New Releases: May 19, 2023
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Allergies | “Tear the Place Up” (guests: Bootie Brown, Andy Cooper, Marietta Smith, Dele Sosimi, Joe Lickshot; new single: “Never Gonna Let Go”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW  |
(Jalapeno) |
| The Anderson Council | “The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon” (new single: “Alone With You”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(JEM) |
| ANNA | “Intentions” (DJ/electronic producer’s debut ambient electronic album; guests: Laraaji, Max Cooper; new single: “I See Miracles Everywhere”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury KX) |
| bar italia (London indie rock trio) | “Tracey Denim” (new single: “punkt”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Matador) |
| Califone | “villagers” (new single: “the habsburg jaw”; See here; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Jealous Butcher) |
| Lewis Capaldi | “Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent” (collaborators: TMS, Phil Plested, Nick Atkinson, Edd Holloway; new single: “Forget Me”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs and alternate artwork; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Heavenly Blue Vinyl, with alternate artwork and 20-page booklet; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol) |
| Brandy Clark | “Brandy Clark” (producer: Brandi Carlile; guests: Carlile, Derek Trucks, Lucius; new single: “Buried”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| Dan Croll | “Fools” (producers: Croll, Matthew E. White; new single: “Talk to You”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Communion) |
| Def Leppard | “Drastic Symphonies” (deconstructed and reimagined hits, collaborating with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring new vocal and guitar recordings from the band; recorded at Abbey Road Studios; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury) |
| Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton | “Death Wish Blues” (producer: Jon Spencer; new single: “Deathwish”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Rounder) |
| Ghost | “Phantomime” (five-song EP, featuring covers of Television, Genesis, The Stranglers, Iron Maiden, Tina Turner, et al; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| Jealous of the Birds | “Hinterland” (producer: Declan Legge; new single: “Beginner’s Luck”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Canvasback / Atlantic) |
| Kesha | “Gag Order” (producer: Rick Rubin; new singles: “Fine Line” and “Eat the Acid”; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Kemosabe / RCA) |
| Keturah | “Keturah” (Malawian singer-songwriter’s debut album; guests: John Densmore, members of the Playing for Change Band, Chris Pierce, Louis Mhlanga, Jamael Dean, Magatte Sow, et al; first single: “Kwanumkwanu”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Hen Housen Studios) |
| Leftover Salmon | “Grass Roots” (guests: Billy Strings, Oliver Wood, Darol Anger, et al; Pink Vinyl; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Compass) |
| Raul Malo | “Say Less” (guests: The Mavericks; new single: “Solitary Blues”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Mono Mundo Recordings / Thirty Tigers) |
| Mandy, Indiana | “i’ve seen a way” (Manchester, UK band’s debut album; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Fire Talk) |
| shy martin | “late night thoughts” (Swedish pop singer Sara Hjellström’s debut album; new single: “late night thoughts”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(shy recordings) |
| Layng Martine Jr. | “Music Man” (producer: son Tucker Martine; new single: “Music Man”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Bloodshot) |
| Dave Matthews Band | “Walk Around the Moon” (their 10th studio album; producer: Rob Evans; new single: “Madman’s Eyes”; See here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Translucent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Bama Rags Recordings / RCA) |
| Mega Bog (experimental pop outfit fronted by Erin Elizabeth Birgy) | “End of Everything” (guest: Westerman; new single: “Love Is”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Mexican Summer) |
| The Milk Carton Kids | “I Only See the Moon” (producer: Kenneth Pattengale; new single: “All of the Time in the World to Kill”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Far Cry Records / Thirty Tigers) |
| Megan Moroney | “Lucky” (Georgia country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Kristian Bush; See here; Read here; Download released on May 5; On Tour, with Brooks & Dunn) » BUY NOW |
(Sony Music Nashville) |
| Graham Nash | “Now” (his first album in seven years; producers: Nash, Todd Caldwell; first single: “Right Now”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Nico Paulo | “Nico Paulo” (St. John’s-based Portuguese-Canadian folk-pop artist’s debut album; producers: Joshua Van Tassel, Tim Baker; Hear here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Forward Music Group) |
| The Refugees | “California” (third full-length album from Wendy Waldman, Cidny Bullens and Deborah Holland features 1960s and ’70s covers from bands associated with the Golden State) » BUY NOW |
(Wabuho Records) |
| Rodney Rice | “Rodney Rice” (new single: “Rabbit Ears Motel”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Edgewater Music Group) |
| ROADWOLF | “Midnight Lightning” (Austrian heavy metal band’s second album; new single: “On the Run”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Napalm) |
| Leith Ross | “To Learn” (Winnipeg singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Joey Landreth, Ross; new single: “Guts”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Paul Simon | “Seven Psalms” (his first album of new material in seven years is a 33-minute, seven-movement composition, intended to be listened to as one continuous piece; producers: Simon, Kyle Crusham; guests: wife Edie Brickell, British vocal ensemble VOCES8; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Sleep Token | “Take Me Back to Eden” (English rock band’s third album; producers: frontman Vessel1, Carl Bown; new single: “DYWTYLM”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Spinefarm) |
| Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres & Conor Hanick | “Reflections” (studio recording of the music for the 2019 Justin Peck ballet, commissioned by the Houston Ballet; See here; Read here; Turquoise Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Asthmatic Kitty) |
| Angie Stone | “Love Language” (her first album of new material in four years; guests: Musiq Soulchild, Swayvo Twain; new single: “The Gym”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Conjunction Entertainment / SoNo Recording Group) |
| Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives | “Altitude” (first singles: “Altitude” and “Country Star”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Snakefarm) |
| SZA | “SOS” (feat. “Good Days,” “I Hate U,” “Shirt” and “Kill Bill”; spent 10 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart; Vinyl; Download released on Dec. 9, 2022) » BUY NOW |
(TDE / RCA) |
| Tanlines | “The Big Mess” (Brooklyn indie duo’s first album in eight years; producers: Tanlines, Patrick Ford; new single: “Outer Banks”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Merge) |
| Trashy Annie | “Sticks & Stones” (Austin singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Born Pretty”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Cleopatra) |
| Thulcandra | “Hail the Abyss” (producer: Dan Swanö; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Napalm) |
| Various artists | “Kimberly Akimbo (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (music by Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori; book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire; album producers: Tesori, John Clancy, David Stone; cast: Tony winner Victoria Clark, Justin Cooley, Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey, et al; Hear here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Ghostlight) |
| Yes | “Mirror to the Sky” (producer: guitarist Steve Howe; band lineup: Howe, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen; new single: “Cut from the Stars”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(InsideOutMusic) |
More Releases for May 19, 2023 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| BUZZ | “On Matters of Searching” (L.A.-based electro-pop artist’s debut eight-song EP; new single: “Different Sun”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(BUZZ) |
| Damien Done | “Total Power” (new single: “Pray for Me”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mind Over Matter) |
| Robert Ellis | “Yesterday’s News” (new single: “Gene”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Niles City) |
| Terry Emm | “Wish You Were Here” (Hertfordshire singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producer: Lukas Drinkwater; new single: “Island Soul”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Azez Records / Shellshock) |
| Fellow Robot | “Misanthropioid” (producers: Andrew Scheps, Fellow Robot; new single: “Talk to Me”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(ToneQuake) |
| The Murlocs | “Calm Ya Farm” (producer: John Lee; new single: “Undone and Unashamed”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(ATO) |
| Hannah Rose Platt | “Deathbed Confessions” (producer: Ed Harcourt; mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios; guests: Budapest Film Orchestra, Charlie Draper, Freddie Drapper, Lester Brown, Gita Langley, Alex Palmer; new single: “Dead Man on the G Train”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Xtra Mile Recordings) |
| Setting Sun | “The Feelings Cure” (indie rock-folk band’s first album in 10 years; new single: “Feelings Cure”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Young Love) |
| The Used | “Toxic Positivity” (new single: “People Are Vomit”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Big Noise) |
More Digital Releases for May 19, 2023 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Moe Bandy | “I’m Sorry For You My Friend / Cowboys Ain’t Supposed To Cry / Soft Lights & Hard Country Music / Love Is What Life’s All About” (1977 and 1978 albums on two CDs; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Morello) |
| Leonard Bernstein and various artists | “An American In New York (The City Scores)” (four-CD tribute to the late conductor and composer; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(El / Cherry Red) |
| Chuck Berry | “Chuck Berry Stereo: 27 Original Hits” (22 stereo debuts, with 12-page booklet and essay by Fred Bronson) » BUY NOW |
(Hit Parade) |
| James Brown | “Four Classic Albums Plus” (“Please Please Please,” “Try Me,” “Think” and “The Amazing James Brown,” with four bonus tracks on two CDs; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Avid) |
| Kenny Burrell | “Four Classic Albums” (“Earthy,” “Kenny Burrell,” “On View at the Five Spot Cafe” and “A Night at the Vanguard” on two CDs; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Avid) |
| Fats Domino | “The Definitive Stereo Fats Domino: 29 Classics” (with 12-page booklet and essay by Fred Bronson) » BUY NOW |
(Hit Parade) |
| KC and The Sunshine Band | “The Ultimate Collection” (three CDs, 55 songs, featuring singles, B-sides, extended versions and remixes, with 20-page booklet; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| The Lemonheads | “Come On Feel (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1993 album, featuring “Into Your Arms,” “It’s About Time,” “Big Gay Heart” and “The Great Big No”; remastered, with unreleased demos, alternative versions and rarities; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Fire) |
| Mr. Lee “Scratch Perry” and The Upsetters | “Battle of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator) [Expanded Edition]” (1986 comeback album, with 14 bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Doctor Bird / Cherry Red) |
| The Rah Band | “Clouds Across the Moon: The Rah Band Story Volume Two” (five-CD, 75-track box set, featuring expanded editions of “Mystery,” “Something About the Music” and the previously unreleased “World Keeps Turning,” plus 12-inch mixes, 7-inch mixes and remixes and a 20-page booklet; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Cherry Pop) |
| Skyy | “The Salsoul Albums” (seven LPs on four CDs, with 12-inch and 7-inch mixes; Read here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “The Best 60s & 70s Soul Album in the World … Ever!” (three CDs, 66 songs, featuring hits by Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Barry White, et al; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Universal Music / Sony Music) |
| Various artists | “Gary Crowley’s Punk & New Wave Vol. 2” (four CDs, 77 songs, compiled by Crowley and Jim Lahat, with 36-page booklet; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Various artists | “Original Big Band Masterpieces In Stereo!” (23 original performances on one CD, featuring Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, et al; contains 12-page booklet with notes by Billy Vera) » BUY NOW | (Hit Parade) |
More Releases for May 19, 2023 »
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