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Nick Hakim – Will This Make Me Good 2xLP (ATO)

While Will This Make Me Good is distinctly Nick Hakim, it does represent a tonal shift from breakthrough release Green Twins (2017) that reflects the ideas with which he grappled with while making the record. The title is a question Hakim has asked himself since he was young and struggling in school; a reflection of what’s happening in his head as he sorts through his life and the tumult around the globe. It articulates a sense of confusion alongside a desire for hope and clarity. [CD edition due May 22.]

Waylon Jennings – The Outlaw Performance: Live At The Grand Ole Opry 1978 DVD (Eagle Rock Entertainment)

In 1978, at the pinnacle of the outlaw movement in country music, Waylon Jennings gave an exclusive performance in Nashville, Tennessee. This performance was taped, capturing Waylon and his band in front of a sold out house. Now this unique concert footage is combined with Waylon’s own words revealing stories, tales and legacy. Bonus features include “Friends Remember The Outlaw”, featuring archival interviews from George Jones, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson & Richie Albright.

Moby – All Visible Objects CD/2xLP (Mute)

Moby’s new dance-heavy album, All Visible Objects, was created in Studio 3 where Pet Sounds was recorded, using the same board that was used in the making of Ziggy Stardust and the same piano that Frank Sinatra used to record some of his most notable hits. Keeping with Moby’s history of donating to charity (in 2018, he started selling off his records and collection of synthesizers and drum machines, donating the proceeds to charity), he is using this album as a sounding board to bring attention to a long list of charities dedicated to preserving our planet and all its inhabitants.

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Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs Of Sorrow CD/LP (PIAS America)

When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, it’s natural to wonder what might have inspired it. Mark Lanegan’s new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, features guest appearances from Greg Dulli, Warren Ellis, John Paul Jones, Ed Harcourt and more. These 15 songs are inspired his life story, as documented in his new memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep. The book is a brutal, nerve-shredding read, thanks to Lanegan’s unsparing candor in recounting a journey from troubled youth in eastern Washington, through his drug-stained existence amid the ’90s Seattle rock scene, to an unlikely salvation at the dawn of the 21st century. There’s death and tragedy, yet also humor and hope, thanks to the tenacity which impels its host, even at his lowest moments. Today, Lanegan is a renowned songwriter and a much-coveted collaborator, as adept at electronica as with rock, constantly honing his indomitable voice: an asphalt-laced linctus for the soul. While the memoir documents a struggle to find peace with himself, his album emphasizes the extent to which he came to realize that music is his life. [Limited indie-store exclusive clear vinyl pressing also available.]

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Bridget Kearney/Benjamin Lazar Davis – Still Flying CD (Verve)

Minimally equipped with a guitar, recording console and a tiny toy keyboard, longtime friends Benjamin Lazar Davis and Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney trekked to West Africa and struck up a collaboration with Stevo Atambire, legendary Ghanaian musician/master of the kologo. The duo’s full-length debut, Still Flying, features 11insightfully crafted songs, reimagining traditional gyil parts and drum patterns in the context of their own graceful collision of folk and pop and indie-rock.

Axel Rudi Pell – Sign Of The Times CD/LP (Steamhammer)

The 18th album from metal legend Axel Rudi Pell. Line up: Johnny Gioeli (Hardline,), Ferdy Doernberg (Rough Silk, Uli Jon Roth, Therion), Volker Krawczak (Steeler), Bobby Rondinelli (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult).

[Read more…] about New Releases for May 8, 2020

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Chicano Batman – Invisible People LP (ATO)

The L.A.-based quartet made up of Eduardo Arenas, Carlos Arevalo, Bardo Martinez and Gabriel Villa, follow-up the critically acclaimed breakthrough Freedom Is Free with their most sonically varied and cohesive album to date. Mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Shawn Everett (Beck, Alabama Shakes) the 12-song set accentuates the group’s high-spirited synthesis of Tropicalia, west coast psychedelia and late-’60s/early-’70s soul. [CD edition due May 29.]

Diet Cig – Do You Wonder About Me? CD/LP (Frenchkiss)

They’ve been compared to tornadoes, firecrackers, and lightning storms, and described as genuine, unapologetic, and down-to-earth. And now Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman of gutsy rock duo Diet Cig are back with their sophomore full-length, Do You Wonder About Me?, the follow-up to 2017’s Swear I’m Good At This. The new record marks a more intentional, self-assured Diet Cig; not only in Luciano’s radically intimate, acerbic lyrics, but in the duo’s sound as well. [Limited colored vinyl pressing also available.]

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Æther Realm – Redneck Vikings From Hell CD/LP (Napalm)

North Carolina’s Aether Realm reach melodic death metal maestro status with their latest full-length offering.

American Aquarium – Lamentations CD (New West)

[Read more…] about New Releases for May 1, 2020