FYI Calendar of Upcoming Releases, April 22, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Peter Frampton, OMC,  Sufjan Stevens,Tom Jones, Alan Vega, Eric Church, Gilby Clarke, 

Canadian releases include albums by JayWood, Art d'Ecco, Paul Chin, Friendly Rich, Rich Aucoin, CODE Quartet, Charlotte Cardin, Laurence-Anne, and Lowell.

April

19: Paul Chin - Full Spectrum (Deluxe Remixes)

19: Friendly Rich - Live At The Cameron House

20:  Los Esplifs -ESTRAIK BACK! 

22: Tritonal - Reverence 

22: Sufjan Stevens - Revelations

23: Randy McAllister - Paperbag Salvation (Reaction Records)

23: Fog Lake -Tragedy Reel (Orchid Tapes)

23: Charlie Houston -  I Hate Spring EP (Arts & Crafts) 

23: Tristan Kasten-Krause -Potential Landscapes 

23: Birthday Ass - Head of the Household

23: OMC- How Bizarre -  vinyl reissue

23: Alan Vega – Mutator

23: Alfa Mist – Bring Backs

23: Altarage – Succumb

23: Black Fly – Black Fly 01

23: Lowell – Bloodthirsty (Music From The Motion Picture) EP

23:  Justin Moore – Straight Outta The Country

23: Motörhead – Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin

23:  PJ Harding and Noah Cyrus – People Don’t Change EP

23: Polly Paulusma – Invisible Music

23: Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy & Randy George – Cover 2 Cover (Reissue)

23:  Kaleo – Surface Sounds

23: Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix

23: The Peter Frampton Band – Frampton Forgets the Words

23: Chicane – Everything We Had To Leave Behind

23: Dans Dans – Zink

23:  Dan Wilson – Vessels of Wood and Earth

23: Eric Church – Soul

23:  Field Music – Flat White Moon

23: Brock Gonyea - Where My Heart Is (Big Machine Records). 

23:  From Sorrow To Serenity – Trifecta EP

23: Gang of Four – Gang of Four: 77-81 

 23: Gilby Clarke – The Gospel Truth

23: Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (Vinyl Reissue)

23: Steve Cropper – Fire It Up

23:  Cabaret Voltaire – BN9Drone

23: Black Wail - Born on Fire (Rhyme & Reason)

23:  Toumani Diabaté & the London Symphony Orchestra – Kôrôlén

23: Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds (Vinyl Reissue)

23: Oxlip -Your Mother Was A Peacock (Garment District Records)

23: Rag‘n’Bone Man - Life By Misadventure ( Columbia)

23: Tom Jones -Surrounded By Time (BMG)

23: glimmers- Worlds Apart (Common Ground Collective)

23: JayWood-Some Days (Royal Mountain Records/Captured Tracks)

23: Art d'Ecco - In Standard Definition (Paper Bag Records)

23: Yellow Ostrich - Soft  (Barsuk Records)

23: Remember Sports - Like a Stone (Father/Daughter Records)

23: Cream - Live At The Forum 1968 (UMC)

23: Proper Nouns  - Feel Free  (Phone Booth Records)

23: Erin Propp and Larry Roy - We Want All The Same Things (Chronograph Records)

23: TDA  - Ascète (Michel Records)

23: Rich Aucoin United States- deluxe version (Haven Sounds)

23: Animal Collective - Crestone (Original Score) 

23: CODE Quartet - Genealogy  (Justin Time Records)

23: Claire Rousay -  a softer focus (American Dreams Records)

23: Eric Johanson - Covered Tracks: Vol.1. 

23: Ditchbird - Real Enough For You Now

23: The Who - The Who Sell Out - deluxe edition (UMC)

23:  Laurence-Anne - Musivision (Bonsound)

23: Tom Jones - Surrounded By Time  (S-Curve Records/BMG)

23: Pet Shop Boys  - Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 concert

23: Jimmie Bratcher - I'm Hungry (Ain't Skeert Tunes)

23: The Rose Petals - American Grenadine 

23: Dinosaur Jr.  -Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)

23: WarCall  -Dead End Pt. 1 (Plan B Music)

23: Elvie Shane - County Roads

23: Harker - Axiom (Wiretap Records)

30: Paper Beat Scissors Mitad (Forward Music Group) 

23, Justin Moore - Straight Outta The Country (The Valory Music Co.)

26: Patrick Ballantyne - Love / Shadow / Dust (NorthwoodMusic)

29: Graham Brown Band – spirit and soul 

30: Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever  (Ninja Tune)

30: GROWING - Diptych  (Silver Current Records)

30:  Dree Leer - Throw Hands  (Bettamax Records)

30: Julia Michaels - S/T (UMC)

30: Fences -  Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble

30: Neb. - Silhouette Of Yesteryear

30: Thomas Rhett - Country Again, Side A ( Valory Music Group)

30: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty (BMG)

30: Amy Shark - Cry Forever

30: L’abîme - S/T  (Multiple Chord Music)

30: Authority Zero - The Back Nine

30: Bedroom - Stray

30: Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. - Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons (BMG)

30: Arts Fishing Club - The Show

30: Jackson Dean - S/T  (Big Machine Records)

30: Gabriel Evan-  Global Entry

30: The Saskatchewan All Star Big Band - The Saskatchewan Suite (Chronograph Records)

30: Noa -  Afterallogy

30: girl in red -if i could make it go quiet (AWAL)

30: Amy Speace and The Orphan Brigade -There Used To Be Horses Here

30: Broken Links - Conflict::States

30: Pink Floyd - Live At Knebworth 1990 (Sony Music)

30: Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (Loma Vista Recordings)

30: The Shootouts - Bullseye (Soundly Music)

30: Royal Blood - Typhoons (UMC)

30: The Halley Devestern Band - Money Ain't Time 

30: Guided By Voices -Earth Man Blues (Rockathon Records)

30:  Tōth - You And Me And Everything ( Northern Spy)

30: Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (Telephone Explosion)

30: Paul Jacobs  - Pink Dogs on The Green Grass ( Blow The Fuse)

30: Evile -  Hell Unleashed (Napalm Records)

30: Mick Fleetwood & Friends - Celebrating the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac (BMG)

30: VISSIA - With Pleasure (Hurry Hard Records/Symphonic Distribution)

30: Kristian North - Passion Play ( Mothland)

30: Tetrarch - Unstable (Napalm Records)

30: Choices Made - Reason For Conflict (Cursed Blessings Records)

30: Kenny Rogers -  21 Number Ones - vinyl (The Kenny Rogers Estate/Capitol Records/UMe)

30: Elsa Hewitt-  Lupa (Cargo Records)

30: Bob Bradshaw- The Ghost Light (Fluke Records)

30: Nick Hudson - Font Of Human Fractures 

30: Kulick - Sitting In A Quiet Coffeehouse

30: Rochelle Jordan - Play With the Changes ( Royal Mountain Records/Young Art Records)

May

6: Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (Asthmatic Kitty)

7: GHOST IRIS - Comatose (Long Branch Records)

7: Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp Records)

7: Robin McAuley- Standing On The Edge

7: CVLT OV THE SVN -  We Are The Dragon (Napalm)

7: Leftover Salmon - Brand New Good Old Days  (Compass Records)

7: Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney ( Easy Eye Sound)

7: Tommy’s RockTrip - Beat Up By Rock 'N Roll

7: Cold Moon- What’s The Rush

7: Harpoonist & Axe Murderer - Post-Apocalipstick

7: Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition - s/t  (Bandcamp)

7: Jeffery Straker  - Just Before Sunrise (Independent) 

7: Manolo Redondo -  The Lost & Found EP (Violette Records)

7: Van Morrison  -Latest Record Project: Volume 1 (Exile/BMG)

7: GoGo Penguin - GGP/RMX (Blue Note Records)

7: Jesse Maxwell -  Hellion

7: Results of Adults -  Interstellar Peach Delight  (Cornelius Chapel Records)

7: Treephones  - Pink Objects 

7: Nasimiyu -  P O T I O N S  (Figureight Records)

7: India Jordan - Watch Out (Ninja Tune)

7: Carola Ortiz - Pecata Beata (Segell Microscopi)

7: Tkay Maidza  Last Year was Weird Vol. 2    (4AD)

7: Cold Moon -What’s The Rush (Pure Noise Records)

7: Peter Murphy   - Deep (Clear vinyl) reissue (Beggars Banquet)

7: Peter Murphy  -  Holy Smoke  (Smoke vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

7: Man on Man - S/T (Polyvinyl Record Co. / Big Scary Monsters)

7: Daniel Bachman - Axacan (Three Lobed Records)

7: Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny  - Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain Records)

7: Results of Adults-  Interstellar Peach Delight  (Cornelius Chapel Records)

7: Scott B. Sympathy - Neil Yonge Street - reissue (Curve Music)

7: Scott B. Sympathy - Drinking With The Poet- reissue (Curve Music)

7: Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen (Telephone Explosion Records)

7: Sumo Cyco - Initiation  (Napalm Records! Interlaced )

7: TEKE::TEKE   Shirushi  (Ray-On)

7: The Accidentals  Time Out (Session 1)

7: Van Morrison - Latest Record Project: Volume 1 (Exile/BMG)

7: False Memories - The Last Night Of Fall ( Frontiers Music Srl)

7: Alphaville The Deluxe Editions Warner)

7: Alphaville  Afternoons In Utopia (Warner)

7: Slow Leaves  - Holiday (Birthday Cake Records)

7: Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse At The BBC” a 3xLP/ 3xCD  (UMC/Island)

12: Ian Janes - Episode 5 (Bandcamp)

14: The Go-Go’s =God Bless The Go-Go’s  (Eagle Records)

14: St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)

14 Paul and Linda McCartney - RAM Vinyl reissue

14: Great Lake Swimmers - Live At The Redeemer 2007 (weewerk)

14: Sarah Neufeld -Detritus (One Little Independent Records)

14: Siniestro- Vortexx ( Black Lodge Records)

14: John Andrews and The Yawns- Cookbook (Woodsist)

14: Szaio  - Obraz

14: Seventh Crystal -Delirium (Frontiers Music Srl)

14: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Déjà Vu  reissue (Rhino)

14: Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) (Black Box)

14: Pedestrian Lifestyle  -Nocturnal Sea

14: Shay Martin Lovette- Scatter & Gather 

14: Steve Goodman - It Sure Looked Good on Paper: The Steve Goodman Demos (Omnivore Recordings)

14: Sunbomb - Evil And Divine (Frontiers srl)

14: The Black Keys  Delta Kream (Nonesuch Records)

14: Rodrigo y Gabriela JAZZ EP (ATO)

14: The Deep Dark Woods - Changing Faces (Six Shooter Records)

14: Belvedere - Hindsight is The Sixth Sense (Thousand Islands Records)

14: Seventh Crystal - Delirium (Frontiers Music Srl)

18: Ken Tizzard - All Together Now

20: Amai Kuda et Les Bois - EmUrgency! 

21: Gary Numan - Intruder

21: Monster Magnet -  A Better Dystopia (Napalm Records)

21: My Bloody Valentine - Catalog released on vinyl (Domino) May 21, 2021 

21: We Were Sharks - New Low (Revival Recordings)

21: Ayron Jones - Child of The State (Big Machine/John Varvatos Records)

21: Nineteen Hand Horse -  Revel

21: Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO 111 (FORESEEN Entertainment / Epistrophik Peach Sound)

21: The Palace Guard -All Night Long: And Anthology, 1965-1966 (Omnivore)

21: Vexed - Culling Culture (Napalm)

21: Betty Moon - Cosmicoma (Evolver Music)

21: Pop Evil  - Versatile (eOne) 

21:  Cat Clyde and Jeremie Albino -  Blue Blue Blue (Cinematic Music Group)

21: Gavin Preller There Is Wonder  (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)

21: Rod Picott - Wood, Steel, Dust & Dreams 

21: Eamonn McCormack - Storyteller (BEM Records/Amplified Distribution)

21: Jim McCulloch - When I Mean What I Say (Violette Records)

21:  Ducks Ltd. -  Get Bleak (Royal Mountain Records (Canada)

 21: Kaktus Einarsson - Kick The Ladder ( One Little Independent)

21: Twenty One Pilots -Scaled And Icy (Fueled By Ramen)

21: CHAI - Wink (Sub Pop)

21: Mdou Moctar    Afrique Victime  (Matador)

21: Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (Mothland)

21: PACKS -take the cake (Fire Talk/Royal Mountain Records)

21: Gruff Rhys  - Seeking New Gods  (Rough Trade)

21: Bob Malone -Good People 

21: Lambchop  Showtunes (Merge)

21: Art Bergmann - Late Stage Empire Dementia (Weewerk/Porterhouse Records)

21: San Holo - BB U OK? (Counter Records)

25: Annette Peacock. X-Dreams  (Sundazed)

25: Lucy Dacus  -Home Video” (Clear vinyl)  (Matador)

25: Spitbloy-  Body of Work (1990-1995) 

28: André Ethier- Further Up Island  (Telephone Explosion)

28: Portico Quartet - Terrain (Gondwana Records)

28: Masayoshi Fujita  - Bird Ambience (Erased Tapes)  

28: Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions  

28: k.d. lang -  makeover (Nonesuch)

28: Stormruler- Under The Burning Eclipse (Napalm Records)

28: black midi - Cavalcade   (Rough Trade)

28: Fiona Brown- Mundane

28: Mustafa -  When Smoke Rises

28: Serlin Greaves-  Sad Songs For Sale (Fifth Kid Records)

28: Sef Lemelin - Modulation (Hopeful Tragedy)

28: GWAR -The Disc With No Name (Pit Records)

28: Beth Whitney - Into the Ground

28: Emma Currie - Welcome to the Wild 

28: Nina Simone: The Montreux Years (Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG)

28: Etta James: The Montreux Years (Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG)

28: Patti Parks - Whole Nother World (Booga Music/VizzTone)

28: Hillsburn - Slipping Away (LHM Records)

28: Nadjiwan - Star Nation (Heading North Music)

28: Various artists - Moon-Drenched (Castle Face Records)

28: Texas - Hi ( BMG)

June

4: Satsang - All. Right. Now. (SideOneDummy Records)

4: Dobet Gnahoré -  Couleur (Cumbancha) 

4: cleopatrick- Bummer (Nowhere Special Recordings, distributed by Thirty Tigers)

4: The Mumps- box set reissue (Omnivore Recordings)

4: Van Canto-  To The Power Of Eight  (Napalm Records)

4: Talk Show Host - Mid Century Modern (Wiretap Records)

4: Billy Gibbons -Hardware (Concord Records)

4: Woody & Jeremy - Gravy in my Coffee

4: Black River Delta - Shakin' (Sofaburn Records)

4: Jonny Kosmo - Pastry (Feeding Tube)

4: Mndsgn - Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw Records)

4: Angela Autumn - Frontiers Woman

4: Squarepusher  -Feed Me Weird Things 25th Anniversary Edition (WARP)

4: Reid Zoé -  EP Shed My Skin

4: Rod Stewart  1975-78 Box Set Vinyl (Rhino)

4: Atreyu - Baptize (Spinefarm Records)

4: Ormiston - Hammer Down (Lisbon Lux Records)

4: Loraine James - Reflection  (Hyperdub)

4: Peter Kater - Rapture

4: easy life - life’s a beach (Interscope Records)

4: Liz Phair - Soberish (Chrysalis Records)

4: Paris Pick -Hope For The Best (Care Records)

4: Poté - A Tenuous Tale of Her (Outlier)

4: Various Artists - Unbroken | Empty Room, Full Circle (Grand Ole Opry) 

4: Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (BMG)

4: Hildegard - S/T 

10:  Brad Sucks  A New Low In Hi-Fi 

11: Hammer King - S/T  ( Napalm)

11: Jim Ward - Daggers (Dine Alone Records)

11: Brother Against Brother - S/T (Frontiers Srl)

11:  Def Leppard -Def Leppard – Volume Three (UMe/Virgin)

11:  Dennis DeYoung - 26 East, Vol. 2 (Frontiers Music Srl)

11: Islands -  Islomania (Royal Mountain Records)

11: Ruth B. - Moments In Between ( Downtown Records)

11: Courtney Wolfe- New Moon

11: The Wirelight - Megaturquoise

11: Dany Laj and the Looks - Ten Easy Pieces, (We Are Busy Bodies)

11: The Hello Darlins - Go By Feel!

11: Crypta - Echoes of the Soul (Napalm Records)

11: AFI- Bodies (Rise Records) 

11: The Scientists - Negativity  (In The Red Records)

11: K-Flay EP (BMG) 

12: Warpaint   The Fool - Andrew Weatherall Mixes  (Rough Trade)

12: Mark Lanegan  Here Comes That Weird Chill  (Beggars Banquet)

12: Tune-Yards    whokill (10th Anniversary Splattered Vinyl Edition)  (4AD)

12: Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Soulsuckers On Parade (Minky Records)

12: Perfume Genius - Immediately Remixes  (Matador)

18:  Rory Feek -Gentle Man  (Gaither Music)

18: Subway to Sally - Eisheilige Nacht - Back to Lindenpark (Napalm)

18: Tara Williamson -  Enough

18: Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange (Rounder)

18: Tigercub - As Blue As Indigo (Blame Recordings)

18: Ashley Riley - Set You Free

18, Various Artists-  Alligator Records -- 50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin’ Music. (Alligator)

18: The Rare Occasions - Big Whoop

18: Nick Ferrio - Television Of Roses

24: Loony - soft thing 

25: Dana Sipos - The Astral Plane (Roaring Girl)

25: Janette King - What We Lost (Hot Tramp Records)

25: Dave Kalz - Relish (Gulf Coast Records)

25: The Murlocs-   Bittersweet Demons (ATO Records)

25: Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones - Here to Tell the Tale

25: Neufeld - Craig's OTHER Brother - vinyl ( Thousand Islands Records)

25: Peter Murphy  -  Cascade (2LP) (Scarlet vinyl) reissue ( Beggars Banquet)

25: Peter Murphy  - The Last and Only Star Rarities ( Beggars Banquet)

25: Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)

25: Ellis - nothing is sacred anymore EP

25: GoldenOak -  Room To Grow

25: Helvetia- Essential Aliens (Joyful Noise)

25: Hiraes -Solitary (Napalm Records)

25: Tom Odell - monsters (Columbia)

25:  I M U R - My Molecules

25: Joni Mitchell - The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)- Song to a Seagull, Clouds,  Ladies of the Canyon, and Blue 4 CD set

26: Jeremy Jay -  Devils Daughters (Switchblade Sound)

July

9: Powerwolf-  Call Of The Wild  (Napalm Records)

16: Stephen Fretwell -Busy Guy (Speedy)

16: Boy Golden - Church of Better Daze ,(Six Shooter)

23: Darkside - Spiral (2Lp)    (Matador)

23: Various Artists  -Bills & Aches & Blues (2LP 4AD 40th Anniversary Compilation)   (4AD)

23: 2Pac - Until The End Of Time (UMC)

23: Left Field Messiah -  In Praise of Bombast   (Riptide)

23: Erika de Casier - Sensational” (Clear vinyl)  (4AD)

30: The Effens - Eventually (Hidden Pony/LootBag Records)

30: Nobody's Girl - Folk and Heavenly Pop  ( Lucky Hound Music)

30: Prince - Welcome 2 America

August

6: John Moods  -So Nice  (Arbutus Records)

6: Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of Light (Severn Songs)

13: Jungle - Loving In Stereo (AWAL)

13: Lucinda Chua   Antidotes  (4AD)

13: Suzie Ungerleider - My Name is Suzie Ungerleider (MVKA) 

20:  LTtheMonk - On The Wall (Sonic Unyon Records)

20: Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die ( Elektra/Low Country Sound)

20: Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks of the Trade 

20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)

24: School of X -  Dancing Through The Void 

27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)

October

1: Moist -  End of the Ocean (Known Accomplice)

8: Bardo Pond - Amanita 2LP 25th Anniversary Reissue  (Matador)

Canadian artists marked in red