A few Ohio stalwarts (Guided By Voices, Hawthorne Height) join Elton John, Lana Del Rey, Duran Duran, Lady A and the Rolling Stones in this week’s new music releases (all subject to change)…
Album of the week: Unable to continue his farewell tour, Elton John spent his pandemic creating “The Lockdown Sessions” (Interscope), a 16-track virtual collaboration set that already gave him his first UK No.1 hit – “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa and Pnau – in 18 years. Elsewhere, the Rocket Man gets by with a little help from friends such as Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, Lil Nas X, Eddie Vedder, the late Glen Campbell and others, while his all-star takeover appearance. by Miley Cyrus from Metallica Matters’ “Nothing Else”, is also included.
Album title of the week: Guided by the voices, “It’s not them. It couldn’t be them. They’re it! ”(GBV Inc.)
Did you know ? : Do you think seeing the name Men Without Hats on a new release (“Again (Part 2)” (Sonic Envy)) in 2021 is shocking? Try to listen, if you like, to “No Friend of Mine”, a balladic treatment of the venerable redesign “The Safety Dance” with orchestrations of piano, flute and atmospheric synthesizer.
New and remarkable:
Lana Del Rey, “Blue Banisters” (Interscope)
Dream Theater, “A View from the Top of the World” (InsideOutMusic / Sony)
Duran Duran, “Future Past” (Tape Modern / BMG)
Hawthorne Heights, “The Rain Follows Me” (Pure Noise)
Lady A, “What a Song Can Do” (Big Machine)
My morning jacket, “My morning jacket” (ATO)
The Rolling Stones, “Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)” (Interscope / UMe)
Wale, “Folarin 2” (Warner)
Hot New Singles:
ABBA, “Just an idea; “Damon Albarn,” The Tower of MonteVideo; “Tori Amos,” spies “; Aurora, “Give in to love; “Gang of Youths,” the man himself “; Jonny Greenwood, “Crucifix; “K.Flay,” Nothing can shake us; »Lights,« Prodigal daughter; “Brian McKnight,” Faithfully; “Billy Porter,” Children “; Robyn and Smile, “Call My Name;” Scorpions, “Peacemaker;” Sea Power, “Madness”; Slash with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, “The River is Rising”; Su’Lan, “Blue Cheese”; Bean of Sunflower, “Baby Don’t Cry;” Sweet, “Everything 2021;” The Wanted, “Give the World;” Jack White, “Taking Me Back” and “Taking Me Back (Kindly)”
Also available :
Aaron and the Lord, “Aaron and the Lord” (lunch)
Aquaserge, “The possibility of a new work” (stuffed discs)
Baron Crane, “Les Beaux Jours” (Sound)
Biffy Clyro, “The Myth of Happiness Forever” (14th Floor / Warner)
Big D and the KidsTable, “Do Your Art” (SideOneDummy)
Black marble, “Fast Idol” (Sacred Bones)
Norman Blake, “Day to Day” (Smithsonian Folkways)
Burnt Belief, “Mutual Isolation” (Alchemy)
Dillon Carmichael, “Son Of A” (Riser House)
Circa Survive, “A Dream About Love” (Rise)
Circuit des Yeux, “40” (Matador)
Clinic, “Fantasy Island” (Domino)
Clockwise on Fire, “Clockwise on Fire” (self-published)
Jarvis Cocker, “Tip-Top Boredom Songs” (ABKCO)
Cradle of dirt, “Existence is futile” (nuclear explosion)
Joy Crookes, “Skin” (Insanity / Epic)
Braison Cyrus, “Javelina” (Sunday dinner)
Daisy, self-produced “SOME”
Moot Davis, “Seven Cities of Gold” (self-published)
Zache Davis, “The Sting” (Egglord)
Jessie James Decker, “The Woman I Have Become” (Warner Music Nashville / Atlantic)
Deerhoof, “In fact, you can” (Happy noise)
Dinner, “Dream Work” (Captured tracks)
Dooms Children, “Dooms Children” (Dinner only)
Model, “Compulsory Pleasure” (Trouble in Mind)
Em, “Dear Life” (Sound of LA)
Every time I die, “radical” (epitaph)
Ezekiel, “Love Notes, Love Notes” (Warner)
The F16s, “Is there still time to eat the rich?” “(Home summons)
Creed Fisher, “The Whiskey and the Dog” (Dirt Rock Empire)
Flora Cash, “our generation” (Flower Money)
Sue Foley, “Pinky’s Blues” (Stony Plain)
John Forte, “Ships, Angels and Ancestors” (Soul Land)
Ver, “Foreverglade” (20 Buck Spin)
Hello, “Barnyard” (polyvinyl)
Jess Grant, “The Tastiest Combo” (self-published)
Green lung, “Black harvest” (Svart)
Hand Habits, “Fun House” (Saddle Creek)
Dave Hause, “Blood Harmony” (Blood Harmony / Soundly Music)
Helado Negro, “Far In” (4AD)
Hippotraktor, “Meridian” (Pelagic)
The Honeyrunners, “Everything Is On Fire” (Gypsy Soul)
Honne, “Let’s just say the world is over in a week, what would you do?” (Atlantic)
Leslie Hunt, “Descend” (cherry red)
Jessica, “How are you?” (Republic)
John, “Nocturnal Maneuvers” (Buckle Up / Animal Care)
Ian Jones, “Evergreens” (self-published)
Majid Jordan, “The Wildest Dreams” (OVO)
Dom Kennedy, “From the Westside with Love Three” (self-published)
Kidz Bop Kidz, “Kidz Bop 2022” (Kidz Bop / Concorde)
Nicolas King, “Act One: Celebrating 25 Years of Recordings” (Club44)
Kira, “Kira” (Robot Kitten)
Knocked Loose, “A Tear in the Fabric of Life” (Pure Noise)
Davy Knowles, “What Happens Next” (Provogue / Mascot)
Andrew Leahey & the Homestead, “American Static Vol. 1 ″ (mullet kick)
Le Ren, “Leftovers” (Secretly Canadian)
Ryan LeVine, “Good Things to Remember” (BMG)
The Lighthouse and the Whaler “” Talk “(self-published)
Lights, “Prodigal Daughter” (powered by Ramen)
Livlos, “And Then There Wasn’t” (Napalm)
Lone, “Always in your head” (Greco-Roman)
Loose buttons, “What’s on the outside” (Moon Crawl)
Daniel James McFayden, “I Am Yours” (self-edited)
Men Without Hats, “Again (Part 2)” (Sonic Envy)
Moon Kissed, “I would like to tell you something important” (Skaboodie Inc.)
Okay Kaya, “The incompatible Okay Kaya” (Jagjaguwar)
Omar and the Wolf, “The Shimmer” (PIAS)
Orquesta Akokan, “16 Rayos” (Daptone)
Ouri, “Frame of a Fauna” (Twice Born / Lighter Than Air)
Parquet Courts, “Sympathy for Life” (Rough Trade)
Pepe Deluxe, “Ghost Cabinet Vol. 1 ″ (Catskills)
The Pineapple Thief, “Nothing But The Truth” (Kscope)
Power supply, “In the time of the saber-toothed tiger” (Goner)
Principleasure, “II” (self-published)
Rob Reed, “The Tringmaster Part One” (Tigermouth)
Jason Ricci and Joe Krown, “City Country City” (Gulf Coast)
Ross From Friends, “Tread” (Brainfeeder)
Chad Reudiger, “Kid Anymore” (self-published)
Self-esteem, “Prioritizing pleasure” (Gold Atlas)
Seventeen, “Attaca (Op. 1)” (PLEDIS Entertainment)
Tim Skold and Nero Bellum, “Simulacra” (Metropolis)
SNAFU, “Exile // Banishment” (Housecore)
Starset, “Horizons” (Intrepid)
Super American, “Sup” (Wax Bodega)
Spirit Was, “Heaven’s Just a Cloud” (Danger Collective)
Tamaris, “Suspended animation” (self-published)
thought crimes, “Tap Night” (Pure Noise)
Tiesto, “Together Again” (self-published)
Tonstartssbandht, “Petunia” (Mexican summer)
Jeremy Voltz, “Weekender” (self-published)
Faye Webster, “Live At Electric Lady” (Secretly Canadian)
Wes, “Blue Letter” (Other Exotica LLC / 30SF)
White Dave, “Love Hurts Cash Rules, Part 2” (self-published)
The Wild Life, “Ever Blossom” (self-published)
Yullola, “Priestess” (D36)
From the vaults:
Air, “10,000 Hz Legend” (Rhino)
Jon Batiste, “We Are: The Deluxe Edition” (Verve)
Black Francis, “Black Francis: 07-11” (Edsel)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “B-Sides & Rarities Part II” (Mute / BMG)
Peter Cetera, Love, Glory Honor and Heart: The Complete Full Moon and Warner Bros. Recordings (1981-1992) ”(Cherry Pop)
John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle” (Impulse!)
Dead or Alive, “Fan the Flame (Part 2) – The Resurrection” (Edsel)
The Drifters, “We have to sing! The Soul years 1962-1971 ″ (Strawberry)
Jaki Graham, “35th Anniversary Collection” (Cherry Pop)
Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Live at the Troubadour” (BMG)
Illenium, “Fallen Embers (Deluxe Edition)” (Warner)
Carole King & James Taylor, “Live at the Troubadour” (Craft Recordings / Concord)
Olivia Newton John, “Physical: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition” (Primary Wave)
Ozzy Osbourne, “Down To Earth: 20th Anniversary Edition” (Epic / Legacy)
The substitutes, “Sorry Ma, I forgot to take out the trash (Deluxe Edition)” (Rhino)
Sepultura, “Sepulnation – The 1998-2009 studio albums” (BMG)
Simply Red, “Simply Red Remixed Vol. 1 (1985-2000)” (Warner UK / Rhino)
SIXX: AM, “Hits” (Best noise music)
Spiritualized, “Let It Come Down” (Fat Possum)
Superchunk, “Here’s the Closure (20th Anniversary Reissue)” (Merge)
Tricky Woo, “Rock and Roll Part One”, “The Enemy is Real” and “Sometimes I Cry” (Blow The Fuse)
Various artists, “Box of Pin-Ups: The British Sounds of 1965 ″ (Grapefruit / Cherry red)
Various artists, “Reggae Business” (Trojan)
White Plains, “La Collection” (7Ts / Cherry Red)
Soundtracks:
“La Dépêche française (original soundtrack)” (ABKCO)
New holiday albums:
Kristin Chenoweth, “Happiness … it’s Christmas” (Concord)
Brett Eldredge, “Mr. Christmas” (Warner Music Nashville)
Steve Holy, “An Unforgettable Christmas” (Thrill Hill)
Pistol Annies, “Hell of a Holiday” (Sony Music Nashville)
Rob Thomas, “Something About Christmas” (Atlantic)
Vitamin String Quartet, “It Feels Like Christmas” (Decca)
Voctave, “The spirit of the season: luxury edition” (Club44)
Brett Young, “Brett Young and Friends Sing Christmas Classics” (Big Machine)
