FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Feb. 2, 2018

By Kerry Doole

There's a bumper crop of new platters to explore this week.

Justin Timberlake, Simple Minds, John Oates, and James Hunter are notable international names, and the potent Canadian lineup includes Jann Arden, Keys N Krates, Rhye, Caracol, The Sheepdogs, Suuns, Robi Botos, Hillsburn, and Ellen Doty.

Happy listening

February

2: Hillsburn -The Wilder Beyond (Indie)

2: Raven and Red - We Rise Up (Line Crossing Records)

2: Hookworms- Microshift (Domino)

2: Keys N Krates - Cura (Indie)

2: Simple Minds - Walk Between Worlds (BMG)

2: Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare ( Sub Pop)

2: Johnny Dowd - Twinkle, Twinkle ( Mother Jinx Records.)

2: Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods (RCA)

2: The Confabulation - Tunnels and Visions (Indie)

2: Emma Cook -Living Proof (Indie)

2: Jesse Roper - Access To Infinity (Blue Heron Music/Warner Music Canada)

2: Caracol - A Paraitre (Indica)

2: Sunny War -  With the Sun (Indie)

2: The LYNNEs - Heartbreak Song For The Radio (Indie)

2: Field Music  -Open Here (Memphis Industries)

2: AWOLNATION - Here Come The Runts (Sony)

2: DZ Deathrays- Bloody Lovely Out (Dine Alone)

2: The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes (Daptone)

2: John Oates - Arkansas (Thirty Tigers) 

2: Charles Mingus - Live At Montreux 1975 (Eagle Rock) 

2: Jann Arden - These Are The Days (Indie)

2: Bat Fangs - S/T (Don Giovanni)

2: Milk & Bone - Deception Bay (Bonsound)

2:  Ellen Doty  - Come Fall ( Alma/UMC)

2: The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours (Warner)

2: Suuns - Felt (Secret City)

2- Moaning - S/T (Sub Pop)

2: Rhye - Blood (Last Gang)

2: Robi Botos - Old Soul ( A440/Universal Music Canada)

9: Joan as Police Woman - Damned Devotion (Play It Again Sam)

2: Loyals - S/T  (Tooth & Nail Records)

9: Ezra Furman-  Transangelic Exodus (Bella Union)

9: Veto - 16 Colors (Indie)

9: Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers (UMC),

9: Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy)

9: Holly Cole - Holly (UMC)

9: MGMT - Little Dark Age (Columbia Records)

9: Toto - 40 Trips Around The Sun      

9: The Rough & Tumble - We Made Ourselves a Home When We Didn’t Know (Indie)  

9: Will Varley - Spirit Of Minnie (Xtra Mile Recordings)

9:  Melody Gardot - Live in Europe (Universal)

9: The Wombats  - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (Kobalt Music Recordings)

9: The Olympic Symphonium - Beauty In The Tension (Forward Music)

9: Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic (Indie)

9: Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows (Dine Alone Records)

9: Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending  (Domino) 

9: Leonard Cohen - The Archives (6CD classic broadcast recordings set - Sony)

9: Good Lovelies - Shapeshifters (Independent)

9: Bradford -Thirty Years Of Shouting Quietly  (A Turntable Friend Records)

9:  Legend of the Seagullmen -S/T (Dine Alone)

14: Anzu – Without Love Vol. 1 (Indie)

16: Spiral Stairs The Real Feel reissue (Nine Mile)

16: Preston School of Industry -  All This Sounds Gas reissue (Nine Mile)

16: Preston School Of Industry-  Monsoon - reissue (Nine Mile)

16: Midnight Shine - High Road (Indie)

16: Michael W. Smith  - A Million Lights

16: M.M. Crone S/T (Indie)

16: Kellen of Troy - Posthumous Release (Indie)

16: The Choir - Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore Recordings)

16: Erica Blinn - Better Than Gold (Curry House Records)

16: Born Ruffians -Uncle, Duke & The Chief (Paper Bag)

16: Wild Beasts - Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Domino Documents)

16: Sameer Gupta  - A Circle Has No Beginning (Indie)

16: The Lazys - Tropical Hazards (HRD Music)

16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 3 (Matador)

16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Compilation (Matador)

16: I'm With Her - See You Around (Indie)

16: Misty Boyce - Get Lost (Indie)

16: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (Royal Mountain / 4AD)

16: Ought - Room Inside The World (Royal Mountain)

16: Pop Evil - S/T ( Entertainment One)

16 Everything Is Recorded - Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell"(XL)

19: Francis Macdonald -Hamilton Mausoleum Suite (Indie)

20: Harvey McLaughlin - Tabloid News (Saustex)

23: Caleb Caudle -  Crushed Coins (Indie)

23: David Leask - Six In 6/8  (Indie)

23: Charlotte Day Wilson - Stone Woman (Indie)

23: Everett Bird - People Person  (Royal Mountain)

23: Olden Yolk - S/T (Trouble in Mind Records)

23: Sarah Blasko - Depth Of Field (Indie)

23: I Promised Once - Salvation (Needful Things)

23: Esme Bridie - Today It Rains  (Klee Music) 

23: Mayhemingways - Skip Land (Independent)

23: Various Artists -Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WWII  (Six Degrees)

23: Beams - Teach Me To Love (Indie)

23 VICTIME -La femme Taupe (Michel Records)

23: Femi Kuti - One People One World (Knitting Factory Records) 

23: The Koch Marshall Trio - Toby Arrives (The Players Club)

23: The Doors - Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (Eagle Rock)

23: Patrick Coman - Tree of Life ( For the Sake of the Song)

23: Lo Moon - S/T  (Columbia Records)

23: Big Little Lions - Alive and Well (Far Flung) 

23: Grounders  - Coffee & Jam  (Nevado Music)

23: Cindy Lee - Act of Tenderness (Superior Viaduct)

23: Frigs  - Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts)

23: Justin Hinds -  Travel With Love and Know Jah Better (Omnivore)

23: Renata Zeiguer - Old Ghost (Indie)

23: John Mayall- Three for the Road (Forty Below Records)

23: Shy Kids - In A State (Indie)

24: The Discarded - Manifesto  (Indie)

March

2: Sue Foley - The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)

2: Kae Sun - Whoever Comes Knocking  (Moonshine)

2: Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds (Bella Luna)

2: Superorganism - S/T (Domino)

2: UB40 - A Real Labour Of Love (Universal Music )

2: Joan Baez  - Whistle Down The Wind (Bobolink)

2: Chris Smither - Call Me Lucky  (Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert)

2: Chip Taylor - Fix Your Words (Train Wreck Records)

2: Lance Lopez -The Truth (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

2: Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt ( Arts & Crafts)

2: Chris Price - Dalmatian ( Omnivore)

2: Pedigo's Magic Pilsner - S/T (Indie)

2: Elk Run & Riot  - Animalia (Indie) 

2- Prism Tats -Mamba (Anti-)

2: Rachel Beck - S/T (Indie)

2: Celtic Thunder- Celtic Thunder X   (Legacy/Sony)

9: Nap Eyes - I'm Bad Now  (Paradise of Bachelors/Jagjaguwar)

9: What So Not - Not All The Beautiful Things (Counter Records)

9: The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling - The High Cost Of Low Living (Alligator)

9: Liza Anne - Fine But Dying (Arts & Crafts)

9: Bob Holroyd - The Cage (Indie)

9: The Golgis - Mr Fisher (Indie)

9: Three Days Grace - Outsider (RCA Records)

9: Miesha & The Spanks -  Girls Girls Girls (Indie)

9: Scenic Route to Alaska - Tough Luck  (popTrip Records)

9: Judas Priest - Firepower  (Epic)

9:  Mud Morganfield - They Call Me Mud (Severn)

9: George FitzGerald - All That Must Be (Domino)

9: Ross Cooper - I Rode The Wild Horses (Indie)

9: David Byrne - American Utopia (Todomundo/Nonesuch Records)

9: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams (Stax)

9: Torgeir Waldemar Jamais Vu ( Jansen Records)

9: Ensign Broderick - Feast Of Panthers (Six Shooter)

16: Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)

16: Muddy Waters - Can’t Be Satisfied (Universal)

16: Scotty McCreery - Seasons Change (Triple Tigers Records) 

16: Alva Noto - UNIEQAV (Noton Records)

16: Avulsions- Expanding Program (Indie)

16: Sango -  In The Comfort Of (Last Gang)

16: Rich Aucoin - Hold (Indie)

17: Ten Minute Detour - Common Pleasure (Indie)

23: Kasbo - Places We Don’t Know (Counter Records)

23: Yamtantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt  (Paper Bag Records)

23: Foreign Films -The Record Collector (Indie)

23: Alice Bag -Blueprint ( Don Giovanni)

23: Shuta Hasunuma & U-Zhaan - 2 Tone (Commmon)

23: The Tillers - S/T (  SofaBurns)

23: Cavern of Anti-Matter  - Hormone Lemonade (Duophonic)

23: The Funk Hunters  - Typecast (Westwood Recordings)

23: Christina Martin - Impossible To Hold (Come Undone Records/acronym Records)

23: Jack White - Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia)

23: Mathew V - The Fifth (Indie)

23: Preoccupations - New Material (Flemish Eye)

23: The Kris Barras Band  - The Divine And Dirty (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

30: Broken Records -What We Might Know (Indie)

30: Rod Picott  - Out Past the Wires (Indie)

30: Lindi Ortega - Liberty (Indie)

30: Ayreon - Ayreon Universe - The Best of Ayreon Live (Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group)

30: The Garden - Mirror Might Steal Your Charm (Epitaph)

30: Eleanor Dubinsky- Soft Spot of My Heart (Indie)

30: Frankie Cosmos - Vessel (Sub Pop)

30: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite - No Mercy in This Land

April

6: Young Galaxy - Down Time (Indie)

6: Soft as Snow -Deep Wave (Houndstooth)

6: Hey Ocean!  - The Hurt of Happiness  (Indie)

6: Royal Wood - Ever After The Farewell (Indie)

6:  EELS - The Deconstruction ( E Works/[PIAS])

6: Mien - S/T (Rocket Recordings)

13: Concrete Knives - Our Hearts (Room Records)

13: The Damned - Evil Spirits (Search And Destroy/Spinefarm Records),

13: Josh Rouse -Love In The Modern Age (Yep Roc)

20: Kimbra - Primal Heart

20: Old Crow Medicine Show - Volunteer (Columbia Records Nashville)

27: Dr. Dog - Critical Equation (Thirty Tigers)

27: The Beat Escape-  Life Is Short the Answer’s Long  (Last Gang/Bella Union)

May

4: Shakey Graves  - Can’t Wake Up ( Dualtone)

4: Middle Kids - Lost Friends (Domino)

4 Frank Turner  -Be More Kind

11: Jerry Granelli  Dance Hall -vinyl version  (Justin Time Records)

25: Fortunate Ones  - Hold Fast  (Old Farm Pony Records)

Canadian releases are in red