AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:

Atreyu – The Beautiful Dark Of Life CD/LP (Spinefarm)

The Beautiful Dark Life is the ninth studio album from Atreyu. Unfurled throughout the year as a series of three EPs, culminating in a surprise album release, Atreyu are taking their audience on a journey through “the seasons of life” and the rollercoaster of human existence. With songs that speak openly and honestly about anxiety, depression, self-belief, love and identity, The Beautiful Dark Life represents Atreyu’s most universal and important songwriting to date. Through the expression of deeply personal feelings and emotions, Atreyu is giving a voice to a global audience dealing with the very same issues that the band are laying bare, and who are seeking solace, empathy, escapism, and empowerment through music. [Two color vinyl pressings are available: glow-in-the-dark clear; and red teal & yellow swirl.]

Brandy – Christmas With Brandy CD/LP (Motown)

A generational talent who is revered by her peers and fans alike, Brandy brings her wisdom and experience to her new holiday album, Christmas With Brandy. A thoughtful, mixed gift bag, the album features Brandy singing original material and bringing new life to classic holiday standards. When she’s not dazzling listeners with a crystalline cover, Brandy is diving deep into the R&B bag that made us fall in love with her from the very beginning. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is available.]

Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd CD/2xLP (IGA/UMG)

Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd is the ninth studio album from acclaimed singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, comprising 16 tracks and interludes with features from Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, Jon Batiste, Bleachers and more. She introduced the album with the brooding and swelling title track which was written by Del Rey and Mike Hermosa and produced by Lana, Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, and Zach Dawes. It follows the prolific artist’s 2021 albums Chemtrails Over The Country Club and Blue Banisters.

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AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:

Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions CD/LP (Rhymesayers)

On Integrated Tech Solutions—a concept album about an organization offering “lifestyle – and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience”—Aesop Rock wields insidious corporate-speak as a tool to pry the parasitic business culture away from the parts of life that truly matter, while picking apart the charlatan language. On “Mindful Solutionism”, as the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture—and then into atomic bombs, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras, Aes sums the spiral up in just a few words: “We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with.” The album sounds like the past and future at once. [A limited-edition white color vinyl pressing is available.]

Day Wave – Past Life CD/LP (Play It Again Sam)

Los Angeles indie-rock pioneer Day Wave (the project of singer/instrumentalist Jackson Phillips) first emerged from the Bay Area in 2015 and quickly became known for his wavy lo-fi bedroom production. Tracks like “Drag” and “Something Here” put him on a global radar, boasting hundreds of millions of streams across DSPs and creating a lane for bedroom-pop that didn’t previously exist. Now Jackson returns to the forefront of the indie space with Pastlife, an album that tackles themes of love, loss, and maneuvering life in your 30s.

Peter Gabriel – i/o 2xCD/2xLP/2xCD+Blu-ray Audio (Real World)

i/o is Peter Gabriel’s first album of new material since 2002’s Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. “It’s a little like getting a Lego piece each month,” Peter explains. Now it’s time to stand back and admire the final, completed creation. And what a creation – 12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe. i/o is available in four editions: 2xCD (Bright Side Mix, Dark-Side Mix); 2xLP (Dark Die Mix); 2xLP (Bright Side Mix); and 2xCD+Blu-ray Audio (Bright-Side Mix, Dark-Side Mix, In-Side Mix). [A deluxe 4xLP+2xCD+Blu-ray box set edition is due March 8, 2024.]

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