New Releases for September 25, 2020

Social Media Program Titles Released This Week:

Roger Eno and Brian Eno – Luminous 12” (Verve/Deutsche Grammophon)

The Mixing Colours story continues with the EP Luminous, adding to Roger Eno and Brian Eno’s first duo album on Deutsche Grammophon released last March. Includes “Pewter”, formerly a Japan-only bonus track, as well as six brand new tracks. As with the Mixing Colours album, the artist Dom Theobald has supplied the original cover artwork.

Dianna Krall – This Dream Of You CD/2xLP (Impulse/Verve)

Diana Krall’s new self-produced studio album This Dream Of You consists of sessions that took place in 2016 and 2017, with personally chosen gems from the American Songbook and more. The record features lead-off single “But Beautiful”, Krall’s last collaboration with friend and longtime creative partner Tommy LiPuma who died in 2017 at 80, as well as tracks like “Almost Like Being In Love” and “That’s All”. Krall heads a quartet line-up on some tracks that includes such long-standing collaborators as John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and Anthony Wilson, while other tracks feature a trio format spotlighting Christian McBride and Russell Malone.

Omar Rodriguez-López – The Cloud Hill Tapes Pts. I, II & III 3xLP (Clouds Hill)

During the 2000s Rodríguez-López released an astonishing variety of solo works. On these recordings the artist used pieces that had accumulated over the years. However, what has so far been missing is a release that brings together the pieces from that era. This wait now has come to an end. These recordings of three sessions dating from the years 2018 and 2019 and taken at the Clouds Hill Studio are now being gathered together as a triple-vinyl LP box set. Part I features eight pieces, and Parts II and III six pieces each, which have been entirely newly arranged, produced by Johann Scheerer, and performed by Omar Rodríguez-López and a range of guest musicians.

ZZ Top – Live From Texas CD/2xLP (Eagle Rock Entertainment)

Recorded on November 1, 2007, at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas and released the following year, Live From Texas spans ZZ Top’s career to that point from early tracks such as “Waitin’ For The Bus”, “Just Got Paid”, and the classic “La Grange”, through their ’80s blockbusters including “Gimme All Your Lovin'” and “Legs”. “We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin’ wire, poundin’ skin and rockin’ it way up,” says singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons. ZZ Top’s big, brazen blues-rock, combined with a surrealist charisma is on full display here. [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]

October Marketing Program/ Listening Station Titles Released This Week:

Deftones – Ohms CD/LP (WB)

Multiplatinum, Grammy Award-winning alternative rockers Deftones are back with their ninth studio album. Ohms is an other-worldly body of work meticulously crafted by the five-piece band. It is a magnificent tour de force and their first album in four years following 2016’s critically acclaimed Gore. The band, which includes Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, and Sergio Vega, has produced a dense LP with every member firing on all cylinders. [Limited brick and mortar indie store colored vinyl edition also available.]

Diana DeMuth – Misadventure CD/LP (Creaky Gate)

Restless and ready to pave her own way, Diana DeMuth has burst onto the singer-songwriter scene with an arresting perspective about life, love and self-discovery. Growing up on the coast of Massachusetts, DeMuth was immersed in a bohemian upbringing where she moved from place to place with hippie parents. That same restless spirit inhabited DeMuth. After seeing The Avett Brothers from the front row when she was 13, she was enamored with their raw performance and hunger on stage. In that moment, she knew she wanted to be an artist one day. So at 19, after going to college for one week, DeMuth left because she was certain music was her path. For the past five years, she’s focused on just that.

The Hives – Live At Third Man Records CD/LP (Third Man)

In celebration of their string of sold-out dates in the US in 2019, The Hives kicked things off in Nashville and blew up the Blue Room. The band incited full arena-pit pogo energy, busting out career-spanning hits from “Tick Tick Boom” to the unforgettable, fresh-as-ever “Hate To Say I Told You So”. The evening began with the buzz of the band’s neatly-penned neon backdrop: all cool, sleek and electrified. The Hives then breezed into the room in smartly-tailored white dinner jackets, looking like RNR double-O agents, erupting right into a 1-2 punch of “Come On!” and “Walk Idiot Walk”. And for the rest of the set, the band didn’t miss a beat.

IDLES – Ultra Mono CD/LP (Partisan)

Following Brutalism (2017) and Joy As An Act Of Resistance (2018), two releases that garnered global critical acclaim, Idles return with their highly anticipated third album – Ultra Mono. Sonically constructed to capture the feeling of a hip-hop record (including production contribution from Kenny Beats), the album doubles down on the vitriolic sneer and blunt social commentary of their past work. Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up clichés and spits them out as high art for the masses. This is momentary acceptance of the self. This is Ultra Mono. [White colored pressing and Deluxe vinyl edition with gatefold packaging and a 28 page debossed Ultra Mono catalogue also available.]

Dianna Krall – This Dream Of You CD/2xLP (Impulse!/Verve)

Paris – Safe Space Invader CD/LP (Guerrilla Funk)

In this era of reckoning for American policing, increases of racism fostered by the most incompetent president in modern times, and a global pandemic that has affected all areas of life as we once knew it, voices of dissent in entertainment have become more relevant than ever.

Enter Paris, arguably one of the most politically outspoken artists in hip-hop history, with his latest album, Safe Space Invader. Entirely self-produced and released on his own Guerrilla Funk Recordings imprint, Safe Space Invader is a brutal commentary on black life in 2020 America, touching on the topics of police brutality, racism, gentrification, economic inequality and cancel culture, among others.

Prince ‎– Sign O’ The Times [Reissue/1987] 2xCD/3xCD/8xCD+DVD/4xLP/13xLP+DVD/2xLP (WB)

Overflowing with musical ideas and topical lyrics that sound just as relevant today as they did when they were initially released, Prince’s iconic double album Sign O’ The Times captures the artist in a period of complete reinvention and innovation. The final 16-track album included just some of the countless songs Prince recorded in the prolific period of 1985-1987, which saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the construction of his innovative recording complex, Paisley Park, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball. [Available in a wide variety of configurations: Standard, Expanded, Deluxe and Super Deluxe. The Deluxe edition adds 13 singles mixes and edits. The Super Deluxe edition contains 92 audio tracks, of which 63 are previously unreleased, including 45 studio tracks from Prince’s legendary Vault. A limited edition peach colored double-vinyl pressing is also available.]

Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? CD/LP (Def Jam)

Legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy returns to Def Jam – a cultural institution that they helped build – for their first release for the label in over two decades with What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? The loaded 17-track affair boasts a powerful lineup of guests including Nas, YG, Rapsody, DJ Premier, Black Thought, Questlove, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, PMD, George Clinton, Daddy-O, Jahi, The Impossebulls, Mark Jenkins, S1Ws Pop Diesel, James Bomb and Mike D and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys. The album is led by the single “Fight The Power: Remix 2020”, re-conceptualized by Public Enemy with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove for the 2020 BET Awards in June 2020, and officially released as a single along with the album announcement. It also includes Public Enemy’s recent single, “State Of The Union (STFU)”, produced by DJ Premier. The track holds nothing back as it calls out Donald Trump and his destructive reign.

The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, New Jersey 2xCD+DVD/3xCD+DVD+Blu-ray/4xLP (Eagle Rock Entertainment)

Having not hit the road for most of the ’80s, The Steel Wheels Tour was an astounding return for the Rolling Stones, not least as it was the longest they had by that point undertaken. It was also to be their last with longtime bassist Bill Wyman. Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, New Jersey was recorded towards the end of the band’s 60-date run through the stadiums of North America, in the second half of 1989. The previously unreleased live release features special guest appearances from Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker and is presented in a variety of multi-format configurations, including a deluxe four-LP colored vinyl set.

Sad13 – Haunted Painting CD/LP (Wax Nine)

Drawing inspiration from 1980s British pop-rock à la Tracy Ullman and Joan Armatrading, as well as the contemporary digital gloss of post-PC Music electronica, Sadie Dupuis aka Sad13 calls Haunted Painting “decidedly non-minimal,” mixing technicolor synth-pop and math-rock dynamism. Accompanied throughout by drummer Zoë Brecher – and, on two songs, by an eight-piece orchestra – Dupuis handles all other instrumentation herself, expanding her palette of guitar, bass, and synth to include organ, lap steel, marimba, glockenspiel, sitar, autoharp, Theremin, “toys, trash, and ephemera.” She worked exclusively with women engineers; among those credited are mixer Sarah Tudzin (Weyes Blood, Illuminati Hotties), tracking engineers Erin Tonkon (David Bowie, Esperanza Spalding) and Maryam Qudus (Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, mxmtoon), and Dupuis’ long term collaborator, mastering legend Emily Lazar (Beck, Dolly Parton). The process allowed for a diversity of timbres, as well as guest vocal contributions from Helado Negro’s Roberto Lange, Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, and Pile’s Rick Maguire. [Limited pink colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)

Enigmatic singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens makes his long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s Carrie & Lowell with the 15-track double LP, The Ascension. The years-in-the-making collection’s first single comes in the form of the sprawling closing track “America”. Sufjan says the foundations of The Ascension are “a call for personal transformation and a refusal to play along with the systems around us.” He adds, “my objective for this album was simple: Interrogate the world around you. Question anything that doesn’t hold water. Exterminate all bullshit. Be part of the solution or get out of the way. Keep it real. Keep it true. Keep it simple. Keep it moving.” The result is The Ascension, a “lush, editorial pop album,” as Sufjan describes it, which finds us all at a “terrifying crossroad.” [Limited brick and mortar indie store colored vinyl edition also available.]

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [One Version] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Super Version] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [One Version: Limited Edition] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit A Version – Taemin & Taeyong] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit B Version – Lucas & Baehkyun & Mark] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit C Version – Kai & Ten] CD (SM Entertainment)

K-pop unit SuperM’s first album ‘Super One’ features 15 tracks highlighting SuperM’s energetically hopeful vibe, conveying the members’ collective message that we are all “Super” beings with each “One” of us having power, and together as “One”, we can overcome any hardship. Each member version of the album includes a track, narrated by the corresponding member of SuperM, which delivers the core message of the “Super One” Project.

Sylvan Esso – Free Love CD/LP (Loma Vista)

Free Love thrives on collaborative frisson – two people pushing one another into new territories with the shared assurance of knowing they’re in good company, a sort of trust fall in reverse. Yes, these 10 songs are some of electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso’s most direct. And most delicate. And most intricate. And most urgent. Free Love carries the confidence of two people delighted to be all those things, together, at once. Tantalizing opener “What If” is a brief, minimal and enticing track which finds Amelia Meath singing over spacious synth-bleeps, “Oh life, dying out/ And the oceans turn to clouds.” [Limited brick and mortar indie store colored vinyl edition also available.]

Tricky – Fall To Pieces CD/LP (!K7)

“Tricky has always worn his bruised heart on his sleeve. His brilliantly desolate debut album, Maxinquaye, was inspired by his mother, who died when he was four years old, and a song like ‘Strugglin’’ laid bare in excruciating detail his experiences of pain, darkness, and toil. Fall To Pieces, which contains some of the most darkly moving music that Tricky has produced since that debut album, was produced in the shadow of tragedy. Tricky’s daughter Mazy died in 2019 as he was beginning work on a new record. Here, on his 14th studio album, he translates that unimaginable loss into moments of nauseatingly raw emotion. However personal the burden of Tricky’s grief, his collaborators have played a significant role in shaping the sound and feel of the album. Marta Złakowska, who Tricky discovered in a Krakow bar after a singer dropped out of his Polish tour, has the perfect voice for a Tricky vocal foil, her spectral tones the wisp of smoke to his cigarette-end mutter, while Marie-Claire Schlameus’s cello and Kristof Hahn’s slide guitar creep around the arrangements with the finesse of art thieves.” – Pitchfork

The War And Treaty – Hearts Town CD/LP (Rounder)

Critically acclaimed duo, The War And Treaty (featuring Michael and Tanya Trotter), make a triumphant return with their sophomore album, Hearts Town. The 12 tracks reflect their strongest material to date with military veteran Michael’s production/songwriting prowess front and center. Hearts Town has a dynamic sound, joyfully blending Southern soul with elements of gospel, country, rock ‘n’ roll and blues. Few acts today can surpass the extraordinary passion and boundless energy of this Nashville-based husband/wife team. With its spellbinding intensity, “Jealousy” unfolds in a masterfully orchestrated sound that merges soaring harmonies and kinetic beats, symphonic strings and scorching guitar work. And on “Hustlin’,” cascading piano tones and gently lilting rhythms build a beautiful contrast to the song’s moody meditation on perseverance and grit.

CDs + Vinyl:

Alpha Wolf – A Quiet Place To Die CD/LP (Greyscale/Sharptone)

Sophomore album from one of Australia’s fastest rising metalcore acts. [Limited edition clear vinyl pressing also available.]

The Archaeas – The Archaeas CD/LP (Goner)

Beginning as a one witch band, Archaeas now perform as a perfectly-balanced rock trio with frightening power, reflecting punk rock ‘n’ roll from the last fifty years-AC/DC, Johnny Thunders’

Heartbreakers and The Dead Boys through The Reatards and Carbonas, even early Ty Segall-but The Archaeas are young enough to soak up sounds, attitudes, riffs and turnarounds from other bands and songs and still push them into their own Battle Royale.

Rich Aucoin – United States CD (Haven Sounds)

Rich Aucoin wrote his new concept album, United States, while observing America from the ground level, cycling across it for Mental Health America (as well as the Canadian Mental Health Association). While taking this Robert Frank approach, Aucoin composed a song for each of the 12 states he pedalled through. The record is as much about the current socio-political climate of America as it is about states of consciousness; as much fueled by the burgeoning American protest movement or Hedges’ social commentary as it is fueled by McKenna/Pollan world of psychedelics and meditation apps. [Vinyl edition due October 30.]

Ayreon – Transitus CD/LP (Music Theories)

From the mastermind of Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen, Transitus is inspired by supernatural movies such as The Others, The Changeling and Ghost along with the music of soundtrack composers John Carpenter (Halloween), Ennio Morricone (Once Upon A Time In The West) and Jerry Goldsmith (Omen). [Limited edition red colored vinyl pressing also available.]

The Band Of Heathens – Stranger CD/LP (BOH)

Austin, TX’s The Band of Heathens return with Stranger, their most inventive release to date. The follow up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Duende, the band recorded this new effort in Portland, OR with producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse). The result is something different – a more airy, intimate atmosphere, with added emphasis on songcraft and intricate arrangements set in a spacious sonic landscape that reinvents the band’s sound. These are songs stripped of pretense, but teeming with the emotion borne of personal experience, as has been The Band Of Heathens’ method from the very start. Stranger moves off into a new place, but still echoes the group’s artful songwriting and multi-layered narrative observations.

Blitzen Trapper – Holy Smokes Future Jokes CD/LP+MP3 (Yep Roc)

Singer-songwriters have been tackling existential questions about life and death since time immemorial…or at least the 1960s. But when it came to Blitzen Trapper’s newest album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, front man Eric Earley looked beyond mere existence – or even the end of it – to contend with grander cosmic explorations: namely, the intermediate period between a person’s separate lives on earth, “and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,” he explains. Inspired by the experimental tome, Lincoln In The Bardo and The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, Earley’s lyrics take the listener on a wild and dramatic journey through rivers of waist-high water in the aftermath of a tragic car wreck and the hazy morning before a murderous moment, and from getting blitzed to the point of extinction inside a masonic temple to a stop for chips and dip before the apocalypse.

The Buckleys – Daydream CD/LP (Petrol)

The Buckleys are a chart-topping teenage sibling trio from Byron Bay, Australia with roots in country music and an energetic live show which blends country, rock ‘n’ roll, soul and pop. At only 20, 19 and 17 years old respectively, The Buckleys combine honest storytelling with a fresh, dynamic and exciting blend of musical influences that capture their youthful and electrifying energy both on stage and in the recording studio.

Will Butler – Generations CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he’s toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released Arcade Fire’s Everything Now, earned his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard, hosted a series of touring town halls on local issues (police contracts, prison reform, municipal paid sick leave, voting rights), and spent time raising his three children. Generations is a meditation on Butler’s place in society and history. According to Butler, “A big chunk of this record is asking: What’s my place in American history? What’s my place in America’s present? Both in general…but, also extremely particularly: me as Will Butler, rich person, white person, Mormon, Yankee, parent, musician of some sort, I guess.”

A Certain Ratio – ACR Loco CD (Mute)

Back with their first new album in 12 years, a confident and revitalized A Certain Ratio jumped back into the studio following their most successful tour in over 20 years. ACR Loco feels like an accumulation of A Certain Ratio’s DNA from point zero in 1977 through to 2020 and sounds like a band who have effortlessly perfected their craft. This is an album to dance to, cry to, fall in love to and most importantly, to party to. [Vinyl edition due October 2.]

Chubby Checker – Dancin’ Party: The Chubby Checker Collection 1960-1966 CD/LP (Abkco)

Chubby Checker – Twist With Chubby Checker [Reissue/1960] LP (Abkco)

Chubby Checker – The Twist 7” [Reissue/1960] LP (Abkco)

21 of Checker’s recordings are featured on Dancin’ Party: The Chubby Checker Collection 1960-1966. This definitive compilation highlights seventeen Top 40 hits, of which twelve entered the Top 20; seven charted in the Top 10 with two ultimately reaching the No. 1 spot. His 1960 smash Twist With Chubby Checker is back in print for the first time in decades. 180-gram LP in standard jacket packaging with Cameo Parkway branded LP sleeve.

Earl Thomas Conley – Promised Land: The Lost Album CD (BFD)

Archive release of a previously unissued album by the country music singer/songwriter.

Cosmic Vibrations ft. Dwight Trible – Pathways & Passages CD/LP (Spiritmuse)

An interplanetary journey from this new, LA based six-strong ensemble of experienced musicians that define spiritual jazz in the 21st century. This is a genre-defying amalgam of divine vocals by Dwight Trible, Sun Ra-esque jazz with world influences, laced with indigenous instruments, taking you into a cosmic journey of spiritual improvisation and beyond.

The Dan DeChellis Trio – Moving Mountains CD (Deko Music)

New release from the pianist/composer and his trio.

Death Bells – New Signs Of Life CD/LP (Dais)

After swapping hemispheres, Australian outfit Death Bells has found a new home in Los Angeles, emerging with a new album of fervent guitar-driven rock, stripped of gloom and punching through with a new sense of positivity. New Signs Of Life finds Death Bells using a DIY pedigree to plunder the conventions of rock music with a saxophone along for the mission. [Limited clear vinyl pressing also available.]

Deftones – Ohms CD/LP (WB)

Diana DeMuth – Misadventure CD/LP (Creaky Gate)

Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles In Allem CD/LP/LP+CD (Potomak)

After more than 12 years, Einstürzende Neubauten’s long-awaited studio album Alles In Allem arks the quintessence of the band’s output, opening yet another unexpected door in 40 years of ongoing sound research by a very experimental group of musicians around Blixa Bargeld. [CD edition includes a DVD of exclusive live recordings filmed on November 3, 2004, during a special supporter gig at East Berlin’s Palast der Republik. Deluxe vinyl edition includes a bonus multi-media CD as well as a 164-page book.]

Luke Elliot – The Big Wind CD/LP (Laissez Faire Music)

Luke has garnered favorable comparisons to roots, folk, and rock icons such as Hank Williams, Big Joe Turner, Bob Dylan, Elmore James, PJ Harvey, and Nick Cave. His cinematic musicality is both elegant and earthy, offering forth bold emotionality, poetic lyrics, haunting epic tales, and a voice that exudes vulnerability. The Big Wind is a boldly textured and instantly immersive album that recalls the film noir-ish touch of Tom Waits and Nick Cave.

Fleetburner – Fleetburner CD/LP (Butler)

Debut album by the band led by Dutch guitarist/songwriter Kevin Storm and featuring renowned musicians from the international world of metal.

Kirk Fletcher – My Blues Pathway CD (Cleopatra Blues)

A real deal bluesman, guitarist and vocalist Kirk Fletcher digs deep into his soul for this passionate and compelling new album. [Vinyl edition due October 30.]

Gallicantus & Gabriel Crouch – Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass For The Endangered CD (Nonesuch)

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. Originally commissioned by Trinity Church Wall Street, this recording features the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch. The six-movement Mass for the Endangered is a rumination on the concept of the traditional Catholic Mass, its fidelity enhanced by Snider’s interpolation of traditional Latin text for the Gloria, Sanctus/Benedictus, and parts of the Kyrie, Credo, and Agnus Dei.

Steve Hacket – Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings 2xCD+DVD (Century Media)

This live set recorded during a very special tour for Steve Hackett as it brought together his favorite album from his time as guitarist with Genesis – 1973’s Selling England By The Pound – which Steve and his band performed live in its entirety for the first time. The show also featured selected tracks from Steve’s personal favorite album from his extensive solo career Spectral Mornings, together with tracks from his acclaimed 2019 release At The Edge Of Light.

Hans Solo – NuqneH CDEP/12” (Holy Chaos Recordings)

Hans Solo, known as the front man of Äi-Tiem, is the first rapper ever to present an album in Klingon language with NuqneH. The 5 tracks describe a doomsday scenario and form an homage to Star Trek by the self-confessed Trekkies. Once again, Hans Solo combines his typical sarcasm with a critical view of humanity and its abysses.

Anna von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly CD (Southern Lord)

Musician/composer Anna Von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly ultimately embodies the exploration of any and all possibilities, and the audience is invited to listen, liberate the mind and let it wander. Consisting of just one instrument, the pipe organ, All Thoughts Fly radiates a melancholic beauty and is distinguished by fluid transitions of contrasting elements; calmness and drama, harmony and dissonance, much like the place that inspires the music. [Vinyl edition due October 16.]

Haystack – Right At You [Reissue/1996] CD/LP (Dogma Repertory Inst.)

Reissue of the debut album by the Swedish stoner/punk/metal/ group.

Hecate Enthroned – Virulent Rapture [Reissue/2013] CD/LP (M-Theory Audio)

CD and vinyl reissue of the UK black/death metal band’s 2013 out-of-print album with improved layout, personal liner notes and recolored artwork.

The Hives – Live At Third Man Records CD/LP (Third Man)

IDLES – Ultra Mono CD/LP (Partisan)

i.f.A. – international family Affair [Reissue/1997] CD/LP (NBN)

A lethal fusion of G-Funk and R&B, this self-titled album was first released on Rollin Record Enterprises in 1997. After having dropped their first single on Capitol in 1996 and being shelved right after, band-leader Derrick Shaw had the plan to relaunch his i.f.A project independently. With roots in and around Oakland, East Palo Alto and Stockton, it would only be a matter of time before these musical minds would meet again.

Kataklysm – Unconquered CD/LP (Nuclear Blast)

For almost three decades, the French-Canadian melodic death metal syndicate has delivered unapologetic waves of powerful sound around the globe. Thundering with newly fueled power from the shadows and dust of humanity’s crumbling existence, Kataklysm return triumphant with their 14^th full-length studio album.

Khotin – Finds You Well CD/LP+MP3 (Ghostly Int’l)

Since debuting his Khotin project in 2014, Edmonton’s Dylan Khotin-Foote has fine-tuned an impressionistic, dream-like style of music that straddles multiple sonic worlds. His output often sways from gentle synthesized atmospherics to hypnotic, dance-minded frameworks. [Limited transparent green colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Dianna Krall – This Dream Of You CD/2xLP (Impulse!/Verve)

Lomelda – Hannah CD/LP (Double Double Whammy)

“The stunning, open-hearted new album from indie rock singer-songwriter Hannah Read renders personal crises with a deft and delicate touch.” [Best New Music] – Pitchfork

Lydia Loveless – Daughter CD/LP (Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late)

Daughter is the singer-songwriter’s first collection of material to be released on her own label and reflects a long period of soul-searching for the 29-year-old singer-songwriter. The first track from the record, “Love Is Not Enough”, is a bruised-heart rocker that finds Loveless, who divorced from her husband and former bassist, Ben Lamb, after the release of Real, reflecting on a lifetime of hurt. “I can’t believe the worst kinds of people achieve everything they want,” Loveless sings with her trademark biting wit. “It takes medication to get me off.”

Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall CD/LP (Interscope)

Tickets To My Downfall is Machine Gun Kelly’s fifth studio album and first full project that is unabashedly rooted in pop-punk, following the platinum success of “I Think I’m Ok”. Produced by Travis Barker, the album contains the previously released hits “Bloody Valentine” and “My Ex’s Best Friend (with Blackbear)”.

Christian McBride Big Band – For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver CD/2xLP (Mack Avenue)

Christian McBride solidifies his role as the champion of the past, present and future of jazz with his Grammy Award-winning Big Band’s new album in tribute to Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson. Featuring special guests Joey DeFrancesco and Mark Whitfield, For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver honors the historical legacy of the jazz legends who shaped the soul of music for generations to come.

Makaya Mccraven – Universal Beings E&F Sides CD/LP (International Anthem)

An addendum to Makaya McCraven’s critically-acclaimed 2018 release Universal Beings, which The New York Times said “affirms the drummer and beatsmith’s position as a major figure in creative music,” Universal Beings E&F Sides presents fourteen new pieces of organic beat music cut from the original sessions, prepared and produced by Makaya as a soundtrack to the Universal Beings documentary film.

Midlife – Automatic CD/LP (Heavenly)

When Mildlife’s debut album Phase was released in 2018, it didn’t so much explode on to the scene as ooze. Their mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and, perhaps more pertinently, demon grooves, was the word of mouth sensation of that year among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat. By the end of 2018 they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM Awards and won Best Electronic Act at The Age Music Victoria Awards back home in Melbourne. The follow-up, Automatic, is more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable. [Limited edition colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Thurston Moore – By The Fire CD/2xLP (Daydream Library)

By The Fire is Thurston Moore’s seventh solo album, and features Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) on bass and backing vocals, Jon Leidecker aka “Wobbly” (of Negativland) on electronics, James Sedwards on guitar, and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, as well as Jem Doulton, alternating on drums. “Hashish”, the ﬁrst single from the album, is described by Moore as “an ode to the narcotic of love in our shared responsibility to each other during isolation.” [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Bob Mould – Blue Hearts CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)

In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era’s despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock. Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: “We’re really in deep shit now.” That sentiment informs the new full-length album, Blue Hearts, the raging-but-catchy yin to Sunshine Rock‘s yang. Recorded at the famed Electrical Audio in Chicago with Beau Sorenson engineering and Mould producing, Blue Hearts nods to Mould’s past while remaining firmly planted in the issues of the day.

The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic CD (Metal Blade)

Divided into two sections – Mesozoic and Cenozoic – Phanerozoic II once again showcases the detail and depth that have become two of The Ocean’s most enduring trademarks. While ostensibly delving into the extraordinary realities of the Earth’s shifting temporal tides, guitarist/composer Robin Staps and his comrades have long drawn hazy parallels between their chosen subjects and the emotional experiences that their music strives to convey. Phanerozoic II is essentially an album about time, with some very poignant and pointed allusions to the modern world woven into the new music’s spiritual fabric. [Vinyl edition due October 2.]

Paris – Safe Space Invader CD/LP (Guerrilla Funk)

Kellee Patterson – Maiden Voyage [Reissue/1973] CD/LP (Real Gone Music)

As purportedly the first black-owned jazz imprint since the ’20s, the Black Jazz label had its roots in the Black Power movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. But not every album on the label had a social message. Kellee Patterson’s Maiden Voyage was simply an extremely tasteful, mellow jazz vocal album, recorded with the top-notch sidemen that characterized Black Jazz sessions. The album is highlighted by a beautiful vocal performance by Patterson of Herbie Hancock’s title tune, backed with such premium players as long-time George Duke sideman John Heard on acoustic bass and Ray Charles touring band member George Harper on flute.

The Pretty Things – Bare As Bone, Bright As Blood CD/LP (Madfish UK)

First-ever, all-acoustic Pretty Things album and last with founding member Phil May. [Limited edition colored vinyl pressing also available.

Prince ‎– Sign O’ The Times [Reissue/1987] 2xCD/3xCD/8xCD+DVD/4xLP/13xLP+DVD/2xLP (WB)

Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? CD/LP (Def Jam)

The Puppini Sisters – Dance, Dance, Dance CD/LP (Millionaire)

With ﬁve albums under their waist-cinching belts, The Puppini Sisters are hailed as the world’s leading close-harmony group, and count HRH Prince Charles, The Manhattan Transfer and Michael Bublé amongst their fans. It’s extraordinary how many others have followed their trailblazing lead, whether it’s their gorgeous close harmony singing style, the swing-style re-workings of modern pop songs, or their impeccable retro-futuristic fashion sense. But none come close to these true originals.

Reckless Kelly – American Jackpot/American Girls 2xCD (No Big Deal)

For nearly 25 years, Reckless Kelly has graced the musical landscape with a high-powered form of Americana, equally rooted in raw passion, refined musicianship, and gritty authenticity. With the dual release of two new albums – American Jackpot and American Girls – the Idaho-bred band presents a beautifully detailed portrait of their beloved country, turning their nuanced songwriting to its many glories and tragedies. While one batch of songs centers on slice-of-life storytelling and the other explores the complexities of human connection, the collective body of work unfolds with a profound and often eye-opening attention to the subtleties of American life. [Vinyl edition due October 16.]

Lou Reed – New York [Reissue/1989] 3xCD+2xLP+DVD (Rhino)

Lou Reed struck a chord with critics and fans alike more than 30 years ago with New York, his Sire Records debut and 15^th solo studio album. Its raw sound and evocative lyrics would go on to earn the legendary singer-songwriter-poet a gold record, a Grammy nomination, and a No. 1 hit on the Modern Rock charts with “Dirty Blvd”. This expansive reissue includes a newly remastered version of the original 1989 album on CD and – for the first time – on double 180gm audiophile vinyl. The set also includes 26 unreleased studio and live recordings of album tracks from the Lou Reed Archive, as well as the DVD-debut of The New York Album, a long-out-of-print concert video recorded during the New York tour. The set comes packaged in a 12” x 12” hardcover book that includes new liner notes written by music journalist David Fricke and essays from archivist Don Fleming.

Rituals Of Mine – Hype Nostalgia CD/LP+MP3 (Carpark)

Hype Nostalgia reckons with the emotional rollercoaster Terra Lopez has been riding the past few years, and reimagines it. In 2015, Lopez lost her father to suicide and six months later her best friend passed away in a water accident. “Those two events within that six month-period, forever changed me, and I’m only now starting to feel like I’ve processed it after all these years,” Lopez says. Art had always been her outlet, but it was no longer a coping mechanism that worked. Trauma had taken away her voice, leaving Lopez unable to sing for a year. It wasn’t until 2018 when she decided to go to therapy and began taking medication for the first time that she could process the trauma she had experienced, not only in the recent years, but intergenerational trauma she discovered in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Sure, there are heavy elements to the record: dark synths, future R&B undertones, propulsive bass and moody lyrics, but the softness of Lopez’s vocals elicits a quiet confidence.

Omar Rodriguez-López – The Cloud Hill Tapes Pts. I, II & III 3xLP (Clouds Hill)

The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, New Jersey 2xCD+DVD/3xCD+DVD+Blu-ray/4xLP (Eagle Rock Entertainment)

Diana Ross & The Supremes ‎– Sing And Perform “Funny Girl”: The Ultimate Edition [Reissue/1968] CD (Real Gone Music)

Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2015, The Ultimate Edition boasts the original US stereo mix, the rare UK mono mix (with an extended version of Diana Ross’s tour de force “People”, The Supreme Mixes reinstating Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong’s original vocals not heard in 1968, and bonus tracks including alternate versions of “Cornet Man”, “His Love Makes Me Beautiful”, and “Sadie, Sadie” as well as live performances of “I’m The Greatest Star” and the Fanny Brice standard “My Man”.

Sad13 – Haunted Painting CD/LP (Wax Nine)

Raymond Scott Big Band – Hemidemisemiquaver: Buried Treasures Of The Raymond Scott Big Band CD (Real Gone Music)

Raymond Scott is best known as the composer of famous tunes that pop up throughout Warner Bros cartoons. In the late ’30, his celebrated Raymond Scott Quintette was a huge commercial success, a singular ensemble playing a unique and unmistakable style of jazz, full of whimsy and bravura. By the late ’40, he had become an electronic music pioneer, both as an instrument inventor and composer. His music is everywhere these days, not just cartoons. Hemidemisemiquaver: Buried Treasures Of The Raymond Scott Big Band collects 26 exciting cuts, mostly unreleased radio broadcasts recorded by Scott himself and restored by Gavin Ross at Steady Studio in Burbank, CA.

Shy Boys – Talk Loud CD/LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)

On Shy Boys’ third full-length album, Talk Loud, the Kansas City quintet push themselves artistically at nearly every turn, crafting 11 songs that explore new instrumentation, intricate vocal harmonies, and endearing, yet at times dark lyrics. [Limited opaque pink colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Slick Shoes – Rotation & Frequency CD (Tooth & Nail)

The legendary Orange County pop punk band returns after nearly 20 years.

Snarky Puppy – Tell Your Friends [Reissue/2010] CD/2xLP (GroundUp)

Limited 10th Anniversary edition. The original version of Tell Your Friends was released in 2010. It was Snarky Puppy’s first foray into recording and filming in-studio live albums, leading to the band’s first global impression and YouTube sensations.

Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)

The String Theory – The Los Angeles Suite CD/LP (Clouds Hill)

Maverick orchestra The String Theory may be known primarily for their long-term collaboration with the gentle Swedish troubadour José González, yet has over time grown into a massive artist collective in their own right, curiously exploring the outskirts of contemporary neoclassical and electronic music.

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [One Version] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Super Version] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [One Version: Limited Edition] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit A Version – Taemin & Taeyong] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit B Version – Lucas & Baehkyun & Mark] CD (SM Entertainment)

SuperM – SuperM The 1st Album ‘Super One’ [Unit C Version – Kai & Ten] CD (SM Entertainment)

Surfer Blood – Carefree Theatre CD/LP (Kanine)

Carefree Theatre is Surfer Blood’s fifth studio album and marks a return to their first label Kanine Records. Written and recorded in South Florida, it’s the first record the band has released since John Paul Pitts, the singer and main songwriter moved back to the state. It’s an album not as much looking back as coming full-circle. The Carefree Theatre in West Palm Beach, FL was the only venue in town for most of the band’s childhood; it’s where kids would go for everything from touring punk bands to community theater productions. It was the kind of experience that would expose a 21-year-old songwriter to a world outside of Florida, and inspire him to start a band and tour the country. [Limited edition blue colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Sylvan Esso – Free Love CD/LP (Loma Vista)

Free Love thrives on collaborative frisson – two people pushing one another into new territories with the shared assurance of knowing they’re in good company, a sort of trust fall in reverse. Yes, these 10 songs are some of electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso’s most direct. And most delicate. And most intricate. And most urgent. Free Love carries the confidence of two people delighted to be all those things, together, at once. Tantalizing opener “What If” is a brief, minimal and enticing track which finds Amelia Meath singing over spacious synth-bleeps, “Oh life, dying out/ And the oceans turn to clouds.” [Limited brick and mortar indie store colored vinyl edition also available.]

Svalbard – When I Die, I Will Get Better CD/LP (Translation Loss)

Drawing musical influence from crust, post-rock and hardcore; and lyrical influence from early 20th century existentialism, Svalbard alternate between moments of aggression and moments of frailty with an all-encompassing sense of desperate hope.

Tomorrow x Together – Drama [Version A] CDEP+DVD (UMe)

Tomorrow x Together – Drama [Version B] CDEP+DVD (UMe)

Tomorrow x Together – Drama [Version C] CDEP (UMe)

Tomorrow x Together – Drama [Version D] CDEP (UMe)

Tomorrow X Together prove themselves to be one of the most promising young groups in K-pop – and beyond. Four collectable configurations. Each feature three tracks from their recent album Eternity plus new song “Everlasting Shine”.

Torch – Reignited CD/LP (Metalville)

New album from the Swedish metal legends. Reignited combines Torch’s old school metal feeling with a powerful, contemporary sound.

Tricky – Fall To Pieces CD/LP (!K7)

UxB – Westworld Crisis CD (Demons Run Amok)

UxB is a new band formed by the members and driving force behind the influential punk band US Bombs. After parting ways with original vocalist over conflicting political views in 2015, Kerry Martinez (Shattered Faith, Bad Luck Charms) Wade Walston (Suburbia, DI, Agent Orange) Chip Hanna (One Man Army, Weirdos, TSOL) teamed up with legendary frontman and show stealing performer Jesse Wagner (The Aggrolites). [Vinyl edition due October 2.]

Lucas Vidal – Karma CD/LP (Decca Gold)

Lucas Vidal is a Spanish composer who is best known for scores such as Fast And Furious 6, The Raven with John Cusack as well as The Cold Light Of Day with Bruce Willis. The music of Karma is a menagerie of musical genres from classical, jazz and pop infused with an electronica vibe.

Vous Autres – Sel de Pierre CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

Only a year after their full-length debut, French black metal band Vous Autres return with their second album. Sel de pierre represents a shimmer of hope among the vast, dark soundscapes that the modern post black metal duo creates.

Vrîmuot – O Tempora O Mores! 2xCD (Prophecy)

Double-CD hardcover book edition. Debut album from one of Germany’s most promising new neofolk artists. [Vinyl edition due October 2.]

The War And Treaty – Hearts Town CD/LP (Rounder)

The WayMaker – The WayMaker CD/LP (Melodic Passion)

The Waymaker is a Scandanavian melodic metal band formed in summer of 2019 by vocalist Christian Liljegren (Narnia) and guitarist Jani Stefanovic (Solution .45 & Miseration). Jani and Christian were both involved in Divinefire, who released five studio albums 2005-2011.

WorldService Project – Hiding In Plain Sight CD/LP (RareNoise)

Over the course of its previous four albums, UK punk-jazz outfit WorldService Project carried its keen-edged, window-rattling irreverence across the globe, casting an eviscerating glance inward while spreading its message of chaotic compassion to the scattered remnants of the former British Empire and beyond. With the release of the gleefully anarchic Hiding In Plain Sight, keyboardist-vocalist Dave Morecroft takes on his native land from an outsider’s perspective for the first time, having decamped for Rome in his own personal Brexit.

This Week’s Vinyl Exclusives:

Amorphis ‎– Tales From The Thousand Lakes [Reissue/1994] LP (Relapse)

A critically-acclaimed metal masterpiece, Amorphis’ 1994 sophomore album perfectly combines elements of heavy metal, doom, death metal and progressive rock. Back in-print on vinyl.

A.O.K. ‎– Fettischisten [Reissue/1996] LP (Steelbreaker)

1996 album from the German punk/metal band available for the first time on vinyl.

Artemis – Artemis LP (Blue Note)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Artemis – the jazz supergroup comprised of pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, clarinetist Anat Cohen, tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, bassist Noriko Ueda, drummer Allison Miller, and featured vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant – release their self-titled debut album on Blue Note Records. The group is distinctive not only for bringing together seven singular artists, each renowned for their own remarkable solo career; but for its multi-generational and globe-spanning line-up with members hailing from the US, Canada, France, Chile, Israel, and Japan. Artemis conjures a powerful collective voice from seven of the most acclaimed musicians in modern jazz. Artemis is a superb nine-song set that features material composed and/or arranged by each of the band’s six instrumentalists. Artemis unfurls with a dynamic flow, stunningly eclectic yet entirely cohesive.

Bassnectar – All Colors 2xLP (ATO)

Recently released on CD – now available on gold colored vinyl. Bassnectar is the brainchild of Lorin Ashton, and his open-sourced musical project is as diverse as it is imaginary, as raw as it is meticulous, and as fierce as it is stunning. Spanning the spectrum of sonic style, the music draws inspiration from every genre imaginable and supplies a synthesis of intense, wobbling basslines and hypnotic soundscapes for a devout international audience that desires the beautiful and the bestial in the same breath. Bassnectar’s new studio album, All Colors, signifies a merging of music and social change.

Jeff Beck ‎– There & Back [Reissue/1980] LP (Friday Music)

40^th anniversary limited 180gm blue colored vinyl pressing of the third studio solo album by the legendary guitarist.

Be’lakor ‎– Stone’s Reach [Reissue/2009] 2xLP (Napalm)

Sophisticated tunes without falling for any death metal clichés.

Seth Bogart – Men On The Verge Of Nothing LP (Wacko Wacko/Sister Polygon)

New album from the Los Angeles-based musician, artist and DIY / queer icon. Men On The Verge Of Nothing is a return to form for the artist with DIY-roots, entirely written and produced by Bogart himself with the exception of the reimagined cover of the X-Ray Spex’s track “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” which features contributions from Kathleen Hanna and Kate Nash.

Elliott Brood – Keeper LP (Six Shooter)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Keeper runs 10 tracks in length and follows the Canadian band’s 2017 album Ghost Gardens. The collection of songs explores the strength of conviction, with particular focus on complex, long-term relationships.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet ‎– Dave Digs Disney [Reissue/1957] LP (Analog Sparks)

Dave Digs Disney is considered to be The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s second most important album after Time Out and includes Disney classics such as “Give A Little Whistle”, “Heigh-Ho”, “When You Wish Upon A Star” and “Some Day My Prince Will Come”, among others.

Budamunk & Tsuggs – Thank And Gro LP (King Tone)

On the heels of his installment of the Baker’s Dozen, Budamunk has combined his talents with Tony Suggs, provider of the keys to Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor as well as the Count Basie Orchestra. T. Suggs has also collaborated with the Manhattan Transfer, Patti Austin, and Marlena Shaw among others. Thank And Gro realizes a robust yet soothing sonic environment distilling elements transcending time, location, and genre. Instrumental additions provided by Ameen Saleem, Satoshi Yoshida, Kenji ‘Jino’ Hino, and Patriq Moody. Phonetic accompaniments courtesy of Iman Omari and T.I.V.E. DJ YUZE on the cuts. A peace to surly peek interest of connoisseurs throughout the many audible hemispheres.

Bill Callahan – Gold Record LP (Drag City)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. The abiding humanity of latter-day Callahan is highlighted by dark plumes of caustic wit upending standards of our everyday life and the songs that celebrate it: the job, the wife, the TV, the neighbors. Bill slips easily into his characters, whether they’re easy people or not – and the cross-hatch of their light and shadow is unpredictably entertaining in the manner that belongs only one singer in this whole wide world: we’re still talking about Bill Callahan.

Cambatta – LSD: Lunar Solar Duality LP (Mello Music Group)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Hip-hop artist Cambatta is known for his thought provoking and psychedelic-inspired rhyme techniques. His newest album, LSD, is just as the title insinuates – mind-bending and consciousness-shifting. The album was created throughout four years of psychedelic usage and reality-based life changing events.

Chubby Checker – Twist With Chubby Checker [Reissue/1960] LP (Abkco)

Checker’s 1960 smash Twist With Chubby Checker is back in print for the first time in decades. 180-gram LP in standard jacket packaging with Cameo Parkway branded LP sleeve.

Christian Death ‎– Sex And Drugs And Jesus Christ [Reissue/1988] LP (Season Of Mist)

One of the founding fathers of American goth rock, Christian Death took a relentlessly confrontational stand against organized religion and conventional morality, with an appetite for provocation that made Marilyn Manson look like Stryper. Regardless of who was leading or performing in the group, Christian Death set themselves up to shock, both in their cover art and their lyrics, which wallowed in blasphemy, morbidity, drug use, and sexual perversity.

Bruce Cockburn – True North: 50^th Anniversary Box Set 5xLP (True North)

Limited Edition vinyl box set containing three of Bruce Cockburn’s most significant recordings: the self-titled debut Bruce Cockburn (1970) along with two albums that have never before been released on vinyl; The Charity Of Night (1996) and Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu (1999). Each pressed on 180gm colored vinyl.

Lloyd Cole & Commotions – Collected Recordings 1983-1989 [Reissue/2015] 6xLP (Tapete)

This deluxe box features Lloyd Cole & Commotions’ three studio albums remastered plus B-sides and 18 previously unreleased archive tracks, including six never-before-heard. Includes a 20-page booklet with an extensive essay by Pete Paphides.

Dashboard Confessional – MTV Unplugged 2.0 LP (Hidden Note/MTV Unplugged)

Celebrating 20 years of Dashboard Confessional in 2020 – available on vinyl for the first time. Recorded in 2002 on the era-defining show MTV Unplugged, DBC’s performance holds a significant place in their lore. The set was released as the iconic emo band’s first live album on the heels of studio releases The Swiss Army Romance, The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most, and the So Impossible EP. This performance showcases re-imagined versions of seminal tracks such as “Hands Down” and “So Impossible” which receive a full-band treatment for the first time. [Limited brick and mortar indie store-only multi-colored splatter vinyl edition also available.]

Matthew de Gennaro – Laughing Lost In The Underground LP (Soft Abuse)

Matthew de Gennaro goes to gothic country with his wry, intense soundtrack of temporary isolation in Kansas, Laughing Lost In The Underground. This new collection of songs find de Gennaro glinting at darkness, light, and the in-between. The album leans less on de Gennaro’s plaintive Andean-indebted folk songs, and more on salient instrumentals that shift and dance, bridging the natural world with humanistic ruminations.

Devilskin – Red LP (Devilskin Limited)

The hard-hitting kiwi band Devilskin releases their third studio album. [Limited red colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Diamond Dogs ‎– Too Much Is Always Better…Than Not Enough… [Reissue/2002] LP (Wild Kingdom)

Vinyl reissue of the 2002 album from the Swedish rockers. [A limited orange colored vinyl pressing is also available. CD version due October 9.]

Diamond Head ‎– All Will Be Revealed [Reissue/2005] LP (Wild Kingdom)

Diamond Head ‎– Diamond Head [Reissue/2016] LP (Wild Kingdom)

Vinyl reissues of the 2005 comeback album and 2016 self-titled third album from the British heavy metal heroes.

Eddie & The Hot Rods ‎– Get Your Rocks Off [Reissue/2002] 2xLP (Jungle)

Eddie & The Hot Rods recorded live in France in May 1976, for the first time on vinyl and with bonus unreleased tracks featuring Lew Lewis – in a limited red and blue vinyl double-LP. Eddie & The Hot Rods are the missing link between high-energy pub rock and the punk explosion of the following year.

Brett Eldredge – Bring You Back [Reissue/2013] LP (Warner Nashville)

Brett Eldredge ‎– Illinois [Reissue/2015] LP (Warner Nashville)

Brett Eldredge – Brett Eldridge [Reissue/2017] LP (Warner Nashville)

Brett Eldredge – Sunday Drive [Reissue/2020] LP (Warner Nashville)

Four albums from the country singer available on vinyl for the first time, including his brand new album, Sunday Drive.

Roger Eno and Brian Eno – Luminous 12” (Verve/Deutsche Grammophon)

Fitz And The Tantrums ‎– Pickin’ Up The Pieces [Reissue/2010] LP (Dangerbird)

Limited pink colored vinyl pressing. Since their first show at Hollywood s Hotel Café in December 2008, soulsters Fitz & the Tantrums have toured with Maroon 5, played to thousands at Colorado’s world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, shared the stage New Year’s Eve with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and performed on KCRW s esteemed show, Morning Becomes Eclectic. The recipe for success? Six killer musicians, five dapper suits, irresistible songs, one vintage organ and nonstop touring.

Frontback – Don’t Mind The Noise LP/LP+CD (Black Lodge)

Swedish rock ‘n’ roll with catchy vocals and guitar riffs. [Also available: limited vinyl pressing including bonus CD edition.]

Funkadelic ‎– Hardcore Jollies [Reissue/1976] LP (Charly)

Funkadelic ‎– Uncle Jam Wants You [Reissue/1979] LP (Charly)

Hardcore Jollies was the last Funkadelic album to feature three original members of The Parliaments, vocalists Fuzzy Haskins, Grady Thomas and Calvin Simon. Arguably lighter in tone that earlier outings, way-out goofiness still abounds. Uncle Jam Wants You was the band’s eleventh studio LP released in 1979. More militant in tone than its predecessor One Nation

Under A Groove, which described a funk utopia, Uncle Jam’s stated mandate was to rescue dance music from the blahs.

Global Communication ‎– Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis – Chapterhouse Retranslated By Global Communication [Reissue/1993] 2xLP( Evolution)

Global Communication – 76:14:00 [Reissue/1994] 2xLP (Evolution)

Global Communication was an of English electronic music duo consisting of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard. They debuted in 1993 with their remixes of shoegaze band Chapterhouse’s second album Blood Music. In 1994 they followed up with 76:14:00. Both have been repressed on vinyl.

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 26—4/26/69 Electric Theater, Chicago, IL 4/27/69 Labor Temple Minneapolis, MN 4xLP (Real Gone Music)

Dick’s Picks Vol. 26 stands as a worthy counterpoint to what is one of the greatest ‘official’ live albums in rock ‘n’ roll history. It captures the band working on material for the forthcoming album Aoxomoxoa including an incredible version of “Mountains Of The Moon” and serves up a real live Dead rarity with a rendition of Jimmy Reed’s “I Know It’s A Sin”. This is a Pick that’s worthy of coming out on vinyl. Limited to 1500 hand-numbered copies.

Guns ‘N’ Roses – Greatest Hits [Reissue/2004] 2xLP (Geffen)

Available on vinyl for the first time. Includes the bonus track “Shadow Of Your Love” – recorded in 1986, originally released on the 2018 “Locked N’ Loaded” edition of Appetite For Destruction. 180gm.

Herbie Hancock ‎– My Point Of View [Reissue/1963] LP (Blue Note)

My Point Of View is pianist/composer Herbie Hancock’s remarkable second Blue Note album. The 1963 session has an all-star cast including Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Grachan Moncur III, Grant Green, Chuck Israels and Tony Williams. The sheer musicality is breathtaking, with Hancock fully demonstrating his arranging prowess. Reissued as part of The Blue Note Tone Poet Series: all-analog, remastered 180gm vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

The Handsome Family – Odessa [Reissue/1994] LP (Milk & Scissors)

The Handsome Family – Milk & Scissors [Reissue/1996] LP (Milk & Scissors)

First-time vinyl editions of The Handsome Family’s first two albums. “Odessa (1994) and Milk And Scissors (1996) return us to their Chicago beginnings. They were a trio then, with a drummer, Mike Werner. Anyone coming new to these reissues but otherwise familiar with The Handsome Family catalogue may be shocked by the racket they often make, especially on Odessa.” – Uncut

Eric Hilton – Infinite Everywhere LP (Monserrat House)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. After 25 years as the cofounder/writer/producer of Washington D.C. downtempo group Thievery Corporation, Eric Hilton releases his first solo record. Infinite Everywhere, a trip-hop dreamscape of beautiful melodies and wistful instrumentals, is an exploration of inner space. While Thievery genre-hops across and within their albums, Hilton’s solo debut is distilled, focused, more personal. The title and concept is remarkably prescient, conveying melancholia and optimism in equal measures.

The Idoru – Old Songs 12” (Black Star Found)

Three new songs from the Hungarian post-hardcore band.

Nicolás Jaar – Cenizas (Sound Edition) 3xLP (Other People)

Triple vinyl LP pressing including book of Jaar’s third studio album. “The Chilean American producer’s latest album is his most probing and existential, taking influences from all over his career and placing them into grim atmospheres that slip in and out of reality.” — Pitchfork

Elton John – Legendary Covers LP (Purple Pyramid)

Limited edition picture vinyl pressing of classic recordings of Elton on the cusp of his early fame covering a superb collection of hits, including “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”, “Spirit In The Sky”, “Come And Get It” and more.

Kate NV – Room For The Moon LP (RVNG Int’l)

On Room For The Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of ’70s and ’80s Russian and Japanese pop music and film, Room For The Moon is a 20^th century fairy tale suspended in time like a moon torn from a paper sky.

Kiesza – Crave LP (Zebra Spirit)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Sophomore album from the Canadian singer/songwriter; an uplifting ’80s inspired pop record full of songs that make you want to sing and dance.

KTL – VII LP (Editions Mego)

A timely studio album from the duo of Peter Rehberg and Stephen O’Malley, recorded and mixed during an unexpected extended stay in Berlin when the borders of the world suddenly closed. The claustrophobic urgency of this scenario is seared into the colossal vibrations set into VII. Unlike many of their releases this is a studio record made unto itself as opposed to the many soundtracks they have made for theater works and the like.

L.A. Guns – Toronto 1990 2xLP (Deadline Music)

First-time vinyl pressing of a rare live album from the vaults of L.A’s most notorious and lethal hard rock band.

Laibach – Bremenmarsch: Live At Schlachthof 12.10.1987 LP (Made In Germany Music)

Rare live album from the German industrial band. [CD edition due October 9.]

Les Rallizes Dénudés – France Demos LP (Take It Acid Is)

Feedback drenched noise from the Japanese psych legend.

The Lickerish Quartet – Threesome Vol. 1 LP (Label Logic)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. The Lickerish Quartet is a supergroup of sought-after musicians, former members of the legendary band, Jellyfish: Eric Dover ((Imperial Drag, Slash’s Snakepit, Alice Cooper, Sextus), Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Beck, Air, Cheap Trick, Imperial Drag) and Tim Smith (Noel Gallagher, The Finn Brothers, Sheryl Crow).

Lil Yachty – Lil Boat 3 2xLP (Quality Control)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Atlanta native rapper Lil Yachty returns with the third and final installment of the Lil Boat series. Hit singles include “T.D” feat. A$AP Rocky, Tyler, The Creator, & Tierra Whack and “Oprah’s Bank Account” feat. Drake & DaBaby.

Malevolent Creation – Live At The Whisky A Go Go [Reissue/2008] LP (Metal Bastard)

First-time on vinyl. Recorded at the legendary Whisky A Go Go club in Los Angeles, Malevolent Creation took the stage and unleashed upon the audience an abusive barrage of instrumental brutality highlighted by supersonic drumming and a bestial vocal roar.

Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern LP (Oh Boy)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Coming out of the eclectic Cincinnati music scene that has produced everyone from The National and Walk The Moon to Bootsy Collins, Arlo McKinley has washed his songs in the blood of street soul, country, punk and gospel – and tattooed them onto the underground. Filled with a weight, honesty and gritty-hope from rustbelt city life, McKinley rolled downriver to Memphis to Sun Studio where Grammy Award-winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine) gathered a working man’s all-star band to record Die Midwestern. McKinley’s 10 original songs bleed truth and emotion from a heart scarred by wild nights and redeemed by Sunday morning confessions. “She’s Always Around”, “Suicidal Saturday Night”, “Bag Of Pills”, and “Ghost” – a song he wrote in a funeral home parking lot after carrying the coffin of his best friend – are all songs carved out in the key of life. Filled with a hardscrabble spirit akin to the late, great Johnny Paycheck, McKinley is making a name for himself that blue-collar way – humbly stacking piles of soulful acoustic songs that hurt so good.

Mercyless – The Mother Of All Plagues LP (Xenokorp)

Seventh studio album by the French death metal band.

Merzbow/Mats Gustaffson/Balás Pándi – Cuts Open LP (RareNoise)

On the all-too-rare occasions when Japanese noise legend Masami Akita (aka Merzbow), Swedish saxophone aggressor Mats Gustafsson and blistering Hungarian drummer Balás Pándi converge, listeners know to brace themselves for a brain-rattling sonic assault.

Metamatics – Midnight Sun Pig [Reissue/2000] LP (Hydrogen Jukebox)

A classic of its time, Midnight Sun Pig was first released by the now defunct Swedish based Dot Records at the dawn of the Millennium and gives a fascinating insight into the mind of Metamatics, with a distinctive sound that is impossible to pigeonhole.

Mix Master Mike and Steve Jordan – Beat Odyssey 2020 LP (Jay-Vee Inc.)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Turntable master Mix Master Mike teams up with drummer Steve Jordan on a completely improvised album of experimental beats.

Napalm Death – Apex Predator: Easy Meat: Decibel Edition [Reissue/2015] LP (Century Media)

Includes a limited 8-page reprint of the original Decibel Magazine cover feature plus a Napalm Death vinyl sticker.

Neon Trees – I Can Feel You Forgetting Me LP (Thrill Forever)

A confluence of personal and shared experiences awakened Neon Trees in 2019. Following four relatively quiet years, the multi-platinum genre-busting alternative quartet reignited the spark. The musicians summoned the same rock spirit, pop universality, and disco ball-drenched grooves that millions of fans fell in love with, while infusing a lot of wisdom and a little more wit earned along the way. A sizzling signature sound cast in synth soul and rooted in robust guitars, radio smash “Used To Like” kicks off a bold and bright chapter with the new album, I Can Feel You Forgetting Me.

Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Chicago Waves LP (International Anthem)

In late November of 2018, long-time collaborators (and life-long Los Angelenos) Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings. Just 11 months prior, Carlos & Miguel were part of recording the ‘Los Angeles Side’ of Universal Beings at Jeff Parker’s house in Altadena, California, and this performance in Chicago would be the first time that all of the musicians reunited to relearn and perform the music they’d collectively composed during those sessions. [CD edition due October 9.]

Orchestra Baobab ‎– Specialist In All Styles [Reissue/2002] 2xLP (World Circuit)

Celebrating their 50^th Anniversary in 2020, the legendary Orchestra Baobab issue their landmark 2002 reunion album for the first time on vinyl. Adored both at home in Senegal and across the world, Baobab occupy a special place in the history of African music. Their unique and uplifting Afro-Latin hybrid owes everything to the cosmopolitan nature of the band who take influences from all around Senegal as well as Mali, Nigeria, Togo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and beyond.

Orplid – Legatum 12xLP (Prophecy)

Legatum (Latin: “Legacy”) is a massive wooden box set collecting the German neo-folk band’s entire discography, with the majority of works released on vinyl for the first time.

Polo & Pan – Feel Good 12” (Caroline)

Think Moon Safari-era Air meets Ennio Morricone.

Preservation – Eastern Medicine, Western Illness LP (Nature Sounds)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Famed DJ and producer Preservation is a long-time collaborator of Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), one half of Dr. Yen Lo with Brooklyn emcee Ka, and has crafted tracks for RZA, GZA, MF DOOM, Raekwon, Aesop Rock, KRS-One, Jean Grae, and many more. Now, Preservation is back with Eastern Medicine, Western Illness, a new album produced during Preservation’s time living in Hong Kong. The project features an arsenal of top-tier lyricists, including Ka, Mach-Hommy, Your Old Droog, Roc Marciano, Quelle Chris, Billy Woods, Nickelus F, Tree, Grande Marshall, A.G., and Hong Kong’s own Young Queenz.

John Prine – Souvenirs [Reissue/2000] LP (Oh Boy)

Vinyl reissue of Prine’s 14^th studio album, which was originally intended for German-only release. Souvenirs consists of new performances of some of Prine’s most popular early songs.

Profligate – Too Numb To Know LP (Wharf Cat)

Too Numb To Know showcases Profligate continuing to shirk the heavy electronics of his early years for razor sharp pop.

Proscription – Conduit LP (Dark Decent)

“Simply put, this is the kind of death metal that can swallow worlds and exterminate all light.” [CD edition due October 2.]

Psychic Temple – Houses Of The Holy 2xLP (Joyful Noise)

Five whiskey fueled songs of love, madness, and suicide. Psychic Temple mastermind Chris Schlarb believes that “there is no double album that would not be improved by removing its worst songs and making it a single album.” But with his new double-LP release, Schlarb sets out to prove himself wrong

Max Richter – Waltz With Bashir (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Reissue/2008] 2xLP (Deutsche Grammophon)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Max Richter’s original soundtrack score for Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) is as provocative and powerfully intense as the searing images of a film that confronted audiences with lasting lessons in recent history and the psychology of trauma. The music moved millions worldwide and contributed to Richter’s stellar rise on the contemporary scene. Following the film’s premiere at Cannes in 2008, critics hailed the importance of Richter’s unforgettable score and also recognized its success as a standalone album, something rarely achieved by a movie soundtrack. PBS described Richter’s Waltz With Bashir soundtrack as “haunting and melodious … evocative of perhaps what war might sound like in memories.”

Omar Rodriguez-López – The Cloud Hill Tapes Pts. I, II & III 3xLP (Clouds Hill)

Rosetta Stone – Cryptology LP (Cleopatra)

Gothic mastermind Porl King returns with a new Rosetta Stone album that will take fans back to goth’s heyday. [Limited purple colored vinyl pressing also available. CD edition due November 9.]

Run The Jewels ‎– Run The Jewels [Reissue/2013] LP (Mass Appeal)

Vinyl reissue of the debut studio album by the hip-hop duo consisting of Killer Mike and El-P. The album was originally released on June 26, 2013, through Fool’s Gold Records.

Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ‎– Love Devotion Surrender [Reissue/1973] LP (Friday Music)

Recorded on the heels of their powerhouse smashes Santana’s Caravanserai and The Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Birds Of Fire, this amazing album tore up the pop music charts and has been a jazz fusion staple ever since.

Savoy Brown – Ain’t Done Yet LP (Quartro Valley Recs)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. New release from the legendary British blues rock band still led by founding member Kim Simmonds. Ain’t Done Yet follows Savoy Brown’s critically acclaimed 2019 album, City Night.

Say Anything – Is A Real Boy… [Reissue/2004] LP (Doghouse)

Vinyl reissue of the sophomore album from the pop punk band.

The Horace Silver Quintet ‎– Further Explorations [Reissue/1958] LP (Blue Note)

Further Explorations documents hard-bop pioneer Horace Silver’s quintet: Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Teddy Kotick, Louis Hayes. The 1958 session is particularly inspired, with Silver penning all but one of the compositions. Reissued as part of The Blue Note Tone Poet Series: all-analog, remastered 180gm vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Jimmy Smith with Stanley Turrentine ‎– Prayer Meetin’ [Reissue/1964] LP (Blue Note)

Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of a Hammond B-3 organ. Arguably his finest moments, the sessions with Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax) helped define jazz. Prayer Meetin’ is brimming with the bluesy grooves that made their collaborations classics. Reissued as part of The Blue Note Tone Poet Series: all-analog, remastered 180gm vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Sol Invictus – In A Garden Green [Reissue/1999] LP (Prophecy)

First-time vinyl reissue of a goth/neo-folk classic courtesy of Tony Wakeford’s Sol Invictus project featuring stunning artwork from Tor Lundvall. [Limited edition green colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Horace Tapscott/Michael Session – Live In Avignon France 1989 LP (The Village)

On October 14th 1989, Horace Tapscott, founder of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, performed alongside his close friend and musical partner Michael Session at the Théâtre du Chêne Noir in Avignon, France. This was during a tour in which they traveled across Europe. The duo presented compositions by Leimert Park musicians Jesse Sharps, Nate Morgan and Tapscott himself. The stark instrumentation of this concert led to minimal arrangements of compositions typically performed by much larger ensembles. The result is a one of a kind experience where Tapscott & Session challenged each other’s abilities and pushed the music to new boundaries. [Deluxe ‘bootleg’ vinyl edition also available.]

This Calling – Methods Of Protest LP (Black Star Found)

Debut album from the rising Hungarian melodic hardcore act.

The Toadies – Rubberneck [Reissue/1994] LP+MP3 (Kirtland)

Remastered 25^th anniversary vinyl LP reissue with bonus tracks included on accompanying download card. Born out of the ’90s alternative rock scene, The Toadies of Fort Worth, TX burst into the music scene with their debut album, Rubberneck, which went platinum on the strength of two smash singles “Possum Kingdom” and “Tyler”.

Vacant Lots – Interzone LP (Fuzz Club)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Third full-length album by the New York electro post-punk duo.

Various Artists – Leppardmania – A Tribute To Def Leppard LP (Deadline Music)

The first-ever vinyl pressing. Hollywood metal royalty to pay tribute to the British pop metal icons, including L.A. Guns, Warrant, Quiet Riot, Dangerous Toys, Hurricane, Bang Tango and more. Limited edition colored vinyl pressing.

Narada Michael Walden – Immortality LP (Quarto Valley)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Besides being a world class drummer/percussionist, Michael was one of the first producers to venture into recording what would eventually be called smooth jazz. Angela Bofill, Michael Henderson, Stacy Lattisaw, Chick Corea, Kenny G, Patti Austin, Regina Belle are just a few of the artists he inspired.

Wax Chattels – Clot LP (Captured Tracks)

New album from one of New Zealand’s most treasured independent exports. A marked step-up, Clot keeps the visceral energy of Wax Chattels’ hypnotically sinister 2018 eponymous debut, only this time they dig deeper into cathartic noise. [Limited orchid colored vinyl pressing also available.]

The Weeknd – After Hours 2xLP (XO)

Now available on vinyl. The Weeknd’s latest chapter, After Hours, features the global hits “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights”. Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, The Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. As a result, the multi-platinum two-time Grammy Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful and significant artists of the 21^st century.

The Wombats – The Wombats [Reissue/2008] 12” (Bright Antenna)

Originally released April 2008, this is The Wombats first US EP – now available on black vinyl. This six song EP connected the Liverpool band to a worldwide fan base.

Yelle – L’Ère du Verseau LP (Recreation Center)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. First album in six years from the French electro-pop group.

Yes – Songs From Tsongas: 35^th Anniversary Concert 4xLP (earMUSIC)

Recorded in May of 2004, the classic Yes line up – Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White, joined forces once again to celebrate their historic 35 years, creating music together. This show features songs spanning their entire career, including the classics “Roundabout”, “Starship Trooper”, “I’ve Seen All Good People”, “Owner Of A Lonely Heart” and many more.

Ziemba – True Romantic LP (Sister Polygon)

Ziemba is the performing moniker of El Paso-based musician, writer, and perfumer René Kladzyk. Kladzyk’s multifaceted work has been showcased in venues including MoMA Ps1, Pioneer Works, National Sawdust, and toured internationally. Her new album, True Romantic, is a collection of unabashed and overblown love songs.

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Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind [Reissue/1991] (Radiation Tapes)

Cassette reissue of the fourth studio album by the alternative rock band. Green Mind was the band’s first release after bassist Lou Barlow’s departure and is close to being a J Mascis solo album: he played most of the instruments, with founding drummer Murph only featuring on three tracks.

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