New Releases for October 22, 2021

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Can’t Swim – Change Of Plans CD/LP (Pure Noise)

Change Of Plans is the culmination of everything Can’t Swim have been building and exploring over the last six years, combining their signature visceral lyricism and cathartic rock sound with influences ranging from the worlds of folk to EDM. Ultimately, the band feel that Change Of Plans is “the most Can’t Swim record yet,” Chris LoPorto says, “All of our endeavors as a band have led us to make what I think is the most honest and transparent album in our discography. We spent way less time recording what we thought we should be writing and put down whatever came naturally. The recording process was certainly the easiest to date as well – we knew what we wanted going into it. I’m constantly writing songs and some of the tracks on Change Of Plans have been in the demo stage for almost four years now so it feels great to finally have them all together on one release.”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities: Part II 2xCD/2xLP (Mute)

B-Sides & Rarities Part II is the follow up to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities. Part II was compiled by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and contains 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006-2020, including the first recordings of “Skeleton Tree”, “Girl In Amber” and “Bright Horses”. The song “Vortex” was written and recorded in 2006 by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. As the band were never able to define the song as either Grinderman or Bad Seeds, it remained unreleased. “I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums,” Cave shares. “It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit. B-Sides & Rarities Part II continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from The Bad Seeds.” [A Deluxe vinyl edition collecting both volumes is also available this week.]

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle CD/2xLP (Verve)

After nearly six decades, a private recording of a rare, nightclub performance by John Coltrane of his magnum opus, A Love Supreme, is available for the first time. Recorded in late 1965 on the culminating evening of a historic week-long run at The Penthouse in Seattle, A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is a musical revelation of historic importance, capturing Coltrane as he began to expand his classic quartet – adding Pharoah Sanders on second saxophone and Donald Garrett on second bass – and catapulting him into the intense, spiritually focused final phase of his career. The significance of A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is heightened by the fact that Coltrane seldom performed his four-part suite after originally recording it in the studio in 1964. Composed and created as a public declaration of his personal spiritual beliefs and universalist sentiment, it became a best-seller and received a Grammy nod the next year. This fascinating and rare live performance of the full suite is marked by a looser and more improvisational approach and an overriding sense of communal participation – much like a Sunday church service. The lineup featured John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders on saxophones, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Jimmy Garrison and Donald (Rafael) Garrett on basses. Carlos Ward, then a young saxophonist just getting started on the scene, sat in as well.

Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters CD/2xLP (Interscope)

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s eighth studio album Blue Banisters follows the success of fellow 2021 effort Chemtrails Over The Country Club which became her seventh consecutive top-ten album in the US. The 15-track effort includes the previously released songs “Wildflower Wildfire”, “Blue Banisters”, and “Text Book” plus new single “Arcadia”. “I guess you could say this album is about what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now,” Del Rey shared. “If you’re interested go back and listen to the first three songs I put out earlier. They chronicle the beginning. [‘Arcadia’] hits somewhere in the middle and by the time the record drops you will hear where we’re at today.”

Duran Duran – Future Past CD/LP (BMG)

Pop legends Duran Duran return with their fifteenth studio album Future Past boasting esteemed producers Erol Alkan, Giorgio Moroder and Mark Ronson behind the boards, plus special guests Graham Coxon of Blur on guitar, Bowie’s former pianist Mike Garson, and guest vocals from Lykke Li. “When we first went into the studio in late 2018, I was trying to persuade the guys that all we needed to do was write two or three tracks for an EP,” Simon Le Bon reveals. “Four days later, with the nucleus of 25 plus strong songs in the can, that all deserved development, I realized we’d be in it for the long haul, but that was before COVID. So here we are in 2021 with our 15^th studio album, Future Past straining at the leash. Music by Duran Duran with Graham Coxon, Lykke Li, Mike Garson, Erol Alkan, Mark Ronson, Giorgio Moroder (for God’s sake!). I’m not saying its epic, but well … yes I am.” [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Every Time I Die – Radical CD/2xLP+MP3 (Epitaph)

Every Time I Die is a loud rock institution committed to leaving every nuanced outpouring of chaotic passion and blissful malcontent all over their records and on the stage. With boiling charisma and unrelenting energy to spare, the Buffalo band manages not one but two near-impossible tasks. They’ve survived two decades as an underground entity cherished for coloring outside the lines, and contrary to most career arcs, continually improving with each successive album as they charge ahead. ETID makes a glorious hardcore-punk noise, alchemized by a swampy summoning of Southern rock’s coarse poetry. The music swirls beneath sardonic and clever wordplay, a combination cementing them as leaders, not followers. The band is recognized and revered for its anarchic explosiveness, artistic impulsiveness, and approachable camaraderie. Radical is 16 tracks of peak-ETID.

Hand Habits – Fun House CD (Saddle Creek)

Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy is back with their ambitious new album Fun House. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking a difficult, if much-needed, moment of pause. Emboldened by going into therapy and coaxed by Ashworth to push the songs into unexpected new shapes, the resulting music is more acutely personal and stylistically adventurous than anything you’ve heard from Hand Habits before. The push/pull of styles, paired with songs that move deftly between the present and past, give the record a wildly diverse, hall of mirrors quality that befits its name. Where previous Hand Habits records could be insular affairs, Fun House feels ebullient, lush, a fully realized conversation. [Vinyl edition due November 5.]

Helado Negro – Far In CD/2xLP+MP3 (4AD)

When Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known as Helado Negro, began writing Far In immediately following the release of his acclaimed 2019 This Is How You Smile, he could not have predicted that we would soon need to learn how to stay at home and be the stars of our domestic dance floors with intimates and online communities. The titular pair in “Gemini And Leo” stay indoors to discover each other anew with music recalling Lange’s youth growing up in South Florida listening to ‘80s club songs, and their return sampled in ‘90s hip-hop. Visions past and future meet in a euphoria of uptempo drums, Jen Wasner’s (Flock Of Dimes) funky bass line, and Opal Hoyt’s (Zenizen) galactic swirl of warm and steely synths and bright backing vocals. What was a prophesying rehearsal for the musician, we can hope will soon be our fresh start, a choice to bring that energy home, or go out to meet it.

Jackson+Sellers – Breaking Point CD (ANTI-)

Jackson+Sellers’ (the collaborative creation of singer-songwriters Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers) L.A.-written, Nashville-recorded album, Breaking Point is a masterclass in unexpected vocal harmonic convergence, soundtracked by raw guitars, driving drums and a singular pop-rock sound that weaves a sonic thread between ‘70s rock, ‘90s raucous roots, and modern indie pop. They exchanged lead vocals, reflecting on their own experiences of vulnerability, isolation, sensitivity and autonomy. They drew on changes in their personal relationships, intuitively capturing each other’s personal experiences, often before they had even discussed them with each other. Jackson reflected, “This is an album that pays homage to unique, independent women who created their own path, wrote their own songs, and had their own sounds.” [Vinyl edition due December 10.]

Lala Lala – I Want The Door Open CD/LP (Hardly Art)

“I want total freedom, total possibility, total acceptance. I want to fall in love with the rock.” That’s how Lillie West describes the theme of “Diver”, the song she calls the thesis of Lala Lala’s third record, I Want The Door To Open. The rock in question is a reference to Sisyphus, the mythical figure doomed by the gods to forever push a boulder up from the depths of hell. To West, it is the perfect metaphor for “the labor of living, of figuring out who you are, what’s wrong with you, what’s right with you,” she says. “I think it’s easy to feel like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, that we never learn, that we’re Sisyphus; but time is actually a spiral that we move up. The key is falling in love with the labor of walking up the mountain.” Coming off of 2018’s acclaimed The Lamb, an introspective indie rock album recorded live with a three-piece band, West knew she was ready to make something sonically bigger and thematically more outward-looking than anything she’d done before; a record that would be less a straightforward documentation of her own personal struggles and more like a poem or a puzzle box, with sonic and lyrical clues that would allow the listener to, as the title says, open the door to the greater meaning of those struggles. [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is also available.]

La Luz – La Luz CD/LP (Hardly Art)

On their self-titled fourth album, La Luz launch themselves into a new realm of emotional intimacy for a collection of songs steeped in the mysteries of the natural world and the magic of human chemistry that has found manifestation in the musical ESP between guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland, bassist Lena Simon, and keyboardist Alice Sandahl. To help shape La Luz, the band found a kindred spirit in producer Adrian Younge. Though primarily known for his work with hip-hop, soul, and jazz acts, Younge saw in La Luz a shared vision that transcended genre. “We both create music with the same attitude, and that’s what I love about them,” he says. “They are never afraid to be risky and their style is captivating. It was an honor to work with them.” The result is an album that is both the most naturalistic and psychedelic of the band’s career. All the elements of classic La Luz are still present – the lush harmonies, the impeccable musicianship, the gorgeous melodies – but it’s a richer, earthier iteration, replete with inorganic sounds that mimic the surreality of nature – the humming of invisible bugs, the atmospheric sizzle of a hot day. [A limited-edition dark orange color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Shannon Lay – Geist CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)

Geist feels like a window – or a mirror – into possibilities of the self and beyond. Shannon Lay’s new album is tender intensity, placeless and ethereal. It exists in the chasms of the present — a world populated by shadow selves, spiritual awakenings, déjà vu, and past lives. “Something sleeps inside us,” Lay insists on the opening track, and that’s the guiding philosophy throughout. A winding, golden, delicate thread of intuition that explores the unknown, the possibility. Its title, Geist, the German word for spirit, is rife with an otherworldly presence, the suggestion of another. The promise that you are never alone. The album is both esoteric and accessible. Songs range from a concise, pared-back cover of Syd Barrett’s tilt-a-whirl-esque “Late Night”, to the meditative Dune-inspired “Rare To Wake”, to the mostly a-cappella “Awaken And Allow”, which channels Lay’s deep Irish roots, a moment of reflection, before a drop happens — its intensity mirroring the anticipation and anxiety that come with taking the first step to accepting change for yourself. [A limited-edition clear w/ orange color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia Of The Air CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

Black Encyclopedia Of The Air is here, not to save but to drown you. Heads better learn how to swim cause listen, this record is beat soup, hearty yet still minimal, a sonic mirage of prophetic soul that drop kicks your “chill beats to study to” YouTube playlist and hyper-intellectual rap podcasts into a hadron collider; it’s only black matter on the other side – 13 mesmerizing tracks about memory and imprinting and the future, all of them wafting through untouched space like the ghostly cinders of a world on fire, unbound and uncharted, vast and stretching across the universe. Moor Mother is a holographic figment of an Afrotopian dream, all at once goddess and warrior, mystic and cyborg, griot and future time traveler, etching noisy pieces of reverie into our consciousness for decades now. But check it: on Black Encyclopedia… she’s joined by a wide range of friends, collaborators and co-conspirators on a trip through the murky cosmos, navigating the black universe with stardust as currency. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket CD/2xLP (ATO)

On their self-titled ninth full-length album – the first new music since 2015’s The Waterfall – My Morning Jacket reaffirm the rarefied magic that has made them so beloved, embedding each song with moments of discovery, revelation, and ecstatic catharsis. It comes after a near permanent hiatus for the band until performing four shows in summer 2019 left them with a new energy. Jim James engineered/produced the 11-track collection at 64 Sound in L.A. where the band spent weeks in intentional seclusion. “I hope this album brings people a lot of joy and relief, especially since we’ve all been cooped up for so long,” says James. “I know that feeling you get from driving around blasting music you love, or even lying in bed and crying to the music you love. The fact that we’re able to be a part of people’s lives in that way is so magical to us, and it feels really good that we’re still around to keep doing that.” [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos CD/LP (Daptone)

Recorded in Havana’s famed Egrem Studios, Orquesta Akokán displays a cohesion forged by an intense performing and touring cycle. The musical conversation that began in the Areito studios three years earlier blossomed into an easy, intimate dialogue between good friends – allowing full, fearless musical expression and risk-taking outside of their comfort zones. Building upon Perez Prado’s dissonant, near avant-garde vision of the mambo, and highlighting the subtext of Cuban rhythms and styles, the band continues to explore, develop and expand the island’s rich rhythmic palette and repertoire – pushing the conventions of what is considered ‘mambo’ – and drawing deeply from folkloric and religious traditions seldom heard in popular music. 16 Rayos is here to shine its musical rays on us, warm our hearts, and irresistibly move our bodies.

Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life CD/LP (Rough Trade)

On Sympathy For Life, Parquet Courts’ thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. The album finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. Built largely from improvised jams, inspired by New York clubs, Primal Scream and Pink Floyd and produced in league with Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Hot Chip, David Byrne) and John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, Dry Cleaning), Sympathy For Life was always destined to be dancey. Unlike its globally adored predecessor, 2018’s Wide Awake!, the focus fell on grooves rather than rhythm. “Wide Awake! was a record you could put on at a party,” says co-frontman Austin Brown. “Sympathy For Life is influenced by the party itself.” [A limited-edition deluxe vinyl pressing is also available.]

Sixx: A.M. – Sixx: A.M. Hits 2xCD (11-7 Recording Corp.)

Sixx: A.M. Hits is the ultimate Sixx: A.M. collection featuring the first new song in six years and song that compliments his new book – The First 21, two more unreleased tracks and new mixes of “Talk To Me”, “Skin” and the iconic “Life Is Beautiful”. Sixx: A.M. formed in 2007 by Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, renowned guitarist DJ Ashba, and producer /songwriter James Michael, and is best known for their debut album The Heroin Diaries soundtrack and the #1 hits “Life Is Beautiful” and “Lies Of The Beautiful People”. [Vinyl edition due December 3.]

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Black Marble – Fast Idol CD/LP/Cassette (Sacred Bones)

On Fast Idol, L.A.-based Black Marble reaches back through time to connect with the forgotten bedroom kids of the analogue era, the halcyon days of icy hooks and warbly synths always on the edge of going out of tune. Harmonies are piped in across the expanse of space, and lyrics capture conversations that seem to come from another room, repeat an accusation overheard, or speak as if in sleep of interpersonal struggles distilled down to one subconscious phrase. At the same time, percussive elements feel forward and cut through the mix with toms counting off the measures like a lost tribe broadcasting through the bass and tops of a basement club soundsystem. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662 LP (Alligator)

Recently released on CD – now available on purple color vinyl. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s 662 (the area code of his Mississippi Delta stomping grounds) is a powerful and personal album; a fiery coming-of-age record. The lyrics reflect newfound maturity and the ways in which your roots inspire where you’re heading. Musically, the record delivers a heaping helping of deep, visceral guitar magic fueling a combustible mix of molten blues rock, down home shuffles and soulful grooves. Following his debut album, Kingfish, Christone says about his sophomore record, “These are songs written when I got home from the road – I came back to the 662. This album is much more personal than the first one – I’m dealing with things that have been going on in my life since then.” “Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram is the future of the blues, singing and playing with edge, verve and vitality. Stinging guitar…sweet and melodic vocals.” – Guitar World

CDs + Vinyl:

1914 – Where Fear And Weapons Meet CD (Napalm)

Ukrainian blackened death/doom metal offensive 1914 continue to reflect the gruesome tales of World War I, its soldiers’ fate, their death, fear and feats to be never forgotten on their new opus, Where Fear And Weapons Meet. [Vinyl edition due November 26.]

Adrian + Meredith – Bad For Business CD/LP (Vertigo Productions)

Adrian + Meredith take their fearless, blistering, and Balkan-tinged Americana to new heights on their sophomore record, Bad For Business. Recorded in the living room of their collective midcentury East Nashville houses with bandmates and friends Paul Niehaus (Justin Townes Earle, Calexico), saxophonist Ken Francis Wenzel (Bobby Parker), and banjo player Fats Kaplan (Jack White), Bad For Business is a raucous, rebellious and home-spun variety show.

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice 2xCD/2xLP (World Circuit)

Rejoice is the classic collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz. The record, released to great acclaim in March 2020, became the first posthumous release from Masekela, and the last release from Allen, who sadly passed away a month later. For this Special Edition, World Circuit have gone back to the original 2010 mixes and added previously unheard parts from the 2019 sessions to create eight reimagined bonus mixes.

Apparition – Feel CD (Profound Lore)

California death metal band Apparition release their tectonic shifting debut album Feel. This is towering, progressive doomy-death metal with hammering colossal, crawling, groove-refined escalating riffs and lurching, thick, and bludgeoning calculated rhythms. [Vinyl edition due November 5.]

Armored Saint – Symbol Of Salvation: Live CD (Metal Blade)

New live release from the veteran metal band. [Vinyl edition due November 19.]

Bia – For Certain [Deluxe Edition] CD (Epic)

For Certain is the second EP by rapper Bia, and features guest appearances from Lil Jon, Doe Boy and 42 Dugg.

Black Marble – Fast Idol CD/LP/Cassette (Sacred Bones)

Priscilla Block – Priscilla Block CDEP (Mercury Nashville)

Priscilla Block’s new EP includes her Top 20 Country hit “Just About Over You”. Priscilla broke out in 2020 with the funny and infectious hits “Thick Thighs” and “PMS”. Also includes the moody “Wish You Were The Whiskey”, an angsty rocker that finds her fuming about the comforts a bottle can’t replace.

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

Across its 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. [Vinyl edition due March 25.]

Can’t Swim – Change Of Plans CD/LP (Pure Noise)

Dillon Carmichael – Son Of A CD (Riser House)

The follow-up to his 2018 breakout debut, Hell On An Angel showcase Carmichael’s twang with blue collar-inspired hooks.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities: Part II 2xCD2xLP (Mute)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities: Part I [Reissue/2005] 3xCD (Mute)

This reissue of B-Sides & Rarities: Part I features 56 tracks including rarities, out-takes, covers & B-sides from 1988-2005 across three volumes, compiled by Mick Harvey.

Christian Death – The Dark Age Renaissance Collection, Part 4, The New Dark Age 3xCD (Season Of Mist)

This set combines three of Christian Death’s middle-period recordings – Sexy Death God (1994), Prophecies (1996), and Pornographic Messiah (1998) – and 1990 demos/outtakes compilation Insanus, Ultio, Proditio, Misericordiaque (1990) – into one limited and specially priced package.

Circuit des Yeux – -io CD/LP+MP3 (Matador)

The sky over -io is Florida’s strange, radiant orange. It’s a built environment, unnatural, made from concrete and glass, with skyscrapers that stretch to the vanishing point as you gaze up at them. It’s crumbling and suffocating, a city perpetually on the brink of collapse, where tension never topples over into catharsis, where the heat never breaks. Inside this world and its closed loop of time, Haley Fohr found herself able to begin moving again.

CL – Alpha CD (Very Cherry Inc.)

New release from the K-Pop rapper. Includes photobook and sticker

Clinic – Fantasy Island CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)

Referencing H.G. Wells’ Things To Come, Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium Is The Massage and Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan, the themes Clinic explore on Fantasy Island are time, music and entertainment. In a nutshell, Clinic have gone funky disco, broadening their sonic palette with the addition of several new gadgets including an electronic acid bass machine, a 1970s cocktail rhythm unit, a Casio digital horn and space drum.

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle CD/2xLP (Verve)

Come – Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Expanded Edition 2xCD/2xLP (Fire)

In 1994 Come responded to the difficult-second-album stereotype with the hypnotic, intense and emotional masterpiece Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Featuring the original line-up of Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O’ Brien and Arthur Johnson, the Boston band broadened their sound by slowing down the tempos and creating a dense urban stream of consciousness that mixes noise, city blues and catharsis. The album hits you immediately as one of the greatest dissident records ever made. Lovingly remastered, this expanded edition includes Wrong Sides, an additional album’s worth of B-sides and unreleased tracks, including the band’s very first single “Car” and their last recorded song, “Cimarron”, featuring this core line-up. These gems showcase the rawness and incredible growth of a band completely in command of their songwriting and at the same time paying homage to some of their punk roots with beautiful renditions of Swell Maps “Loin Of The Surf” and X’s “Adult Books”. Also includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band.

The Convenience – Accelerator CD/LP/Cassette (Winspear)

A singular album packed with visceral, immediate pleasure; body music for a plastic pop future. [A limited indie-store exclusive color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile CD/2xLP (Nuclear Blast America)

Every song is a nihilistic anthem, showcasing the different ways in which we have become a true plague to this planet – from a philosophical, religious but also ecological point of view. Mixed with the band’s typical gothic vibes, sophisticated nods to literature, film and religion, and elaborate poetic lyrics, Existence Is Futile cements the band’s undisputed status as one of the most influential extreme metal bands [A limited edition silver & black color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters CD/2xLP (Interscope)

Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World CD/2xLP+CD (Inside Out Music)

On their fifteenth album, A View From The Top Of The World, the New York quintet rush forward at full speed again with seven tracks equally steeped in articulate arrangements, groove-laden guitars, and sky scraping melodies. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment CD/LP (Trouble In Mind)

Employing pummeling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, the band folds a myriad of reference points into their drone-pop style. Influence from ’60s melodicism and ’90s UK noise pop can be found woven in with inspiration from spiritual jazz, Japanese new age, and Italian minimalism. Dummy dodges the brooding, dark, dramatic tropes of contemporary artistic music often found in punk, experimental, and electronic, instead insisting on joyous and euphoric sonic palettes.

Duran Duran – Future Past CD/LP (BMG)

Every Time I Die – Radical CD/2xLP+MP3 (Epitaph)

The Exbats – Now Where Were We CD/LP (Goner)

On Now Where Were We, The Exbats hit the ground running like a dystopian garage rock version of the Shangri-Las, or like a message to the future from the pre- Velvet Underground doo-wop wannabe Lou Reed. The album rings bright, like a beacon in the wilderness: eminently, effortlessly catchy, and loaded with buoyant choruses that rank alongside the best chart-toppers launched by the Brill Building or Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound.

Excalibur – The Bitter End [Reissue/1985] CD/LP (No Remorse)

This reissue of the British NWOBHM band’s debut EP includes the original Excalibur mix of The Bitter End and bonus material and four demo tracks circa 1983/’84.

Marianne Faithfull – Marianne Faithfull: The Montreux Years CD/2xLP (BMG)

Marianne Faithfull’s name is synonymous with the authenticity, artistry and individuality of the festival and this collection is a celebration of her unique talent. The Montreux Years collection brings together, for the first time, some of the finest moments from Marianne’s most celebrated performances.

Sue Foley – Pinky’s Blues CD (Stony Plain Music)

Pinky’s Blues is a raw, electric guitar driven romp through the backroads of Texas, with Foley’s signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster, ‘Pinky’ at the wheel. [Vinyl edition due November 19.]

Franz Ferdinand ‎– Franz Ferdinand [Reissue/2004] CD (Domino)

CD reissue of Glasgow alt rock band’s debut album – winner of the 2004 Mercury Music Prize.

Nubia Garcia – SOURCE ⧺ WE MOVE CD/LP (Concord)

London-based saxophonist/composer Nubya Garcia – whose critically acclaimed album, SOURCE, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Mercury Prize – returns with a new remix album. Through musical collaboration, Nubya has teamed up with an exciting and innovative array of artists including Dengue Dengue Dengue, Kaidi Tatham, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Moses Boyd, for a reimagined look at her award-winning album. SOURCE ⧺ WE MOVE features nine original remixes.

Good Morning – Barnyard CD/LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)

Despite how quietly epochal Barnyard is – a milestone in the history of Good Morning – it’s also the band’s most meditative record, thoughtful and careful in its evocations. Barnyard is world-weary, concerned with the state of things in a loose, unfocussed sort of way. In other words, like we all are – frustrated both with the way things are and with everyone’s general inability to fix any of the many issues endemic to our society. Despite the appropriately bleak vibe, these songs feature some of Good Morning’s catchiest and most distinctive productions.

Grouper – Shade CD/LP (Kranky)

The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place-an ode to blue/what lives in shade. Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love.

Guided By Voices – It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them. CD/LP (GBV Inc.)

It’s been just a few months since Guided By Voice’s faux rock opera Earth Man Blues garnered four-star and five-star reviews, with Rolling Stone proclaiming that it squarely hits all the marks that make Guided by Voices great-again and again and again. Again and again and again is perhaps GBV’s credo, with Robert Pollard’s never-ending supply of fascinating and supremely catchy rock. Just when one thinks one’s got them pinned down, album number thirty-four opens with bizarre percussion, mariachi trumpets, strings and acoustic guitar. The adventurous spirit pervades yet another killer album from the greatest and most versatile GBV line-up

Hand Habits – Fun House CD (Saddle Creek)

Dave Hause – Blood Harmony CD (Dave Hause)

Blood Harmony was produced by Will Hoge and it features E Street band bassist Garry Tallent, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit guitarist Sadler Vaden, and other acclaimed session musicians who have worked with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson, and more. The first single “Sandy Sheets”, contains lyrical references to the Gin Blossoms, The Cure, and The Bouncing Souls, and it also sounds a little bit like Gin Blossoms’ warm, jangly rock. It also makes a reference to the Jersey shore. [Vinyl edition due December 3.]

Hawthorne Heights – The Rain Just Follows Me CD (Pure Noise)

The Rain Just Follows Me stands as some of Hawthorne Heights frontman JT Woodruff’s most resonant writing to date, as he unravels themes of both physical and emotional distance as well as personal identity – anxieties so exacerbated by the last year that it’s incredible the album was completed before the pandemic hit. (“There’s so many undertones of what would happen over the next 16 months,” he says with a laugh. “I don’t know if that makes us the emo Nostradamus or what.”) Most of all, The Rain Just Follows Me is quintessentially Hawthorne Heights. It’s who they’ve always been – they just needed to push down the heartache and strife long enough to rediscover those intangible characteristics. [Vinyl edition November 5.]

Karl Hector And Johnny! – Karl Hector Presents: Johnny! CD/LP (Now Again)

JJ Whitefield, who in the early ‘90s revived the gritty, analogue funk sounds of the ‘60s and ‘70s with his Poets Of Rhythm, and who has been instrumental in launching Ghanaian Afrobeat/funk legend Ebo Taylor’s international career, decades after the maestro recorded the landmark albums that have inspired thousands. Whitefield recorded two new studio albums with Taylor and toured in his band between 2009 and 2013, where he met Taylor’s son Henry and percussionist/Singer Eric Owusu. His trio Karl Hector & The Malcouns now front the Johnny! band and find inspiration not only in Ghana’s hypnotic grooves, but also the full-frontal fuzz guitar assault heard legions of ‘70s Zambian Zamrock albums.

Helado Negro – Far In CD/2xLP+MP3 (4AD)

Keith Hudson – Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood [Reissue/1974]CD/LP (VP)

Originally released in 1974 on Mamba, Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson’s key achievement in a career launched when, as a fourteen-year-old, he recorded members of The Skatalites on his Shades Of Hudson rhythm.

Jackson+Sellers – Breaking Point CD (ANTI-)

Elton John – The Lockdown Sessions CD (Interscope)

Elton John’s The Lockdown Sessions is an album of collaborations recorded remotely over the last 18 months. The Lockdown Sessions is a dazzlingly diverse collection of 16 songs, all Elton John collaborations, with some of the biggest, most exciting artists in the world today including Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth, Dua Lipa, Eddie Vedder, Gorillaz, Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Rina Sawayama, SG Lewis, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Surfaces, Years & Years, Young

Thug, and more.

Davy Knowles – What Happens Next CD (Provogue)

Roots singer-songwriter and guitarist Davy Knowles boldly steps forward with timeless and cohesive songwriting, sleek modern production, and a lyrical, play-for-the-song guitar approach informed from soul, folk, rock, and blues. [Vinyl edition due December 3.]

Krokofant / Ståle Storløkken / Ingebrigt Haker – Fifth CD/LP (Rune Grammophon)

This expanded version of Krokofant is everything a progressive jazz and rock fan could wish for; positive energy, melodic riches, excellent musicianship and a touch of magic served with a healthy respect for the past and a foot in the future.

Lady A – What A Song Can Do CD (BMX)

Lady A’s new album, What A Song Can Do, reinvigorates the band’s signature sound – a captivating fusion of rootsy pop and electrifying harmony that has dominated charts for more than a decade. [Vinyl edition due December 17.]

Lala Lala – I Want The Door Open CD/LP (Hardly Art)

La Luz – La Luz CD/LP (Hardly Art)

Shannon Lay – Geist CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)

LIVLØS – And Then There Were None CD (Napalm)

Since their formation in 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark, LIVLØS have relentlessly made a name for themselves in the European metal scene. Their brand of Scandinavian melodic death metal is influenced by bands like At The Gates and Carcass, paired with American-rooted death metal in the vein of Deatj and The Black Dahlia Murder. [Vinyl edition due November 26.]

Pat Metheny – Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) CD/2xLP (Modern Recordings)

Pat Metheny unveils the latest chapter in his wildly prolific career – Side-Eye, a new setting featuring the 20-time Grammy winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating cast of players featuring some of the most exciting and innovative new musicians on the New York scene. It was recorded just before the pandemic and deftly balances a mix of stunning new originals with inventive reworkings of some of Metheny’s most beloved compositions.

Misanthur – Ephemeris CD/2xLP (Season Of Mist)

Founded in Czestochowa, Poland in one night in 2015 by Hellscythe and Draugr, dark black metal band Masanthur begun to take form. Inspired by metal and non- metal genres, Misanthur merge trance percussion, earthbreaking bass, crushing guitars and hellish vocals with (post)apocalyptic ambient landscapes and noise to create its own oeuvre and paint the stories and scenery of mundane spiritual wasteland. This is metal at its darkest.

Roy Montgomery – Rhymes Of Chance CD/LP (Grapefruit)

Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he’s managed to navigate disparate genres, scenes, and atmospheres, always at the forefront of experimental independent music. To commemorate, Grapefruit will be releasing four new Montgomery albums in 2021. The third release of the series, Rhymes Of Chance, is the darkest entry of the four. Songs sound particularly spacious and minimal, with two tracks centering forlorn melodies around trusty collaborator Emma Johnston’s singing and two others sung by Montgomery himself.

Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia Of The Air CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket CD/2xLP (ATO)

NCT 127 – The 3rd Album ‘Sticker’ [Jewel Case Ver.] CD (SM Entertainment Co.)

NCT 127 – The 3rd Album ‘Sticker’ [Seoul City Ver.] CD (SM Entertainment Co.)

NCT 127 – The 3rd Album ‘Sticker’ [Sticker Ver.] CD (SM Entertainment Co.)

Third album from the K-Pop group available in a variety of collectable versions.

Neutral Snap – Tell Me How I Feel CD (Orange Music)

This album highlights the thoughts going through a cusp millennial’s head as he reluctantly wades through the coarse marsh that is life. Neutral Snap puts a contemporary twist on nostalgic pop punk. [Vinyl edition due October 29.]

O’Reillys & The Paddyhats – In Strange Waters CD/LP (Metalville)

Far from their usual Irish folk punk, O’Reillys & The Paddyhats steer the ship unerringly into the waters of pop, metal, ska and barbershop music.

Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos CD/LP (Daptone)

Oscar And The Wolf – The Shimmer CD (PIAS America)

A unique fusion of contemporary R&B and European electro-pop. [Vinyl edition due November 5.]

Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life CD/LP (Rough Trade)

Perpetual Etude – Now Is The Time CD/LP (Black Lodge)

Perpetual Etude was formed in 2019 by Magnus Mild with the sole goal to bring back the best of the heavy metal of the ‘80s. The band’s debut album, Now Is The Time, is filled with blazing guitar riffs, keyboard solos and catchy choruses.

Phew – New Decade CD/LP (Mute)

Renowned avant-garde artist Phew returns with a new album, New Decade. Working within the medium of voice and analog electronics, New Decade‘s six tracks define Phew as a master of her craft – fusing her ghostly vocals with intense droning textures and clamorous guitar feedback. New Decade is a stark and haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese or manifest as wordless shrieks and groans, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Poetica – Poetica CD (Sono Recording Group)

Poetica is a stylistically expansive spoken word project merging text, voice and music in the spirit of Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. The concept album conceived by poet/vocalist/producer Rachael Sage with Grammy nominated cellist Dave Eggar deftly fuses jazz, classical, NuBeat and Americana. Featuring clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarists Gerry Leonard (David Bowie) & Jack Petruzzelli (Patti Smith), trumpeter Russ Johnson (Elvis Costello), and drummer Quinn.

Premiata Forneria Marconi – I Dreamed of Electric Sheep 2xCD/2xLP+CD (Inside Out Music)

The mighty PFM’s newstudio release is a sci-fi-themed conceptual opus. Powered primarily by Franz Di Cioccio (lead vocals, drums) and Patrick Djivas (bass, keyboards) – who started the recording process in their home studios – Ian Anderson and Steve Hackett guest.

Rolling Stones – Tattoo You [Reissue/1981] CD/2xCD/LP/2xLP/LP+4xCD+Book/5xLP+Book (Interscope)

Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with the release of a variety of remastered editions, including deluxe expanded double-CD and double-LP as well super deluxe box set editions. The expanded double-disc versions include Lost & Found, a brand-new collection of nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album’s original release, newly completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the band. The four-CD+LP edition features a vinyl picture disc of Lost & Found plus the live concert Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982 plus a 124-page book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions and world tour, and interviews with producer Chris Kimsey and photographer Hubert Kretzscmar. The package is housed in a special lenticular sleeve. The five-LP set includes the same amount of material; however, Lost & Found is pressed on standard black vinyl.

Sepultura – Sepulnation: The Studio Albums 1998 – 2009 5xCD/8xLP (BMG)

Formed in 1984, Sepultura are arguably Brazil’s biggest music export having enjoyed huge global success throughout their career to date. This five-album box set represents the second phase of the band’s career when vocalist Derrick Green joined the band on vocals after the departure of founding member Max Cavalera, although four out of the five of these records still feature his brother Iggor on drums.

Seventeen – 9th Mini Album [Attacca (Op.1)] CD (Pledis Entertainment)

Seventeen – 9th Mini Album [Attacca (Op.2)] CD (Pledis Entertainment)

Seventeen – 9th Mini Album [Attacca (Op.3)] CD (Pledis Entertainment)

Ninth mini album from the K-Pop group, available in a variety of collectable versions.

Sixx: A.M. – Sixx: A.M. Hits 2xCD (11-7 Recording Corp.)

Slayer – Show No Mercy [Reissue/1983] CD/LP (Metal Blade)

Slayer – Haunting The Chapel [Reissue/1984] CDEP/12” (Metal Blade)

Slayer – Hell Awaits [Reissue/1985] CD/LP (Metal Blade)

Slayer – Live Undead [Reissue/1985] CDEP/12” (Metal Blade)

CD and vinyl reissues of Slayers first two albums, first EP, first live EP. [Limited-edition color vinyl pressings are also available.]

The Sonic Overlords – The Last Days Of Babylon CD (M-Theory Music)

The Swedish group’s combination of powerful doom riffs and the epic and melodic majesty of late ’70s/early ’80s heavy rock, much in league with Dio/Martin-era Black Sabbath, Rainbow, early Candlemass, Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Rising Force, Scorpions and MSG.

Spiritualized – Let It Come Down [Reissue/2001] CD/2xLP (Fat Possum)

Let It Come Down saw Jason Pierce rebuilding Spiritualized after the core line-up dissolved following the intensive touring process of Ladies And Gentlemen… Dion’s Phil Spector-produced Born To Be With You was an influence. The initial recordings were made at John Coxon’s studio before some 115 different musicians were brought into Air and Abbey Road Studios to work on these 11 songs. Spiritualized had always made wide-screen music but this time the movie theater was the size of the Coliseum. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Starset – Horizons CD (Fearless)

A continued voyage through a captivating science fiction narrative, Horizons is a cinematic soundscape that accompanies the listener through pain, love, descent, and triumph. The world has been consumed by synthetic methods of escaping reality, and it is with this technology that we are able to explore life through other users’ experiences – finally, the ability to be someone else. [Vinyl edition due January 14.]

Superchunk ‎– Here’s To Shutting Up [Reissue/2001] CD/LP+MP3 (Matador)

From Mac McCaughan of Superchunk: “To write the songs for Here’s To Shutting Up, we gathered in Jim’s garage (he lived way out in the woods) a couple times a week for what seemed like months. We started from actual scratch with no demos or concepts, just playing instrumental music with our usual gear plus a Casio. We recorded the album in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta at Zero Return, the studio built by Brian and Rob (aka Birdstuff and Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard) of Man or Astro-man? Brian Paulson came with us to produce it. Here’s To Shutting Up was meant to be released on September 18, 2001. On September 11, the world changed. Our release date moved a couple weeks, but our tour dates remained, and we flew to Japan in October. It was a WILD time to be traveling the world. Receptions ranged from thank you for giving us something else to think about to why are you here? We flew home from Japan and left for the UK the day the US started bombing Afghanistan. This was the climate, and the climate was not great for playing rock music.”

Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou CD/LP (Fingertips)

There’s a mystery to Vanishing Twin – from their name to the multitude of sounds that inhabit their music. They don’t sound like many, but they hint at plenty. Ookii Gekkou (Japanese for ‘Big Moonlight’) is the sound of ordinary life under a different set of rules, a record conceived and created in dark times – a sort of dream catcher for all the madness of the past year. Vanishing Twin explore new ground on Ookii Gekkou incorporating elements of Afrofunk, outer jazz and avant-garde, all while referencing Sun Ra to Alice Coltrane, Martin Denny to Morricone, Can’s Holger Czukay to meditative Gamelan, or The Free Design, to library music of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Locked into their strangely accessible groove is a history of ‘other’ sound, a crafted hauntology that evinces something completely new. Hurricanes, organisms, vibes, bells, and percussive rallies purvey throughout Ookii Gekkou, each infiltrated with influences as diverse as Piero Umiliani, Art Ensemble of Chicago and ELO among others.

Wanton Attack – Wanton Attack CD/LP (No Remorse)

Hailing from Norrköping, Sweden, Wanton Attack is a new heavy metal force to be reckoned with.

Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years CD/2xLP (BMG)

The Montreux Years collection brings together some of the finest moments from Muddy Waters’ celebrated Montreux performances alongside rare material.

Remi Wolf – Juno CD (Island)

With her eclectic sound and style and magnetic personality, Remi Wolf has developed an avid fan base that has made her a trailblazer of the emerging Gen Z pop scene.

Xeno & Oaklander – Vi/Deo Blue CD/LP (Dais)

East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & Oaklander’s seventh full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism.

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Gary Allan – Ruthless LP (EMI Nashville)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. With the allure of a modern-day outlaw, Gary Allan has won over fans, peers and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals, rebellious lyrics and raucous live performances. The superb instrumentation is a stand-out of Ruthless which adds a layer of complexity and appeal, drawing from Allan’s deep-rooted influences of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Allman Brothers Band – Bear’s Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970 LP (Allman Brothers Band)

Limited pink color vinyl LP pressing. This is essential listening for Allman Brothers Band fans, showcasing an early incarnation of the legendary group with Duane Allman in top form and featuring the earliest known live concert recording of “In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed”, which had just been penned by Dickey Betts shortly before these shows. The tapes were recorded just one year before the band’s landmark At Fillmore East album from the same venue. Captured over three nights in February 1970 when the Allman’s opened for the Grateful Dead for the first time, these shows were recorded by Owsley Stanley aka Bear, the Dead’s pioneering soundman, whose Sonic Journal recordings are sought after for their purity and uncanny ability to place the listener in the venue.

Artillery – By Inheritance [Reissue/1990] LP (Real Gone Music)

Limited blue with red splatter color vinyl pressing of the Danish thrash metal band’s third studio album.

Atheist ‎– Piece Of Time [Reissue/1989] LP (Season Of Mist)

Atheist ‎– Unquestionable Presence [Reissue/1991] LP (Season Of Mist)

Atheist ‎– Elements [Reissue/1993] LP (Season Of Mist)

Arguably one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands in the metal realm, Atheist combined a death metal attack with virtuosic level of playing.

Atmosphere – The Family Sign [Reissue/2011] 2xLP+7” (Rhymesayers)

Atmosphere have distinguished themselves from their peers by creating albums encompassing the entire spectrum of human emotion while tethering each piece to a central aural aesthetic. The Family Sign took this philosophy to new realms of solidarity with Slug metaphorically touching on themes of fatherhood, loss, love, disappointment and jubilation, and tailoring them to an instrumental framework that draws emotion out of the listener, skillfully composed by producer Ant.

Beatnik Termites – Sweatin’ To The Termites LP (Mom’s Basement)

The legendary Beatnik Termites are back with their first new album in 18 years. They may have been gone for a while, but they have not missed a note when it comes to their latest album Sweatin’ To The Termites. The band has mastered their sound that is a mix of punk rock, surf rock and doo wop. Sweatin To The Termites has 12 songs that are packed with sugary sweet harmonies and will surely get you up and moving. For fans of The Ramones and the Beach Boys.

Bibio – Vetting The Compost [Reissue/2009] 2xLP+MP3 (Warp)

Limited emerald green color vinyl pressing. Vignetting The Compost is Bibio’s third full-length album. Originally released in 2009 on Mush, just preceding his signing to Warp the same year. This pressing marks its first time available since the original pressing 12 years prior.

Blut Aus Nord ‎– Memoria Vetusta I «Fathers Of The Icy Age» [Reissue/1996] LP (Debemur Morti Productions)

Limited-edition color vinyl reissue of the 1996 album from the black metal band.

Bong-Ra – Antediluvian LP (Tartarus)

Limited color vinyl pressing. Monolith sub-frequencies intended to lift the listener to a higher level of consciousness, a state of trance and hypnotism. Bong-Ra mixes doom metal, free-jazz and electronics in a completely new unique crossover heavily inspired by ancient and pre-dynastic civilizations.

Boy Scouts – Wayfinder LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. On Wayfinder, the follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 album Free Company, Oakland-based songwriter Taylor Vick, under her songwriting moniker Boy Scouts, chases down life’s queries to the very edge of the horizon. This is an album that’s not afraid to track down what it all means – how life unspools around the monoliths of love and death, the heavy knots of even quotidian conflict, the task of carrying your own suffering with you day after day, the challenge of meeting other people out here in the tangled expanse of living. In a warm, expansive style that recalls the raw punctures of Lucinda Williams and Alex G, Vick once again shows herself to be a fearless seeker shedding light on the unanswerable. Vick’s true superpower is her voice. Strands of slide guitar, organ, and strings ring under her affable, expressive voice, bolstering layers and layers of harmony. There is something so honest about her songs, they feel like a late-night therapy session with your best friend.

Bulbous Creation – You Won’t Remember Dying [Reissue/1994] LP (Numero)

Beige color vinyl reissue of late 1960s / early 1970s recordings, unreleased until 1994. A truly underground document of the national obsession with heavy, mind-bent psychedelia. Originating in the unassuming suburb of Prairie Springs, Kansas, Bulbous Creation seem to have warped directly from the wrong side of the looking glass with a jabberwocky full of surreal lyrics and gratuitous guitar solos. Recorded and abandoned in the catacombs of Independence, Missouri’s Cavern Sound studio in 1971, Bulbous Creation’s eight-song screed invokes images of sinners, wage slaves, drugs, out of touch parents, jail, and the devil, naturally.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities 7xLP (Mute)

B-Sides & Rarities Part I and Part II are presented together here as a deluxe 180gm vinyl box set including 83 rare tracks and exclusive sleeve notes. The original B-Sides & Rarities Part I was compiled by Mick Harvey and comprises 56 tracks including rarities, outtakes, covers and B-sides from 1988-2005. This is the first time the album is available on vinyl.

Jarvis Cocker – Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top LP (Abkco)

Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top is the companion release to Wes Anderson’s film, The French Dispatch. The album expands on the Anderson and Jarvis Cocker cover collaboration of the French pop hit “Aline” for the film. This is an entire album of French material from the same period. Cocker’s signature style interprets material made known by the likes of Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Dutronc, and Christophe’s “Aline.” [CD edition due November 19.]

The Connells – Steadman’s Wake LP (Missing Piece)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. The Connells release, Steadman’s Wake, is their first new album in over 20 years. The Raleigh-based band started recording music in 1984, and since their debut album, Dark Days, has gone on to amass worldwide acclaim for their melodic and introspective alternative rock sound.

Gus Dapperton – Orca LP (Gus Dapperton)

Deluxe double coke bottle clear vinyl pressing in gatefold jacket. If you’ve followed the 23-year-old’s career from the bright and charming early singles and EPs to 2018’s full-length album Where Polly People Go To Read, you’ll have recognized that the singer-songwriter-producer has entered new territory here. The album explores human pain and suffering, but also healing and redemption. Dapperton began writing Orca while on tour in 2018, exhilarated by performing for fans and first-time listeners in countries he’d never visited before, but feeling the stresses of the road as well. The deluxe includes the original ten tracks and features three new songs, “Sober Up”, “Flatline”, and “Steady”, plus a new version of Palms featuring L.A. artist-producer Channel Tres.

The dB’s – I Thought You Wanted To Know: 1978-1981 2xLP (Propeller Sound)

Released last week on CD – now available on vinyl. 23 tracks of remastered early singles, demos, and live recordings. Most of these tracks predate the release of Stands For deciBels by two to three years and were the basis of the signing of the band to Albion Records (UK) in 1980. Some songs are being released to the public for the first time in this package.

Kevin Devine – Put Your Ghost To Rest [Reissue/2006] 2xLP (Bad Timing)

Put Your Ghost To Rest is fifteen years old and it hasn’t aged one bit. The album was produced by Rob Schnapf and marked the first of several future collaborations to come between the producer and Kevin Devine. While Kevin has many fan-favorite songs, Ghost boasts major ones which are still staples of his set ten years later.

Dinner – Dream Work LP (Captured Tracks)

Limited-edition opaque white vinyl pressing. After a four-year hiatus exploring ambient and meditation music, Danish multi-instrumentalist Anders Rhedin has returned to his indie roots. Dream Work, his third album as Dinner, is a lush collection of synth and guitar-laden indie pop that expertly channels Ryuichi Sakamoto, early British indie, and the sound of water.

Drudkh & Winterfylleth – Thousands of Moons Ago / The Gates [Reissue/2014] 12” (Season Of Mist)

Limited green color vinyl pressing the 2014 split EP by the Ukranian and English black metal bands.

Efterklang – Windflowers LP (City Slang)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop. Announcing their sixth studio album Windflowers, the Danish trio of Mads Brauer, Rasmus Stolberg and Casper Clausen continue a creative journey that’s brought them closer together, even as their lives grow apart. Channeling the motifs of hope and change its namesake flora represents, the album sees their many years of collaboration and experimentation distilled into some of their finest and most direct melodic moments to date.

Eleine – Eleine [Reissue/2015] LP (Black Lodge)

Black & gold splatter color vinyl pressing of the Swedish symphonic metal band’s debut album.

Electric Light Orchestra Part Two ‎– Electric Light Orchestra Part Two [Reissue/1990] LP (Renaissance)

ELO Part II was a band formed by Electric Light Orchestra drummer and co-founder Bev Bevan. The band also included former ELO bassist and vocalist Kelly Groucutt, and violinist Mik Kaminski for most of its career. Along with conductor and keyboardist Louis Clark who toured as a guest with ELO in its later years.

Farer – Monad 2xLP (Tartarus)

Limited green color vinyl pressing. Monad is derived from the ancient Greek word Monas and means singularity. It is a point in which all physical laws are indistinguishable from one another and where space and time merge and cease to have any independent meaning. In cosmogony it is the most primal aspect of God. For the doom metal/noise band Farer, the word levitates somewhere between divinity and the Big Bang.

Fudge Tunnel ‎– Hate Songs In E Minor [Reissue/1992] LP (Earache)

180gm “full frequency range” remaster. Originally released in September 1992, Hate Songs In E Minor is often considered Fudge Tunnel’s finest work after gathering a huge amount of press attention and controversy after the original artwork was confiscated by the Vice Squad after a raid at Earache Records office. Spin wrote that the album was “hardcore meets guitar rock at its loudest and finest “and NME said this album was “total nine guitar attack-rock.”

Bill Gage/Cheater Slicks – Piano Tunnels LP (In The Red)

Bill Gage is a quasi-famous singer with a raw, rock ‘n’ roll voice. Cheater Slicks is an infamous, raw, rock ‘n’ roll band. Put the two together and the resulting album is a stream-of-conscious stew of wild, fuzz-drenched rock ‘n’ roll.

Claire Hamill ‎– One House Left Standing [Reissue/1972] LP (Renaissance)

Claire Hamill ‎– October [Reissue/1973] LP (Renaissance)

Vinyl reissues of the English singer-songwriter’s first two albums.

The Halo Benders – Don’t Tell Me Now [Reissue/1996] LP (K. Records)

Heaven sent with a halo bent. Doug Martsch (Built To Spill, Treepeople) joined forces with other underground folks from his past and future on this 1996 release: Steve Fisk Pell Mell, Pigeonhed, Duck Hunt, Calvin Johnson Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Wayne Flower Treepeople, Violent Green, Ralf Youtz Feelings, Built to Spill. The Dub Narcotic studios were the meeting place for this feast of empty-headed loudmouth doorbell rock done backwards, from basement to bomb shelter.

Honne – Let’s Just Say The World Ended A Week From Now, What Would You Do? LP (Atlantic)

New release from pop production duo Honne. This release follows the 14-track surprise release mixtape No Song Without You which landed last summer. Written during 2020, Let’s Just Say The World Ended A Week From Now, What Would You Do? finds Honne working without limitation. The record features a string of guests, including BRIT winner Griff, DJ Khaled, NIKI, and Sofia Valdes – who appears on the single “Now I’m Alone”.

Freddie Hubbard – Ready For Freddy [Reissue/1961] LP (Blue Note)

Recorded in 1961, Ready For Freddie was trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s fourth album for Blue Note Records. Featuring a unique sextet line-up with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bernard McKinney on euphonium, McCoy Tyner on piano, Art Davis on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums, the album stands as one of the finest of Hubbard’s career.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662 LP (Alligator)

Makoto Kubota & Sunset Gang – Dixie Fever [Reissue/1977] LP (Wewantsounds)

On Dixie Fever, Makoto Kubota & Sunset Gang continues to explore American and Island music through a Japanese prism with a skillful mix of blues, swamp funk and America adding an exotic edge to the whole. It is the first time the album is released outside of Japan and the LP features remastered audio by Makoto Kubota himself.

Kylesa ‎– To Walk A Middle Course [Reissue/2005] LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Kylesa ‎– Time Will Fuse Its Worth [Reissue/2006] LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Kylesa ‎– Static Tensions [Reissue/2009] LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

A variety of color vinyl reissues of the sludge metal band’s second, third, and fourth albums.

The Marías – Superclean Vol. 1 & 2 LP (Superclean)

Formed in Los Angeles in late 2016, The Marías is a smooth rendezvous of jazz percussion, hypnotic guitar riffs, smoke- velvet vocals and nostalgic horn solos, there’s something undeniably sensual in the group’s dreamlike fusion of jazz, psychedelia, funk and lounge.

Marilyn Manson ‎– Antichrist Superstar [Reissue/1996] 2xLP (Interscope)

Italian import color vinyl pressing.

Moviola – Broken Rainbow LP (Anyway)

On the fringe of the indie Rust Belt scene since the 1990s, Moviola has quietly forged a low-key career of high-quality recorded output over 25 years, issuing ten records and countless 7” singles (including splits with Cobra Verde, Hiss Golden Messenger, Handsome Family and many others). In this artistic continuum, the band has evolved from everything from four-track fuzz to hi-fi country soul. Today, the band steps forward with Broken Rainbows, its strongest collection of songs to date, written, recorded, and mixed inside the group’s HQ in Columbus, OH.

Necrofier – Propheices Of Eternal Darkness LP (Season Of Mist)

The rise of American black metal cannot be ignored. The dark art of Houston’s Necrofier (featuring current and ex members of Insect Warfare, Malignant Altar, War Master and Eternal Champion) carries this torch, embodying the hallmarks of classic, melodic black metal while embracing their Texas roots, and delivering total Southern darkness.

Nolan Potter – Music Is Dead LP (Castleface)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Nolan Potter is putting the home-recording freaks to shame. The world had a year of global pandemic to lay out it’s grand ideas and the sum of most artists quar-riffs wouldn’t push the constraints of a normal band practice (gosh, remember those?). Nolan Potter, in the meantime, has quietly painted a beatific masterpiece that veers from the whimsical to the wigged out, deftly weaving an untamed tapestry of sound all the while archly commenting on the present musician’s predicament-and he did it alone.

Power Supply – In The Time Of The Sabre-toothed Tiger LP (Goner)

Debut album from the Australian band comprised of Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control), Leon Stackpole (Sailors, Ooga Boogas), Richard Stanley (Onyas, Drug Sweat) and Per Bystrum (Exhaustion, Voice Imitator).

Pumpkin Witch – In The Frightful Gaze Of The Pumpkin Witch [Reissue/2018] LP (Deathbomb Arc)

Never available on vinyl, this raw and, of course spooky, dungeon synth classic is full of dead leaf incantations and brutally minimal no-fi mad doctor rhythms.

Peter Rosenberg – Real Late LP (Real Late)

As the pandemic hit, Peter Rosenberg went back to his roots. He decided the time was right to finally put together an official album and in doing so he tapped some of the best artists in hip-hop, from legends to newcomers, to put together a complete body of work aptly named after the late-night show that put him on the map in the first place.

Rutthna – Doomsdaylight [Reissue/2006] LP (Black Lodge)

First time vinyl pressing of the Swedish black metal artist’s debut album.

John Sebastian & Arlen Roth – John Sebastian and Arlen Roth Explore The Spoonful Songbook LP (BMG)

Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Lovin’ Spoonful founder and frontman John Sebastian joins forces with legendary guitarist Mr. Telecaster Arlen Roth to explore the Spoonful songbook.

Seether – Wasteland – The Purgatory EP 12” (Fantasy)

Recently released on CD – now available on red color vinyl. Seether’s new five-track EP features three never-before-heard tracks and an alternate take of “Wasteland” (along with the original album version.) Written and produced by Shaun Morgan, and mixed by Matt Hyde, Wasteland – The Purgatory EP, follows the fall 2020 release of their ninth album, Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum. That album debuted with impressive chart success and has already spawned two No. 1 rock radio hits: the anthemic, “Dangerous”, and hard-hitting “Bruised And Bloodied”.

Virgil Shaw – At The Time I Didn’t Care LP (Rocks In Your Head)

Shaw’s arc angel yodelistic soul-singing can sound like a cross between Gram Parsons and Jimmie Rogers, and beneath that the band plays anything from the laid-back downer country of Kris Kristofferson or Fred Neil to a psychedelic ethereal dreamscape country sound.

Spiritbox – Eternal Blue LP (Rise)

Named after a device some believe can communicate with the dead, there’s a gleeful sense of the paranormal running through all that Canadian metallers Spiritbox do, but this is a group of artists who are very much brimming with life and creating something remarkable with their music. Featuring the brutal hit single “Holy Roller,” the band’s highly anticipated debut album Eternal Blue is intelligent, ambitious and, most importantly, uniquely theirs. [A limited-edition blue color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Suburban Lawns ‎– Suburban Lawns [Reissue/1981] LP (Superior Viaduct)

If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke new wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B-52’s. After putting out two singles on their own Suburban Industrial imprint, the Lawns signed to I.R.S. Records and released their debut LP in 1981. While the band gained cult status thanks in part to a Jonathan Demme-produced music video which aired on Saturday Night Live, their self-titled album would sadly be the five-piece’s only full-length statement.

Super American – Sup LP (Wax Bodega)

Written between multi-instrumentalists Matt Cox and Patrick Feeley, Sup is about fear and the tongue-in-cheek inversion of it. Its seams burst with breakneck indie rock, well-caffeinated pop punk, and breezy emo that, at their heart, all prop up a central tension: life is a goddamn incredible miracle, so why do we have to feel so scared and shitty all the time?

James Taylor & Carole King – Live At The Troubadour [Reissue/2010] 2xLP (Craft Recordings)

In November of 1970, James Taylor and Carole King first performed together at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. Thirty-six years later, they returned for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. This remarkable recording features 15 songs and 75 minutes of stunning performances of their collective biggest hits including “You’ve Got A Friend”, “Fire And Rain”, “I Feel The Earth Move” and more. [CD version due October 29.]

Teamonade – This Far LP (Counter Intuitive)

Limited blue color vinyl pressing. The debut album from Ohio-based trio Teamonade introduces a group that can effortlessly merge indie-pop charm with alt-rock hooks.

Tonstartssbandht – Petunia LP+MP3 (Mexican Summer)

Brothers Andy & Edwin White, aka Tonstartssbandht, are an experimental, psych-rock project from Orlando, FL.

The White Stripes ‎– White Blood Cells [Reissue/2001] LP (Sony Legacy)

Limited 180gm vinyl pressing. For this one, Jack and Meg decamped to Memphis to record at the legendary Easley-McCain Studio and walked away with a bonafide classic. Unique for a White Stripes album, as it contains no covers, no guest musicians, no blues and no guitar solos, this album would be most of the world’s introduction to the band.

The Wonder Years ‎– Upsides [Reissue/2011] LP (Hopeless)

The Wonder Years ‎– Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing [Reissue/2011] LP (Hopeless)

Limited color vinyl pressings of the 2010 and 2011 releases from the punk pop band.

Wye Oak – Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 – 2011 LP+MP3 (Merge)

Limited color vinyl pressing. Ten years after its release, Wye Oak’s Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a record-bleak and intense and lonely and self-assured all at once. The album unravels with the sort of self-questioning and uncertainty that come with youth, and its specific confidence in unflinchingly probing all those emotions, feeling them to their deepest extent even when it’s tearing you apart at the seams. When Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner released Civilian, it marked both the ascension and death of Wye Oak, or at least a version of it. Now, a decade later, Civilian + Cut All The Wires: 2009-2011 delves back into that pivotal record and adds a lost album of unreleased tracks and demos to Civilian’s universe.

Young Gun Silver Fox – Canyons LP (Karma Chief)

Limited-edition opaque red vinyl pressing. Andy Platts and Shawn Lee were thinking of canyons when they wrote and recorded their third album as Young Gun Silver Fox. With West End Coast and AM waves these two very talented musicians, singers, songwriters, arrangers and producers already explored all things West coast, AOR, soft rock and boogie. But – especially if you are into the golden age of this sound running from circa 1976 to 1984 – you will be aware that there is no return once you started digging these unconditional musical delights with their timeless compositions, untouchable musicianship and refined arrangements.

Rob Zombie ‎– The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy LP (Nuclear Blast)

Ox blood & orange swirl w/ black splatter.

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Black Marble – Fast Idol (Sacred Bones)

The Convenience – Accelerator (Winspear)

A singular album packed with visceral, immediate pleasure; body music for a plastic pop future.

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