New Releases: Feb. 21, 2025

Gerry Galipault

2 years ago

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New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Anxious	“BAMBI” (Fairfield, CT-based alt-rock band’s second album; producer: Brett Romnes; new single: “Head & Spine”; See here; Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour)	Run for Cover
Cammie Beverly	“House of Grief” (Oceans of Slumber singer’s solo debut album; new single: “Paraffin”; Hear here; Vinyl)	Icons Creating Evil Art / Virgin Music Group
Basia Bulat	“Basia’s Palace” (producers: Mark Lawson, Bulat; mixed by Tucker Martine; new single: “Baby”; See here; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Secret City
A Day to Remember	“A Day to Remember’s Big Ole Album Vol. 1” (surprise-released on Feb. 18 with two singles: “Make It Make Sense” and “LeBron,” with physical copies available Feb. 21; Hear here; Read here; Yin Yang Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Orange Creamsicle Vinyl; Download out March 21; On Tour)	Fueled By Ramen
Sam Fender	“People Watching” (British singer-songwriter’s third album; producers: Fender, Marcus Dravs, Adam Grancuciel; new single: “People Watching”; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Polydor
Saya Gray	“SAYA” (Canadian alt-pop singer-producer’s debut album; new single: “Shell [ Of a Man ]”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Dirty Hit
Patterson Hood	“Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams” (Drive-By Truckers singer-guitarist’s first solo album in 12 years; producer: Chris Funk; guests: Waxahatchee, Lydia Loveless, Wednesday; new single: “A Werewolf and a Girl”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	ATO
Killswitch Engage	“This Consequence” (their first album in more than five years; producer: guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz; new single: “Forever Aligned”; See here; Expired Ancient Slate Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Metal Blade
Ellis Mano Band	“Morph” (multinational blues-rock band’s fourth album; new single: “Virtually Love”; See here; Multi-Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music)	SPV Recordings
Edwin McCain	“Lucky” (his first album of new material in 15 years; producer: Lee Brice; guests: Brice, Matt Ramsey of Old Dominion, Rebecca Lynn Howard; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Working Nomad / BFD
Tate McRae	“So Close to What” (21-year-old Canadian pop star’s third album; producer: ILYA; new single: “2 Hands”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Dreamsicle Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Neon Orange Opaque Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Ultra Clear Translucent Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	RCA
Bill Medley	“Straight From the Heart” (his first album since 2007, featuring duets with Michael McDonald, Shawn Colvin, Vince Gill and Keb’ Mo’; producer: Fred Mollin; new single: “These Days”; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Curb
The Murder Capital	“Blindness” (Irish post-punk rock band’s third album; producer: John Congleton; new single: “Words Lost Meaning”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Human Season
Nao	“Jupiter” (London R&B singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producers: Nathaniel Ledwidge, STINT; new single: “Light Years”; Hear here; Read here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Little Tokyo Recordings / RCA
Heather Nova	“Breath and Air” (her 13th album; new single: “Butterflies and Moths”; Hear here; Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour)	V2
Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band	“Honeysuckle” (producer: Peyton; mixed by Vance Powell; guests: The McCrary Sisters, Billy Branch, Michael Cleveland, Colton Crawford; Vinyl; Download; On Tour)	Family Owned Records / Amplified Distribution
Q Lazzarus	“Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture)” (Double CD; posthumous album from NYC cult artist Diane Luckey, who was working on a documentary about her life and music at the time of her death in 2022; includes previously unheard tracks; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Sacred Bones
Mitch Ryder	“With Love” (his 21st studio album; producer: Don Was; new single: “Lilli May”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Ruf
Scour	“Gold” (full-length debut album from extreme metal collective led by Philip H. Anselmo; new single: “Infusorium”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music)	Housecore
Silverstein	“Antibloom” (post-hardcore rockers’ 11th studio album is the first of a two-part project; new single: “Confession”; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	UNFD
Jordan Smith	“The People’s Hymnal” (producers: Tommy Sims, Colin Linden; new single: “How Great Thou Art”; See here; Download; Apple Music)	Gaither Music Group
Paul Thorn	“Life Is Just a Vapor” (Southern singer-songwriter’s 13th album; new single: “Geraldine & Ricky”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Perpetual Obscurity / Thirty Tigers
Sunny War	“Armageddon in a Summer Dress” (guests: John Doe, Valerie June, Tré Burt, Steve Ignorant; new single: “Scornful Heart”; See here; Read here; Black Swan Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	New West
Traitors	“Phobias” (South Florida deathcore band’s fifth album; new single: “No Witness”; See here; Purple and Black Splatter Vinyl; On Tour)	Reclaim Music Group
Rufus Wainwright	“Dream Requiem” (narrated by Meryl Streep, with soprano Anna Prohaska joining the choruses and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under the baton of Mikko Franck; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download released on Jan. 17; Apple Music; On Tour)	Warner Classics
Yellowjackets	“Fasten Up” (Grammy-winning jazz band’s 27th studio album; new single: “Comin’ Home Baby”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Mack Avenue
The Young Mothers	“Better If You Let It” (Texas/Scandinavia jazz/experimental/indie rock band’s third album; new single: “Song for a Poet”; See here; Vinyl; Download released on Nov. 19)	Sonic Transmissions
Youth Lagoon	“Rarely Do I Dream” (Idaho-based singer-songwriter Trevor Powers’ fifth album as Youth Lagoon; producers: Powers, Rodaidh McDonald; new single: “Speed Freak”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Fat Possum

New Releases (Downloads)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Cash & Skye	“Just a Stranger” (Americana/rock duo’s debut album; new single: “Stranger”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music)	Little Record Company
Cerrone	“Disco Symphony” (disco legend revisits 21 of his greatest hits, performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes; Hear here; Double CD and Amber Crystal Clear Double Vinyl on March 21; Amazon UK; Apple Music)	Because Music
The Dark	“The Dark” (L.A.-based band’s five-song debut EP; new single: “Head of the Snake”; See here; Apple Music)	Arising Empire
Encephalon	“Automaton All Along” (Ottawa industrial band’s fifth album; new single: “Illusions”; See here; CD out March 14; Apple Music)	Artoffact
Bren Joy	“SUNSET BLACK” (Nashville alt-R&B artist’s debut album; new single: “COUTURE”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Stem
Kameron Marlowe	“Sad Songs for the Soul” (producer: Ben West; new single: “Hello Whiskey”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Parker McCollum)	Sony Music Nashville
Masma Dream World	“PLEASE COME TO ME” (experimental project led by Devi Mambouka; new single: “Pordeno Me”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music)	Valley of Search
Chase Matthew	“CHASE” (country singer’s third album; producer: Austin Shawn; new single: “DRIVES MY TRUCK”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Warner Music Nashville
Jonathan Thomas Miller	“Environments for a Burning Planet III” (final installment of his three-part solo album series; Apple Music)	Shoegaze Publishing
ONE OK ROCK	“DETOX” (Japanese rock group’s 11th studio album; producers: Rob Cavallo, Dan Lancaster, Pete Nappi; new single: “+Matter”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour)	Fueled by Ramen
Porridge Radio	“The Machine Starts to Sing” (Brighton band’s final EP; new single: “Don’t Want to Dance”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Secretly Canadian
Punchcard	“Soap Box Hero” (new single: “Stealing My Identity”; Hear here; Apple Music)	Felony Records, Feb. 22
Roddy Ricch	“THE NAVY ALBUM” (producers: EVRGRN, Omar Grand, Terrace Martin, Turbo; new single: “Lonely Road”; See here; Apple Music)	Atlantic
Caroline Romano	“How the Good Girls Die” (Nashville-based alt-pop artist’s six-song EP; new single: “IDK These Days”; Hear here)	Caroline Romano
Silos	“Apocalips” (rock quintet’s debut album; producers: Howard Benson, Neil Sanderson; new single: a version of Eagle-Eye Cherry’s “Save Tonight”; See here; CD out April 25; Apple Music)	Judge & Jury
Luke Sital-Singh	“Fool’s Spring” (U.K. singer-songwriter/producer’s fifth album; new single: “Santa Fe”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music)	Nettwerk

Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Chet Baker	“The Complete Timeless Albums Collection” (eight-CD clamshell box set, with 16-page booklet containing photos and liner notes; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)	Music on CD
Dead or Alive	“Youthquake (40th Anniversary)” (1985 album, featuring “You Spin Me Round [Like a Record],” “Lover Come Back to Me” and “In Too Deep”; four-CD deluxe edition features the original album, plus extended, alternate and instrumental versions and “Youthquake Live Tour,” recorded at The Hammersmith Odeon in July 1985; Amazon UK)	Edsel / Demon Music Group
El Coco	“Brazil / Mondo Disco / Let’s Get It Together / Cocomotion” (four albums on two CDs; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)	Robinsongs / Cherry Red
JoBoxers	“Just Got Lucky: The Complete Works 1983-1986” (three-CD collection includes 28 previously unreleased tracks; Read here; Amazon UK)	Cherry Red
Nik Kershaw	“The MCA Years” (10-CD box set contains his MCA albums, with four discs of B-sides, remixes and extended mixes, plus a DVD of promo videos and his 1984 Hammersmith show; Read here; Amazon UK; On Tour)	Cherry Pop
Melanie	“Return to Carnegie” (Double CD; 1978 concert; 41 songs; Amazon UK)	Cleopatra
David Lee Roth	“The Warner Recordings 1985-1994” (five-CD box set contains his first five solo albums; remastered; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)	Rhino / Warner
Lee “Scratch” Perry and Friends	“Land of Kinks: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles – 1970” (two CDs, 52 songs; Read here; Amazon UK)	Doctor Bird / Cherry Red
Souled American	“Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology” (20 tracks culled from their six albums; newly remastered, with booklet featuring song lyrics from the band and liner notes by musicologist Camden Joy detailing the Chicago alt-country/rock band’s history; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download)	Omnivore Recordings
Various artists	“The Hits Album: All Time Greatest Car Songs Album” (three CDs, 63 songs; Amazon UK)	Sony Music / Spectrum Music / Universal UK
Various artists	“A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971” (three CDs, 47 songs; Read here; Amazon UK)	Strawberry / Cherry Red
Various artists	“The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts” (four-CD box set containing 51 performances at the 2009 shows at Madison Square Garden, recorded for the Emmy-winning HBO special)	Starvista

Reissues (Downloads)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Mat Kearney	“Mat Kearney (still drowning in nostalgia)” (deluxe edition of his 2024 self-titled album; with six bonus tracks, including a cover of Big Thief’s “Certainty”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Middle Kid
Ted Lucas	“Ted Lucas (Extended)” (1975 album; with four digital-only bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music)	Third Man
Merle Travis, Mac Wiseman, and Joe Maphis	“The Clayton McMichen Story” (1981 album, feat. Fiddlin’ Red Herron; Apple Music)	CMH Records

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