New Releases: June 9, 2023
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ray Alder | “II” (Fates Warning vocalist’s second solo album; new single: “This Hollow Shell”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Selwyn Birchwood | “Exorcist” (producer: Tom Hambridge; Amazon UK; Purple Vinyl; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Alligator) |
| The Boo Radleys | “Eight” (their eighth album; producer: bassist Tim Brown; new single: “The Unconscious”; See here; Transparent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Boostr) |
| Christine and the Queens | “PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE” (producers: Christine and the Queens, Mike Dean; guests: Madonna, 070 Shake; first single: “To be honest”; See here; Vinyl; Deluxe Vinyl Edition, three LPs, 20 songs; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Because Music) |
| The Dead Milkmen | “Quaker City Quiet Pills” (their first album since 2014; first single: “Grandpa’s Not a Racist [He Just Voted for One]”; Hear here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(The Giving Groove / MVD) |
| The Defiants | “Drive” (new single: “Hey Life”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Extreme | “SIX” (their first album since 2008; lineup: Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Pat Badger and Kevin Figueiredo; new single: “RISE”; See here; Vinyl; Transparent Red Vinyl; Marbled Red & Black Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC) |
| Rob Grant (father of Lana Del Rey) | “Lost At Sea” (his first album of piano music; guest: Lana Del Rey; new single: “Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
| Tom Grennan | “What If & Maybes” (producers: LostBoy, Lewis Thompson, Digital Farm Animals, Jordan Riley, The Six, Andrew Wells, Jamie Scott, Billen Ted, Joel Corry, Neave Applebaum; guests: KSI, Joel Corry; new single: “Here”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music Edition; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Insanity / Sony Music Entertainment UK) |
| Keaton Henson | “House Party” (producers: Luke Smith, Fiona Cruikshank; new single: “Envy”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Play It Again Sam) |
| Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors | “Strangers No More” (producer: Cason Cooley; new single: “All the Money in the World”; See here; Vinyl; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Magnolia Music / Tone Tree Music) |
| Niall Horan | “The Show” (new single: “Heaven”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Blue Vinyl, with poster; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol) |
| Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | “Weathervanes” (new single: “Death Wish”; See here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Translucent Black Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Southeastern Records / Thirty Tigers) |
| Jayda G | “Guy” (producers: Jayda G, Jack Peñate; new single: “Circle Back Around”; See here; Eco Mix Color Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ninja Tune) |
| King Krule | “Space Heavy” (British artist’s fourth album; producer: Dilip Harris; new single: “Seaforth”; See here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Grey Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Matador) |
| Jenny Lewis | “Joy’All” (her fifth solo album; producer: Dave Cobb; recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A; new single: “Psychos”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Yellow Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note) |
| McFly | “Power to Play” (their seventh album; new single: “God of Rock & Roll”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Milky Chance | “Living in a Haze” (new single: “Living in a Haze”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Young the Giant) » BUY NOW |
(Muggelig Records) |
| Janelle Monáe | “The Age of Pleasure” (her first album since 2018’s “Dirty Computer”; new single: “Lipstick Lover”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Bad Boy / Atlantic) |
| Tracy Nelson | “Life Don’t Miss Nobody” (guests: Willie Nelson, Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Charlie Musselwhite, et al; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Owl City | “Coco Moon” (Adam Young’s seventh album; producer: Young; new single: “Vitamin Sea”; See here; Double Vinyl out June 30; Download released on March 24; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Sky Harbor) |
| Sara Petite | “The Empress” (new single: “Bringin’ Down the Neighborhood”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(40 Below Records) |
| Phillip Phillips | “Drift Back” (“American Idol” season 11 winner’s first album in five years; producers: Todd Clark, Tim Bruns; new single: “Before I Loved You”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Phil Phil Music) |
| Simply Red | “Time” (producer: Andy Wright; new single: “Better With You”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Deluxe CD, with three bonus tracks; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on May 26; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Warner U.K.) |
| Squid | “O Monolith” (producer: Dan Carey; recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios; new single: “Swing [In a Dream]”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Warp) |
| TEKE::TEKE | “Hagata” (Montreal-based Japanese psych-rock band’s second album; producer: Daniel Schlett; new single: “Garakuta”; See here; Seafoam Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Kill Rock Stars) |
| Various artists | “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Music from Season Five” (Amazon Original series finale on May 26; Vinyl out Sept. 22) » BUY NOW |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Various artists | “Shucked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (producers: Jason Howland, Billy Jay Stein, Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark; original music and lyrics by Clark and McAnally; cast includes John Behlmann, Kevin Cahoon, Andrew Durand, Tony Award nominee Grey Henson, Caroline Innerbichler, Ashley D. Kelley, and Alex Newell; Download released on May 5) » BUY NOW | (Sony Masterworks Broadway) |
| Jess Williamson | “Time Ain’t Accidental” (producer: Brad Cook; new single: “Chasing Spirits”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mexican Summer) |
| Youth Lagoon | “Heaven Is a Junkyard” (Trevor Powers’ first album in eight years; producers: Powers, Rodaidh McDonald; new single: “Idaho Alien”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fat Possum) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| amaarae | “Fountain Baby” (Ghanian-American pop star’s second album; new single: “Reckless & Sweet”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Golden Angel / Interscope) |
| BLK ODYSSY | “DIAMONDS & FREAKS” (concept album that tells the story of a man blinded by his own lust; presented as an erotic novel by musician and poet Keisha Plum with narration by bassist Bootsy Collins; guests: Bootsy Collins, KIRBY, Cory Henry, Rapsody, Stout, Eimaral Sol; new single: “YOU GOTTA MAN”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(EARTHCHILD / EMPIRE) |
| Chief Keef | “Almighty So 2” (17 tracks; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(43B) |
| Michael David | “Talking Book World” (four-song EP; guests: Sam Wilkes, Laraaji, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith; new single: “Coral Sea”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Cascine) |
| decker. | “Ouroboros” (Sedona, AZ-based singer-songwriter’s eighth album; new single: “Sea Change”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Royal Potato Family) |
| Ane Diaz | “Despechada” (Venezuelan folk artist’s debut album, signed to Rain Phoenix’s label; produced, mixed and mastered by Jim White, Paul Fonfara, John Keane; new single: “Carmela”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(LaunchLeft) |
| Flawes | “One Step Back, Two Steps Forward” (new single: “Is It Any Wonder”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Red Bull) |
| Amanda Marshall | “Heavy Lifting” (Canadian singer’s fourth album and her first since 2001; new single: “Dawgcatcher”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Coalition Music / The Orchard) |
| Gabríel Ólafs | “Lullabies for Piano and Cello” (a collection of instrumental works inspired by Icelandic folk songs, accompanied by cellist Steiney Sigurðardóttir; new single: “Bambaló”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
| Kimberly Perry | “BLOOM” (producer: Jimmy Robbins; new single: “If I Die Young Pt. 2”; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Records Label / Columbia Nashville) |
| Rise to Fall | “The Fifth Dimension” (melodic death metallers’ fifth album; new single: “Heroes”; See here; CD out June 30; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Noble Demon) |
| Spoon | “Memory Dust” (three-song EP includes two original songs and a cover of Bo Diddley’s “She’s Fine, She’s Mine”; new single: “Sugar Babies”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Matador, June 13) |
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Harry Chapin | “Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, October 21, 1978” (two CDs, 16 songs; remastered; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Renaissance) |
| Alice Cooper | “Killer (Expanded & Remastered)” (1971 album, produced by Bob Ezrin, featuring “Under My Wheels” and “Be My Lover”; two-CD set includes alternate versions and “Live at Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, Puerto Rico, April 2, 1972”; Triple Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW, “School’s Out (Expanded & Remastered)” (1972 album, produced by Bob Ezrin, featuring the title track; two-CD set includes four bonus tracks and “Live in Miami, FL, May 27, 1972”; Triple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| The Spencer Davis Group | “A’s and B’s 1964-1967” (37 songs on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(BGO) |
| De La Soul | “Stakes Is High” (1996 album, featuring the title track and “Itzsoweezee [HOT]”; Vinyl; Cassette) » BUY NOW |
(Chrysalis) |
| Bonnie Guitar | “Early Years: The Singles & Albums Collection 1951-62” (two-CD, 61-track set featuring A and B sides from the Morrison, Rainier, Fabor, Dot, Radio, Dolton and RCA labels) » BUY NOW |
(Acrobat) |
| Dawn Landes | “Bluebird (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2014 album; Vinyl; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Missing Piece) |
| Love and Rockets | “My Dark Twin (The Sweet F.A. Sessions)” (expanded edition of their 1996 album, “Sweet F.A.,” with abandoned tracks and outtakes; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Beggars Arkive) |
| Johnny Mathis | “Different Kinda Different / Friends In Love / Live / Special Part Of Me” (1980, 1982 and 1984 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(BGO) |
| Ratt | “The Atlantic Years 1984-1990” (five-CD, 52-track box set; Vinyl, six-LP box set) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Horace Silver | “The Classic Blue Note Collection” (eight albums on four CDs; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Enlightenment) |
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bush | “The Art of Survival (Deluxe Edition)” (2022 album; with five bonus tracks, including new single “All Things Must Change”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Breaking Benjamin) » BUY NOW |
(Zuma Rock Records / BMG Rights Management) |
Next Week: June 16, 2023
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