Music Releases 03-24-23
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd is the ninth studio album from acclaimed singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, comprising 16 tracks and interludes with features including Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, Jon Batiste, Bleachers and more. It follows the prolific artist's 2021 albums Chemtrails Over The Country Club and Blue Banisters.
Caroline Rose
The Art of Forgetting [Audiophile Collectors Edition Clear Lenticular Cover 2LP]
Vinyl: $50.98 Buy
The time is now for Caroline Rose. Their last record, Superstar, was released on March 6, 2020. The record was critically acclaimed and positioned Rose as the next big breakthrough in music. Needless to say, the resulting pandemic grinded all momentum to a halt while at the same time throwing Roses personal life into turmoil. The result of that turmoil is the fuel that fired the creation of their latest album, The Art of Forgetting. With The Art of Forgetting, Rose took on the dual role of writer and producer. The album encapsulates the feeling of experiencing recent memories, having them turn into old ones and then ultimately forgetting those memories altogether. There is a romantic nature within the sonic landscape of this record. Tape effects and loops emulate the feeling of aging while the juxtaposition of modern acoustic-electronic textures, like lo-fi tape next to hi-fi granular synths result in some of their most mature and honest work to date.
Fall Out Boy
So Much (For) Stardust [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Coke Bottle Clear LP]
Fall Out Boy's new album, So Much (For) Stardust
Nickel Creek
Celebrants [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Confetti Yellow 2LP]
Their fifth studio album, Celebrants marks a highly anticipated return for the beloved trio and explores the inherent dynamics of human connection. Across the 18 tracks, the trio addresses love, friendship and time with lyrics both poetic and plain-spoken, as they see bridges built, crossed, burned and rebuilt. Recorded at Nashvilles RCA Studio A, the album was produced by longtime collaborator Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Grace Potter, Weezer) and features Mike Elizondo on bass.
In celebration of the release, the band will perform three very special sold-out shows at Nashvilles historic Ryman Auditorium this spring on April 27, 28 and 29.
Together a sum of more than their staggering parts, Nickel Creek revolutionized bluegrass and folk in the early 2000s and ushered in a new era of what we now recognize as Americana music. In a 2020 retrospective entitled, The Year Folk Broke: How Nickel Creek Made Americana The New Indie Rock, NPR Music praised, 20 years ago this month, an album arrived that seemed to speak all these languages at once: unafraid to push the boundaries of its primary genre, and packing the musical chops to bring such an eclectic vision to life. Behind it were three musicians just barely old enough to vote and continued, That makes Nickel Creek and its unofficial debut a critical point along a storied timeline, one whose innovations offer countless connections between the genres origins and its future. Once dubbed progressive newgrassers, the three musicians now fit firmly within the ranks of Americana musichowever nebulous, layered and diverse that realm may be. They have only themselves to thank.
After meeting as young children and subsequently earning the respect of the bluegrass circuit for a decade, the trio signed with venerable label, Sugar Hill Records, in 2000 and quickly broke through with their Grammy-nominated, Alison Krauss-produced self-titled LP. Since that effort, the trio has released three more studio albums to date: 2002s This Side, which won Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 45th Grammy Awards, 2005s Why Should the Fire Die? and 2014s A Dotted Line.
If credibility were currency, FAKE NAMES wealth would be off thecharts. Composed of Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Dag Nasty), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace), Dennis Lyxzn (Refused, INVSN,The [International] Noise Conspiracy), Johnny Temple (Girls AgainstBoys, Soulside) and the newest member Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites ofSpring), the band is a veritable post-hardcore dream team.
However instead of rehashing the past, Expendables is a reinventionthat sees the band dialing back the distortion and leaning into themelodies. The result pairs their unparalleled pedigree with a popsensibility thats slightly unexpected and wholly satisfying. For our
last record [2019s FAKE NAMES]the general influences were 70s U.K.punk and power-pop; but it wound up with a little classic rock vibe aswell, like the Vibrators meets Aerosmith. We never saw that coming! ,Baker explains.
For Expendables the band enlisted producer Adam Atom Greenspan (IDLES, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Baker explains, The pop influences are alittle more out front on this one and the production really helps it shine. It sounds more direct, more urgent.Expendables is the latest exchange in a musical conversation that spans four decades. Baker aptly refers to the lineup of FAKE NAMESas a mutual admiration society and says that once the five members got in the same room together, it felt as if they had already been inthe band together for years.
Last year BABYMETAL were sealed from the world after a successful 10-year journey. Earlier this year, THE OTHER ONE restoration project began to recover the BABYMETAL we never knew existed within a virtual world called the METALVERSE. The concept album releasing March 24, 2023 reveals the other side of the BABYMETAL story that no one knew existed. A total of 10 songs have been discovered within THE OTHER ONE restoration project, in which each song represents each theme of the 10 parallel worlds that seem to exist. Full length audio of each of the 10 songs will finally be revealed when fans get their hands on the album.
Named after the residential studios outside Paris where the album was recorded, Honky Chteau bought a new level of simplicity and directness to Eltons music that had previously only been seen in glimpses. Shorn of the complexities and ornate orchestrations of his recent work, Honky Chateau seemed freewheeling and intimate. It was helped by Rocket Man, the record which became another of Eltons signature songs.
These special editions contain the original album, and on both vinyl and CD editions a newly created selection of outtakes from the sessions, produced from the original tapes by Matt Still, which highlight the warmth and humor of the sessions.
On CD only there are eight tracks from the album that were recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in 1972, all receiving their live debut, just a few days back in the UK after recording. Assembled with the customary care by Eltons catalog team, the album comes as a gatefold with an eight-page booklet with rare photos, memorabilia and an essay by co-curator and music writer Daryl Easlea, featuring interviews from those who were there.
Honky Chteau has been mastered at Lurssen in California, and the vinyl cut at Abbey Road.
Memento Mori is Depeche Mode's 15th studio album and its first as a two-piece lineup ofDaveGahan andMartinGore, following co-founder Andrew Fletch Fletchers tragic passing in 2022. Produced by James Ford, with additional production work by Marta Salogni, Memento Mori's gestation took place during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, resulting in themes inspired directly by that period. The albums 12 tracks chart a vast expanse of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolverunning the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between.
Just nine months after his 3x Grammy-nominated recordGrowin Upwas released, reigning CMA Entertainer of the YearLuke Combsis back with a new companion album,Gettin Old,releasing March 24viaRiver HouseArtists/Columbia Nashville. In advance of the release, lead track, Growin Up and Gettin Old, written by Combs,Rob SnyderandChanning Wilson, is out now.
Produced by Combs,Chip MatthewsandJonathan Singleton,Gettin Oldis Combs fourth full-length album following 2022sGrowin Up, 2019s 3x PlatinumWhat You See is What You Getand his 4x Platinum debut,This Ones For You. Across these eighteen new tracks, Combs continues to establish himself as one of musics most authentic and powerful voices, as he reaches new lyrical depthsexploring themes of family, legacy, love and personal growth.
Felte Records presents Glimpse Of Heaven a stunning newalbum by the Hawaii-born, LA-based musician, singer, producerand professional mastering engineer Jess Labrador,AKA Chasms.
Labradors deeply personal work as Chasms has always felt likean unveiling. Following 2019s The Mirage, which was a dark,dubby meditation on grief and loss, this new album is bothfamiliar and different. The third full-length under the Chasmsname, Glimpse of Heaventrades in washes of reverb forstarker moments of closeness and intimacy. An exploration ofthe personal inventory and reckoning necessary to moveforward in life, the LP considers not only how we relate to theworld, but more importantly how we relate to ourselves.
While always distinct, you could previously detect post-punk,shoegaze, and dub sensibilities in the music. Dreamy drifttethered by skittered beats, airy vocals, and melancholicmelodies are here like previous efforts too. However, at thesame time, Labrador steps into new territory with an expanse ofvaporous synths and samples, adding to the projects etherealelectronic pop and dubwise pulse. Lush guitars glistenthroughout the album, but this time only in sparse, disciplinedembellishments. Glimpse of Heavenis a fully realised versionof Chasms beyond its influences; to say that this is a seamlessevocation of such disparate sounds as Massive Attack, BasicChanel, Sade, Seefeel and Dif Juz is to say it is wholly unique.While she continues to unfurl her thoughts, there is a shift fromopening up to the listener toward allowing the listener to witnessher opening to herself.
One of the most iconic and influential albums ever, Pink Floyds The Dark Side Of The Moon celebrates its 50th Anniversary.
The album was partly developed during live performances, and the band premiered an early version of the suite at Londons Rainbow Theatre several months before recording began. The Dark Side Of The Moon is the eighth studio album by Pink Floyd, originally released in March 1973. The new material was recorded in 1972 and 1973 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London. The iconic sleeve, which depicts aprism spectrum, was designed byStorm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and drawn by George Hardie. The Dark Side Of The Moonhas sold over 50 million copies worldwide.
The new deluxe box set includes CD and gatefold vinyl of the newly remastered studio album and Blu-Ray + DVD audio featuring the original 5.1 mix and remastered stereo versions. The set also includes additional new Blu-ray disc of Atmos mix plus CD and LP of The Dark Side Of The Moon - Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974.
Pink Floyd
The Dark Side Of The Moon: Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974 [LP]
Vinyl: $37.98 Buy
LP in gatefold sleeve, with two posters featuring design by Ian Emes and Gerald Scarfe. Cover design by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis and Peter Curzon/Storm Studios.Featuring original 1973 line drawn cover artwork by George Hardie.
Aoife O'Donovan
Aoife O'Donovan Plays Nebraska [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
Aoife plays NebraskaRecorded live in Brooklyn at Aoifes home on May 9, 2020
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Uprising: Original Jamaican Version [Limited Edition LP]
Twelve limited-edition Bob Marley vinyl LP's, each numbered and pressed exclusively at the legendary Tuff Gong International headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, will be available, featuring nine original studio albums and two original live albums, plus the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend, all including a highly-desirable Tuff Gong stamp.
Each album was mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Legend: Original Jamaican Version [Limited Edition LP]
Twelve limited-edition Bob Marley vinyl LP's, each numbered and pressed exclusively at the legendary Tuff Gong International headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, will be available, featuring nine original studio albums and two original live albums, plus the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend, all including a highly-desirable Tuff Gong stamp.
Each album was mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Confrontation: Original Jamaican Version [Limited Edition LP]
Vinyl: $34.98 Buy
Twelve limited-edition Bob Marley vinyl LP's, each numbered and pressed exclusively at the legendary Tuff Gong International headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, will be available, featuring nine original studio albums and two original live albums, plus the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend, all including a highly-desirable Tuff Gong stamp.
Each album was mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Babylon By Bus: Original Jamaican Version [Limited Edition 2LP]
Vinyl: $48.98 Buy
Twelve limited-edition Bob Marley vinyl LP's, each numbered and pressed exclusively at the legendary Tuff Gong International headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, will be available, featuring nine original studio albums and two original live albums, plus the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend, all including a highly-desirable Tuff Gong stamp.
Each album was mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Survival: Original Jamaican Version [Limited Edition LP]
Twelve limited-edition Bob Marley vinyl LP's, each numbered and pressed exclusively at the legendary Tuff Gong International headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, will be available, featuring nine original studio albums and two original live albums, plus the world's best-selling reggae album, Legend, all including a highly-desirable Tuff Gong stamp.
Each album was mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.