FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, June 24, 2021
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Lady Gaga, Jennifer Nettles, Lady A, Modest Mouse, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Etta James, and Peter Murphy. A stellar week for Canadian releases includes albums by Ellis (pictured), Joni Mitchell, I M U R, Loony, Dana Sipos, Felix Cartal, Leanne Zacharias, Mother Mother, Stompin' Tom Connors, The Zolas, Chromeo, JP Saxe, Alicia Toner, and Blinker the Star.
By Kerry Doole
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Lady Gaga, Jennifer Nettles, Lady A, Modest Mouse, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Etta James, and Peter Murphy.
A stellar week for Canadian releases includes albums by Ellis, Joni Mitchell, I M U R, Loony, Dana Sipos, Felix Cartal, Leanne Zacharias, Mother Mother, Stompin' Tom Connors, The Zolas, Chromeo, JP Saxe, Alicia Toner, Shawnee Kish, and Blinker the Star.
June
21: Nick Rhodes & Wendy Bevan - Astronomia 11: The Rise Of Lyra (Tape Modern)
23: Hilotrons- Lonely Cinema II EP
24: Loony - soft thing
25: Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 1
25: Shawnee Kish - S/T
25: Anna Ash - Fire Season
25: Bukola - The Chronicles Of A Teenage Mind
25: Tyler, The Creator CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (Columbia Records)
25: PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions (UMC)
25: Broke Fuse - Rocket Ride
25: Lady Gaga & Guests - Born This Way - The Tenth Anniversary Edition (via Interscope Records)
25: Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying (Single Lock Records)
25: Jesse Marchant - Antelope Running
25: Doja Cat - Planet Her (Kemosabe/RCA Records)
25: Dana Sipos - The Astral Plane (Roaring Girl)
25: Nina Simone:- The Montreux Years (BMG)
25: Cold Weather Company - Coalescence - Pt. 1 EP (Deko Entertainment)
25: Ashleigh Ball - Before All The Magic’s Gone
25: Leanne Zacharias -Music For Spaces
25: Etta James: The Montreux Years (BMG)
25: Felix Cartal - Expensive Sounds For Nice People (Physical Presents)
25: Janette King - What We Lost (Hot Tramp Records)
25: Bill Evans - Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980) (Craft Recordings)
25: Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (Epic Records)
25: Jennifer Nettles Always Like New (Concord Records)
25: Lady A- What A Song Can Do (BMLG Records)
25: Save The Clocktower - Renaissance
25: Alicia Toner - Joan
25: Sarah Aroeste - Monastir
25: The Zolas - Come Back To Life
25: Dave Kalz - Relish (Gulf Coast Records)
25: Kojaque -Town’s Dead (Soft Boy Records / Different Recordings)
25: Sarah Walk - Simply (One Little Independent Records)
25: bRavenous - Flaunting Imperfections (Black Buffalo Records)
25: Rauw Alejandro – Voce Versa (Sony)
25: Chromeo Date Night: Chromeo Live! (Last Gang Records/eOne)
25: JP Saxe - Dangerous Levels of Introspection
25: Blinker the Star - Arista
25: Eli & Fur - Found In The Wild (Anjunadeep)
25: Spitboy - Body of Work (1990-1995)
25: Small Isles - The Valley, The Mountains, The Sea (AKP Recordings)
25: Ronu Majumdarth - Classical Traditions - The Indian Bansuri (Naxos World)
25: Lara Hope & the Arktones – Here to Tell the Tale (Sower Records)
25: Devora - Outlaw (Tiger Tone Records)
25: Lucy Dacus Home Video (Matador)
25: Summer Salt - Sequoia Moon (Cherry Lime Records)
25: LoneLady - Former Things (Warp Records)
25: Polo & Pan - Cyclorama
25: Meghan Patrick Heart On My Glass. (Warner Music Canada)
25: Greyson Chance TROPHIES (Sony Music)
25: The Naysayers - S/T ( Coax Records)
25: Lost in Japan - Somedays.
25: The Joel Frahm Trio - The Bright Side (Anzic Records)
25: Cautious Clay - Deadpan Love (The Orchard)
25: MAITREYA - Hyper Reels
25: The Murlocs- Bittersweet Demons (ATO Records)
25: Lake and Lyndale -In the Nude Vol. 1
25: Fargo - Strangers D'Amour
25: Sunshine & The Blue Moon - Born 2 Boogie
25: waants - Love u Forever (LHM Records)
25: Robyn Ottolini - The But I’m Not Always Sad Either EP (Warner)
25: The Rubinoos -The CBS Tapes (Yep Roc)
25: Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones - Here to Tell the Tale
25: Wild Pink - 3 Songs ( Royal Mountain Records)
25: Mother Mother - INSIDE (Warner)
25: Stompin’ Tom Connors - Unreleased Songs From The Vault Collection Vol. 4: Let’s Smile Again (Anthem)
25: Neufeld - Craig's OTHER Brother - vinyl ( Thousand Islands Records)
25: Peter Murphy - Cascade (2LP) (Scarlet vinyl) reissue ( Beggars Banquet)
25: Peter Murphy - The Last and Only Star Rarities ( Beggars Banquet)
25: Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)
25: Ellis - nothing is sacred anymore EP
25: GoldenOak - Room To Grow
25: Helvetia- Essential Aliens (Joyful Noise)
25: Hiraes -Solitary (Napalm Records)
25: Tom Odell - monsters (Columbia)
25: The Murlocs Bittersweet Demons (ATO)
25: I M U R - My Molecules
25: Joni Mitchell - The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)- Song to a Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, and Blue 4 CD set
26: Jeremy Jay - Devils Daughters (Switchblade Sound)
28: Tara Williamson - Enough
30: Ida Maria - Dirty Money
30: Elias Bendix - Puzz
30: Hunter Brothers - Been A Minute (Open Road)
30: Trio Nilo - Planeta Desierto
July
2: Moonspell - Extinct and 1755 reissues (Napalm)
2: Cub Scout Bowling Pins- Clang Clang Ho (Rockathon Records)
2: Hound Dog Taylor And The HouseRockers - Natural Boogie Vinyl (Alligator)
2: Steve Marriner - Hope Dies Last (Stony Plain Records)
2: Izzy True - Our Beautiful Baby World (Don Giovanni Records)
2: Wanderlust – All A View (self-released)
2: Sebastian Plano -Save Me Not (Mercury KX)
2: Lord Of The Lost -- Judas (Napalm)
2: An Early Bird -Diviner (Greywood Records)
2: Al Hammerman - Just a Dance
2: The Late Great Charlie Borski - Watch Out For Spiders (Mannequin Vanity Records)
2: Stone Giants - West Coast Love Stories
2: Ametrom Distant Reflections
2: NANOWAR OF STEEL - Italian Folk Metal ( Napalm Records)
4: Maxi Glamour - Modernadada (Trans Trenderz)
7: Ralph- Gradience
7: Sarah Aroeste - Monastir
9: Meggie Lennon - Sounds From Your Lips (Mothland)
9: Powerwolf- Call Of The Wild (Napalm Records)
9: Jahvillani - Dirt to Bentley. (VP Records)
9: Graduating Life - Grad Life II (Pure Noise Records)
9: Spice Girls - Wannabe Anniversary EP
9: Seán Devlin -AIRPORTS, ANIMALS. (Arts & Crafts)
9: L.A. Guns - Cocked & Loaded Live (Frontiers)
9: Charlotte Day Wilson - Alpha ( Stone Woman Music)
9: Debbie Bond - Blues Without Borders (Blues Root Productions)
9: James The Prophet -Unimaginable Storms (Sony Music / Rupture),
9: Lex Leosis -Terracotta
9: Royal Canoe - Sidelining (Paper Bag Records)
9: Andrew Bryant - A Meaningful Connection
9: The Goon Sax - Mirror II (Matador)
9: Charlotte Day WilsonAlpha (Stone Woman Music)
9: Christina Petrowska Quilico- Sound Visionaries (Navona Records)
9: Graduating Life - Grad Life II (Pure Noise Records)
9: Aasiva - NIRIUNNIQ (Aakuluk Music)
9: Wild Earp - Dyin' For Easy Livin'
9: Roger Street Friedman - Come What May
9: Koreless - Agor (Young)
9: Murray McLauchlan - Hourglass (True North Records)
9: The Flatlanders - Treasure of Love (Rack'em Records/Thirty Tigers)
9: Kodo - Kodo Together
9: The Wallflowers - Exit Wounds
9: Oxlip - A Kind Of Premonition (Champagne Breakfast)
16: Stephen Fretwell -Busy Guy (Speedy)
16: Barenaked Ladies - Detour de Force
16: Tina Turner - Foreign Affair Deluxe Edition (Warner)
16: Mike Zito - Resurrection
16: BROS –Vol. 2 (Dine Alone Records)
16: Velvet Insane - Rock n' Roll Glitter Suit
16: Brandon Isaak - Modern Primitive
16: John R. Miller - Depreciated (Rounder Records)
16: Kevin Drew (aka K.D.A.P.) - Influences (Arts & Crafts)
16: New Chance - Real Time (We Are Time)
16: Laura Nyro- Trees of the Ages: Laura Nyro Live in Japan (Omnivore)
16: Tedeschi Trucks Band - Layla Revisited (Live At LOCKN') - (Fantasy Records)
16: Boy Golden - Church of Better Daze (Six Shooter)
16: Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender (Detail Records/BMG)
16: Let Me Downs - Tacoma Is For Lovers'
16: John R. Miller - Depreciated (Rounder Records)
16: Debra-Jean Creelman - Threshold (Modern Laundry Recording Club)
16: Velvet Insane - Rock ‘n’ Roll Glitter Suit (Wild Kingdom)
17: Qasim Naqvi - Chronology -vinyl (Erased Tapes)
17: War - Give Me Five: The War Albums (1971-1975)
17: Ampersounds and Rufus Wainwright - S/T (West End Records/BMG)
21: Carolina East - Soaked in Whisky
23: Darkside - Spiral (2Lp) (Matador)
23: Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
23: Brittany Howard - Jaime Reimagined (ATO)
23: Carrie Underwood - My Savior- Live From The Ryman - Concert DVD (UMC)
23: Various Artists -Bills & Aches & Blues (2LP 4AD 40th Anniversary Compilation) (4AD)
23: 2Pac - Until The End Of Time (UMC)
23: Cassie Dasilva -EP Enough
23: Lee Aaron - Radio On! (Big Sister)
23: Vaines -Electric Blue (Hopeless Records)
23: LOLAA - La Marea (Arts & Crafts Mexico)
23: Jxst J - How To Pronounce Jxst J
23: Dusted -Dusted III (AWAL)
23: Heavy Water Red Brick City ( Silver Lining Music)
23: Clay Melton -Back to Blue
23: Left Field Messiah - In Praise of Bombast (Riptide)
23: Erika de Casier - Sensational” (Clear vinyl) (4AD)
23: Emily Daniels - Welcome To A Heartache
23: Rodney Crowell -Triage
30: The Effens - Eventually (Hidden Pony/LootBag Records)
30: Dee Snider Leave A Scar (Napalm Records)
30: Skirts Great Big Wild Oak (Double Double Whammy)
30: Lump- Animal’ (Partisan/Chrysalis).
30: Nobody's Girl - Folk and Heavenly Pop ( Lucky Hound Music)
30: Sweet Teeth - Acid Rain (Lovely)
30: Alex Rex - Paradise (Neolithic Recordings)
30: Bleachers -Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (RCA Records)
30: Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (UMC)
30: Los Lobos - Native Sons (New West)
30: Lakes - Start Again (Know Hope Records)
30: NEEDTOBREATHE - Into The Mystery
30: Paper Birch morninghairwater (Reckless Yes)
30: The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night
30: Leslie Winer - When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It (LITA)
30: The Beach Boys - The Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 box set
30: The Five Hundred - A World On Fire (Long Branch Records)
30: Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars (SA Recordings)
30: Tayls Have You Ever? (I've Always)
30: Paper Birch morninghairwater (Reckless Yes)
30: Prince - Welcome 2 America
August
5: Praises - EP4 (Hand Drawn Dracula)
6: John Moods -So Nice (Arbutus Records)
6: Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of Light (Severn Songs)
6: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray -Leave the Bones
6: Bigmcenroe - Brandon
6: summersets -small town sunday
6: Night Ranger - ATBPO (Frontiers Music Srl.)
6: Long Shadows Dawn - Isle Of Wrath
6: Tito Jackson - Under Your Spell (Gulf Coast Records and Hillside Global)
6: Wolf Castle -Da Vinci's Inquest (Forward Music Group)
6: Max Richter - Exiles (UMC)
6: Brian Jackson -JID008 (Jazz Is Dead)
6: Circus Of Rock -Come One, Come All
6: Paul Thorn - Never Too Late To Call (Thirty Tigers)
6: Ro Myra - Nowhere, Nebraska
6: Brian May - Back To The Light (reissue) - (UMC)
6: Andrew Rinehart - Have Fun Idiot (sonaBLAST!)
11: Cots - Disturbing Body ( Boiled Records )
13: Jungle - Loving In Stereo (AWAL)
13: Typhoid Rosie - Queen Of Swords
13: Lucinda Chua Antidotes (4AD)
13: The Ugly Kings - Strange, Strange Times (Napalm Records)
13: Wednesday- Twin Plagues (Orindal Records)
13: Pachyman - The Return of Pachyman (ATO Records)
13: F. Scott and the Nighthawks - Hold Onto Your Heart.
13: Jonathan Bauer – Sings and Plays (Slammin' Media)
13: Suzie Ungerleider - My Name is Suzie Ungerleider (MVKA)
18: Jan Lisiecki -Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon)
20: LTtheMonk - On The Wall (Sonic Unyon Records)
20: Lorkin O'Reilly - Marriage Material (Team Love)
20: Lorde - Solar Power
20: Silver Pools - Chroma (Modern Laundry Recording Club)
20: Badge Epoch - Scroll (Telephone Explosion Records)
20: Shire T - Tomorrow’s People (Dama Dama)
20: Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die ( Elektra/Low Country Sound)
20: Shannon & The Clams - Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound)
20: Kirty - We Are All On Fire (Postwar Records)
20: Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks of the Trade
20: Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton - Anniversary Deluxe Edition
20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)
20: Manny Blu - DEViL
20: Lung -Come Clean Right Now (Sofaburn Records)
20: Black Light Animals- - Playboys of the Western World (Groove King)
20: James McMurtry -The Horses and the Hounds (New West Records)
20: Necronautica - Slain In the Spirit (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)
20: Zach Kleisinger -Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)
20: Occurrence - I Have So Much Love To Give ( Archie & Fox Records)
20: The Road Hammers - Boys Are Back EP (Open Road)
20: Warkings -Revolution (Napalm)
20: Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn (Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl)
24: School of X - Dancing Through The Void
27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)
27: Wormwood -Arkivet
27: Mountain Time - Saint Francis, Zookeeper (Spartan Records)
27: Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World ( Constellation.)
27: Ex Deo - The Thirteen Years Of Nero (Napalm Records)
27: Shawna Caspi - Hurricane Coming
27: I See Hawks in L.A. -On Our Way
27: The Faux Paws - S/T
27: Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale
September
3: David Ferguson - Nashville No More (Fat Possum Records)
3: Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland (Feeltrip Records)
3: The Hawkins - The Aftermath'
3: Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall ( BMG.)
3: Laroie - Speed of Life EP
3: SUUNS - The Witness ( Secret City Records)
3: Bad Waitress - No Taste (Royal Mountain Records)
10: Matthew E. White - K Bay (Domino)
10: The Stranglers - Dark Matters ( Coursegood/ BFD)
10: Anette Olzon - Strong (Frontiers Music Srl)
10: Various Artists - R&B in D.C. 1940-1960 (Bear Family)
10: Matthew Fowler - The Grief We Gave Our Mother (Signature Sounds)
10: Pokey LaFarge- In The Blossom of Their Shade (New West)
10: Ross Adams - Escaping Southern Heat
10: Metallica -The Black Album -30th anniversary edition ( Blackened Recordings/Warner)
10: Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence (Inside Out Music)
14: Gordie Tentrees - Mean Old World ( Buckaroo Records)
17: Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out (BMG)
17: Karaboudjan - Imago
17: Colin Linden - bLOW ( Highway 20/Thirty Tigers).
17: Written By Wolves - The Collab Project EP
17: José González - Local Valley (Mute)
17: Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator
17: Jordan Rakei -What We Call Life (Ninja Tune )
17: Alien Weaponry- Tangaroa (Napalm Records)
17: The Felice Brothers - From Dreams To Dust (Yep Roc Records)
21: Andrew W.K. - God Is Partying ( Napalm Records )
24: Radiant Baby - Pantomine (Lisbon Lux)
24: Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms
24: A Pale Horse Named Death - Infernum In Terra (Long Branch Records / SPV)
24: Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic (Play It Again Sam)
24: Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb (Spinefarm)
24: Manu Delago - Environ Me (One Little Independent Records)
24: Randy Travis - Storms of Life (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
October
1: Moist - End of the Ocean (Known Accomplice)
1: Shad - TAO (Secret City Records)
1: Tirzah - Colourgrade
8: Bardo Pond - Amanita 2LP 25th Anniversary Reissue (Matador)
8: Efterklang - Windflowers (City Slang)
15: Rodrigo Leão - A Estranha Beleza (BMG / Modern Recordings)
22: Duran Duran - Future Past (Tape Modern/BMG)
22: Titus Andronicus -The Monitor” (10th Anniversary Reissue) (XL Recordings)
22: Helado Negro -Far In (4AD)
22: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T (Spinefarm /Search & Destroy)
22: Amaunet - While I'm Living (Lövely Records)
November
5: T. Buckley -Frame by Frame (Fallen Tree Records)
5: Julia Daigle - Un singe sur l'épaule ( Lisbon Lux)
12: Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive Records)
19: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (UMC)
December
10: Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (Matador Revisionist History Edition) ( Matador)
Canadian artists marked in red