In a new music release week dominated by some hard rock favorites we also have fresh titles from Charlie Puth, Willow and the Migos duo of Quavo and Takeoff (all subject to change)…
Albums of the Week: You wanna rock? This is the week for it, as a quartet of hard-hitting favorites serve up new platters (if we can use an old-school term) of noise. Lamb of God follows its self-titled 2020 effort with “Omens” (Epic), while Bush is back with “The Art of Survival” (Zuma Rock/BMG). The Cult’s “Under the Midnight Sun” (Black Hill/Round Hill) is the group’s first release since 2016, and Queensryche’s “Digital Noise Alliance” (Century Media) is the band’s fourth with current frontman Todd La Torre, who replaced Geoff Tate in 2012. Rounding things up is “Vacation in the Underworld” (Rat Pak) from former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and singer Jeff Scott Soto (Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen, Trans-Siberian Orchestra). This should be enough to keep Beavis & Butthead busy for awhile.
Album Title of the Week: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, “Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava” (KGLW)
Did Ya Know?: During the eight years since its last album some may have forgotten that Broken Bells is the consortium of Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, and James Mercer of the Shins. The duo provides a reminder with this week’s release of “Into the Blue” (30th Century/Aural Apothecary/AWAL), Broken Bells’ third album and long-promised follow-up to 2014′s “After the Disco.”
New & Noteworthy
Appalachian Road Show, “Jubilation” (Billy Blue)
Action Bronson, “Cocodrillo Turbo” (Loma Vista/Concord)
Gayle, “a study of the human experience volume two” (Atlantic)
Darren Hayes, “Homosexual” (Powdered Sugar Productions)
Kid Cudi, “Entergalactic” (Wicked Awesome/Republic)
Charlie Puth, “Charlie” (Atlantic)
Quavo and Takeoff, “Only Built For Infinity Links” (Quality Control/Motown)
Lindsey Stirling, “Snow Waltz” (Concord)
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, “Live in Colorado, Vol. 2″ (Third Man)
Willow, “<copingmechanism>” (MSFTSrep/Rocnation)
Hot New Singles: American Authors, “Blind For Love;” Archers of Loaf, “Aimee;” Arctic Monkeys, “Body Paint;” Cypress Hill, “Crossroads;” DVSN, “What’s Up” featuring Jermaine Dupri and Jagged Edge; First Aid Kit, “Turning Onto You;” Godsmack, “Surrender;” Lalah and Donny Hathaway, “This Christmas;” Ilghtchild, “Rain in Tokyo;” Eric Kinsey, “Reason For Leaving;” King Canyon, “Keep On Movin’;” Jon Langston, “Give You My All;” LCD Soundsystem, “New Body Rhumba;” Allison Lorenzen, “The Fourth Cycle;” Kit Major, “God Complex;” Maneskin, “The Loneliest;” Martha, “Hope Gets Harder;” Shawn Mendes, “Heartbeat;” M.I.A., “Beep;” NOFX, “Crashing Your Party;” Pearla, “About Hunger, About Love;” Black Violin and Blind Boys of Alabama, “We Are One;” Jake Wesley Rogers, “Hindsight;” Bree Runway, “That Girl;” Lauren Scott-Phillips, “Handsome Woman;” Ed Sheeran, “Celestial;” Softee, “Molly;” Bae Suzy, “Cape;” The Tenors, “Miracle;” The War and Treaty, “Lover’s Game”
Also Out:
AB61X, “Take a Chance” (Brand New Music)
Ad Infinitum, “Chapter I — Monarchy & Chapter ! Revisited” (Napalm)
Always, “Blue Rev” (Celsius Girls/Polyvinyl)
Courtney Marie Andrews, “Loose Future” (Fat Possum)
Armed For Apocalypse, “Ritual Violence” (Candlelight)
Avery Anna, “Mood Swings” (Warner)
The Bobby Lees, “Bellevue” (Ipecac)
Bonny Light Horseman, “Rolling Golden Holy” (37d03d)
Bruno Bavota and Chantal Acada, “A Closer Distance” (self-released)
Aidan Bissett, “I’m Alright If You’re OK” (Capitol)
Rory Block, “Ain’t Nobody Worried” (Stony Plain)
The Bobby Lees, “Bellevue” (Ipecac Recordings)
Bolinas, “Heavy Easy Listening” (Sub Rosa Selects/Rose Garden)
Bonny Light Horseman, “Rolling Golden Holy” (37d03d)
Taurey Butler, “One of the Others” (Justin Time)
The California Honeydrops, “Soft Spot” (self-released)
Forest Claudette, “The Year of February” (Warner)
Anat Cohen, “Quartetinho” (Anzic)
Contour, “Onwards!” (Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass)
Hugh Cornwell, “Moments of Madness” (Republic of Music)
The Coronas, “Time Stopped” (SoFarSoGood/Blix Street)
Counterparts, “A Eulogy For Those Still Here” (Pure Noise)
Dallas String Quartet, “Love Always” (self-released)
Daphni, “Cherry” (Jiaolong)
Barrett Davis, “The Ballad of Aesop Fin” (self-released)
Jean Dawson, “Chaos Now” (self-released)
Dayglow, “People in Motion” (Very Nice/AWAL)
Dungen, “En Ar For Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog” (Mescian Summer)
Christine Ebersole, “After the Ball” (Club44)
Faith In Jane, “Axe to Oak” (Grimoire)
FatDog, “New Found Land” (Riverboat)
Ghost Light, “The Healing” (Royal Potato Family)
Marshall Gilkes, “…Presents: Cyclic Journey” (Alternate Sides)
Gilla Band, “Most Normal” (Rough Trade)
Glass Hammer, “At the Gate” (Sound Resources/Arion)
Goatwhore, “Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven” (Metal Blade)
Goodnight Sunrise, “Against All Odds” (self-released)
Grand Canyon, “Forevermore” (self-released)
Darren Hayes, “Homosexual” (Powdered Sugar Productions)
Hexed, “Pagans Rising” (ViciSolum Productions/Sound Pollution)
Indigo Sparke, “Hysteria” (Sacred Bones)
Isley Brothers, “Make Me Say it Again Girl — The Album” (Motown)
Jagwar Twin, “33″ (Big Loud Rock)
Michael Kaeshammer, “The Warehouse Sessions” (Linus Entertainment)
Kids Return, “Forever Melodies” (Ekleroshock/Hamburger)
Michael Paul Lawson, “Love Songs For Loners” (self-released)
Tasha Cobbs Leonard, “Hymns” (TeeLee/Motown Gospel)
Isabella Lovestory, “Amor Hardcore” (self-released)
LVCRFT, “Scream Warriors” (self-released)
Kenny Mason, “Ruffs” (RCA)
Maria Mendes, “Saudade, Colour of Love” (Challenge)
Melody’s Echo Chamber, “Unfold” (Fat Possum)
Michigander, “It Will Never Be the Same” (C3)
Moonalice, “Full Moonalice Vol. 2″ (Nettwerk)
Chloe Moriondo, “Suckerpunch” (Public Consumption/Fueled By Ramen)
Major Parkinson, “Valesa — Chapter 1: Velvet Prison” (Apollon)
Oakman, “SCP” (Rude)
Nora O’Connor, “My Heart” (Pravda)
Oh Wonder, “22 Break/22Make” (Island)
The Orielles, “Tableau” (Heavenly)
Karin Park, “Private Collection” (Pelagic)
Peel Dream Magazine, “Pad” (Slumberland/Touch Love)
Mike Pope, “Ripening (Ain’t It Strange)” (Blind Owl)
“Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Outcast” (Rockabye Baby)
St. Lucia, “Utopia” (Nettwerk)
Say Shee Shee, “Prism” (Karma Chief/Colemine)
Will Sheff, “Nothing Special” (ATO)
SixSaidit, “Outside II” (The Land)
The Snuts, “Burn the Empire” (Parlophone/Elektra)
Sorry, “Anywhere But Here” (Domino)
Tim Story, “Rust Smudges” (Dais)
Bartees Strange, “Farm to Table” (4AD)
Stray Kids, “Maxident, “JYP entertainment/Republic)
Sunsleeper, “While You Can” (Rude)
Teramaze, “Flight of the World” (Wells Music)
Thus Love, “Memorial” (Captured Tracks)
Toosii, “Boys Don’t Cray” (South Coast Music Group/Capitol)
Town Mountain, “Lines in the Levee” (New West)
Treasure, “The Second Step: Chapter Two” (YG Entertainment)
Truth & Salvage Co., “Atoms Form” (Blackbird/Indie AM Gold/Oakwilde)
VRSTY, “Welcome Home Part 2″ (Spinefarm)
Johanna Warren, “Lessons For Mutants” (Wax Nine/Carpark)
Wednesday 13, “Horrifier” (Napalm)
Charlotte Wessels, “Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II” (Napalm)
A.A. Williams, “As the Moon Rests” (Bella Union)
Joyce Wrice, “Motive” (self-released)
From The Vaults:
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, “Greatest Hits” (Iconoclassic)
Eric Clapton, “The Complete Reprise Studio Albums — Volume 1″ (Reprise/Rhino)
The Cure, “Wish: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition” (Elektra/Rhino)
Maynard Ferguson, “The Roulette Collection” (Enlightenment)
Honey & the Bees, “Love is One” (Real Gone Music)
Janet Jackson, “The Velvet Rope: Deluxe Edition” (UMe)
Mark Knopfler, “The Studio Albums 2009-2018″ (UMe/EMI)
Charlie Martin, “Imaginary People Deluxe Edition” (Grand Jury)
Melody’s Echo Chamber, “Melody’s Echo Chamber: 10th Anniversary Edition” (Fat Possum)
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, “Bakersfield Gold: Top 10 Hits 1959-1974″ (Omnivore)
Soundtracks:
“Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Island)
“Monster High: The Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (WMG Arts Music)
“White Christmas and Holiday Inn” (Sepia Recordings)
