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This Week’s New Releases: Anne-Marie, Dave And Leon Bridges

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There are some big hitters dropping new records this week. Both Anne-Marie and Dave have released their second albums, while Leon Bridges has put out his third.

Fancy something different? Head below for more new releases.

Against The Current – ‘Fever’ (Fueled By Ramen)

Anne-Marie – ‘Therapy’ (Major Toms/Asylum)

Avelino – ‘Ego Kills’ (More Records/ OddChild Music)

Bardot – ‘2021 Mixes’ EP (Bardot)

Bizzy Banks – ‘Same Energy’ (Atlantic)

Darkside – ‘Spiral’ (Matador)

Dave – ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’ (Neighbourhood)

David Crosby – ‘For Free’ (Three Blind Mice/BMG)

Descendents – ‘9th & Walnut’ (Epitaph)

The Gun Club – ‘Fire Of Love (Remastered 2020)’ (Extra Term Audio)

Jackson Browne – ‘Downhill From Everywhere’ (Inside)

Joshua Radin – ‘The Ghost and The Wall’ (Nettwerk)

Leon Bridges – ‘Gold-Diggers Sound’ (Columbia)

Maya Beiser – ‘Maya Beiser x Philip Glass’ (Islandia)

Mega Bog – ‘Life, and Another’ (Paradise Of Bachelors)

Molly Burch – ‘Romantic Images’ (Captured Tracks)

Nothing But Thieves – ‘Moral Panic II’ EP (Sony)

Piroshka – ‘Love Drips and Gathers’ (Bella Union)

Power Of Dreams – ‘Aüslander’ (Power Of Dreams)

Shiny Joe Ryan – ‘Shiny’s Democracy’ (Spinning Top)

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This Week’s New Releases: KSI, Willow And Pop Smoke

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What a week! KSI has dropped the highly anticipated follow-up to 2020’s ‘Dissimulation’, and Willow Smith has put out her fourth LP featuring guest spots from Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Avril Lavigne, Tierra Whack, Cherry Glazerr, and Ayla Tesler-Mabe.

This week also sees the release of a second posthumous Pop Smoke album, which boasts collaborations with Pharrell, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Pusha T, Future, Rick Ross, The-Dream, 42 Dugg, 21 Savage, Rah Swish, BEAM, Bizzy Banks, Takeoff, Lil Tjay, Swae Lee, Chris Brown, Quavo, Kodak Black, and TRAVI.

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The Academic – ‘Community Spirit’ EP (Capitol)

Always You – ‘Bloom Off The Rose’ (Shelflife)

Barenaked Ladies – ‘Detour De Force’ (Raisin Records)

Blondie – ‘Vivir En La Habana (Live From Havana 2019)’ (BMG)

Chet Faker – ‘Hotel Surrender’ (Australia/BMG)

Cici – ‘Extraneous’ EP (Warehouse)

Clairo – ‘Sling’ (Republic)

Darkoo – ‘2 in 1’ (Atlantic)

Diesel – ‘Alone With Blues’ (Bloodlines)

Fryars – ‘God Melodies’ (Fiction)

Ida Mae – ‘Click Click Domino’ (Vow Road)

John Mayer – ‘Sob Rock’ (Columbia)

KSI – ‘All Over The Place’ (RBC)

Nicola Benedetti – ‘Baroque’ (Decca)

Paradise Lost – ‘At The Mill’ (Nuclear Blast)

Pop Smoke – ‘Faith’ (Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic Records)

Powerwolf – ‘Call Of The Wild’ (Napalm)

Smile Machine – ‘Bye For Now’ (Exploding In Sound)

Stephen Fretwell – ‘Busy Guy’ (Speedy Wunderground)

Times Of Grace – ‘Songs Of Loss And Separation’ (Times Of Grace)

Tones and I – ‘Welcome To The Madhouse’ (Elektra)

Wavves – ‘Hideaway’ (Fat Possum)

Willow – ‘lately I feel EVERYTHING’ (MSFTSMusic/Roc Nation/Polydor)

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This Week’s New Releases: Rejjie Snow, Half Waif And Tom Odell

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There are some tasty new records that’ve dropped this week, including a new album from Irish rap sensation Rejjie Snow, Tom Odell’s fourth LP and Half Waif’s prompt follow-up to 2020’s ‘The Caretaker’.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber – ‘Highlights From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella'(Polydor)

Attacca Quartet – ‘Real Life’ (Sony)

Charlotte Day Wilson- ‘Alpha’ (Stone Woman)

The Goon Sax – ‘Mirror 2’ (Matador)

Half Waif – ‘Mythopoetics’ (Anti)

Justin Courtney Pierre – ‘The Price Of Salt’ (Epitaph)

Museum Of Love – ‘Life Of Mammals’ (Skint/BMG)

Rejjie Snow – ‘Baw Baw Black Sheep’ (BMG)

The Rolling Stones – ‘A Bigger Bang (Live)’ (Mercury)

Royal Canoe – ‘Sidelining’ (Paper Bag Records)

Sennen – ‘Widows (Expanded Version)’ (Sonic Cathedral)

TKAY Maizda – ‘Last Year Was Weird Vol 3’ (4AD)

Tom Odell – ‘Monsters’ (Sony)

The Wallflowers – ‘Exit Wounds’ (New West)

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This Week’s New Releases: Bobby Gillespie and Jenny Beth, Laura Mvula And At The Gates

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This week may not be as hectic as the last, but there’s some tasty new music on offer!

Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth and Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie have joined forces for a collaborative album, Laura Mvula has followed up 2016’s ‘The Dreaming Room’, and Swedish death metallers At The Gates have put out LP #7.

Head below for more.

A Certain Ratio – ‘Acr: Epc’ EP (Mute)

At The Gates – ‘The Nightmare Of Being’ (Century Media)

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – ‘Utopian Ashes’ (Sony)

Cub Scout Bowling Pins – ‘Clang Clang Ho!’ (Guided by Voices)

Dennis Lloyd – ‘Some Days’ (Arista/Sony)

Desperate Journalist – ‘Maximum Sorrow!’ (Fierce Panda)

Emma-Jean Thackray – ‘Yellow’ (Movement)

Giancarlo Erra – ‘Departure Tapes’ (Kscope)

The Go! Team – ‘Get Up Sequences Part One’ (Memphis Industries)

In: Most – ‘Cloud Nine’ EP (Soulvent)

Jax Jones – ‘Deep Joy’ EP (WUGD/Polydor)

JXDN – ‘Tell Me About Tomorrow’ (DTA/Elektra)

Laura Mvula – ‘Pink Noise’ (Atlantic)

Lawson – ‘cmd z’ (Cooking Vinyl)

Lord Of The Lost – ‘Judas’ (Napalm Records)

Maneskin – ‘Teatro D’Ira Vol.I – 2021 Limited Edition’ (RCA/Sony)

Nas – ‘It Was Written (25th Anniversary Edition)’ (Columbia/Sony)

Richard Marx – ‘Stories To Tell: Greatest Hits and More’ (BMG)

S.P,Y – ‘Darkmttre’ EP (DARKMTTR)

You Me At Six – ‘Suckapunch (Deluxe)’ (AWAL)

UPDATE 05/07: Lana Del Rey did not release her album ‘Blue Banisters’ on July 4 as scheduled so this has been removed from the blog. She updated her social media, saying: “Album out later later… Single out soonish. Have a good fourth x”

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This Week’s New Releases: John Grant, Doja Cat And Jack Savoretti

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The new releases are rolling out at an exciting rate. John Grant has shared the Cate Le Bon-produced follow-up to 2018’s ‘Love Is Magic’, Doja Cat has dropped her highly anticipated third album, and Jack Savoretti has put out LP #7.

Head below for the rest of this week’s new releases, including the tenth anniversary edition of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’.

Beartooth – ‘Below’ (Red Bull)

Brainstory – ‘Ripe’ (Big Crown)

Buckcherry – ‘Hellbound’ (Earache)

Cautious Clay – ‘Deadpan Love’ (Cautious Clay)

Dan Bettridge – ‘Good People. Bad Habits’ EP (Channel Analog)

Doja Cat – ‘Planet Her’ (Kemosabe/RCA)

Drug Church – ‘Tawny’ EP (Pure Noise Records)

Eve 6 – ‘Grim Value’ EP (Velocity)

Gaspard Augé – ‘Escapades’ (Ed Banger/Because)

Goo Goo Dolls – ‘Rarities’ (Warner)

Gorgon City – ‘Olympia’ (Positiva)

Hiatus Kaiyote – ‘Mood Valiant’ (Brainfeeder)

Hiss Golden Messenger – ‘Quietly Blowing It’ (Merge)

Island – ‘Yesterday Park’ (Frenchkiss)

Jack Savoretti – ‘Europiana’ (EMI)

Jennifer Nettles – ‘Always Like New’ (Concord)

John Grant – ‘Boy From Michigan’ (Bella Union)

John Murry – ‘The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes’ (Submarine Cat)

JP Saxe – ‘Dangerous Levels Of Introspection’ (Arista)

Lady Gaga – ‘Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary’ (Interscope)

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – ‘Banned’ (Anti-)

Lissie – ‘Watch Over Me (Early Works 2002-2009)’ (Cooking Vinyl)

L’Rain – ‘Fatigue’ (Mexican Summer)

Lucy Dacus – ‘Home Video’ (Matador)

Maple Glider – ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’ (Partisan)

The Mountain Goats – ‘Dark In Here’ (Merge)

Pabllo Vittar – ‘Batidão Tropical’ (Mataderos)

The Roots – ‘Do You Want More?!!!??!’ (Geffen)

Toto – ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ (Mascot)

Tyler, The Creator – ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ (Columbia)

UB40 – ‘Bigga Baggariddim’ (SRG)

 

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This Week’s New Releases: H.E.R., Mykki Blanco And Joan Armatrading

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This week is busy, busy, busy! The debut album from H.E.R. has finally arrived, while Mykki Blanco has put out their second and Joan Armatrading has followed up 2018’s ‘Not Too Far Away’.

Head south for some more new releases.

Angelique Kidjo – ‘Mother Nature’ (Decca Records France)

Bellowhead – ‘Reassembled’ (Hudson Records)

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – ‘To Carry A Whale’ (Dirty Hit)

Berwyn – ‘Tape 2/Fomalhaut’ (Sony Music Entertainment UK)

Colin Macleod – ‘Hold Fast’ (So/Silva Screen)

Crowne – ‘Kings In The North’ (Frontiers Records)

Dead Slow Hoot – ‘A Kinder Kind’ EP (Philophobia)

Deap Vally – ‘American Cockroach’ EP (Cooking Vinyl)

Eloise – ‘Somewhere In-Between’ (AWAL)

Fear Factory – ‘Aggression Continuum’ (Nuclear Blast)

Gary Kemp – ‘INSOLO’ (Sony)

GoldLink – ‘HARAM!’ (Squaash Club/RCA/Black Butter Records)

Gucci Mane – ‘Ice Daddy’ (Atlantic)

Helloween – ‘Helloween’ – (Nuclear Blast)

H.E.R. – ‘Back Of My Mind’ (RCA)

The Interrupters – ‘Live In Tokyo’ (Hellcat)

Joan Armatrading – ‘Consequences’ (BMG)

Kings Of Convenience – ‘Peace Or Love’ (EMI)

The Lounge Society – ‘Silk For The Starving’ EP (Speedy Wunderground)

Muse – ‘Origin Of Symetry (XX Anniv. RemiXX)’ (Warner)

Mykki Blanco – ‘Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep’ (Transgressive)

Pendulum – ‘Elemental’ EP (Earstorm)

Rebecca Black – ‘Rebecca Black Was Here’ (Self Release)

Shungudzo – ‘I’m Not A Mother. But I Have Children’ (BMG)

Tigercub – ‘As Blue As Indigo’ (Blame)

Various Artists – ‘Dark Nights: Death Metal’ (Loma Vista Recordings)

Various Artists – ‘Fast & Furious 9: The Fast Saga’ (Universal/Atlantic)

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This Week’s New Releases: Garbage, Griff And AFI

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There are some highly anticipated releases out this week, including Garbage’s follow-up to 2016’s ‘Strange Little Birds’, BRITs Rising Star award-winner Griff’s debut mixtape, and AFI’s 11th LP.

Not your bag? Head below for more.

AFI – ‘Bodies’ (Rise Records)

Danny Elfman – ‘Big Mess’ (Anti-)

Folly Group – ‘Awake & Hungry’ EP (So Young)

Garbage – ‘No Gods No Masters’ (BMG)

Griff – ‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’ (Warner)

Jessie Ware – ‘What’s Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure)’ (EMI)

Joe Bonamassa – ‘Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman’ (J&R Adventures)

Kiss – ‘Off The Sounbdboard: Tokyo 2001 (Live)’ (Universal)

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – ‘A Few Stars Apart’ (Fantasy/Concord)

Mammoth WVH – ‘Mammoth WVH’ (EX1/Explorer1)

Marina – ‘Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land’ (Atlantic)

Maroon 5 – ‘Jordi’ (Interscope)

Marshmello – ‘Shockwave’ (Joytime Collective)

Migos – ‘Culture III’ (Quality Control Music/Motown Records)

Mr. Bungle – ‘The Night They Came Home’ (Ipecac)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Back The Way We Came: Vol.1 (2011-2021)’ (Sour Mash)

POPPY – ‘EAT (NXT Soundtrack)’ EP (Sumerian)

Ruth B – ‘Moments In Between’ (Downtown)

Ryan Adams – ‘Big Colors’ (PaxAm)

Sleater-Kinney – ‘Path Of Wellness’ (Mom+Pop)

Todrick Hall – ‘FEMULINE’ (frtyfve)

Veps – ‘Open The Door’ EP (Kanine)

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This Week’s New Releases: Wolf Alice, Liz Phair And Greentea Peng

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What a week! Wolf Alice have put out the highly anticipated follow-up to the Mercury Prize-winning ‘Visions of a Life’, Liz Phair has released her first album in over a decade, and London artist Greentea Peng has dropped her debut LP.

Check out some more new releases below.

Atreyu – ‘Baptize’ (Search and Destroy/Spinefarm)

The Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (XL)

Billy F Gibbons – ‘Hardware’ (Concord)

Brett Young – ‘Weekends Look A Little Different These Days’ (Big Machine)

Children Of Zeus – ‘Balance’ (First Word)

Cleopatrick – ‘Bummer’ (Nowhere Special/Thirty Tigers)

Crowded House – ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ (EMI)

Gary Louris – ‘Jump For Joy’ (SHAM/Thirty Tigers)

Greentea Peng – ‘Man Made’ (EMI)

HYYTS – ‘Helluvatime’ EP (Warner)

James – ‘All The Colours Of You’ (Nothing But Love Music)

Japanese Breakfast – ‘Jubilee’ (Dead Oceans)

Liz Phair – ‘Soberish’ (Chrysalis Records)

Lojay and Sarz  – ‘LV N ATTN’ EP (Metallic Music/1789)

Ludovico Einaudi – ‘Cinema’ (Universal/Decca)

Massane – ‘Another Dawn’ (This Never Happened)

Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell – ‘Live At The Shoals Theatre’ (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)

Night Beats – ‘Outlaw R&B’ (Cooking Vinyl)

Red Fang – ‘Arrows’ (Relapse Records)

Rise Against – ‘Nowhere Generation’ (Loma Vista/Concord)

Rostam – ‘Changephobia’ (Matsor Projects)

Sam Wills – ‘Breathe’ (eOne)

San Holo – ‘bb u ok?’ (Counter)

The Specials – ‘Ghost Town (2021 Remaster)’ EP (Chrysalis Records)

Wolf Alice – ‘Blue Weekend’ (Dirty Hit)

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This Week’s New Releases: Texas, Del Amitri And k.d. lang

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Things have slowed down slightly ths week, but there’s still plenty on offer. Texas are back with the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Jump On Board’, the tracks for which were inspired by the shelved outtakes from the recording sessions for their 1997 LP ‘White On Blonde’. Del Amitri have also returned with their first new music in nearly two decades and k.d. lang has put out what she’s coined a “Brand new collection of classic remixes”.

Head below for more new music.

Allday – ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ (Allday)

Armin Van Buuren – ‘A State Of Trance 2021’ (Armada)

Bachelor (Jay Som & Palehound) – ‘Doomin’ Sun’ (Lucky Number)

Blackberry Smoke – ‘You Hear Georgia’ (Legged Records/Thirty Tigers)

Bugzy Malone – ‘The Resurrection’ (B Somebody)

Brynn Cartelli – ‘Based On A True Story’ EP (Elektra)

The Datsuns – ‘Eye To Eye’ (Hellsquad)

Del Amitri – ‘Fatal Mistakes’ (Cooking Vinyl)

Elgin – ‘Weightless/Still’ (Pixie Pace)

Gizelle Smith – ‘Revealing’ (Jalapeno)

Kansas – ‘Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond’ (InsideOut)

k.d. lang – ‘Makeover’ (Nonesuch)

Moby – ‘Reprise’ (Little Idiot/Deutsche Grammophon)

Sedibus and The Orb – ‘The Heavens’ (Cooking Vinyl)

Texas – ‘Hi’ (BMG)

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This Week’s New Releases: Twenty One Pilots, Gary Numan And Olivia Rodrigo

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It’s another busy one for new releases this week. Twenty One Pilots have dropped the highly anticipated follow-up to 2018’s ‘Trench’, and Gary Numan has put out his nineteenth studio album, while Olivia Rodrigo has just released her first.

Head south for more new music.

Ayron Jones – ‘Child Of The State’ (Big Machine)

Billie Marten – ‘Flora Fauna’ (Fiction)

Blake Shelton – ‘Body Language’ (Warner)

Chai – ‘Wink’ (Sub Pop)

Counting Crows – ‘Butter Miracle Suite One’ EP (BMG)

Dayglow – ‘Harmony House’ (Very Nice/AWAL)

Erika De Casier – ‘Sensational’ (4AD)

Gary Numan – ‘Intruder’ (BMG)

Gruff Rhys – ‘Seeking New Gods’ (Rough Trade)

Jon Allen – ‘…Meanwhile’ (Monologue)

Lambchop – ‘Showtunes’ (Merge Records)

Lindemann – ‘Live In Moscow’ (Vertigo/Universal)

Lord Huron – ‘Long Lost’ (Republic)

Monster Magnet – ‘A Better Dystophia’ (Napalm)

Newfamiliar – ‘Textures’ EP (Parlophone)

Olivia Rodrigo – ‘SOUR’ (Geffen Records)

Patrick Paige II – ‘If I Fail Are We Still Cool?’ (Fat Possum)

Penfriend – ‘Exotic Monsters’ (My Big Sister)

P!nk – ‘All I Know So Far: Setlist’ (RCA)

Sara Bareilles – ‘Amidst the Chaos: Live from the Hollywood Bowl’ (Sony)

Sinead Harnett – ‘Ready Is Always Too Late’ (Thairish)

Twenty One Pilots – ‘Scaled and Icy’ (Fueled By Ramen)

Waterparks – ‘Greatest Hits’ (300 Ent.)

 

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