New Releases: Oct. 26, 2018
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers | “All I Got For Christmas Is the Blues” (Download; On Tour)  |
(Pretty Good for a Girl) |
| Francesca Battistelli | “Own It” (new single: “Royalty”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Curb / Word) |
| Andrea Bocelli | “Sì” (his first album of all-new material in 14 years; producer: Bob Ezrin; first single: “If Only”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Sugar / Decca) |
| Boy George and Culture Club | “Life” (their first album in 19 years; first single: “Let Somebody Love You”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Cassette; eBay; On Tour, with Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey; Merch) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Browning (Kansas City hard rock band) | “Geist” (first single: “Carnage”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Spinefarm) |
| Dillon Carmichael (nephew of John Michael Montgomery and Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery) | “Hell On An Angel” (producer: Dave Cobb; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Riser House) |
| Celtic Woman | “Ancient Land” (first album with new member Megan Walsh; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Manhattan) |
| David Crosby | “Here If You Listen” (Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Jessie James Decker | “On This Holiday” (first single: “Baby! It’s Christmas”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Epic) |
| Devour The Day | “Signals” (first single: “The Censor”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Razor & Tie) |
| Barbara Dickson | “Through Line” (with the Carducci String Quartet; producer: John O’Hara, the orchestral conductor, pianist, keyboardist and accordion player for Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull; Amazon UK) |
(Gonzo Multimedia UK) |
| Laura Gibson | “Goners” (producers: Gibson, John Askew; first single: “Tenderness”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Barsuk) |
| Lukas Graham | “3 (The Purple Album)” (first single: “Love Someone”; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Warner) |
| Julia Holter | “Aviary” (first single: “I Shall Love 2”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| Jessie J | “This Christmas Day” (producers: David Foster, Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis; guests: Babyface, Boyz II Men; On Tour, with Ro James and Kiana Ledé) |
(Lava / Republic) |
| Kaia Kater | “Grenades” (concept album explores her Canadian and Grenadian heritage; producer: Erin Costelo; first single: “New Colossus”; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Smithsonian Folkways) |
| KMFDM | “Live in the USSA” (live album recorded during the band’s U.S. tour in late 2017; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(earMUSIC) |
| John Legend | “A Legendary Christmas” (six of the 14 tracks are new original songs; executive producer: Raphael Saadiq; guests: Stevie Wonder, Esperanza Spalding; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour)  |
(Columbia) |
| Mike Love | “Reason for the Season” (guests: Hanson, Ambha Love, Christian Love, All Love, Brian Love; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with The Beach Boys) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Ingrid Michaelson | “Ingrid Michaelson’s Songs for the Season” (guests: Christina Perri, Leslie Odom Jr., Grace VanderWaal, Bess Rogers, Will Chase, Allie Moss; first single: “Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Cabin 24) |
| Tom Odell | “Jubilee Road” (guest: Alice Merton; first single: “If You Wanna Love Somebody”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Columbia) |
| Oh Pep! (Aussie indie-pop duo) | “I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You …” (producer: Joel Quartermaine; new single: “Your Nail and Your Hammer”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Pentatonix | “Christmas Is Here!” (first single: “Making Christmas”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(RCA) |
| Robyn | “Honey” (her first album since 2010’s “Body Talk”; new single: “Honey”; Hear/see here; Read here; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Konichiwa / Interscope) |
| Mitch Ryder | “Christmas (Take a Ride)” (Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Cleopatra) |
| Saves The Day | “9” (their first album in five years; first single: “Rendezvous”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with Kevin Devine and An Horse; Merch) |
(Equal Vision) |
| William Shatner | “Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album” (guests: Judy Collins, Billy F Gibbons, Brad Paisley, Rick Wakeman, Iggy Pop, Todd Rundgren, Elliot Easton, Henry Rollins, Joe Louis Walker; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Cleopatra) |
| Tasha | “Alone at Last” (first single: “Kind of Love”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Vinyl; Download) | (Father/Daughter) |
| Chris Tomlin | “Holy Roar” (producers: Ed Cash, Bryan Fowler; guests: Pat Barrett, Nicole Serrano; Download; iTunes; Hardcover Book; eBay; On Tour) |
(Sparrow) |
| Josh Turner | “I Serve a Savior” (a collection of gospel hymns, including “Amazing Grace,” “How Great Thou Art” and “I Saw the Light”; See here; Read here; DVD; Download; On Tour) |
(MCA Nashville) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 68” (21 songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch; see related reissue below) |
(NOW / UMG / Sony) |
| Joe Louis Walker, Bruce Katz and Giles Robson | “Journeys to the Heart of the Blues” (producers: Walker, Katz and Robson) |
(Alligator) |
| Roland White and Friends | “Roland White and Friends: A Tribute to The Kentucky Colonels” (producers: Ty Gilpin, Jon Weisberger; guests: Brooke Aldridge, Darin Aldridge, Jeremy Darrow, Nick Dauphinais, Gina Furtado, avid Grier, Brittany Haas, Josh Haddix, Drew Matulich, Patrick McAvinue, Jon Stickley, etc.; first single: “If You’re Ever Gonna Love Me”; eBay) |
(Mountain Home Music Company) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| BETS (indie-pop singer Betsy Hershey) | “Future Color” (first single: “Another Night”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(BETS) |
| Black Eyed Peas | “Masters of the Sun Vol. 1” (producer: will.i.am; guests: Nas, Slick Rick, Phife Dawg, Nicole Scherzinger, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Posdnuos, Esthero, CL; new single: “Big Love”; See here; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Interscope) |
| Bruce (aka British techno artist Larry McCarthy) | “Sonder Somatic” (first single: “Æon”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Hessle Audio) |
| Yu Han (Bremen, Germany-based instrumental/ neoclassical artist) | “Images of Elsewhere” (four short pieces for sax solo, and all of them in an additional version for sax and other sounds; producer: Juan María Solare; guest: Solare; first single: “Quintaesencia”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Janus Music & Sound) |
| Kimbra | “Songs from Primal Heart: Reimagined” (four-song EP; Hear here; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Warner) |
| Danielle Lyndsay (Washington, D.C., native and R&B singer/songwriter) | “From the Ashes” (five-song EP; producers: ShoCase & Kosmick; first single: “Lie to Me”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Danielle Lyndsay) |
| The Skiffle Players | “Skiff” (featuring Cass McCombs, Neal Casal, Farmer Dave Scher, Dan Horne and Aaron Sperske; first single: “Local Boy”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Spiritual Pajamas) |
| Sultry Dogs | “Sultry Dogs” (five-song EP; Hear here; iTunes) | (Sultry Dogs, Oct. 25) |
| Roger Waters | “Stravinksky’s The Soldier’s Tale” (with new narration adapted and performed by Waters, with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Orchestra; Amazon UK; CD, out Nov. 9; eBay) |
(Sony Classical) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Action (1960s mod band, produced by George Martin) | “Shadows and Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968” (four CDs, 86 songs; Read here; Amazon UK) |
(Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Barry Adamson | “Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018)” (17-song compilation; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download) |
(Mute) |
| Anathema | “Internal Landscapes: The Best of Anathema 2008-2018” (13 songs; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Kscope) |
| Bronski Beat | “The Age of Consent (Expanded Edition)” (1984 album, including “Smalltown Boy”; remastered, with four bonus tracks and a second CD of demos, remixes, BBC sessions and previously unheard material; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Because Music / London Music Stream) |
| Chevelle | “12 Bloody Spies: B-Sides and Rarities” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Epic) |
| Chicago | “Live At The Isle of Wight Festival [Vinyl]” (two LPs; Aug. 28, 1970, performance includes extended free-form versions of “I’m a Man,” “25 or 6 to 4,” “Introduction,” etc.; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Rhino) |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Deluxe Edition)” (1968 album, featuring “Fire”; remastered and expanded with rare singles, a BBC Radio One season from April 1968, alternate mono mixes and a version of “Nightmare” from the 1968 film “The Committee”; See here; Read here; eBay) |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Dinosaur Jr. | “Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr.” (two CDs, 38 songs; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl) |
(Cherry Red) |
| The Kinks | “The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society” (1968 album; remastered; Deluxe Edition, with bonus stereo and mono mixes; Super Deluxe Box Set, with the original LP and CD, plus unreleased bonus material, reproduced 7-inch singles, hardback photo book, etc.; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Sanctuary / BMG Rights Management) |
| 98° | “Let It Snow (Deluxe Edition)” (2017 album; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs, packaged with “The Collection [Greatest Hits]”; eBay) |
(UMG Recordings) |
| Pixies | “Come On Pilgrim … It’s Surfer Rosa” (30th anniversary deluxe edition of their 1987 debut EP and 1988 album, with the bonus 1986 radio concert “Live From The Fallout Shelter”; Amazon UK; Vinyl) |
(4AD) |
| Procol Harum | “Procol Harum Live: In Concert With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra” (1972 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Diana Ross | “Wonderful Christmas Time” (1994 album, originally titled “A Very Special Season,” plus six songs from her 1994 Hallmark release “Diana Ross Making Spirits Bright”; Hear here; eBay; On Tour) |
(Motown / UMe) |
| Semisonic | “Feeling Strangely Fine (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1998 album, featuring “Closing Time”; remastered, with four bonus tracks; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Geffen / UMe) |
| Gwen Stefani | “You Make It Feel Like Christmas (Deluxe Edition)” (2017 album, with five new songs; Target-Exclusive CD, with poster; Deluxe White Vinyl; eBay; Residency at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas) |
(Interscope) |
| Various artists | “Bach 333 – J.S. Bach: The New Complete Edition” (222-CD, one-DVD box set commemorating 333 years since Bach’s birth includes 10 hours of new recordings and seven world premieres; See here; Read here; Amazon UK) |
(Deutsche Grammophon / Decca Classics / Leipzig Bach Archive) |
| Various artists | “Harmony In My Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-1981” (three CDs, 151 songs; featuring tracks by Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Buzzcocks, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Nick Lowe, The Jags, Wreckless Eric, etc.; Read here; Amazon UK) | (Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 20th Anniversary” (two-CD, 20-song compilation; See here; Download; eBay; Merch) |
(NOW) |
| Various artists | “The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Music From the Original Soundtrack) [Vinyl]” (1975 album; DVD; eBay; Merch) | (Ode Sounds and Visuals) |
| Barry White | “The 20th Century Records Albums (1973-1979)” (nine-CD box set; Vinyl; eBay) |
(Mercury / UMe) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bullet For My Valentine | “Gravity (Deluxe Edition)” (2018 album; with five bonus tracks; See here; On Tour) |
(Spinefarm) |
| Lisa Stansfield | “Deeper Deluxe” (15 remixed, extended and live versions of songs from her 2018 album; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(earMUSIC) |
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