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FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Sept. 24, 2020

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue apace, and this week's slate is one of the largest of the year. Notables  include Fleet Foxes, Babybird, Sufjan Stevens, Sylvan Esso, Elbow, Public Enemy, Machine Gun Kelly, Lou Reed, Carrie Underwood, 2 Chainz, and The Rolling Stones. The bumper crop of Canadian artists is led by Jann Arden, Bruce Cockburn, Don Amero, Yves Jarvis (pictured), Big Sugar, Diana Krall, Blue Hawaii, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Will Butler, Marie Davidson, and Sing Leaf.

 

FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Sept. 24, 2020

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue apace, and this week's slate is one of the largest of the year. Notables  include Fleet Foxes, Babybird, Sufjan Stevens, Sylvan Esso, Elbow, Public Enemy, Machine Gun Kelly, Lou Reed, Carrie Underwood, 2 Chainz, and The Rolling Stones.


The bumper crop of Canadian artists is led by Jann Arden, Bruce Cockburn, Don Amero, Yves Jarvis, Big Sugar, Diana Krall, Blue Hawaii, Beverly Glenn-CopelandWill Butler, Marie Davidson, and Sing Leaf.

 

September

22: Babybird- King Of Nothing

22: Steel River - Armoured Car (Axe Records)

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22: Fleet FoxesShore  (ANTI-)

23: Nate Husser - Adult Supervision Required

24: Michael C. Duguay -The Winter of Our Discotheque (So Sorry Records)

24: Tory Lanez DAYSTAR

25: Nicolas Michaux - Amour Colère  (Capitane Records)

25: Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine (Skint / BMG)

25: The Neighbourhood - Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones (Columbia Records)

25: Blue Hawaii-Under 1 House (Arbutus)

25: RichesFantasy Chapel

25: Diana Krall - This Dream Of You (Verve Records)

25: Elbow - first three albums reissued on vinyl

25: Bruce Cockburn True North - A 50th Anniversary Box Set - Limited Edition vinyl box set (True North)

25: Bendrix Littleton -  Deep Dark South (NNA Tapes)

25: Jimi Bertucci -  Bouquet In Pink

25: Peggy Lee - Ultimate Christmas  (UMC)

25: Alpha Wolf  a quiet place to die (SharpTone Records)

25: Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? (UMC)

25: Masma Dream World - Play At Night (Northern Spy)

25: Bella White - Just Like Leaving

25:  Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall (UMC)

25: Lou Reed - New York - Deluxe Edition (Rhino)

25: Joe Nolan - B-Sides from Cry Baby  (Fallen tree Records)

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25: ZZ Top - Live From Texas (Eagle Rock)

25: Violet Night - Antiheroes  

25: SuperM - Super One (UMC)

25: TWRP - Over The Top 

25: Surfer Blood - Carefree Theatre (Kanine Records)

25: Big SugarHemi-Vision (UMC)

25: The Freedom Affair - Freedom Is Love (Sunflower Soul Records)

25: Haider - The Muses Come Out At Night

25: Boy Becomes Hero -Escape Artist

25: Carrie Underwood - My Gift (UMC)

25: MOOR MOTHER – Circuit City (Don Giovanni)

25:  Sad13- Haunted Painting (Wax Nine)

25: Jann Arden  - Hits & Other Gems  (Universal Music Canada)

25: Don Amero-The Next Chapter

25: Jarrod Dickenson-  Under A Texas Sky (Continental Records)

25 Action Bronson -Only For Dolphins (Loma Vista Recordings)

25: Psychic Temple -  Houses of the Holy

25: Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu - Renegade Breakdown (Bonsound/Ninja Tune)

25: The Rolling Stones -  Steel Wheels Live – Atlantic City, New Jersey (concert film) (Eagle Rock).

25: 2 Chainz - So Help Me God (UMC)

25: Sing Leaf - Not Earth (Tin Angel)

25: Buildings and Food -Up Down (Strange Charm)

25: Thurston Moore -By the Fire (Daydream Library)

25: Michael Schatte - Conundrum 

25: Yves JarvisSundry Rock Song Stock (Flemish Eye)

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25: Painted Doll - How to Draw Fire (Tee Pee Records)

25- The War And Treaty – Hearts Town

 25: Jess Gillam - Time (UMC)

25: White Dog  - S/T (Rise Above Records)

25: Will ButlerGenerations (Merge) 

25: Hen Ogledd - Free Humans ( Weird World) 

25: The Barrett Anderson Band-  HypnoBoogie (Whitaker Blues Records)

25: Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite -100 Years Of Blues (Alligator Records)

25: Sufjan Stevens  (Asthmatic Kitty Records)

25:  Sylvan Esso -  Free Love (Loma Vista Recordings)

25: Beverly Glenn-Copeland -Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive)

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25: Mint Field- Sentimiento Mundial (Felte)

25: Prince - Sign O’ The Times reissue

25: Reza Manbachi and Najva Ensemble - Passing Through the Dark 

25: A Certain Ratio - ACR Loco (Mute)

25: Deftones - Ohms (Warner Records / Reprise)

25: Kataklysm - Unconquered (Nuclear Blast)

25: Menzingers- From Exile (Epitaph)

29: Amirali feat. Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich- Sokoot 
 

October

2: Matt Berninger –Serpentine Prison (Book Records)

2: Roger Waters - Us + Them (Sony Music Ent)

2: Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

2: Crass- Crassical Collection (One Little Independent Records)

2: NRBQ  In • Frequencies (Omnivore Recordings)

2: Teenanger - Good Time  (Telephone Explosion Records)

2: Luka KuplowskyStardust  (Next Door Records)

2: Bonnie Whitmore - Last Will and Testament (Aviatrix Records)

2: Corey Taylor - CMFT (Roadrunner Records)

2: Los Mocosos - All Grown Up

2: Tex Ritter - The Songs Of  The West (Country Rewind Records)

2:  Melanie C - S/T

2: William Chernoff - Aim to Stay

 2: Blackpink- The Album 

2: Peach Pit - You and Your Friends

2:  Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever  (Rounder Records)

2: Laura Fernandez Okay, Alright 

2: The Subtheory -  IMPACT

2: Lost in Society -  Love And War

2: Field Medic - Floral Prince  (Run For Cover Records)

2: Andrew Farriss - EP Love Makes The World 

2: Ned Hill - By The Light Of The Radio (Whistlepig Records)

2: Melanie C - S/T

2: Sa-Roc - The Sharecropper’s Daughter 

2: Brave The Cold - Scarcity

2: Nadia Rose - S/T

2: Edge -  Keep Me Around  (Urban Myth)

2: Lost In Society -Love And War

2: Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons  (Country Rewind Records) 

2: Patti Page - This Can’t Be Love (Hindsight Records)

2: Flara K - Anxious, Irrational, Fashionable EP

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2: Braden Lam - Inside Four walls

2:  Nachtblut- Vanitas ( Napalm Records)

2: Denise Sherwood  - This Road  (-U Sound / Evergreen Recordings)

2:  Brave The Cold - Scarcity (Mission Two Entertainment)

2: Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever (Rounder)

2: Ben KunderSearching For The Stranger

2: William Chernoff -Aim to Stay   

2: Jónsi Birgisson - Shiver  (Krunk)

2: Dolly Parton -  A Holly Dolly Christmas (Butterfly Records)

2: Groove Armada - Edge Of The Horizon (BMG)

2: Sa-Roc—The Sharecropper’s Daughter ( Rhymesayers Entertainment)

2:  Chris Smither – More on the Levee (Signature Sounds) - Vinyl  Sept. 26

2: Mariah Carey - The Rarities 

2: The Nude Party -  Midnight Manor ( New west)
2:  Steve Wynn -  11-CD box set 1995-2005  (Real Gone Music)

2: Hugar - The Vasulka Effect - OST (Sony Masterworks)

2: Various Artists -  Disney Goes Classical (UMC)

2: Robert Plant - Digging Deep (Es Paranza)

2: Hot Chip - Late Night Tales (Night Time Stories)

7: The Messenger Birds - Everything Has to Fall Apart Eventually

9: Devildriver - Dealing With Demons I (Napalm Records)

9: Eye Of The Destroyer The Wolf You Feed' (High Potency)

9: Josh Johnson - Freedom Exercise  (Northern Spy)

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9: Ron Sexsmith - S/T vinyl reissue (UMC)

9: Jeen - S/T

9: Sinner’s Blood - The Mirror Star (Frontiers Music Srl)

9: The Unguided - Father Shadow (Napalm Records)

9: John Lennon -  Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes

9: Garcia Peoples- Nightcap At Wits' End (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)

9:  Linaire - S/T  (Capital Zero Records)

9: Gunn-Truscinski Duo- Soundkeeper (Three Lobed Recordings)

9: The Doors - Morrison Hotel  50th anniversary reissue (Rhino)

9: Future Islands - As Long as You are (4AD )

9: Yo La Tengo - Sleepless Night  (Matador)

9: Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain (30th Anniversary Edition)  (Beggars Banquet)

9: Linkin Park -  Hybrid Theory: 20th Anniversary Edition 

9: Five Finger Death Punch - A Decade of Destruction- Vol. 2 

9: Tired Kid - I Like My Own Company

9: Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains

9: SHHE - S/T (One Little Independent Records)

9: Spires That in the Sunset Rise - Psychic Oscillations (FPE Records)

9: EW - Forever, Worse, Better

9: Machinedrum (aka Travis Stewart) A View of U (Ninja Tune)

9: Howard Gladstone - The Promise 

9: Dire Straits -  CD/vinyl reissues of Dire Straits, Communiqué, Making Movies, Love Over Gold, Brothers In Arms, and On Every Street (Rhino)

9: Suzi Ragsdale- Ghost Town 

9: Curtis Waters Pity Party ( BMG)

9: Laura Tate - Live From El Paso 

9: BahamasSad Hunk 

9: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald - Love Valley

9: J. Pavone String Ensemble - Lost and Found  (Astral Spirits)

9: Travis - 10 Songs  (BMG)

9: Sade - So Far six-LP vinyl set (Sony Music)

9: METZAtlas Vending (Royal Mountain Records/Sub Pop)

9: Slow Pulp - Moveys (Winspear)

9: Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love -deluxe  (UMe/Virgin)

9: Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out The Storm (ANTI- )

9: OKAN -  Espiral (Lulaworld Records)

9: Emmy The Great - April / 月音  (Bella Union)

9: Jon Snodgrass- S/T  (A-F Records)

9: Jessie Wagner -  Shoes Droppin' Out (Wicked Cool Records)

9: Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better

9: Kennebec - Departure Remixed

9: Mise en Scene-Winnipeg, California

9: Supercrush  -SODO Pop (Don Giovanni Records)

9:  Paradise Cinema - S/T (Gondwana)

14: Hiroki Tanaka- Kaigo Kioku Kyoku

14: LyriqueP.I.M.P. (Poetry Is My Pleasure)

15: Wizkid  Made In Lagos  (Starboy/RCA Records/Sony Music International)

16: Terra Lightfoot- Consider The Speed (Sonic Unyon)

16: Malin Pettersen -  Wildhorse

16: Various Artists -Justin Time For Christmas Six (Justin Time)

16:  Lauren Mann - Memory & Desire

16: Manteca - The Twelfth of Never 

16: Falset - We Follow or Lead the Way

16: Sorrey - Bloom Remixes (Garment District Records)

16: Mipso  - S/T (Rounder)

16: Jennifer Castle - Monarch Season  (Idée Fixe Records and Paradise of Bachelors)

16: William Elliott Whitmore -I’m With You (Bloodshot)

16: Michael Scott Dawson -Nowhere, Middle of (We Are Busy Bodies)

16: Watch Clark- Generator Room

16: John Németh - Stronger Than Strong 

16: Helena Deland - Someone New ( Luminelle Recordings)

16: Andrée Burelli (aka Bodyverse)  -De Sidera (American Dreams Records)

16: Tommy Lee - Andro (Better Noise Music)

16: The Struts -  Strange Days (Interscope Records/UMC)

16: Gulfer S/T (Royal Mountain)

16: Quattracenta II (Brokers Tip)

16: Tom Petty -  Wildflowers & All The Rest (Warner Records)

16: Holy Motors - Horse (Wharf Cat)

16: Tyler Ramsey  Found A Picture Of You (Fantasy Records)

16: Autechre - Sign (Warp)

16: Sam Roberts Band - All Of Us (Secret Weapon / Known Accomplice Records)

16: CRi - Juvenile 

16: William Elliott Whitmore - I’m With You (Bloodshot)

16: Tomberlin Projections (Saddle Creek)

16: Sasha Sloan - Only Child (RCA Records)

16: Joey Molland - Be True to Yourself (Omnivore Recording)

16: Jupiter Sprites - Holographic

16: Lous and the Yakuza - Gore

16: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown - Pressure (Snakefarm Records)

16: Anthony Gomes Containment Blues

16: Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight (High Beam Records/ATO)

16: Mav Karlo - Strangers Like Us (Royal Mountain Records)

16: The Slim Kings - the King's County Classic 

16: The Damned- The Rockfield Files EP (Search And Destroy Records/Spinefarm/UMG)

16: Cordovas -Destiny Hotel (ATO Records)

20: Bonnie Whitmore – Last Will and Testament (Aviatrix Records) 

23: Nothing But Thieves - Moral Panic

23:  Pierre Kwenders and Clément Bazin - Classe Tendresse (Bonsound)

23: Jason BlaineGo With Me (eOne)

23: Northcote-Let Me Roar (Black Box Music)

23: Bob Mould - Distortion - box set

23: Defecto -Duality

23: Douglas Lee - Themes For Falling Down Stairs

23: Little Richard- The Second Coming and Lifetime Friend -expanded editions- (Omnivore)

23: Keaton Henson-  Monument (Play It Again Sam)

23: Andrew Weiss  Lookout Mountain

23: Devin Townsend - Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1

23: Peter Katz City of Our Lives (Physical)- digital release Nov. 25

23: Kasbo- The Making of a Paracosm ( Foreign Family Collective/Counter Records)

23: Ruel - Bright Lights, Red Eyes (RCA Records)

23:  Odario Good Morning Hunter

23: David Newberry - As Far Away As You Can Go Without Coming Back (JumpAttack! Records)

23: The Agency -  In the Haunted Woods  (Solarbear Records)

23: Kurt Baker - After Party (Wicked Cool Records)

23: Bruce Springsteen’ and E Street Band-  Letter To You (Columbia Records)

23: Saul - Rise As Equals (Spinefarm Records)

23: Ruby Mack - Devil Told Me

23: Brad Brooks -  God Save The City 

23: The Flamingos Pink –Outtacontroller ( Label Étiquette)

23: Alastair Greene - The New World Blues (Whiskey Bayou Records)

23: Hammerfall -  Live! Against The World (Napalm Records)

23: Beastie Boys- Beastie Boys Music (Ume)

23: Hawksley Workman - Less Rage More Tears (Isadora) 

23: Henrik Lindstrand -Nordhem (One Little Independent Records)

23: Drive-By Truckers - Live From Austin, TX  vinyl (New West)

23: The Last Dinosaur- Wholeness (Phases Records)

23: Adrianne Lenker - Songs and Instrumentals (4AD)

23: The Fall - The Frenz Experiment Expanded edition (Beggars Banquet)

23: This is the Kit - Off Off On (Rough Trade)

23: Luke Combs - What You See Ain’t Always What You Get - deluxe (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville)

23. Flowers of Hell - Outlanders

23: Plants and Animals - The Jungle (Secret City Records)

23: Shemekia Copeland-  Uncivil War (Alligator)

23: Chamber  - Cost of Sacrifice (Pure Noise Records)

23:  Alright Alright - Crucible 

23:  PUP - This Place Sucks Ass ( Little Dipper Records / Universal Music Canada)

23: Doxas Brothers The Circle (Justin Time)

27: Matthew Cardinal - Asterisms (digital) 

30: Brandi Disterheft - Surfboard(Justin Time)

30: Draconian -Under A Godless Veil (Napalm Records)

30: Rarelyalways - Baby Buffalo EP  (Innovative Leisure)

30: Jimmie Vaughan - The Pleasure’s All Mine — The Complete Blues, Ballads and Favorites Collection  ( Last Music Co)

30: Visions Of Atlantis -  A Symphonic Journey To Remember! (Napalm Records)

30: Okkervil River -A Dream In The Dark: Two Decades Of Okkervil River Live 4xLP Set

30: The Heshoo Beshoo Group - Armitage Road (We Are Busy Bodies)

30: Black Foxxes - S/T  (Search & Destroy/Spinefarm/UMG)

30: Depeche Mode- Songs Of Faith and Devotion: The 12-inch Singles(Rhino)

30: Stevie Nicks -24 Karat Gold Live  (BMG)

30: Niva - S/T (REVE MUSIC / Believe Digital)

30: Graber Gryass -  Late Bloom

30: Joni MitchellArchives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)  5-CD And Digital Collection (Warner)

30:  Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface (Concord Records)

30: Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright - I Can Still Hear You

30: The OBGMs - The Ends (Black Box)

30: Stephen Becker - Nothing Sun Under the New EP (NNA Tapes)

30: Tangerine Dream: Pilots of Purple Twilight - The Virgin recordings 1980 – 1983  a 10 x CD box set

30: SUUNS  - Fiction  (Secret City)

30: Dylan Baldi &  Jayson Gerycz - Commodore Perry Service Plaza (American Dreams Records)

30: Chamomile and Whiskey - Red Clay Heart 

30: Terry Uyarak - Nunarjua Isulinginniani, (Aakuluk Music)

30: EELS  - Earth to Dora (E Works / [PIAS])

30: Jim White - Misfit’s Jubilee ( Fluff & Gravy Records)

30: Cam -The Otherside (Triple Tigers/RCA Records)

30:  David Garfield - Holidays Outside The Box (Creatchy Records)

30: Leon - Apart (BMG)

30: Nora Jean Wallace - Blueswoman (Severn Records)

30: Austin Lucas - Alive In The Hot Zone!  (Cornelius Chapel Records)

30: Creature Comfort - Home Team

30: Atmosphere - The Day Before Halloween

30: Van Duren -Are You Serious? and Idiot Optimism (Omnivore)

30: GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe - reissue

30: Evildead - United $tate$ Of Anarchy (SPV/Steamhammer)

30: Tangerine Dream - Pilots of Purple Twilight - The Virgin recordings 1980 – 1983, a 10 CD box set (UMC)

31: Riell - Paradise 

31: RJ Thompson  Lifeline (Sonnet)

November

6: Kylie Minogue - DISCO (BMG) 

6: Wilco - Summerteeth Deluxe edition (Warner Music Canada)

6:  Christo Graham  -Turnin’  (We Are Busy Bodies)

6:  Krust - The Edge Of Everything (Crosstown Rebels)

6: Trance Wax - S/T  (Anjunabeats)

6: Whitesnake - Love Songs (Rhino)

6: Donovan Woods - Without People

6: Rooks- The High Road

6: Orianthi - O (Frontiers Music Srl)

6: Michael Schatte - Conundrum

6: Eternal Idol - Renaissance (Frontiers Music Srl)

6: Seamus Fogarty - A Bag Of Eyes  (Domino)

6: The Casket Lottery - Short Songs For End Times (Wiretap Records/Big Scary Monsters)

6:  Birdy - Piano Sketches (Atlantic Records)

6: Kit Grill - Ride (Primary Colours)

6: Reb Beach - A View From The Inside  (Frontiers Music Srl.)

7: Keep Shelly In Athens - Defy Me 

13: Phoria - Caught a Black Rabbit ( Akira Records)

13: Buck Owens - A Merry ‘Hee Haw’ Christmas (Omnivore Recordings)

13  The Bats - Foothills (Flying Nun)

13: The Staple Singers -Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection (Craft Recordings)

13: Katy J Pearson - Return (Heavenly Recordings)

13: Madisyn Whajne - Save Our Hearts

13: Molly Parden -Rosemary

13: Brian Eno - Film Music 1976 – 2020 (vinyl out Jan. 22) (UMC)

13: Boundaries - Your Receding Warmth (Unbeaten Records)

13: Seether -Disclaimer II, Karma And Effect, and Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (vinyl) (Craft Recordings)

13: Heinali - Madrigals

13: Neon Dreams -The Happiness of Tomorrow, (Warner)

13: Yukon Blonde - Vindicator  (Dine Alone)

18: Patient Hands - There Are No Graves Here

20: Jimi Hendrix - Live In Maui 

20: The Maguas -  One Of Us Is Lying

20: Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar - The Reckless One (Gypsy Soul Records)

20: Badge Époque Ensemble - Self Help (Telephone Explosion Records)

20: Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Nashville - 4 CD/digital collection (RCA/Legacy Recordings)

20: Dave Alvin· - From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (Yep Roc Records)

20: Partner - Never Give Up ( You've Changed Records)

20: Bearings -Hello, It's You (Pure Noise Records)

20: Blinker The Star - Juvenile Universe 

20: Mike Edel - En Masse (Pennant)

20: Tim Minchin- Apart Together (BMG)

20: Soft Kill - Dead Kids, R.I.P. City

20: Boys Of Fall - Distance (InVogue Records)

20: Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder on Blu-ray, DVD, 2-CD, 3-disc vinyl and deluxe 4-disc edition (Sony Music)

24: Record Thieves - Wasting Time (Thousand Islands Records)

27: Eleine - Dancing In Hell (Black Lodge Records)

27: The Smashing Pumpkins CYR (Sumerian Records) 

27: Matthew Cardinal - Asterisms  (Arts & Crafts)

27: Melanie Peterson - We Got This

27: Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi-  Yakhal'Inkomo (We Are Busy Bodies)

27: Tim Burgess - Ascent Of The Ascended  (Bella Union)

December

4: Lee Paradise The Fink (Telephone Explosion)

4: Joan of Arc Tim Melina Theo Bobby

January

1: The Dirty NilFuck Art (Dine Alone Records)

13: PETRIC Flashbacks

15: Royal Wood - Live At Massey Hall

22: Lonely The Brave - The Hope List 

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

February

5: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)

 

Canadian artists marked in red

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Geneviève Côté of SOCAN, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Jaune collaborator Michel Robidoux and Polaris Events Manager Claire Dagenais
Polaris Music Prize

Jean-Pierre Ferland receiving the Polaris Heritage Prize in 2018 alongside Geneviève Côté of SOCAN (left), Jaune collaborator Michel Robidoux and Polaris Events Manager Claire Dagenais.

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