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ABBA – Voyage CD/LP (Capitol)

The quartet of Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid, one of the most successful pop groups of all time, return with Voyage – their first new album in 40 years. The highly anticipated 10-track collection is introduced by the pair of promising singles “I Still Have Faith In You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down”. “I Still Have Faith In You” is an atmospheric, slow tempo piece that builds dramatically with harmonized choruses and rock guitar accompaniment. “Don’t Shut Me Down” also starts slowly, but soon picks up pace with an infectious beat. Both tracks have the powerful vocals and intelligent lyrics that characterized the group’s songbook in their earlier years together.

AHI – Prospect CD/LP (22^nd Sentry)

“Powerfully moving” (NPR) songwriter AHI’s new album Prospect builds on the Toronto musician’s songwriting rooted in the lessons of community, uplift and oneness that he has drawn from years spent backpacking across the world, including extended stays in the Ethiopian Highlands and jungles of Trinidad before pursuing a career in music. Prospect, produced by Grammy Award winner Paul Mabury in Nashville, finds AHI taking a turn inward to reflect on his own identity as well as what he’s seen in his local community. “This universe can often leave us feeling small and insignificant,” says AHI, “but I truly believe that our lives are part of something bigger and more meaningful than we understand. You and I are the prospect, and it’s important to live our lives like they’re worth something because our impact on each other is far more immense than we can ever imagine.”

Brian Fallon – Night Divine CD/LP (Lesser Known)

Night Divine is a series of hymns covered by The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon. This is a project he’s been wanting to create for a long time, inspired by his time singing in the church choir as a child. “This was the first music I’d ever heard and learned,” Fallon said. “It’s one of the earliest musical memories I have. So, the idea has been churning in my head for a long time. Even when I was making rock ‘n’ roll, this was always in the background.” He finally got the opportunity to make the intimate record during lockdown, with background vocals by his mother. The 10-track collection is introduced by the lead single and album opener, “The Virgin Mary Had One Son”. “I heard Odetta sing an incredible live version of ‘Virgin Mary Had One Son’, and it was actually one of the performances that inspired me to learn the piano,” he notes. “Joan Baez sang it back in the sixties too. From those two versions, I put down my own structure with the acoustic guitar and the vocal. The other sonic elements appear and disappear like characters in a play. In the end, everything comes out for one last note.”

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Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (Deluxe Edition) CD/2xLP (ATO)

Resisting any notion of a sophomore slump and putting to bed the “revivalist soul” label, Alabama Shakes returned in 2015 with a humdinger. Replete with moody vibes, intricate textures, atmospheric grooves, and confident playing, Sound & Color encompasses blues, psychedelia, R&B, and garage rock while ceding the floor to powerhouse singer Brittany Howard. Expanding on the soulful blues-rock base that made their name, they defy predictable expectations and map an exciting, surprising, and innovative new direction. The album’s twelve songs reveal a band honed by years on the road and drawing from a wide range of influences. This Deluxe Edition reissue features seven bonus tracks pulled from unreleased studio material, B-sides, and live songs cut at the world-renowned Capitol Records Studio A plus revised artwork and new photos. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Tori Amos – Ocean To Ocean CD (Verve)

Despite the various crises that have occurred since 2017’s Native Invader, Tori Amos has emerged with Ocean To Ocean, her most personal work in years – an album bursting with warmth and connection, with deep roots in her earliest song writing. Written during the third lockdown in Cornwall in 2021, Ocean To Ocean is a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again. [Vinyl edition due January 28.]

Archspire – Bleed The Future CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

Following up their mind-bending 2017 album, Relentless Mutation, Archspire unleash their new full-length, Bleed The Future, another unforgiving masterpiece that serves up technical death metal at its most extreme and intricate. The G-force levels of velocity and dizzying technical proficiency reach seemingly impossible heights, defying the laws of physics and pushing human boundaries to the outer limits. Bleed The Future sits at the apex of technical and extreme metal, certifying Archspire’s place among the genre’s masters.

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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.

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