FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Feb. 17, 2022
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Howless, Del McCoury, Lavender Country, White Lies, Mike Zito, and Circle Jerks. A strong week for Canadians includes Valley, Jan Lisiecki, Basement Revolver, Church of Trees, Katie Tupper, Elephant Stone (pictured), Ruby Singh, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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 Howless, Del McCoury, Lavender Country, Midnight Oil, White Lies, Mike Zito, and Circle Jerks.
A strong week for Canadians includes Valley, Jan Lisiecki, Basement Revolver, Church of Trees, Katie Tupper, Elephant Stone, Ruby Singh, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
February
14: Valley - Last Birthday (The After Party) (Capitol Records/UMC)
14: Shades Lawrence - Trust Takes Time
15: Ben Auld - Lemongrass (Earth Libraries)
15: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling
15: Church of Trees -Pish Posh
18: White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart [PIAS]
18: Manic Sinners - King Of The Badlands (Frontiers Music Srl)
18: Methyl Ethel - Are You Haunted?
18: Mickey Leigh's Mutated Music - Variants Of Vibe (Wicked Cool)
18: Steve Poltz -Stardust and Satellites (Red House Records)
18: Lavender Country - Blackberry Rose (Don Giovanni Records)
18: Art Patience - The Unknown
18: Mike Zito - Blues for the Southside ( Gulf Coast Records)
18: Louisiana Red & Bob Corritore - Tell Me 'Bout It (VizzTone)
18: Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Memory’s Fool (Soft Abuse)
18: The Grahams Live at Luck Mansion
18: Jan Lisiecki- Night Music (UMC)
18: Midnight Oil - Resist
18: The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets - deluxe anniversary edition(Trust Records)
18: The Heavy Hours - Gardens (BMG)
18: Basement Revolver - Embody (Sonic Unyon Records)
18: Danny G & The Major & 7ths -The Lookout
18: Matt Pike - Pike vs. the Automaton (MNRK Heavy)
18: Ruby Singh - Vox.Infold (Bandcamp)
18: Catcher The Fat Of A Broken Heart
18: Katie Tupper - Towards The End (A&C)
18: Del McCoury -Almost Proud
18: Howless - To Repel Ghosts (Static Blooms Records)
18: Dana Cooper - I Can Face The Truth
18: Nash Albert - Yet
18: George Alice -Growing Pains
18: Eric Bolander- Can't Get There From Here.
18: Lumberob -Language Learner (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)
18: Elephant Stone- Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune
18: Beshken - Pantomime (MATH Interactive)
18: Spirits Of Fire - Embrace The Unknown
18: Dagoba - By Night (Napalm Records)
21: The Infamous Stringdusters - Toward the Fray
22: Sylvia- Nature Child – A Dreamer's Journey (Red Pony Records)
22: Kanye West - Donda2 (GOOD Music/ Def Jam Records)
22: Hugs of the Sky – Tangerine Boredom Delusion
22: 22 Oceans- Home
23: Uma Bloo - Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)
23: NOBRO - Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (Dine Alone Records)
24: Julia Blair - Better Out Than In
25: Bambara - Love Is On My Mind (Wharf Cat Records)
25: Scorpions- Rock Believer
25: Richard Evans - Sentinel (Cold Star Media)
25: DLÙ - Moch ( ARC Music)
25: Swamp Dogg -I Need A Job... So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune (Don Giovanni)
25: Deathbell - A Nocturnal Calling
25: Robert Glasper - Blavk Radio 111
25: Placebo - Never Let Me Go
25: Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn (Napalm Records)
25: TÖME - LÖV
25: Various Artists - Euphoria Season 2 Soundtrack (Interscope Records)
25: Death Dealer - Fuel Injected Suicide Machine (Steel Cartel Records)
25: Willie D & the Hip Pockets Rockin’, Swingin’, Jumpin’ and Jivin’
25: Tears For Fears -THE TIPPING POINT (Concord Records)
25: Eamon McGrath -Bells of Hope (Saved By Vinyl)
25: Birds of Play - Murmurations Vol. 2
25: Sasami -Squeeze (Domino)
25: Keeley - Brave Warrior + Echo Everywhere EPs (Dimple Discs)
25: Kenneth Brian - Keys to the Kingdom (Southern Shift Records)
25: Basia Bulat -The Garden - digital. Physical March 25 (Secret City Records)
25: Kyle Morgan - Younger At Most Everything (Team Love Records)
25: Johnny Marr- Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)
25: Avril Lavigne -Love Sux
25: The Wooks - Flyin’ High
25: Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful ( Fat Possum)
25: Anne Elise Hastings Unmasking A Confidence Trickster
25: Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte)
25: Left Banke -Strangers On A Train (Omnivore Recordings)
25: Long Range Hustle - I am alive, but only if you say I am
25: Wolfrik - Clones (Thousand Islands Records)
25: VHS Collection - Drive (Tiger Tone/PIAS)
25: Tankard - For A Thousand Beers box set (Noise Records)
25: Caroline - S/T (Rough Trade)
25: Ellemetue - Les crucifiés figuratifs (Bravo musique)
25: Jon Tyler Wiley -The Longing
25: Yonder Mountain String Band - Get Yourself Outside
26: Panjoma - Sun and Moon
March
4: The Dead South - Easy Listening for Jerks, Parts I & II (Six Shooter)
4: Nilüfer Yanya - Painless ( ATO Records)
4: Matt Andersen - House to House (Sonic Records)
4: Guided By Voices - Crystal Nuns Cathedral
4: Rick Holmstrom - Get It!
4: Erinn Peet Lukes - EPL
4: Stromae - Multitude (Darkroom/Interscope Records)
4: Peach Pit -From 2 to 3
4: Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways reissue
4: MALIA - What's After 'I Love You?, (Black Sea Music)
4: Marillion - An Hour Before It’s Dark
4:Just A Season -Leave To Come Home
4: Jack Barksdale - Death of a Hummingbird
4: Ivy Ryann - A Nonaggressive Extreme Violation of Boundaries
4: Oh Hiroshima - Myriad (Napalm Records)
4: System Exclusive - S/T (Castle Face Records)
4: JC Campbell - Lately
4: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars ( Next Door Records)
4: Sarah Hiltz - Calm Fury
4: Fieh - In The Sun In The Rain (Jansen Records)
4: Kate Klim - Something Green
4: Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs - External Combustion (BMG)
4: Kristine Leschper -The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (ANTI- Records)
4: Landon Lloyd Miller-- Light Shines Through (Twin Mesa)
4: Kenny ‘Blues Boss” Wayne- Blues From Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain Records)
4: Crowbar - Zero And Below, (via MNRK Heavy)
4: Ceramic Animal -Sweet Unknown ( Easy Eye Sound.)
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-)
4: Lammping -Stars We Lost, (We Are Busy Bodies)
4: Band of Horses - Things Are Great (BMG)
4: Maylee Todd - Maloo (Stone Throw Records)
4: Letting Up Despite Great Faults -IV
10: Sam Jr. - S/T (A&C)
10: Alex Spencer - Crawl'
11: Franz Ferdinand -Hits To The Head (Domino)
11: Disassembler - A Wave From A Shore (Western Vinyl)
11: NappyNappa - Ondamicunderacozmiklytz - (Bad Taste)
11: New Horizon - Gate Of The Gods (Frontiers Music Srl)
11: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects (4AD)
11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
11: Wicked - The Last American Rock Band
11: Glacier Veins - Lunar Reflection (Equal Vision Records)
11: PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project – Demos
11: The Lazy Eyes - Songbook (Lunatic / The Orchard)
11: Junk Drawer - The Dust Has Come To Stay (Art For Blind Records)
11: Rex Orange County - Who Cares? (Sony)
11: Scott Martin - Corner of the World
11: Jameszoo - Blind
11: Arkaik - Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts
11: Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts (BMG)
11: Glaswegians - Quaternary
11: Cherokee Rose -Buckskin ( Don Giovanni)
11: Rust n' Rage One For The Road
11: Paul Waring and His Band of Blues Men - It's a Mad Mad Bad Dad World (PieHole Records)
11: Apollo Ghosts – Pink Tiger (You’ve Changed Records)
11: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Next Door Records)
11: Messa - Close (Svart Records)
11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
11: Hank Williams -I'm Gonna Sing (BMG)
11: Broadcast - three albums (Warp Records)
11: Brock Davis - A Song Waiting To Be Sung (Raintown Records)
11: Angel Forrest - Angel’s 11 vol. II
11: Ghost - Impera ( Loma Vista Recordings)
11: Konvent - Call Down The Sun (Napalm Records)
11: Tony Price MARK VI (Telephone Explosion Records)
11: Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods
16: Jerry Leger -Nothing Pressing (Latent Recordings)
18: Lisa LeBlanc - Chiac Disco
18: Midlake - For The Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
18: The Duke Robillard Band - They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain Records)
18: Chip Z'Nuff - Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers Music Srl)
18: Space Of Variations, ... Imago (Napalm Records)
18: Jewels Gold - Singles Collection (Burnside/The Orchard)
18: Sonic Youth - In/Out/In (Three Lobed Recordings)
18: Bogdan Raczynski - Addle (Planet Mu)
18: Trench - Encased in Chrome (New Damage)
18: April March - In Cinerama (Omnivore)
18: Sabertooth Swing – Delta Bound (Slammin' Media)
18: Steve Dawson - Gone, Long Gone (Black Hen)
18: Son House - Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)
18: Island Of Love -Songs Of Love (Third Man)
18: Space of Variations- Imago (Napalm)
18: Jefferson Ross. - Southern Currency
18: Priori - Your Own Power Remixes EP
18: Jamie McLean Band - Paradise Found (Harmonized Records)
18: Donovan Woods - Big Hurt Boy EP ( End Times Music)
18: Mattiel - Georgia Gothic (ATO Records)
18: Blue States - World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)
18: The Duke Robillard Band - They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain)
18: Agathodaimon - The Seven (Napalm Records)
18: SheWolf - S/T (,Frontiers Music Srl)
23: Uma Bloo- Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)
25: Jason Erie -Tiny Fires (Wirebird Records)
25: Bakers Eddy - Love Boredom Bicycles
25: Bomber - Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm Records)
25: Cowboy Junkies - Five Years (Latent)
25: The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys - Never Slow Down (Smithsonian Folkways)
25: Don't Worry - Remorseless Swing (Specialist Subject)
25: Hilary Ladd - Breastmilk + Tears
25: Superpoze - Nova Cardinale
25: Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
25: Jay Feelbender - Enter The Mirror
25: Kindsight - Swedish Punk (Rama Lama Records)
25: Proper. - The Great American Novel (Father/Daughter)
25: Reba McEntire - Release Of My Chains
25: Tom Rogerson - Retreat To Bliss (Western Vinyl)
25: Jimi Jules ‘+.’ (Innervisions)
25: Devin Cooper - Good Things
25: Folly Group - Human and Kind (Technicolour)
25: Hall & Oates - Marigold Sky -vinyl
25: Cadence Weapon - Parallel World (Deluxe Edition) (MNRK Music Group)
25: Wallows - Tell Me That It’s Over
25: Sunglaciers -Subterranea ( Mothland)
25: Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves - Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt Records)
25: Albert Castiglia -I Got Love (Gulf Coast Records)
25: Devin Cooper - Good Things
25: Avalon Tassonyi - S/T ( Vain Mina Records)
25: Maren Morris - Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville)
25: Aldous Harding -Warm Chris (4AD)
25: Destroyer-Labyrinthitis (Merge Records)
25: Åskväder - Fenix
25: The Mary Veils - Esoteric Hex (PNKSLM Recordings)
25: Ex-Vöid - Bigger Than Before (Don Giovanni Records)
25: The Loud Family & Anton Barbeau - What if It Works (Omnivore)
25: Don't Worry - Remorseless Swing (Specialist Subject)
25: Fucked Up - Do All Words Can Do (Matador)
28: Van Chamberlain - In the Sun (Very Jazzed )
April
1: No Frills - Downward Dog
1: Misfire -Sympathy For The Ignorant
1: Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (Valory)
1: Field Works - Station (Temporary Residence)
1: Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers - Spencer Gets It Lit! (In The Red)
1: Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci -Murmurations (Cibachrome Editions)
1: HOROJO Trio - Set The Record (Stony Plain Records)
1: Common Deer - MAXIMALIST
1: Lights - PEP (Warner Music Canada)
1: Selbor - S/T
1: The Golden Glows - On Moonlight and Rain
1: P'tit Belliveau -Un homme et son piano (Bonsound)
1: Cassidy Mann - If It’s Not Forever (End Times Music)
1: PUP - The Unravelling of PupTheBand (Little Dipper/UMC)
1: Casually Here -Possible Worlds
1: Paula Boggs Band - Janus
1: Lords Of The Trident - The Offering
1: Sam Kogon - S/T
1: Nakaya - Fire Becomes Me EP (Better Company Records)
3: Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu
6: Melted Wings - Cheer for the Deer
7: The Henrys - Shrug (Bandcamp)
8: B. Knox - Far From Folk
8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)
8: Amy Speace - Tucson ( Proper Records/Windbone Records)
8: Jordan Klassen - Glossolalia
8: PENDANT - Harp
8: Papercuts - Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
8: Andy Frasco & The U.N. - Wash, Rinse, Repeat
8: Warden and Co. - Somewhere
8: Tanika Charles -Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly (Unique Applause)
8: Dear Rouge - Spirit (Pheromone Recordings)
8: Riot Antigone - S/T
8: Dillon Vanders - Wildfires
8: Envy Of None - S/T ( Kscope)
8: Destruction - Diabolical (Napalm Records)
8: Oceanator Nothing's Ever Fine (Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl)
8: Inglorious - MMXXI Live At The Phoenix (Frontiers Srl)
8: Bonnie Pointer -Like a Picasso, (Omnivore)
8: Michelle Willis - Just One Voice (GroundUP Music)
8: Joe Satriani The Elephants of Mars (earMUSIC)
8: Jesse Mac Cormack - Solo (Secret City Records)
8: Lucius - Second Nature (Dine Alone)
8: Dahlia Sleeps - Overflow
8: RIP Pop Mutant - Fluxus Pop
8: Pavement -Terror Twilight : Farewell Horizontal - 4LP/2CD Deluxe reissue (Matador)
8: Deanna Petcoff - To Hell With You, I Love You (Royal Mountain Records)
12: Ariane Moffatt - 1969
15: Fozzy - Boombox
15: Urferd - Resan (Black Lodge Records)
15: Sophia Bel -Anxious Avoidant (Bonsound)
15: Altameda - Born Losers (Pheromone/Missing Piece)
15: Various Artists - Brother Johnny: A Tribute To Johnny Winter
15: Axel Rudi Pell - LOST XXIII (Steamhammer)
15: MÅNEGARM - Ynglingaättens Öde (Napalm Records)
15: GRAE - Whiplash
15: Stone Broken - Revelation (Spinefarm)
15: Semblant - Vermilion Eclipse (Frontiers Music Srl )
15: Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Mercy Me (Stony Plain Records)
15: Imminent Sonic Destruction - The Sun Will Always Set
15: David Owen - Oh Suzana Blues
15: Nazareth - Surviving The Law (Frontiers Music Srl)
22: Samantha Savage Smith - Fake Nice
22: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time (Outside Music)
22: Old Crow Medicine Show - Paint This Town (ATO Records)
22: Ebunctions -This Just In Out
22: Kate Clover Bleed Your Heart Out (SVR)
22: Evan Barber - Until The Thunder
22: Ben Marc - Glass Effect (Innovative Leisure)
22: Georgia Harmer - Stay In Touch
22: Stew Cutler - The Blues From Another Angle
22: Travellin' Blue Kings -Bending The Rules
22: James Heather - Invisible Forces (Ahead of Our Time)
22: Niall Mutter-Pass Me By (Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys)
22: Audrey Horne - Devil’s Bell (Napalm Records)
22: Bodysnatcher -Bleed-Abide (MNRK Heavy)
23: Nico + The Faction - Camera Obscura (Blue vinyl) (Beggars Banquet)
23: Dalis Car - The Waking Hour (Purple vinyl) (Beggars Banquet)
23: Erika de Casier - The Sensational Remixes (Clear vinyl) (4AD)
23: Camera Obscura Making Money (4AD B-Sides and Rarities (Mint Green vinyl) (4AD)
27: The Mellons - - Introducing... The Mellons! (Earth Libraries)
27: Personal Trainer - Reflex
28: Dot Allison - Entangled Remix EP (SA Recordings)
29: Gus Englehorn - Dungeon Master (Secret City Records)
29: Julie Doiron and Dany Placard -Julie & Dany (Simone Records)
29: Bloc Party - Alpha Games ( Infectious / BMG)
29: Allegories -Endless (Hidden Pony Records)
29: Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal (Domino)
29: Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this… (Saddle Creek)
29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry
29: Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote (Warner)
29: Pierre Kwenders -José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)
29: Velcrocranes - What If I Die (InsideOutMusic)
29: Frog Eyes -The Bees
29: Blossoms - Ribbon Around The Bomb
May
6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)
6: The Builders and The Butchers - Hell & High Water (Badman Recording Co.)
6: Ibeyi - Spell 31 (XL Recordings)
6: Emeli Sandé - Let’s Say For Instance (Chrysalis Records)
6: Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools ( ATO Records)
6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia
13: Craig David - 22
13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)
13: Cage Fight - S/T ( Candlelight)
13: The Bros. Landreth - Come Morning (Birthday Cake)
13: Ye Vagabonds - Nine Waves ( River Lea Recordings / Rough Trade)
13: Steve Forbert - Moving Through America (Blue Rose)
13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby
20: Zinny Zan - Lullabies for the Masses (Wild Kingdom)
20: XPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange
20: Soak - If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade)
20: Claudia Bouvette - The Paradise Club (Bonsound)
20: Avi Kaplan - Floating On A Dream (Fantasy Records)
27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)
27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)
June
3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide
3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)
3: The Bombadils -Dear Friend
10: George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)
July
8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)
Canadian artists marked in red