FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Aug. 19, 2021
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Lorde, Eric Clapton, Wanda Jackson, dvsn & Ty Dolla $ign, Villagers, and Malcolm Holcombe. A strong week for Canadian releases includes albums by LTtheMonk (pictured), Tyler Shaw, Badge Epoch, The Road Hammers, Kirty, SonReal, Martha Wainwright, and Jan Lisiecki.
By Kerry Doole
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Lorde, Eric Clapton, Wanda Jackson, dvsn & Ty Dolla $ign, Villagers, and Malcolm Holcombe
Canadian releases includes albums by LTtheMonk, Tyler Shaw, Badge Epoch, The Road Hammers, Del Barber, Kirty, SonReal, Sina Bathaie, Cartel Madras, Silver Pools, Martha Wainwright, and Jan Lisiecki.
August
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: Sodom - Bombenhagel (Steamhammer)
20: Cartel Madras - The Serpent & The Tiger (Royal Mountain Records and Sub Pop)
20: Lorde - Solar Power
20: Sina Bathaie – Oracle (Windcatcher)
20: Cuba Las Vegas -These Crappy Years (Remastered) (Funzalo Records)
20: dvsn and Ty Dolla $ign -Cheers to the Best Memories, ( OVO Sound.)
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: Fleece- Stunning and Atrocious
20: Wanda Jackson - Encore
20: Zach Kleisinger Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)
20: Spacette -You Don't Have to Rise to Shine (Breakfast Music Group)
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: Del Barber -Stray Dogs (Acronym)
20: Zach Kleisinger -Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)
20: The Road Hammers - Boys Are Back EP (Open Road)
20: Warkings -Revolution (Napalm)
20: Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
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: Alex Lefaivre - Naufragés (Multiple Chord Music)
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: Belly See You Next Wednesday (XO Records/Roc Nation/UMCni)
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: Ben Heffernan - drive in movies
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: 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
1: Warmyear - I Wear The Memory(Frontiers sri)
2: Finny McConnell -The Dark Streets of Love (True North)
3: Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland (Feeltrip Records)
3: Geordie Gordon - The Tower
3: Nala Sinephro -Space 1.8 (Warp Records)
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: Lady Blackbird Black Acid Soul (BMG)
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)
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: James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart (Republic Records/Universal Music Canada)
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: Common, -A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 2,
10: Fabels - Minds
10: MANifesto - Pinky Swear (Renaissance Projects)
10: De Beren Gierennic - Less Is Endless (Sdban Ultra)
10: GGRIL - Sommes (Tour de Bras)
10: Mitchell Tenpenny - Midtown Diaries EP (Riser House/Columbia Nashville)
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: Kasim Sulton - Kasim 2021 (Deko Entertainment)
17: Smoke Bellow - Open For Business (Trouble In Mind,)
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: Field Guide - Make Peace With That (Birthday Cake)
17: Ana Egge - Between Us (StorySound Records)
17: Only The Strong - Fractured' EP
17: Colin Linden - bLOW ( Highway 20/Thirty Tigers).
17: Written By Wolves - The Collab Project EP
17: Brittany Kennell I Ain’t A Saint
17: The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 (Carpark Records / Dew Process)
17: José González - Local Valley (Mute)
17: Deviates -Holding Out
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: Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out (BMG)
17: Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic (Canvasback Records)
17: Thrice - Horizons/East (Epitaph Records)
17: Vika and Linda - The Wait
17: Brian Eaton -The Known Space Project (Eatin' Records)
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: 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: Men Without Hats (MWH) - Again (Part 1)
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: Anthony OKS - In The Garden( LHM Records)
24: Kari Faux - Lowkey Superstar Deluxe.
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: Various Artists - Mighty Fine: An ACL Tribute to Walter Hyatt ( Omnivore Recordings)
1: Joe Tullos - Vessels (Big Sun Records)
1: Tirzah - Colourgrade
1: Foamboy - My Sober Daydream
1: Princess Century - s u r r e n d e r (Paper Bag Records)
1: Goodbye Honolulu - S/T (Stray Dog)
1: Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction (Royal Mountain Records / Carpark Records)
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: The Record Company - Play Loud (Concord Records)
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: Creeping Death - The Edge Of Existence (Entertainment One)
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: Nathan Evans Fox - Wasted Love
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: Carlos Santana - Blessings and Miracles (BMG)
15: John Wort Hannam - The Long Haul (Black Hen Music)
15: Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres (Warner)
15: Eleine - S/T vinyl
15: Remi Wolf - Juno (Island Records/Universal Music Canada)
15: FINNEAS - Optimist (Interscope Records)
15: Nic Dyson - Brain Fog (Birthday Cake)
15: The Grahams - Sha La La
15: Shane Cook & The Woodchippers - Be Here for a While
15: Sir Was - 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
15: Ike Reilly - Because the Angels
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: Dwight + Nicole -Further
22: Titus Andronicus -The Monitor 10th Anniversary Reissue) (XL Recordings)
22: Helado Negro -Far In (4AD)
22: The Long War -Under A Heavy Sky
22: 1914 -Where Fear and Weapons Meet (Napalm Records)
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: Lady A - WHAT A SONG CAN DO (BMLG Records)
22: Sue Foley -Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain Records)
22: Clinic - Fantasy Island (Domino)
22: Neutral Snap - Tell Me How I Feel (Orange Music Records)
22: The Parrots -Dos (Heavenly Recordings)
22: The Honeyrunners - Everything Is On Fire
22: Tortured Soul- 20th Anniversary Album (TSTC Music/Slammin Media)
22: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T (Spinefarm /Search & Destroy)
22: Amaunet - While I'm Living (Lövely Records)
22: Livlos - And Then There Were None (Napalm Records)
22: Guided By Voices - IT’S NOT THEM. IT COULDN'T BE THEM. IT IS THEM!,
22: Lone Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman)
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)
29: Ed Sheeran - = (Equals) (Warner)
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: Neal Francis In Plain Sight ( ATO Records)
5: FUR - When You Walk Away (777 Music)
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)
12: L.A. Guns- Checkered Past
19: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (UMC)
19: Matt Patershuk - An Honest Effort (Black Hen)
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