FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Dec. 2, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace.  Notables include Blake Shelton, Sugarplum Fairies, Wolftooth, Trini Lopez, Nina Simone, The Browning, and The Doors, 

Canadian artists releasing albums include Blue Rodeo, Charlotte Day Wilson, Crown Lands, Valley, Bruce Cockburn, Newberry & Verch, Pick A Piper, La Zarra, Sonia Johnson, Carleigh Aikins, and Jesse Cook. 

December

1: Kat Von D - Exorcisms Deluxe Remix EP 

1: Charlotte Day Wilson -ALPHA -deluxe

1: Valley -  Live At Capitol Studios EP ( Capitol Records /UMC)

1: Sonia Johnson - Airs Givrés

2: Nisa - Time To Plant Tears 

2: Cozz - Addicted (UMC)

2: Crown Lands – Odyssey Volume 1 (Spinefarm Records and Universal Music Canada)

2: Acid Tongue Arboretum 

2: Movment -Transformation

3:  Sugarplum Fairies -  Altar Songs 1998-2021 

3: Blake Shelton - deluxe version of Body Language (Warner)

3: Night Court- Nervous Birds! One (Debt Offensive Records)

3:  La Zarra - Traîtrise (Universal Music Canada and Polydor France)

3: Andrew Gabbard -Homemade  (Karma Chief Records)

3: Marissa Paternoster - Peace Meter

3: Blue Rodeo - Many A Mile (Warner)

3: Kenny G - New Standards (Concord Records)

3: Moonspell - Darkness And Hope (Napalm Records)

3: Abiotic - A Universal Plague: Mutation - anniversary reissue 

3: Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy  - Midnight Chorus (One Little Independent Records)

3: Senior Citizen & Tim Walker -What Was That  (Backwards Music)

3: Wolftooth - Blood & Iron (Napalm Records)

3: The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show - Going Nowhere Fast' (Musical Bear Records)

3: Full Bush  Movie Night EP (Brutal Panda Records)

3: Trini Lopez - The Rare Reprise Singles (Omnivore Recordings)

3: Nina Simone - Nina Simone and Her Friends  (Bethlehem/BMG)

3: The Browning - End of Existence (Spinefarm)

3: Bruce Cockburn - Greatest Hits (1970 - 2020) (True North Records)

3: Newberry & Verch - On This Christmas Day

3: Feral Vices - With Offerings

3: Pick A Piper - Sea Steps (Tin Angel)

3: Carleigh Aikins  - Junk Jewelry (SilverDoorMusic)

3: Kenny Lattimore - Here To Stay  (SRG/ILS Group/SincereSoul Records)

3: Jesse Cook - Libre 

3: Mario Batkovic - Introspectio  (Invada Records)

3: The Browning -  End of Existence (Spinefarm)

3: Spencer Cullum - Jack of Fools  vinyl 

3: The Doors - LA Woman - deluxe reissue (Rhino)

3: Uh Oh! - Good Morning 

3: Acid Tongue Arboretum  (Freakout Records)

7: Joker's Hand  -All-American Rage

8: Ok Cowgirl - Not My First Rodeo

8: Uyemi -Butterfly Effect

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

10: Alicia Keys - Keys (RCA Records)

10: Loud Apartment - New Future

10: Hot Club of Cowtown -What Makes Bob Holler 10th anniversary - vinyl (Last Music Co.)

10: Kaktus Einarsson - In The Garden (Live Session) (One Little Independent Records)

10:  Ziemba - Unsubtle Magic (Sister Polygon Records)

10: Rising Insane - Afterglow

10: Agarthic - The Inner Side 

10: Mauvey - The Florist  (604 Records)

10: Mercury X -Imprisoned, (Frontiers Music Srl)

10: Atlas - Ukko  (Long Branch Records)

10: Dessiderium -  Aria (The Artisan Era)

10: Loney Hutchins -  Buried Loot  (Appalachia Record Co. )

10: Ziemba - Unsubtle Magic   (Sister Polygon Records)

10: Delaire The Liar - Eat Your Own (Rude Records) 

10: There's a Light - f̶o̶r̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶I ̶h̶o̶pe̶? for what must we hope? (Napalm)

10: Firekid - Muscle Shoals Metaphysical

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

10: Tiffany - Pieces Of Me Deluxe Edition LP (Deko Entertainment)

10: Kitten -  Personal Hotspots 

10: San Fermin and Friends - In This House  (Better Company)

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)

10: M-16-  The 20TH Anniversary Edition of the Anti-War Album (BMG)

10: Kid Dad -  Bloom (Long Branch Records / SPV GmbH)

10: Bardo Pond  Amanita 25th Anniversary 2LP Deluxe Edition  (Matador)

10: San Fermin and Wye Oak  -In This House  (Better Company)

10: Clear Mortifee  Fairies: Act II

10: King Krule  - You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down (2LP)    (True Panther Sounds / Matador)

10: The Brandy Alexanders - S/T  (Gypsy Soul Records)

10:  Neil Young & Crazy Horse -BARN  (Reprise Records)

10: James Arthur - 5th anniversary double vinyl release Back from the Edge

10: Lowest of the Low - Taverns And Palaces

12: Cian Ducrot - Make Believe’ (Darkroom/Interscope)

17: Chuck Berry - Live From Blueberry Hill  April 15 on Vinyl (Dualtone Records)

17: Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Soby, Andres Renteria, and John Dwyer - Gong Splat (Castle Face Records)

17: Draconian -Where Lovers Mourn and Arcane Rain Fell vinyl reissues (Napalm Records.)

31: FEUERSCHWANZ -  Memento Mori ( Napalm Records)

January

7: Years & Years - Night Call (Interscope Records)

7: Sherry Finzer - Connections 

7: Infected Rain - Ecdysis (Napalm Records)

7: Summer Years - You Can't Live There Forever

7: Don Macdonald - Shifting Sands

12: Impending Doom - Hellbent (MNRK Heavy)

13: Chastity- Suffer Summer (Dine Alone Records and Deathwish Inc.)

14: Helven - volume 1  (Jansen Records) 

14: Magic City Hippies - Water Your Garden 

14:  Elvis Costello and the Imposters- The Boy Named If (EMI.)

14: Grace Cummings - Storm Queen  (ATO)

14: Enterprise Earth -- The Chosen (MNRK Heavy)

14: Daniel Blumberg - The World To Come original soundtrack (Mute)

14: Tony Martin - Thorns (Dark Star Records)

14: dvr   dirty tapes  (XL Recordings)

14: Jeff Tweedy - Chelsea Walls OST (Omnivore Recordings)

14: Jamestown Revival -  Young Man

14: Bonobo -Fragments  (Ninja Tune)

14: The Lumineers - Brightside (Dualtone)

14: Magnum -The Monster Roars (Steamhammer)

14: Mike Nagoda - Outside The Box 

14: Oli Astral  From the Astral 

19: Geoffroy - Live Slow Die Wise (444%.)

19:  VRSTY - Welcome Home (Spinefarm)

20: Clever Hopes -  Artefact

20: Great American Ghost  -Torture World EP  (MNRK Heavy)

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

21: Erik Walters Self Titled

21: Tennyson King - Good Company

21: Kandia - Quaternary  (Frontiers Music Srl)

21: Pan Daijing - Tissues (PAN)

21: Ludovico Einaudi - Underwater  (Decca)

21: Walker Hayes -  Country Stuff The Album (Sony)

21: Brad Barr - The Winter Mission (Secret City Records)

21:  LALU - Paint The Sky (Frontiers Music Srl)

21: Set Your Sails -  Nightfall  (Napalm Records)

21: Giant - Shifting Time

21: Hollow Twin - Soft Hearts)

21: Miles Kane - Change The Show  (BMG Records)

21: Tinsley Ellis - Devil May Care (Alligator)

21: Billy Talent - Crisis of Faith ( Warner)

21: Diamond Dogs - Slap Bang Blue Rendezvous

21: Keifer Sutherland- Bloor Street (Pheromone Recordings)

21: Les Louanges - Crash (Bonsound)

21: Julie Christensen - From Kevin: Songs of Kevin Gordon (Wirebird Records)

21: Erik Walters - Self-Titled 

21: Ghostly Kisses - Heaven, Wait (Akira Records) 

21: The Ferrymen - One More River To Cross (Frontiers Music Srl_) 

21: Night Crickets - A Free Society  (Omnivore Recordings)

21  William Russell Wallace - Confidence Man 

21: Silverbacks - Archive Material  (Full Time Hobby)

21: Band of Horses - Things Are Great  (BMG)

21: The Whitmore Sisters - Ghost Stories (Red House Records)

26: Sam Drysdale - Testarossa (Slaight Music / Fontana North)

27: David Jameson - Talk Dark Pines

28: Eels -  Extreme Witchcraft (PIAS/E Works Records)

28: Roedelius & Story - 4 Hands  (Erased Tapes)

28: Dianthus - Realms (Deko Ent.) 

28: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail  (New West) LP and CD on April 1 

28: Russ Rankin - Come Together Fall Apart  (SBÄM Records)

28: Our Lady Peace  - Spiritual Machines II 

28: St. Paul & The Broken Bones  -The Alien Coast  (ATO Records)

28: Urge Overkill  - Oui (Omnivore Recordings)

28: Toxpack -  ZWANZIG.TAUSEND VOLT (Napalm Records)

28: Sweet Alibi - Make A Scene

28: Adam Shoenfeld - All the Birds Sing (Lozen Entertainment Group/Copperline)

28: Pinegrove - 11:11 (Rough Trade)

28: Mother Mother - INSIDE (Warner Music Canada)

28: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer - Live At The King Eddy

28: The Furniture  - S/T  (Spanish Prayers)

29: Villager - Frontier

31: Juho & the Jellyfish from Jupiter  -Quarantine Diaries, Chapter I'

February

4: Manuel the Band - Things That Can't Be Seen 

4: Micki Free - Turquoise Blue (Dark Idol Music)

4: Marshall Crenshaw -  #447 (Shiny-Tone label via Megaforce)

4: The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Summer at Land's End

4: PERSEFONE- metanoia (Napalm Records)

4: Jean-Michel Blais-aubades

4: Black Country, New Road -Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)

4: Gene MacLellan - S/T

4: Animal Collective-  Time Skiffs (Domino)

4: Charbonneau x Amato - Synth Works Vol. 2  ( Backward Music)

4: Rolo Tomassi -  Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK Heavy)

4: Hembree - It’s a Dream! 

4: Muscadine Bloodline -Dispatch to 16th Ave.

4: Scott Hardware -Ballad of a Tryhard  (Telephone Explosion Records)

4: Sam Weber - Get Free (Sonic Unyon)  

4: Alai K - Kila Mara (On the Corner Records)

4: Reddog -  Booze, Blues and Southern Grooves (Survival South Records)

4: Me Rex - Pterodactyl (Big Scary Monsters)

7: AETHEREUS i Leiden (The Artisan Era)

10: Ombiigizi - Sewn Back Together (A&C)

11: Trentemøller -Memoria  (In My Room)

11: Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa  (Matador)

11: We Are In Transit (WAIT) - The End of Noise (The Artisan Era)

11: Big Thief -  Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You   (4AD)

11: La Armada - Anti-Colonial Vol. 2 (Thousand Islands Records)

11: Hot Flash Heat Wave - Sportswear

11: Blonder - Knoxville House  (Cool World Records)

11: Foxes - The Kick ( [PIAS] Recordings)

11: Night Shop - Forever Night  (Dangerbird Records)

11: Mild Orange -  Looking For Space 

11: The Rumjacks - Brass for Gold 

11: Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - 4 (Gibson Records/BMG)

11: Rob Burger  Marching With Feathers (Western Vinyl)

18: White Lies -  As I Try Not To Fall Apart  [PIAS] 

18: Manic Sinners - King Of The Badlands  (Frontiers Music Srl)

18: Del McCoury -Almost Proud

18: Howless - To Repel Ghosts  (Static Blooms Records)

18: Beshken Pantomime (MATH Interactive)

18: Dagoba -  By Night (Napalm Records)

25: Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn (Napalm Records)

21: The Infamous Stringdusters - Toward the Fray 

25:  Bambara -  Love Is On My Mind (Wharf Cat Records)

25: Tears For Fears -THE TIPPING POINT (Concord Records)

25: Eamon McGrath -Bells of Hope (Saved By Vinyl)

25: Sasami -Squeeze (Domino)

25: Basia Bulat -The Garden - digital. Physical March 25 (Secret City Records)

25: Johnny Marr- Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)

25: Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful ( Fat Possum)

25: Deserta  Every Moment, Everything You Need  (Felte)

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

25: Wolfrik - Clones

25: VHS Collection - Drive (Tiger Tone/PIAS)

25: Caroline - S/T  (Rough Trade)

25: Yonder Mountain String Band - Get Yourself Outside

March

4: The Dead South - Easy Listening for Jerks, Parts I & II (Six Shooter)

4: Nilüfer Yanya - Painless  ( ATO Records)

4: Fieh - In The Sun In The Rain  (Jansen Records)

4: System Exclusive (ft. Matt Jones) - S/T (Castle Face Records)

4: Thus Owls - Who Would Hold You If The Sky Betrayed Us? 

4: Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (Anti-)

11: Tanya Tagaq - Tongues  (Six Shooter)

11: Franz Ferdinand  -Hits To The Head (Domino)

18: Lisa LeBlanc - Chiac Disco

18: Midlake - For The Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO) 

18: Jamie McLean Band - Paradise Found (Harmonized Records). 

18: Mattiel - Georgia Gothic  (ATO Records)

18: Blue States - World Contact Day  (Memphis Industries)

23: Uma Bloo- Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)

25: Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)

25: Fucked Up  - Do All Words Can Do  (Matador)

April

8: B. Knox - Far From Folk  

8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)

15:  Urferd - Resan  (Black Lodge Records)

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

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

May

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

13: Craig David - 22

Canadian artists marked in red