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FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Dec. 10, 2020

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue, though at a slower pace over the holiday season. Notables this week include The Kills, The Offspring, Jamie xx , Interpol, Paul McCartney, M. Ward, Cro-mags, Kid Cudi, and Kamasi Washington. The crop of Canadian artists is led by Kacy & Clayton (with Marlon Williams- pictured), Griffith Hiltz Trio, and R. Harlan Smith.

FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Dec. 10, 2020

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue, though at a slower pace over the holiday season. Notables this week include Taylor Swift, The Kills, The Offspring, Jamie xx , Interpol, Paul McCartney, M. Ward, Cro-mags, Kid Cudi, and Kamasi Washington.


The crop of Canadian artists is led by Kacy & Clayton (with Marlon Williams), Griffith Hiltz Trio, Madisyn Whajne, Alanis Morissetteand R. Harlan Smith.

December

11: The Kills – Little Bastards (Domino)

11: Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon 111 (UMC)

11: Cro-Mags - 2020

11: Taylor Swift - evermore

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11: The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - reissue (Round Hill Records/UMe)

11: Griffith Hiltz Trio -Arcade (G-B Records)

11: Anabel Englund-  Messing With Magic (Ultra Music)

11: Fields of the Nephilim  - Elzium - 30th Anniversary Edition  (Beggars Banquet )   

11: Jamie xx   -  In Colour (Remastered)  ( Young Turks)

11: Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Mix EP

11: Laura Carbone - Live at Rockpalast 

11: Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun -reissue (Blixa Sounds)

11: Interpol -  Our Love to Admire  (Matador)   

11: Bayside - Acoustic Volume 3  (Hopeless Records)

11: Spacette -S/T

11: R. Harlan Smith -Way Back When (Royalty Records)

11: Paul McCartney - McCartney 111 (UMC)

11: Coco Reilly – Coco Reilly (New West)

11: Sturgill Simpson  - Cuttin’ Grass’ Vol 2 – The Cowboy Arms Sessions 

11: M. Ward – Think of Spring  (New West)

11: Firefall - Comet (Sunset Blvd.)

11:  Nilüfer Yanya - Feeling Lucky? (ATO Records)

11 - New Age Doom - Himalayan Dream Techno

11: Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams -  Plastic Bouquet (New West)

11: Readymades -  More Alive Than Not (Liberation Hall/415 Records) 

11: Pop-O-Pies The White EP (Liberation Hall/415 Records) 

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11: Belle & Sebastian - What to Look For in Summer (Matador )  

11: Kamasi Washington  -  Becoming” Music from the Netflix Original Documentary  (Young Turks)

11: Madisyn Whajne - Save Our Hearts  (Summer Love Records)

13: RLND - Zealand' (Sell The Heart Records)

16: Danny Goo - Feel For You (Atoned Music)

16: Cancer Bats  -You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions Vol. 1 (Bandcamp) 

18: The Star Prairie Project -Surreal

18: Andrew Adkins -The Echoist

18: Iggy and the Stooges -From KO to Chaos 8 Disc Box Set (Skydog)

18: No Year - So Long

18: Mike Boguski TrioDetour CD version

18: The Wrecks -  Static (Big Noise)

18: Stuck Out - Lie Through Your Teeth

18: Wombbath - Tales Of Madness  (Transcending Obscurity Records)

January

1: The Dirty NilFuck Art (Dine Alone Records)

1: The Soviet Machines - S/T

4: Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T. 

8: Magnum - Dance Of The Black Tattoo

8: Modern Hut - Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World  ( Don Giovanni Records)

8: Scott McKay - Stupid Cupid

12: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches

13: PETRICFlashbacks

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15: Royal Wood - Live At Massey Hall

15: Buzzcocks - Singles 77-80 boxset (Domino)

15: The Future Violents - Heaven is A Place, This is A Place EP (UNFD)

15: Edenbridge - The Chronicles Of Eden part 2 

15: Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat!

15: Dragony - Viribus Unitis  (Napalm Records)

15: Matthew Sweet  - Catspaw (Omnivore Recordings)

15: Sleaford Mods  Spare Ribs  ( Rough Trade)

15: Mary Timony  - Mountains 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Matador) 

15: KT Tunstall -Drastic Fantastic (Ultimate Edition)  (UMC)

15: Kurt Vile  -  Speed, Sound, Lonely KV  (Matador)

15: Why Don’t We -  The Good Times and The Bad Ones  (Atlantic Records)

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15: Steve Strongman - Tired of Talkin’ reissue  (Stony Plain Records)

15: John Diva & The Rockets Of Love -American Amadeus

15: Julien Manaud - Adaptation Vol. 2 ( Lisbon Lux Records)

22: Lonely The Brave - The Hope List 

22: Phantom Elite - Titanium

22: Japan - Quiet Life-  3CD/1LP Boxed set

22: The Dead Daisies  - Holy Ground 

22: Wig Wam - Never Say Die

22: Palberta -  Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat Records)

22: Moon Taxi - Silver Dream

22: Azmari -Samā'ī’ ( Sdban UItra)

22: Adam Klein - Little Tiger 

22: Juana Everett - Move On

22: Ektomorf -  Reborn (Napalm Records)

22: Speed Stick - Volume One (Don Giovanni Records)

22:  Nervosa- Perpetual Chaos  (Napalm Records)

22: Bicep - Isles ( Ninja Tune)

22: Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Songs For The Apocalypse (Frontiers Srl)

22: Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns (Kiwi Club/Sub Pop)

22: Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland)

22: Richard Hell & The Voidoids -  Destiny Street Complete- expanded  (Omnivore)

22: Rhye - Home (Last Gang Records)

27:  Julie Neff - Over It  (Independent)

29: Puma Blue  - In Praise of Shadows (Blue Flowers)

29: Balthazar - Sand (Play It Again Sam)

29: The Wardens  Sold Out At The Ironwood 

29: Steven Wilson - The Future BitesT (Arts & Crafts)

29: St. Germain - Tourist - 20th Anniversary edition

29: Goat Girl  - On All Fours  (Rough Trade)

29: Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit (Invada Records)

29: Lucero - When You Found Me (Liberty and Lament/Thirty Tigers)

29: The Besnard LakesThe Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Flemish Eye)

February

2: Bet Smith - Downer (Pine Lake Records)

5: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)

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5:  Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976. (Light In The Attic)

5: A.J. Croce - By Request (Compass Records)

5: CYRRCA - S/T

5: Frontside -Closer to Closure (Revival Recordings)

5: John Williams - John Williams In Vienna- fan edition (UMC)

5: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight 

5: Uncle Walt's Band- Recorded Live at Waterloo Ice House (Omnivore Recordings)

5: Rod Abernethy - Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore 

5: Nick Schofield - Glass Gallery

5:  Charles Ellsworth - Honeysuckle Summer 

5: The Weather Station - Ignorance (Next Door Records)

5: Demon Hunter -  Songs of Death and Resurrection

5: Black Country, New Road - For the first time (Ninja Tune)

5: Sarah Mary Chadwick -Me And Ennui Are Friends Baby ( Ba Da Bing)

12: The Deathray Davies - Time Well Wasted  (We Know Better Records)

12: Drones - Our Hell Is Right Here  (Thousand Islands Records) 

12: Early Times and the High Rollers - The Corner (VizzTone)

12: God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm Records)

12: Dead Poet Society - The Exclamation Album

12: Arc of Life - S/T (Frontiers Music Srl)

12: Bailter Space -Wammo (Remastered)  (Matador)

12: Bodies of Water - Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)

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12: Robert Berry and 3.2  -Third Impression (Frontiers Music srl)

12: Florida Georgia Line - Life Rolls On  (BMLG Records)

12: Durbin - The Beast Awakens (Frontiers Music Srl)

12: Sirenia -  Riddles, Ruins & Revelations (Napalm Records)

14: Little Hurt -Better Drugs

14: BonifaceS/T  (Transgressive)

19: Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights (Royal Mountain Records)

19: Austin Meade - Black Sheep (Snakefarm Records )

19: SG Lewis - times  (Republic Records)

19: Sam Coffey & The Iron LungsReal One Out (Dine Alone)

19: Cameron Graves- Seven (Artistry Music)

19: Blessediii. (Flemish Eye)

26: Roosevelt - Polydans (City Slang / Greco-Roman)

26: Leahy Good Water

26: Gerd Janson - Polydans (City Slang)

26: TiKA - Anywhere But Here  (Next Door Records)

26: Pinegrove  - Amperland NY (2LP)  (Rough Trade)

26: Maxïmo Park - Nature Always Wins  (Prolifica Inc)

26: Edwin Raphael- Staring At Ceilings (Bandcamp)

26: Julien Baker  - Little Oblivions (Matador)

26: The National  -Cherry Tree EP (Remastered)  (4AD)  

26: The National  - The National  (Remastered)  (4AD)

26: The National  - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Remastered)  (4AD) 

26: Moonspell - Hermitage ( Napalm Records)

26:  EINHERJER - North Star

26: A Winged Victory for the Sulle- Invisible Cities (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)

26: Nirvana - Songlife 1967-72- 6 LP vinyl Deluxe Box (Madfish Music)

March

5: Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age Of Oddities  (130701)

5: Bernice  Eau de Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)

5: Tokyo Police ClubChamp - 10th anniversary edition (Mom + Pop/ Dine Alone)

5: POSTDATA - Twin Flames

12: Doohickey Cubicle - Don't Fix Anything

12: Saga -Symmetry (earMUSIC.)

12: Gizmachi -Omega Kaleid (CEN/The Orchard)

26: As Everything Unfolds - Within Each Lies The Other (Long Branch Records)

April

16: Sleeps Society - S/T  (Spinefarm Records)

16: Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake Of My Life ( Sharptone Records)

16: Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate

Canadian artists marked in red

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