FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, April 28, 2022

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Norah Jones, Atmosphere, Bloc Party, Penguin Cafe, Action Bronson, Future, Miranda Lambert,  Willie Nelson, and Paddy and the Rats.

Canadian artists with new releases in a very busy week include Corb Lund, Gus Englehorn, Steven Lambke, St. Arnaud, Lydia Persaud, Allegories, Alex Radeff & Donkey, Tomson Highway, Julie Doiron and Dany Placard, Central Heat Exchange, Willie Stratton, Frog Eyes, Yannick Rieu, Pierre Kwenders, Dead Levee, Susan Aglukark, and Dana Gavanski.

April

26:  Brown Bird -  Live from Newport

26: Alex Radeff & Donkey  - What Happened In The Night...

26: Tomson Highway - Cree Country

26: Dead Levee - Rise Up

27: The Mellons - - Introducing... The Mellons!  (Earth Libraries)

27: Atmosphere -Lucy Ford - vinyl edition (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

27: Michael Johnathon Afterburn (PoetMan Records)

27: Personal Trainer - Reflex 

28: TWÏNS - The Human Jazz  (Earth Libraries)

29: Gus Englehorn - Dungeon Master  (Secret City Records)

29: Norah Jones - Come away With Me - deluxe (UMC)

29: Eleganza -Water Valley High  (Dial Back Sound)

29: Dj Unknown - Dj Unknown's Android Repair Service Vol. 2 (URBNET)

29:  Julie Doiron and Dany Placard -Julie & Dany  (Simone Records)

29: Bloc Party - Alpha Games  ( Infectious / BMG)

29: The Flashing Lights - Where the Change Is - vinyl (Murderecords)

29: Marian - Hit Record

29: Shaina Hayes - to coax a waltz

29: Willie Stratton  -Drugstore Dreamin’

29: Tegan Johnston -  Sentimental Ballad

29: Steven Lambke - Volcano Volcano (You've Changed)

29: Gina Sicilia - Unchange (VizzTone)

29: Action Bronson  - Cocodrillo Turbo (Loma Vista)

29: The Adema Manoukas Octet - New Roots 

29: Central Heat Exchange - DELUXE (Birthday Cake)

29: Louise Quinn & Gates of Light - S/T  Vinyl Edition (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise)

29: MattstaGraham - Prescribe Whatever ( I Surrender Records)

29: Miranda Lambert -  Palomino (Vanner Records/RCA Nashville)

29: Glass Museum - Reflet (Sdban Ultra label)

29: Seratones  - Love & Algorhythms (New West)

29: Family Shiloh - At The Cold Copper Ranch 

29: Peter Donovan - This Better Be Good

29: Pershagen - Hilma

29: St. Arnaud - Love and the Front Lawn. (Fierce Panda)

29: Lydia Persaud - MOODY31 ( Next Door Records)

29: Allegories-Endless (Hidden Pony Records)

29: Mall Girl  - Superstar  (Jansen Records)

29: Poets of the Fall  - Ghostlight

29: Yannick Rieu -  Qui Qu’en Grogne (Yari Productions)

29: Miranda Lambert - Palomino ( RCA Nashville)

29: Thunder - Dopamine (BMG)

29: Dana Gavanski - When It Comes 

29: Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal (Domino)

29: The Blue And Gold - S/T 

29: Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this… (Saddle Creek)

29: Susan Aglukark - The Crossing (Fontana North)

29: Angie Goeke - If I Were Honest

29: Sofi Tukker - Wet Tennis

29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry

29: Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote (Warner)

29: Paddy and the Rats- From Wasteland To Wonderland, (Napalm Records)

29: Future - I Never Liked You (Freebandz/Epic Records)

29: Izaak Opatz  Extra Medium (Mama Bird Recording Co)

29: Pierre Kwenders -José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)

29: Velcrocranes - What If I Die (InsideOutMusic)

29: Kehlani blue water road(Warner)

29: Frog Eyes -The Bees

29: Blossoms -  Ribbon Around The Bomb

29: Willie Nelson - A Beautiful Time 

29: Scalping - Void (Houndstooth)

30: Robert Thomas and the Sessionmen - Parallel Lines

May

5: Fist - Alive

5: Absolutely Free - How To Repaint Clouds(Boiled)

5: Domanique Grant – QUEEN/DOM Chapter 1 – Queen

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

6: Yawners Duplo  (Big Scary Monsters)

6: The Builders and The Butchers - Hell & High Water (Badman Recording Co.)

6: Zakoor - Life Cycle

6: !!!  -Let It Be Blue ( Warp Records)

 6: Valorie Miller - Only The Killer Would Know  (Blackbird Record Label)

6: Marc Jordan and Amy Sky - He Sang She Sang  ( Linus Entertainment)

6: Anyway Gang - Still Anyways (Royal Mountain)

6: Cliffdiver -Exercise Your Demons (SideOneDummy Records) 

6:John Mayall- The Sun Is Shining Down (Fontana North)

6: col3trane - Lush Life (UMC)

6: Cody Frost - Teeth

6: Bad Planning - Et Fortes (Jump Start Records)

6: Ori Dagan -Click Right Here (Bandcamp)

6: Hogtown Allstars - Hog Wild (Stony Plain)

6: The Actual Goners - Lost Highway

6: Ibeyi  -Spell 31  (XL Recordings)

6: Zach Willdee -  Heart That Ain't Tame 

6: Tone Ranger - Desert Rose  (Casa Animalia)

6: Ellevator - The Words You Spoke Still Move Me ( Arts & Crafts)

6: Blunt Chunks - S/T  (Telephone Explosion Records)

6: The Black Crowes - 1972 

6: Bryan Ferry -  Love Letters 

6: Graham Nash, Live – Songs for Beginners / Wild Tales

6: The Knack -  Live at the House of Blues

6: Sheryl Crow -  Sheryl: Music From the Feature Documentary (2CD set)

6: Stoney & Meatloaf - Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings

6: Timothy B. Schmit - Day by Day

6: Whitesnake - Greatest Hits (vinyl reissue)

6: Wilma Vritra - Grotto (Bad Taste)

6: Maximum Joy - BBC Radio 1 Sessions (London Field Recordings)

6: Annika - Stand Still: Side A 

6: Ariane Racicot - Envolée (Multiple Chord Music)

6: Kelly Hoppenjens- Can't Get The Dark Out

6: Kaleidobolt -  This One Simple Trick

6: Emeli Sandé  - Let’s Say For Instance (Chrysalis Records)

6: James Lee Baker - Impressions 

6: Love & Pain - It Comes in Waves

6: Noah Deemer - The Sleepwalker

6: Jani Liimatainen -  My Father's Son (Frontiers Music Srl )

6: Gabriella Marinaro - Inner Space 

6: Arcade Fire - WE (Columbia)

6: Anna Calvi - Tommy

6: Gooseberry -  EP Broken Dance

6: Kisskadee -  Black Hole Era (Anxiety Blanket Records)

6 Jeff Scott Soto - Complicated

6: Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included

6: The Rumjacks & Flatfoot 56 - The Split EP

6: Sheryl Crow - Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary ( UMe/Big Machine Records)

6: Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous    (Matador)

6: Zach Willdee - Heart That Ain't Tame

6: Maryze - 8 (Hot Tramp Records)

6: Tennessee Stiffs - Dearly Departed  

6: Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools ( ATO Records)

6: Yawners - Duplo (Big Scary Monsters)

6: The Waterboys - All Souls Hill’ (Cooking Vinyl)

6: Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch

6: Lord Of The Lost - The Heartbeat Of The Devil

6: Fozzy -  Boombox

6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia

10: Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions

10: Kobo Town- Carnival of the Ghosts 

11: Keegan Powell - Previous Pain

12: Group Project EP happily catastrophic (via Spectra Musique)

13: Dreaded Laramie-  EP Everything A Girl Could Ask (Wiretap / Sell The Heart/ Engineer Records)

13: Craig David - 22

13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)

13: Wayne Willingham - Temptation Row 

13: Eucalyptus - Moves (Telephone Explosion Records)

13: Busty and the Bass - Karneval (A&C)

13: Visions of Atlantis - Pirates ( Napalm Records) 

13: Steve Forbert - Moving Through America (Blue Rose)

13: Chad Lawson - irreplaceable  (Decca Records/Universal Music Canada)

13: Florence & The Machine - Dance Fever(UMC)

13: Dual Unity - S/T

13: Mama's Broke - Narrow Line (Free Dirt Records)

13: Pulley - The Golden Life (SBÄM Records)

13: The Pineapple Thief - Give It Back (KScope)

13: Jenny Berkel -These Are The Sounds Left From Leaving (Outside Music)

13: Vonica - If You're New Here Dance EP 

13: Alanna Matty - Thoughts // Feelings 

13: Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers 

13: Khamsin - What's Left Of Life

13: Cage Fight - S/T ( Candlelight)

13: The Graham Bonnet Band - Day Out In Nowhere(Frontiers Sri)

13: The Bros. Landreth - Come Morning (Birthday Cake)

13: Moonraker - The Forest (Tiny Dragon Music)

13: Misery Index  -Complete Control  (Century Media)

13: The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (XL Recordings)  June 17- Physical 

13: The Big Deal - First Bite (Frontiers Sri)

13:  Bruno Capinan  Tara Rara (Lulaworld Records)

13: Vonica - If You're New Here Dance

13:  Sister Ray - Communion

13: Ye Vagabonds  - Nine Waves ( River Lea Recordings / Rough Trade)

13: Steve Forbert - Moving Through America  (Blue Rose)

13: Cam Maclean- Secret Verses

13: Rolling Stones -Live At The El Mocambo (UMC)

13: Yves JarvisThe Zug  ( ANTI- / Flemish Eye)

13: Delbert McClinton - Outdated Emotion (Hot Shot Records)

13:  Amyl & the Sniffers - Comfort To Me (Expanded Edition) vinyl  (ATO Records/Rough Trade)

13: Pkew Pkew Pkew - Open Bar (Dine Alone)

13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby

19: Flõstate - Moments Of Feeling  (Lekker Collective)

19: Faouzia - CITIZENS (WMC) 

20: Zinny Zan - Lullabies for the Masses (Wild Kingdom)

20: Les Cooper - Noise

20: Sauna - Dose Yourself

20: John Rocca  - One Upon a Time in N.Y.C. (Beggars Archive)

20: Todd Sharpville - Medication Time (DixieFrog/Redeye)

20: Cheryl Cawood - Bullet In The Cabin Wall

20: Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals  (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)

20: XPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange

20: Soak  - If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade)

20: Yotam Ben Horin - Young Forever (Double Helix)

20: Sea Lemon -Close Up (Spirit Goth)

20: Santiago “Jimmy” Jimenez Jr., -Still Kicking!, (Hardcharger Records)

20: Blake Morgan - Violent Delights 

20: Bennett Matteo Band -Shake the Roots (Gulf Coast Records)

20: J. Brown - Chapter & Verse

20: Mike Stevens - Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain) 

20: Everett Wren - Porchlight

20: Omni of Halos  - Care Free

20: Harry Styles - Harry’s House

20: Wolftooth -  Wolftooth and Valhalla - Vinyl reissues (Napalm Records)

20: Avi Kaplan - Floating On A Dream (Fantasy Records)

20: Claudia Bouvette - The Paradise Club (Bonsound)

20: Brandon Coleman -Interstellar Black Space (Brainfeeder)

20: Cola - Deep In View (Next Door Records)

20: Shawn Williams -Wallowin' in the Night 

20: J. Brown - Chapter & Verse (Sono)

20: Lucy Liyou  - Welfare / Practice  (American Dreams Records)

20: High Valley - Way Back

20: Various Artists -Coverama (Popguru Sound & Vision/ The Confidence Emperors)

20: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -Dirt Does Dylan

20: Alex Izenberg -  I’m Not Here (Weird World.)

20: Mike Stevens - Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain Records)

20: NOA- Hurting EP

20: mxmtoon - rising (AWAL) 

20: Sophie Powers - red In Revenge (Set Records)

20: The Unlikely Candidates  - Panther Island 

22: Dot Allison - Entangled Remix EP (SA Recordings)

26: Mon Doux Saigneur - Fleur de l’Âge (Bonsound)

26:  Steve & Ginie Jackson -Colder Than The Sea

27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)

27: lullahush -  A City Made of Water and Small Love 

27: Wild Wild Wets - Love Always

27: Lou Pomanti -  Lou Pomanti & Friends (Vesuvius)

27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)

27: 70x7 - Above the Waters

27: Adam Brian Paul  - For the Good

27: Amanda Rheaume -  The Spaces In Between (Ishkōdé Records)

27: Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos (UMC)

 27: Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - Echo (bendigedig)

27: Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends deluxe reissue (Craft Recordings)

27: Hilary Purrington and JIJI - Harp of Nerves (AZ Arts)

27: Shanna in a Dress - Robot 

27: Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings (UMe)

27: Steven R. Smith -Spring

27: Onna Lou - Diamante

27: Crematory -  Inglorious Darkness (Napalm Records)

27: Ghostkeeper - Multidimensional Culture (Victory Pool)

27: Jahmal Padmore -Esparonto ( Telephone Explosion Records )

27: With The Punches - Discontent (Mutant League Records)

27: Corner House - How Beautiful It's Been  

 27: Sheenah Ko - Future Is Now

June

3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide

3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)

3: Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer (Relapse Records)

3: Andrew Bird -  Inside Problems (Loma Vista Recordings)

3: Chelsea Rose - Truth or Consequences (Paul Is Dead Records)

3: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Going The Distance (Berkalin Records)

3:  Lettuce - Unify

3: Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring (Craft Recordings)

3: Polica - Madness  (Memphis Industries)

3:  Matt York - Gently Used

3: Jasmyn -  In The Wild (Royal Mountain Records and ANTI-)

3: hill of iamhill - Sellout (Text Me Records)

3: Twinnie - Welcome To The Club 

3: The Kills -  No Wow -deluxe reissue(Domino)

3: Sass Jordan  Bitches Blues (Stony Plain Records)

3: Florian Hoefner Trio: -Desert Bloom (Alma Records)

3: Tuff Bear -Tuff Bear's Picnic  ( Acrophase Records )

3: Kamikaze Nurse - Stimuloso (Mint Records)

3: Flaccid Mojo - S/T ( Castle Face Records)

3: Fortunate Ones - That Was You and Me

3: Charlie Musselwhite - Mississippi Son (Alligator)

3: Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive  (Compass Records)

3: Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos,' A Love Letter to Latin American Balada Music ( ATO Records)

3: Courtney Hale-Revia - Growing Pains

3: Ken Yates -Cerulean

3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend

3: Serena Sun  Shadows On The Ceiling

3: Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

6: Ianai- Sunir (Svart)

10: George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)

10: Michael Rault - S/T  (Majesticsilk Records)

10: The Souljazz Orchestra - Freedom No Go Die (Do Right Music) 

10: Rolling Stones -Licked Live In NYC  (Mercury Studios)

10: slenderbodies - simple shapes

10: Wind Rose - Warfront (Napalm Records)

10: Vance Joy  In Our Own Sweet Time (Warner)

10:  A Vulture Wake -Kingdom (Thousand Islands Records)

10: Jonathan Kawchuk - Everywhen, (Paper Bag Records)

10: Michael Monroe  (Silver Lining Music)

10: Inanimate Existence -  The Masquerade (The Artisan Era)

10: Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis (SPV Recordings)

10: Bloody Heels - Rotten Romance (Frontiers Srl)

10: Venus 5 - S/T

10: Michaela Anne - Oh To Be That Free  (Yep Roc Records)

10: Rod Picott - Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows

10: The Range -  Mercury (Domino Records)

10: Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios (BMG)

14: Handheld -A Canadian Tragedy (Thousand Islands Records)

17: The Damn Quails - Clouding Up Your City

17: Meredith Lazowski Other Way Home

17: Me Rex - Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

17: Chastity Brown - Sing To The Walls (Red House Records)

17: Pollyanna - Slime P (I Surrender Records)

17: Fresh Pepper - S/T (Telephone Explosion Records)

17: Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)

17: Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia (Sneaker Social Club)

17: Alice Merton  -S.I.D.E.S. (Mom + Pop Music and Paper Plane Records Int.)

17: Dylan Moon - Option Explore (RVNG Intl)

17: The Royal Foundry - Little High Little Low 

17: Digging Roots - Zhawenim (Ishkōdé Records)

17: The Strongman Blues Remedy -  Volume 1  (Stony Plain Records)

17: Nick Cave - Seven Psalms

17: Iconic - Second Skin (Frontiers)

17: Counterpunch - Rewire (Thousand Islands Records/SBÄM Records)

17: Bartees Strange - Farm to Table    (4AD)  -  October 7 (Physical LP/CD)

17: Stacy Antonel  - Always the Outsider

17: Pharis and Jason Romero - Tell ’Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

17: Praises - In This Year: Hierophant (Hand Drawn Dracula)

17: Pip Skid -A Really Nice Day (Peanuts & Corn Records)

17: Flasher - Love Is Yours (Domino)

17:  Pat Matshikiza - Sikiza Matshikiza (We Are Busy Bodies)

17: Seven Kingdoms -  Zenith

17: RX Y - Blood Moon

24: Alexisonfire - Otherness (Dine Alone Records)

24: Lindsay Clark - Carpe Noctem  (Audiosport Records)

24: Luke Combs - Growin’ Up (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville)

24: Motherhood - Winded  (Forward Music Group)

24: Soccer Mommy -  Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)

24: Mikey Erg -  Love At Leeds (Don Giovanni Records )

24: Martin Courtney - Magic Sign (Domino)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash,

24: Sarah Hansen - Gather Up Your Days

24: Hollie Cook  - Happy Hour (Merge Records)

24: The Dreadnoughts - Roll & Go  (Stomp Records)

24: Art d‘Ecco - After The Head Rush (Paper Bag Records)

24: Katrina Ford - S/T  (Violin Films)

24: Automatic - Excess (Stones Throw)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash

24: Conan Gray - Superache (UMC)

29: Classified - RETROSPECTED

July

6: Ghost Woman - S/T  (Victory Pool)

8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)

8: Metric - Formentera

8: Maxim Mental - Make Team Presents Maxim Mental in Maximalism (Dine Alone Records)

8: Journey -  Freedom  ( BMG)

8: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T  - deluxe  (Spinefarm/Search and Destroy)

8: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings -  O Glory  (WMC)

8: Greylotus -Dawnfall ( The Artisan Era)

15:  Tami Neilson-  KINGMAKER (Outside Music)

15:  Lizzo - Special (Nice Life Recording Company/Atlantic Records)

15: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One” 25th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

15: Noah Cyrus -The Hardest Part

15: Superorganism -  World Wide Pop 

20: iskwē and Tom Wilson - Mother Love

22: Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)

22: Gilbert O’Sullivan -Driven (BMG)

22: The Sadies  - Colder Streams   (Dine Alone)

22: ODESZA - The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)

29: Tallies - Patina (Hand Drawn Dracula)

29: Andrew Duhon - Emerald Blue

August

5: Colyn Cameron - Freehand

12: Pavement  - Slanted & Enchanted” 30th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

19: Hot Chip - Freakout (Domino)

26: Muse -Will Of The People (Warner Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer  (Long Branch)

26: Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon - Step By Step (Smugglers Way/Domino)

September

16: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, deluxe reissues (Nonesuch)

23: STRÖM! - S/T ( Black Lodge Records)

30: Nestor-  Kids in a ghost town Deluxe Album Edition( Napalm Records)

30: By Divine Right - Otto Motto (Fortune Stellar Records)

October

21: Uji  - Timebeing (ZZK Records)

Canadian artists marked in red