New Releases - 6/18/21

Hitting The Racks

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

New Releases

Lambchop – Showtunes LP+MP3 (Merge)

It’s finally here! Autographed copies of the Grimey’s exclusive color variant have shipped out. We now have stock available in the shop. In late 2019, Kurt Wagner was experimenting with something new, something that would eventually reveal itself as Lambchop's Showtunes. By taking simple guitar tracks and converting them into MIDI piano tracks, “Suddenly I discovered I could 'play' the piano,” he says. “It was a revelation that from those conversions, I was able to manipulate each note and add, subtract, arrange the chords and melody into a form that didn't have any of the limitations I had with my previous methods of writing with a guitar.” Removing these limitations led to a surprising new sound, something akin to show tunes but with edges sanded down and viewed through Kurt's own specific lens. [Limited edition clear, orange & white swirl vinyl, autographed by Kurt and unique to Grimey's, exclusively available now in the shop and from our webstore.]

Tristen - Aquatic Flowers LP (Mama Bird)

Aquatic Flowers was written and recorded at Tristen’s home studio, Tight Squeeze, with mainstay Buddy Hughen in early 2020. Her last album, Sneaker Waves (2017), received critical acclaim from NPR, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Consequence of Sound, The AV Club, Elle Magazine, and more. We’ve had the privilege of seeing Tristen perform over the years and have even hosted her in the shop for album release performances. We’re big fans and we're super stoked to have Tristen sign copies of her new record and offer them to you on "cool blue" vinyl. Available now in the shop or on our webstore.

Album - Album LP (Telephone Explosion)

Album is the experimental glitch-groove duo of Olivier Fairfield and Simon Provencher, two tirelessly creative musicians working in the small but fertile community of Hull, Québec. Fairfield keeps busy as a drummer and producer with acts such as Last Ex and FET.NAT, while Provencher has earned his own reputation as the guitarist of frenzied post-punk group Victime, bolstering their songs with an array of alien sounds and bizarrely shaped instruments. Fairfield and Provencher began with a series of freeform jams in late 2019. The guitarist added fretless bass and heavily processed vocals to these improvisations, as the drummer integrated vintage sci-fi sounds with a DX7 synthesizer. The most exciting moments of these sessions were then used as the basis for sampling as they sliced and diced passages back together into an eerily futuristic electroacoustic patchwork. While it's difficult to pinpoint any direct influences on these unclassifiable beat-driven collages, Album contains refracted echoes of experimental hip-hop and the jazzy acoustic elements of drum and bass producer Roni Size.

Blue Lab Beats – We Will Rise LP (Blue Note)

Blue Lab Beats has been taking jazz into the stratosphere with a futuristic melting pot fueled by hip-hop, Afrobeat and electronica. They represent a generation inspired by not only the forebearers of jazz but also the pioneers of hip-hop's golden age where musicality was a primary principle.

Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth LP (Prosthetic)

Limited-edition color vinyl pressing. Recorded in June 2020 whilst the United States of America teemed with discordance and conflict under the heat of a sweltering summer and a tyrannical leader, Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth evolved into a document of its surroundings, a product of its environment. At Blackheart Sound in Manchester, New Hampshire the two members of Body Void worked with producer Eric Sauter, to process their feelings - both those that had been long festering, and those which were new and raw - into the four tracks that comprise the album.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage (Goliath) CD/LP

Carnage is a new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown. Although the pair have composed and recorded many soundtracks together, and Warren is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of new songs as a duo. Cave describes the album as, "a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe." "Making Carnage was an accelerated process of intense creativity," adds Ellis, "the eight songs were there in one form or another within the first two and a half days."

Edo G. & Insight Innovates - Edo G. & Insight Innovates CD/LP (Brick Records)

Edo. G & Insight Innovates deliver that raw, jazzy, and true-to-life hip-hop on their self-titled debut album. It’s the culmination of decades of friendship and collaboration, birthed from childhood memories and the early days of the Boston rap scene. “This project is focused on punchy drums, bass, attractive melodies, and a realistic life message and story from black men in a slowly changing world.” But Edo G. & Insight Innovates also succeeds because of the way that simultaneously pays homage to and modernizes hip-hop’s past. There are cultural Easter eggs and outright tributes all over the album, like the absolutely banging “Set It Off (Long Live Kane),” which rightly gives flowers to hip-hop legend Big Daddy Kane.

Evolfo – Site Out Of Mind LP (Royal Mountain)

New album from the Brooklyn-based pysch rockers.

Rory Feek – Gentle Man CD (Gaither Music Group)

Debut solo album from Grammy-award-winning artist Rory Feek (of Joey + Rory) and the first he's recorded since losing his wife and collaborator in 2016 to cancer. On Gentle Man, Rory tells stories about everyday small-town life, heartbreak, healing, and salvation. Guests include Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood, Allison Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White, Sonya Isaacs, and Ben Isaacs.

Nils Frahm – Tripping With Nils Frahm CD/LP+MP3 (Erased Tapes)

When Nils Frahm kicked off his world tour at Funkhaus Berlin in January 2018 to bring his highly acclaimed studio album All Melody to the stage, an ambitious journey was just to begin. In December 2018, Nils Frahm eventually returned to Funkhaus Berlin to host another set of four shows Tripping With Nils Frahm is an illustration of Nils' lauded ability as a composer and passionate live artist as well as the enchanting atmosphere of his captivating, and already legendary Funkhaus shows: An extraordinary musical trip – rare and exclusive, close and intimate, bringing a unique concert experience to the screen and wax.

Giveon – When It’s All Said And Done… Take Time LP (Epic)

The Grammy-nominated singing sensation’s debut EP was met with critical acclaim, as everyone from Billboard to NPR recognized this rising star's reach. His EP When It's All Said And Done, picked up where Take Time left off, detailing the peaks and valleys of a love story gone awry. This album combines the two limited edition EPs into a single package with an extra track.

Amy Helm – What The Flood Leaves Behind CD/LP (Renew)

Singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm's third album, What The Flood Leaves Behind, is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. These 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing – a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys who was seeking clarity in her calling and career. After making multiple albums and performing in far-flung places, Helm returned home to Woodstock's Levon Helm Studios just before the pandemic to record What The Flood Leaves Behind and reclaim a sense of self. An impressive group of friends and collaborators joins Helm on the album. With musical polyglot Josh Kaufman (whose credits range from Taylor Swift's Folklore to the Grammy-nominated Bonny Light Horseman and Bob Weir) producing and contributing on piano, guitar, and mandolin, the record brings Helm's powerful, emotive vocals to the forefront of the album. The songs themselves reflect Helm's inner strength and personal growth.

Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – Our Back Pages CD/LP (Omnivore)

Our Back Pages is an album of dB’s music re-imagined by the band’s Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey. The collection featuring new acoustic versions of some of the duo’s favorite dB’s songs.

Stamey explains “Over the years, Peter and I have evolved acoustic versions of a number of our songs from our days together in The dB’s. While working on a duo project in my studio a decade ago we took some time to lay down some of these arrangements which are often quite different from the normal electric presentations. We are both always more concerned with making new music than with looking back so it stayed in the archives. But it seemed like the time was right, so we finally completed and mixed it all over the last two weeks just for this. We’d like to offer it now as a small contribution a little bit of light in these dark days.”

K.C. Jones – Queen Of The In Between LP (KC Jones Music)

K.C. Jones moves so effortlessly between genres, traditions, and musical concepts that it's clear she was born with an insatiable artistic curiosity. From her deeply musical Appalachian and old-time roots, she grew into a prominent figure of the vibrant Lafayette, Louisiana music scene, learning Cajun French and writing and singing songs in dual languages with progressive Cajun bands like Grammy-nominated Feufollet and T'Monde along the way. Queen Of The In Between, her long-awaited debut solo record, knits together everything from classic country to psychedelic rock to contemporary indie roots singer-songwriters.

Amythyst Kiah – Wary + Strange CD/LP (Rounder)

Wary + Strange marks the glorious collision of two vastly different worlds: the iconoclastic alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion, and the roots/old-time-music scene where Amythyst Kiah found breakout success in recent years. The collection – featuring 11 songs all written or co-written by the artist – finds Amythyst redrawing the lines of roots music, and then coloring completely outside of them with a collision of styles that is fearless, iconoclastic and exhilarating. Expanding on the role she staked out in Our Native Daughters – the Grammy-nominated, all-women-of-color supergroup she co-founded with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and Allison Russell – Amythyst's writing on Wary + Strange is raw yet nuanced, as she expresses grief, alienation, and ultimately the hard-won triumph of total self-acceptance.

Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon III: The Chosen CD (Republic)

The seventh studio album by rapper Kid Cudi is the final installment of his Man On The Moon trilogy of albums (which includes 2009's Man On The Moon: The End Of Day and 2010's Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager). The 18-track affair was produced mainly by Cudi himself and Dot da Genius, along with Plain Pat, Emile Haynie and Mike Dean, all of whom contributed to the previous two Man on the Moon albums. Guest vocalists include Phoebe Bridgers, Pop Smoke, Skepta and Trippie Redd.

Jeb Loy Nichols – Jeb Loy LP (Timmion)

10 shining examples of rootsy modern R&B that fuse together southern soul, folk music and world class balladry.

Rebelution – In The Moment CD (Easy Star)

Recorded remotely in the midst of the pandemic, In The Moment is deliberate and wide-ranging, infusing the quartet's soulful, exhilarating brand of modern reggae with addictive pop hooks, alt-rock grit, and hip-hop grooves. The performances are bold and self-assured, and the production is equally ambitious, drawing on swirling reverb and trippy delay to create an immersive sonic universe that's both futuristic and vintage all at once. Strip away the intoxicating atmospherics, though, and what remains is a work of profound reflection, a probing, revelatory meditation that balances joy and introspection in equal measure as the band contemplates the meaning of time and how to spend what precious little we have. [Vinyl edition due July 2.]

True Loves – Sunday Afternoon LP (Color Red)

Blue marbled color vinyl. Sunday Afternoon by the Seattle-based instrumental soul group True Loves is as sweet and carefree as the imagery provoked by its very title. The soul outfit's sophomore LP provides a soundtrack for a block party that summons the entire neighborhood.

Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme CD/LP+MP3 (Epitaph)

Rosie Tucker is a dynamic creative force. Sucker Supreme, the L.A.-based singer/songwriter's third full-length effort, is a coming-of-age album aching with self-discovery, self-definition, and self-redefinition. Nowhere is this self-exploration more poignant than on lead single "Habanero", a song about waiting for a transformation that isn't coming. [Indie store exclusive limited-edition coke bottle clear vinyl.]

Reissues & From The Archives

Cavetown – Lemon Boy [Reissue/2018] LP (Many Hats Distribution)

Limited-edition red color vinyl pressing. The son of a professional flautist and Cambridge University's director of music, Robin Skinner - who's performed under the name Cavetown since 2013 - has musical talent literally embedded in his DNA. At age 14, he started posting original songs and covers on YouTube alongside daily musings and behind-the-scenes vignettes, creating a barrier-free connection with his fans as they saw themselves in his music. His whole-hearted optimism and honest songwriting are reflected in effortless melodies about yearning to make sense of life.

Decapitated – The First Damned [Reissue/2000] LP (Nuclear Blast)

Limited red and black splatter color vinyl reissue of the demo compilation by the Polish technical death metal band.

Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting: The Best Of Aretha Franklin 1980-2014 2xLP+MP3 (Sony Legacy)

A collection of Aretha's greatest hits from 1980-2014, including her versions of songs with George Benson, Eurythmics, George Michael, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Michael McDonald and C+C Music Factory.

Mississippi John Hurt – Mr. Hurt Goes To Washington CD (Sunset Blvd.)

In July of 1963, the Library of Congress was able to induce Mississippi John Hurt to come to the Coolidge Auditorium in DC and record dozens of songs as the crowning achievement of his legacy. Mississippi John Hurt sang with a warmth and reflective quality that made him sound like no other blues singer in the world, and these Library of Congress Recordings showcase his gospel-influenced style beautifully.

Milt Jackson & Ray Charles – Soul Brothers [Reissue/1958] LP (Atlantic)

Mono vinyl reissue. Soul Brothers offers the rare opportunity to hear this meeting between jazz giant and vibes pioneer, Milt Jackson, and the godfather of R&B and one of the greatest musicians of all time, Ray Charles.

Kansas – Point Of Know Return: Live & Beyond 3xLP+2xCD (Inside Out Music)

22 songs selected from 12 shows recorded in 2019 and 2020 during the legendary progressive rockers' Point Of Know Return Anniversary Tour.

My Dying Bride – Evinta [Reissue/2011] 2xLP (Peaceville)

First-time vinyl pressing. Hailed as one of the most instrumental and influential forces in doom metal since their inception in 1990, UK’s My Dying Bride has forged an illustrious career through a flawless discography of immaculately crafted, haunting art. 2011's Evinta contains re-worked melodies and themes from the band's extensive back catalogue molded into epic, flowing symphonic compositions, incorporating specially recorded vocals and passages from Aaron Stainthorpe and French Opera singer Lucie Roche.

News from Babel - Letters Home LP (ReR Vinyl)

Originally released in 1986. Recorded at the legendary Cold Storage studio in London, this is one of the greatest chapters in the '80s post-Henry Cow/Art Bears era. News From Babel was the song project inaugurated by two ex-Henry Cow members: Lindsay Cooper (bassoon, sopranino and alto saxophone, keyboards) and Chris Cutler (drums, electrics), plus Zeena Parkins (harp, electric harps, accordion). A highly integrated mixture of avant-rock, chamber music, and Brecht-Eisler cabaret-oriented songs, not much like anything else recorded before or since. This is the art of extended song form at its peak and it's of course highly recommended to anyone looking for adventurous new sounds.

Phish – LP On LP 01 (Ruby Waves 7/14/19) LP (Jemp)
Phish – LP On LP 02 (Waves 5/26/11) LP (Jemp)

Two live sets on color vinyl. Ruby Waves was recorded at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI. Waves was recorded at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY during Phish's tech rehearsal.

Squarepusher ‎– Feed Me Weird Things [Reissue/1996] CD/2xLP+10” (Warp)

Squarepusher's sonic masterpiece and debut mind-melter of an LP Feed Me Weird Things has been reissued on CD and vinyl and includes two extra tracks which were first released on the B-side of the Squarepusher Plays... EP and later featured on the original Japanese release of this album. [A limited-edition clear vinyl pressing is also available.]

Devin Townsend – Devolution Series #1 - Acoustically Inclined, Live In Leeds 2xLP (Century Media)

Devin Townsend brings to you the Devolution Series: a grouping of oddities and interesting material that he would like people to hear, but that aren't necessarily a ‘major release'. The series will include all the quarantine songs and concerts, as well as various live shows from the past few years. The first release, Devolution Series #1 - Acoustically Inclined, Live In Leeds, is a remixed and remastered version of the Live In Leeds show that was originally included on the Empath: Ultimate Edition as a video asset. [Limited edition ruby red vinyl.]

Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show 2xCD (Zappa Records)

The first posthumous archival release from the 1988 touring band focuses on the historical last show Frank Zappa ever played in the U.S. The live concert material is taken from Uniondale, NY; Providence, RI and Towson, MD newly remixed from the 48-track digital master tapes. It features the first official release of “The Beatles Medley” along with over 25 unreleased performances and liner notes by FZ's drummer, Chad Wackerman and Vaultmeister, Joe Travers. [4xLP vinyl set is available for special order.]

Zapp & Roger – All The Greatest Hits [Reissue/1993] 2xLP (Rhino)

Double color vinyl LP pressing. Zapp & Roger’s first greatest hits compilation from their first four albums, originally released on Reprise in 1993. Includes “More Bounce To The Ounce” sampled by The Notorious B.I.G., and “Computer Love” sampled by 2Pac.