New Release Round-Up 12-13-19

Harry Styles - Fine Line - Sony
The second album from Harry Styles, Includes the singles “Watermelon Sugar” and “Lights Up.” 

Tool - Fear Inoculum [Expanded Book Edition] - RCA
Fear Inoculum is the long awaited new album from Tool, and the band's first new album in 13 years. The “Expanded Book Edition” includes five 3D lenticular cards featuring exclusive graphics, 56 page booklet with additional art and an access card to download the groundbreaking immersive visual experience, “Recusant Ad Infinitum.”

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP: 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition - Aftermath
The 20th Anniversary of The Slim Shady LP is released on 3LP 180 gram vinyl and 2CD in an updated Expanded Edition including bonus tracks, rarities, a capella’s, freestyles, and instrumentals. Originally released on 23rd February, 1999 The Slim Shady LP turned Eminem from an underground rapper into a high-profile celebrity. The album featured production from Dr. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself. The Slim Shady LP is his first album with a major label after his first album Infinite was released on an independent label in 1996. The majority of the album’s lyrical content is written from the perspective of the rapper’s alter ego Slim Shady, whom the rapper created on the Slim Shady EP (1997). The Slim Shady LP went on to be certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

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Dave Matthews Band - Live At The Hollywood Bowl - September 10 2018 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP Box Set] - ATO Records
Originally intended as a RSD Black Friday release, production issues caused it to be delayed and released at a later date as an Indie Exclusive.  180g 5LP Boxset release of Dave Matthews Band's acclaimed live performance at the Hollywood Bowl from 2018. Housed in a foil numbered slipcase.

Various Artists - Peaky Blinders Original Music From The TV Series - UME
Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England following aftermath of World War I. Starring Cillian Murphy as ‘Tommy Shelby’ – the gang’s leader, the show follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. The fictional gang is loosely based on the Peaky Blinders, a real urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890’s and early twentieth century. The show is known for its dark and dramatic soundtrack. The soundtrack is a window into the mind of Tommy – a tortured ex-soldier with a sensitive side who appears to be suffering from PTSD after fighting in the trenches during World War One. This 2CD & 3LP set will feature music and key clips of dialogue from all 5 series the show, the 5th series aired late 2019 to critical acclaim. The album will feature Nick Cave’s title opening track Red Right Hand and PJ Harvey’s cover recorded exclusively for the show. Other artist’s music featured on the show and set to appear on this release are The White Stripes, Laura Marling, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Foals, Black Sabbath, Idles, Joy Division and Ricard Hawley who has covered Bob Dylan’s “Ballad Of A Thin Man”. The 2CD version will also include; a 32-page book with images from the show and behind the scenes, Notes from Guardian journalist Phil Harrison, quotes from the cast and The Chap magazine talks with Alison McCosh – Peaky Blinders’ Costume Designer. Series 1-5 original scores created specifically for the show will also feature on both formats.

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The Raconteurs - Help Me Stranger / Somedays (Alternate Version) - Third Man Records
The Raconteurs release a seven inch vinyl pressing of their single Help Me Stranger b/w Somedays (Alternate Version) which is lifted from the alt-rock supergroup's recent album Help Us Stranger.

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Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 10th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 7in Vinyl Box Set] - Glassnote
To mark the 10 year anniversary of their Brit Award winning & Grammy nominated debut album ‘Sigh No More’, Mumford & Sons are thrilled to release a Limited Edition 7” Collectors Boxset of this special release. Relive the best selling album across 6 individual 7” records, housed in a bespoke gatefold holder.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Various Artists - THE APOLLO: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - UME
THE APOLLO: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the audio accompaniment to the HBO documentary released November 6. Helmed by Oscar and Emmy-winning director Roger Ross Williams, THE APOLLO chronicles the unique history and contemporary legacy of New York City's landmark Apollo Theater. The soundtrack album is produced by the film's music supervisors, Grammy-nominated Dondi Bastone and TunesMap founder G. Marq Roswell, and mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Studios.

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

New Release Round-Up 12-06-19

Camila Cabello - Romance - Epic
Camila Cabello​'s highly-anticipated sophomore album, Romance, is out this week on Epic Records. and features the singles "Liar", "Shameless", "Cry for Me", "Easy" and "Living Proof". 

Liam Payne - LP1 - Republic
Platinum-selling Liam Payne has sold more than 18 million singles in just two years as a solo artist since leaving One Direction. His global smash hit debut single ‘Strip That Down’ featuring Quavo sold a huge 11.5 million copies worldwide and has been streamed over 1.8 billion times, while latest single ‘Polaroid’ sold two million copies. Liam has been streamed a staggering total of 2.7 billion times, making him the most successful solo artist of any current One Direction member.

The Who - WHO - Interscope Records
`WHO' will be released this week on Interscope Records. It is the first studio album in over 13 years, produced by Pete Townsend and Dave Sardy (Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz), featuring artwork by Sir Peter Blake (The Beatles' Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band). One of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history, The Who have sold over 100 million records worldwide including 9 US & 10 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles.

Sufjan Stevens & Timo Andres - The Decalogue - Asthmatic Kitty
The title of "The Decalogue" has a touch of the grandiose: it means "The Ten Commandments." Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered with the New York City Ballet in May of 2017, is quiet and experimental. Stevens's piano score, as played and recorded by Timo Andres, sounds like etudes in the Romantic-modernist tradition, as if prompted by Debussy. With "The Decalogue," now released digitally, and on vinyl and CD, Sufjan is making-gently, without ostentation-new departures.

John Hiatt - Only The Song Survives [15 LP Box Set] - New West Records
Only The Song Survives is the definitive collection of John Hiatt's musical output spanning two decades of releases on New West Records. The vast box set includes eleven albums, spread across fifteen long play records, all pressed on high quality 180g vinyl. Four releases - Crossing Muddy Waters (2000), The Tiki Bar Is Open (2001), Beneath This Gruff Exterior (2003) and Master Of Disaster (2005) - have been remastered for vinyl and pressed on wax for the very first time. The box set's 48-page book is autographed by John Hiatt and features rare photos, testimonials, essays and insights from many of Hiatt's co-conspirators throughout his career - from Ry Cooder, Steve Earle, Sonny Landreth, Patterson Hood, Luther Dickinson, Rodney Crowell, James McMurtry and more.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP: 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition - Aftermath
The 20th Anniversary of The Slim Shady LP is set to release on 3LP 180 gram vinyl and 2CD on 13th December, 2019 in an updated Expanded Edition including bonus tracks, rarities, a capella’s, freestyles, and instrumentals. Originally released on 23rd February, 1999 The Slim Shady LP turned Eminem from an underground rapper into a high-profile celebrity. The album featured production from Dr. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself. The Slim Shady LP is his first album with a major label after his first album Infinite was released on an independent label in 1996. The majority of the album’s lyrical content is written from the perspective of the rapper’s alter ego Slim Shady, whom the rapper created on the Slim Shady EP (1997). The Slim Shady LP went on to be certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

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Various Artists - Peaky Blinders Original Music From The TV Series - UME
Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England following aftermath of World War I. Starring Cillian Murphy as ‘Tommy Shelby’ – the gang’s leader, the show follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. The fictional gang is loosely based on the Peaky Blinders, a real urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890’s and early twentieth century. The show is known for its dark and dramatic soundtrack. The soundtrack is a window into the mind of Tommy – a tortured ex-soldier with a sensitive side who appears to be suffering from PTSD after fighting in the trenches during World War One. This 2CD & 3LP set will feature music and key clips of dialogue from all 5 series the show, the 5th series aired late 2019 to critical acclaim. The album will feature Nick Cave’s title opening track Red Right Hand and PJ Harvey’s cover recorded exclusively for the show. Other artist’s music featured on the show and set to appear on this release are The White Stripes, Laura Marling, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Foals, Black Sabbath, Idles, Joy Division and Ricard Hawley who has covered Bob Dylan’s “Ballad Of A Thin Man”. The 2CD version will also include; a 32-page book with images from the show and behind the scenes, Notes from Guardian journalist Phil Harrison, quotes from the cast and The Chap magazine talks with Alison McCosh – Peaky Blinders’ Costume Designer. Series 1-5 original scores created specifically for the show will also feature on both formats.

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The Raconteurs - Help Me Stranger / Somedays (Alternate Version) - Third Man Records
The Raconteurs release a seven inch vinyl pressing of their single Help Me Stranger b/w Somedays (Alternate Version) which is lifted from the alt-rock supergroup's recent album Help Us Stranger.

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