New Releases - 1/3/25

Hitting The Racks

Here's your weekly rundown of what's hitting the new release racks at Grimey's

New Releases

Tinashe - Quantum Baby CD/LP (Nice Life)

Quantum Baby is the second installment in Tinashe’s BB/ANG3L album trilogy. The first in the series, BB/ANG3L, was released Fall ‘23 and was followed by the BB/ANG3L tour and Tinashe’s first Tiny Desk performance. Tinashe began teasing the hit single “Nasty,” this past Spring, debuting the song at Coachella 2024. The song quickly went viral, eventually becoming the song of the summer. “Quantum Baby is about getting to know me on a deeper level. It's about exploring who I am as a person and who I am as an artist. I’ve never been one to be put into a box, so the name Quantum Baby encompasses all the different parts that make up who I am as a creative,” says Tinashe, describing the album as “forward, hot and lots of bass!” [Indie store exclusive blue and orange swirl pressing is available.]

Reissues, Comps, Live Recordings, Vault Excavations...

Devo - Recombo DNA 3xCD/4xLP (Futurismo)

Spuds rejoice. After years of requests, Futurismo are thrilled to announce a brand new limited pressing of the DEVO's incredible Recombo DNA 4xLP, plus also available is a brand new 3xCD version. For decades Devo have been working non-stop at Recombo DNA Laboratories on a new kind of research to keep up with the mutating world around us. That extensive research is now ready for public consumption once again. Futurismo were the first to bring you this on vinyl and now they present unhindered access into Devo's labs, documenting the scientific analysis and demonstrations as conducted by the band between the years 1977-2008. This tireless research has manifested itself in Recombo DNA... an unmissable collection of studio demos and unreleased rare tracks that span Devo's entire recording career, from their original basement days to their famed 'Freedom Of Choice' era, right the way through to unused demos from their last studio album. You may know the track 'Baby Doll' but do you know it's original incarnation as 'Satan'? If you submit to the findings of Recombo DNA Labs you will, Futurismo's version of this compilation included six bonus tracks taken from the archives that had never been released, or even heard before.

Dream Theater - Images and Words LP (Atlantic)
Dream Theater - Awake 2xLP (Atlantic)
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity 2xLP (Atlantic)
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory 2xLP (Atlantic)

New reissues on color vinyl of Dream Theater’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th albums, as part of Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right limited series.

Fleetwood Mac - Live at the Record Plant: Dec. 15, 1974 2xLP (Rhino)

Rare live set recorded live in-studio at LA’s The Record Plant in December 1974, featuring the final ‘Mac lineup before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined up. Led by Bob Welch and Christine McVie, this dynamic set features songs from the Peter Green era and the middle period of the band, all material they would mostly drop from live performance after this period. Excellent recording that was only previously released in an expensive box set, now broken out separately as part of Rhino’s SYEOR series.

Andrew Hill - Grass Roots LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition)

Pianist and composer Andrew Hill had already built a formidable and beguiling body of work on Blue Note by the time he recorded Grass Roots in 1968, an album that stands as one of the most immediately accessible in his prolific output for the label which spans 1963-2006. Hill’s heady brilliance was indisputably established with fiercely creative albums such as Black Fire, Point of Departure, and Judgment!, but on Grass Roots he had another idea in mind. “I’m not proving myself here,” Hill explained in the original liner notes. “I want to give something. I want to reach out from myself to make people happy who listen to this. That’s what grass roots are in music. Getting down to the basics, getting down as deep as you can into feeling.” With a quintet eminently suitable for that task - Lee Morgan on trumpet, Booker Ervin on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Freddie Waits on drums—Hill presented a set of five original compositions imbued with a deep sense of feeling, groove, and lyricism including the feel-good title track, the festive “Mira,” and the propulsive “Soul Special.” 

The Jazz Crusaders - Freedom Sound LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition)

The Jazz Crusaders officially became The Jazz Crusaders with the release of Freedom Sound, their 1961 debut on Pacific Jazz. The Houston, Texas founded band had gone through several changes—both in name and location—when they arrived in Los Angeles and eventually got their lucky break when fellow Houstonian saxophonist Curtis Amy recommended them to Pacific Jazz founder Richard Bock. Freedom Sound began a decade-long association with the label that was both prolific and tremendously successful. The blueprint of the band’s enticing sound was already firmly in place, blending jazz aspirations with R&B roots for a potent dose of hard bop, soul jazz, gospel, and Texas Blues. The band’s core members—drummer Nesbert “Stix” Hooper, pianist Joe Sample, trombonist Wayne Henderson, and tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder are joined here by bassist Jimmy Bond and special guest Roy Gaines contributing guitar to two tracks. Highlights of the set include Felder’s opening 6/8 blues “The Geek” and Sample’s stately civil rights anthem “Freedom Sound,” which gave the album its title.

Matt Pond PA - Deer Apartments LP (Near Mint)

Matt Pond's very name evokes the natural world in which his songs are so often set, with their evocative lyrics about the sometimes jagged edges of love, the pros and cons of connection, and the agony and ecstasy of memory. He has always mapped the universal emotions of being alive onto the contours of his own stories.

From the band's beginnings in Philadelphia in the late '90s to their current home in the heart of the Hudson Valley, through 13 albums (among them Emblems, Several Arrows Later, The Dark Leaves, The State of Gold, and, most recently, the luminous The Natural Lines), matt pond PA has always been a living, breathing organism-one that's constantly changing. One notable mainstay: Pond's longtime right-hand man, Chris Hansen. "I named the band after myself, but the fact is that this is a complete collaboration," Pond says. "Everyone I've worked with lives in my head and in these songs." [Limited edition yellow marble vinyl.]

The Ramones - Too Tough to Die LP (Rhino)
The Ramones - Halfway to Sanity LP (Rhino)
The Ramones - Brain Drain LP (Rhino)

Brand new color vinyl pressings of The Ramones’ 8th, 10th and 11th LPs, available for a limited time as part of Rhino Records’ SYEOR series.

Various Artists - Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia 2LP (Ostinato Records)

Compiled from ultra-rare dead stock pressed at a Soviet-era vinyl plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this first-of-its-kind fully licensed album features a supreme selection of Uzbek disco, Tajik electronic folk, Uyghur guitar licks, Crimean Tatar jazz, Korean brass, and genre-defying styles from Soviet Central Asia. Drop the needle, and you're not just hearing rare Soviet dance music. You're journeying along the Silk Roads, revisiting raucous USSR disco nights, and immersing in grooves that inspired Soviet youth to envision a different future, ultimately unraveling the Iron Curtain from within. A comprehensive historical package presented in a double LP trifold complete with rare 1970s & 80s photos from the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere in Central Asia.

ZZ Top - ZZ Top’s First Album LP (Rhino High Fidelity)
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud LP (Rhino High Fidelity)
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres LP (Rhino High Fidelity)
ZZ Top - Fandango LP (Rhino High Fidelity)
ZZ Top - Tejas LP (Rhino High Fidelity)

New audiophile pressings of ZZ Top’s first 5 albums, originally only available direct from Rhino Records, now available at retail as part of Rhino’s SYEOR series.