New Releases for June 10, 2022

Marketing Program/ Banner/ Listening Station Titles Promoted This Week:

American Aquarium – Chicamacomico CD (Losing Side)

“Chicamacomico is a record about loss. Over a six-month span at the end of 2019/beginning of 2020, I lost my grandmother, my mother and watched as the world fell into a 2+ year pandemic that decimated businesses, relationships, and dreams. This is a record about dealing with those losses. My hope is these songs serve a salve for anyone else experiencing loss. A reminder that you are not the only one that lost a friend this year, or a parent, or a loved one. There’s a special kind of hope that comes from that realization. I am not alone. We enlisted Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Nathaniel Ratliffe, Waxahatchee) to produce the record and traveled to Sonic Ranch, a world-renowned recording complex tucked in the middle of a 1,700-acre pecan orchard, in the Texas border town of Tornillo. Over the course of ten days, we watched these songs go from simple folk ruminations into fully formed band arrangements.” – BJ Barham [Vinyl edition – including an indie store exclusive pressing – due August 19.]

Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – GarciaLive Volume 18: November 2nd, 1974 Keystone Berkeley 2xCD (Round Records/Virgin)

Produced from the original 1/4″ analog master reels, GarciaLive Vol. 18 presents this previously uncirculated performance captured at the Bay Area’s vaunted Keystone Berkeley. Garcia and Saunders are joined by John Kahn, Martin Fierro (Zero, Sir Douglas Quintet) and Paul Humphrey (Marvin Gaye, Joe Cocker, Lawrence Welk) for genre-bending explorations of R&B, reggae, jazz, and rock classics including “The Harder They Come”, “You Can Leave Your Hat On”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”, and more.

Patty Griffin – Tape CD (PGM)

The 2x Grammy-winner releases a collection of rare demos and lo-fi home recordings. “Only an artist as strong as Patty Griffin would overlook these ten great performances in search of ‘better’ material. Hindsight often has its advantages and time between can bring a new perspective as did here. Yet Griffin is unlike many other artists. She doesn’t offer up explanations for the inspiration for her songs. She rarely talks about themes or threads that run through her work. Yet, like many artists, she put the pandemic time off to good use, researching older material and in the process, making some new discoveries. Some of the songs she found were initially recorded alone in her home, singing into a recorder in the wee hours of the morning. A few were from an in-studio demo session in Nashville, including a duet with Robert Plant around the time they first met. She is all about the performances.” – Glide Magazine

Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World CD (Roadrunner)

“Vocalist Chris Motionless elaborated on the ambitious new project Scoring The End Of The World stating, “this is my love letter to you, our fans, for everything you have done for me over the course of some of the most mentally taxing few years I’ve had to go through. At times where I felt like my world was ending, as well as the world around us, it was always in my mind that I was able to turn to the special relationship we have created together for help, and I cannot thank you enough for that. Outside of my own personal experiences, it has been equally as fulfilling to me to see that in the face of tireless forces that continue to try and perpetuate hatred and negativity towards so many of us coexisting on this planet, we have all stood together to resist and fight back knowing that love and compassion will always prevail. We ARE the resistance. We ARE Cyberhex. I love you. Thank you.”

The Range – Mercury CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)

On Mercury, James Hinton builds on the techniques he established on his critically acclaimed 2016 LP Potential, seeking to create human connection in the Internet age through sampling vocalists from the corners of YouTube, Instagram, and Periscope. “I feel like I can find ways to express myself in ways that I’m too shy or unable to do in the real world,” Hinton says of the process. Mercury is moody, transportive, and undeniably rave-infused, and although it is indebted to IDM mainstays and grime pioneers, the album finds Hinton pushing himself outside the constraints of any one specific genre.

The Rolling Stones – Licked Live In NYC 2xCD/2xCD+DVD/2xCD+Blu-ray/3xLP (Mercury Studios/UMG)

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, The Rolling Stones embarked on a worldwide tour in 2002 and 2003 that would cover 117 shows in a variety of theatres, arenas, and stadiums. This show captures their January 2003 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City and features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow on “Honky Tonk Women”. Licked Live In NYC includes previously unreleased performances of “Start Me Up”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Gimme Shelter” & “Sympathy For The Devil”, along with three bonus performances from Amsterdam and rehearsal footage. [A limited-edition white color vinyl pressing is available.]

Read Southall Band – For The Birds CD/LP (Smoklahoma)

While impossible to pinpoint, the music on For the Birds could be called, well, timeless. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, and it doesn’t easily fall into labels like country, Southern rock, or classic rock. It’s ambitious to a degree that’s rare for a guitar-driven band in 2021 – witness the first single “Where We Belong”, an epic number that clocks in at a whopping six-plus minutes. You’re not going to find many albums that evoke both the likes of Waylon Jennings (“Here We Are”) or early grunge (“Out of My Mind”, which would sound just fine sandwiched between Temple Of The Dog and an early Smashing Pumpkins record). From classic to contemporary rock, these are songs that could appeal to the disparate fanbases of Gary Stewart, Joe Walsh, Rival Sons, or Chris Cornell.

Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios CD (BMG)

Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios finds Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright performing his groundbreaking 2007 tribute to Judy Garland, Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall, in its entirety, live from Los Angeles’ famed Capitol Studios. “The American Songbook and Judy Garland’s famed 1961 Carnegie Hall concert gave me a lot of hope after 9/11 and lead to the idea for my first song by song recreation of that show at the same venue,” says Wainwright. “It felt fitting to do the entire set again as the dazzling finale of my Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective and hopefully the beginning of the finale of this global pandemic. Once again, these songs revealed their healing power. To be able to sing them in front of Renée, to sing with Kristin Chenoweth and still have my sister Martha be part of these shows was particularly meaningful although to sing them into the very microphone that Judy used for her recordings at Capitol Studios was the most mind-blowing.” [Vinyl edition due September 2.]

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ABBA – ABBA 10xLP (Capitol)

ABBA has established themselves as one of the greatest pop groups of all time, dominating the charts throughout the ‘70s, and continuing their winning streak into the early ‘80s. The Swedish four-piece redefined the boundaries of pop music, with each new album charting an astounding artistic progression that remains a fabric of our culture. This heavyweight 180gm vinyl 10LP box set collects each of those cornerstone releases, including 2021’s triumphant return album Voyage for the first time, plus a Bonus Tracks disc featuring the singles, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” and “Fernando” among others.

Elton John – Madman Across The Water [Reissue/1971] 2xCD/3xCD+Blu-ray/4xLP (Island)

Madman Across The Water, Elton John’s fourth studio album, was largely written after his and Bernie Taupin’s celebrated first visit to America, giving them a wide new vista of inspiration for their songwriting. The double-CD reissue includes the remastered album + 5 bonus tracks. Disc Two includes the piano demo version of the album, plus a previously unheard full version of “Rock Me When He’s Gone.” The Deluxe Anniversary 3xCD + Blu-ray box adds a BBC Sounds For Saturday concert, first broadcast in 1972, and a Blu-ray audio with a 5.1 mix of Madman Across The Water plus visual of BBC Sounds For Saturday & 1971 Old Grey Whistle Test performances. The set also includes a 104-page hard-cover book with introductions by Elton and Bernie, photos and essay featuring interviews with many who helped make Madman Across The Water, plus a reproduction 1971-poster, as well as memorabilia and artwork taken from the Rocket Archive. The four-LP edition features a piano demo version of the album plus live and alternate versions and the BBC Sounds For Saturday concert.

The Rolling Stones – Singles 1963–1966 CD (ABKCO)

Limited edition box set. A comprehensive, chronological overview of The Rolling Stones’ early career as pop chart hitmakers. Contains 18 vinyl 7″ 45 RPM singles and EPs in original picture sleeves, a 32-page book with liner notes by Rolling Stones authority Nigel Williamson, plus a set of five photo cards and a color poster, all housed in a hard-shell box.

CDs + Vinyl:

Leo Acosta – Acosta [Reissue/1970] LP (Mad About Records)

Leobardo Acosta Quintanar was born in Huetamo, Michoacán in 1925. He was a notable drummer, composer, arranger, and orchestrator. In 1970, he recorded a last LP for Capitol with a small combo formed with some of his closest peers. The sound engineer for these sessions, Rogiero Silva, recalls that it happened in the nighttime. Leo was always very demanding in his studio hours with all of his musicians and that he did not tolerate mistakes or setbacks, but he was fully relaxed and enjoying this one very much. For this last LP, entitled Acosta but known as “El Leon“, all the compositions are originals, unlike his previous albums where the labels required him to record at least 6 songs that were hits on the popularity charts.

American Aquarium – Chicamacomico CD (Losing Side)

“Chicamacomico is a record about loss. Over a six-month span at the end of 2019/beginning of 2020, I lost my grandmother, my mother and watched as the world fell into a 2+ year pandemic that decimated businesses, relationships, and dreams. This is a record about dealing with those losses. My hope is these songs serve a salve for anyone else experiencing loss. A reminder that you are not the only one that lost a friend this year, or a parent, or a loved one. There’s a special kind of hope that comes from that realization. I am not alone. We enlisted Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Nathaniel Ratliffe, Waxahatchee) to produce the record and traveled to Sonic Ranch, a world-renowned recording complex tucked in the middle of a 1,700-acre pecan orchard, in the Texas border town of Tornillo. Over the course of ten days, we watched these songs go from simple folk ruminations into fully formed band arrangements.” – BJ Barham [Vinyl edition – including an indie store exclusive pressing – due August 19.]

Bill Anderson – As Far As I Can See: The Best Of CD (MCA Nashville)

Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson’s, As Far As I Can See: The Best Of, is a collection of 16 hit songs. In addition to such beloved songs as “City Lights”, “Still,” Po’ Folks”, “The Tip Of My Fingers”, and “Sometimes”, the album features a new song with Dolly Parton, “Some Day It Will All Make Sense”. The newly recorded duet is joined by Anderson and Parton’s first-ever collaboration, a rare demo of “If It Is All The Same To You”, recorded in 1964.

Michaela Anne – Oh To Be That Free CD/LP (Yep Roc)

Nashville, TN based songwriter Michaela Anne returns with her new album Oh To Be That Free, the follow up to her 2019 Yep Roc debut Desert Dove. “I wrote this collection of songs as a simultaneous reckoning and healing,” says Michaela Anne. “They came after a period in my life of self-sabotage and unraveling by my own doing. But during the making of this record, life altering experiences occurred and a deeper layer of meaning for these songs appeared. Between the time we started to record and the very final mastering, I conceived, grew, and birthed my first child. In the middle of this pregnancy, and the middle of making this record, my mother suffered a devastating and debilitating hemorrhagic stroke. These songs became healers for me as though I had written them for my future self.” [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is available.]

Asia – Asia In Asia: Live At The Budokan, Tokyo, 1983 CD/2xLP2xCD+2xLP+Blu-ray (BMG)

Asia in Asia – Live at The Budokan, Tokyo, 1983 – CD – This incredible performance was the first live broadcast between Japan and MTV and has only ever been released on VHS. The album features some of ASIA’s biggest and most recognizable tracks. Including “Heat Of The Moment”, “Only Time Will Tell”, “Sole Survivor” and “Wildest Dreams”. [The limited-edition box set includes a double color vinyl pressing, two CDs, and a Blu-ray.]

Bedouine – Waysides CD/LP (Figure 8 Media Inc.)

Waysides is the third collection of Bedouine songs. Comprised of older material and a cover, she’s playfully dubbed it “LP 2.5.” It summarizes her creative headspace over the last year and a half, tying together many songwriting threads that act as a prologue of sorts. “The luxury of time afforded this whole album,” she explained. “It feels like going back in time, uncovering little capsules. I would never have gotten to do this if I didn’t have this abundance of time at home. It was my silver lining in this mess and gave me purpose.”

Blanck Mass – Ted K (Original Motion Picture Score) CD/LP+MP3 (Sacred Bones)

Recording during lockdown at his studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, Blanck Mass’s Ben Power was in the perfect setting for a musical piece intended to capture the isolation central to serial mail bomber Ted Kaczynski’s story. Power was also working with a director in a time zone 10 hours behind and thus many sessions required working in the middle of the night, which added a fitting intensity to the composition process. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is available.]

Bloody Heels – Rotten Romance CD (Frontiers)

Latvian hard rockers Bloody Heels return with Rotten Romance, their third album overall.

Joe Bouchard – American Rocker CD (Deko)

Joe Bouchard is best known as one of the founding members of Blue Öyster Cult. American Rocker sees the return of Mickey Curry (Bryan Adams, Hall and Oates, Alice Cooper) on drums, and sees Joe taking a look back at the heyday of the ‘70s with BÖC on tracks like “In the Golden Age”, and “Rocket To Fame”.

BTS – Proof [Compact Edition] CD (Bighit Entertainment]

BTS – Proof 3xCD (Bighit Entertainment]

BTS is back with a brand-new anthology release titled Proof. This new album contains the chronicles of BTS since their debut in 2013 and how they have paved the way with their own blood, sweat and tears.

Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh CD/LP (Napalm)

CD and vinyl reissue of the debut album by Canadian technical death metal band.

Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

2022 marks the tenth year of Deathwhite. The ensuing years have borne witness to the continued, if not expedited unraveling of humankind and the world in which it so harshly occupies. The 2020 global pandemic – an event of unimaginable magnitude – has amplified the worst in us. Cruelty, dishonesty, greed, obfuscation, and selfishness are celebrated, worn as a badge of pride as the world burns figuratively and literally. Such was the environment of discontent and isolation that the enigmatic dark metal quartet concocted it’s third full-length studio offering, Grey Everlasting.

Dopplereffekt – Neurotelepathy CD/2xLP (Leisure System)

With their second LP and fifth release in total on Leisure System, the duo of Rudolf Klorzeiger and To-Nhan have themselves achieved a near-telepathic capacity for collaborative thought and mechanical construction. They continue to use live appearances to present experimental trials of theoretical models, and that effort is heard in the sizzle and swing of the percussive highlights here, programmed with a serious depth and wriggle that reflect both an extension of and return to form.

Dragged Under – Upright Animals CD/LP (Mascot)

When you strip everything else away, we rely on our animal instincts to survive. In the face of danger, we either flee or fight without hesitation. No matter how many perceived differences exist between us, we breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same way to subsist. Dragged Under naturally harness this primal power in their hard-hitting hybrid of punk, rock, metal, and hardcore. Choosing to progress, the Seattle quintet sharpen their claws, teeth, and style on their second full-length album, Upright Animals. [A translucent orange color vinyl pressing is available.]

Baxter Dury – Mr Maserati 2001 – 2021 CD (Heavenly)

Following Baxter Dury’s autobiography release, Chaise Longue, Heavenly Recordings releases Mr Maserati 2001 – 2021, a best of compilation. Two decades and six albums of Baxter Dury’s louche sardonic music featuring late-night London snapshots, shuffling basslines, comedown disco tunes, seedy bleakness and sweet love for humanity are collected. This set also includes a new song, “D.O.A.”, which was co-written with his son Kosmo and which gives a gorgeous glimpse of what Baxter might get up to in the next decade or two. “I don’t really think I warrant a ‘best of’ album,” says Dury, but he’s quietly built a back catalogue of absolute beauties. [Vinyl edition due June 24.]

George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid CD/LP (Columbia)

Gold Rush Kid is the highly anticipated new album from singer-songwriter George Ezra. This 12-track album was announced with the release of the first single and video, “Anyone For You”. In speaking about the lead single, George says: “‘Anyone For You’ is a patchwork of lyric ideas found in old notebooks and chance moments shared between musicians in the studio. It’s joyous and infectious, and I can’t help but smile every time I sing it.” [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is due June 17.]

FKJ – Vincen CD/2xLP (Mom + Pop Music)

Second album from artist/producer and multi-instrumentalist French Kiwi Juice (FKJ). Includes the single “Greener”, a collaboration featuring legendary guitarist Carlos Santana.

Ray Fulcher – Spray Painted Line CD (Black River Ent.)

Debut album from the country music singer. Includes the single “All Gas No Brakes”.

Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – GarciaLive Volume 18: November 2nd, 1974, Keystone Berkeley 2xCD (Round Records/Virgin)

Produced from the original 1/4″ analog master reels, GarciaLive Vol. 18 presents this previously uncirculated performance captured at the Bay Area’s vaunted Keystone Berkeley. Garcia and Saunders are joined by John Kahn, Martin Fierro (Zero, Sir Douglas Quintet) and Paul Humphrey (Marvin Gaye, Joe Cocker, Lawrence Welk) for genre-bending explorations of R&B, reggae, jazz, and rock classics including “The Harder They Come”, “You Can Leave Your Hat On”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”, and more.

Ghalia – Mississippi Blend CD/LP (Ruf)

You can’t miss Ghalia Volt. She’s the natural-born rock star with the leather jacket and wicked grin, leaning from her album sleeve to offer you a hit on her hip flask. But the real Southern blend ain’t in the bottle, it’s on the songs. Following the New Orleans flavors of her 2017 breakthrough, Let The Demons Out, this year sees the acclaimed Brussels-born singer-songwriter dive deeper into the American South, recording in the hill country of Mississippi, where she shared her songs with a cast of esteemed local musicians and caught the flying sparks. This is Mississippi Blend: an album as fiery and throat-burning as Delta moonshine.

Ghost Power – Ghost Power CD/LP (Duophonic Super 45s)

Ghost Power is Jeremy Novak [Dymaxion] and Timothy Gane (Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter and Turn On). Duophonic Super 45s has previously released music by both artists – Novak via a Dymaxion compilation album and a 7″, Gane via various Stereolab, Cavern Of Anti-Matter and Turn On releases. Having previously released a limited edition 7″ in 2020, Ghost Power by Ghost Power brings the two musicians together for a full-length album. The tracks were recorded in Berlin and New York, both remotely and with Novak and Gane working together in each city.

The Gladiators – One Love: The Best Of Their Nighthawk Recordings CD (Omnivore Recordings)

Formed by singer and guitarist Albert Griffiths in the mid- ’60s, Gladiators soon became a force in the genres of ska and reggae. As reggae moved toward ragga (synthesized drums, sampling, etc.) Gladiators’ recordings for the Nighthawk Records label in the ’80s stayed true to their roots- reggae sound. One Love: The Best Of Their Nighthawk Recordings collects 20 tracks from their tenure at the label, including tracks from the albums Symbol Of Reality (1982) and Serious Thing (1984), as well as the 1992 collection of previously unissued tracks Full Time, the 1983 US Tour EP, and Dread Prophecy (recorded with Ethiopian) from 1986.

Gräce – Hope CD (Frontiers)

Gräce is a new band put together by singer Isra Ramos, undoubtedly one of the most prolific and versatile vocalists, composers, and producers in the recent history of metal in Spain. “Gräce is a new adventure for me that allows me to express myself in a very personal way. After years within the more traditional metal framework, I wanted to enter a more experimental style, something embracing melodic metal and electronic elements with other different flavors that I wish to explore,” says Ramos.

Patty Griffin – Tape CD (PGM)

The 2x Grammy-winner releases a collection of rare demos and lo-fi home recordings. “Only an artist as strong as Patty Griffin would overlook these ten great performances in search of ‘better’ material. Hindsight often has its advantages and time between can bring a new perspective as did here. Yet Griffin is unlike many other artists. She doesn’t offer up explanations for the inspiration for her songs. She rarely talks about themes or threads that run through her work. Yet, like many artists, she put the pandemic time off to good use, researching older material and in the process, making some new discoveries. Some of the songs she found were initially recorded alone in her home, singing into a recorder in the wee hours of the morning. A few were from an in-studio demo session in Nashville, including a duet with Robert Plant around the time they first met. She is all about the performances.” – Glide Magazine

Heart Attack – Negative Sun CD (Atomic Fire)

A perfect amalgamation of roaring modern thrash metal and epic melodies. Heart Attack is for Gojira, Machine Head, and early Metallica fans searching for the definite riff that will help them drive for a long ride under the sun.

Integrity – Those Who Fear Tomorrow Reissue/1991] CD/LP (Relapse)

Integrity – Systems Overload [Reissue/1995] CD/LP (Relapse)

Known for being one of the most incendiary and influential bands in hardcore and modern metal history, apocalyptic heavy music icons Integrity issued their landmark debut album, Those Who Fear Tomorrow, on Overkill Records in 1991. Recorded in September of that year, the album still resonates with extreme music fans the world over, as many of the songs still frequent the band’s set lists three decades later. The band’s second album, Systems Overload was originally released in 1995 by Victory Records. [Limited color vinyl pressings are available.]

Grace Ives – Janky Star CD (Harvest)

Janky Star is the new album from pop-polymath Grace Ives, following 2019’s critically acclaimed debut, 2nd. The 10 tracks are full of punchy synths and unconventional rhythms, but she uses the quiet spaces in between to honestly reflect on her ongoing struggle to find stability and happiness. Touching on sobriety, overdoses, and the desire to escape the realities of modern life, Janky Star focuses on the rewards of slowing down and finally finding a home for herself in the ever-shifting world. [Vinyl edition due November 11.]

Jillian Jacqueline – Honestly CD (Jillian Jacqueline)

Critically acclaimed artist Jillian Jacqueline releases her 11-song debut album, Honestly. Hailed for her “blatant honesty with unshakable optimism” (Billboard), Jacqueline’s debut is the follow-up to her prior hits “God Bless This Mess”, “Hate Me”, and “Reasons”, and includes emotionally potent duets with Nashville notables Charlie Worsham (“The Ocean”) and TJ Osborne (“Better with a Broken Heart”).

Elton John – Madman Across The Water [Reissue/1971] 2xCD/3xCD+Blu-ray/4xLP (Island)

Madman Across The Water, Elton John’s fourth studio album, was largely written after his and Bernie Taupin’s celebrated first visit to America, giving them a wide new vista of inspiration for their songwriting. The double-CD reissue includes the remastered album + 5 bonus tracks. Disc Two includes the piano demo version of the album, plus a previously unheard full version of “Rock Me When He’s Gone.” The Deluxe Anniversary 3xCD + Blu-ray box adds a BBC Sounds For Saturday concert, first broadcast in 1972, and a Blu-ray audio with a 5.1 mix of Madman Across The Water plus visual of BBC Sounds For Saturday & 1971 Old Grey Whistle Test performances. The set also includes a 104-page hard-cover book with introductions by Elton and Bernie, photos and essay featuring interviews with many who helped make Madman Across The Water, plus a reproduction 1971-poster, as well as memorabilia and artwork taken from the Rocket Archive. The four-LP edition features a piano demo version of the album plus live and alternate versions and the BBC Sounds For Saturday concert.

Vance Joy – In Our Own Sweet Time CD (Atlatnic)

Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Vance Joy releases his highly anticipated third studio album, In Our Own Sweet Time. The eagerly awaited new album includes collaborations with hitmakers such as Joel Little (Lorde, Taylor Swift), Dan Wilson (Adele, Leon Bridges), Take a Day Trip (Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X) and more.

Joyce Manor – 40oz. To Fresno CD/LP+MP3 (Epitaph)

40oz. To Fresno is the highly anticipated sixth studio album by Joyce Manor. Produced by Rob Schnapf, this nine-song album is an honest, hard-hitting, post-emo, power pop masterpiece packed with the elevated writing and earnest delivery Joyce Manor is loved for. [An indie store exclusive pink color vinyl pressing is available.]

Judah & The Lion – Revival CD (Judah & The Lion)

Revival is a collection of songs that speaks to the band’s journey back to innocence and hope through reclamation. Recorded in Asheville, NC, the album is an attempt to recapture the innocence of their youth, embracing the sadness and loss of the last few years and welcoming the future with a renewed energy and spirit that harkens back to their earliest days. [Vinyl edition TBD.]

Kardashev – Liminal Rite CD/LP (Metal Blade)

Kardashev (Car-duh-shev) is a self-described “deathgaze” group blending themes of death metal with shoegaze. Their mission statement could be described as, “Attempting to create the most beautiful, heavy music through themes of love, loss and altruism in the Metal spectrum.” Much of their content is written about science, space, and the human condition.

Kiss – Kiss Off The Soundboard: Live At Donington 1996 2xCD/3xLP (UMe)

Off The Soundboard: Live At Donington 1996 was recorded during the final year of the original run of the renowned annual music festival held at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, and the 17-song set features powerhouse performances of classic Kiss concert staples such as “Do You Love Me”, “Shout It Out Loud”, “God Of Thunder”, and the title song from their 1976 multi-platinum Top Five album Love Gun.

Kreator – Hate Uber Alles CD/2xLP (Nuclear Blast)

New album from the extreme metal titans. [Vinyl edition features an etched D-side.]

Leviathan Project – The Final War CD (Deko Music)

Leviathan Project’s aggressive sound combines traditional heavy metal with catchy melodies, haunting vocals, and otherworldly guitars.

Lonerider – Sundown CD/LP (Deko Music)

Since Bad Company went on hiatus, drummer Simon Kirke has been working with his brand-new band, delivering a heavy slab of classic rock.

Simon Love – Love, Sex & Death Etc. CD/LP (Tapete)

Swinging from love songs (“Me And You” and “I Will Always Love You Anyway”) to hate songs (“The F***-Up” and “I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You)”) through all points in-between, the centerpiece of the album is the nigh on 7-minute long pop epic “L-O-T-H-A-R-I-O”. The non-musical influences for this record include his wife, his son (“Au Revoir My Dude” written as a guide to life of sorts), the venal Conservative government (“I Will Dance” and “You’re On Your Own”), ex-girlfriends (“North Road”) and his inability to pick up on signals (“Yvonne”) whereas musically Simon was aiming for (but not always hitting directly) Nick Lowe, Kevin Ayers, Silver Jews, Ween and all the Kinks between 1971 and 1975.

Master – Let’s Start A War [Reissue/2002] CD/LP (Napalm)

Digitally remastered edition of this death/thrash metal classic from 2002. Let’s Start A War is Master’s fifth album has turned out to be a solid and good-class disc containing guitar-heavy death metal that has a little more to offer besides aggressiveness.

Michael Monroe – I Live Too Fast To Die Young CD/LP (Silver Lining Music)

Not even a pandemic could stop Monroe and his band from throwing down some of the tightest, leanest, meanest, and most goddamn fun rock ‘n’ roll of the year.

Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World CD (Roadrunner)

“Vocalist Chris Motionless elaborated on the ambitious new project Scoring The End Of The World stating, “this is my love letter to you, our fans, for everything you have done for me over the course of some of the most mentally taxing few years I’ve had to go through. At times where I felt like my world was ending, as well as the world around us, it was always in my mind that I was able to turn to the special relationship we have created together for help, and I cannot thank you enough for that. Outside of my own personal experiences, it has been equally as fulfilling to me to see that in the face of tireless forces that continue to try and perpetuate hatred and negativity towards so many of us coexisting on this planet, we have all stood together to resist and fight back knowing that love and compassion will always prevail. We ARE the resistance. We ARE Cyberhex. I love you. Thank you.”

David Newbould – Power Up! CD/LP (Blackbird)

Since kickstarting his career in 2007, he’s made his mark as a heartland roots-rocker, Americana artist, and amplified folksinger, writing songs that chart the ups and downs of an adulthood often spent onstage and on the road. He turns a new page with his fourth full-length studio album, Power Up!, a record whose messages of persistence and unshakeable survival are driven forward by the grease, grit, and guitar-driven swagger of rock & roll.

Nick Mulvey – New Mythology CD/LP (Verve Forecast)

Nick Mulvey’s work pushes boundaries in songwriting and sound. It’s music both traditional and experimental, acoustic, and electronic. On his latest album, New Mythology, he explores the vulnerability of the everyday human experience; becoming a father, sickness, and death, navigating the pandemic, but also Nick’s journey to compute the scope and scale of his feelings. It’s an attempt to embody the personal all the way to the planetary and grasp their true inseparability.

Johnette Napolitano – Exquisit Corpses CD/LP (Schoolkids)

New release from the singer, songwriter, and bassist best known for her leading role in rock trio Concrete Blonde.

Pineapple Thief – Give It Back CD/CD+DVD/LP (Kscope)

The deluxe CD+DVD edition is now available. Give It Back features 12 new versions of earlier works including songs taken from the albums Little Man, All The Wars, Tightly Unwound and more. Frontman Bruce Soord’s newly recorded vocals and guitars, new Gavin Harrison drum parts, new mixing by Soord & Harrison and mastering by Steve Kitch propel this new release into a must-have that showcases the evolution of The Pineapple Thief.

Flora Purim – If You Will CD/LP (Strut)

One of the all-time greats of Brazilian jazz fusion, Flora Purim, returns with her first studio album in over 15 years. [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is available.]

The Range – Mercury CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)

On Mercury, James Hinton builds on the techniques he established on his critically acclaimed 2016 LP Potential, seeking to create human connection in the Internet age through sampling vocalists from the corners of YouTube, Instagram, and Periscope. “I feel like I can find ways to express myself in ways that I’m too shy or unable to do in the real world,” Hinton says of the process. Mercury is moody, transportive, and undeniably rave-infused, and although it is indebted to IDM mainstays and grime pioneers, the album finds Hinton pushing himself outside the constraints of any one specific genre.

Max Richter / Elena Urioste / Chineke! Orchestra – New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed LP (Deutsche Grammophon)

In this “alternative rendering,” Chineke! Orchestra – the groundbreaking British ensemble consisting of majority Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse musicians – and American violinist Elena Urioste, play on gut strings and period instruments, the kind that Vivaldi would have heard and played in his own time. The new recording was produced on an analog mixing desk at Richter’s own cutting edge Studio Richter Mahr with the composer himself playing an early Moog from the 1970s.

Julius Rodriguez – Let Sound Tell All CD/LP (Verve)

On his debut, Let Sound Tell All, Julius Rodriguez stirs a cauldron of gospel, jazz, classical, R&B, hip-hop, experimentation, production, and technical wizardry to create a stunning album that eschews classification, but commands attention. When you hear Julius Rodriguez play “the music” (as he calls it) it’s a modern sound, as fluent in history as it is aware of its contemporary context. His music dares to imagine a future of new standards and sonic excitement.

The Rolling Stones – Licked Live In NYC 2xCD/2xCD+DVD/2xCD+Blu-ray/3xLP (Mercury Studios/UMG)

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, The Rolling Stones embarked on a worldwide tour in 2002 and 2003 that would cover 117 shows in a variety of theatres, arenas, and stadiums. This show captures their January 2003 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City and features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow on “Honky Tonk Women”. Licked Live In NYC includes previously unreleased performances of “Start Me Up”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Gimme Shelter” & “Sympathy For The Devil”, along with three bonus performances from Amsterdam and rehearsal footage. [A limited-edition white color vinyl pressing is available.]

Seventh Wonder – The Testament CD/2xLP (Frontiers)

New release from the Swedish progressive metal band. [An indie store exclusive silver color vinyl pressing is available.]

Soreption – Jord CD/LP (Unique Leader)

Formed in 2005 in Sundsvall, Sweden, technical metal masters Soreption are known for their razor-sharp technical riffs, schizophrenic time signatures topped with catchy chugging grooves and intense vocals.

Read Southall Band – For The Birds CD/LP (Smoklahoma)

While impossible to pinpoint, the music on For the Birds could be called, well, timeless. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, and it doesn’t easily fall into labels like country, Southern rock, or classic rock. It’s ambitious to a degree that’s rare for a guitar-driven band in 2021 – witness the first single “Where We Belong”, an epic number that clocks in at a whopping six-plus minutes. You’re not going to find many albums that evoke both the likes of Waylon Jennings (“Here We Are”) or early grunge (“Out of My Mind”, which would sound just fine sandwiched between Temple Of The Dog and an early Smashing Pumpkins record). From classic to contemporary rock, these are songs that could appeal to the disparate fanbases of Gary Stewart, Joe Walsh, Rival Sons, or Chris Cornell.

The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab Plus The Cairo Jazz Band ‎– In Egypt [Reissue/1983] CD/LP (Strut)

Recently released on vinyl – now available on CD. Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.

David Sylvian – Sleepwalkers CD/2xLP (Groenland)

In the ‘00s, David Sylvian produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, Blemish and Manafon. But those records don’t tell the whole story. During that the same period, Sylvian created an alternate body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on Sleepwalkers, meticulously sequenced and remixed: the fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch experiments lead into the lushest pop.

Tangent – Songs From The Hard Shoulder CD/2xLP+CD (Inside Out U.S.)

New album from the prog/jazz rock band.

Joanne Shaw Taylor – Blues From The Heart Live CD/CD+DVD (KTBA)

Join blues artist Joanne Shaw Taylor for a concert at the Franklin Theatre. This amazing performance features songs from her highly acclaimed release, The Blues Album, in addition to fan favorites and never-before-heard tracks. Guest appearances include Grammy-nominated recording artist Joe Bonamassa (who produced The Blues Album), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Mike Farris.

Yann Tiersen – 11 5 18 2 5 18 CD (Mute)

Reprogrammed, resampled, and reimagined, 11 5 18 2 5 18 is a collection of nine tracks that serve as a translation of Tiersen’s live show, taking songs from his 2021 release Kerber plus additional tracks from his catalog, completely restructured to present a new album. With a mesmerizing mix of piano patterns, swirling electronics and dancefloor-ready grooves, these songs continue an exciting new chapter in his career.

Vieux Farka Touré – Les Racines CD/LP (World Circuit)

Known as the ‘Hendrix of the Sahara’, Vieux has released four critically acclaimed solo albums to date, extending the boundaries of traditional West African music into new and uncharted territory. He has also released audacious collaborations with the likes of Dave Matthews and jazz guitarist John Scofield, and albums with American singer-songwriter Julia Easterlin and Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel. With Les Racines, which translates as ‘the roots’, Vieux documents a deep reconnection with the traditional Songhai music of northern Mali which is one of the traditions that has come to be known in the West as ‘desert blues’.

Carrie Underwood – Denim & Rhinestones CD (Capitol Nashville)

Carrie Underwood releases a brand-new studio country album, Denim & Rhinestones. The album includes 12 tracks including her latest hit single, “Ghost Story”.

U-Ziq – Magic Pony Ride 2xLP (Planet Mu)

Double purple colored vinyl pressing. New album from Mike Paradinas, following up last year’s album Scurlage on Analogical Force. Mike returns to his roots with a jungle and breakbeat influenced melodic selection. Harking back to the sound first heard on Lunatic Harness but updated for 2022.

Venus 5 – Venus 5 CD/LP (Frontiers)

Venus 5 is a new international metal group comprised of five singers: Erina Seitllari, Herma (also of Sick N’ Beautiful), Jelena Milovanovic, Karmen Klinc (Hellcats), and Tezzi Persson (also of Infinite And Divine).

Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios CD (BMG)

Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios finds Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright performing his groundbreaking 2007 tribute to Judy Garland, Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall, in its entirety, live from Los Angeles’ famed Capitol Studios. “The American Songbook and Judy Garland’s famed 1961 Carnegie Hall concert gave me a lot of hope after 9/11 and lead to the idea for my first song by song recreation of that show at the same venue,” says Wainwright. “It felt fitting to do the entire set again as the dazzling finale of my Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective and hopefully the beginning of the finale of this global pandemic. Once again, these songs revealed their healing power. To be able to sing them in front of Renée, to sing with Kristin Chenoweth and still have my sister Martha be part of these shows was particularly meaningful although to sing them into the very microphone that Judy used for her recordings at Capitol Studios was the most mind-blowing.” [Vinyl edition due September 2.]

Wardruna – Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven CD/2xLP (By Norse Music)

In 2022, a year after the release of Kvitravn and as a prelude to their forthcoming and much anticipated live dates, Wardruna present Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven – an immersive audio arrangement that underscores the experiential paradigm shift and masterful musicianship of their superlative and boundary-pushing virtual live experience. This new release captures their special set list consisting of new songs from Kvitravn and fan favorites from across their catalog. [A limited-edition blue color vinyl pressing is available.]

WhoMadeWho – UUUU CD/2xLP (Embassy One)

In the years since their formation, WhoMadeWho have established themselves as one of the most important underground bands of their generation. The Danish group, consisting of Tomas Høffding, Tomas Barfod, and Jeppe Kjellberg, has an exceptional sense of emotional depth, heartbreaking melodies, and brilliant songwriting, boasting an expansive discography currently spanning a total of six albums and a plethora of EPs, singles and remixes released on labels such as Kompakt, Innervisions, and Life & Death.

Wind Rose – Warfront CD/LP (Napalm)

New album from the Italian ‘battle metal’ band.

Yatra – Born Into Chaos CD/LP (Prosthetic)

New album from the Maryland death/sludge reapers. [A limited-edition red w/ green color vinyl pressing is available.]

This Week’s Vinyl Exclusives:

ABBA – ABBA 10xLP (Capitol)

ABBA has established themselves as one of the greatest pop groups of all time, dominating the charts throughout the ‘70s, and continuing their winning streak into the early ‘80s. The Swedish four-piece redefined the boundaries of pop music, with each new album charting an astounding artistic progression that remains a fabric of our culture. This heavyweight 180gm vinyl 10LP box set collects each of those cornerstone releases, including 2021’s triumphant return album Voyage for the first time, plus a Bonus Tracks disc featuring the singles, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” and “Fernando” among others.

Bernard Allison – Highs & Lows LP (Ruf)

Released earlier this year on CD – now available on vinyl. There’s nothing like the sound of a world-class bluesman getting back to business. Last October, when Bernard Allison returned to his old haunt of Bessie Blue Studios, Tennessee, to be greeted by fabled producer and career-long collaborator Jim Gaines, it felt like coming home. And when Allison fired up the amps, counted in the band and embarked upon his latest studio album, Highs & Lows, everything felt right with the world.

Allman Brothers Band – The Final Note 2xLP (Allman Brothers Band)

The Final Note is a live album by The Allman Brothers Band recorded on October 17, 1971 at the Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, Maryland.

American Football – Rare Symmetry b/w Fade Into You 10”+MP3 (Polyvinyl)

‘Seaglass’ color vinyl. After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album’s release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground / emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time” list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the “Best New Reissue” title, calling it the “most influential album in the genre.” The reunion was followed by two more self-titled full-length albums (LP2 and LP3), collaborations with the likes of Paramore’s Hayley Williams, San Holo, boyband and others, as well as numerous sold-out world tours. On the Rare Symmetry / Fade Into You 10″ single, American Football (Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella, Steve Holmes) expand on the dense beauty of LP3 with “Rare Symmetry”, incorporating chiming vibraphones, intricate picking patterns, and devastating lyrics. The B-side is a cover of the Mazzy Star classic “Fade Into You”.

Anathema – The Silent Enigma [Reissue/1995] LP (Peaceville)

The Silent Enigma, Anathema’s second studio album, was originally released in the summer of ’95 and was the first release on which guitarist Vincent Cavanagh took over the vocal duties of the departed Darren White. Where Darren’s vocals were guttural, Vincent’s style pushed the possibilities for Anathema onwards and upwards, with a scope and breadth beyond his years, complimenting an ethereal roller-coaster of thoughtful atmospherics and crushing Celtic Frost style riffs – the Swiss legends being a notable inspiration. What emerged was a fine example of highly atmospheric and often emotional gothic doom, spawning classic Anathema songs such as “Restless Oblivion”, “Sunset of Age”, “The Silent Enigma” and “A Dying Wish”.

Anathema – A Vision Of A Dying Embrace [Reissue/1997] LP (Peaceville)

A Vision Of A Dying Embrace contains a night of spellbinding doom metal from Anathema’s live show in Krakow, Poland, in 1996. Whilst still reasonably early in the career of the band and with rhythm guitarist Vincent Cavanagh taking on vocal duties only relatively recently for the sublime “The Silent Enigma” opus, the set contained a whole selection of now-established classics from Anathema’s first two studio albums and Pentecost III EP, with epics like “A Dying Wish,” “Sleepless” and “Mine is Yours” captured in their purest and rawest form in the live setting. Available on vinyl for the first time with printed inner sleeve.

Anatolian Weapons – Selected Acid Tracks LP (Byrd Out)

This is a deliberately dancefloor-oriented release, with a host of long (long) acid laced tracks designed for the club, and some more unconventional surprises. The titles offer a subtle nod to a recently passed DJ par excellence and general polymath, whom Aggelos credits as an inspiration.

As It Is – I Went To Hell And Back LP (Fearless)

Released in February on CD – now available on pink color vinyl. Inspired by the iconic emo bands of the early 2000s, As It Is release I Went To Hell And Back. The song “I Miss 2003” contains lyrics from scene favorites like My Chemical Romance, Mayday Parade, The All-American Rejects – and callbacks to bands like New Found Glory and Good Charlotte. The track offers a nostalgic, upbeat break from the rest of the heavy (and at times bleak) theme of the album.

Atlin Gun – Yol LP (ATO)

Recently released on CD – now available on limited gold, as well as an indie store exclusive purple – color vinyl. Amsterdam’s Altin Gun has built a strong reputation for fusing past and present to make brilliantly catchy, upbeat pop music, as seen with their Grammy-nominated second album, Gece. Yol, their third album in as many years, continues that trend while unveiling several sonic surprises in their continued exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psych-folk.

Baby? – Baby Laugh / Baby Cry LP (Post Present Medium)

Oakland punk without rules (or answers).

Bad Religion – The Process Of Belief [Reissue/2002] LP+MP3 (Epitaph)

Limited 20th Anniversary orange and black color vinyl pressing of twelfth studio album by Bad Religion. It was produced by its leaders Greg Graffin and Brett Gurewitz.

Tommy Bolin – Energy II LP (Friday Rights MGMT)

Limited 180gmorange color vinyl pressing. Tommy Bolin was the quintessential guitar prodigy who focused his talents within the burgeoning rock/metal scenes of the early ‘70s as well as mastered a highly lauded jazz fusion technique catching the attention of rock tastemakers and guitar legend peers. It was just a matter of time before Bolin was making a name for himself playing on projects as diverse as Billy Cobham’s Spectrum project, replacing Joe Walsh in the James Gang, playing session work on seminal fusion projects by Moxy and Alphonse Mouzon, to replacing Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple. Energy II is a previously unreleased album from Bolin’s early days with his could-have-been-mega-band Energy.

Steve Dawson – Gone, Long Gone LP (Black Hen)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Steve Dawson has always been hard to pin down. A guitarist, a composer, a sought-after musical enabler, and sideman? Of course, he’s all those things and more, but none of those descriptions really do the seven-time Juno Award-winning musician justice. Since moving to Nashville in 2013, it’s been full tilt for the Vancouver native. Gone, Long Gone reflects Dawson’s mastery of songcraft and features brilliant instrumental performances from some of the finest players in roots music.

Depeche Mode – Exciter | The 12″ Singles 8×12” (Rhino)

Exciter | The 12″ Singles, a collector’s edition deluxe box set, contains eight 12″ vinyl discs presenting four singles – “Dream On”, “I Feel Loved”, “Freelove”, and “Goodnight Lovers” — with B-sides, remixes, instrumentals, acoustic versions, and other recordings contemporaneous to Depeche Mode’s tenth studio album, Exciter, originally released in May 2001.

Pan Daijing – Tissues 2xLP (PAN)

Red color vinyl pressing. Pan Daijing’s exhibition-performance Tissues premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in autumn 2019. A five-part immersion in performance, sound, movement, space, and most of all emotion in its most distilled and conflicted states, Tissues engaged with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a searing representation of the embattled human psyche in space and time. While the ambitious multi-sensory artwork made use of the range of Daijing’s artistic capabilities, music, particularly the voice, was at its formal and emotional core. This vinyl edition serves as a record of that work, in the form of an hour-long, studio-recorded audio excerpt: an invaluable archival document from Daijing’s practice.

Deserta – Every Moment, Everything You Need LP (Felte)

Recently release on CD – now available on blue color vinyl. For Matthew Doty, Deserta has always been about exploring a sonic universe that allows him to express a kaleidoscope of emotions, without having to say much at all. Through a patchwork of reverb-tinged textures – drone guitars, lingering synths and driving percussion – the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist weaves together stories of care, frustration and catharsis that ultimately stretch to a gentle resolve. On new album Every Moment, Everything You Need, Doty chronicles the kind of year we all fear, full of uncertainty, tension, and sustained pressure, and transforms it into a celebration of perseverance. It’s an essential reminder that we have the power to shape the stories we tell.

The Doobie Brothers – Liberté LP (Island)

Released last October on CD – now available on vinyl. Produced/co-written by John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus,) Liberté contains 12 new tracks.

Double Exposure – Ten Percent [Reissue/1976] LP (Salsoul)

Ten Percent is the debut studio album recorded by Philadelphia-based disco group Double Exposure. Originally released in 1976 on the Salsoul label, the album features the hit title track and further standouts like “Everyman (Has to Carry His Own Weight)” and “My Love Is Free” plus the group’s incredible rendition of the Four Tops “Baby I Need Your Loving”. Out of print for over 25 years, this colored vinyl reissue contains updated cover sleeve artwork.

Dream Theater – Lost Not Forgotten Archives: The Number Of The Beast (2002) 2xLP (Inside Out U.S.)

Originally released on Dream Theater’s YtseJam Records in 2005, this one-of-a-kind performance sees DT performing – in its entirety – the legendary Iron Maiden album from 1982. [CD edition due June 24.]

Julius Eastman – Stay On It LP (Week-End)

It has power, is unpredictable, bringing together familiar things before disbanding them again. It reshuffles the deck: Stay On It by Julius Eastman (1940-1990). In 1973, avant-garde ensemble Creative Associates goes on a tour of Europe with Eastman’s brand-new piece in their repertoire, and in short: Stay On It turns the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head. It is minimal, but unashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn’t jazz and never slips into the non-committal. It is open to theatrical and performative elements, but also to the poetic and lyrical. It is strict and demands maximum concentration from its performers but releases them into playfulness.

Faxed Head – Exhumed At Birth [Reissue/1997] LP (Drag City/Million Dollar Performances)

The sounds of punk are found twenty years down the line morphing into metal in the arid confines of Coalinga CA on Faxed Head’s deathless LP debut, Exhumed At Birth. This conceptual rumination on the US’s dead-end teenage culture featured a dream team of SF underground standouts, perfectly capturing and transcending the horror-sounds of the youth movement with equal amounts of visceral rage and tongue-in-cheek humor.

Samantha Fish – Black Wind Howlin’ [Reissue/2013] LP (Ruf)

First-time vinyl pressing of the 2013 album from the BMA Winner for Best New Blues Artist 2012. Produced by Mike Zito, the album features musical assistance from Charlie Wooton, Yonrico Scott and Zito from Royal Southern Brotherhood.

The Gathering – Always… [Reissue/1992] LP (Peaceville)

The Gathering is a Dutch alternative rock band founded in 1989 by brothers Hansand & René Rutten with vocalist Bart Smits. The early incarnation of the band featured a much more death and doom metal-based style than the more atmospheric rock and experimental music they became known for over the years, having enjoyed a highly successful career globally over a 20-year period. The band recorded two demos initially before making their studio debut with Always… Originally released in 1992, it is a prime example of classic atmospheric death/doom metal with brutal vocals and slow funereal riffing influenced by bands such as Celtic Frost, as well as the implementation of keyboards to accentuate the dark ambience.

God Forbid – Gone Forever [Reissue/2004] LP (M-Theory)

Limited blue color vinyl pressing of the 2004 breakthrough release from God Forbid. The band was a major player within the New Wave of American Heavy Metal movement of the early ’00s. The group logged many miles on the road touring alongside legacy acts such as Slayer and Anthrax, as well as scene contemporaries such as Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, and Hatebreed.

Go Sailor – Go Sailor [Reissue/2011] LP+MP3 (Slumberland)

Limited blue color vinyl pressing. Go Sailor was a great, short-lived band from the mid- ‘90s who represent a key link in the US indie music chain. Featuring Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, The Softies, Gaze, Brave Irene, Knife Pleats), Linton (Henry’s Dress, The Aislers Set) and Paul Curran (Take A Day fanzine, Crimpshrine, Monsula), they released three great singles and a few compilation tracks, and then went their separate ways. Basic and lovely in their songwriting, they’ve perfected snapshots of where indie-pop was during that last burst of pre-internet indie activity. This album compiles all three of their 7″ singles for Slumberland, Yoyo and Lookout!, and compilation tracks, and was first released on vinyl in 2011.

Laura Jane Grace – At War With The Silverfish 10”+MP3 (Polyvinyl)

Clear vinyl pressing. Half recorded at Grace’s TinyQuietStudio in Chicago and half recorded at Electric Eel in St. Louis, and mixed by her Devouring Mothers bandmate Marc Hudson, At War With The Silverfish finds Grace in a range of stripped-back, poignant modes that amount to an honest and holistic account of our shared humanity. Unafraid to spotlight open wounds and tangled feelings, Grace conveys the distinctive pluck that has defined her work with Against Me! and The Devouring Mothers, but with the intimate energy of home recording with an acoustic guitar. The album is not a clarion call, but a tender invitation. It is a necessary capsule of a woman’s artistic pulse; love, longing and loneliness told in affecting turns of phrase.

Grateful Dead – The Very Best Of Grateful Dead [Reissue/2003] 2xLP (Friday Music)

In 2003, Warner Records compiled an amazing compact disc overview of The Grateful Dead’s most memorable and fan driven favorites. The mammoth seventeen song collection has something for everybody as it culled tracks not only from the Warner vaults, but from The Grateful Dead label and Artista Records period of the band’s output. Their best loved songs from Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty are featured with tracks like “Casey Jones”, “Uncle John’s Band”, “Truckin'” and “Sugar Magnolia”. Plus, even more Dead anthems from their own label are included like “The Music Never Stopped”, “Eyes Of The World” and “U.S. Blues”, most featuring the memorable lyrics of Robert Hunter. The later Arista era is also highlighted with “Touch Of Grey,” “Fire On The Mountain” and “Estimated Prophet”.

Jonny Greenwood – The Power Of The Dog (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film) LP (Lakeshore)

Original soundtrack to the 2021 motion picture composed by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

Hangman’s Chair – A Loner 2xLP (Nuclear Blast)

Recently released on CD – now available on baby blue marble color vinyl. Hangman’s Chair, formed in 2005 in Paris, is one of the most unique sounding rock bands currently active. Through the years, they have found and fine-tuned their own sonic brand, somewhere at the crossroads between Type O Negative, Alice In Chains and Sisters Of Mercy, to name a few, mixed with a certain street credibility connected to the group’s roots in hardcore, and even tinges of shoegaze. ‘Cold doom’ as the band likes to call it.

Helios – Caesura [Reissue/2008] LP (Unseen Music)

Helios – Moiety [Reissue/2012] LP (Unseen Music)

Originally released in 2008 and 2012, respectively, Caesura and Moiety by Helios aka Keith Kenniff gets well-deserved physical releases in new 2022 vinyl editions, remastered by Taylor Deupree.

Katie Henry – On My Way LP (Ruf)

Released earlier this year on CD – now available on vinyl. NJ born singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Katie Henry has been running nonstop in support of her IBMA and Blues Blast nominated debut album High Road and she is not slowing down. Katie and her band have been bringing their unique blend of blues influenced music to the people from one coast to the other. From her musical upbringing in the mountains of North Jersey to cutting her teeth in the New York City circuit, Katie channels all her experience into her own distinctive sound.

Hermitude – Mirror Mountain LP (Nettwerk)

Recently released on CD – now available on clear vinyl. The multi-instrumentalist duo – Luke Dubber (aka Luke Dubs) and Angus Stuart (aka El Gusto) holed up together in Angus’ home with a pared-back music setup, a process that was all about taking back control over how and why they make music as Hermitude. The duo recorded vocal sessions in-person to create a more intimate experience.

Hidden Spheres – You Are Not Your Body LP (Rhythm Section Int’l)

Back in 2015, Mancunian DJ and Producer Hidden Spheres aka Tom Harris joined the Rhythm Section family for their twelfth release. Storming into 2022 and approaching 50 releases Tom has a long overdue return to the label with a synthesis of electronic house vibrations. You Are Not Your Body is a stellar collection of five tracks, which touch on the sensations of euphoria and the blissed-out intersection between early prog and Detroit House. [A limited-edition blue color vinyl pressing is available.]

Clarice Jensen – Drone Studies [Reissue/2019] LP (Vaagner)

Limited vinyl pressing. In the past few years, Clarice Jensen has forged her own path. Recently, her focus has shifted to film scoring, successfully recording work for three feature films between 2020 and 2021. At the same time, Clarice continues to serve as artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, while continually collaborating with an impressive array of musicians, such as Max Richter, Björk, and Stars of the Lid, to name a few. It was her 2019 tape release on Geographic North, Drone Studies, that initially caught the attention of a wider audience, with the work showcasing a compelling assembly of deeply immersive drones, and elegantly orchestrated compositions, in which neoclassical elements collide with electric density.

JK Flesh – New Religions Old Rules 2xLP (Avalanche Recordings)

Limited color vinyl pressing. JK Flesh is the pseudonym employed by Justin K Broadrick for his solo work within the realm of heavy/mutant techno/electronica – informed by industrial, dub, power electronics and the extreme excesses of electronic music driven by beats and bass.

Journey – Live In Houston 1981: The Escape Tour 2xLP (Sony Legacy)

This live archive release contains material originally recorded and filmed for MTV at the Summit in Houston, TX in November of 1981. Includes such hits as “Lights”, “Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin'”, “Wheel In The Sky”, and “Anyway You Want It.” In addition, there are tracks from Journey’s then-current album Escape, including the title cut along with “Open Arms”, Who’s Crying Now”, and “Don’t Stop Believin'”.

Kash’D Out – Casual Encounters LP (Law)

Limited blue color vinyl pressing of the 2021 acoustic album from the Florida-based reggae band.

Barney Kessel – The Poll Winners [Reissue/1957] LP (Craft Recordings)

Limited 180gm vinyl pressing housed in a tip-on jacket. Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, The Poll Winners brings together the talents of Barney Kessel (Guitar), Shelly Manne (Drums), and Ray Brown (Bass). First released in 1957 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, this new edition features all-analog mastering from the original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble [Reissue/2006] 2xLP+MP3 (Denovali)

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Lang (Metropolis). In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record this self-titled debut album which was released in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman, and Paris based vocalist Charlotte Cegarra join, making the ensemble a sextet. London based violinist Sadie Anderson joined in 2008 to supply the group with extra power on stage. Together with Bohren und der Club of Gore and The Dale Cooper Quartet, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble have succeeded in creating a brand-new genre of music. [An indie store exclusive red color vinyl pressing is available.]

Knuckle Puck – Disposable Life 12” (Wax Bodega)

‘Red apple’ color vinyl pressing. New EP from the Chicago pop punk/emo band. The songs on Disposable Life came from ideas Taylor workshopped with lead guitarist Kevin Maida. When the band gathered again post-pandemic restrictions, the goal was simple: write songs and finish them without any external end goal. Between December 2020 and February 2021, the band wrote and demoed four songs before recording in Crown Point, Indiana at longtime collaborator and producer Seth Henderson’s Always Be Genius Recording Studio. Vince Ratti (Circa Survive, The Wonder Years) mixed the EP and Kris Crummett (Dance Gavin Dance, Mayday Parade) mastered.

Kryptograf – The Eldorado Spell LP (Apollon)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Following up on the success of the celebrated self-titled debut album from 2020, Kryptograf’s sophomore album takes everything even further back to the 1970s. Inspired by the heavy sound of the late 1960s/early 1970s, the four old souls in Kryptograf offer destructive riffs and inventive songwriting galore.

Laibach – Wir Sind Das Volk (Ein Musical Aus Deutschland) 2xLP (Mute)

Recently released on CD – now available on clear vinyl. Laibach’s 2022 album Wir Sind Das Volk (Ein Musical Aus Deutschland) consists of the music from the band’s political theater production Wir Sind Das Volk (We Are The People), which premiered at HAU (Berlin) in 2020. The piece was based on the writings of Heiner Müller (1929 1995), who was observed as one of the most significant German-language playwrights and poets since Bertolt Brecht.

Los Shain’s – Segundo Volumen [Reissue/1967] LP (Discos Montery)

Los Shain’s – Docena 3 [Reissue/1968] LP (Discos Montery)

Vinyl reissues of the Peruvian garage rock band’s second and third albums.

Maceration – A Serenade Of Agony [Reissue/1992] LP (Target)

Gold w/ black color vinyl pressing. Maceration was, undisputedly, on the forefront of the first wave of death metal bands in Denmark. Formed at the end of the ‘80s, the group quickly picked up a large fan-base in the then-forming extreme metal underground and released a live tape of their first concert in 1990. But it wasn’t until 1992 that Maceration released their debut studio album (and only one so far), titled A Serenade Of Agony.

Mizmor – Mizmor [Reissue/2012] LP (Gilead Media)

Black/drone/doom metal from Portland, OR.The first Mizmor full-length, originally released in 2012, has now been remastered and pressed on vinyl for the first time. Mizmor is a document of change. A person losing their faith and finding the trailhead of a new path.

Anthony Moore – Flying Doesn’t Help [Reissue/1979] LP (Drag City)

Originally released in 1979, Flying Doesn’t Help was the second chapter of Anthony Moore’s solo career following the demise of Slapp Happy and 1976’s OUT. Both records are radiant with proto-punk and new wave vibes, but the sound of Flying Doesn’t Help is distinctively dark in a very classic circa ’79 UK style.

Mortem – Slow Death 2xLP (Peaceville)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. A re-recorded and reworked collection of the Norwegian death/black metal band’s Slow Death recordings (which were originally self-released in 1989 on cassette). Originally comprised of members now known from such classic bands as Arcturus, Mayhem & Thorns, Mortem was a leading act of the early Norwegian underground metal scene, their Slow Death demo is a highly inspirational work of early Norwegian extreme metal.

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Egor [Reissue/2012] 2xLP+MP3 (Denovali)

Limited 180gm turquoise color vinyl pressing. After they delivered the 60 minutes session Anthropomorphic in 2011 The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation (the alter ego of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) returned with their fourth and final full length called Egor one year later. This four-track monster was recorded live at the DOM theater in Moscow as part of a mini trip to Russia in April 2011. For the connoisseurs of the Corporation sound this album combines the atmosphere of ‘Succubus’ mixed with ‘Anthropomorphic’, more structural improvs mixed with ambient drones. The band builds mesmerizing, deep and otherworldly atmospheres.

Nick Mulvey – New Mythology LP (Verve Forecast)

Nick Mulvey’s work pushes boundaries in songwriting and sound. It’s music both traditional and experimental, acoustic, and electronic. On his latest album, New Mythology, he explores the vulnerability of the everyday human experience; becoming a father, sickness, and death, navigating the pandemic, but also Nick’s journey to compute the scope and scale of his feelings. It’s an attempt to embody the personal all the way to the planetary and grasp their true inseparability. [CD edition due June 24.]

Mysterines – Reeling LP (Harvest)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Reeling was made under the watchful eye of acclaimed producer Catherine Marks (PJ Harvey, Wolf Alice, The Big Moon) over three weeks in between lockdowns at Assault & Battery Studios in London. It was recorded live to capture the intensity of the songs. Grief, self-destruction, and heartache run heavy through the record, but all are brought together by the blackest of humor.

Negazione – Little Dreamer [Reissue/1988] LP (Spittle)

Negazione – 100% [Reissue/1988] LP (Spittle)

Vinyl reissues of the second and third albums from the Italian hardcore punk band.

The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (25^th Anniversary Edition) 8xLP (Bad Boy)

The Life After Death 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Boxed Set consists of eight LPs and a commemorative booklet featuring rare photos from the album cover shoot, liner notes by Sheldon Pearce, and exclusive reflections from members of the team who worked on the original album release. In addition to the original album, it includes the Hypnotize 12”, Mo Money Mo Problems 12”, Sky’s The Limit 12”, and Nasty Boy 12”.

Oddland – Vermilion LP (Target)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. New album from the Finnish prog masters. Aggressive tones, spacious textures, and glorious melodies.

Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 LP (Smalltown Supersound)

Tough, industrial sounds with ethereal Celtic mysticism; music that ebbs and flows between tension and release. [CD edition due July 8.]

The Parrots – Dos LP (Heavenly)

Released last October on CD – now available on vinyl. Formed by Diego García (vocals, guitars) and Alex de Lucas (vocals, bass), The Parrots burst into the music world in 2014 with a handful of independently released singles. Along with Hinds and Los Nastys, the Madrid trio-turned-duo helped reinvigorate visceral, undiluted guitar music in recent years, bringing back fun and a mischievous sensibility to rock ‘n’ roll. On their sophomore album, Dos, the band has gained a bolstered sense of confidence in their creative processes and take pride in surrounding themselves with people who inspire them.

Stephen Pearcy – Overdrive LP (Deadline Music)

A compilation of revved up hard rock from the Ratt/Arcade frontman. Includes tracks from Pearcy’s post-Ratt project Arcade featuring Cinderella drummer Fred Coury as well as some solo material. Red w/ black color vinyl pressing

Persefone – Metanoia 2xLP (Napalm)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Hailing from Andorra, outstanding progressive/melodic death metal outfit Persefone is known for their band of rich soundscapes and technically precise work that sets new standards in modern extreme progressive metal.

Ben Platt – Reverie LP (Atlantic)

We slip in and out of songs like daydreams. Akin to a gust of fresh air through an open window, those short bursts of fancy renew and revive us. Ben Platt uncorks such moments of escapism on his second full-length album, the aptly titled Reverie. The Grammy/Tony/Emmy award-winning artist bottles butterflies of joy, wonder, and hope inside of immersive pop underlined by warm electronic soundscapes, eloquent lyricism, and showstopping vocal dynamics.

Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Prince Daddy & The Hyena LP (Pure Noise)

A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is now available. The new, self-titled release from the Albany, New York-based indie punk band dives into the theme of life coming to an end, both vocalist Kory Gregory’s own life and fear of his friends and loved ones aging and dying. Gregory expands on why by saying, “It’s the first time that it’s hit me as an adult, the first time that the impermanence of everything struck, and that sent me into a little existential spiral.”

Question Mark and The Mysterions – 96 Tears [Reissue/1966] LP (Abkco)

Question Mark and The Mysterions – Action [Reissue/1967] LP (Abkco)

Vinyl reissues of the legendary Michigan garage rock band’s first two albums. In 1966, the raw-yet-infectious 96 Tears swept the airwaves hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 beating out The Monkees, Four Tops, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, & The Beach Boys. Their 1967 follow-up, Action, evenly splits originals and covers.

Railroad Earth – All For The Song LP (Black Bear)

All For The Song is Railroad Earth’s most recent studio endeavor and the last material that features the talents of late bandmate Andy Goessling. Produced by Anders Osborne and primarily recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2019. [CD edition due July 8.]

River Whyless – Monoflora LP (River Whyless)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl, including a limited-edition smoke color pressing. River Whyless is a neo-traditional folk quartet from Asheville, North Carolina who bring a dose of folk-rock and an artful approach to their songwriting and arrangements.

The Rolling Stones – Singles 1963–1966 CD (ABKCO)

Limited edition box set. A comprehensive, chronological overview of The Rolling Stones’ early career as pop chart hitmakers. Contains 18 vinyl 7″ 45 RPM singles and EPs in original picture sleeves, a 32-page book with liner notes by Rolling Stones authority Nigel Williamson, plus a set of five photo cards and a color poster, all housed in a hard-shell box.

Roxy Music – Siren [Reissue/1975] LP (Republic)

Roxy Music – Manifesto [Reissue/1979] LP (Republic)

Half-speed masters cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Each feature revised artwork with gloss laminated finishes. Roxy Music’s fifth studio album, Siren, produced the singles “Both Ends Burning”, and “Love Is The Drug”, which became their highest-charting single. Released four years later, Manifesto brought the band two Top 5 hits in the U.K. with the disco-tinged singles “Dance Away”, and “Angel Eyes”.

Emma Ruth Rundle – EG2: Dowsing Voice LP+MP3 (Sargent House)

Emma Ruth Rundle’s second installment in her Electric Guitar series, EG2: Dowsing Voice, is almost like the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been made. The mostly instrumental record follows her on a trip to the Welsh coast and down a magical well into the waters of nature, myth, and the Old Gods – by way of her improvised music. The 40+ minute album was sewn together from recordings channeled during her month-long solo journey in the early days of 2020 and completed before 2021’s critically lauded album Engine Of Hell was written. Unlike Electric Guitar One, EG2: Dowsing Voice features vocal improvisation, unconventional singing and extended vocal techniques free from lyrics. [A limited-edition translucent red color vinyl pressing is available.]

Conrad Schnitzler ‎– Con ’84 [Reissue/1984] CD/LP (Bureau B)

Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza ‎– Consequenz II [Reissue/1986] CD/LP (Bureau B)

Composer and conceptual artist Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) was one of the most influential figures of the electronic avant-garde in Germany. In 1967/68, the Joseph Beuys student founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, which became a playground for Berlin subculture. In addition to numerous solo releases Schnitzler was also involved in various band formations not least Tangerine Dream and Kluster. Representing another of his musical landmarks are the Consequenz releases.

Shpongle – Tales Of The Inexpressible [Reissue/2001] 2xLP (Twiztid)

Tales Of The Inexpressible, originally released in 2001, was a much-anticipated and well-loved successor to Shpongle’s first album. Here, Simon and Raja take us on a journey through their musical worlds, full of influences garnered on their travels to the four corners of the earth.

Solemn Brigham – South Sinner Street LP (Mello Music Group)

Across it’s 14 songs, South Sinner Street argues for Solemn Brigham as one of the most exciting artists in underground hip-hop, a technical virtuoso who also happens to be one of the genre’s most surprising, most deeply personal songwriters. The album evokes the feeling of climbing onto a house’s roof to survey the nearly burning city around you, with all the peril that entails – but also all the possibility. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing – as well as an indie store exclusive edition – is also available.]

Sonny & Cher – The Best Of Sonny & Cher [Reissue/1967] LP (Friday Music)

With a dazzling number of chart-topping singles, a bunch of hit albums, numerous television appearances, a number one television show, successful concert tours and feature movies, Sonny & Cher’s ATCO recordings would take the duo to the top of all the popular music charts and would become some of the finest top 40 hits of all time. Filled with a treasure trove of chart-topping singles and hit album tracks from their smash albums, this incredible 1967 effort awarded these pop/rock legends with one of the finest greatest hits albums ever released. [Two limited-edition colorways are available: pink and red.]

Tindersticks – Past Imperfect: The Best Of Tindersticks ’92 – ’21 4xLP+MP3 (City Slang)

Limited box set edition with bonus concert album. “Nobody was between us and the records that we made,” says Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples. Mavens of intimate and expansive mood-song, Tindersticks have forged paths of their own unobstructed making over three decades, avidly trend-averse in their dusky and far-reaching explorations of the heart. Past Imperfect: The Best Of Tindersticks ’92-’21 maps the band’s 30-year journey across a peerless 20-track chronology.

Visage – Fade To Grey: The Singles Collection [Reissue/1983] LP (Rubellan Remasters)

Blue smoke color vinyl pressing. With two successful albums and seven well received singles over the previous several years, the time was ripe for a Visage album compiling highlights from that accomplishment. Originally released in late 1983, Fade To Grey: The Singles Collection was a milestone for a band who brought New Romantic to the singles chart and the dance floors. This newly remastered colored vinyl edition expands the compilation to include the two single releases from 1984 closing out each side of the LP.

The White Stripes – Icky Thump [Reissue/2007] 2xLP (Third Man)

With its title an Americanization of the Northern British phrase “ecky thump” and it’s cover featuring Jack and Meg bedecked as a Pearly King and Queen, Icky Thump is a centered, powerful statement as the final studio album from the duo. Recorded in the lush environs of Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, the trumpet, bagpipes and 1940’s synthesizer all feel appropriate here, driving home the idea that The White Stripes were consistent through whatever disparate elements they chose.

Wild Rivers – Songs To Break Up To LP (Nettwerk)

Translucent white color vinyl pressing. “If Fleetwood Mac had a 2020 version, it would be Wild Rivers.” – American Songwriter “Sure to calm your soul and center your mind, the band invites listeners to get lost in their harmonious melodies and profound lyricism…” – Wonderland. With exquisite harmonies, gorgeous melodies and emotionally charged, tightly crafted lyrics, Wild Rivers deliver their unique blend of folk-pop songs that are at once inviting and infectious. On the 2020 Songs To Break Up To EP, the band transposes personal experiences into relatable anthems woven from strands of folk, indie, rock, pop, country, and beyond.

Wucan – Heretic Tongues LP+7” (Sonic Attack)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Wucan’s music is a mix of hard rock, psychedelic, acid folk and krautrock.

Ndikho Xaba & The Natives – Ndikho Xaba & The Natives [Reissue/1971] LP (Mississippi)

Ndikho Xaba left South Africa in 1964, an exile from his homeland who eventually found a home in San Francisco’s vibrant spiritual jazz scene of the late 60s. A songwriter, bandleader, pianist, and inventor of percussion and woodwind instruments, Xaba played alongside contemporaries like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Sun Ra. But it was on the single album he recorded in the US, released in an edition of just 500 copies in 1971, that Xaba realized his unique vision. Backed by a band that included Plunky Branch and Lon Moshe (Oneness Of Juju and Black Fire label), Xaba bridged the Black Atlantic, connecting the music of Africa with the most brilliant lights of the Diaspora, and drawing a line between the Black Power movement of the US and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Across five songs, Xaba and the band move through spiritual invocations, wrenching soul, and dizzying layers of rhythm knocked out on homemade instruments.