New Releases - 12/2/22
Hitting The Racks
Here's your weekly rundown of what's hitting the new release racks at Grimey's
New Releases
Adeem The Artist – White Trash Revelry CD/LP (Thirty Tigers)
Coming out of the pandemic, Adeem felt uneasy about asking their fans for money to record an album. They had the idea of asking thousands of people for a dollar instead of hundreds of people for hundreds of dollars. $15,000 was raised by thousands of rednecks who made Adeem's white trash dream a white trash reality. - "I'm not crazy about the idea of country music for liberals. I don't like it as a concept, and I don't love it in practice." - "In many ways, these songs are part of that machine I've been building to convert shame into celebration."
Brendan Benson – Low Key LP (Schnitzel)
Limited 180gm vinyl pressing. Not every two-year period measures out the same, noted Brendan Benson, the 51-year-old Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Raconteurs. Benson had just finished his well-received seventh album, Dear Life, in 2019 when his world came to a stop. The lockdown then began to reroute lives, societies, and ambitions worldwide. Two years of semi-isolation of fading relationships, of the natural inward turn that comes with less human contact unexpectedly pushed Benson's songwriting into new places. [This title shipped late and will arrive next week.]
Black OX Orkestar – Everything Returns CD/LP+MP3 (Constellation)
Everything Returns reconvenes the original Black OX Orkestar lineup after a 15-year hiatus. Arising from the fertile Montréal post-punk agit-prop scene of the early 2000s, the band comprises Scott Gilmore, Jessica Moss and Thierry Amar of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (Amar also continues to compose and play bass for Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Gabriel Levine of Sackville. Black Ox made two acclaimed albums of roiling acoustic avant-folk in the mid-2000s, exploring Eastern European and North African folkways through the lens of a gritty, resonant indie rock sensibility, juxtaposing interpretations of instrumentals from various Jewish, Romani and Arabic traditions with originals led by Gilmore's politically charged Yiddish vocals.
Kane Brown – Different Man 2xLP (SME Nashville)
Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Highly anticipated third studio album from the country singer/songwriter. Different Man features a total of seventeen songs, including "Like I Love Country Music", "Whiskey Sour", "One Mississippi", "Leave You Alone", and "Grand".
Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio LP (Joyful Noise)
Recently released on CD – now available on lavender color vinyl. On Internal Radio, the new album by Eerie Wanda, visual artist and musician Marina Tadic welcomes you to her inner world. Guided by intuition, Tadic's songs use haunting, ethereal space, growing whole universes from the seeds of ideas. Internal Radio documents Tadic becoming the artist she wants to be, working through some things, and even exorcizing a few demons.
Këkht Aräkh – Night & Love [Reissue/2019] CD/LP+MP3 (Sacred Bones)
Këkht Aräkh – Pale Swordsman [Reissue/2021] CD/LP+MP3 (Sacred Bones)
Këkht Aräkh is the Ukrainian ambient/atmospheric black metal project founded in 2018 by Dmitry Marchenko. [A limited-edition metallic silver color vinyl pressing of each title is available.]
King Princess – Hold On Baby LP (Columbia)
Opaque white color vinyl pressing. King Princess produced Hold On Baby alongside Mark Ronson, Ethan Gruska, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Dave Hamelin, Shawn Everett and Tobias Jesso Jr., with further contributions from Zach Fogarty, Amy Allen and Fousheé.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – Jazz Is Dead 11 2xLP (Jazz Is Dead)
Released in July on CD – now available on vinyl. Music exists in movement and change, but before any part of it can be pinned down for analysis, it's often moved and taken on a new face. The transformation is often driven by culture as forward-thinking people avoid the proverbial paths in search of revolution. Even though our pioneers prophesied that the revolution would not be televised, the message has permeated. It's spreading like wildfire and leaders are defined by those that speak first: Jazz Is Dead. Music is the universal language, and we are the interpreter of sound, a message that has been lost in transcription. [A limited-edition green color vinyl pressing is available.]
No Zu – Heat Beat 12” (Chapter Music)
Yellow specked color vinyl. Melbourne, Australia "heat beat" icons No Zu regroup after the passing of vocalist Daphne Camf, releasing their first new original music since 2016. Dark and playful, layered with cryptic allusions and implausibly danceable, the EP shows No Zu at their restless, exploratory best.
Jessie Reyez – Yessie LP (Island)
On Jessie Reyez' sophomore album, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter captures the human experience in a unique and relatable way. Yessie, the album title and moniker affectionately used by her family, touches on the self-destruction and healing that comes after the demise of a toxic relationship. Jessie effortlessly weaves her trauma and resiliency while proving yet again why she is an unstoppable force.
Mitchell Tenpenny – This Is The Heavy 2xLP (SME Nashville)
Released in September on CD – now available on vinyl. Mitchell Tenpenny titled his new album This Is The Heavy because the production packs a punch. “It’s going to be big. It’s going to be loud. It’s going to be in your face and drum heavy,” Mitchell said. The project finds its own lane between a little bit country, and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, and is without a doubt meant to be turned up.
White Lung – Premonition CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)
It's been over five years since White Lung released any new material. After their explosive break-out album in 2014, Deep Fantasy, and the critically acclaimed follow-up, Paradise, the punk band has taken a long yet unintentional hiatus. Now, singer Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William, and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou are back with Premonition. The band returned to their long-time producer Jesse Gander (Japandroids, Brutus) to bring out the primal and anthemic punk rock the band built their following on. Chaotic, bold, and hook-driven, Premonition is a whirlwind of driving drums, intricate guitar work, and no-holds-barred lyrics about motherhood, pregnancy, and growth. [Indie store exclusive ‘orange crush’ color vinyl.]
Reissues, Comps, Live Recordings, Vault Excavations & Books...
Amorphis – Far From The Sun [Reissue/2003] CD/LP (Atomic Fire)
Far From The Sun is the sixth studio album by Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis. It was the first album to feature drummer Jan Rechberger since 1994's Tales From The Thousand Lakes, replacing Pekka Kasari who had quit the band to spend more time with his family. It was their last album to feature Pasi Koskinenon vocals. [Limited-edition white and purple marbled vinyl.]
Chet Baker / Art Pepper – Picture Of Health [Reissue/1956] LP (Blue Note)
Mono edition. Chet Baker & Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the 1956 Pacific Jazz album, Picture Of Health (originally released as Playboys). The sextet for the session was loaded with top talent from the West Coast jazz scene including Phil Urso, Carl Perkins, Curtis Counce and Larance Marable. Part of Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series featuring all-analog remastering and luxe packaging. [This title shipped late and will arrive early next week.]
The Beach Boys – Sail On Sailor 2xCD/2xLP+7”/6xCD/5xLP+7” (Capitol)
The Beach Boys' Sail On Sailor collection celebrates the landmark 1972 albums Carl And The Passions and Holland. The Super Deluxe CD and vinyl box sets feature the original albums fully remastered, outtakes and session highlights from the original Mount Vernon And Fairway EP, plus a previously unreleased 1972 concert from Carnegie Hall. Also included is a book with extensive liner notes, rare photos and more.
Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up On Me [Reissue/2002] CD/2xLP+MP3 (ANTI-)
Limited 20th Anniversary edition. Don't Give Up On Me is a studio album by R&B/Soul singer Solomon Burke, recorded and released in 2002. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It is noteworthy for the contributions of original and previously unreleased compositions by top-rank songwriters, the effect of which placed Burke back in the public eye for a time. Guest stars are Daniel Lanois, who plays electric guitar on "Stepchild", and The Blind Boys of Alabama, who feature on backing vocals for "None of Us Are Free". [Indie store exclusive red vinyl pressing shipped late and will arrive next week.]
Neal Casal – Rain, Wind And Speed [Reissue/1996] LP (Royal Potato)
Sparse, plaintive and largely acoustic album, Rain, Wind And Speed was written and recorded in the months immediately following Casal being dropped from his recording contract with Zoo Records, the label who'd released his debut effort, Fade Away Diamond Time. As Cardillo explains in the reissue's essay: "At first Neal couldn't comprehend what this all meant. No European Tour? No video? No single to radio? No tour support? All the label's promises withered and died like bitter fruit left on the vine. It was a disorienting sucker punch that left Neal numb and reeling.”
Jerry Garcia – Garcia [Reissue/1972] 2xLP (ATO)
180gm gold color vinyl pressing. Most of the songs for Jerry Garcia's debut solo album Garcia were first recorded by Jerry and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) as simple acoustic guitar and drum tracks with Jerry then overdubbing all other parts. This was the first studio album to be released by the Grateful Dead family for over a year, the last being the Dead's American Beauty. Now expanded to 2 LPs and featuring alternate versions and outtakes.
Judy Garland – Greatest Hits [Reissue/1990] LP (Curb)
New pressing of this collection by the legendary singer and actress. Includes many classic tracks including, of course, "Over the Rainbow".
The Hated – Best Piece Of Sh!t Vol. 4 2xLP (Numero)
Channeling Bad Brains' Black thrash and Hüsker Dü's zen approach to hardcore, The Hated synthesized their own version of what became emo in 1985. [Limited-edition white vinyl.]
Ahmad Jamal – Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse (1963-1964) 2xLP (Anagram Music)
Never released Ahmad Jamal set from the 1960s recorded at the Penthouse Jazz Club in Seattle. Remastered audio transferred from the original tape reels. This set includes an extensive booklet with previously unpublished photos from Chuck Stewart and Don Bronstein, essays by jazz writer Eugene Holley Jr. and producer Zev Feldman, plus interviews with Ahmad Jamal, Jon Batiste, Kenny Barron, Aaron Diehl, and Marshall Chess. [A limited-edition vinyl edition was released as part of RSD Black Friday on November 25. Now available for special order on CD.]
Jamiroquai – High Times: Singles 1992–2006 [Reissue/2006] 2xLP (Sony Legacy)
High Times: Singles 1992 -2006 is Jamiroquai's greatest-hit collection, originally released in November 2006. The final release in this vinyl reissue series, High Times: Singles 1992 -2006 this pressing includes the addition of “You Give Me Something”, a track that does not appear on the original CD release.
George Jones – Sings White Lightning And Other Favorites [Reissue/1959] LP (Del Ray)
White Lightning And Other Favorites is the 1959 studio album released by country music legend George Jones. The album is Jones' seventh studio album release, and its title track "White Lightning" (written by J.P. Richardson aka "The Big Bopper") reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart in 1959. The album is one of the best, if not the best, albums that Jones released in the 1950s.
Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma’s House CD (Omnivore Recordings)
Jorma Kaukonen (later of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna) met a singer named Janis Joplin at a hootenanny in San Jose, California, in the fall of 1962. Over the following years, Janis would call on Jorma to accompany her to gigs. As they continued to play together, the Bay Area was changing musically and developing into the legendary San Francisco scene to which both Janis and Jorma would be integral. During a rehearsal for a show in North Beach, Jorma started his reel-to-reel machine to capture what they were working on. For decades, this recording was the stuff of legend, with inferior, multi-generational transfers making their way through select collectors’ circles. Now, for the very first time, it is available officially, with the blessing and cooperation of both the Janis Joplin Estate and Jorma Kaukonen. The tracks include Joplin on vocals, Kaukonen on guitar, and Jorma's wife Margareta typing away intermittently in the background.
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Susanna Mälkki – Steve Reich: Runner / Music For Ensemble And Orchestra LP (Nonesuch)
Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. Nonesuch Records releases the first recordings of Steve Reich's Runner (2016) and Music For Ensemble And Orchestra (2018), performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Susanna Mälkki. Reich says Runner is written "for a large ensemble of winds, percussion, pianos, and strings. While the tempo remains more or less constant, there are five movements, played without pause, that are based on different note durations." Music For Ensemble And Orchestra is an extension of the Baroque concerto grosso where there is more than one soloist," the composer continues.
Blue Mitchell – Bring It Home To Me [Reissue/1966] LP (Blue Note)
Blue Mitchell was a member of Horace Silver's quintet before he began recording his own albums as leader for Blue Note through the 1960s. His 1966 album, Bring It Home To Me, is a bluesy and soulful hard bop date featuring the trumpeter with Junior Cook, Harold Mabern, Gene Taylor, and Billy Higgins. Part of Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series featuring all-analog remastering and luxe packaging. [This title shipped late and will arrive early next week.]
Módulo 1000 – Não Fale Com Paredes [Reissue/1972] LP (Mr Bongo)
Módulo 1000 was not messing around when they recorded Não Fale Com Paredes. It holds its own, not just as a raw, heavy, experimental Brazilian psychedelic rock affair, but as a raw, heavy, experimental psychedelic rock album, full-stop.
Jonathan Richman – Jonathan Sings! [Reissue/1983] CD/LP (Omnivore Recordings)
Putting together a new Modern Lovers in 1980, with Greg Keranen (who played on the early records), drummer Micheal Guardabascio, Ken Forfia, Ellie Marshall, and Beth Harrington. The group toured and recorded through 1981-82, and in 1983 Jonathan Sings! (produced by Peter Bernstein, bassist for the renowned L.A. power pop band The Cretones) appeared on Sire Records. It was worth the wait. The album not only became an immediate fan favorite but placed at #8 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, and NME put it at #19 in their Album of the Year list. [A limited-edition vinyl edition was released as part of RSD Black Friday on November 25 and is still available. Now available on CD.]
Rotting Christ – Abyssic Black Metal [Reissue/2018] 2xLP (Peaceville)
Greek black metal legends Rotting Christ formed in 1988, with their early demo recordings containing strong grindcore elements as the band quickly evolved their style into something altogether darker. Abyssic Black Metal collects the bands early/rare material from the late ‘80s to the mid- ‘90s.
Soisong – qxn948s LP (Dais)
Soisong is the stunning but short-lived partnership of Coil co-founder Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and veteran Russian electronic experimentalist Ivan Pavlov. Though friends since 1997, the project birthed roughly a decade later in Bangkok, where Christopherson relocated following the death of his Coil collaborator John Balance in 2004. Named after the Thai word for 'two' along with a notorious red-light district street nearby, the duo dialed into a cryptic language of lurching synthetics, Eastern minimalism, and interdimensional glitch, oscillating between elegance and mayhem. qXn948s collects some of their earliest recordings and remains as transgressive and transcendent a listen now as it was upon its release a decade and a half ago. [Limited edition clear with orange splatter vinyl.]
Sponge – Wax Ecstatic [Reissue/1996] LP (Wargod Collective)
Limited color vinyl pressing of the the second studio album by Detroit-based rock band Sponge. Includes the hit singles "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)" and "Have You Seen Mary".
Staves – Dead & Born & Grown [Reissue/2012] LP (Nonesuch)
The Staves' debut album Dead & Born & Grown, reissued on recycled colored vinyl. Produced with Glyn and Ethan Johns, who have worked with a plethora of artists from past and present between them, including The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to The Vaccines and Kings Of Leon.
Sufjan Stevens – Fourth Of July 7” (Asthmatic Kitty)
Red color vinyl pressing. Two alternate versions of "Fourth Of July" recorded circa 2014.
Various Artists [Ryuichi Sakamoto] – A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto - To The Moon And Back 2xLP (Masterworks)
A collection of songs from Sakamoto's vast catalogue newly reworked and remodeled by contemporary artists and collaborators. From admirers of Sakamoto's work like Thundercat, Devonté Hynes, and Hildur Guðnadóttir to longtime collaborators and friends like David Sylvian, Alva Noto, Cornelius, and Fennesz, plus some of Sakamoto's personal favorites like Lim Giong, Gabrial Wek, and 404. Zero, the included artists reflect the breadth of Sakamoto's influence on modern music.
Various Artists – Luke Schneider Presents Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI: Chrome Universal LP (Tompkins Square)
Released in August on CD – now available on vinyl. Curated by Nashville pedal steel maverick and Third Man recording artist Luke Schneider, the 11th volume of Tompkins Square's venerable acoustic guitar series Imaginational Anthem features exclusive tracks by legend BJ Cole, as well as leading exponents on the instrument including Susan Alcorn, Luke Schneider, Spencer Cullum, among others. Nashville native and Merge recording artist William Tyler has written a detailed history of the pedal steel for the package.
Various Artists – Southeast Of Saturn, Vol. 2 LP (Third Man)
Indie store exclusive color vinyl pressing. Southeast Of Saturn Vol. 2 is a follow up to 2020’s Southeast Of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. The second volume expands upon the Michigan-centric aural delights purveyed on Vol. 1, by including groups from throughout the Midwest. Highlighting groups spanning Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Vol. 2 works to cement the Midwest's status as a breeding ground for the space-rock and shoegaze subgenres, which more famously burgeoned in the UK.
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs [Reissue/2010] LP (Cooking Vinyl)
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 2, People & Places [Reissue/2010] LP (Cooking Vinyl)
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 3, States Of Being [Reissue/2011] LP (Cooking Vinyl)
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 4, Songs Of Family [Reissue/2014] LP (Cooking Vinyl)
Vinyl reissues of the eighth, ninth,
Virgin Prunes - …If I Die, I Die [Reissue/1982] 2xCD/2xLP (BMG)
Now available on CD. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Irish post-punk band's 1982 debut album. This 40th Anniversary Edition features 16 tracks, eight of which are previously unreleased, including rough mixes, remixes, and demos.
Neil Young – Harvest: 50th Anniversary Edition 3xCD+2xDVD/2xLP+7”+2xDVD (Reprise)
Young’s fourth solo album remains one of the most beloved in his catalog and is dense with songs that have long-permeated radio waves. The 50th Anniversary Edition Box Sets (available on vinyl and CD) contain the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7” vinyl, an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo performance on CD, LP and DVD. The film Harvest Time is a previously unseen two-hour documentary filmed in 1971, documenting the Harvest sessions. Also included in the package is a hardbound book and fold-out poster. The vinyl box sets include a lithograph print.