FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Jan. 28, 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 Weezer, Steven Wilson, Marcus James RYZN, St. Germain, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ani DiFranco, and Lucero.

A Canadian contingent is led by The Besnard Lakes, Amanda Tosoff, The Barettas, The Dead South, Chris Houston, and Black Pistol Fire.

January

26: Bill Jr. Jr. - Homebody

27: Julie Neff - Over It  (Independent)

29: The Barettas - All Is Fair In Love And Rock & Roll

29: Selwyn Birchwood = Living In A Burning House  (Alligator)

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

29: Ani DiFranco - Revolutionary Love

29:  Weezer - OK Human (Crush Music/Atlantic)

29: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

29: Balthazar - Sand (Play It Again Sam)

29: Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit (Invada) 

29: The Wardens  Sold Out At The Ironwood 

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

29: Marcus James RYZN - Warning Sign (Physical Presents!)

29: Chris Houston - PPF (DWRecs)

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

29: The Dead South - Served Live (Six Shooter)

29: Counterpunch - Handbook For The Recently Debriefed (Thousand Islands Records)

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

29: Roy Head - One More Time: The Roy Head Collection (Sunset Blvd)

29: Ghalia Volt  One Woman Band'

29: Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)

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

29: PJ Harvey - Is This desire - demos (UMC)

29: Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra - Bernstein Reimagined (MCG Jazz) 

29: Amanda Tosoff – Earth Voices (Empress Music)

29: Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive (  Black Hill Records)

29: The Vaughns -Rom-Com  + take-out (Equal Vision Records)

29: Lilly Winwood -Time Well Spent 

29: Yasmin Williams: Urban Driftwood [Spinster]

29 : Madlib - Sound Ancestors [Madlib Invazion]

29: Pony Bradshaw - Calico Jim

29: Shaking Chains - Overvalued Ideas

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

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

29: Malamorte - God Needs Evil 

February

2: Bet Smith - Downer (Pine Lake Records)

2: Mister K - In Event of Moon Disaster

3: Misc - Partager l’ambulance( Bonsound)

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: Dan McCarthy - A Place Where We Once Lived 

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

5: Alex Southey - ...And the Country Stirred

5: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight 

5: Jeremy Zucker & Chelsea Cutler - brent ii 

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

5: Rod Abernethy - Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore 

5: Alfie Zappacosta - Saved (ALMA Records/UMC)

5: slowthai - Tyron  (Method Records/Universal Music Canada)

5: Strippers Union -The Undertaking Part 1

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: Rough Dreams -From The Graves Of Better Days

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: Django Django-  Glowing in the Dark

12: Sia Music - Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic)

12: Small Sins -  Volume II 

12: Stretch Panic - Glitter & Gore

12: Noble Oak - Stories (Last Gang Records)

12: The Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll

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

12: Dead Poet Society - The Exclamation Album

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

12: Rest Easy - Sick Day EP vinyl (Mutant League Records)

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

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

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

12: Harry Dean Stanton With the Cheap Dates - S/T (Omnivore)

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

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

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

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

12: The Band - Stage Fright - 50th anniversary edition - Capitol/UMe

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

12: Kat Danser - One Eye Open (Black Hen)

12: Robin Thicke -  On Earth, and in Heaven

14: Little Hurt -Better Drugs

14: Boniface - S/T  (Transgressive)

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: 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: 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  

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

19: Cameron Graves- Seven (Artistry Music)

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

19: Blessed -  iii. (Flemish Eye)

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

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)

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

26: Leahy - Good Water

26: Smerz  - Believer  (XL Recordings)

26: Altin Gün - Yol (ATO Records)

26: Gerd Janson - Polydans (City Slang)

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

26:  Rick Holmstrom - See That Light

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: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Banane Bleue

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

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

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: 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: Monowhales - Daytona Bleach 

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: 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: Max Foreman - Underground 

5: Ariel Posen - Headway

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

5: Japan - Quiet Life  (BMG)

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

12: Strippers Union - The Undertaking Part 2

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

12: Saga -Symmetry (earMUSIC.)

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: Marianas Rest -  Fata Morgana (Napalm)

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

12: HAERTS -  Dream Nation

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

19: Triptides -Alter Echoes (Alive Naturalsound Records)

19: Les Shirley - Forever Is Now 

19: Joe Pug -The Diving Sun

19: Colin Miller - Hook EP ( Oof Records)

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

19: Batiste - We Are

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:  Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland Records)

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

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

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

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

26: Xiu Xiu - OH NO (Polyvinyl)

26: Skegss – Rehearsal ( Loma Vista Recordings.)

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

26: Guitarmy of One - The Spy Detective Collective 

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

26: Space Cadet -  Lion on A Leash (Wiretap 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: 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: Jerry Leger - Time Out For Tomorrow, deluxe edition

26: Architects -  For Those Who Wish to Exist

April

2: Glasvegas-  Godspeed

2: The Holly Cole Trio - Montreal (UMC) 

2: Cristina Vane - Nowhere Sounds Lovely

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

9: The Fratellis -  Half Drunk Under a Full Moon

9: Dallas Moore -The Rain 

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

9: Nick Waterhouse - Promenade Blue (Innovative Leisure)

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

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

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

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

23: Randy McAllister - Paperbag Salvation (Reaction Records)

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

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

30: Amy Shark - Cry Forever

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

30: Royal Blood - Typhoons (UMC)

30: Paul Jacobs  - Pink Dogs on The Green Grass

May

21: Gary Numan - Intruder

21: CHAI - Wink (Sub Pop)

Canadian artists marked in red