• New Release Round-Up 01-11-19

  
  
  

  

  Old Sea Brigade - Ode To A Friend - Nettwerk Records
  Old Sea Brigade releases his highly anticipated full-length debut Ode To A Friend. While the songs remain rooted in Americana, indie, rock, and ambient soundscapes, they also toss and turn between analog cinematic flourishes and provocative lyricism. At times singer-songwriter, other times indie-rock – no matter the inspiration behind the mélange of styles, Cramer has created a soundscape of the utmost sincerity and beauty. Throughout Ode...Old Sea Brigade tackles one of life’s most complex crises: how to make each day’s fleeting moments amount to something. It's these deeply introspective, meditative songs that make Old Sea Brigade so compelling.
  
   
  
  
  
  

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  Taking Back Sunday - Twenty - Craft Recordings
  Twenty is a career retrospective, celebrating 20 years of Taking Back Sunday. The collection spans all seven of their full-length studio albums: Tell All Your Friends, Where You Want To Be, Louder Now, New Again, Taking Back Sunday, Happiness Is and Tidal Wave. Whether your introduction to the band was singing along to "A Decade Under The Influence" in a sweaty club or hearing "MakeDamnSure" or "Sink Into Me" on the radio, Twenty is a look back at some of the highlights from this genre-defying band. Additionally, fans will be able to hear newly recorded songs, which hint at the direction that Taking Back Sunday are heading in the coming years.
  
  

  

  Ski Mask the Slump God - Stokeley - Republic
  Ski Mask the Slump God releases his debut album Stokeley via Victor Victor / Republic Records. The breakout album includes the fan favorite, "Nuketown" featuring Juice WRLD as well as the underground hits "Foot Fungus" and "Faucet Failure."
  
   
  
  
  
  

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  Tommy Emmanuel / John Knowles - Heart Songs - CGP Sounds
  In music as in love, one + one can add up to not two but a new and greater one. On Heart Songs two of the world's greatest guitarists, Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles, make this clear. Both are masters of their instrument, honored by the iconic Chet Atkins with the rare designation of CGP (Certified Guitar Players). Their early journeys were dissimilar. Emmanuel began his in Australia, grew up on the road with his family's band, settled as a teenager in Sydney and left his rock band to launch a spectacular solo career. Knowles followed a more academic path, eventually earning a PH.D. in physics from Texas Christian University but then electing to pursue his true love of music. Inevitably they would cross paths, become friends and perform on stages and clinics around the world. Their styles are distinctive but for that very reason they mesh seamlessly, with Knowles generally creating sophisticated but compelling foundations over which Emmanuel's guitar soars in astonishing yet always musical flights.
  
  Soilwork - Verkligheten - Nuclear Blast America
  Soilwork has been around, in one form or another, for twenty years now. Some people say that they haven’t made anything worth listening to after “Steelbath Suicide”. Some have only heard “Stabbing The Drama. Some think “The Living Infinite”, the band’s 2013 double disc release, was quite epic. It’s all good. At this point in a band’s career, you can either choose the nostalgia route, playing old albums in their entirety, because that makes an easy package for promoters to sell. Verkligheten, the title of Soilwork’s latest offering, is the Swedish word for reality, the entity that we’re all trying to escape from. Verkligheten is their attempt to try and go somewhere else, to express all those things that are born in between hypnagogic states and frenzies of hyperrealism. SOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. They don’t have to try and tidy things up by using clichés like personal and/or musical differences. It has been hell. They are not young anymore, and their reality these days is the hellhounds on their tails, the ghosts in their subconscious and the coldness of existence that starts eating at the soul the very day that you leave the womb. We can no longer escape the fact that we’re vulnerable to the shortcomings of life itself.
  
  boy pablo - Soy Pablo + Roy Pablo - U OK?
  Norwegian 19 year old indie pop sensation boy pablo releases double EP on 2cd set full of winningly naïve but old soul pop. Disc 1 is the brand new Soy Pablo EP, featuring new single “Feeling Lonely” along with “Losing You” and “Sick Feeling.” Disc 2 is his Roy Pablo EP from 2017, never before released on CD. Tremendous press; Pitchfork, Fader, Pigeons & Planes, i-D. Touring the world this fall with two dates in LA… full US tour in Spring 2019. The EPs are also available on individual Vinyl pressings Soy Pablo EP [Light Blue Vinyl], Roy Pablo EP [White Vinyl].
  

  
  

   

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK	CURRENT SINGLES/EPs
  Born Of Osiris - The Simulation Randy Houser - Magnolia Jacob Banks - Village Gregory Porter - One Night Only (Live At The Royal Albert Hall) [CD/DVD] The Kentucky Headhunters - Live At The Ramblin' Man Fair Nailed To Obscurity - Black Frost & More .....	Meat Puppets - Nine Pins Galactic - Going Straight Crazy (Feat. Princess Shaw) Keuning - The Night Insane Clown Posse - Fury! Royal Trux - White Stuff Swervedriver - Spiked Flower Michael Franti & Spearhead - When The Sun Begins To Shine The Dandy Warhols - Motor City Steel Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave

   

  UPCOMING RELEASES 

  

  Guster - Look Alive - Nettwerk Records
  Guster's latest studio album Look Alive was produced by English musician, composer, and producer Leo Abrahams (Regina Spektor, Brian Eno/David Byrne, Belle and Sebastian, Chromatics). The forthcoming LP maintains the band’s unique charm while charting new sonic and lyric pathways. It will be available on CD, Vinyl, and Indie Exclusive Dandelion Yellow Vinyl.
  
  
  
  
  

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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

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• GRIZFOLK EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW

  

  Listen to alternative band Grizfolk's latest single “Spoonful,” which channels a retro sound to deliver a dark tale of yearning for someone out of reach. And check out their upcoming song [exclusively at this record store], "Heavy Crown," which melds a danceable bass line with jangly pianos to create an upbeat track that is sneakily about the tough subject of fighting for what's right in today's complicated world. See Grizfolk with Andrew McMahon & The Wilderness on tour and listen to their two latest singles now. 

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• New Release Round-Up 01-26-18

   

  

  Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us - New West Records
  Over the past two decades, a strong sense of place has shaped the music of Calexico, infusing their albums with a stylistic unpredictability and richness of texture. While 2015’s Edge of the Sun brought the Tucson-bred band to the Mexico City borough of Coyoacán, their new full-length The Thread That Keeps Us mostly came to life in a house studio near the Northern California coast nicknamed “The Phantom Ship” by CALEXICO vocalist/guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino.
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love - Merge Records
  Hollie Cook combines her unique vocal talent with charming charisma to craft her own dynamic strand of lovers rock with enduring tropical vibes, weaving a path from her West London roots to an arena of diverse collaborations, critically acclaimed records, and iconic live appearances around the world. Cook’s ability to continually surprise, delight, and progress solidifies her position as one of the most exciting voices in reggae, and this is crystal clear on her third full-length and Merge debut, Vessel of Love.
  
  Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin [LP] - Drag City
  Ty Segall goes all the way, flipping the Freedom coin to find passion, laughter and savagery on both sides. A head-spinning compendium of stompers, weepers, ballads, screamers, bangers and funker-uppers, all marking a different impasse, like a flag whirling into a knot, exploding and burning on contact, in the name of life and loathing and the pursuit of what you love.
  
  Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee [Red LP] - J&R Adventures
  It's been 4 years since the critically acclaimed, Grammy nominated, and #1 Billboard Blues album Seesaw was released by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa. They have reunited for Black Coffee - another collection of scorching interpretations of ten soul gems that pair Hart’s breathtaking vocals and Joe’s masterfully expressive playing. Featuring songs made famous by; Edgar Winter, Ray Charles, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Lucinda Williams and more. LP is 180g, red vinyl, and contains an exclusive bonus track.
  

  Nightmares On Wax - Shape The Future [2LP] - Warp Records
  One of the most influential artists of a generation and a long-standing member of the Warp Records family, Nightmares On Wax announces his new album Shape The Future. A perfect marriage of soul, hip-hop, dub and timeless club sounds that act as a salvo masterpiece of contemporary and classic genre-blending, brilliantly solidifying Nightmares On Wax place as an inspirational electronic music figurehead.
  
  Cornelius - Mellow Waves [LP] - Rostrum Records
  Acclaimed Japanese producer, composer, and recording artist Cornelius first proper studio album in over 11 years, featuring the singles If You're Here, Sometime / Someplace, and In a Dream. 180g black vinyl gatefold LP
  
  

  

  American Folk [Soundtrack] - American Folk Records
  American Folk is the soundtrack to the award-winning 2018 independent film, American Folk, starring Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth. In addition to both original compositions and classic folk song renditions by Purdy and Rubarth, the soundtrack includes John Prine's ''Some Humans Ain't Human'' and Jerry Garcia & David Grisman's ''Freight Train.''
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

  CURRENT SINGLES/EPs

  H.C. McEntire - Lionheart [LP] Steep Canyon Rangers - Out In The Open [LP] Django Django - Marble Skies [LP] Seth Macfarlane - In Full Swing [LP] Dream Wife - Dream Wife [LP] Jeff Lynne's ELO - Jeff Lynne's ELO: Wembley Or Bust [LP Box Set] Gord Downie - Coke Machine Glow [2LP] Gord Downie - Battle Of The Nudes [LP] Nils Frahm - All Melody [Vinyl] Craig David - The Time Is Now Mary Gauthier - Rifles & Rosary Beads [LP] Sarah Walk - Little Black Book [LP] Tribulation - Down Below [LP] Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs [2LP] Ben Miller Band - Choke Cherry Tree [LP] No Age - Snares Like A Haircut [LP] Sekel - Sekel [LP] Panic! At The Disco - All My Friends, We're Glorious: Death Of A Bachelor Tour Live [LP] Steve Hackett - Wuthering Nights: Live In Birmingham & More .....

  The Wood Brothers - Laughin' Or Crying - Single The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes - Single

   
  
  
  

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section and don't forget that many of these titles are also available on vinyl.

   

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