FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Aug. 12, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include The Killers, Dan + Shay, Lizzo, The Ugly Kings, The Cruzados, Lucinda Chua, and Willie Nile.

Canadian releases includes albums by F. Scott and the Nighthawks, Charles Spearin, Suzie Ungerleider, Paragon Cause, and Jonathan Bauer.

August

9: Al Matcott - You Can Be Anyone

9: Taj Weekes - Pause

11: Cots -  Disturbing Body ( Boiled Records )

13: Jungle - Loving In Stereo (AWAL)

13: ALIAS  - It's Not Funny So Stop Smilin (Simone Records)

13: Caveman- Smash  (Fortune Tellers)

13: Paragon Cause - Autopilot

13: The Killers – Pressure Machine (UMC)

13: Shakey Trill  - S/T

13: Dan + Shay - Good Things (Warner)

13: Lizzo - Rumors  (Warner)

13: Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1 (XL Recordings)

13: Lee DeWyze - Ghost Stories (Mavelle Records)

13: Josienne Clarke -  A Small Unknowable Thing

13: Typhoid Rosie  - Queen Of Swords

13: Loud Luxury - Holiday Hills 

13: Sungaze -This Dream 

13: Ditchbird - Some Dreams EP

13: Willie Nile - The Day the Earth Stood Still

13: Elijah Ocean - Born Blue  

13: Charles Spearin - My City of Starlings (Arts & Crafts)

13: Victory Kid -Discernation (SBÄM Records)

13: Lucinda Chua   Antidotes  (4AD)

13: Supreme Love Gods - We Are All Together (One Little Independent Records)

13: The Ugly Kings - Strange, Strange Times (Napalm Records)

13: Wednesday- Twin Plagues  (Orindal Records) 

13: The Rumperts - Escapism (SBÄM Records)

13: The Cruzados - She's Automatic (Scamco )

13: Joe Taylor Sutkowski - Of Wisdom & Folly (Danger Collective Records)

13: Pachyman - The Return of Pachyman (ATO Records)

13: F. Scott and the Nighthawks  - Hold Onto Your Heart. 

13: Jonathan Bauer – Sings and Plays (Slammin' Media)

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

13:  Explorer Tapes - S/T (Omnivore)

13: Destruction - Live Attack  (Napalm Records)

18: Jan Lisiecki  -Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon)

18: Nilufer Yanya - Feeling Lucky? Remix EP  (ATO Records)

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

20: Lorkin O'Reilly - Marriage Material (Team Love)

20: Lorde - Solar Power

20: Silver Pools - Chroma (Modern Laundry Recording Club)

20: Badge Epoch - Scroll (Telephone Explosion Records)

20: Shire T - Tomorrow’s People (Dama Dama)

20: Tyler Shaw - S/T (Sony)

20: Fen - Life Is So Beautiful 

20: Wanda Jackson - Encore

20: Villagers - Fever Dreams  (Domino)

20: John Francis Flynn  I Would Not Live Always (River Lea)

20: Darrin Bradbury - Artvertisement (ANTI-)

20: Parlour Panther -Retrograde (Coax Records)

20: Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet ( New Friends)

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

20: Shannon & The Clams - Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound)

20: Kirty - We Are All On Fire (Postwar Records)

20: Kool & the Gang - Perfect Union (Ru-Jac Records/Omnivore)

20: Eric Hilton - Ceremony

20: Maarja Nuut - Hinged’ (via Bandcamp),

20: Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks of the Trade 

20: Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton - Anniversary Deluxe Edition

20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)

20: Settle Your Scores - retrofit ( Mutant League Records)

20: Mano Le Tough - At The Moment  ( Pampa Records)

20: Manny Blu -  DEViL

20: Lung -Come Clean Right Now (Sofaburn Records)

20: Black Light Animals-  - Playboys of the Western World (Groove King)

20: James McMurtry -The Horses and the Hounds (New West Records)

20: Necronautica - Slain In the Spirit  (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)

20: Switchfoot - interrobang (Fantasy Records)

20: GA-20 - Does Hound Dog Taylor -  (Colemine Records/Alligator Records)

20: Occurrence - I Have So Much Love To Give  (Archie & Fox Records)

20: Zach Kleisinger -Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)

20: The Road Hammers - Boys Are Back EP (Open Road)

20: Warkings -Revolution (Napalm)

20: Chris Acker - Odd, Ordinary & Otherwise  (Gar Hole Records)

20: SonReal  i can’t make this up (Black Box)

20: Martha Wainwright -Love Will Be Reborn (Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl)

24: School of X -  Dancing Through The Void 

24: Container -Creamer EP (Drone)

27: La Bonte - Don't Let This Define Me ( Anxiety Blanket)

27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)

27: Seong-Jin Cho - Return to Chopin (Deutsche Grammophon)

27:  Andrew Krull -It All Goes 

27: Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World (Constellation)

27: Wormwood -Arkivet

27: Joji Hirota - Prayer’s Tale – Taiko Drums and Asian Percussion (ARC Music)

27: Rachel Magoola - Resilience – Songs of Uganda (ARC Music)

27:  ILY - Neurotic (Sadboy Records/Sony Canada)

27: Shauna Seeteenak - Therapy Sessions 

27: December Rose– Raise Your Voice (Slammin' Media)

27: Mountain Time - Saint Francis, Zookeeper (Spartan Records)

27: Kat Von D - Love Made Me Do It

27: Melted Fro -  Honey Pot 

27: Gord Downie - Coke Machine Glow - expanded 20th anniversary release (Arts & Crafts)

27: Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World ( Constellation.)

27: Ben Heffernan - drive in movies

27: Ex Deo -  The Thirteen Years Of Nero (Napalm Records)

27: Grayson Jenkins - Turning Tides

27: Timba MM -- Outstanding  (Naxos World)

27: Shawna Caspi - Hurricane Coming

27: Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (UMC)

27: Niko Moon - Good Time  (RCA Nashville)

27: Tim Easton -You Don't Really Know Me (Black Mesa Records)

27: Steve Gunn - Other You (2LP)  (Matador )

27: Jordana Talsky - Zahava

27:  Wilder - Bad Bad Luck (Rude Records)

27: I See Hawks in L.A. -On Our Way

27: The Faux Paws - S/T 

27: Diane Warren - The Cave Sessions Vol.1 (Di-Namic Records/BMG)

27: Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale 

27: Mikaela Finne --Time Stands Still

27: Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take  (Saddle Creek)

September

1: Fair Visions - Modern Kids

1: Ivytide - softy

2: Finny McConnell -The Dark Streets of Love (True North)

3: Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland  (Feeltrip Records)

3: Geordie Gordon - The Tower

3: The Picturebooks - The Major Minor Collective

3: The Hawkins - The Aftermath' 

3: Bokassa -  Molotov Rocktail (Napalm Records)

3: Bob Marley And The Wailers - The Capitol Session ‘73 on DVD/CD/LP (Tuff Gong and Mercury Studios)

3: Megan & Shane - Daughter of Country 

3: Dana Dentata - Pantychrist (Roadrunner Records) 

3: Not On Tour - B-Sides (SBÄM Records)

3: Vikingur Olafsson - Mozart & Contemporaries (UMC)

3: New Found Glory  - Forever And Ever x Infinity...And Beyond! (Hopeless Records)

3:  Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall  ( BMG.)

3: Laroie - Speed of Life EP

3: SUUNS - The Witness  ( Secret City Records)

3: Bad Waitress -  No Taste  (Royal Mountain Records)

3: David Ferguson - Nashville No More (Fat Possum Records)

3: BOKASSA - Molotov Rocktail (Napalm Records)

10: Matthew E. White - K Bay (Domino)

10: GWAR - Scumdogs Live ( Pit Records)

10: The Stranglers - Dark Matters  ( Coursegood/ BFD)

10: Whitehorse - Strike Me Down (Six Shooter)

10: Matthew Fowler -The Grief We Gave Our Mother  (Signature Sounds)

10: Anette Olzon - Strong  (Frontiers Music Srl)

10: Hawthorne Heights -  The Rain Just Follows Me (Pure Noise Records)

10:  Black Sorrows - Saint Georges Road

10: Elvis Costello and Sebastian Krys  - Spanish Model  (UMe/UMC)

10: BON - Pantheon’ (Spatial Awareness )

10: Amyl and the Sniffers =Comfort To Me (ATO Records)

10: MANifesto - Pinky Swear (Renaissance Projects)

10: De Beren Gierennic - Less Is Endless (Sdban Ultra)

10: Ross Adams - Escaping Southern Heat 

10: Lindsay Beaver & Brad Stivers- S/T (VizzTone)

10:, Hawthorne Heights - The Rain Just Follows Me ( Pure Noise Records)

10: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View (Big Scary Monsters)

10: God Damn -Raw Coward (One Little Independent Records)

10: Various Artists - R&B in D.C. 1940-1960 (Bear Family)

10: Pokey LaFarge- In The Blossom of Their Shade (New West)

10: Central Heat Exchange - Directly Down

10: Sarah Davachi  -Antiphonals  (Late Music)

10: God Damn - Raw Coward' (One Little Independent Records)

10: Metallica -The Black Album -30th anniversary edition ( Blackened Recordings/Warner)

10: Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence (Inside Out Music)

10: Jonathan Paull Gertler - No Fear,

10: Homeshake - Under The Weather (Dine Alone)

10: Samantha Fish - Faster

10: Rufus Wainwright  - Unfollow The Rules – The Paramour Sessions (UMC)

10: 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I Die ( Ninja Tune)

12: Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons -  Razor Wing Butterfly 

14: Gordie Tentrees - Mean Old World  ( Buckaroo Records)

17: Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out ­ (BMG)

17: Gleaming Spires -Songs of the Spires, Walk on Well Lighted Streets, and Welcoming a New Ice Age, - reissues (Omnivore Recordings)

17: Bob Dylan -  Springtime in New York 

17: Adrian Sutherland - When The Magic Hits  (Midnight Shine Music)

17: Don Broco - Amazing Things  (Sharptone Records)

17: Jared James Nichols - Shadow Dancer (Black Hill Records)

17: Half String - A Fascination with Heights  ( IPR )

17: Daniel Romano - Cobra Poems  (You've ChangedR 

17: Karaboudjan - Imago 

17: Ana Egge -  Between Us  (StorySound Records)

17: Colin Linden - bLOW  ( Highway 20/Thirty Tigers).

17: Written By Wolves - The Collab Project EP 

17: The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 (Carpark Records / Dew Process)

17: José González - Local Valley (Mute)

17:  Jameson Rodgers - Bet You’re From a Small Town  (Columbia Nashville/River House Artists)

17: Jimmie Vaughan - The Jimmie Vaughan Story  - box set (Last Music Co.)

17: Wesley Stace - Late Style (Omnivore Recordings)

17: Straylight Run  - Live at the Patchogue Theatre

17: June Garber - Off The Carousel (Vesuvius Music)

17: Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator

17: Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic (Canvasback Records)

17: Thrice - Horizons/East  (Epitaph Records)

17: Vika and Linda - The Wait 

17: Henrik Lindstrand -Reimagined (One Little Independent Records)

17: Tommy Castro - A Bluesman Came To Town (Alligator)

17: Matthew James Adkins - Stoned On My Own  (Whistlepig Records)

17: James Vincent McMorrow  Grapefruit Season (Columbia Records)

17: Jordan Rakei -What We Call Life (Ninja Tune )

17: Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman  - Folk for Little Folk Volume 1

17: Jorane - HEMENETSET

17: Alien Weaponry- Tangaroa (Napalm Records)

17: Edge Of Paradise - The Unknown(Frontiers Sri)

17: The Felice Brothers - From Dreams To Dust (Yep Roc Records)

17: Sweet Nobody -We’re Trying Our Best (Daydream Records)

17: Confetti - Guilty Pleasures 

17: Matthew James Adkins  -Stoned On My Own (Whistlepig Records)

17: Alex Southey -My Nights On The Island

17: Rage -Resurrection Day  (SPV/Steamhammer)

17: Barney Bentall and Geoffrey Kelly  RanchWriters  (True North Records)

21: Andrew W.K. - God Is Partying ( Napalm Records )  

21: Simo Cell- YES.DJ  (TEMƎT Music)

23: Laura Guarch - KRËODYLIA

24: Radiant Baby - Pantomine (Lisbon Lux)

24: Fernie - Aurora

24: The Bootheels - 1988: The Original Demos  (Omnivore Recordings)

24: SOJA - Beauty In The Silence  (ATO Records)

24: Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name  (UMC)

24: Mara Simpson - In This Place (Downfield Records)

24: Spencer Cullum - Coin Collection (Full Time Hobby)

24: James Baley - A Story 

24: Badflower - This Is How The World Ends  (Big Machine/John Varvatos Records)

24: Pixies  - Trompe Le Monde (Green Marbled 30th Anniversary Vinyl Edition)  (4AD)

24: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind (Asthmatic Kitty Records)

24: Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms 

24: Michael Seyer -A Good Fool

24: Chick Corea - Akoustic Band Live

24: Absolutely Free -  Aftertouch (Boiled Records)

24: Joyer  Perfect Gray  (Julia's War)

24: Afternoon Bike Ride  - S/T (Friends of Friends Music)

24: Ashley Shadow  - Only the End  (Felte) - vinyl on Oct. 29

24: Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz- Milan  (AKP recordings)

24: A Pale Horse Named Death - Infernum In Terra (Long Branch Records / SPV)

24: Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic (Play It Again Sam)

24: Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb (Spinefarm)

24: The Franklin Electric - This Time I See It ( Nettwerk)

24: Ada Lea - one hand steering the wheel the other sewing a garden (Saddle Creek and Next Door Records) 

24: Dayseeker -  Sleeptalk (Spinefarm)

24: K-Riz  Peace & Love

24: Manu Delago  - Environ Me (One Little Independent Records)

24: Sharon Corr - The Fool and the Scorpion (Warner)

24: Tony Kamel - Back Down Home

24: School of X - Dancing Through The Void  (Tambourhinoceros)

24: Randy Travis - Storms of Life (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 

30: Arkells –  Blink Once (Universal Music Canada)

October

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

1: Shad - TAO (Secret City Records)

1: Lana Love  - S/T

1: The Doobie Brothers - Liberte

1: GLOK -Pattern Recognition (Bytes)

1: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga - Love For Sale  ( Columbia Records/Interscope Records/UMC)

1: The Colorist Orchestra + Howe Gelb - Not On The Map  (Dangerbird Records) 

1: Foamboy - My Sober Daydream

1: Sonia Aimy – Reconnect (Slammin' Media)

1: Mike Etten  -Love Wash  (Dull Tools)

1: Glok - Pattern Recognition

1: Leeroy Stagger - Dystopian Weekends

1: Joe Tullos - Vessels (Big Sun Records)

1: Tirzah - Colourgrade

1: Princess Century - s u r r e n d e r  (Paper Bag Records)

1: Goodbye Honolulu - S/T (Stray Dog)

1: Asleep at the Wheel  - Half A Hundred Years

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

8: Porches - All Day Gentle Hold 

8:  TRIVIUM — In The Court of The Dragon (Roadrunner Records)

8: Carolyn Wonderland - Tempting Fate (Alligator)

8: Astral Swans - S/T

8: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under  (Polydor Records/Universal Music Canada)

8: Nightwatchers - Common Crusades (Lövely Records)

8: J.D.. Wilkes & the Legendary Shack Shakers - Dockadoodledeux (Alternative Tentacles)

8: Atmosphere - WORD? (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

8: The Honest Heart Collective - More Harm (AWAL)

8: The Velveteers -  Nightmare Daydream ( Easy Eye Sound)

8: LP - Churches  (Dine Alone)

8: Jeff Scott Soto - The Duets Collection, Vol. 1(Frontiers Srl)

8: The Charlatans UK   - S/T  (Beggars Archive)

8: AVAWAVES -Chrysalis’ (One Little Independent Records)

8: Efterklang - Windflowers (City Slang)

12: Le Ren - Leftovers (Royal Mountain Records/Secretly Canadian)

15: Rodrigo Leão - A Estranha Beleza (BMG / Modern Recordings)

15: Lords Of Black -Alchemy Of Souls, Part II(Frontiers Music Srl)

15: John Wort Hannam - The Long Haul (Black Hen Music)

15: Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres (Warner)

15: Eleine - S/T  vinyl

15: FINNEAS  - Optimist (Interscope Records)

15: Nic Dyson - Brain Fog (Birthday Cake)

15: The Grahams - Sha La La 

15: Sir Was  - i Let The Morning Come  (Memphis Industries)

15: Devoid -Lonely Eye Movement (Frontiers Music Srl)

15: Carlos Santana - Blessings and Miracles (BMG)

15: Young Voices Toronto - Conversations

16:  Behrooz Mihankhah - Lydium

20:  Dooms Children - S/T (Dine Alone)

22: Duran Duran - Future Past (Tape Modern/BMG)

22: Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2   (Rough Trade)

22: Titus Andronicus -The Monitor 10th Anniversary Reissue)  (XL Recordings)

22: Helado Negro -Far In (4AD)

22: La Luz - S/T  (Hardly Art Records)

22: Lone -Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman)

22: The Fretless -  S/T

22: Lomond Campbell - LŪP ( One Little Independent Records)

22: The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash - deluxe (Rhino)

22: Siamese -Home

22: Clinic Fantasy Island (Domino)

22: Neutral Snap - Tell Me How I Feel (Orange Music Records)

22: The Parrots  -Dos (Heavenly Recordings)

22: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T  (Spinefarm /Search & Destroy)

22: Amaunet - While I'm Living (Lövely Records)

22: Guided By Voices - IT’S NOT THEM.  IT COULDN'T BE THEM. IT IS THEM!, 

26: Jasper Sloan Yip - double EP, Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn (Tiny Kingdom)

29:  Laura Reznek -Agrimony (Birthday Cake)

29: Running Wild - Blood On Blood  (SPV/Steamhammer)

29: Safia Nolin  SEUM (Bonsound)

29: Charlotte Cornfield - Highs In The Minuses (Next Door Records)

29: Reno McCarthy -Run Up River, (Balustrade)

29: Digging Roots - Zhawenim (Ishkōdé Records)

29: Joni Mitchell - Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Warner)

29: Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings - Bachman Cummings The Collection (Sony Music Canada) 

29: Handsome Jack - Get Humble (Alive Naturalsound)

November

2: Rubber Band Gun - Cashes Out  ( Earth Libraries)

5: T. Buckley -Frame by Frame  (Fallen Tree Records)

5: Julia Daigle - Un singe sur l'épaule ( Lisbon Lux)

5: Hard Feelings - S/T

5: The Heavyweights Brass Band – Stir Crazy (Slammin' Media)

5: AHI - Prospect

5: Houndmouth - Good For You (Dualtone Records)

5: Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu - The Solution Is Restless

5: Steve Conte -Bronx Cheer

12: Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time (via Mom+Pop Music/Marathon Artists)

12: Long Range Hustle - I am alive, but only if you say I am

12: Poppy Ackroyd  Pause (One Little Independent Records)

12: Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive Records)

19: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (UMC)

19: J.R.C.G. - S/T  (Castle Face)

19: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss -Raise The Roof, (Rounder Records)

19: The Trews - Wanderer  (Known Accomplice)

December

10: Fucked Up  - David Comes to Life (Matador Revisionist History Edition) ( Matador)

10: Rising Insane - Afterglow

10:  Beverley Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined -  (Transgressive)

10: The New Pornographers  Mass Romantic 21st Anniversary Limited-Edition Red vinyl + 7 inch single  (Matador)

10: Tkay Maidza    Last Year Was Weird Vol. 3  (4AD)

January

21: Kissin' Dynamite - Not The End Of The Road  (Napalm Records)

Canadian artists marked in red