FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, May 26, 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 Sean Paul, Def Leppard, Sex Pistols, Wilco, Crematory, Lost Cat, Taking Back Sunday, and Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita.

Canadian artists with new releases in a busy week include Lou Pomanti, Stars, Tia Brazda, Onna Lou, Tate McRae, Sauna, Amanda Rheaume, Ghostkeeper, Queen Kong, Steve & Ginie Jackson, Mon Doux Saigneur, Kitt, and Jahmal Padmore.

May

26: Mon Doux Saigneur - Fleur de l’Âge (Bonsound)

26: Delta Days - Fast Forward 

26:  Steve & Ginie Jackson -Colder Than The Sea

27: Alex Lakusta - Transmit Slow

27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)

27: Tate McRae -  i used to think i could fly (Sony)

27: Stars - From Capelton Hill

27: Magi Merlin - Gone Girl 

27: Queen Kong - Fray

27: Lost Cat - S/T (Lolipop Records)

27: Sauna  - Dose Yourself

27: lullahush -  A City Made of Water and Small Love 

27: Wild Wild Wets - Love Always

27: Model Home - Saturn In The Basement

27: Lou Pomanti -  Lou Pomanti & Friends (Vesuvius)

27: Tia Brazda - When I Get Low 

27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)

27: 70x7 - Above the Waters

27: Adam Brian Paul  - For the Good

27: Amanda Rheaume -  The Spaces In Between (Ishkōdé Records)

27: Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos (UMC)

27: Sean Paul -Scorcha

 27: Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - Echo (bendigedig)

27: Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends deluxe reissue (Craft Recordings)

27: Mark Jones - Scars

27: Hilary Purrington and JIJI - Harp of Nerves (AZ Arts)

27: Wilco - Cruel Country (dBpm Records)

27: Shanna in a Dress - Robot 

27: Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings (UMe)

27: Steven R. Smith -Spring

27: Onna Lou - Diamante

27: Crematory -  Inglorious Darkness (Napalm Records)

27: Kitt  - State Of Mind (Justin Time)

27: Ghostkeeper - Multidimensional Culture (Victory Pool)

27: Jahmal Padmore -Esparonto ( Telephone Explosion Records )

27: With The Punches - Discontent (Mutant League Records)

27: Corner House - How Beautiful It's Been  

June

1: Sky Creature - Bear Mountain/Childworld  (Open Ocean)

2: Danny Bell and His Disappointments - S/T

3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide

3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)

3: Lhasa Petik - The Deep End EP (Friends of Friends)

3: Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer (Relapse Records)

3: Andrew Bird -  Inside Problems (Loma Vista Recordings)

 27: Sheenah Ko - Future Is Now

3:  Michael Shaw - He Rode On

3: Chelsea Rose - Truth or Consequences (Paul Is Dead Records)

3: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Going The Distance (Berkalin Records)

3:  Lettuce - Unify

3: Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring (Craft Recordings)

3: Nicky Egan - This Life  (ransistor Sound / Colemine Records)

3: 070 Shake - You Can't Kill Me  (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings)

3: Barenaked Ladies - Tour de Force Deluxe

3: Polica - Madness  (Memphis Industries)

3: El Perro - Hair of El Perro  (Alive Naturalsound Records)

3:  Matt York - Gently Used

3: Jasmyn -  In The Wild (Royal Mountain Records and ANTI-)

3: Big Drink - It Was Supposed To Be Easy

3: Florian Hoefner Trio  -Desert Bloom  (ALMA)

3: hill of iamhill - Sellout (Text Me Records)

3: Chris Young - Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition)

3: The Venomous Pinks - Vita Mors

3: Twinnie - Welcome To The Club 

3: The Kills -  No Wow -deluxe reissue(Domino)

3: Sass Jordan - Bitches Blues (Stony Plain Records)

3: Tuff Bear -Tuff Bear's Picnic  ( Acrophase Records )

3: Kamikaze Nurse - Stimuloso (Mint Records)

3: Flaccid Mojo - S/T ( Castle Face Records)

3: Fortunate Ones - That Was You and Me

3: Charlie Musselwhite - Mississippi Son (Alligator)

3: Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive  (Compass Records)

3: Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos,' A Love Letter to Latin American Balada Music ( ATO Records)

3: Courtney Hale-Revia - Growing Pains

3: Ken Yates -Cerulean

3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend

3: Serena Sun  Shadows On The Ceiling

3: Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

4: Widespread Haze - Move

4: Lunar Bloom -Running Deep

6: Ianai- Sunir (Svart)

10: George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)

10: Lyle Odjick & The Northern Steam - Through The Rain 

10:  Boris Pelekh - I See It Now 

10: Michael Rault - S/T  (Majesticsilk Records)

10: The Souljazz Orchestra - Freedom No Go Die (Do Right Music) 

10: Rolling Stones -Licked Live In NYC  (Mercury Studios)

10: Dion Lunadon - Beyond Everything  ( In The Red Records)

10: Zach Zoya - No Love Is Ever Wasted (7ième Ciel/Universal Music Canada)

10: Yann Tiersen -  11 5 18 2 5 18

10: slenderbodies - simple shapes

10: Wind Rose - Warfront (Napalm Records)

10: Vance Joy - In Our Own Sweet Time (Warner)

10:  The Slocan Ramblers -Up The Hill And Through The Fog

10: Lubalin  - whose love

10:  A Vulture Wake -Kingdom (Thousand Islands Records)

10: Caroline Kingsbury  - Remixes From Heaven EP (Fortune Tellers)

10: Broke Fuse- Splashdown

10: Jonathan Kawchuk - Everywhen, (Paper Bag Records)

10: Bud Rice -Piece of Heaven

10: Michael Monroe  (Silver Lining Music)

10: IANAI -  Sunir (Svart Records)

10: Inanimate Existence -  The Masquerade (The Artisan Era)

10: Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis (SPV Recordings)

10: Seventh Wonder - The Testament (Frontiers Sri)

10: Bloody Heels - Rotten Romance (Frontiers Srl)

10: Venus 5 - S/T

10: Michaela Anne - Oh To Be That Free  (Yep Roc Records)

10: Rod Picott - Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows

10: The Range -  Mercury (Domino Records)

10: Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios (BMG)

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

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

17: RUINS - Pure at Heart

17: The Damn Quails - Clouding Up Your City

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: 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: 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: 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)

24 Madonna - Finally Enough Love  (Warner Music Group)

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

6: Ghost Woman - S/T  (Victory Pool)

8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media 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: Paul Jacobs -  185 On the Corner,  (Bonsound)

8: The Mortal Prophets - Stomp The Devil EP 8: Journey -  Freedom  ( BMG)

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

8: Blood –  Bye Bye ( Permanent Creeps)

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

8: Greylotus -Dawnfall ( The Artisan Era)

8:  Journey -Freedom  (BMG)

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

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: 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: Superorganism -  World Wide Pop 

15: JayWood - Slingshot

20: iskwē and Tom Wilson - Mother Love

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

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

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: 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: Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse (Napalm 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: Patrick Holland -You're The Boss (Next Door Records)

29: David Ward  LoZ (Golden Future Recordings)

29: Andrew Duhon - Emerald Blue

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

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

29: Triptides - So Many Days  (Curation Records)

29: Hayley Kiyoko - Panorama  (Atlantic Records)

29: Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale

August

5: Colyn Cameron - Freehand

5 John Calvin Abney: - Tourist (Black Mesa)

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

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

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

12: Spencer Mackenzie - Preach to my Soul

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

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

12: Heart of Gold - Beautiful Dangerous

19: Hot Chip - Freakout (Domino)

19: Oneida - Success (Joyful Noise Recordings)

19: Ever More Nest  - S/T

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

26: The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer  (Long Branch)

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

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

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

26: Lacrimas Profundere  -How To Shroud Yourself With Night

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: George FitzGerald -Stellar Drifting

9:  Melissa Lauren - My Voice

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

9: Warforged - The Grove  (Sundial)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October

21: Uji  - Timebeing (ZZK Records)

21: 84 Tigers - Time In The Lighthouse

Canadian artists marked in red