FYI Upcoming Releases Schedule, Jan. 26, 2018
Artists with new releases craving your attention this week include Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Calexico, Mary Gauthier, Jeffrey Gaines, Jim Cuddy, Laila Biali, The Fugitives, Emma-Lee, and (pictured) Grand Analog.
By Kerry Doole
A treasure trove of freshly-stamped platters compete for your attention this week.
Notable international names include Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Calexico, Mary Gauthier, Nils Frahm, and Jeffrey Gaines, and a potent Canadian lineup is headed by Jim Cuddy, Grand Analog, Laila Biali, The Fugitives, Jonathan Kawchuk, and Emma-Lee.
January
26: Corey Gulkin - All The Things I’ll Forget (Indie)
26: The Fugitives - The Promise of Strangers (Borealis Records)
26: Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us (Anti-)
26: Leaving Thomas - S/T (MDM Recordings Inc./Universal Music Canada)
26: Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee (J&R Adventures)
26: Ampline - S/T (Sofaburn Records)
26: Elijah Will - 3 A.M. (Universal)
26: Emma-Lee - Fantasies: Volume 2 (Special Agent Records)
26: Django Django - Marble Skies (Indie)
26: Omhouse - Eye to Eye (Indie)
26: Collette Savard - Collette Savard and the Savants (Indie)
26: Holy -All These Worlds Are Yours (PNK SLM)
26: Stick In The Wheel - Follow Them True (Indie)
26: Jesse Marchant - Illusion Of Love (No Other)
26 Andy Cooper -The Layered Effect (Rocafort Records)
26: Easy - A Heartbeat From Eternity (A Turntable Friend Records)
26: Idan Raichel- Idan Raichel - Piano - Songs (Cumbancha)
26: EXEK - Ahead of Two Thoughts (W.25TH )
26: The Jim Cuddy Band - Constellation (Warner)
26: Jeffrey Gaines Alright'(Omnivore)
26: H.C. McEntire - Lionheart (Merge)
26: Ben Miller Band- Choke Cherry Tree (Indie)
26: Humans -The Feels (Indie)
26: Blushing - Weak ( Austin Town Hall Records)
26: Nils Frahm - All Melody (Erased Tapes)
26: Jonathan Kawchuk - North (Paper Bag)
26: The Prefab Messiahs - Psychsploitation Today (Lolipop/Burger Records)
26: Laila Biali - S/T (Chronograph)
26: Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosary Beads (In The Black/Thirty Tigers)
26: Backtrack Blues Band - Make My Home in Florida (Harpo Records)
26: Skelhorn - A Wondrous Place of Our Own (Indie)
26: Danielle Duval - Lose It (Indie)
26: Grand Analog -Survival (Indie)
27: Hegarty - Selling Your Soul To Sanity (Indie)
31: Zaki Ibrahim - Secret Life of Planets (Indie)
February
2: Hillsburn -The Wilder Beyond (Indie)
2: Raven and Red - We Rise Up (Line Crossing Records)
2: Hookworms- Microshift (Domino)
2: Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare ( Sub Pop)
2: Johnny Dowd - Twinkle, Twinkle ( Mother Jinx Records.)
2: Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods (RCA)
2: The Confabulation - Tunnels and Visions (Indie)
2: Emma Cook -Living Proof (Indie)
2: Caracol - A Paraitre (Indica)
2: Sunny War - With the Sun (Indie)
2: The LYNNEs - Heartbreak Song For The Radio (Indie)
2: Field Music -Open Here (Memphis Industries)
2: DZ Deathrays- Bloody Lovely Out (Dine Alone)
2: The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes (Daptone)
2: John Oates - Arkansas (Thirty Tigers)
2: Charles Mingus - Live At Montreux 1975 (Eagle Rock)
2: Jesse Roper -Access To Infinity (Blue Heron Music)
2: Jann Arden - These Are The Days (Indie)
2: Bat Fangs - S/T (Don Giovanni)
2: Milk & Bone - Deception Bay (Bonsound)
2: Ellen Doty - Come Fall ( Alma/UMC)
2: The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours (Warner)
2: Suuns - Felt (Secret City)
2- Moaning - S/T (Sub Pop)
2: Rhye - Blood
9: Joan as Police Woman - Damned Devotion (Play It Again Sam)
9: Ezra Furman- Transangelic Exodus (Bella Union)
9: Veto - 16 Colors (Indie)
9: Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers (UMC),
9: Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy)
9: Holly Cole - Holly (UMC)
9: MGMT - Little Dark Age (Columbia Records)
9: Toto - 40 Trips Around The Sun
9: The Rough & Tumble - We Made Ourselves a Home When We Didn’t Know (Indie)
9: Will Varley - Spirit Of Minnie (Xtra Mile Recordings)
9: Melody Gardot - Live in Europe (Universal)
9: The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (Kobalt Music Recordings)
9: The Olympic Symphonium - Beauty In The Tension (Forward Music)
9: Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic (Indie)
9: Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows (Dine Alone Records)
9: Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending (Domino)
9: Leonard Cohen - The Archives (6CD classic broadcast recordings set - Sony)
9: Good Lovelies - Shapeshifters (Independent)
9: Bradford -Thirty Years Of Shouting Quietly (A Turntable Friend Records)
9: Legend of the Seagullmen -S/T (Dine Alone)
14: Anzu – Without Love Vol. 1 (Indie)
16: Midnight Shine - High Road (Indie)
16: Michael W. Smith - A Million Lights
16: M.M. Crone S/T (Indie)
16: Kellen of Troy - Posthumous Release (Indie)
16: The Choir - Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore Recordings)
16: Erica Blinn - Better Than Gold (Curry House Records)
16: Born Ruffians -Uncle, Duke & The Chief (Paper Bag)
16: Wild Beasts - Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Domino Documents)
16: Sameer Gupta - A Circle Has No Beginning (Indie)
16: The Lazys - Tropical Hazards (HRD Music)
16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 3 (Matador)
16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Compilation (Matador)
16: I'm With Her - See You Around (Indie)
16: Misty Boyce - Get Lost (Indie)
16: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (Royal Mountain / 4AD)
16: Ought - Room Inside The World (Royal Mountain)
16: Pop Evil - S/T ( Entertainment One)
19: Francis Macdonald -Hamilton Mausoleum Suite (Indie)
20: Harvey McLaughlin - Tabloid News (Saustex)
23: Caleb Caudle - Crushed Coins (Indie)
23: Charlotte Day Wilson - Stone Woman (Indie)
23: Olden Yolk - S/T (Trouble in Mind Records)
23: I Promised Once - Salvation (Needful Things)
23: Esme Bridie - Today It Rains (Klee Music)
23: Mayhemingways - Skip Land (Independent)
23: Various Artists -Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of WWII (Six Degrees)
23: Beams - Teach Me To Love (Indie)
23 VICTIME -La femme Taupe (Michel Records)
23: The Koch Marshall Trio - Toby Arrives (The Players Club)
23: The Doors - Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (Eagle Rock)
23: Patrick Coman - Tree of Life ( For the Sake of the Song)
23: Lo Moon - S/T (Columbia Records)
23: Big Little Lions - Alive and Well (Far Flung)
23: Grounders Coffee & Jam (Nevado Music)
23: Cindy Lee - Act of Tenderness (Superior Viaduct)
23: Frigs - Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts)
23: Justin Hinds - Travel With Love and Know Jah Better (Omnivore)
23: Renata Zeiguer - Old Ghost (Indie)
23: John Mayall- Three for the Road (Forty Below Records)
23: Shy Kids - In A State (Indie)
24: The Discarded - Manifesto (Indie)
March
2: Sue Foley - The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
2: Kae Sun - Whoever Comes Knocking (Moonshine)
2: Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds (Bella Luna)
2: Superorganism - S/T (Domino)
2: UB40 - A Real Labour Of Love (Universal Music )
2: Joan Baez - Whistle Down The Wind (Bobolink)
2: Lance Lopez Tell The Truth (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)
2: Chris Smither - Call Me Lucky (Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert)
2: Chip Taylor - Fix Your Words (Train Wreck Records)
2: Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt ( Arts & Crafts)
2: Pedigo's Magic Pilsner - S/T (Indie)
2- Prism Tats -Mamba (Anti-)
2: Rachel Beck - S/T (Indie)
2: Celtic Thunder- Celtic Thunder X (Legacy/Sony)
9: Nap Eyes - I'm Bad Now (Paradise of Bachelors/Jagjaguwar)
9: The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling - The High Cost Of Low Living (Alligator)
9: Liza Anne - Fine But Dying (Arts & Crafts)
9: Bob Holroyd - The Cage (Indie)
9: Three Days Grace - Outsider (RCA Records)
9: Miesha & The Spanks - Girls Girls Girls (Indie)
9: Scenic Route to Alaska - Tough Luck (popTrip Records)
9: Judas Priest - Firepower (Epic)
9: George FitzGerald - All That Must Be (Domino)
9: Ross Cooper - I Rode The Wild Horses (Indie)
9: David Byrne - American Utopia (Todomundo/Nonesuch Records)
9: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams (Stax)
9: Torgeir Waldemar Jamais Vu ( Jansen Records)
9: Ensign Broderick - Feast Of Panthers (Six Shooter)
16: Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)
16: Scotty McCreery Seasons Change (Triple Tigers Records)
16: Alva Noto - UNIEQAV (Noton Records)
16: Avulsions- Expanding Program (Indie)
16: Sango - In The Comfort Of (Last Gang,)
16: Rich Aucoin - Hold (Indie)
17: Ten Minute Detour - Common Pleasure (Indie)
23: Kasbo - Places We Don’t Know (Counter Records)
23: Yamtantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt (Paper Bag Records)
23: Foreign Films -The Record Collector (Indie)
23: Shuta Hasunuma & U-Zhaan - 2 Tone (Commmon)
23: The Tillers - S/T ( SofaBurns)
23: Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade (Duophonic)
23: The Funk Hunters - Typecast (Westwood Recordings)
23: Jack White - Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia)
23: Mathew V - The Fifth (Indie)
23: Preoccupations - New Material (Flemish Eye)
23: The Kris Barras Band - The Divine And Dirty (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)
30: Broken Records -What We Might Know (Indie)
30: Rod Picott - Out Past the Wires (Indie)
30: Lindi Ortega - Liberty (Indie)
30: The Garden - Mirror Might Steal Your Charm (Epitaph)
30: Frankie Cosmos - Vessel (Sub Pop)
30: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite - No Mercy in This Land
April
6: Young Galaxy - Down Time (Indie)
6: Hey Ocean! - The Hurt of Happiness (Indie)
6: Royal Wood - Ever After The Farewell (Indie)
6: EELS - The Deconstruction ( E Works/[PIAS])
6: Mien - S/T (Rocket Recordings)
13: Concrete Knives - Our Hearts (Room Records)
13: The Damned - Evil Spirits (Search And Destroy/Spinefarm Records),
13: Josh Rouse -Love In The Modern Age (Yep Roc)
20: Kimbra - Primal Heart
20: Old Crow Medicine Show - Volunteer (Columbia Records Nashville)
27: Dr. Dog - Critical Equation (Thirty Tigers)
27: The Beat Escape- Life Is Short the Answer’s Long (Last Gang/Bella Union)
May
4: Shakey Graves - Can’t Wake Up ( Dualtone)
25: Fortunate Ones - Hold Fast (Old Farm Pony Records)
Canadian releases are in red
