• New Release Round-Up 06-15-18

  

  Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs - Sub Pop
  It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here, with ten songs of urgent, passionate guitar pop that elicit warm memories of bands past, from the Go-Betweens' jangle to the charmingly lo-fi trappings of New Zealand's Flying Nun label. But don't mistake Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever for nostalgists: Hope Downs is the sound of a band finding its own collective voice.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Arthur Buck - Arthur Buck - New West Records
  Sometimes the catalyst for creating great art is simply being in the right place at the right time. For Arthur Buck, the new collaboration between singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and guitarist Peter Buck, that place was Mexico, and that time was the fall of 2017.  Specifically, a little town off the Baja coast named Todos Santos, with the Sierra de la Laguna mountains to the east and the bright blue Pacific stretching out infinitely to the west. It is here that Buck has, for the last several years, held the Todos Santos Music Festival, which he created with his wife, Chloe Johnson, in 2012, shortly after R.E.M. called it a day. Among the many artists who have played the festival is Joseph Arthur, who also happened to leave behind a guitar—a Dobro, specifically—after his last appearance there. And so last year he made the trek down to Todos Santos to pick up the instrument. Which is where he ran into Peter Buck. That was the beginning of Arthur Buck. The creative result of this relationship is a vibrant 11-song collection that captures the spontaneity at the heart of the project—right down to the 1-2-3-4 count off from Buck that opens the record—with sounds and styles meshed together in an easy, almost playful manner. Tchad Blake was brought in to mix the proceedings, and the result is the new Arthur Buck—the result of a shockingly productive burst of inspiration.
  
   
  
  
  

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  Johnny Marr - Call The Comet - New Voodoo
  Recorded with his band in Manchester at Johnny Marr's Crazy Face studios, 'Call The Comet' is the third solo record from the Smith's guitarist and follows 2013's critically acclaimed The Messenger and 2014's Playland; both of which made the UK top 10. "Call The Comet is set in the not-too-distant future" says Marr, "and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society.  It's my own magic realism."  Songs include Actor Attractor, Walk Into The Sea, Bug and recent live favourite Spiral Cities.  "The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too.  It's something that people like me can relate to." Says Marr.
  
  The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound Sessions - Side One Dummy
  The Gaslight Anthem and SideOneDummy celebrate 10 years of the seminal album, The '59 Sound. New compilation features rare, unreleased, and alternate takes recorded during The '59 Sound Sessions. Launching a tour in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the album, kicking off May 27th in Washington D.C.
  
  Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic - Warner Bros
  In the months since the passing of Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda has immersed himself in art as a way of processing his grief. With no agenda, Shinoda hunkered down alone in his Los Angeles home and began writing, recording, and painting. In January, he released the Post Traumatic EP consisting of three deeply personal songs - each one a powerful, stream-of-consciousness expression of unvarnished grief - accompanied by homemade visuals that Shinoda filmed, painted and edited himself. The response was overwhelmingly positive, with New York Times stating, "The tracks are reverberant electronic dirges; the rhymes, heading into sung choruses, testify to bewilderment, mourning, resentment, self-pity and questions about what to do." Following the EP release, Shinoda continued to create, and the result is Post Traumatic, a transparent and intensely personal album that, despite its title, isn't entirely about grief, though it does start there. "It's a journey out of grief and darkness, not into grief and darkness," Shinoda says. Ultimately, Post Traumatic is an album about healing. The songs, though specific about Shinoda's experience with loss, manage to be universally relatable, thanks to their honesty and heart. "If people have been through something similar, I hope they feel less alone," he says. "If they haven't been through this, I hope they feel grateful."
  
  

  

  The Rolling Stones - Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 - UME
  ‘The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016’ presents this monumental era in Rock N’ Roll history in a highly bespoke, lenticular mounted, limited edition box-set housing the 15 x Studio Albums from Sticky Fingers through Blue & Lonesome in faithful & intricate original packaging replications. Every album has been lovingly remastered & cut at revelatory Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possible sound from the format. Each album is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl, includes a download card for HD digital redemption of the catalogue & includes a numbered certificate of authentication.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

  CURRENT SINGLES/EPs

  State Champs - Living Proof Christina Aguilera - Liberation Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage Calpurnia - Scout Sepultura - Arise: Expanded Edition Gin Blossoms - Mixed Reality Wilko Johnson - Blow Your Mind Mayday Parade - Sunnyland [Bone Colored LP] Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead Olivia Chaney - Shelter Chromeo - Head Over Heels 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood Tom Waits - Bawlers [Remastered LP] Tom Waits - Brawlers [Remastered LP] Tom Waits - Bastards [Remastered LP] Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive And Well The Darkness - Live At Hammersmith Chuck Auerbach - Remember Me & More .....

  Nick Lowe - Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside Daniel Avery - Projector EP Protomartyr - Consolation EP Yuno - Moodie EP Nilufer Yanya - Do You Like Pain? EP Hatchie - Sugar & Spice EP

   

   

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section and don't forget that many of these titles are also available on vinyl.

   

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• New Release Round-Up 06-08-18

  

  
  

  Dave Matthews Band - Come Tomorrow - RCA
  Come Tomorrow is the ninth studio album from Dave Matthews Band. The album is their first since 2012's Away from the World.
  
  

  

  Dierks Bentley - The Mountain - Capitol Nashville
  The Mountain is Dierks Bentley's ninth studio album. The writing process came together quickly when Bentley returned to Telluride a short time later for a retreat with fellow songwriters Natalie Hemby, Luke Dick, Ross Copperman, Jon Randall, Jon Nite and Ashley Gorley. The bulk of the album’s songs, including the title track were written during that week, which Bentley describes as the most inspiring creative experience he’s ever had.
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Sugarland - Bigger - Big Machine Records
  GRAMMY® Award-winning pair Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush are refreshing their musical visions while staying true to an authentic sound and emotive songwriting that has made Sugarland ubiquitous with Country music duos. The Georgia natives released their first new music in seven years with “Still The Same” setting the tone for their joint venture with Big Machine Records and UMG Nashville. Their highly-anticipated new album BIGGER is released this week.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Lily Allen - No Shame - Warner Bros
  No Shame is Lily Allen's most personal, insightful and fully-formed record to date. It includes lead song "Trigger Bang" featuring Giggs, which The Guardian describes as, "a return to the melancholic pop that made her so intriguing." Working with collaborators Fryars, Mark Ronson, Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Burna Boy, P2J and Cass Lowe to create No Shame, Lily says her goal was to make an album that is "as truthful as possible." Speaking about the sense of catharsis that came with making the album, she says, "I believe that we as humans work through things by talking about them, and that's what making music is for me. It's sharing things that you hope are going to connect with people, not that are going to connect with algorithms."
  
  

  

  The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Capitol
  This album combines the brilliant original vocal harmonies of The Beach Boys’ classics with brand new symphonic arrangements performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, creating a unique and special experience of these 17 iconic songs.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

  CURRENT SINGLES/EPs

  Yob - Our Raw Heart Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy Tremonti - A Dying Machine Ne-Yo - Good Man Shannon Shaw - Shannon In Nashville Flasher - Constant Image Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection Jorja Smith - Lost & Found Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story The Soundtrack Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good - The Final Kill Eleanor Tomlinson - Tales From Home Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen Erin Rae - Putting On Airs Holly Golightly - Singles Round-Up Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg Howlin Rain - The Alligator Bride Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else & More .....

  Alice Merton - No Roots EP [Vinyl] The Get Up Kids - Kicker EP [Vinyl] Buddy Guy - Cognac AHI - Made It Home Weezer - Africa Arthur Buck - American Century Mystic Bowie - Life During Wartime Passenger - Why Can't I Change

   

  UPCOMING RELEASES
  
  

  

  Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs - Sub Pop
  It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here, with ten songs of urgent, passionate guitar pop that elicit warm memories of bands past, from the Go-Betweens' jangle to the charmingly lo-fi trappings of New Zealand's Flying Nun label. But don't mistake Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever for nostalgists: Hope Downs is the sound of a band finding its own collective voice.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Arthur Buck - Arthur Buck - New West Records
  Sometimes the catalyst for creating great art is simply being in the right place at the right time. For Arthur Buck, the new collaboration between singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and guitarist Peter Buck, that place was Mexico, and that time was the fall of 2017.  Specifically, a little town off the Baja coast named Todos Santos, with the Sierra de la Laguna mountains to the east and the bright blue Pacific stretching out infinitely to the west. It is here that Buck has, for the last several years, held the Todos Santos Music Festival, which he created with his wife, Chloe Johnson, in 2012, shortly after R.E.M. called it a day. Among the many artists who have played the festival is Joseph Arthur, who also happened to leave behind a guitar—a Dobro, specifically—after his last appearance there. And so last year he made the trek down to Todos Santos to pick up the instrument. Which is where he ran into Peter Buck. That was the beginning of Arthur Buck. The creative result of this relationship is a vibrant 11-song collection that captures the spontaneity at the heart of the project—right down to the 1-2-3-4 count off from Buck that opens the record—with sounds and styles meshed together in an easy, almost playful manner. Tchad Blake was brought in to mix the proceedings, and the result is the new Arthur Buck—the result of a shockingly productive burst of inspiration.
  
   
  
  
  

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  The Rolling Stones - Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 - UME
  ‘The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016’ presents this monumental era in Rock N’ Roll history in a highly bespoke, lenticular mounted, limited edition box-set housing the 15 x Studio Albums from Sticky Fingers through Blue & Lonesome in faithful & intricate original packaging replications. Every album has been lovingly remastered & cut at revelatory Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl specific original tape transfers designed to get the very best possible sound from the format. Each album is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl, includes a download card for HD digital redemption of the catalogue & includes a numbered certificate of authentication.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section and don't forget that many of these titles are also available on vinyl.

   

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