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CDs + Vinyl:

2 Chainz – Collegrove CD (Def Jam)

2 Chainz prohibitively collaborated with a fellow rapper Lil Wayne on his new album, Collegrove, even though it is credited by 2 Chainz as a solo album through Def Jam. The album includes productions from Mike Will Made It, TM88, Infamous, Zaytoven, Lil C, Metro Boomin, Ben Billion$, and London on da Track, among others.

Ahtme – Demonization CD/LP (Unique Leader)

Kansas City technical death metal strategists, Ahtme, formerly known as The Roman Holiday, are the latest addition to Unique Leader Records’ expanding roster of brutality.

American Head Charge – Tango Umbrella CD (Napalm)

New album from the Minneapolis-based heavy metal band.

Amon Amarth – Jomsviking CD/2xLP (Metal Blade)

Jomsviking is Amon Amarth’s tenth album and first concept record which tells a tragic tale of love and revenge, backed by the Swedish band’s trademark melodic, anthemic metal, which features special guest session drummer Tobias Gustafsson (Vomitory). The epic original story is set in the world of the Jomsvikings, the legendary order of mercenary Vikings. As frontman Johan Hegg explains: “The Jomsvikings were a shadowy and legendary sect of Viking mercenaries, as shrouded in myth now as they were when they fought across Europe and the Middle East. Ruthless and deadly warriors who fought for the highest bidder, their code was simple: Show no fear. Never retreat. Defend your brothers, and when called upon, avenge their deaths. I felt we were finally ready to use their story as the jumping off point for an Amon Amarth album.” (CD is available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe digibook edition includes one bonus track plus 24-page, full-color bound booklet.)

Asking Alexandria – The Black CD (Sumerian)

Fourth studio album from the British metalcore band.

Eric Bachmann – Eric Bachmann CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)

Twenty-five years after Archers Of Loaf broke onto Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s vital indie scene, frontman Eric Bachmann is recording the rawest, most honest work of his career under his own name. The release of Eric Bachmann marks the end of his post-Archers solo project Crooked Fingers, and the beginning of a candid new sound. “To me, the ’90s were for the Archers… The 2000s were for Crooked Fingers,” says Bachmann. “I feel like now—in 2015, 2016—it’s time to metamorphose. When you do this for a long time, you feel a strong pull to reinvent things from time to time, or at least to reconfigure them. There is resistance, of course, from many places to remain the same. But after a while the dam breaks, and the compulsion to change becomes overwhelming. You just have to do it or you sort of feel like you’re not being true to yourself.”

Dave Barnes – Carry On, San Vicente CD (50 Year Plan)

Released last week. “While Dave Barnes may be best known at the guy who wrote Blake Shelton’s #1 ‘God Gave Me You,’ the singer/songwriter [has released] his ninth studio album Carry On, San Vincente. The album will take Barnes in a musically different direction. ‘This album, with its sonic direction, is a project I have always wanted to make,’ said Barnes. ‘From start to finish it’s a nod to some of the greatest artists of all time in my opinion, like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Crosby Still & Nash, etc. We created an alum that was so fun to make and will really translate live so we are excited to get out on the road and play it for the fans.’” – Nashville Gab

Bayonne – Primitives CD/LP (Mom + Pop Music)

“Roger Sellers is a lot of things. He’s a minimalist composer with a knack for making hypnotic, enveloping songs from a few repeated musical phrases. He’s a gifted musician who is mostly self-taught, having abandoned formal study because it was draining the life from his work. He’s a self-described disciple of Phil Collins. What he is not, however — despite multiple press reports to the contrary — is a DJ. Primitives, Sellers’ debut as Bayonne, is a rich, complex work, the kind with no clear rock parallel. In its winding, maze-like structures are hints of both Steve Reich and Owen Pallett, each instrument working a single melodic pattern over and over and over, as Sellers threads his soft, reedy voice between them.” — Ghettoblaster

Beastmaker – Luses Naturae CD (Rise Above)

Beastmaker hails from the unlikely locale of Fresno, CA. Sweating profusely in a parched no man’s land about 3 ½ half-hours northeast of Los Angeles, the city isn’t exactly a cultural mecca—and yet it’s the birthplace of Hollywood outsiders and weirdos like Sid Haig, Slim Pickens and director Sam Peckinpah. Still, it suffers from an unsurprising dearth of musicians interested in heavy rock. Bleak and burly overtones of Sabbath and Witchfinder General ring through Lusus Naturae like echoes from a haunted past. Slow-rolling bruisers “Eyes Are Watching,” “Arachne” and “It” set the tone of doom and despair with nods to heavy ’70s classics, cult horror flicks and the inimitable work of one Mr. Glenn Anzalone. “When it comes to genre, I think of us as a much slower version of the Misfits or Danzig, but I’ve come to love the word ‘doom’ whether or not it really relates to us,” vocalist/guitarist Trevor Church offers. “It just feels like home.” Vinyl edition due May 6.

Birdy – Beautiful Lies CD (Atlantic)

English singer/songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde, who goes by the stage name Birdy, was born in 1996 in Lymington, Hampshire. Precocious from the very start, Bogaerde began composing her own songs at the age of seven and in the coming years frequently posted her music and performances on YouTube. By the time she was 14, Birdy had signed a publishing contract with Warner Chappell. In early 2011, she independently released her first single, a cover of American indie rock outfit Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love,” which peaked at number 17 on the UK pop charts. Her self-titled full-length debut arrived in November of that year and was a huge success, particularly in Australia, Belgium, Holland, and France. Fire Within, the follow-up to her debut, presented a new phase in Bogaerde’s development, displaying her evolving songwriting talent. Her third album, Beautiful Lies, was produced by collaborators including Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys/Adele) and Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire/Florence And The Machine).

Blackbear + The Surf Bums – Retrospective CD (Quality Time)

Nashville art-pop band active from 2011-2014, known for basement shows and DIY attitude. “You mean there’s a Nashville band making Smiths-influenced indie pop? Could this week get any better?”—USA Today

Blood Ceremony – Lord Of Misrule CD/LP (Rise Above)

“In a tradition that dates back to Late Antiquity, the Lord Of Misrule or “Abbot Of Unreason” was the doomed figure elected to preside over the Feast Of Fools, an annual Saturnalian bacchanalia in which masters became servants and servants masters, while drunken revelry and strange entertainments pervaded Britain and parts of mainland Europe for 30 days. At the end of the month’s festivities, the Lord Of Misrule’s throat was cut in sacrifice to Saturn. Taking its title from this fascinating slice of religious history, Blood Ceremony’s fourth album evokes pagan rites and the bizarre mystical underbelly of rural Britain. Embracing the psychedelic and progressive in their indelible songcraft, guitarist Sean Kennedy, bassist Lucas Gadke, drummer Michael Carrillo and triple threat vocalist/flautist/organist Alia O’Brien have created what Kennedy calls “a very English album,” despite the band’s very Canadian heritage. Recorded to analogue tape with producer Liam Watson at Toe Rag Studios in London, Lord Of Misrule possesses a timeless quality within the rock epoch: It could stand alongside a Shocking Blue or Deep Purple record as easily as it will take its place among 2016’s finest albums” – BraveWords. Vinyl version due April 22.

The Body & Full Of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache CD (Neurot)

Since their inception in 1999, massively prolific Arkansas band The Body has refined an uncategorized and unmatched sound. The duo writes and acts as one—a deafening wail against a failing species. Full Of Hell was formed in 2009 in Ocean City, Maryland. With a similar ethos, the band is prolific and relentless, ever challenging themselves, channeling influences from across the spectrum of extreme music into a nihilistic wall of oppressive sound. One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache is the debut collaborative work by these two likeminded artists.

Joe Bonamassa – Blues Of Desperation CD/2xLP (J&R Adventures)

Blues Of Desperation is Bonamassa’s most powerfully diverse and boldly realized album yet, with the material ranging from the gutsy, gritty blues call to arms of “This Train” (Joe’s guitar is set to rude throughout) to the elegant yet emotionally shattering ballad “What I’ve Known For A Very Long Time” to the soul-nourishing, acoustic-based Americana of “The Valley Runs Low,” on which Bonamassa’s voice rises up majestically to meet Barnes, McRae and Tippins in gospel-like rapture. And then there’s the bleary, tequila-soaked “Drive,” dripping with the kind of raw, wicked and unsettling sensuality that could make David Lynch green with envy.

Matthew Bourne – moogmemory CD/LP+CD (Leaf)

moogmemory is the second solo studio album by English improvising pianist and synthesizer player Matthew Bourne. “[moogmemory] seems to come closer to the lineage of synthesizer innovators like Raymond Scott rather than most techno or ambient artists, even if there’s a relaxed, meditative feel to a lot of these pieces, and it showcase’s Bourne’s skill for exploring the vast capabilities of his instrument.” – AlMusic

Brian Bromberg – Full Circle CD (Artistry Music)

Brian Bromberg indeed completes a full circle here on his new recording, meaning, he started his musical career on the drums and now returns to sit behind the kit. Guests include Alex Acuna, Charlie Bishirat, Bob Sheppard, Mitch Forman, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Thornburg, Kirk Whalum plus more.

Bronze – Live In San Francisco CD/LP+MP3 (Castle Face)

Ninth edition of Castle Face’s Live In San Francisco series. “For nine years they have been slowly simmering in a pot. For nine years I have been seeing them usurp every bill they have been on. I’ve never seen a bad Bronze show… they range from smiling and hypnotized dancing crowds to a man getting violated and urinated on at a yuppie bar (everyone still smiling). Always the entertainers, always drunk with mad skills; with dashes of John Carpenter, Silver Apples, Liquid Liquid, Birthday Party, Harold Grosskopf, Klaus Schultze, Cluster, and Brian Ferry with a field recorder taped to his tux jacket. Ultra bottom heavy dance beats à la Brian Hock (shirt off / shirt on, it’s all good to me), super hand-wringing oscillations home brewed by Miles Friction and the ever-great Robert Spector delivering homilies from beyond the dimensional wall.” – John Dwyer

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CDs + Vinyl:

Edip Akbayram & Dostlar – Nice Yıllara Gülüm [Reissue/1982] CD/LP (Pharaway Sounds)

Remastered reissue of the third album by Turkish psychedelic singer Edip Akbayram, originally released in 1982. At this point in his career Akbayram really ramped up the silly synthesizers. Hear whooshy ’80s Rolands, vocals run through a harmonizer, and tons of totally tubular bass popping—it’s easy to hear the boundaries of the western intros and breaks. Ever wish Knight Rider’s KITT could drive to İstanbul? Take a ride on cheesy synthesizers with Edip at the wheel.

Fatima Al Qadiri – Brute CD (Hyperdub)

“After releasing an album with her underground supergroup Future Brown last year, the New York-based, Kuwait-bred musician returns as a solo artist for Brute, a follow-up to her sinogrime-inspired 2014 debut album Asiatisch. Brute explores themes of authority and ‘the relationship between police, citizens and protest worldwide, particularly of her adopted home in the United States,’ according to the label; concerns made visible in the album’s cover art, which depicts the Josh Kline sculpture ‘Po-Po’ heavily altered by art director Babak Radboy. The album ‘teeters between rage and despair,’ heard through ‘restrained percussion, sampled and processed recordings of urban protest, and [Al Qadiri’s] signature minor progressions,’ the label adds” – Fact Mag. Vinyl edition due April 1.

The Algorithm – Brute Force CD (Fixt)

The brainchild of talented French DJ, producer, and guitarist Rémi Gallego, The Algorithm infuses modern metal riffs and rhythms with a menagerie of electronic sub-genres such as IDM, chiptune, drum & bass, and trap, concocting his own style of fiercely heavy and individual music.

American Babies – An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark CD/LP (The Royal Potato Family)

American Babies is the pseudonym under which Philadelphia-based songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Tom Hamilton can be found creating his most personal and idiosyncratic work. Known for his relentless creative drive, Hamilton also shares his time with bands including Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Billy & The Kids (featuring Grateful Dead drummer Billy Kreutzmann) and Electron. It’s American Babies, however, that’s the home to which he always returns. And thus Hamilton is back once again with American Babies’ fourth studio album, An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark. True to its title, the songs assembled for this latest effort seem to define epic in sound and spirit. The opening track “Synth Driver” is a sprawling, seven minute-plus, War On Drugs-meets-Springsteen surge that’s spills over with despair, but finds hope in its darkest hours.

Guy Andrews – Our Spaces CD (Houndstooth)

Renowned electronic music producer Guy Andrews presents his debut album. Ignoring previously used DJ-friendly structures, tempos, and mixdowns, Our Spaces breathes a new power and directness; this paradigm shift is evident throughout the album, with its emphatic percussion, reeling distortions, and rare sensitivity.

Karl Appel – Musique Barbare [Reissue/1963] CD/LP (Sub Rosa)

First reissue of Dutch abstract expressionist painter Karel Appel’s 1963 masterpiece of musique concrète. A fantastic mix of electric organ fumblings, full-on riots of distorted kettle drum, and assorted percussion-room filigrees assembled into an extremely edit-heavy suite with significant tape-speed manipulation.

B-Legit – What We Been Doin’ CD (Black Armor)

Fourth album by the West Coast rapper – featuring guest appearances by Ric Roc & Harm, Young Buck & Skip, E-40, Too $hort, Suga Free, J’Rilla, Yountie, Ray J and Levitti.

B-Movie – Climate Of Fear CD/2xLP (Cleopatra)

UK new wave icons, B-Movie, best known for their 1982 international smash hit single “Nowhere Girl,” return with a brand new album, Climate Of Fear, featuring all four original founding members.

Baauer – Aa CD/LP (LuckyMe)

Aa (pronounced ‘double a’) is a record that could only be made by a kid born of New York inspired by rap and dance music culture, traveling the globe sampling and processing found sounds. This is bright, stadium, urban dance music from the 26-year-old Portuguese New Yorker (via London and Philadelphia) known as Harry Rodrigues. With special guests Future, Pusha T, M.I.A, Novelist, Leikeli47, Rustie and Tirzah, also continuing his visual collaboration with multi-medium artist, Jonathan Zawada.

Bitchin Bajas and Bonny Prince Billy – Epic Jammers And Fortunate Little Ditties CD/LP/Cassette (Drag City)

Epic Jammers And Fortunate Little Ditties contains moments of tranquility and trance, with the players integrating their separate ways, vibing off each other, making songs together. Bonny is at his spirit-melting celestial best wandering through a lifetime of fortunes that amount, when incanted, to a prayer to the god of many names. The Bajas access to the universal aural paintbox is unparalleled; their reach is deep. And it all went down onto a two-track reel-to-reel in primitive left-right seps that helped to define their ability to finish it in mixing.

The Body – No One Deserves Happiness CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)

On No One Deserves Happiness, The Body’s Chip King and Lee Buford set out to make “the grossest pop album of all time.” The album highlights The Body’s musical adaptability as they swiftly combine and bend genres, taking their signature doom heaviness and incorporating electronic and dance elements.

The Bonnevilles – Arrow Pierced My Heart CD (Alive)

Great garage punk blues in the style of Left Lane Cruiser, Black Keys, and James Leg. Vinyl edition due April 15.

Boris with Merzbow – Gensho 2xCD (Relapse)

Boris with Merzbow – Gensho – Part One 2xLP+MP3 (Relapse)

Boris with Merzbow – Gensho – Part Two 2xLP+MP3 (Relapse)

Named after the Japanese word for “phenomenon,” Gensho is a unique release featuring over 150 minutes of new music spread across two CDs and four LPs (available as two separate double LP sets). The Boris songs are completely new, percussion-less reinventions of classic tracks from the band’s storied catalog, while Merzbow’s songs are entirely new compositions.

Ulli Bowmans – Sort By Dragging CD (Shitkatapult)

German artist Ulli Bomans presents the immense, gloomy, captivating Sort By Dragging, his second album under his given name. The dense arrangements of noise, rhythm, and traces of acoustic melodies recall Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, while also bearing parallels to Bomans’s sculptural and visual art in the album’s passage from Bremen to Detroit and back.

Peter Brötzmann/Fred Hopkins/Peter Rashied Ali – Songlines [Reissue/1994] CD/2xLP (Trost)

Peter Brötzmann: tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, tárogató; Fred Hopkins: double bass; Rashied Ali: drums. Recorded by Holger Scheuermann and Jost Gebers, October 30 and 31, 1991, in Berlin.

Dennis Brown – Dubbing At King Tubby’s CD (Jamaican Recordings)

Dennis Brown has always been cited as Jamaica’s favorite singer. While Bob Marley set out to conquer the world, Brown’s popularity on the island grew with every year. His most prolific period is said to be with producer Niney the Observer, who led the singer down a more roots-oriented avenue and put Brown on some of his heaviest rhythms, which were then mixed by the Dub Master himself, King Tubby. Dubbing At King Tubby’s collects tracks from this period, when the Crown Prince of Reggae met Niney the Observer at King Tubby’s.

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CDs + Vinyl:

2 Live Crew – The Original 2 Live Crew CD (Thump)

A compilation album of rare and unreleased material by the rap group. “2 Live Crew may be best known for its raunchy 1989 hit ‘Me So Horny’ and the group’s public spats with family values groups and censors, but 22 years ago March 7, Luther ‘Luke Skywalker’ Campbell and the Crew scored an important victory before the Supreme Court in a ruling that affirmed that parody constitutes a protected ‘fair use’ of copyrighted material. On its 1989 album As Clean As They Wanna Be — the scrubbed-up version of the then-filthy As Nasty As They Wanna Be — 2 Live Crew included a song called ‘Pretty Woman,’ an unabashed parody of the 1964 Roy Orbison hit ‘Oh, Pretty Woman.’ The original song’s publisher, Acuff-Rose Music, sued Luke Skywalker Records over the tune’s unapproved use, alleging violation of copyright. A District Court granted summary judgment in favor of the rappers, noting that the 2 Live Crew version was clearly a parody and therefore protected by the Fair Use Doctrine in US Copyright Law, which provides guidelines for when copyrighted material can be used without receiving permission from the copyright holder.” — Consumerist 

3 Doors Down – Us And The Night CD (Republic)

Sixth album from the Grammy-nominated multiplatinum Mississippi rock band. Vinyl version due April 8. 

Accuser – The Forlorn Divide CD/LP (Metal Blade)

“The Forlorn Divide” by Accuser is an album that both new as well as seasoned fans of thrash metal will enjoy, as it is a decent representation of the classic sound of the genre but with a relatively modern spin on it.” – Metal Wani

Davie Allan / Joel Grind – Davie Allan / Joel Grind [Split] CD/LP+MP3 (Relapse)

An infectious display of fuzzed-out guitar shredding instrumentals from Toxic Holocaust mainman Joel Grind and legendary surf rock pioneer/innovator of modern guitar distortion Davie Allan. The perfect soundtrack to an acid-drenched biker movie from hell.

Asleep At The Wheel – Live In Pennsylvania CD+DVD (Weinerworld)

The band performed many of their best known songs in concert at The Sellersville Theatre, Pennsylvania in February 2006.

Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend CD (Glassnote)

2015 was a big year for Norwegian teenager Aurora Aksnes; aside from releasing the Running With The Wolves EP and the “Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1)” single, she scored a surprise hit with her cover of Oasis’ “Half The World Away.” Recorded as the music for UK retailer John Lewis’ coveted Christmas advert, “Half The World Away” gave Aurora her first UK Top 10 hit. Her debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, features previous singles “Runaway,” “Running With The Wolves” and “Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1)” as well as “Conqueror” and eight other brand new tracks. “Conqueror” is uplifting and anthemic in equal parts, a tale of yearning and independence, showcasing Aurora’s uncanny ability to write a hook. Vinyl version due April 15.

Beau – That Thing Reality CD (Kitsune)

Beau consists of New Yorkers Heather Boo and Emma Rose. Their debut, That Thing Reality, is a blend of ‘70’s folk Americana laced with the effortlessly cool sound of the West Coast. Vinyl edition due April 1.

Bent Shapes – Wolves Of Want CD/LP+MP3 (Slumberland)

Boston band Bent Shapes churn out earnest, expertly-crafted pop and post-punk laced with “some of the tightest punk poetry around’” (Liz Pelly). Wolves of Want” is an album full of meditations on mental illness, the struggle to bring goodness into the world, and faith in humanity as a renewable resource.

Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik’s Skuggsjá – Skuggsjá CD/2xLP (Season Of Mist)

Skuggsjá is the epic sound of Norway’s Norse history as told through harder music by Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) and Einar Selvik (Wardruna). Written by Bjørnson and Selvik for the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution, Skuggsjá tells the history of Norway to the present day by highlighting ideas, traditions and instruments of their Norse past. In a magnificent tapestry of metal instrumentation, a wide variety of Norway and Scandinavia’s oldest instruments, and poetry in Proto-Scandinavian, Norse and Norwegian, Skuggsjá fuses past and present, both lyrically and musically, and reflects on themselves as a people and nation.

Blood Youth – Closure CDEP (Rude)

Sophomore EP from the UK metal punks.

Matthew Bourne – moogmemory CD/LP+CD (Leaf)

moogmemory is the second solo studio album by English improvising pianist and synthesizer player Matthew Bourne. “[moogmemory] seems to come closer to the lineage of synthesizer innovators like Raymond Scott rather than most techno or ambient artists, even if there’s a relaxed, meditative feel to a lot of these pieces, and it showcase’s Bourne’s skill for exploring the vast capabilities of his instrument.” — AlMusic 

Jeff Buckley – You And I CD/2xLP (Sony Legacy)

Jeff Buckley’s first recording sessions in 1993 in NYC were largely an informal exercise to acclimate the 27-year-old with a recording studio. Recently discovered in the Sony Music archives during the research for the 20th anniversary edition of Buckley’s Grace album, the performances on You And I are an intimate portrait of the artist performing a variety of cover songs and original music expressing a range of emotion channeled through his singular sensibility.

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