FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Nov. 19, 2020

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables this week include Megan Thee Stallion, Nelly, Tim McGraw, Dirty Projectors, Pink Floyd, The War on Drugs, and Josh Groban.

The strong crop of Canadian artists is led by Johnny Reid, Bill King, Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar, Dean Brody, Blinker The Star, Dave Young, Larnell Lewis, Badge Époque Ensemble, The Dill, and Savannah Ré.

November

16: 2 Chainz - So Help Me God  ( Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Canada)

17: Bill King - Mondo Jumbo (7Arts)

18: Patient Hands - There Are No Graves Here

18: Lil Uzi Vert and Future - Pluto X Baby Pluto (deluxe)

18: Jesse Terry - Peace

18: Dean Brody - Boys

19: BRKN LOVE - S/T Deluxe  (Spinefarm Records)

19: The Swingin’ Blackjacks - Four Hot Tracks!!

20: Jimi Hendrix - Live In Maui 

20: Tim McGraw - MCGRAW MACHINE HITS: 2013-2019, (Big Machine Records and Spirit Music Group,)

20:  Ward Davis - Black Cats and Crows  (Thirty Tigers)

20: The Myrrhderers - Sleigh Christmas

20: The Wild Feathers - Medium Rarities

20: Dan Mangan - Thief (Arts & Crafts)

20:  The War on Drugs - LIVE DRUGS (High Quality Records)

20: The Dill - Beside

20: The Maguas -  One Of Us Is Lying

20: Dave Young - Ides of March (Modica Music)

20: Savannah Ré - Opia (UMC)

20: Nelly - Country Grammer - 20th anniversary deluxe edition (UMC)

20: Megan Thee Stallion - Good News

20: Colleen Brown - Isolation Songs (Flatcar Records/Fontana North)

20: Tortured Soul – Remixes Japan Edition (Slammin' Media)

20: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres - 2 Years Stranger

20: Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar - The Reckless One (Gypsy Soul Records)

20: Badge Époque Ensemble - Self Help (Telephone Explosion Records)

20: Lee Brice - Hey World (Curb Records)

20: Public Memory - Ripped Apparition (Felte)

20: Sar Omah Lay  -What Have We Done (Sire Records)

20: Martin Ruby - Heaven Get Behind Me (WhistlePig Records) 

20: Josh King - The Shed 

20: Johnny Reid - My Kind Of Christmas Deluxe Edition  (Universal Music Canada)

20: Cecile Believe - Plucking a Cherry from the Void

20: Josh Groban - Harmony (Reprise)

20: Eric Clapton- Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 (Rhino)

20: David Strickland –Spirit Of Hip Hop The Remixes (eOne)

20: Henrik Lindstrand- Nordhem (One Little Independent)

20: Robert Connely Farr - Country Supper

20: AWOLNATION - Angel Miners & The Lightning Riders Live From 2020

20: Various Artists - Strictly The Best. Vol. 61 (VP Records)

20: Wolf Saga - S/T

20: Shaggy- Christmas in the Islands ( BMG)

20: Tomato/Tomato -  It’ll Come Around

20: Shepherd - First Hand (Destruent Records)

20: The Aubrey Wilson Quartet – Honeysuckle Rose

20 LA Timpa -Modern Antics In A Deserted Place

20: Dirty Projectors - 5EPs  (Domino)

20: Larnell Lewis -  Relive the Moment

20: Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Nashville - 4 CD/digital collection (RCA/Legacy Recordings)

20: Dave Alvin· - From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (Yep Roc Records)

20: Partner - Never Give Up ( You've Changed Records)

20: Refused -  The Malignant Fire EP

20: Afora - Healing in Harmony Remix Vol. 1 ( A4A Records/Warner Music Canada

20: Dave Young-Ides of March  (Modica Music)

20: The Steel Wheels -  Everyone A Song, Vol. 1

20: Aviations - Retrospect (Bandcamp)

20:  MATTMAC - 20/20

20: Love Again - What I Left Behind"EP (Wiretap Records)

20: Hua Li 化力 -Yellow Crane (Next Door Records)

20: Bearings -Hello, It's You (Pure Noise Records)

20: Neil Young -  ARCHIVES VOL. II: 1972-1976, 10-CD Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set (NYA)

20: Anne Murray -The Ultimate Christmas Collection (UMC)

20: Sara Noelle - Four Songs EP

20: Scott Garred - Scott Songs Vol. II

20:  I Am The Avalanche. DIVE  (I Surrender Records)

20: Seahaven - Halo of Hurt (Pure Noise)

20: BTS  -BE (Deluxe Edition) ( Big Hit Entertainment)

20: Blinker The Star - Juvenile Universe 

20: Jewel-  Pieces of You (Craft Recordings)

20: Duke Robillard & Friends - Blues Bash (Stony Plain Records)

20: Uptown Boyband - Club UBB 

20: Boys Of Fall - Distance  (In Vogue Records)

20: John Fogerty - Fogerty's Factory  Vinyl released 15th January 2021

20: Mike Edel - En Masse (Pennant)

20: Amy Winehouse - 12×7: The Singles Collection - box set (Island/Ume)

20: Tim Minchin- Apart Together (BMG)

20: Jake Etheridge - Because I'm High

20: Soft Kill - Dead Kids, R.I.P. City

20: Boys Of Fall - Distance (InVogue Records)

20: Sarah Buxton - Signs Of Life 

20: Powfu -  some boring love stories pt. 5, (Columbia Records)

20: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in San Francisco '16 (ATO)

20: Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder on Blu-ray, DVD, 2-CD, 3-disc vinyl and deluxe 4-disc edition (Sony Music)

23: Plastic Barricades- Self-Theories

23: Peter Graham- Despite Where We've Been

24: Record Thieves - Wasting Time (Thousand Islands Records)

24: Amirali – Trial and Error (Dark Matters)

24: Kelley Finnigan A Joyful Sound (Colemine Records)

26: Richard Whiteman -Very Well & Good (Cornerstone Records)

26: Cousin Harley - Let's Go

27: Eleine - Dancing In Hell (Black Lodge Records)

27: Jenn Grant  - Forever On Christmas Eve

27: Sting - Duets (The vinyl LP edition out Dec. 18) (UMC)

27: Little Richard - Southern Child (Omnivore) CD version on Dec. 4

27: The Smashing Pumpkins - CYR (Sumerian Records) 

27: Gary Barlow - Music Played By Humans

27: The Krayolas - Savage Young Krayolas (Saustex Records)

27: Haider- Dance Now, Cry Later (Aus Music)

27: Melanie Peterson - We Got This

27:  Miley Cyrus -  Plastic Hearts ( RCA Records)

20: Sophia Bel - Princess of the Dead Vol II (Bonsound)

27: BlackSheepLad- Sleeping Alone in the Daytime 

27: The Nimmons Tribute - To The Nth

27;  Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays  (Reprise/Warner Records)

27:  Spandau Ballet 40 Years – The Greatest Hits (Parlophone)

27: Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi-  Yakhal'Inkomo (We Are Busy Bodies)

27: Our Oceans- While Time Disappears

27: Chairmen of The Boards - Surfin' The Apocalypse 

27: Dinah Thorpe -  For The Birds

27: Ane Brun - How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow (Balloon Ranger)

27: Young Marble Giants- 40th anniversary special edition reissue -Colossal Youth (Domino) 

27: Lady Buds-  From the Cities, To the Shores (Glasstone Records)

27: Bent - Up In The Air (Godlike and Electric)

27: Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications  (Rough Trade)

27: Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis  (Rough Trade) 

27: Within The Ruins -  Black Heart.  (Entertainment One (eOne) / Good Fight Music)

27: Tim Burgess - Ascent Of The Ascended  (Bella Union)

27: Al Qahwa Ensemble -  African Routes 

27- Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Straight To You: Live  (Provogue)

27: Meg Warren - A Thousand Ways

27: Electric Hydra - S/T  (Tee Pee Records/Majestic Mountain Records)

27: Sodom - Genesis X1X (eOne)

December

1: Tyler Berd - Werks (A Collection of Song 2017 - 2020) 

1: Ken Tizzard and Music For Goats -Sketches Of Christmas (Audio Playground Records)

2: Jesse DeNatale- The Wilderness

3: Harmonium - Histoires Sans Paroles

3: Valexis - Fairy Tales

4: Lee Paradise - The Fink (Telephone Explosion)

4: Eve Parker Finley- Chrysalia (Florafone/Coax)

4: DJ Shub-War Club (Shub Music)

4: Raj Ramayya - Spicy Beats   (Hopeful Tragedy Records)

4: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Complete Island Recordings LP boxset- CD version (Island Records)

4: Joan of Arc -Tim Melina Theo Bobby

4: Khruangbin - Late Night Tales 

4: Arctic Monkeys - Arctic Monkeys - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (War Child UK)

4: MODEL 86 - Is MODEL 86 Dreaming of Being a Butterfly or is a Butterfly Dreaming of Being MODEL 86?

4: The White Stripes - Greatest Hits (Third Man Records/Columbia Records)

4: Shawn Mendes - Wonder (UMC)

4: These New Puritans -  Hidden [MMXX] 10-year Anniversary Reissue (Domino)

4: Amy Winehouse - The Collection, a 5 CD set (Island/UMe)

4:  Sculptor - Untold Secrets (Frontiers Music Srl )

4: Meilir - In Tune (Gwdihw Records)

4:  Neal Morse - Jesus Christ The Exorcist (Live At Morsefest 2018)

4: The Coathangers - S/T (Suicide Squeeze)

4:  Michael C. Duguay - The Winter of Our Discotheque (Reprise)

4: Red City Radio - Paradise (Pure Noise Records)

4: Magic Dance - Remnants(Frontiers srl)

4: Blue Öyster Cult - Live At Rock Of Ages Festival 2016 (Frontiers Music Srl)

4: George Shingleton - Out All Nighter

4: Quarter-Life Crisis -S/T  (Saddle Creek)

11: The Kills – Little Bastards (Domino)

11: the Offspring - Conspiracy of One - reissue (Round Hill Records/UMe)

11: Fields of the Nephilim  - Elzium - 30th Anniversary Edition  (Beggars Banquet )   

11: Jamie xx   -  In Colour (Remastered)  ( Young Turks)

11: Laura Carbone - Live at Rockpalast 

11: Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun -reissue (Blixa Sounds)

11: Interpol -  Our Love to Admire  (Matador)   

11: Spacette -S/T

11: R. Harlan Smith -Way Back When (Royalty Records)

11: Paul McCartney - McCartney 111 (UMC)

11:  Nilüfer Yanya - Feeling Lucky? (ATO Records)

11: Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams -  Plastic Bouquet (New West)

11: Readymades -  More Alive Than Not (Liberation Hall/415 Records) 

11: Pop-O-Pies The White EP (Liberation Hall/415 Records) 

11: Belle & Sebastian - What to Look For in Summer (Matador )  

11: Kamasi Washington  -  “Becoming” Music from the Netflix Original Documentary  (Young Turks)

16: Danny Goo - Feel For You (Atoned Music)

18: The Star Prairie Project -Surreal

January

1: The Dirty Nil -  Fuck Art (Dine Alone Records)

8: Magnum - Dance Of The Black Tattoo

13: PETRIC - Flashbacks

15: Royal Wood - Live At Massey Hall

15: Buzzcocks - Singles 77-80 boxset (Domino)

15: Edenbridge - The Chronicles Of Eden part 2 

15: Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat!

15: Dragony - Viribus Unitis  (Napalm Records)

15: Matthew Sweet  - Catspaw (Omnivore Recordings)

15: Sleaford Mods  Spare Ribs  ( Rough Trade)

15: KT Tunstall -Drastic Fantastic (Ultimate Edition)  (UMC)

15: Kurt Vile  -  Speed, Sound, Lonely   (Matador)

15: Steve Strongman - Tired of Talkin’ reissue  (Stony Plain Records)

22: Lonely The Brave - The Hope List 

22: Phantom Elite  Titanium

22: The Dead Daisies  - Holy Ground 

22: Palberta -  Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat Records)

22: Moon Taxi - Silver Dream

22: Azmari -Samā'ī’ ( Sdban UItra)

22: Adam Klein - Little Tiger 

22: Speed Stick - Volume One (Don Giovanni Records)

22:  Nervosa- Perpetual Chaos  (Napalm Records)

22: Bicep - Isles ( Ninja Tune)

22: Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Songs For The Apocalypse (Frontiers Srl)

22: Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns (Kiwi Club/Sub Pop)

22: Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland)

22: Rhye - Home (Last Gang Records)

29: Puma Blue  - In Praise of Shadows (Blue Flowers)

29: Balthazar - Sand (Play It Again sam)

29: St. Germain - Tourist - 20th Anniversary edition

29: Goat Girl  - On All Fours  (Rough Trade)

29: Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit (Invada Records)

29: Lucero - When You Found Me (Liberty and Lament/Thirty Tigers)

29: The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Flemish Eye)

February

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

5: Black Country, New Road  For the first time ( Ninja Tune)

5:  Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976. (Light In The Attic)

5: A.J. Croce - By Request (Compass Records)

5: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight 

5: Rod Abernethy - Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore 

5:  Charles Ellsworth - Honeysuckle Summer 

5: The Weather Station - Ignorance (Next Door Records)

5: Demon Hunter -  Songs of Death and Resurrection

5: Puma Blue - In Praise of Shadows

5: Sarah Mary Chadwick -Me And Ennui Are Friends Baby ( Ba Da Bing)

12: The Deathray Davies - Time Well Wasted  (We Know Better Records)

12: Drones - Our Hell Is Right Here  (Thousand Islands Records) 

12: God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm Records)

12: Dead Poet Society - The Exclamation Album

12: Bodies of Water - Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)

14: Little Hurt -Better Drugs

14: Boniface - S/T  (Transgressive)

19: Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights (Royal Mountain Records)

19: Austin Meade - Black Sheep (Snakefarm Records )

19: SG Lewis - times  (Republic Records)

19: Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs -  Real One Out (Dine Alone)

19: Cameron Graves- Seven (Artistry Music)

19: Blessed -  iii. (Flemish Eye)

26: Roosevelt - Polydans (City Slang / Greco-Roman)

26: Leahy - Good Water

26: Gerd Janson - Polydans (City Slang)

26: TiKA - Anywhere But Here  (Next Door Records)

26: Maxïmo Park - Nature Always Wins  (Prolifica Inc)

26: Julien Baker  - Little Oblivions (Matador)

March

5: Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age Of Oddities  (130701)

12: Doohickey Cubicle - Don't Fix Anything

26: As Everything Unfolds - Within Each Lies The Other (Long Branch Records)

April

16: Sleeps Society - S/T  (Spinefarm Records)

16: Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake Of My Life ( Sharptone Records)

Canadian artists marked in red