FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Feb. 18, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables this week include Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, The Hold Steady, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, SG Lewis, Wild Pink, Tash Sultana, and Whitesnake.

The Canadian contingent is led by Boniface, Gabriel Minnikin, Tami Neilson, Spencer Burton, Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, Bobby Bazini,  Jess Moskaluke, Blessed, Lyne Tremblay, and Al Muirhead.

February

14: Gabriel Minnikin - Sweet Nothings

14: Little Hurt -Better Drugs

14: Boniface - S/T  (Transgressive)

16: Record Thieves – Wasting Time (Thousand Islands Records)

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

19: Austin Meade - Black Sheep (Snakefarm Records )

19: Laure Briard - Eu Voo (Michel Records)

19: Bobby Bazini - Holding Onto The Feeling EP  (Universal Music Canada)

19: Various Artists - Brighter Days Ahead (Colemine/Karma Chief)

19: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians -  Hunter and Dog Star

19: The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

19: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Swing From The Sean Delear (In The Red Records)

19: Icon For Hire - Amorphous

19: Ricky Warwick - When Life Was Hard And Fast

19: Spencer Burton  - Coyote (Still Records)

19: Valley Maker - When The Day Leaves  (Frenchkiss Records)

19: Tash Sultana-  Terra Firma

19: Tami Neilson – Chickaboom – deluxe version (Outside Music)

19: Cloud Nothings-  The Shadow I Remember

19: Alicia Clara  -  Outsider/Unusual  (Hot Tramp)

19: SG Lewis -- times  (Republic Records)

19: Whitesnake - The Blues Album (Rhino)

19: Al Muirhead - Live From Frankie’s & The Yardbird  (Chronograph)

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

19: Cameron Graves- Seven (Artistry Music)

19: Lyne Tremblay -Get To It

19: Veronica Lewis - You Ain’t Unlucky, (Blue Heart Records)

19: Blessed -  iii. (Flemish Eye)

19: Emily Franke - The Summer That Stood Still: Reality

19: Jess Moskaluke - The Demos (MDM Recordings Inc./Universal Music Canada)

19: Lainey Wilson - Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’ ( BBR Music Group/Broken Bow Records)

19: Stretch Panic - Glitter & Gore

19: Mobley - Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme (Last Gang)

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

26: Leahy - Good Water

26: Smerz  - Believer  (XL Recordings)

26: Altin Gün - Yol (ATO Records)

26: Dan Edmonds-- Good Fortune Assembly

26: Gerd Janson - Polydans (City Slang)

26:  Bob Dylan - 1970 (50th Anniversary Collection) (Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings)

26:  Rick Holmstrom - See That Light

26: Molly Annelle  Elevator Music  (604 Records)

26: Grumpy Kitty Boy - Show Me The Kibbles 

26: Steve Kroeger  - Home

26: Track45 - Big Dreams

26: David Picco - Live It Down 

26: Hailey Whitters - Living The Dream  (Pigasus Records / Big Loud Records / Songs & Daughters)

26: Neil Young - Way Down in the Rust Bucket (Reprise)

26: Flyying Colours - Fantasy Country

26: Kyle Edward Connolly -  On Arrival (Hand Drawn Dracula)

26: Adam Warner  Big Storm 

26: Goody Grace - Don't Forget Where You Came From (Warner Music Canada)

26: Jim Capaldi - Short Cut Draw Blood (Island Records)

26: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Banane Bleue

26: Barry Paquin Roberge - Exordium To Extasy ( Costume Records)

26: BAD CHILD  Free Trial (UMC)

26: Mo Kenney -Covers

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

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

26: Edwin Raphael - Staring At Ceilings (Dine Alone Records)

26: The Wedding Present – Locked Down And Stripped Back (Scopitones)

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

26: Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker deluxe reissue. 

26: A Better Hand - Cheap Smokes and Champagne (Mutant League Records)

26: Julien Baker  - Little Oblivions (Matador)

26: Einherjer - North Star (Napalm)

26: Devan - Pink Noise 

26: Richard Pryor - S/T and Craps (After Hours)  (Omnivore Recordings)

26: Celeste - Not Your Muse

26: Jimmy Edgar - Cheetah Bend (Innovative Leisure)

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)

26: Russell Louder - Humor  (Lisbon Lux Records)

26: Charly Black - So Many reasons (Aftercluv/Universal)

26: Black Nash - S/T ( Ramp Local)

March

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

5: Bernice - Eau de Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)

5: A Day to Remember - You’re Welcome

5: Michael Menegon - Time is Now

5: Monowhales - Daytona Bleach 

5: Fences - Failure Sculptures' Deluxe Version (ENCI Records)

5: Jaz Elise - The Golden Hour (Six Course Music/RCA Records)

5: Tokyo Police Club  -Champ - The 10th anniversary edition (Dine Alone)

5: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules - deluxe edition reissues   (Rhino)

5: Barra Brown - LFT:RT  (Cavity Search Records)

5: Visionist -A Call to Arms (Mute)

5: Max Foreman - Underground 

5: iskwē The Stars 

5: Wolfheart  Skull Soldiers  (Napalm Records!)

5: Kash'd Out  Casual Encounters (LAW Records)

5: YUNGMORPHEUS - Thumbing Thru Foliage (Bad Taste )

5: POSTDATA - Twin Flames

5:  Thirdface - Do It With A Smile (Exploding In Sound Records)

5:  Zara Larsson - Poster Girl (TEN/Epic Records)

5: Justin Nozuka –  then, now & again  (Post 1988/Black Box)

5: Ariel Posen - Headway

5: Demon Hunter - Songs of Death and Resurrection (Solid State Records)

5: Japan - Quiet Life  (BMG)

12: Turbulence - Frontal (Frontiers Srl)

12: Doohickey Cubicle - Don't Fix Anything

12: Lake Street Dive  =Obviously  (Nonesuch Records)

12: Thierry Larose - Cantalou (Grosse Boite)

12: Heart Healer - The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson (Frontiers Music Srl)

12: Sunfields  - Late Bloomers

12: Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - The Complete Capitol Singles: 1957–1976, (Omnivore Recordings)

12: Strippers Union - The Undertaking Part 2

12: Ontarians   -The Greatest Short Story Never Told 

12: Sunburned Hand of the Man- Pick A Day To Die (Three Lobed)

12: Blackmore’s Night - Nature’s Light (earMusic (distributed by BFD)

12: Saga -Symmetry (earMUSIC.)

12: Jordan Hart - Only Pieces of the Truth  (Believe)

12: Dulcie Taylor - Rediscovered (Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings)

12: Melody Duncan - Wolf Song

12: Serena Ryder - The Art of Falling Apart (ArtHaus)

12: Secret Sphere - Lifeblood (Frontiers SRL)

12: Yevae  - S/T

12: Valerie June -The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy Records)

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

12: Conan -  Live At Freak Valley,  (Napalm)

12: Allan Holdsworth - LEVERKUSEN '97 (Manifesto Records)

12: Marianas Rest -  Fata Morgana (Napalm)

12 Various Artists -Down Where the Valleys Are Low: for Judee Sill, (StorySound Records) 

12: Dead Poet Society -   -!- 

12: HAERTS -  Dream Nation

12: Dollar Signs -  Hearts Of Gold (Pure Noise Records)

12: Rylan Brooks - If Wishes Were Horses

19: Papa Roach - Greatest Hits Volume 2 – The Better Noise Years

19: Triptides -Alter Echoes (Alive Naturalsound Records)

19. Corb Lund -Agricultural Tragic (Deluxe Edition) (Warner Music Canada) 

19: Slow Crush -  Aurora (Quiet Panic)

19: Middle Kids - Today We’re The Greatest  (Domino)

19: Les Shirley - Forever Is Now 

19: Souleye - Hunting Teardrops 

19: Bell Orchestre - House Music (Envision Records/Erased Tapes)

19: Bobby Womack - The Poet and The Poet II reissues

19: Serj Tankian -  Elasticity EP  ( Alchemy Recordings/BMG)

19: Chad VanGaalen  - World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop).

19: Joe Pug -The Diving Sun

19: Mark Clennon - Foreign (Bonsound)

19: Colin Miller - Hook EP ( Oof Records)

19: Jane Inc. - Number One (Telephone Explosion Records)

19: Batiste - We Are

19: Willie Dunn -Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology  (Light in the Attic)

19: A.A. Williams - Songs From Isolation (Bella Union)

19: Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough, A Celebration of Women in Country Music  (Legacy)

19: New Age Steppers-  Four studio LPs reissued plus anthology box set  (On-U Sound)

19: Daniel Lanois - Heavy Sun 

19: Son of the Velvet Rat  -Solitary Company (Fluff & Gravy Records)

19: TuneTown -Entering Utopia (Three Pines Records)

19: Janet Simpson - Safe Distance (Cornelius Chapel Records)

19:  Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland Records)

19: The Blue Stones - Hidden Gems (eOne)

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

26: Renée Reed  - S/T  (Keeled Scales)

26: Departure Lounge -  Transmeridian (Violette Records)

26: ‘68 - Give One Take One (Cooking Vinyl)

26: Ben Howard - Collections From the Whiteout (UMC)

26: Clark - Playground In A Lake (Deutsche Grammophon)

26: Xiu Xiu - OH NO (Polyvinyl)

26: John Smith -  The Fray (Thirty Tigers) 

26: Neil Young - Young Shakespeare. 

26: Joe Strummer -  Assembly (Dark Horse Records )

26: Skegss – Rehearsal ( Loma Vista Recordings.)

26: Greenleaf -  Echoes From A Mass  (Napalm Records)

26: Guitarmy of One - The Spy Detective Collective 

26: Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers (Spinefarm)

26: Space Cadet - Lion On A Leash (Wiretap Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt  - GREGÆR (Long Branch Records)

26: Payday - P.U.K.E Tapes Volume 3

26: Modesty Blaise -The Modesty Blaise (From Lo-Fi to Disco!)

26: Esther Rose - How Many Times (Father/Daughter Records & Full Time Hobby)

26: Sarah Jerrom -  Dream Logic ( Three Pines Records) 

26: Justin Rutledge - Islands

26: New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers - Vol. 2 (Stony Plain Records)

26: David Olney and Anana Kaye - Whispers and Sighs (School Kids Records)

26: tune-yards  sketchy.  (4AD)

26: Memoriam - To The End (Reaper Entertainment)

26: The Armadillo Paradox - Out of Gas in Oil Country

26: Annabelle Chvostek - String of Pearls

26: Carrie Underwood  - My Savior (UMC)

26: Emily Moment - The Party's Over  

26: Anna Fox Rochinski -  Cherry

26:  ‘68 - Give One Take One (Cooking Vinyl)

26: The Wanted - Strange Flight

26: Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Red & White vinyl edition)  (Matador)

26: Suzi Quatro- The Devil in Me (SPV/Steamhammer)

26: John Smith -  The Fray

26: Brigitte DeMeyer- Seeker (BDM Music)

26: Jerry Leger - Time Out For Tomorrow, deluxe edition

26: Architects -  For Those Who Wish to Exist

31: Alec Fraser Jr -  On The Wings Of The Wind

April

1: Jon Klages - Fabulous Twilight'

2: Glasvegas-  Godspeed

2: The Holly Cole Trio - Montreal (UMC) 

2:  Hope Dunbar - Sweetheartland

2: The Natvral -Tethers (Kanine)

2: MYTHIC SUNSHIP - Wildfire (Tee Pee Records)

2: Cristina Vane - Nowhere Sounds Lovely

2: Shakey Graves - Roll The Bones X (Dualtone Records.)

2: MØAA- Euphoric Recall WWNBB (We Were Never Being Boring)

2: Dry Cleaning    New Long Leg  (4AD)  

2: Alex Little & The Suspicious Minds - Waiting to Get Paid  (Light Organ)

9: The Fratellis -  Half Drunk Under a Full Moon

9:The Treatment -Waiting For Good Luck (Frontiers Music Srl )

9: Assertion - Intermission

9: Purgatory - Lawless To Grave (Unbeaten Records)

9: Peter Murphy -  Love Hysteria  (Indigo vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

9: Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (Blue vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

9: Peggy Lee - Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee Sings The Great American Songbook (Omnivore)

9: Dallas Moore -The Rain 

9: Beverly Glenn-Copeland - reissue Keyboard Fantasies (Transgressive)

9: Nick Waterhouse - Promenade Blue (Innovative Leisure)

9: Chris Cain -  Raisin' Cain (Alligator Records) 

9:Lynyrd Skynyrd - Live At Knebworth ‘76 -DVD+CD +Blu-ray+2LP (Eagle Rock Entertainment )

9: Sweet Oblivion - Relentless 

9: Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (Republic Records)

9: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band  -  Dance Songs for Hard Times (Thirty Tigers)

9: POWERWOLF - Vinyl Re-Release -Blessed & Possessed  (Napalm Records)

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

16: Will Porter - Tick Tock Tick (Gramofono Sound Label)

16: Waxflower - We Might Be Alright (Rude Records)

16: Icon of Sin - S/T

16: Miesha and The Spanks - Singles EP 

16: Alex Henry Foster - Standing Under Bright Lights (Hopeful Tragedy)

16: The Brother Brothers - Calla Lilly  ( Compass Records)

16: Temple Balls - Pyromide (Frontiers Music Srl )

16: Isaac + Yaehsun - Natura Sophia (Crystal Math/Universal)

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

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

16: Julia Stone - Sixty Summers  (Arts & Crafts)

16: Jakob Mind -The One Who Got Away (Lövely Records)

16: The Vintage Caravan -  Monuments (Napalm Records)

23: Randy McAllister - Paperbag Salvation (Reaction Records)

23: Fog Lake -Tragedy Reel (Orchid Tapes)

23: Birthday Ass - Head of the Household

23: Peter Frampton - Frampton Forgets the Words (Universal Music)

23: Oxlip -Your Mother Was A Peacock (Garment District Records)

23: Rag‘n’Bone Man - Life By Misadventure ( Columbia)

23: glimmers- Worlds Apart (Common Ground Collective)

23: Art d'Ecco - In Standard Definition (Paper Bag Records)

23: Animal Collective Crestone (Original Score) 

23: Tom Jones - Surrounded By Time  (S-Curve Records/BMG)

23: Pet Shop Boys  - Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 concert

30: Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever  (Ninja Tune)

30: Amy Shark - Cry Forever

30: Amy Speace and The Orphan Brigade -There Used To Be Horses Here

30: Kristian North –Passion Play (Mothland)

30: The Shootouts - Bullseye (Soundly Music)

30: Royal Blood - Typhoons (UMC)

30: Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (Telephone Explosion)

30: Paul Jacobs  - Pink Dogs on The Green Grass ( Blow The Fuse)

30: Evile -  Hell Unleashed (Napalm Records)

30: TETRARCH Unstable (Napalm Records)

30: Nick Hudson - Font Of Human Fractures 

May

7: GHOST IRIS - Comatose (Long Branch Records)

7: Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp Records)

7: Peter Murphy   - Deep (Clear vinyl) reissue (Beggars Banquet)

7: Peter Murphy  -  Holy Smoke  (Smoke vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

7: Man on Man - S/T (Polyvinyl Record Co. / Big Scary Monsters)

7: Sumo Cyco - Initiation  (Napalm Records! Interlaced )

7: Slow Leaves  - Holiday (Birthday Cake Records)

14: The Go-Go’s =God Bless The Go-Go’s  (Eagle Records)

14: Sarah Neufeld -Detritus (One Little Independent Records)

14: Siniestro- Vortexx ( Black Lodge Records)

21: Gary Numan - Intruder

21: San Holo - bb u ok? (bitbird/Counter Records)

21: CHAI - Wink (Sub Pop)

28: Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions  

28: Hillburn - Slipping Away (LHM Records)

June

4: Satsang - All. Right. Now. (SideOneDummy Records)

4: Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (BMG)

18:  Rory Feek -Gentle Man  (Gaither Music)

July

30: Nobody's Girl - Folk and Heavenly Pop  ( Lucky Hound Music)

Canadian artists marked in red