• What's New 10-4-24

  

  Coldplay

  Moon Music

  Atlantic

  Moon Music is only 10 songs, but it’s a lot, and that’s the idea — the pop-rock album comes as a social, psychological, and metaphysical cold-plunge. It’s pop’s biggest optimists fighting the blues and highlighting the power of music while gently and subtly distilling that spirit of weathering any storm.

  

  Finneas

  For Cryin’ Out Loud!

  Interscope

  In contrast to his debut which featured instrumentals written and performed solely by the artist himself, For Cryin’ Out Loud! sees Finneas expand his creative horizons to a classic studio/band environment, resulting in his most uplifting and raw body of work to date.

  

  Leon Bridges

  Leon

  Columbia Records

  With 13 tracks featuring Bridge’s signature storytelling and a unique blend of organic genre alchemy, Leon is his most poignant, powerful, and personal work to date. He takes fans on a trip through the heart of Ft. Worth he knows best, the things he holds dear, and the people and places that shaped him.

  

  The Smile

  Cutouts

  XL Recordings

  Cutouts brings a more complicated listen than the band’s previous two releases. Filled with looping textures and the sort of repeat spins Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are used to with their main group of Radiohead, the album strikes a balance between orchestrated opulence and prog-like trickiness.

  

  Blood Incantation

  Absolute Elsewhere

  Century Media

  At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they are engaging in their scope, melding the 70's prog leanings of Tangerine Dream with the deathly intent of Morbid Angel. Blood Incantation are leaving the notion of genre behind and writing a new language for extreme music itself.

  

  Fever 333

  Darker White

  Century Media

  On their fourth full length, Fever 333 still perches outside genre definition, balancing hardcore, metalcore and hip-hop -- each shifting between tracks. In the two years since Wrong Generation dropped, they’ve got even angrier, more vicious in their determination to address social injustice, with this renewed fire bleeding through every song.

  

  Undeath

  More Insane

  Prosthetic

  New York-based death metal greats Undeath emerge from festering slime with their new album, More Insane. The 10 tracks, imbued with death metal's immortal soul, feast on the rotten flesh of brutality, complexity, and depravity while bringing inimitable energy, pit-friendly hooks, and work-hardened ethos.

  

  Drug Church

  Prude

  Pure Noise Records

  For over a decade, Drug Church have been building a very strong case that they’re the best loud guitar band in the game; their fifth full-length Prude–a 28-minute blast of aggression, melody, irreverence, and genuine heart–feels like the undeniable proof.

  

  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit

  Live From The Ryman, Vol. 2

  Thirty Tigers / Southeastern Records

  Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit follow up with a second volume of live recordings from their annual residency at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Featuring favorites from Weathervanes and Reunions as well as "The Last Song I Will Write" and a cover of Tom Petty's "Room at the Top".

  

  Thee Sacred Souls

  Got A Story To Tell

  Daptone Records

  Got A Story to Tell delivers a pushes genre while exhibiting a magnetic coolness and swagger. The relaxed quality of the musicianship coupled with Josh Lane's heart-wrenching voice gives the album a maturity that carries the listener through many facets of the soul spectrum. From the heavy groove of "Lucid Girl" to the '70s swing of "Live for You".

  
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• New Release Round-Up 10-04-24

  
  

  Coldplay - Moon Music (EcoCD with Autographed Art Card) - Atlantic Records

  Moon Music, the highly anticipated tenth album from Coldplay lands on October 4 2024.
  
  Moon Music, which was produced by Max Martin, is available to pre-order everywhere now.
  
  In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current tour - which has so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour - the band have gone to great lengths to make the physical release of Moon Music as sustainable as possible. 
  
  This will be the world's first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy containing nine recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in manufacturing process CO2 emissions/kg compared to traditional 140g vinyl. 
  
  Additionally, the band have collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition EcoRecord rPET LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.
  
  The CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate,sourced from post-consumer waste streams. This will provide at least a 78% CO2/kg emission reduction, and avoid the manufacture of more than five metric tonnes of virgin plastic.
  
  In an effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music(both EcoRecord rPET LP and EcoCD) will be strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord rPET LP products will be individually numbered.

  
  

  
  
  

  FINNEAS - For Cryin' Out Loud! - OYOY, Inc.

  Multiple GRAMMY and Academy Award-winning artist, songwriter, and producer, FINNEAS returns with ‘For Cryin’ Out Loud!’ his second studio album. FINNEAS’ self-produced solo album was born out of a series of live studio sessions in Los Angeles, bringing together some of his closest friends and peers into one room. In contrast to his debut album OPTIMIST which featured instrumentals written and performed solely by the artist himself, For Cryin’ Out Loud! sees FINNEAS expand his creative horizons to a classic studio/band environment, freeing FINNEAS and ultimately resulting in his most uplifting and raw body of work to date. For Cryin’ Out Loud! follows the release of his sister Billie Eilish’s third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT which has further cemented him as one of the most critically acclaimed, award-winning producers and songwriters of his generation.

  

  
  
  

  Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2 - 
  Southeastern Records
  

  Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit follow up 2018's Live from the Ryman with a second volume of live recordings from their annual residency at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Live from the Ryman Vol. 2 features favorites from Weathervanes and Reunions recorded in 202 & 2023 as well as "The Last Song I Will Write" (2019) and a cover of Tom Petty's "Room at the Top" (2017).

  

  
  
  

  Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Cast of Joker: Folie a Deux - Joker: Folie a Deux (Music From The Motion Picture) - Warner Records/Interscope Record

  Official soundtrack to accompany Joker: Folie a Deux, one of the most anticipated films of a generation. Produced by Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Jason Ruder and executive produced by Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Randall Poster, & George Drakoulias

   

  
  
  

  Booker Little - Booker Little 4 & Max Roach (Blue Note Tone Poet) - Blue Note Records

  Memphis-born trumpeter Booker Little was a bright light of the jazz world who died tragically young at age 23. A prodigiously talented hornman as well as a composer, Little first came to prominence as a member of Max Roach’s band which he joined in 1956 after the death of Clifford Brown, another trumpet great gone far too soon. Little only made a handful of albums as a leader during his brief career including his astounding debut Booker Little 4 & Max Roach recorded in 1958 for United Artists when he was just 20 years old. The full breadth of Little’s artistry leaps out of the grooves with his brilliant tone, astonishing technique, and inventive lines matched by Roach’s fiery drums throughout this engaging set that also featured George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Art Davis on bass. The album opens with Miles Davis’ “Milestones” and includes the standards “Sweet and Lovely” and a stunning version of “Moonlight Becomes You,” but the album’s centerpiece is the trio of Little originals: “Rounder’s Mood,” “Dungeon Waltz,” and “Jewel’s Tempo.”

  
  
  

  Donald Byrd - Kofi (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) - Blue Note Records

  Drawn from two sessions recorded in December 1969 and December 1970, and not first released until 1995, Kofi found Donald Byrd in the early stages of his transformation from top-notch hard bop trumpeter to fusion pioneer. Byrd had already begun to move away from a pure hard bop sound with his album Fancy Free in the Spring of 1969, and the two Kofi sessions straddled the recording of his adventurous fusion album Electric Byrd. The first Kofi session subtly explored a new realm of sounds on Byrd’s originals “Kofi” and “Fufu” with producer Duke Pearson’s electric piano shimmering underneath textured arrangements featuring Lew Tabackin on flute and tenor saxophone, Frank Foster on tenor saxophone, William Campbell on trombone, Ron Carter on acoustic bass, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass, and Airto Moreira on drums. The following 1970 session produced two more vibey Byrd originals—“Perpetual Love” and “Elmina”—adding Wally Richardson on guitar and Mickey Roker on drums with Moreira playing percussion along with Dom Um Romão.

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

  Shaboozey - Where I've Been Isn't Where I'm Going [LP]

  Clara La San - Made Mistakes [LP]

  Maximo Park - Stream Of Life [Indie exclusive eco splatter vinyl]

  Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness [RSD Essentials Blue & Black LP]

  Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos [RSD Essentials Yellow & Black LP]

  October Drift - Blame The Young [Indie exclusive tri-colour ]

  Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin - The Quest (Original Jazz Classics Series) [LP]

  Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NEX GEN [2 LP]

  Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching [Deluxe 2 LP]

  Sam Millar - Virtual Summer

  Michelle - Songs About You Specifically [Clear Vinyl] (Red)

  JD McPherson - Nite Owls [Indie Exclusive Blue, Black and White Splatter Signed LP]

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Day With Art Blakey 1961 [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Metallic Silver ]

  Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Chester 1957 [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Orange & Blue 2 LP]

  The Montclairs - Dreaming Out of Season [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Half White & Half Blue]

  Christian Lee Hutson - Paradise Pop. 10 [Indie Exclusive DUCKYYELLOW LP]

  Sophie - Future Classic [Indie Exclusive Clear 2LP]

  Hector Lavoe - De Ti Depende (It's Up To You) [LP]

  Marlowe, Dylan - Mid-Twenties Crisis

  Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue - [2 LP]

  Daughtry - Shock To They System (Part 1)

  AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch (50th Anniversary)

  AC/DC - Fly On The Wall (50th Anniversary)

  AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video (50th Anniversary) [Colored Vinyl] (Gol)

  AC/DC - Black Ice (50th Anniversary)

  AC/DC - Live At River Plate (50th Anniversary)

  AC/DC - Power Up (50th Anniversary)

  Steely Dan - Katy Lied [LP]

  The Amity Affliction - Let The Ocean Take Me - (Redux) [Indie Exclusive White in Aqua Blue in Royal Blue LP]

  Telenova - Time Is A Flower [Colored Vinyl]

  Living Colour - Vivid - LP

  Fernandez, Alejandro - Te Llevo En La Sangre (Deluxe Edition) [2 LP]

  Draco Rosa - Reflejos De Lo Eterno [Canary Yellow LP]

  Tara Lily - Speak In The Dark [LP]

  Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 [Indie Exclusive Opaque Silver LP]

  & More .....

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

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