FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, May 1, 2020

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue. Notables this week include Dixie Chicks, Chicano Batman, Kenny Chesney, American Aquarium, Damien Jurado, and Devon Williams.

The Canadian contingent is led by Drake, Alanis Morissette, Austra, WiL, Shade, Peripheral Vision, Tyleen, and Absolutely Free.

April

28: Memoir -  Sing Backwards And Weep 

28:  Kiita - Bayard The Bloodhound (Epic)

29: Absolutely Free - Two Cares Due None - OST.

May

1: Cayley Thomas - How Else Can I Tell You? 

1: Austra - HiRUDiN ( Pink Fizz)

1: Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards - Bitter Better

1: Lavinia Blackwall - Muggington Lane End 

1: Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open (Matador) 

1: Mark Allen-Piccolo - Word of The Day

1: Shade   Combat Rave (Sleepless Records)

1: WiL - Live at the Blue Frog

1: Peripheral Vision -Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation

1: Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road

1: Houses of Heaven - Silent Places (Felte)

1: James Hyland - western

1: Devon Williams - A Tear In The Fabric (Slumberland)

1; Field Works- Ultrasonic (Temporary Residence)

1: Mark Allen-Piccolo - Word of The Day (BotCave Records)

1: Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes (Republic)

1: River Cult - Chilling Effect - (Tee Pee Records)

1: Tyleen - Fanta$y  (Make It Rain Records)

1: Dixie Chicks - Gaslighter ( Columbia Records)

1: Dave Douglas - Dizzy Atmosphere (Greenleaf Music) 

1: American Aquarium - Lamentations (New West) 

1: MOHIT-Preface

1: Kenny Chesney-  Here and Now (Warner Music Nashville)

1: Diet Cig - Do You Wonder About Me? (Frenchkiss Records)

1: Aether Realm- Redneck Vikings From Hell  (Napalm Records)

1: Bebel Gilberto - Agora  ( [PIAS] Recordings)

1: Chicano Batman  Invisible People (ATO Records)

1: V.V. Lightbody - Make A Shrine Or Burn It (Acrophase Records) 

1: Damien Jurado - What’s New Tomboy

1: Konradsen - Rodeo No. 5 (Cascine)

7: Small Town Artillery -  A Knock At The Door 

8: Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor (Atlantic Records)

8: Cryptex -  Once Upon A Time (SPV/Steamhammer)

8: Watch Clark- Backscatter Effect

8: I Break Horses - Warnings (Bella Union)

8: Pure Protein - Winner Goes Home EP 

8: Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall - We Are The Night  (Frontiers Music Srl. )

8: Rac - Boy (Counter Records)

8: Aquakultre -  Legacy  (Black Buffalo Records)

8: Okkyung Lee- Yeo-Neun (Shelter Press)

8: Eve Owen - Don’t Let The Ink Dry (37d03d Records)

8: Astrocolor-Hue  (Entertainment One)

8: Watch Clark- Backscatter Effect

8: Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton - S/T (Smithsonian Folkways)

8: Swirl Whirl - How Much Works (Chapter Music)

8: Bottler - Clementine EP ( InFiné)

8: Joe Nolan - Drifters (Fallen Tree Records)

8: Adeline Hotel - Solid Love (Whatever's Clever)

8: Buscabulla - Regresa Out (Ribbon Music)

8: Monteagle - A Colorful Moth (Fire Talk Records)

8: The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps 

8: Matty Stecks & Musical Tramps - Long Time Ago Rumble (Shelter Press)

8: The Sweater Set - Fly on the Wall

8: Shortwave Research Group Fabryka (Social Proof)

8: Lamb of God - S/T (Sony)

8, Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista Recordings)

8: Electric Mob - Discharge  (Frontiers Music Srl)

8: Julyan - S/T 

8: The Bobby Lees -  SKIN SUIT (Alive Naturalsound Records)

8: Smackbound - 20/20  (Frontiers Music Srl)

8: Nikki Yanofsky - Black Sheep

8: David Myles - Leave Tonight

8: Cold Years - Paradise

8: Pantayo- S/T (Telephone Explosion Records)

8: CRYPTEX - Once Upon A Time (SPV/Steamhammer)

8: Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs Of Sorrow (Heavenly Records)

8: Buscabulla -  Regresa (Ribbon Music)

8: The K.  - Amputate Corporate Art  (JuneOrange)

13: Deante’ Hitchcock  - Better  (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records)

15: Various artists - Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986!  (Light in the Attic)

15: Noble Son - Life Isn’t Fun 

15: Lila Iké - The ExPerience  (RCA Records) 

15: Noah Cyrus - The End Of Everything (RECORDS/Columbia Records)

15: Perfume Genius, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador) 

15: Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations (Dine Alone Records)

15: The Jerry Cans - Echoes (Aakuluk Music)

15: Marshall Chapman - Songs I Can't Live Without

15: Champlin Williams Friestedt - II

15: Wayne Nicholson & John Campbelljohn - Elmore's Blues

15: Two Fingers- Fight! Fight! Fight!  (Nomark Records)

15: Fellahin Fall - Tar a-Kan 

15: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions

15:  Sleaford Mods-   All That Glue (Rough Trade) 

15: Voodoo Gods -  The Divinity Of Blood

15: Ruthie Foster - Live at The Paramount (Blue Corn Music)

15: Cayo Coco - A Beautiful Moon EP

15:  Lesley Barth - S/T  

15:  Willie Nile - New York At Night

15: Nick Hakim (ATO Records)

15: Pharis and Jason Romero - Bet On Love

20: Jess Knights - Best Kind of Light

22: Ken Yates- Quiet Talkers 

22: Tim Burgess- I Love The New Sky   (Bella Union)

22 - The Dirty Clergy - In Waves 

22: Jordan Klassen - Tell Me What To Do

22: Ethiopian & Gladiators-  Dread Prophecy (Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)

22: Jarrod Dickenson -  Ready The Horses 

22: Various Artists - Love Lives On 

22 Iron City Houserockers -Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive)

22: Bebe Buckskin  - Asiskiy

22:  Plague Years - Circle Of Darkness  (Entertainment One)

22: Steve Earle & the Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia (New west)

22: Jeff Healey - Heal My Soul - Deluxe edition (Eagle Rock)

22: Lemaitre - JGM EP (Substellar Records)

22: Roadside Graves -That's Why We're Running Away (Don Giovanni)

22: Dylan Menzie  Lost In Dreams 

22: DIE KREATUR - Panoptikum ( Napalm Records)

22: Twin Kennedy - Homebound EP

22: Lindy Vopnfjörd - State of the Heart

22: MaelstroM - Of Gods And Men'

29: New Found Glory - Forever + Ever x Infinity (Hopeless Records)

29: Protomartyr -  Ultimate Success Today (Domino)

29: Lou Canon - Audomatic Body  (Paper Bag)

29: Jade Hairpins - Harmony Avenue (Arts & Crafts)

29: Starpainter - Bury Me By My Family

29: Sweet Whirl- How Much Works (Chapter Music)

29:  Mirabelle -Late Bloomer (Simone Records)

29: Dive Index - Waving At Airplanes

29: Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross

29: Beth Ann Cole - Perhaps the Gods Of Love

29: Dive Index -  Waving At Airplanes 

29: Grave Digger - Fields Of Blood

29: Vandenberg -  2020 (Mascot)

29: Rush -  Permanent Waves 40th-anniversary edition (Mercury/UMC)

29: Bad Moves- Untenable (Don Giovanni Records)

 29: Painted Zeros -When You Found Forever (Don Giovanni Records)

June

5: Powerwolf- Best Of The Blessed (Napalm Records)

5: Amnesia Scanner - Tearless

5: Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us (Dualtone)

5: Quest Ensemble The Other Side

5: Sarah Jarosz- World On The Ground (Rounder Records)

5: C. Diab -  White Whale  (Injazero Records)

5: Staples Singers -  Let’s Do It Again: Sound Track and Pass It On (Omnivore Recordings) 

5: Camille Delean - Cold House Burning  (E-Tron Records)

12: Sammy Brue - Crash Test Kid 

12: Gone West -  Canyons

12: Orlando Weeks-  A Quickening ( Play It Again Sam)

12: Andrea & Mud - Bad News Darlin' 

12: Junior Byles -  Rasta No Pickpocket ( Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)

12: Deep Purple - Whoosh!

12: Jehnny Beth - To Love Is To Live (A&C)

12: BPMD –  American Made (Napalm Records)

12:  Electric Mob - Discharge (Frontiers)

19: Phoebe Bridgers -  Punisher (Dead Oceans)

19: Leni Stern  - 4 

19: Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art, reissue  (Omnivore Recordings)

19: Cro-Mags  In The Beginning

19: The Microdance- Our Love Noire (Somewherecold Records)

19: Permanent Collection -  Nothing Good Is Normal

19: Protest the Hero - Palimpsest 

19: Zoon - Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag Records)

19: Julian Taylor - The Ridge

19: Braids - Shadow Offering ( Secret City Records)

19: Mushroomhead - A Wonderful Life (Napalm Records)

19:  Shred Kelly  - Like A Rising Sun (DevilDuck Records) 

20: Craig Finn - All These Perfect Crosses (Partisan Records)

22: Ethiopian & Gladiators -  Dread Prophecy (Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)

22: The Dirty Clergy - In Waves (Cornelius Chapel Records)

23: Selci  - A Soft Place (Ocean Records)

26: Pottery - Welcome To Bobby’s Motel (Royal Mountain Records/Partisan)

26: Corb Lund - Agricultural Tragic (Warner)

26: Tenille TownesThe Lemonade Stand (Columbia Nashville/RCA Records)

26: Ahab - Live Prey (Napalm Records)

26: Thad Cockrell -  If in Case You Feel the Same (ATO)

26: Staples Singers - Family Tree, Unlock Your Mind (Omnivore)

29: David Strickland - Spirit Of Hip Hop (Entertainment One)

29: Ben Kunder- Searching For The Stranger 

July

3: Divahn - Shalhevet

3: A.A. Williams Forever Blue'Bella Union

10: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)

10: July Talk -Pray For It (Sleepless/BMG),

17: Dark Sarah - Grim (Napalm)

17: Protomartyr - -Ultimate Success (Domino) 

17: Bronson - S/T

⁣24: Howling - Colure (Counter Records) 

24: Nelson Kempf - Family Dollar

24: Courtney Marie Andrews- Old Flowers (Fat Possum Records)

24: Jessy Lanza - All The Time (Hyperdub)

31: Dizzy - The Sun and Her Scorch  (Royal Mountain Records)

August

* Canadian releases are in red