By Kerry Doole
Artists with new albums out this week include Jethro Tull, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Texas Hippie Coalition, Ian Hunter, The Infamous Stringdusters, Enter Shikari, Ghost Love, Brian Eno, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Bella White, and Esther Rose.
Canadian releases in a busy week include Tenille Townes, Marc Jordan, Stefana Fratila, Louise Burns, Kat Duma, Claire Davis, Abigail Lapell, Stars, Five Roses, Sophie Lukacs, Wayfinding, Benjamin Russell,Mac DeMarco, Brutal Youth, and Tim & The Glory Boys.
April 20: Melanie MacLaren -Tourist 21: Louise Burns - Element (Light Organ Records) 21: Jethro Tull - RökFlöte (InsideOutMusic) 21: St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Angels In Science Fiction (ATO Records) advertisement 21: Brantley Gilbert - O Help Me God -deluxe (The Valory Music Co.) 21: Five Roses - Jukebox Vibrations Deluxe Edition EP (MDM Recordings Inc./Universal Music Canada) 21: Tenille Townes - Train Track Worktapes 21: Marc Jordan - Waiting For The Sun To Rise (Linus) 21: Texas Hippie Coalition - The Name Lives On (MNRK Heavy) 21: Stefana Fratila - I want to leave this Earth behind (Halocline Trance) 21: Wayfinding - S/T (Victory Pool) 21: Perlee - Speaking From Other Rooms 21: Cinder Well - Cadence (Free Dirt Records) 21: Kat Duma - Real Life 21: Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 1 21: The Infamous Stringdusters -A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs 21: Rodrigo y Gabriela = In Between Thoughts...A New World (ATO Records) 21: Jerome Forde - S/T (weewerk) 21: Melissa Pipe - Of What Remains ( ODD SOUND) 21: Bella White -Among Other Things, 21: The Noise Who Runs - Preteretrospective 21: Martha Groves Perry - Call Out 21: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time - deluxe (Outside Music) 21: Sophie Lukacs - BAMAKO 21: Benjamin Russell - Frontier 21: Amelouk - Solar Wind 21: Sarah Aroeste- Savor advertisement 21: Tim & The Glory Boys - S/T 21: Rachel McIntyre Smith - Glory Daze (Acoustic) 21: Joey Frendo - Bound for Heartache 21: Silver Moth - Black Bay (Bella Union) 21: Enter Shikari - A Kiss For The Whole World (SO Recordings / Ambush Reality) 21: Stars - From Capelton Hill Deluxe LP (Last Gang Records/MNRK) 21: Claire Davis - Get It Right (LRK Records) 21: Esther Rose - Safe to Run (New West) 21: Brutal Youth -Rebuilding Year (Stomp Records) 21: Mac DeMarco - One Wayne G 21: Ghost Love - Mourners Disco 21: Brian Eno - Forever Voiceless 23: Robyn Hitchcock - Life After Infinity 23: Bernice - Cruisin' (Telephone Explosion) 24: Biel Martí - Somnis per a tu i per a mi 26: Arctistic - Anirniq 27: Spitty - PEEL Vol. 3 27: Eamon McGrath and The Hills Mover - Roaming ( Iskra Cassettes) 28: Ben Copperhead - Wailing Viridescence (Shimmy-Disc) 28: Various Artists - World Party 4 EP(Putumayo Discovery) 28: Dead Sea Apes - Rewilding (Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records) 28: Raveis Kole - In The Moment 28: Taj Mahal - Savoy (Stony Plain) 28: Nate Smith - S/ T -regular and deluxe editions advertisement 28: VOLK - Stand the Test 28: Various Artists - Nomark Selects V.1 (Nomark Records) 28: Sass Jordan - Live in New York Ninety-Four (Deko Entertainment) 28: Great Lake Swimmers - Uncertain Country (Harbour Songs / Fontana) 28: Photo Ops - Burns Bright (Paul Is Dead) 28: Single Mothers - Roy (Dine Alone Records) 28: The Damned - Darkadelic ((earMUSIC) 28: Del Barber - Almanac (Acronym) 28: Harrison - Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees ( Last Gang Records/MNRK) 28: The Rifters - The Enchanted World (Howlin' Dog Records) 28: Madison Cummingham - Revealer 28: Lawn Chair - - Eat The Beans and Wear The Jeans! advertisement 28: Joseph - The Sun (ATO) 28: The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein (Limited Edition Indie Red Vinyl) (4AD) 28: You Said Strange - Thousand Shadows Vol. 2 (EXAG / Le Cépe Records) 28: Bedroom - Thread 28: A CLOUD OF RAVENS - Lost Hymns ( Nexilis Records / Schubert Music Europe) 28: Rudy De Anda - Closet Botanist (Colemine/Karma Chief Records) 28: Gord Bamford - Fire It Up (Anthem Records) 28: Neev - Katherine (Trapped Animal) 28: Braids - Euphoric Recall (Secret City) 28: Peach PRC - EP Manic Dream Pixie (Republic Records) 28: Sierra Pilot - Phantom Pains 28: The Davisson Brothers Band -Home Is Where The Heart Is ( Rollin’ The Dice Records) 28: Love And Rockets - Earth Sun Moon (Remastered) (Beggars Banquet) 28: Love And Rockets - S/T (Remastered) (Beggars Banquet) 28: Zoon - Bekka Ma'iingan (Paper Bag Records) 28: Lumiere - Glam (Bonsound) 28: Rickie Lee Jones - Pieces of Treasure (BMG Modern Recordings) 28: Run Katie Run - Cowboy Boots with Fishnet Tights 28: Andrina Turenne - Bold As Logs 28: Tomten - Artichoke (Plume) 28: Susanne Sundfør - blómi (Bella Union) 28: Moreish Idols – Lock Eyes & Collide (Speedy Wunderground) May 2: Jesse Mac Cormack-SOLO_2 (Secret City Records) 3: Witch Prophet - Gateway Experience (Heart Lake Records) 3: Days of Lavender -Mary's Garden 4: Awkward Branches - Melody for a Friend' (Tip Top Recordings) 4: Feathership -Peace Talks 5: Dear-God - The Punchline (Dine Alone) 5: Artemis - In Real Time (Blue Note) 5: PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm - Medna Roso (Red Hook Records) 5: Various Artists - Acoustic World 5 EP (Putumayo Discovery) 5: Jenny Owen Youngs - OFFAIR: from the forest floor (OFFAIR records) 5: Rodney Crowell - The Chicago Sessions advertisement 5: Tawahum - Bottled Lightning 5: Gord Downie & Bob Rock - Lustre Parfait (Arts & Crafts) 5: Iguana Death Cult Echo Palace 5: 7ebra -Bird Hour (PNKSLM) 5: Amos the Kid -The Enough as it Was ( House of Wonders Records) 5: Jughead's Revenge - Vultures ( SBAM) 5: IDK - F65 5: Mouraine - In Search of Gold (Birthday Cake Records) 5: Bailen - Tired Hearts (Fantasy) 5: The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks) 5: Angela Petrilli - The Voices 5: Logan Halstead - Dark Black Coal 5: Blood Ceremony- The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above Records) 5: Eilen Jewell - Get Behind The Wheel (Signature Sounds) 5: Erika Olson - This Is How I Pray 5: Symphony Orchestra- Radiant Music (Telephone Explosion) 5: Emily King - Special Occasion (ATO Records) 5: Jax Hollow - Only the Wild Ones 5: Flowers Of Hell - Odes -(Space Age Recording) 5: Whitehall - Maizy 10: L CON - The Isolator (Idée Fixe Records) 10: Keegan Powell- Fear Be Gone 10: Softlung - Second Chances 12: Rahill -Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada) 12: Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints' - Bridge of Love (Dala Records / BQE Records) advertisement 12: Artie Roth - Resonants (TPR Records) 12: Mike Gordon - Flying Games (ATO Records/Megaplum) 12: The Courettes - Boom! Dynamite (An Introduction To The Fabulous Courettes) 12: Michael Jerome Browne - Gettin' Together (Borealis) 12: David Deacon – Four (Slammin Media) 12: Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention (Skint Records) 12: Jeff Carson - 448 12: Eliana Cuevas - Seré Libre (Alma Records) 12: Teri Gender Bender -CATSPEAK ( Clouds Hill) 12: Christian Balvig - Night Poem 12: Overmono - Good Lies (Limited Edition Indie Crystal Clear Vinyl) (XL Recordings) 12: Ky - Power is the Pharmacy (Constellation) 12: Various artists - Love Again (Soundtrack from The Motion Picture) (Sony) 12: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition (Sony) 12: Eric Silverman - Stay In It 12: Bruce Cockburn - O Sun O Moon (True North Records) 12: Pilc, Moutin, Hoenig - You're The Song’(Justin Time) 12: Charlotte Cornfield - Could Have Done Anything (Next Door Records) 12: BC Camplight- The Last Rotation Of Earth (Bella Union) 12: Ron Hawkins - Trash Talkin’ At The Speed Of Sound (Sonic Envy) 12: The Cult The Cult (2 LP Limited Edition Cream Vinyl) (Beggars Archive) 12: Jonas Brothers - The Album 12: Bohannons -Night Construction (Cornelius Chapel Records) 12: Vivek Shraya - Baby, You’re Projecting (Mint Records) 12: Jenny Bakke - Morild ( 9AM Records) 12: Zoe Ackah - This Hen 18: Ghost - PHANTOMIME 19: Layng Martine Jr. -Music Man (Bloodshot/KRS) 19: Eyes of Others - S/T (Heavenly Recordings) 19: Sufjan Stevens - Reflections (Asthmatic Kitty Records). 19: The Used - Toxic Positivity (Big Noise) 19: Summer Walker - Clear 2: Soft Life 19: Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness. - deluxe reissue (New West) 19: Thee Oh Sees - Live at LEVITATION 19: NQ Arbuckle - Love Songs For The Long Game (Six Shooter) 19: Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton -Death Wish Blues (Rounder Records) 19: Various Artists - Speech Vol. 3. (Bravomusique) 19: The Orion Experience - Cosmicovers 19: Temps -Party Gator Purgatory (Bella Union) 19: bar italia - Tracey Denim CD (Matador) - vinyl out Sept. 8 19: Stella Rose - Eyes Of Glass (KRO Records) 19: Salami Rose Joe Louis - Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder) 19: The Ironsides -Changing Light (Colemine Records)) 19: Robin Spielberg - Downtown 19: Justin Rutledge - Something Easy (Outside) 19: Leith Ross - To Learn 19: Chris Velan - Songs About Songs 19: Leftover Salmon - Grass Roots 26: Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Island) 26: The Orielles - The Goyt Method EP (Heavenly) 26: d4vd - Petals to Thorns (Darkroom/Interscope) 26: Tyler Posey - Unravel 26: Elegant Weapons - Horns for a Halo (Nuclear Blast Records) 26: Arrows in Action - Built To Last 26: Alex Exists - Everybody’s Famous (Except Me) (The Confidence Emperors) 26: Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed (Opaque Red Vinyl) (Matador) 26 Isata Kanneh-Mason - Childhood Tales (UMC) 26: Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill (Domino) 26: Versus The World - The Bastards Live Forever 26: Laila Biali - Your Requests, Volume 1 26: Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine 26 Nonso Amadi -And When It Blooms (UMC) 26: The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions (Dine Alone) 26: JW-Jones - Everything Now (Solid Blues/Stony Plain Records) 26: Kieli - From Summer To Spring ( Cognitive Shift) 26: Arrows in Action - Built to Last 26: Divine Sweater - Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse) (Better Company Records) 26: Stimmerman - Undertaking 31: Echlo - I Was I June 2: The Northern Pikes - TIME to TIME 2: The Revivalists - Pour It Out Into The Night (Concord Records) 2: Half Moon Run - Salt (BMG) 2: Steve Forbert - Streets of Town: Revisited (Blue Rose) 2: CAST - Identities 2: Jack Johnson - In Between Dub (Brushfire/Republic Records/UMC) 2: Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy (BMG) 2: Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert (Domino) 2: Dr. John - The Montreux Years (BMG & The Montreux Jazz Festival) 2: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (Sony) 2: Terry Ohms - Rock Songs (Ol' Elegante) 2: Sarah Pagé - Voda (Backward Music) 2: Ben Folds - What Matters Most (New West Records) 2: Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts deluxe (UMC) 2: Katie Callahan - EXTRAORDINARY 2: Lanterns on the Lake - Versions of Us (Bella Union) 2: Ashnikko - Weedkiller (Parlophone Records) 2: Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But a Dream... 2: Frankiie-Between Dreams (Paper Bag Records) 2: Don't Sleep - See Change ( End Hits Records) 2: Tanya Tucker - Sweet Western Sound (Fantasy Records) 9: Braxe + Falcon - Step By Step Remixes (Domino) 9: King Krule - Space Heavy {Limited Edition Indie Clear Vinyl) (Matador) 9: This Is The Kit - Careful of Your Keepers (Limited Edition Indie Dark Green Vinyl) (Rough Trade) 9: Jeremie Albino - Tears You Hide 9: Jayda G - Guy (Pirates Blend) 9: TEKE::TEKE - Hagata (Kill Rock Stars) 9: Keaton Henson - House Party (Play It Again Sam) 9: David James Allen - By The Summertime (Littleknown Records) 9: Tracy Nelson - Life Don't Miss Nobody (BMG) 9: Joanna Connor -Best of Me ( Gulf Coast Records) 9: My Morning Jacket - MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome) ( ATO Records) 9: Summersets - Small Town Story 9: Tom Grennan - What Ifs & Maybes (Insanity) 9: Envy of None - That Was Then, This Is Now (Kscope) 9: Selwyn Birchwood - Exorcist (Alligator Records) 9: Jenny Lewis - Joy’All, (Blue Note/Capitol Records) 9: Nicky Schrire- Nowhere Girl (Anzic Records) 9: Chase Matthew - Come Get Your Memory (Warner) 9: Superbloom -Life's A Blur 9: Squid - O Monolith (Warp Records) 9: Niall Horan - The Show (UMC) 16: Rodeo Boys - S/T (Don Giovanni) 16: Tim O'Brien - Cup of Sugar (Howdy Skies Records) 16: Joel Hoekstra's 13 - Crash of Life 16: Drive-By Truckers - The Complete Dirty South ( New West) 16: Various Artists -Acoustic Latino ( Putumayo Discovery) 16: Dallas Burrow - Blood Brothers (Soundly Music) 16: Wolfie’s Just Fine - Everyone Is Dead Except Us (Normal Guy Records) 16: J.E Sunde - Alice, Gloria and Jon (Vietnam Label) 21: Jenn Grant - Champagne Problems 21: Terry Uyarak - Unnauq (Aakuluk Music) 23: Valley - Lost In Translation (Capitol Records/Universal Music Canada) 23: Bettie Serveert - Palomino (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Orange LP + 7”) (Matador) 23: Ayron Jones - Chronicles of the Kid (Big Machine/John Varvatos Records) 23: Castle Frank - In Your Blood 23: The Watson Twins - Holler (Bloodshot) 23: Thomas Andrew Doyle - Forgotten Sciences 23: Cody Lawless - Sunshine State of a Happy Camper, ( MNRK Music Group) 23: Mise en Scene Reality Bites (Light Organ Records) 23: Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun (Loma Vista Records) 23: Shakti - This Moment 23: Tommy Prine - This Far South 23: Jason Mraz - Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride 30: Dwellings - Little Garden 30: Pierre Kwenders - Jose Louis And The Paradox of Love (deluxe) (Arts & Crafts) 30: Various Artists - Bossa Nova (Putumayo) July 7: Ghost Car - Truly Trashed ( One Little Independent Records) 14: shy kids - house cats ( Everything Forever) 14: Rita Ora - You & I (BMG) 14: Poppy Ackroyd -Pause Reimagined 28: Georgia - Euphoric (Domino) 28: Dexys -The Feminine Divine (100% Records) August 10: Swimm - Best Comedown Ever 11: Jungle -Volcano 11: Public Image Ltd. - End of the World 25: Kurt Vile - Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze (10th Anniversary Edition) ( Indie Yellow Double Vinyl ) (Matador) September 1: Puma Blue - S/T (Blue Flowers) 8: Patrick Krief - Skylines (Indica Records) 15: Elisapie - Inuktitut (Bonsound) 29: Jeremy Voltz - Running Away Canadian artists marked in red |