• New Release Round-Up 11-26-21

  OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Georgia Blue
  Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song: 10th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition Green LP]
  Mogwai - e.p. x 3 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Curacao, Clear & Yellow Vinyl]
  The Acacia Strain - It Comes In Waves [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Pink LP]
  Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc. [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear & Black Ice W/Grey 2LP]
  Deep Purple - Turning To Crime [Limited Edition Crystal Clear 2LP]
  Riki - Gold [Red in Clear LP]
  B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds [Translucent Red Audiophile Limited Anniversary Edition LP]
  Danzig - Sings Elvis [Pink & Black Haze LP]
  Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive [Limited Edition Cherry Red LP]
  Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [Limited Edition Metallic Gold LP]
  Insane Clown Posse - Yum Yum Bedlam
  
  
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  Kelley Stoltz - Antique Glow: Expanded Edition - Third Man Records.
  Third Man Records is proud to release the 20th anniversary expanded edition of Kelley Stoltz's defining album 'Antique Glow.' Originally self-released in miniscule vinyl-only quantities in 2001, 'Antique Glow' has served not only as a template for the length of Kelley Stoltz's twenty-plus year career, but has also served as a compass for other Anglophile, TASCAM 388 home recording acolytes.  Original copies featured Stoltz's clever, wry and fanciful hand-painted adornments overtop reclaimed thrift store LP jackets, Third Man's release here utilizes some of those original unused images for a die-cut sleeve that ultimately gives the listener six different possible album covers. The songs are by and large masterpieces of bedroom pop magic. From the whispering 'Here Comes the Sun'-adjacent acoustic underpinnings of album opener 'Perpetual Night' through the fuzz-threaded leads of 'Are You Electric?' Stoltz's inspirations are impeccable and clear. Sixties Davies British Invasion through 80's British Bunnymen post-punk, with appropriate off-shoots into West Coast American pop-psych, Velvets-indebted hooliganism and Drake/CSNY acoustic attenuations, the end result is pure joy. On the expanded version, standout tracks previously relegated to an Australian tour-only CD (like the breathlessly cinematic 'Old Pictures') see their first-ever vinyl and digital release while there's an additional 8 songs from the 'Antique Glow'-era seeing their first ever release in any format. The cutting room floor quality here is second-to-none, Stoltz clearly gifted with the curse of writing too many indelible songs, so the newly released 'Too Beck' (originally cast off by Kelley because he thought 'it sounded too much like Beck') and 'Umbrella' stand firm as some of the best, most timeless music Stoltz has ever released... a full two decades after he recorded them! With all instruments and vocals performed by Stoltz, the singularity of vision here is impeccably clear and executed. Packaging: Die-cut direct-to-board LP jacket, printed inner sleeves, standard weight vinyl
  
    

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• New Release Round-Up 11-19-21

  

  U2 - Achtung Baby: 30th Anniversary Edition - Island
  A limited-edition black vinyl release of the Grammy-award winning U2 album Achtung Baby, to celebrate its 30^th Anniversary. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and recorded between Berlin’s Hansa Studios and various locations in Dublin, Achtung Baby was released to critical acclaim in 1991 & is regarded as one of U2’s most seminal albums. The album featured five singles: ‘The Fly’, ‘Mysterious Ways’, ‘One’, ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ and ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’.
  
  

  

  Kiss - Destroyer: 45th Anniversary Edition - UMe
  In 1976, KISS dropped the bombshell on the world being DESTROYER, an album that originally received resistance from fans due to the band exploring a new sound and has long become the quintessential and all-time best selling KISS studio album. Exploding with concert staples and KISS Army favorites like “Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It OutLoud,” and “God Of Thunder” – the album’s new sounds came from the softer side of songs like “Do You Love Me?,”and songs heavy with orchestral arrangements including “Great Expectations” and their surprise hit single “Beth.” For the 45th anniversary, UMe is releasing the most comprehensive Super Deluxe Edition 4CD + Blu-ray Audio boxset that will melt the KISS Army’s minds. The original album on CD 1 is newly remastered by Abbey Road Mastering, CD 2 features 15 demos from Paul Stanley’s and Gene Simmons’s personal archives – 9 of which are unreleased. CD 3 loads up with studio outtakes, alternate versions / mixes and single edits – most notably a brand-new stripped-down mix for “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” where we found the acoustic guitar stems recorded for the entire song but originally only used in the last several closing notes of the song on the album. CD 4 features a ripping performance from the band’s visit to Paris France at the L’Olympia on May 22, 1976. Steven Wilson was brought in to create a first-ever Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround mix of the original studio album plus 2 bonus tracks “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” and “Sweet Pain (Original Guitar Solo)” the latter featuring Ace Frehley’s original recorded guitar solo that was not released on the studio album (this track is available on the 2012 Destroyer: Resurrected project.) Packaging features a lift top-style box loaded with so much ephemera even KISS fans may need to seek medical advice upon receiving this boxset. Also available Deluxe 2CD and Deluxe 2LP.
  
  

  

  Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat: 50th Anniversary - A&M
  Yusuf / Cat Stevens celebrates 1971's landmark album with this 4CD, Blu-ray, 2LP, and 7" set in a rigid clamshell box. It includes the 50th Anniversary remaster of the album on CD/Blu-ray HD Audio completed at Abbey Road by the original producer, Paul Samwell-Smith. Featuring 41 previously unreleased demos, sessions, live tracks, and 21 unreleased TV performances. Plus, an illustrated 108-pg essay book, a 44-pg replica of the original "Teaser And The Firecat" book, and a 7" single of "Moonshadow." Also available Super Deluxe 4CD/Blu-ray Box Set, Deluxe 2CD and LP & CD.
  
  

  

  Andy Shauf - Wilds - ANTI
  Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Like he’s done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged, and produced every song on his new album Wilds at his studio space in the west end of Toronto.  Over the course of a year-and-a-half, Shauf had written more than 50 songs, and pared down this massive body of work, into a single album’s worth of material, which became 2020’s highly acclaimed The Neon Skyline album. These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of a group of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar. Wilds includes songs from those same writing sessions, that did not fit into the Skyline storyline and had their own singular identity apart from that album, though he does revisit with his old friends Judy and Jeremy in this outing.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Adele - 30
  Oasis - Knebworth 1996
  Twenty One Pilots - Scaled And Icy [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2LP]
  Cold War Kids - New Age Norms 3 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Green LP]
  The Darkness - Motorheart [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Ringo Starr - Change The World EP [Vinyl]
  Sting - The Bridge
  Lady Gaga - Dawn Of Chromatica
  James Blunt - The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)
  The Tragically Hip - Road Apples: 30th Anniversary
  Deap Vally - Marriage
  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
  Willie Nelson - The Willie Nelson Family
  Steve Earle & The Dukes - Guy [Limited Edition Red and Orange Swirl 2LP]
  All Them Witches - Nothing As The Ideal [Limited Edition Galaxy Green and Black Mix LP]
  FUR - When You Walk Away
  Eagles Of Death Metal - EDOM Presents: A Boots Electric Christmas
  Charlie Parr - Last Of The Better Days Ahead [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Canary Yellow & Magenta LP]
  Lucinda Williams - Lu's Jukebox Vol. 5: Have Yourself A Rockin’ Little Christmas With Lucinda
  Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red LP]
  Grateful Dead - Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12/10/71
  Escape The Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion:15th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Red LP]
  Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
  Ultra Q - Get Yourself A Friend EP
  Beach Fossils - The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads
  Calexico - Seasonal Shift [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Summer Sky Wave LP]
  
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

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