrina Ellis, Skylar Gudasz; first singles: “Break the Glass / Mad World”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Merge) |
| U.S. Girls | “In a Poem Unlimited” (first single: “M.A.H.”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(4AD) |
| Various artists | “Escape To Margaritaville (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (new musical featuring original songs and Jimmy Buffett classics; On Broadway) |
(Mailboat) |
| Visions of Atlantis | “The Deep & The Dark” (See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Napalm) |
| Dita Von Teese (American burlesque dancer-singer) | “Dita Von Teese” (music written and composed by Sébastien Tellier; producers: Tellier, Mind Gamers; new single: “Bird of Prey”; Hear here; Download) | (Record Makers) |
| Wild Beasts | “Last Night All My Dreams Came True” (recorded live at RAK Studios in London; the U.K. indie-pop quartet says this is its final album; first single: “The Devil’s Palace”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| Wiley | “Godfather II” (first single: “I Call the Shots,” feat. JME; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(CTA) |
| Marlon Williams (New Zealand singer-songwriter) | “Make Way For Love” (producer: Noah Georgeson; first single: “Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore,” feat. Aldous Harding; Hear here; See here; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Dead Oceans) |
| Windhand & Satan’s Satyrs | “Split” (five-song EP from the Virginia heavy metal bands, featuring two new songs from Windhand and three from Satan’s Satyrs; new single: Windhand’s “Three Sisters”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Relapse) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Kyle Bielfield | “Manhattan” (covers album; first single: “Audition [The Fools Who Dream]”; Hear here) |
(Sony Music) |
| bigott | “Candy Valley” (producer: David Loca; first single: “Don’t Stop the Dance”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(bigott) |
| Broads (British electronic duo) | “Field Theory” (producers: Broads, Owen Turner; first single: “Climbs”; Hear here) | (Humm Recordings) |
| David Cook | “Chromance” (six-song EP; first single: “Gimme Heartbreak”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Analog Heart Music) |
| Dabrye | “Three/Three” (guests: Ghostface Killah, Guilty Simpson, Doom, La Peace, Fatt Father, Quelle Chris, Danny Brown, Nolan the Ninja, etc.; first single: “The Appetite”; Hear here) |
(Ghostly International) |
| Brett Dennen | “Let’s …” (five-song EP; first single: “Already Gone”; Hear here; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Downtown) |
| Fischerspooner | “SIR” (their first album since 2009; producers: Michael Stipe, BOOTS; guests: Holly Miranda, Caroline Polachek, Johnny Magee, Andy LeMaster; new single: “TopBrazil”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Read here; eBay) |
(Ultra) |
| Good Old War | “Part of You” (five-song EP; first single: “That Feeling,” feat. Anthony Green; Hear here; iTunes;On Tour) |
(Nettwerk) |
| His Dream of Lions (Fairfax, Va., alt-rock quartet) | “Pseudo Star” (five-song EP; first single: “Love Me Like I’m Sick”; See here) |
(His Dream of Lions) |
| Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (Wisconsin bluegrass/Americana quintet) | “The Ode” (producer: Trampled By Turtles frontman Dave Simonett, recorded at Pachyderm Studio in Minnesota, where Nirvana cut “In Utero”; new single: “Steer True”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Tape Time) |
| Imperial State Electric | “Anywhere Loud” (recorded live at sold-out shows in Madrid, Stockholm and Tokyo; Hear here; Amazon UK) |
(Psychout / Sound Pollution) |
| Kellen of Troy (aka Kellen Wenrich, ex-Apache Relay violinist) | “Posthumous Release” (first single: “When You Don’t Hear Goodbye”; Hear here) |
(Allura Sound) |
| Killcode | “The Answer” (producer: Joey Z; Hear here) |
(Killcode, Feb. 20) |
| Walter Martin (of The Walkmen) | “Reminisce Bar & Grill” (new single: “I Can Run Now From the Hellhounds But I Can’t Hide”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(Ile Flottante Music) |
| Harvey McLaughlin (San Antonio singer-songwriter ) | “Tabloid News” (Hear here) | (Saustex) |
| Josh Mover & The Shakers (Toronto indie rockers) | “Into a Ghost” (five-song EP; new single: “When I Steal Your Heart”; Hear here) | (Josh Mover & The Shakers) |
| Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto | “Glass” (45-minute long improvised live performance, recorded at architect Philip Johnson’s historic Glass House in Connecticut; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl) |
(Noton) |
| Courtney Patton (Americana/folk artist from Granbury, Texas) | “What It’s Like to Fly Alone” (producer: Patton; guests: Dan Tyminski, husband Jason Eady, Jamie Lin Wilson, Lloyd Maines; first single: “Shove”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Courtney Patton) |
| Razorbats (Norwegian rock band) | “II” (producer: Kai Christoffersen; new single: “Social Rejects”; Hear here) |
(Rob Mules Records) |
| Ride | “Tomorrow’s Shore” (four-song EP; producer: Erol Alkan; first single: “Catch You Dreaming”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) http://amzn.to/2y8js2I” target=”new”> |
(Wichita Recordings) |
| Slaves (Sacramento post-hardcore group) | “Beautiful Death” (producer: Erik Ron; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(SBG / The Orchard) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Chairmen of the Board | “Give Me Just a Little More Time” (1970 album; remastered), “In Session” (1970 album; remastered, with one bonus track), “Bittersweet” (1972 album; remastered) |
(Japan – Solid / Hot Wax / Invictus) |
| The Choir | “Artifact: The Unreleased Album” (1969 recordings; Hear/read here; Download) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| The Cranberries | “No Need to Argue [Vinyl]” (1994 album; limited-edition purple vinyl; See here; eBay; Merch) |
(Plain) |
| Barbara Dane | “Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs” (two CDs, 38 songs; Download) |
(Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Bob Dylan | “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits [Vinyl]” (1967 album; 180-gram vinyl; eBay; Merch) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Phil Everly | “There’s Nothing Too Good for My Baby / Mystic Line” (1974 and 1975 albums on one CD; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK) |
(Morello / Cherry Red) |
| The Glass House | “Thanks, I Needed That” (1972 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks) |
(Japan – Solid / Hot Wax / Invictus) |
| Honey Cone | “Take Me With You” (1970 album; remastered, with one bonus track), “Sweet Replies” (1971 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks), “Soulful Tapestry” (1971 album, featuring “Want Ads,” “Stick-Up” and “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”; remastered, with one bonus track), “Love, Peace & Soul” (1972 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks) |
(Japan – Solid / Hot Wax / Invictus) |
| Kendrick Lamar | “DAMN. (Collector’s Edition) [Vinyl]” (2017 album; clear vinyl) |
(Aftermath / Interscope) |
| 100 Proof Aged in Soul | “Somebody’s Been Sleeping in My Bed” (1970 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks), “100 Proof Aged in Soul” (1972 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks) |
(Japan – Solid / Hot Wax / Invictus) |
| Freda Payne | “Band of Gold” (1970 album; remastered), “Contact” (1971 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks), “Reaching Out” (1973 album; remastered) |
(Japan – Solid / Hot Wax / Invictus) |
| Sonny Rollins | “Way Out West (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Vinyl]” (1957 album; remastered, with a bonus LP containing alternate versions and previously unreleased tracks from the recording session; eBay) |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Teenage Fanclub | “Grand Prix [Vinyl]” (1995 album; 180-gram vinyl; See here; eBay; Merch) |
(Plain) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Vanessa Daou | “Songs for Lovers” (14-song compilation; Hear here) |
(Daou Tempo) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Van Morrison | “Van Morrison In Concert [DVD]” (filmed during his 2016 show at the BBC Radio Theatre; includes a 60-minute bonus concert “Up on Cyprus Avenue,” recorded on his 70th birthday on the Belfast Avenue Cyprus Hill; See here; Amazon UK) |
(Eagle Vision) |
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