New Releases: Oct. 9, 2020
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bahamas | “Sad Hunk” (new single: “Trick to Happy”; Hear here; Opaque Purple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW  |
(Brushfire / Universal) |
| Blue Öyster Cult | “The Symbol Remains” (new singles: “That Was Me” and “Box In My Head”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Brothers Osborne | “Skeletons” (producer: Jay Joyce; first single: “All Night”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Target) » BUY NOW |
(EMI Nashville) |
| Carla Bruni | “Carla Bruni” (producer: Albin de la Simone; new single: “le petit guépard,” translated “The Little Cheetah”; Hear here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with three extra songs) » BUY NOW |
(Verve) |
| The Budos Band | “Long in the Tooth” (first single: “Long in the Tooth”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Daptone) |
| DevilDriver | “Dealing with Demons I” (first single: “Keep Away From Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Napalm) |
| Future Islands | “As Long As You Are” (new single: “Thrill”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(4AD) |
| Groove Armada | “Edge of the Horizon” (their first album in 10 years; guests: Nick Littlemore, Todd Edwards; new single: “Lover 4 Now”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released on Oct. 2; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Hawkins (Swedish rock quartet) | “Silence Is a Bomb” (See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(The Sign) |
| Mary Lattimore | “Silver Ladders” (producer: Neil Halstead of Slowdive; first single: “Sometimes He’s In My Dreams”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Ghostly International) |
| Machinedrum (L.A. producer) | “A View of U” (guests: Sub Focus, Chrome Sparks, Father, Freddie Gibbs, Mono/Poly, Tigran Hamasyan, Jesse Boykins III, Rochelle Jordan, Tanere’lle; first singles: “Kane Train / Ur2yung”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Ninja Tune) |
| METZ | “Atlas Vending” (new single: “A Boat to Drown In”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Sub Pop) |
| NCT (featuring members of NCT 127, NCT Dream and WayV) | “NCT 2020: RESONANCE Pt. 1” (package includes photo book, poster, lyric paper, photo card, etc.; first singles: “Make a Wish” and “From Home”; Read here; The Future Version; Random Cover; Target) » BUY NOW |
(SM Entertainment, Oct. 12) |
| Night (Swedish rockers) | “High Tides – Distant Skies” (producer: Ola Ersfjord; new single: “Crimson Past”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(The Sign) |
| Michael W. Smith | “Still Vol. 1” (an album of spoken-word over soothing instrumental music; first single: “Waymaker”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Rocketown / The Fuel Music) |
| Patty Smyth | “It’s About Time” (her first album of new, original music in 28 years includes covers of “Ode to Billie Joe” and “Downtown Train”; new single: “Drive”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Miss Grace Recording / BMG Rights Management) |
| Travis | “10 Songs” (producers: frontman Fran Healy, Robin Baynton; first single: “A Ghost”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Various artists | “JEM Records Celebrates John Lennon” (Oct. 9 would have been Lennon’s 80th birthday; liner notes by Kenneth Womack, author of “John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life,” released on Sept. 15; producer: JEM president Marty Scott; contributors: The Weeklings, The Midnight Callers, The Grip Weeds, Jonathan Pushkar, The Gold Needles, Richard Barone, The Anderson Council; Vinyl; Target) » BUY NOW |
(JEM) |
| Loudon Wainwright III | “I’d Rather Lead a Band” (celebrating the Great American Songbook with Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks; producers: Randall Poster, Stewart Lerman; first single: “A Ship Without a Sail”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Search Party / Thirty Tigers) |
| Kim Wilson (of The Fabulous Thunderbirds) | “Take Me Back! The Bigtone Sessions” (a mixture of original songs and covers of Jimmy Rogers, Guitar Gabriel, Jimmy Nolan, Larry Williams, etc.; recorded live in the studio and in mono; new single: “Fine Little Woman”; Download; Target) » BUY NOW |
(M.C.) |
More Releases for Oct. 9, 2020 »
Other Notable Releases
| Chuck Charles | Drew Citron | Dephosphorus |
| Brit Drozda | GRID | Izzy Heltai |
| Horrible Earth | Pls Pls Me | Josh Werner |
| Necrophobic | Ron Miles | Ascension of the Watchers |
| Kronos Quartet | Ozric Tentacles | DGM |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Andy Bell | “The View from Halfway Down” (debut solo album from the Ride bassist; engineered by Bell’s former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer; new single: “Love Comes in Waves”; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 30; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Sonic Cathedral) |
| Bootblacks | “Thin Skies” (producer: Jason Corbett; new single: “Traveling Light”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Artoffact) |
| Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (Canadian singer-songwriter) | “Love Valley” (producer: Josh Rob Gwilliam; new single: “I Love That Sound”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Treasure Island) |
| Great Peacock (Nashville-based Southern rockers) | “Forever Worse or Better” (producers: Great Peacock; first single: “All I Ever Do”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Great Peacock / Soundly Music) |
| Low Cut Connie | “Private Lives” (See here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 16; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Contender / MidCitizen, Oct. 13) |
| Mise en Scene (Canadian grunge-pop duo) | “Winnipeg, California” (producers: Eric Ratz, Dave Genn; new single: “Unsolicited Advice”; See here) » BUY NOW | (Light Organ) |
| North Americans (instrumental duo) | “Roped In” (new single: “Furniture in the Valley”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Third Man) |
| Orbit (Boston alt-rock band) | “Vapor Trails” (producer: the band’s onetime bassist Wally Gagel; first single: “See the Light”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Lunch) |
| Trey Songz | “Back Home” (new single: “Two Ways”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Atlantic) |
| Spires That In The Sunset Rise (experimental psych jazz duo) | “Psychic Oscillations” (new single: “Sax Solfa”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(FPE) |
| Yo La Tengo | “Sleepless Night” (six-song EP; new single: “Bleeding”; Hear here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Matador) |
| Mat Zo (London-born, L.A.-based producer) | “Illusion of Depth” (new single: “Problems”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Nov. 20; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Anjunabeats) |
More Digital Releases for Oct. 9, 2020 »
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Berlin | “Pleasure Victim” (1982 mini album; remastered, with seven bonus remixes) » BUY NOW |
(Rubellan Remasters) |
| Dire Straits | “The Studio Albums 1978-1991” (six-CD box set; Vinyl, eight-LP box set; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| The Doors | “Morrison Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1970 album, featuring “You Make Me Real” and “Roadhouse Blues”; two-CD, one-LP box set; newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, with unreleased studio outtakes; Download; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Elektra) |
| Five Finger Death Punch | “A Decade of Destruction, Volume 2” (17-song collection includes five previously unreleased tracks; Vinyl; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Prospect Park) |
| Vince Guaraldi | “A Charlie Brown Christmas [Vinyl]” (1965 album; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Picture Disc, with lenticular cover; Target-Exclusive Green Vinyl, with original art poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, red and green splattered clear LP; Walmart-Exclusive Snowflake Picture Disc; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| John Lennon | “GIMME SOME TRUTH.” (two-CD, one-Blu-ray set features 36 tracks in hi-res stereo 96/24 PCM, new 5.1 surround mixes and Dolby Atmos, plus a 124-page book, poster, postcards and bumper sticker; See here; Standard CD; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Download; Apple Music; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| Linkin Park | “Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2000 album; remastered; Hear/read here; Super Deluxe Edition, with five CDs, four LPs, three DVDs, a cassette, etc.; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Download; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Ayalew Mesfin | “Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved)” (7-inch single releases and previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Now-Again) |
| Kacey Musgraves | “The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show” (2019 album; White Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(MCA Nashville / UMe) |
| The Replacements | “Pleased To Meet Me (Deluxe Edition)” (1987 album; remastered three-CD, one-LP box set, featuring B-sides, Jimmy Iovine’s remix of “Can’t Hardly Wait,” 15 “Blackberry Way Demos” and 23 rough mixes, outtakes and alternates; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Sade | “THIS FAR [Vinyl]” (six-LP box set featuring the band’s six studio albums; remastered at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios; Read here; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Epic / Legacy) |
| Slade | “Cum On Feel the Hitz: The Best of Slade” (two-CD, 24-song set; Track list; Vinyl; Download, released Sept. 25) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Barbra Streisand | “Birth of a Legend: 1962 Studio Recordings” » BUY NOW |
(Jasmine Music) |
| Tears For Fears | “The Seeds of Love (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1989 album, featuring the title track “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” “Woman in Chains” and “Advice for the Young at Heart”; remastered four-CD, one-Blu-ray box set featuring extended versions, B-sides, radio edits, early mixes, previously unreleased demos and jams, plus a 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Deluxe Edition, with B-sides; Standard CD; Vinyl; Digital Super Deluxe Edition; Digital Deluxe Edition; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury / UMe) |
| UB40 | “Essential UB40” (three-CD compilation; Amazon UK; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Spectrum / UMC) |
| Ultravox | “Vienna [Deluxe Edition]: 40th Anniversary” (1980 album; six-disc box set, featuring a new stereo mix by Steven Wilson, with hits, B-sides, live tracks, unreleased cassette rehearsals, a newly mixed concert from St. Albans in 1980, etc.; Vinyl, half-speed by Alchemy Mastering using the original 1980 production tapes; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Chrysalis) |
| Various artists | “NOW 100 HITS 80s No. 1s” (five-CD collection; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Universal UK) |
| Various artists | “The ‘Sound’ of the R&B Hits” (1964 U.K. compilation of Motown recordings is expanded to 28 songs; Hear/read here) » BUY NOW | (Ace) |
| Rick Vito (former Fleetwood Mac guitarist) | “Lucky in Love: The Best of Rick Vito” (19-song compilation, originally released in 2009) » BUY NOW |
(Hypertension) |
More Releases for Oct. 9, 2020 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Rory Gallagher | “The Best of Rory Gallagher” (30 songs; CD and Vinyl out Dec. 4) » BUY NOW |
(UMe) |
Next Week: Oct. 16, 2020
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