FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, June 16, 2022

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 Sting, Perfume Genius, Nick Cave, Bartees Strange, RX Y, Me Rex, Counterpunch, Flasher, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and T.S. Monk.

Canadian artists with new releases in a busy week include Jocelyn Gould, Handheld, Elaquent, Fresh Pepper, Lori Cullen, The Strongman Blues Remedy, Harrison Kennedy, Andre Pettipas and The Giants, Melissa Stylianou, Digging Roots, Pharis and Jason Romero, The Royal Foundry, and Praises.

June

13: Lori Cullen - Blood Wonder

14: Nurdjana - Coming Home

14: Handheld -A Canadian Tragedy (Thousand Islands Records) 

15: Ernest Moon - Skipping to Maloo

17: The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story - Deluxe reissue (Blixa Sounds) 

17 Hank Williams Jr. - Rich White Honky Blues (Easy Eye Sound)

17: RUINS - Pure at Heart

17: The Damn Quails - Clouding Up Your City

17: Jocelyn Gould - Golden Hour 

17: Elaquent  - Long Drives to Nowhere (Urbnet) 

17: Civil Wars - Invaders (Napalm Records)

17: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult-  Sexplosion!'30th Anniversary Reissue Vinyl (Wax Trax) 

17: Meredith Lazowski - Other Way Home

17: Me Rex - Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

17: Chastity Brown - Sing To The Walls (Red House Records)

17: Pollyanna - Slime (I Surrender Records)

17: Paul Kelly - Time  (Gawd Aggie/Cooking Vinyl Records)

17: Val Thomas - Hymnal

17: Patty Lomuscio- Star-Crossed Lovers

17: Fresh Pepper - S/T (Telephone Explosion Records)

17: Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)

17: The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (Yellow vinyl)  (XL Recordings)

17: Sting - The Bridge - deluxe (UMC)

17: Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia (Sneaker Social Club)

17: Blind Season  - Wine and Hair Dye

17: The Goddamsels- Wayward Daughter (Royalty Records)

17 Bob Margolin & Bob Corritoreso - So Far (VizzTone)

17: Alice Merton  -S.I.D.E.S. (Mom + Pop Music and Paper Plane Records Int.)

17: Star Eugénie -  Moment in Time 

17: Tafoya -Freedom

17: Void Patrol  - Infrequent Seams

17: Silver Lake 66 - The Space Between Us

17: Dylan Moon - Option Explore (RVNG Intl)

17:  Andre Pettipas and The Giants -  Andre Pettipas and The Giants Live at The ElMo

17: Perfume Genius   -Ugly Season  (Matador)

17: Melissa Stylianou - Dream Dancing (Anzic Records)

17: Harrison Kennedy - Thanks For Tomorrow   (Electro-fi) 

17: The Everly Brothers - Hey Doll Baby

17: the della kit - moonbeams + frequencies 

17: The Royal Foundry - Little High Little Low 

17: Digging Roots - Zhawenim (Ishkōdé Records)

17: The Strongman Blues Remedy -  Volume 1  (Stony Plain Records)

17: Nick Cave - Seven Psalms

17: Iconic - Second Skin (Frontiers)

17: Counterpunch - Rewire (Thousand Islands Records/SBÄM Records)

17: Bartees Strange - Farm to Table    (4AD)  -  October 7 (Physical LP/CD)

17: Stacy Antonel  - Always the Outsider

17: Pharis and Jason Romero - Tell ’Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

17: Praises - In This Year: Hierophant (Hand Drawn Dracula)

17: Pip Skid -A Really Nice Day (Peanuts & Corn Records)

17: Flasher - Love Is Yours (Domino)

17:  Pat Matshikiza - Sikiza Matshikiza (We Are Busy Bodies)

17: Seven Kingdoms -  Zenith

17: RX Y - Blood Moon

17: Me Rex -  Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

17: T.S. Monk - Two Continents - One Groove (Naxos)

21: Zoon Big Pharma EP (Paper Bag Records)

24: Madonna - Finally Enough Love  (Warner Music Group)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash

24: Alexisonfire - Otherness (Dine Alone Records)

24: Lindsay Clark - Carpe Noctem  (Audiosport Records)

24: Conan Gray - Superache (UMC)

24: Luke Combs - Growin’ Up (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville)

24: Motherhood - Winded  (Forward Music Group)

24: Nicky Egan - This Life (Transistor Sound / Colemine Records)

24: Soccer Mommy -  Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)

24: Mikey Erg -  Love At Leeds (Don Giovanni Records )

24: Biblioteka - Pretty Ugly  ( Freakout Records)

24: Martin Courtney - Magic Sign (Domino)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash

24: Sarah Hansen - Gather Up Your Days

24: Hollie Cook  - Happy Hour (Merge Records)

24: Kat Riggins - Progeny (Gulf Coast Records)

24: The Dreadnoughts - Roll & Go  (Stomp Records)

24: Alan Braxe & DJ Falcon  Step By Step EP  (Smugglers Way)

24: The Tragically Hip -Live At Roxy Theatre (UMC)

24: Art d‘Ecco - After The Head Rush (Paper Bag Records)

24: Katrina Ford - S/T  (Violin Films)

24: Automatic - Excess (Stones Throw)

24: Victorius - Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 – The Great Ninja War, (Napalm Records)

24: Yosh & Yimmy - Three Rivers

24: The Burning Hell - Garbage Island  (You’ve Changed Records)

24: Thomas Abban AMBIENIC EP 

24: Jimmie Allen - Tulip Drive (Stoney Creek Records/BBR Music Group)

29: Classified - RETROSPECTED

30: Jann Arden - Descendant (vinyl) - (UMC)

July

1: Fresh -Raise Hell  (Specialist Subject Records)

1: MXMJoY -Joy Again (London Field Recordings)

1: Guided By Voices - Tremblers And Goggles By Rank  (GBV Inc.)

1: Silver People  -Gnome Country

1: Saint Asonia - Introvert  (Spinefarm)

1: Chagall Guevara - Halcyon Days

1: Teddy and The Rough Riders - S/T (Appalachia Record Co)

1: The Holy Gamblers - Back Out On The Strip 

1: Silver People  - Gnome Country

1: Boppers - White Lightning

1: Seether  - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum -  Deluxe

1:  Kate Wyatt  Artifact 

1: Madison Violet - Eleven

6: Ghost Woman - S/T  (Victory Pool)

6: Coldrain -Nonnegative (Warner)

8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)

8: Emmanuel Jal - Shangah  (Gatwitch Records)

8: Cleanbreak - Coming Home (Frontiers)

8: Among Legends - Take Good Care (Little Rocket/Rad Girlfriend Records)

8: Blackwater Drowning -Sonder//Satori (Blood Blast Distribution)

8:  Mush -Down Tools (Memphis Industries)

8: Metric - Formentera

8: Maxim Mental - Make Team Presents Maxim Mental in Maximalism (Dine Alone Records)

8: The Michael Boguski Trio -  A Newer Morning (For John) (Goliard Records) 

8: The Mortal Prophets Stomp The Devil EP

8: Switchfoot -  interrobang.  Deluxe (Fantasy)

8: Bad Breeding -  Human Capital (One Little Independent Records)

8: Paul Jacobs -  185 On the Corner  (Bonsound)

8: Fiver - OST: A More Radiant Sphere: The Joe Wallace Mixtape  (You've Changed)

8: The Mortal Prophets - Stomp The Devil EP

8: Journey -  Freedom  ( BMG)

8: Titus Bank - Hopeless & Romantic (Everything Forever)

8: Oakrest -  Summer Sun

8: Blood –  Bye Bye ( Permanent Creeps)

8: Packs - Woah  (Fire Talk)

8: Astrologer - Legerdemain (Lollipop)

8: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T  - deluxe  (Spinefarm/Search and Destroy)

8: Wu-Lu - LOGGERHEAD (Warp Records) 

8: Among Legends - Take Good Care (Little Rocket/Rad Girlfriend)

8:  Dio -  Holy Diver CD and vinyl box sets  (Rhino) 

8: Todd Sharpville - Medication Time  (DixieFrog Records/Redeye)

8: the della kit  -moonbeams + frequencies

8: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings -  O Glory  (WMC)

8: Greylotus -Dawnfall ( The Artisan Era)

8:  Journey -Freedom  (BMG)

8: The Deslondes - Ways & Means (New West)

11: Yotto - Erased Dreams (Reflections)

13: Brett Wiscons - Late Bloomer (MAD Diamond Entertainment)

13: Hunjiya- Khamai

15: Tami Neilson-  Kingmaker (Outside Music)

15: Local Honeys - S/T  (La Honda Records)

15: Alan Parsons - From The New World  (Frontiers Music Srl)

15: Rachel Bobbitt -The Ceiling Could Collapse (Fantasy Records)

15: Sick N' Beautiful - Starstruck (Frontiers Music Srl)

15: Broke Royals - Local Support (Byrdland)

15: Earl McGrath -  Earl’s Closet   (LITA)

15: Ian Blurton's Future Now - Second Skin

15:  Ben Shemie  Desiderata   (Backward Music)

15: God Is An Astronaut - The Beginning Of The End (Napalm Records)

15: black midi - Hellfire (Rough Trade)

15: Noah Cyrus - The Hardest Part (Columbia Records)

15:  Lizzo - Special (Nice Life Recording Company/Atlantic Records)

15: The Caughtery  - Fragile 

15: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One- 25th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

15: Interpol - The Other Side of Make-Believe  (Matador)

15: Dylan Triplett - Who Is He? (VizzTone)

15: Monkey House - Remember the Audio  (ALMA Records) 

15: Superorganism -  World Wide Pop 

15: JayWood - Slingshot

20: iskwē and Tom Wilson - Mother Love

20: Damion  -Special Interest (Earth Libraries)

21: Oceans of Slumber  Starlight and Ash  (Century Media Records)

22: Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)

22: Nick Leng  Spirals  (SOTA Records)

22: Nick Pagliari - Hard Lessons

22: Twenty2 – Dismissed 

22: Matthew Barber - No Singing or Dancing  (Outside Music)

22: Galya Bisengalieva - OST - Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive (One Little Independent Records)

22: She & Him - Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson (Fantasy Records)

22: Gilbert O’Sullivan -Driven (BMG)

22: Mike Edel - casseroles & flowers

22: Maya Lucia - miss girl world 

22: George Crotty Trio -Chronotope 

22: The Sadies  - Colder Streams   (Dine Alone)

22: Dawes - Misadventures of Doomscroller  (Rounder)

22: Bananarama - Masquerade ( In Synk/BFD/The Orchard)

22: Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse (Napalm Records)

22: Sean Nicholas Savage - Shine  (Arbutus Records)

22: Jitwam - Third 

22: ODESZA - The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)

29: Tallies - Patina (Hand Drawn Dracula)

29: DC Gore -  All These Things (Domino)

29: Amanda Shires -Take It Like a Man (ATO Records)

29: Improvement Movement - Don't Delay, Join Today!  (Acrophase Records)

29: Patrick Holland -You're The Boss (Next Door Records)

29: David Ward  LoZ (Golden Future Recordings)

29: Beyoncé - Renaissance

29: Andrew Duhon - Emerald Blue

29: My Sleeping Karma-  - Atma  (Napalm Records)

29: Eric Johnson - The Book of Making and Yesterday Meets Today (Blue Élan Records)

29: Triptides - So Many Days  (Curation Records)

29: Healing Force Project - Drifted Entities (Vol. 1)’ (Beat Machine Records)

29: Hayley Kiyoko - Panorama  (Atlantic Records)

29: Bobby Cool - Family Time

29: Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale

August

3: dayaway - S/T

5: Colyn Cameron - Freehand

5 John Calvin Abney - Tourist (Black Mesa)

5: J3M -  Afronaut 

5: EINHERJER - Norse And Dangerous (Live... From The Land Of Legends)  (Napalm Records)

5: The Brother Brothers - Cover to Cover (Compass Records)

5: Seal Party - MMXXII (New Age Distribution)

5: Various Artists  - Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson (Easy Eye Sound)

5: Nordic Union -Animalistic (Frontiers Srl)

5: The Flatliners - New Ruin  (Dine Alone Records)

12: Pavement  - Slanted & Enchanted” 30th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

12: Moreish Idols  ( Speedy Wunderground)

12: Brittany Collins - Things I Tell My Therapist

12: Spencer Mackenzie - Preach to my Soul

12: Osees -A Foul Form  (Castle Face Records)

12: Peter Mulvey And SistaStrings -  Love Is The Only Thing (Righteous Babe Records)

12: Jane's Party - Live Again

12: Greg Loiacano- Giving It All Away (Blue Rose)

12: sivarT and Drew Smith -  Good Cop, Bad Cop (We Are Busy Bodies).  

12: Aronious - Irkalla  (The Artisan Era)

12: Weary - Hush 

12: Danger Mouse and Black Thought  Cheat Codes (BMG)

12: Hollywood Undead - Hotel Kalifornia (BMG) 

12: Heart of Gold - Beautiful Dangerous

19: Hot Chip - Freakout (Domino)

19: Oneida - Success (Joyful Noise Recordings)

19: Squalls Live From The 40 Watt  (Strolling Bones Records)

19: Conan - Evidence of Immortality  (Napalm Records)

19: Ever More Nest  - S/T

19: Demi Lovato - Holy Fvck (UMC)

26: Muse -Will Of The People (Warner Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer  (Long Branch)

26: Excuses Excuses - Listen Up!  (Known Accomplice) 

26: Ingrid Andress - Good Person  (Warner)

26: Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl Record Co.)

26: Tina Leon - EP Push  (Ensoul Records)

26:  Lisa Gerrard & Marcello de Francisci-  Exaudia (Atlantic Curve)

26: Meechy Darko  - Gothic Luxury  (Loma Vista Recordings)

26: Pianos Become The Teeth  -Drift  (Epitaph Records)

26: Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon - Step By Step (Smugglers Way/Domino)

26: Lacrimas Profundere  -How To Shroud Yourself With Night

26: Paisley Fields - Limp Wrist (Don Giovanni)

26: Scarves - Delicate Creatures (Good Eye Records)

26: Alexander Ludwig - Highway 99 (BBR)

September

2: YUNGBLUD  - S/T  (Locomotion/Geffen Records)

2: Pale Blue Eyes - Souvenirs  (Full Time Hobby)

2: Living Hour  - Someday Is Today (Next Door)

2: Jon Pardi - Mr. Saturday Night (Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Canada)

2: George FitzGerald -Stellar Drifting

9:  Melissa Lauren - My Voice

9: The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)

9: The Midnight -  Heroes  (Counter Records)

9: Bells Larsen - Good Grief (Next Door Records)

9: The Hungry Williams -  Let's Go! (Rochelle Records)

9: The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?  (Royal Cream/BMG)

9: Warforged - The Grove  (Sundial)

9: Kyp Harness - Poverty Line 

16: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, deluxe reissues (Nonesuch)

16: Savage Republic – Africa Corps Live at the Whisky A Go Go 30th December 1981 (IPR)

16: Bruce Licher - Exploratorium (IPR)

16: Heaven For Real - Energy Bar  (Mint Records)

16: Gunner & Smith -  Hear You In My Head (Devilduck Records)

20: Jude Flannery -  Quiet by your side

23: STRÖM! - S/T ( Black Lodge Records)

23: Dr. John -Things Happen That Way (Rounder)

23: Sunny Sweeney - Married Alone (Thirty Tigers)

23: Tamino -Sahar (Arts & Crafts)

23: David Myles  It’s Only A Little Loneliness  (turtlemusik). 

30: Nestor-  Kids in a ghost town Deluxe Album Edition( Napalm Records)

30: Craig David - 22  (BMG)

30: Various Artists - Blue Note Re:Imagined 11 (UMC) 

30: By Divine Right - Otto Motto (Fortune Stellar Records)

October

7: Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here (New Damage Records)

7: TSHA - Capricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)

14: Tristan -  Wellif  (PIAS.)

14: Pony Girl - Enny One Wil Love You (Paper Bag Records)

14: Rachael Dadd - Kaleidoscope (Memphis Industries)

21: Uji  - Timebeing (ZZK Records)

21: Flore Laurentienne - Volume II  (RVNG Intl. & Costume Records)

21: Simple Minds - Direction of The Heart (BMG)

21: 84 Tigers - Time In The Lighthouse

28: Alexandra Babiak - Magical Thinking 

November

22: Royal Wood  - What Tomorrow Brings 

Canadian artists marked in red