New Releases: Oct. 8, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Atmosphere | “WORD?” (guests: the late MF DOOM, Evidence, Aesop Rock, Sa-Roc, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Nikki Jean, etc.; new single: “Woes”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Rhymesayers) |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | “Talk Memory” (Canadian trio’s first album in five years; guests: Karriem Riggins, Laraaji, Terrace Martin, Brandee Younger, Arthur Verocai; See here; first single: “Signal from the Noise”; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(XL Recordings / Innovative Leisure) |
| James Blake | “Friends That Break Your Heart” (guests: SZA, Monica Martin, JID, SwaVay; first single: “Say What You Will”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Spencer Cullum (Nashville pedal steel player) | “Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection” (producer: Jeremy Ferguson; guests: Sean Thompson, Luke Reynolds, Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Annie Williams, James “Skyway Man” Wallace; See here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Full Time Hobby) |
| Emily D’Angelo (26-year-old Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano) | “enargeia” (featuring music from the 12th and 21st centuries by four female composers, including Hildegard von Bingen; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Kurt Elling | “SuperBlue” (new single: “Sassy”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Edition) |
| Newton Faulkner | “Interference (Of Light)” (first single: “Together”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl out Nov. 5; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Battenberg) |
| Sam Fender | “Seventeen Going Under” (producer: Bramwell Bronte; first single: “Seventeen Going Under”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Polydor) |
| Renée Fleming & Yannick Nézet-Séguin | “Voices For Nature: The Anthropocene” (featuring new commissions from Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and Kevin Puts, alongside classics by Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré and Reynaldo Hahn; new single: “Puts: Evening”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
| Noah Gundersen | “A Pillar of Salt” (guest: Phoebe Bridgers; first single: “Sleepless in Seattle”; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Natalie Hemby | “Pins and Needles” (The Highwaywomen member’s second solo album; songs co-written with Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne, etc.; producer: husband Mike Wrucke; new single: “Pins and Needles”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Hiromi | “Silver Lining Suite” (performed with a string quartet assembled by violinist Tatsuo Nishie, concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic; first single: “Ribera Del Duero”; Vinyl out Dec. 3; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Telarc / Concord) |
| Oh Wonder | “22 Break” (new single: “22 Break”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Old Dominion | “Time, Tequila & Therapy” (guest: Gladys Knight; new single: “All I Know About Girls”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Sony Music Nashville) |
| Laurel Premo (Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist) | “Golden Loam” (first single: “Jericho”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Laurel Premo Sound) |
| The Record Company | “Play Loud” (producer: Dave Sardy; new single: “How High”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Concord) |
| Nate Smith (Grammy-nominated drummer) | “Kinfolk 2: See the Birds” (guests: Brittany Howard, Vernon Reid, Regina Carter, Amma Whatt, Joel Ross, Kokayi, Michael Mayo, Stokley Williams; new single: “Square Wheel”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on Sept. 17; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Edition) |
| Jeff Scott Soto | “The Duets Collection – Vol. 1” (new versions of songs from his catalog; Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Ray Stevens | “Ain’t Nothin’ Funny Anymore” (14-track comedy music album; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Curb) |
| Trivium | “In the Court of the Dragon” (their 10th studio album; producer: Josh Wilbur; new single: “Feast of Fire”; See here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Roadrunner) |
| Josh Turner | “King Size Manger” (producer: Kenny Greenberg; guests: Rhonda Vincent, Pat McLaughlin, Jake Shimabukuro, Ho’okena, The Turner Family; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(MCA Nashville) |
| Various artists | “Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2” (contributors: Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, etc.; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Oh Boy) |
| The Velveteers (rock trio from Boulder, CO) | “Nightmare Daydream” (producer: Dan Auerbach; first single: “Charmer and the Snake”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Easy Eye Sound) |
| We Are Scientists | “Huffy” (the New York indie rock band’s first album since 2008; new single: “Contact High”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Masterswan Recordings) |
| The Wild Feathers | “Alvarado” (first single: “Ain’t Lookin'”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(New West) |
| Carolyn Wonderland (Texas blues rocker) | “Tempting Fate” (producer: Dave Alvin; guests: Alvin, Marcia Ball, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Cindy Cashdollar, Shelley King; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Alligator) |
More Releases for Oct. 8, 2021 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bahamas | “Live to Tape, Volume I” (six-song EP; guests: The 400 Unit, Secret Sisters; first single: “I Got You Babe”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Brushfire / Republic) |
| Birdtalker (Nashville-based indie/folk group) | “Birdtalker” (new single: “Old Sob Story”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(AntiFragile Music) |
| Vera Ellen | “It’s Your Birthday” (new single: “Crack the Whip”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Flying Nun) |
| Fauness | “Maiden No More” (four-song debut EP; producers: Fauness, Jam City; new single: “Dragonfly”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cascine) |
| Cody Johnson | “Human: The Double Album” (guest: Willie Nelson; Hear here; CD out Oct. 29; Vinyl out Nov. 26; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(COJO Music / Warner Music Nashville) |
| Lala Lala (musical project of Chicago-based Lillie West) | “I Want the Door to Open” (first single: “DIVER”; See here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Cassette; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Hardly Art) |
| Shannon Lay | “Geist” (new single: “Awaken and Allow”; See here; CD and Clear Orange and Green Vinyl out Oct. 22; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Sub Pop) |
| Local H | “Local H’s Awesome Quarantine Mix-Tape #3” (covers album; new single: “Brandy [You’re a Fine Girl]”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Brutal Panda) |
| Christian Lopez | “The Other Side” (producer: Robert Adam Stevenson; new single: “Sick of Me”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(DVG) |
| Magdalena Bay | “Mercurial World” (synth-pop duo’s debut album; first single: “Chaeri”; See here; CD, Vinyl and Cassette out Nov. 19; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Luminelle Recordings) |
| Nothing | “The Great Dismal B-Sides” (three-song EP includes a cover of the Delfonics’ “La La Means I Love You”; Hear here; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Relapse) |
| Porches | “All Day Gentle Hold !” (new single: “Okay”; See here; CD and Vinyl out March 4, 2022; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Domino) |
| Taraka | “Welcome to Paradise Lost” (former Prince Rama frontwoman’s debut solo album; first single: “Psychocastle”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rage Peace) |
| Sutter Zachman | “End of the Arcade” (producer: Austen Jux-Chandler; new single: “Chinese New Year”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Gold Music) |
More Digital Releases for Oct. 8, 2021 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Aaliyah | “I Care 4 U” (2002 posthumous compilation; Download) » BUY NOW, “Ultimate Aaliyah” (second and final compilation, from 2005; Download; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Blackground / EMPIRE) |
| Barbara Lewis | “The Complete Atlantic Singles” (two CDs, 34 songs) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Reba McEntire | “Revived Remixed Revisited” (three-CD, career-spanning set of songs recorded with her touring band, remixed tracks, and songs revisited and stripped down by producer Dave Cobb; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(MCA Nashville / UMe) |
| Loreena McKennitt | “The Visit (The Definitive Edition)” (1991 album; deluxe hardback book contains four CDs, one audio Blu-ray disc, a 32-page illustrated booklet, and hours of previously unreleased content, including the first-ever surround sound mixes of McKennitt’s music) » BUY NOW |
(UMe) |
| The Sweet Inspirations | “The Atlantic Years” (two CDs, 37 songs) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Texas Tornados | “A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada: Prime Cuts 1990-1996” (two CDs, 39 songs) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Various artists | “It’s a Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records – The Singles” (four-CD + 7-inch collection of Latin soul and boogaloo spanning 1965-1975; 28 tracks from Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan, Bobby Valentín, Ralfi Pagan and Larry Harlow, etc., plus rarities and B-sides; Track List; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW | (Fania) |
| Violent Femmes | “Why Do Birds Sing? (Deluxe Edition)” (1991 album, featuring “American Music”; remastered two-CD set includes previously unreleased outtakes and alternative takes, plus a complete 1991 concert at The Boathouse in Norfolk, Va.; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Flogging Molly; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Tony Joe White | “The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings” (two-CD, 40-song set includes his albums “Tony Joe White,” “The Train I’m On” and “Homemade Ice Cream,” with bonus tracks) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
More Releases for Oct. 8, 2021 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cerrone | “The Best of Cerrone” (19 songs; Double Vinyl out Oct. 22) » BUY NOW, “The Classics (Best of Instrumentals)” (13 songs; Double Vinyl out Oct. 22) » BUY NOW |
(Because Music) |
More Digital Releases for Oct. 8, 2021 »
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