New Releases - 7/23/21
Hitting The Racks
Here's your weekly rundown of what's hitting the new release racks at Grimey's
New Releases
Rodney Crowell – Triage CD/LP (RC1)
A writer known for the universal and literary quality of his writing, Triage is a departure, a revealing album that Rodney Crowell has called his most personal to date. This is no small statement from such a prolific and acclaimed musician, a man who has stacked up 15 No. 1 hits including six of his own, and dozens of others for an impressively diverse array of artists including Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Keith Urban, Bob Seger, Etta James, Grateful Dead and many others. This new collection of songs was written during the great political, climate and economic upheaval that has marked recent years. The noise of that chaos encouraged the songwriter to go inside for solace and answers. The result is this series of songs that contend with these themes but approach them from a place of healing love and solution. That they are being released while we find ourselves walking through a global pandemic, is a gift of perfect timing. [All copies of Triage, vinyl and CD, are signed by Rodney! Available in the shop or in the webstore.]
Anika – Change CD/LP/Cassette (Sacred Bones)
When asked to describe the circumstances that influenced her beautifully fraught new work, Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson – better known simply as Anika – quickly articulates a set of feelings and unpredictable circumstances that are familiar to anyone who tried to make art – or simply tried to live through – the recent global pandemic. "It's a moment caught in time," she says of Change, her much-anticipated new record. Given that it has been 11 years since the release of her last solo album, 2010 cult-favorite Anika, the artist suddenly found herself with a lot to say. The intimacy of its creation and a palpable sense of global anxiety are seemingly baked into the DNA of Change. Spread across nine tracks, the central feeling of the record is one of heightened frustration buoyed by guarded optimism. The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or High Scores-era Boards Of Canada, playing them against Anika's remarkable voice – Nico-esque, beautifully plaintive, and – in regards to the record's subject matter – totally resolute. [Indie-store exclusive red & silver ‘galaxy’ color vinyl.]
Molly Burch – Romantic Images LP (Captured Tracks)
Romantic Images marks a distinct evolution for Molly Burch, both emotionally and sonically. Recorded in Denver with Tennis' Alaina Moore and Pat Riley producing, the collection celebrates the timeless delights of a well-crafted pop song, flirting with Blondie, Madonna, and even Mariah Carey as it forges a joyful soundtrack to liberation and self-discovery. Burch deliberately worked with more women collaborators than ever before on the album, and the results are transcendent, reveling in the passion and the power of the divine feminine. Written with the live show in mind, the collection prioritizes ecstasy and escape, and it's easy to hear Burch's commitment to collective catharsis in her lifted, airy delivery, which manages to exude both thoughtful introspection and carefree abandon all at once. [Indie-store exclusive coke bottle clear vinyl.]
Cedric Burnside – I Be Tryin’ LP (Single Lock)
Recorded over three days at Royal Studios in Memphis (the home studio of Al Green and Hi Records in the ‘60s and ‘70s), I Be Tryin’ is the ultimate statement of purpose for a critically acclaimed artist who has proudly carried the mantle of Mississippi Hill Country blues around the world. Over thirteen tracks, Burnside delivers his bruised but unfettered truth over blistering guitar and deep pocket drums-a sound birthed in his soul but developed and perfected on the road.
Leon Bridges – Gold Digger’s Sound CD/LP (Capitol)
Gold-Diggers Sound is the new album from Leon Bridges birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles, California studio of the same name. The R&B collection celebrates Leon's immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked and drank over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the studio complex. Produced by Ricky Reed and Nate Mercereau, Gold-Diggers Sound features the Terrace Martin collaboration "Sweeter" plus further guest appearances by Robert Glasper and Ink. [An indie-store exclusive alternate cover pressing is available.]
Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere CD (Inside Recordings)
Jackson Browne's latest studio album, Downhill from Everywhere finds the lauded 72-year-old singer/songwriter tackling a variety of topical and emotional themes, including the plight of illegal immigrants, prejudice against same-sex relationships, environmental pollution, racial justice and his own mortality. "I see the writing on the wall," says Browne. "I know there's only so much time left in my life. But I now have an amazing, beautiful grandson, and I feel more acutely than ever the responsibility to leave him a world that's inhabitable." [Vinyl edition due August 6.]
Erika de Casier – Sensational CD/LP+MP3 (4AD)
Copenhagen-based songwriter and producer Erika de Casier releases her second full-length studio album, Sensational, which includes recent singles “No Butterflies, No Nothing” and “Drama”. Sensational expands the universe of de Casier's 2019 self-released debut album Essentials. Where Essentials dealt more with the infatuation stages of love, Sensational has more of an attitude, aiming to dismantle the stereotype of single women looking for love, tackling relationship dramas and the toxicity of dating. It was a chance to rewrite scenarios in ways that empowered her, fantasizing about what could've been. [Limited-edition clear vinyl.]
David Crosby – For Free CD (BMG Rights Management)
On his new album For Free, David Crosby shares the latest offering from a life devoted to the pure and powerful alchemy of music. Arriving just a month before his 80th birthday, For Free finds the folk-rock legend continuing to tap into the tremendous surge of creativity he's experienced since the making of his acclaimed 2016 album Lighthouse, this time collaborating with the likes of Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, and multi-Grammy Award-winning artist Sarah Jarosz. [Release date for the vinyl edition is TBD.]
Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts 2xLP (RCA)
Double vinyl pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes 12-page booklet. Marking a departure from Cyrus' previous releases, Plastic Hearts is primarily a rock, pop, synth-pop, and glam rock record, with influences from country, punk rock, new wave, arena rock, industrial, disco, and power pop. Guest vocals include Billy Idol, Dua Lipa, Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks.
Darkside – Spiral CD/2xLP+MP3 (Matador)
Darkside is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician/vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. In the summer of 2018, Jaar and Harrington rented a small house on Lenni-Lenape territory, which is present-day Flemington, New Jersey. The group spent a week there, making a song a day. While it would take another year and a half to complete their second album, six songs from the band's new record Spiral were written and recorded during this initial session. "From the beginning, Darkside has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn't wait to jam together again," says Jaar. Harrington echoes this, "It felt like it was time again," he said. "We do things in this band that we would never do on our own. Darkside is the third being in the room that just kind of occurs when we make music together."
Descendents – 9th & Walnut CD/LP+MP3 (Epitaph)
Named for their Long Beach practice space back in the day, 9th & Walnut features the Descendents' earliest material written from 1977 through 1980. Begun in 2002 and finished in the pandemic, the 18-track collection also includes the band's debut tracks "Ride The Wild" and "It's a Hectic World" (heard here for the first time with vocals by Milo Aukerman), and the Dave Clark Five's "Glad All Over" with the full Descendents treatment. [Indie-store exclusive green vinyl.]
K.D.A.P./Kevin Drew – Influences CD/LP (Arts & Crafts)
Influences is Kevin Drew's solo instrumental electronic project K.D.A.P. (Kevin Drew A Picture.) Written while hiking the forest trails of southern England, the record is a slideshow of intimate joyful moments against a backdrop of a world on fire, a rush-hour commute soundtrack for people stuck working from home, a celebration of survival and an elegy for lost friends. It's a reminder that excitement and anxiety often elicit the same heart-pounding sensation.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3000 CD (ATO)
KGLW's 18th studio album, Butterfly 3000, might be their most fearless leap into the unknown yet; 10 songs that began life as arpeggiated loops composed on modular synthesizers, before being fashioned into addictive, optimistic and seductive dream-pop. It sounds simultaneously like nothing they've done before, yet unmistakably Gizz, down to its climactic neon psych-a-tronic flourish. [Vinyl edition August 20.]
Ledisi – Ledisi Sings Nina CD (BMG)
It takes a bold talent to step into the shoes of Nina Simone. Ledisi has already shown she's up for the challenge, taking on the powerhouse musician's emotionally searing and socially direct songs from her PBS special Ledisi Live: A Tribute To Nina Simone.
Alexis Marshall – House Of Lull. House Of When LP (Sargent House)
Alexis Marshall is best known as the frontman for Rhode Island's notorious provocateurs Daughters, whose eight-year hiatus between their posthumous self-titled album and the critically acclaimed comeback album You Won't Get What You Want found the ever-evolving band explode from down-and-out cult heroes to one of the biggest bands in the nebulous territory where abrasive noise rock fuses with high-art aspirations. For his debut album House Of Lull. House Of When, Marshall wanted to push that sense of chaos even further, by crafting an album around moments of spontaneity and sonic detritus, where a mistake could become a hook, or the whip of a chain could become a beat.
Paul McCartney – McCartney III Imagined CD/2xLP/Cassette (Capitol)
Hailed upon its 2020 release as "vital and comfortable taking new chances" (Rolling Stone) and "cheery, resilient, forever looking forward" (The New Yorker), Paul McCartney's McCartney III, which topped album charts around the world, is now literally moving into the future in the form of McCartney III Imagined. Curated by Paul, McCartney III Imagined features an A-List assortment of friends, fans and brand-new acquaintances, each covering and/or reimagining their favorite McCartney III moments in their own signature styles. Contributors include Beck, Dominic Fike, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, Blood Orange, Phoebe Bridgers, Ed O'Brien, Damon Albarn, Josh Homme, Anderson .Paak, and 3D RDN of Massive Attack plus an exclusive remix of "Long Tailed Winter Bird" by Idris Elba included only on physical editions of the album. [Indie exclusive gold vinyl, available in the shop and our webstore.]
Page McConnell/Trey Anastasio – December 12” (Jemp)
Limited ‘barn board’ color vinyl pressing. In the fall of 2020, Page & Trey performed some songs on the deck of The Barn overlooking Vermont's Green Mountains (some were streamed during The Beacon Jams series.) The pair reconvened in December to shoot more videos and as snow fell at The Barn, the mission evolved into the December sessions during which they rearranged a group of Phish songs for piano and guitar, using alternate vocal harmonies and instrumentation to cover all four band members' parts.
John R. Miller – Depreciated LP (Rounder)
John R. Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire. Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Miller's own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.
Ora The Molecule – Human Safari CD/2xLP (Mute)
Ora The Molecule is a multinational avant-pop trio made up Norgwegian singer and band leader Nora Schjelderup, London-based drummer Sju Smatanova, and German synth player Jan Blumentrath. Together, they create an unexpected sound combining timeless nostalgia, smooth pop, and retro electronica. Ora The Molecule are united by a mutual love of dance music, all three of them DJing italo, electronica and techno. These electronic sounds are blended with the ‘80s influences of Kraftwerk and Suzanne Vega. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is available.]
Orgone – Moonshadows LP (3 Palm Records)
“Opaque natural vinyl” pressing. Moonshadows, named for a glossy beachfront Malibu bar where members of the Orgone crew DJed Saturday night sets, is the band's homage to yacht rock, sweater funk, and late-night cruises on the Pacific Coast Highway. The genre-bending full-length album evokes neon and moonlight shimmering on ocean waves, undulating rhythms, martinis, and luxury convertibles.
Piroshka – Love Drips And Gathers CD/LP+MP3 (Bella Union)
Piroshka's stunning second album Love Drips And Gathers, builds on the acclaim of their 2018 album debut Brickbat, and the reputations of former members of Lush, Moose, Elastica and Modern English. Piroshka emerged in 2018, four individuals with distinct musical identities but also overlapping histories - a combination that might have unsettled, or even overwhelmed, some bands. But in their case, the bond only got stronger. After Brickbat explored social and political divisions by way of what Mojo described as "Forceful, driving garage songs and dream-pop epics", Love Drips And Gathers follows a more introspective line. Reflecting on the ties that bind us, as lovers, parents, children and friends, to a suitably subtler, more ethereal sound, whilst still reveling in energy and drama. [Indie-store exclusive red vinyl, even though the sticker says ‘clear’.]
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Flying Fish Ambience 2xLP (Hospital Productions)
First copies on limited/USA-exclusive splatter vinyl! The Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement environs conceived by Dominick Fernow and Philippe Hallais complement "artificial spaces" and "synthetic nature" through the decay of "digital rain storms" and "falling comet bass drops". Flying Fish Ambience builds the RSE sound into a deep hypnotic synthetic topography and guided meditation into perpetual stress. The follow-up to the acclaimed Ambient Black Magic, Flying Fish Ambience is a treatise in anti-exotica -- a purpose-built artificial ambient wilderness rooted in wobbling sub-bass, watered wastefully with glossy digital FX. Meticulously assembled over a series of trips, tours and sessions in various cities (Berlin, Paris, New York), Flying Fish Ambience crystallizes the expansive perpetual motion of salt vessels and water basins repopulating with ecological imbalance, this evolution -- as an expression of the live blue entity.
Reissues, Compilations, Live Recordings & Vault Excavations...
2Pac – Until The End Of Time [Reissue/2001] 4xLP (Interscope)
Vinyl reissue of the seventh studio album, and third posthumous release by the rapper. Until The End Of Time consists of material recorded while 2Pac was on Death Row Records from 1995 to 1996.
Glen Campbell – Live From The Troubadour CD/2xLP (Big Machine)
Live archive release. Country legend Glen Campbell's last live recorded show at the iconic Troubadour venue in West Hollywood, CA. Recorded in August 2008.
Bill Evans – Behind The Dikes - The 1969 Netherlands Recordings 2xCD (Anagram Music)
Archive release. This is the first official release from pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell captured live in Hilversum and Amsterdam in 1969. The Hilversum recordings feature Evans' only version of Duke Ellington's “I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart” known to exist, plus two rare tracks of the trio backed by The Metropole Orchestra. Remastered from the original tape reels, this edition includes an extensive booklet with never-before-published photos, essays and new interviews. [Vinyl was released for RSD Drops 2.]
Dexter Gordon – GO! [Reissue/1962] LP (Blue Note)
Limited 180gm vinyl pressing. Featuring a quartet with Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, GO! was a showcase of Gordon's limitless creativity on hard-swinging numbers like “Cheese Cake” and “Love For Sale”, as well as his peerless artistry on ballads as evidenced on “I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry” and “Where Are You”.
The Gun Club – Fire Of Love [Reissue/1981] 2xCD/2xLP+MP3 (Blixa Sounds)
Remastered reissue of The Gun Club’s debut album, expanded with bonus live album and gatefold sleeve.
Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller – In Harmony 2xCD (Resonance)
The first previously unissued recording of the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove since his passing in 2018. Recorded in 2006 at Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in NYC and 2007 at the Williams Center at Lafayette College in Easton, PA with piano great Mulgrew Miller. This set includes an elaborate booklet with rare photos, essays, interviews and statements by Sonny Rollins, Christian McBride, Common, Ron Carter, Jon Batiste, Karriem Riggins, Keyon Harold, Chris Botti and more. [Vinyl was released for RSD Drops 2.]
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By [Reissue/2009] LP (Island)
Limited 180gm vinyl pressing. A Woman A Man Walked By is the second collaboration between PJ Harvey and John Parish. Produced by Parish and Harvey, and originally released in March 2009, the album features the single “Black Hearted Love”. This reissue is faithful to the original recording with vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering, overseen by John Parish.
Lacuna Coil – Live From The Apocalypse CD+DVD/2xLP+DVD (Century Media)
Lacuna Coil's new live album, Live From The Apocalypse, is the fruit of an unprecedented time. Unlike previous live efforts – Visual Karma (Body, Mind And Soul) (2008), Shallow Live: Acoustic At Criminal Records (2010), and The 119 Show – Live In London (2018) – the Italians, under the yoke of the pandemic, cleverly devised a way for their devoted fanbase to hear and see them on stage by organizing a special live stream event performing their latest album, Black Anima, in September 2020. By all accounts, this was no ordinary gig. Even though Lacuna Coil were in their hometown of Milan – at the famed Alcatraz Club – there were no fans to greet them.
Heiko Maile - Demo Tapes 1984-86 LP (Bureau B)
Home demos from a member of the German synth-pop group Camouflage. "Most of the tracks on this album were recorded with a basic stereo (2-track) cassette recorder. The studio set-up looked more or less like this: a drum computer (no MIDI) and a sequencer were connected to each other and synchronized rhythmically. I crafted melodic sequences and rhythms and usually transposed them to the desired pitch manually, using the keyboards. Other live instruments were played over the top. Then everything, the sum of all the sound sources, was put together in a kind of 'live recording' with the aid of a mixing desk. Just a single mistake would mean having to start all over again. Reconfiguring many of the sounds once the controls had already been adjusted was a painstaking process. I had fun with all of it and I hope that the tracks selected will whet the appetite of fresh listeners to explore the early phase of my electronic music and the bizarre sonic worlds I inhabited." --Heiko Maile, December 2020
Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 2xCD/2xLP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
In the spring of 1991, Mudhoney recorded Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge – a whirlwind of the band's influences at the time: the fierce ‘60s garage rock of their Pacific Northwest predecessors The Sonics and The Lollipop Shoppe, the gnashing post-hardcore of Drunks With Guns, the heavy guitar moods of Neil Young, the lysergic workouts of Spacemen 3 and Hawkwind, the gloomy existentialism of Zounds, and the satirical ferocity of ‘80s hardcore punk. This 30th anniversary edition, remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, stands as testimony to the creative surge that drove them in this period. The album sessions yielded a clutch of material that would subsequently appear on B-sides, compilations, and split singles. This edition includes all those tracks, and a slew of previously unreleased songs, including the entire five-track Music Source session. [1st pressing is red & blue vinyl.]
Conor Oberst – Ruminations [Reissue/2016] CD (Nonesuch)
Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Conor Oberst's critically acclaimed 2016 solo album, Ruminations featuring five bonus tracks that were recorded during the Ruminations sessions; while full band versions of them were released on the 2017 companion album Salutations, these solo acoustic recordings are released for the first time. Ruminations was recorded in the winter of 2016, when Oberst found himself hibernating in his hometown of Omaha after living in New York City for more than a decade. He emerged with the unexpectedly raw, unadorned album, which NPR called “one of his most personal records... a collection of brave, dark songs... unmistakably moving and contain[ing] some of Oberst's best lyrics and imagery.” [This title was released on vinyl for RSD Drops 2.]
Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back [Reissue/2012] LP (ATO)
Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy [Reissue/2012] 2xLP (ATO)
Two limited-edition color vinyl reissues: Carry Me Back pressed on coke bottle clear vinyl, and Remedy pressed on red, white & blue splatter vinyl. [Available in the shop or in the Grimey's webstore.]
Dolly Parton – Early Dolly LP (Golden Lane)
Two color vinyl pressings: pink and gold. Archive collection containing Parton’s first professional recordings.
Richard Pryor – Live At The Comedy Store, 1973 CD (Omnivore)
After the release of his iconic debut, Richard Pryor, in 1968, Pryor further sharpened his skills and delivered the comedy classic, "CRAPS" - After Hours in 1971, but he never stopped pushing forward. In preparation for a Kennedy Center show in Washington, D.C., and a February 1974 Soul Train Club date in North Beach, San Francisco (that would produce the top-selling That Nigger’s Crazy) Pryor booked four nights at the, then relatively new, Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard to woodshed new material. It was never meant to be heard beyond its original audience, but luckily tape not only rolled, but survived. Fourteen tracks were originally issued in 2013 as a limited-edition promotional CD given away with copies of the No Pryor Restraint: Life In Concert boxed set purchased from Shout! Factory’s website. Six additional Comedy Store performances found their way into the public earlier as bonus material on 2000’s …And It’s Deep Too!: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) and Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) in 2005. Now, all 20 tracks are pulled together for the first time and available on Live At The Comedy Store, 1973.
R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Recording) [Reissue/1981] 7” (Craft Recordings)
R.E.M.'s first and breakthrough single “Radio Free Europe” was initially released by a small Atlanta-based record label, Hib-Tone Records. Produced by Mitch Easter, the original recording of the single had different mixes by Easter and by label-owner Johnny Hibbert. Although the band preferred Easter's mix, Hibbert chose his version for the 1981 limited pressing 45rpm single, which is now a coveted collector's item, packaged in a black and white sleeve featuring original photography by Michael Stipe.
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2xLP (Mille Plateaux)
Originally released in 1996. Techno isn't a genre that has birthed many consistent albums, and the dub techno subgenre even less so, but Biokinetics is considered an indisputable classic. Originally issued on the legendary Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction in 1996, Biokinetics was the first of the label's album releases and still stands as its crowning achievement. Porter Ricks are Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig, and between them they re-framed the techno sound, imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty, isolated experimental bent, and combining it with the sort of haunted minimalism of early Plastikman. What separated Biokinetics from other albums at the time was its unwavering narrative -- the exact sound has been interpreted countless times since, but the immersive qualities of this singular record have rarely been touched. Maybe it is down to the silvery underwater concept that ties each track together -- the bubbling pads, sub-aquatic basses and muffled kick drums. But as with any great album, it's hard to exactly put your finger on what makes it a classic.
Sigur Rós – Valtari [Reissue/2012] 2xLP (Krunk)
Valtari is Sigur Rós' sixth studio album which was initially released in 2012 on XL Recordings. Sigur Rós started recording Valtari, described by the band as 'an avalanche in slow motion' in 2009 co-producing it themselves with Alex Somers in Reykjavik, Iceland. The title means 'roller' in English with Jónsi saying it kind of fits with the album because it's big and slow and rolls over you slowly.
Spitboy – Body Of Work 1990-1995 All The Songs 2xLP+MP3 (Don Giovanni)
Limited double red and black color vinyl pressing. “They were one of those bands that were a prequel to what the future was becoming. Feminism, human rights, animal rights, environmental protection, gender issues... Spitboy was singing about these issues 30 f**king years ago. I'm so grateful to have witnessed it.” - Billie Joe Armstrong
Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop [Reissue/1996] 2xCD/3xCD+LP (Atlantic)
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the release of Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop, the album has been remastered and expanded with a 15 track collection of early versions, instrumentals and alternate mixes. [The super-deluxe edition includes the album on vinyl, the double-CD expanded edition, and a third CD of a complete concert recording from 1997. A stand-alone single-CD copy of the remastered reissue is also available.]
Taylor Swift – folklore 2xLP (Republic)
Double beige color vinyl pressing. “Most of the things I had planned this summer didn't end up happening, but there is something I hadn't planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my eighth studio album, folklore,” Swift said, letting fans know she poured all her whims, dreams, fears, musings into the 17 tracks. “I wrote and recorded this music in isolation but got to collaborate with some musical heroes of mine; Aaron Dessner, Bon Iver, William Bowery & Jack Antonoff.” [Available in the shop and in the Grimey's webstore.]
T.P. Orchestre and Poly Rythmo De Cotonou – Le Sato LP (Acid Jazz)
Vinyl reissue of an early hypnotic polyrythmo masterpiece.
Various Artists – Bills & Aches & Blues CD/2xLP+MP3 (4AD)
In 2020, 4AD turned 40. Never one to be on time for a party, the label is commemorating that landmark this year with the release of Bills & Aches & Blues. The compilation features 18 of its current artists covering a song of their choosing from 4AD's past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD, 41 years after its inception.