New Releases: Oct. 6, 2017
New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Zak Abel (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Only When We’re Naked” (new single: “All I Ever Do [Is Say Goodbye]”; Hear here; Download; iTunes)  |
(Atlantic) |
| Alabama | “American Christmas” (On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Black Dahlia Murder | “Nightbringers” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Metal Blade) |
| The Blow Monkeys | “The Wild River” (their 10th studio album; first single: “Crying for the Moon”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; eBay; On Tour) |
(Monks Road) |
| Blue Hawaii | “Tenderness” (the electronic duo’s first album in four years; producer: Alexander Kerby; first single: “No One Like You”; Hear here; Download) |
(Arbutus) |
| Ane Brun | “Leave Me Breathless” (featuring covers of Foreigner, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Elvis Presley, The Righteous Brothers, Mariah Cary, Nick Cave, Tom Petty, Joni Mitchell, Sade, Mariah Carey, etc.; producers: Brun, Anton Sundell, Johan Lindström; Vinyl) |
(Balloon Ranger) |
| Carla Bruni (Italian-French singer-songwriter and former French first lady) | “French Touch” (English-language collection of cover songs; producer: David Foster; guest: Willie Nelson; first single: a cover of Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence”; Hear here; See here; Download; eBay) |
(Verve) |
| Jeremy Camp | “The Answer” (first single: “My Defender”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Stolen Pride / Sparrow) |
| Albert Castiglia | “Up All Night” (Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Ruf) |
| Joseph Childress | “Joseph Childress” (producer: Mike Coykendall; new single: “Footsteps”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Empty Cellar) |
| The Church | “man woman life death infinity” (second single: “Undersea”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Unorthodox Recordings) |
| Citizen | “As You Please” (producer: Will Yip; first single: “Jet”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Run For Cover) |
| Benjamin Clementine | “I Tell a Fly” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Virgin) |
| Cults (synthpop duo) | “Offering” (first single: “Offering”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sinderlyn) |
| The Darkness | “Pinewood Smile” (Rufus Taylor, son of Queen’s Roger Taylor, is the band’s new drummer; producer: Adrian Bushby; first single: “All the Pretty Girls”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Lara Fabian | “Camouflage” (first single: “Growing Wings”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(9 Productions) |
| Fantasia | “Christmas After Midnight” (producer: Ron Fair; guest: CeeLo Green; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Concord) |
| Liam Gallagher | “As You Were” (producers: Greg Kurstin, Dan Grech-Marguerat; first single: “Wall of Glass”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Warner) |
| Vivian Green | “VGVI” (guests: Musiq Soulchild, Charisa The ViolinDiva; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Make Noise) |
| Dhani Harrison | “IN///PARALLEL” (debut album for the son of George Harrison; first single: “All About Waiting”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Hempolics | “Kiss, Cuddle & Torture: Volume 1” (new single: “Boss Clock Me Style”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Shark Free) |
| Humming House (Nashville quartet) | “Companion” (first single: “Takin’ Over”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Soundly Music) |
| Kelela | “Take Me Apart” (producers: Kelela, Arca, Jam City; first single: “LMK”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Warp) |
| Gill Landry | “Love Rides a Dark Horse” (guests: Klara Soderberg, Karen Elson, Odessa; first single: “Berlin”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Lisa Loeb | “Lullaby Girl” (Amazon Originals release features a quartet led by keyboardist Larry Goldings; producers: Rich Jacques, Goldings; Hear/read here; Download) |
(Furious Rose Productions) |
| Jason Manford (English comedian and actor) | “A Different Stage” (an album of show tunes inspired by his stage career; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Decca) |
| Marilyn Manson | “Heaven Upside Down” (first single: “We Know Where You Fucking Live”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Hell Etc. / Loma Vista Recordings) |
| Mapache (L.A. folk-rock duo) | “Mapache” (producer: Dan Horne; See here; Download) |
(Spiritual Pajamas) |
| Demetria McKinney (starred on the TBS sitcom “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”) | “Officially Yours” (guests: Jazze Pha, Demarco; first single: “Easy”; Hear here; Download, with two bonus tracks; iTunes; On Tour) |
(eOne Music) |
| JD McPherson | “Undivided Heart & Soul” (recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville; producers: McPherson, Dan Molad; guests: Jack Lawrence, Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig, Nicole Atkins; first single: “Lucky Penny”; Hear here; NPR Songs We Love; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(New West) |
| Mister Heavenly | “Boxing the Moonlight” (the indie rock supergroup’s first album in six years; first single: “Beat Down”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Polyvinyl) |
| My Ticket Home (Columbus, Ohio, hard-rock quartet) | “unReal” (producer: Fred Archambault; first single: “Thrush”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Spinefarm) |
| New Politics | “Lost in Translation” (first single: “One of Us”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(DCD2 / Warner) |
| NF (Christian rap artist) | “Perception” (Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes)  |
(NF Real Music) |
| Jerrod Niemann | “This Ride” (guests: Diamond Rio, Lee Brice; first single: “God Made a Woman”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Curb) |
| Kele Okereke (Bloc Party frontman) | “Fatherhood” (guests: Corinne Bailey Rae, Years & Years’ Olly Alexander; new single: “Streets Been Talkin'”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Ongoing Concept (Christian metalcore outfit from Idaho) | “Places” (Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Solid State) |
| ORB (Australian psychedelic rockers) | “Naturality” (Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Castle Face) |
| Paperhaus (D.C.-based psychedelic rock band) | “Are These the Questions That We Need To Ask?” (new single: “Nanana”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Misra) |
| Playboi Carti | “Playboi Carti” (released digitally in April; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(AWGE / Interscope) |
| The Rasmus | “Dark Matters” (first single: “Paradise”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Playground Music) |
| André Rieu | “Shall We Dance” (See here; Target-Exclusive CD/DVD, with two bonus songs; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Decca Gold) |
| Whitney Rose | “Rule 62” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Six Shooter / Thirty Tigers) |
| Jesse Royal (Jamaican reggae artist) | “Lily of Da Valley” (producers: Llamar “Riff Raff” Brown, Kareem “Remus” Burrell, Kurt White; guests: Jo Mersa Marley, Patrice; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Easy Star) |
| The Selecter | “Daylight” (new single: “Frontline”; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(DMF) |
| Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (synth artist) | “The Kid” (first single: “An Intention”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Western Vinyl) |
| Gwen Stefani | “You Make It Feel Like Christmas” (the title track is a duet with boyfriend Blake Shelton; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with 24-page photo booklet; Download; iTunes) |
(Interscope) |
| Richard Thompson | “Acoustic Rarities” (acoustic renderings of classic songs from his catalog; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Beeswing) |
| Thousand Below | “The Love You Let Too Close” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rise) |
| Various artists | “An American Troubadour: The Songs of Steve Forbert” (first single: “Romeo’s Tune,” by Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Blue Rose Music) |
| Various artists | “Hadestown: The Myth. The Musical. (Live Original Cast Recording)” (music, lyrics and book by Anais Mitchell; directed by Rachel Chavkin; Hear here; Download) | (Rhino Warner Classics) |
| Various artists | “WOW Hits 2018” (two CDs, 30 songs; Deluxe Edition, with six extra songs) |
(WOW) |
| The Weather Station | “The Weather Station” (first single: “Thirty”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Paradise of Bachelors) |
| Weaves (Toronto art-rock quartet) | “Wide Open” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Kanine) |
| The White Buffalo | “Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights” (first single: “The Observatory”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Unison Music Group / Thirty Tigers) |
| Wolf Parade | “Cry Cry Cry” (their first album in seven years; producer: John Goodmanson; first single: “Valley Boy”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sub Pop) |
| ZAIUS (Chicago post-instrumental group) | “Of Adoration” (producer: Jeff Edwards; Hear here; Transparent Blue Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Prosthetic) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| a-ha | “MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice” (guests: Alison Moyet, Ian McCulloch, Lissie, Ingrid Helene Håvik; first single: “This Is Our Home”; See here; CD, out Nov. 3; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Swinglong / UMe) |
| August Burns Red | “Phantom Anthem” (first single: “Invisible Enemy”; Hear here; CD, out Oct. 13; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Fearless) |
| The Commotions (Ottawa-based combo) | “Volume II” (guests: Jarvis Church, MonkeyJunk’s Steve Marriner, Juno-nominated saxophonist Petr Cancura, Ottawa jazz great Mark Ferguson; Hear here; iTunes) | (The Commotions) |
| Carla dal Forno | “The Garden” (four-song EP; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Blackest Ever Black) |
| Disciples of Babylon (Hollywood-based rock band) | “The Rise and Fall of Babylon” (producer: Andres Torres; first single: “Without You”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Symbiotic) |
| Courtney Farren (NYC-based singer-songwriter) | “Nothing Like It” (six-song EP; producer: Scott Mathews; Hear here; See here; On Tour) | (Courtney Farren) |
| Scott Gagner | “Pins & Needles” (recorded live to 2-inch analog tape at San Francisco’s Decibelle Recording by JJ Wiesler; guests: Ken Stringfellow, Pete Thomas, Michael Urbano; first single: “The Ghost of Me & You”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Scott Gagner) |
| Harper Grae (Nashville singer-songwriter) | “Break Your Crowns” (producers: Ethan Brewington, Josh Barker; new single: “Good In Your Goodbye”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Oliver Ann) |
| Holy Hum (aka Vancouver-based artist Andrew Lee) | “All of My Bodies” (producer: Lee; first single: “White Buzz”; Hear here) |
(Kingfisher Bluez) |
| Jreams (Austin downtempo producer and cinematographer) | “Letters to Jupiter” (guests: Danny Peso, Pulse, Mat Jr, Mao, Shnttwn, Okami; new single: “Seoul”; Hear here; See here) | (Jreams) |
| Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys | “Pretty Peggy” (producers: Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Ross-Rothero Bourge, Gareth Young; guests: Cara Dillon, Geoff Lakeman, Damien O’Kane, Michael McGoldrick; Hear here; CD, out Oct. 20; iTunes) |
(Navigator) |
| Lokane (London-based producer) | “Wings” (guests: Mikey Dollaz, Dai Burger, TSVI; Hear here) | (Nervous Horizon) |
| Becca Mancari (Nashville singer-songwriter) | “Good Woman” (new single: “Summertime Mama”; Hear here; See here; NPR First Listen; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Gold Tooth) |
| Marillion | “Living in F E A R” (four-song EP; Hear here; CD, out Oct. 27; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(earMUSIC) |
| New Candys (Venice, Italy-based alt-rock band) | “Bleeding Magenta” (producers: New Candys; first single: “Excess”; Hear here; See here) |
(Fuzz Club) |
| Stevie Pre | “Comfortably Dumb” (producer: Pre; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Stevie Pre, Oct. 5) |
| Rationale (London-based singer-producer) | “Rationale” (new single: “Palms”; Hear here; See here; iTunes) |
(Warner / Best Laid Plans) |
| The Roseline (Kansas-based sextet) | “Blood” (new single: “How to Be Kind”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(King Forward) |
| Jacob Sartorius | “Left Me Hangin'” (six-song EP; new single: “Skateboard”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(T3 Music Group) |
| The Tin Can Collective (Long Island indie folk rock group) | “Skeletown” (first single: “Polly Anna”; Hear here) |
(Tin Can) |
| TOKiMONSTA (L.A. producer Jennifer Lee) | “Lune Rouge” (guests: Selah Sue, Yuna, MNDR, Saints, Isaiah Rashad, Joey Purp, Ambré, IO Echo; new single: “No Way”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Young Art) |
| Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch, et al | “Blade Runner 2049 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (sequel starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling opens Oct. 6; iTunes; In Theaters; Merch) |
(Alcon Sleeping Giant / Epic) |
More Digital Releases for Oct. 6, 2017 »
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| PP Arnold | “The Turning Tide” (unreleased recordings from 1969-70, produced by Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Caleb Quaye and Arnold; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; eBay) |
(Kundalini Music) |
| Carol Burnett | “Carol Burnett Sings (Expanded Edition)” (1967 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Elvis Costello / Burt Bacharach | “Painted from Memory [Hybrid SACD]” (1998 album; remastered) |
(Mobile Fidelity) |
| John Lee Hooker (who would have turned 100 on Aug. 22) | “King of the Boogie” (five-CD, career-spanning box set, featuring classics, rarities, live recordings and several previously unreleased tracks, housed in a 56-page book) |
(Craft Recordings) |
| Whitney Peyton | “Firecracker – Pyro Edition” (2016 album, with 11 new songs; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Tragic Hero) |
| Elvis Presley | “Christmas with Elvis and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” (new orchestral accompaniments, produced by Nick Patrick and Don Reedman; Read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; U.K. Tour; Merch) |
(RCA / Legacy) |
| The Replacements | “For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986” (two CDs; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Sepultura | “Chaos A.D. (Expanded Edition)” (1993 album; remastered, with a second CD containing 17 bonus tracks; Read here; Vinyl) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Blake Shelton | “Cheers!, It’s Christmas (2017 Edition)” (2012 album; with three new songs; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Warner Music Nashville) |
| Frank Sinatra | “Ultimate Christmas” (20 songs; Vinyl; Download) |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| Spandau Ballet | “Through the Barricades” (1986 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks, plus a DVD with promo videos and new documentary; Vinyl; Download) |
(Epic / Legacy) |
| Marty Stuart | “Now That’s Country! The Definitive Collection Vol. 1” (two CDs, 44 songs; On Tour) |
(Humphead) |
| The Turtles | “Happy Together: The Best of The Turtles” (two CDs, 48 songs; Track list) |
(Music Club Deluxe) |
| Various artists | “Dustin E presents … Cornflake USA Episode Ten: The Original Psychedelic Dream” (Read here) |
(Particles) |
| Various artists | “Like a Version” (artists covering their favorite artists include Flume, Tame Impala, Bon Iver, Mark Ronson, CHVRCHES, Mumford & Sons, etc.; Hear here) |
(triple j / Metropolitan Groove Merchants) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call #1’s [Vinyl]” (18-song collection from 2015; Urban Outfitters-exclusive white vinyl) |
(NOW) |
| The Waterboys | “This Is the Sea (Collector’s Edition)” (1985 album; remastered, with 14 bonus tracks), “Fisherman’s Blues” (1988 album; remastered; On Tour; eBay) |
(Chrysalis) |
| Whitesnake | “Whitesnake (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1987 album; remastered; two CDs; Super Deluxe Edition, four CDs and one DVD; Vinyl; Standard CD; Download; Digital Super Deluxe Edition; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Rhino) |
| Jerry Yester | “Pass Your Light Around” (compilation of 1970s recordings) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
More Releases for Oct. 6, 2017 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| C.W. McCall | “The Real McCall: An American Storyteller” (1990 album) |
(American Gramaphone) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Jeff Beck | “Live at the Hollywood Bowl [DVD]” (recorded and filmed in the summer of 2016; guests: Steven Tyler, Billy F. Gibbons, Buddy Guy, Jan Hammer, Beth Hart, Jimmy Hall; See here; Read here; Blu-ray; Vinyl + DVD; DVD + CD and Blu-ray + CD, out Oct. 13; eBay; Merch) |
(Eagle Rock) |
| Patsy Cline | “When Patsy Cline Was … Crazy [DVD]” (PBS “American Masters” documentary aired in March 2017; See here) |
(Universal Music Enterprises) |
More Upcoming DVD / Blu-ray Releases »
Next Week: Oct. 13, 2017
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