FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, March 18, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables this week include Andrew Farriss, Raul Malo, Middle Kids, Jon Batiste, Sting, Lana Del Rey, Paul Stanley's Soul Station, Ringo Starr, and Harry Connick Jr.  

Canadian releases include albums by Whitehorse, Bell Orchestre, Corb Lund, Busty and the Bass, Chad VanGaalen, Jason Collett, Daniel Lanois, Vallens, Justin Bieber, and TuneTown.

.March

15: Alec Fraser Jr - On The Wings of the Wind

16: Mahogany Frog - Mahogany Frog In The Electric Universe (MoonJune Records)

17: Busty and the Bass - ET Suite (Arts & Crafts)

19: Papa Roach - Greatest Hits Volume 2 – The Better Noise Years

19: Triptides -Alter Echoes (Alive Naturalsound Records)

19: Joe Pug - The Diving Sun

19: Whitehorse - Modern Love (Six Shooter)

19. Corb Lund -Agricultural Tragic (Deluxe Edition) (Warner Music Canada) 

19: Slow Crush -  Aurora (Quiet Panic)

19: Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland Records)

19: Raul Malo - Quarantunes Vol. 1,  (Mono Mundo Recordings)

19: Harry Connick Jr. - Alone With My Faith (UMC)

19: BPM Trio - Audi Alterum Partem (Chronograph)

19: Sting - Duets (UMC)

19: Middle Kids - Today We’re The Greatest  (Domino)

19: Les Shirley - Forever Is Now 

19: Souleye - Hunting Teardrops 

19: Andrew Farriss - S/T

19: Bell Orchestre - House Music (Envision Records/Erased Tapes)

19: Bobby Womack - The Poet and The Poet II reissues

19: Jason Collett - Best Of (Arts & Crafts)

19: Serj Tankian -  Elasticity EP  ( Alchemy Recordings/BMG)

19: Chad VanGaalen  - World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop).

19: Joe Pug -The Diving Sun

19: BPM Trio - Audi Alteram Partem (Chronograph)

19: Show Me The Body  - Survive (Loma Vista)

19:  Dezza 44° North, 63° West, (Colorize)

19: Mark Clennon - Foreign (Bonsound)

19: Ringo Starr - Zoom In (Universal)

19: Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T. (New West)

19: Colin Miller - Hook EP ( Oof Records)

19: Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails over the Country Club ( Interscope Records and Polydor Records)

19: Jane Inc. - Number One (Telephone Explosion Records)

19: Jon Batiste - We Are (UMC)

19: Willie Dunn -Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology  (Light in the Attic)

19: A.A. Williams - Songs From Isolation (Bella Union)

19: Junia-T - Studio Monk (Deluxe Edition)

19: Paul Stanley’s Soul Station -Now and Then (Ume)

19: Dani Nash - S/T 

19: Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough, A Celebration of Women in Country Music  (Legacy)

19: New Age Steppers-  Four studio LPs reissued plus anthology box set  (On-U Sound)

19: Daniel Lanois - Heavy Sun 

19: Son of the Velvet Rat  -Solitary Company (Fluff & Gravy Records)

19: Justin Bieber- JUSTICE (RBMG/Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Canada)

19: TuneTown -Entering Utopia (Three Pines Records)

19: Janet Simpson - Safe Distance (Cornelius Chapel Records)

19:  Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland Records)

19: The Blue Stones - Hidden Gems (eOne)

19: Protoje - In Search of Lost Time: Deluxe Edition (In.Digg.Nation Collective/Six Course Music/RCA Records)

19: Vallens  In Era (Hand Drawn Dracula)

20: Nick Rhodes and Wendy Bevan - ASTRONOMIA I: THE FALL OF SATURN (Tape Modern)

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

26: Renée Reed  - S/T  (Keeled Scales) 

26: Al Muirhead Quintet -  Live From Frankie's & The Yardbird. (Chronograph)

26: Departure Lounge -  Transmeridian (Violette Records)

26: Tate McRae  too young to be sad (RCA Records)

26: ‘68 - Give One Take One (Cooking Vinyl)

26: Ben Howard - Collections From the Whiteout (UMC)

26: Various Artists - Sunday, Someday (Get Better Records

26: Scott Helland - The Spy Detective Collection

26: Clark - Playground In A Lake (Deutsche Grammophon)

26: Xiu Xiu - OH NO (Polyvinyl)

26: John Smith -  The Fray (Thirty Tigers) 

26: L'Imperatrice - Tako Tsubo 

26: Neil Young - Young Shakespeare. 

26: Bryce Thomas - Across The Neuro Seas 

26: Andy Meyers and Diana Hayes - Deeper Into the Forest

26:  Evanescence - The Bitter Truth (BMG)

26: Cathal Coughlan - Co-Aklan 

26: Owen BarneyTough Times 

26: Vanessa Carlton - Love Is An Art  Deluxe version (Dine Alone Records)

26: Joe Strummer -  Assembly (Dark Horse Records )

26: Skegss – Rehearsal ( Loma Vista Recordings.)

26:  AJR  - OK Orchestra

26: Lungfish - Love Is Love, on color vinyl (red). (Dischord)

26: Greenleaf -  Echoes From A Mass  (Napalm Records)

26: Guitarmy of One - The Spy Detective Collective 

26: Mythos  - XXV  (Adagio/The Orchard)

26: Real Estate -Half a Human EP ( Domino)

26: Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers (Spinefarm)

26: Space Cadet - Lion On A Leash (Wiretap Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt  - GREGÆR (Long Branch Records)

26: Payday - P.U.K.E Tapes Volume 3

26: Modesty Blaise -The Modesty Blaise (From Lo-Fi to Disco!)

26: Esther Rose - How Many Times (Father/Daughter Records & Full Time Hobby)

26: Sarah Jerrom -  Dream Logic ( Three Pines Records) 

26: Justin Rutledge - Islands

26: The Wanted -Strange Flight 

26: New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers - Vol. 2 (Stony Plain Records)

26: David Olney and Anana Kaye - Whispers and Sighs (School Kids Records)

26: tune-yards  sketchy.  (4AD)

26: Memoriam - To The End (Reaper Entertainment)

26: The Armadillo Paradox - Out of Gas in Oil Country

26: Annabelle Chvostek - String of Pearls

26: Carrie Underwood  - My Savior (UMC)

26: Emily Moment - The Party's Over  

26: Anna Fox Rochinski -  Cherry

26:  ‘68 - Give One Take One (Cooking Vinyl)

26: Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Red & White vinyl edition)  (Matador)

26: Suzi Quatro- The Devil in Me (SPV/Steamhammer)

26: John Smith -  The Fray

26: Brigitte DeMeyer- Seeker (BDM Music)

26: Jerry Leger - Time Out For Tomorrow, deluxe edition

26:  24kGoldn  - El Dorado

26: Architects -  For Those Who Wish to Exist

26: First Aid Kit - Who By Fire (Sony Sweden/Columbia Records)

31: Doubleheader - GOODTIME.S(HITMIX) Vol.1

31: Andrzej Pietrewicz-  #4

April

1: Jon Klages - Fabulous Twilight'

1: Foxes - Friends In The Corner  [PIAS] Recordings

2: Glasvegas-  Godspeed

2: The Holly Cole Trio - Montreal (UMC) 

2:  Hope Dunbar - Sweetheartland

2: The Natvral -Tethers (Kanine)

2: MYTHIC SUNSHIP - Wildfire (Tee Pee Records)

2: Cristina Vane - Nowhere Sounds Lovely

2: Shakey Graves - Roll The Bones X (Dualtone Records.)

2: Demi Lovato -  Dancing with the Devil…The Art of Starting Over (UMC)

2: MØAA- Euphoric Recall WWNBB (We Were Never Being Boring)

2: Dry Cleaning    New Long Leg  (4AD)  

2: YaSi - Coexist with Chaos (Royal Rhythm Records)

2: Alex Little & The Suspicious Minds - Waiting to Get Paid  (Light Organ)

9: The Fratellis -  Half Drunk Under a Full Moon

9: Assertion - Intermission

9: Purgatory - Lawless To Grave (Unbeaten Records)

9: Marc Scibilia - Seed of Joy 

9: Peter Murphy -  Love Hysteria  (Indigo vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

9: Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart (Blue vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

9: Peggy Lee - Something Wonderful: Peggy Lee Sings The Great American Songbook (Omnivore)

9: Dallas Moore -The Rain 

9:  The Treatment - Waiting For Good Luck (Frontiers Music Srl )

9: Yaya Bey - The Things I Can’t Take With Me (Big Dada)

9: Max Richter - Voices 2

9: Beverly Glenn-Copeland - reissue Keyboard Fantasies (Transgressive)

9: Nick Waterhouse - Promenade Blue (Innovative Leisure)

9: Tones on Tail  - POP    (Beggars Banquet)

9: Hainbach -Landfill Totems (SA Recordings)

9: The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather  (Slumberland)

9: Chris Cain -  Raisin' Cain (Alligator Records) 

9: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Live At Knebworth ‘76 -DVD+CD +Blu-ray+2LP (Eagle Rock Entertainment )

9: Sweet Oblivion - Relentless 

9: Brett Kissel - What Is Life?  (Warner)

9: Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (Republic Records)

9: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band  -  Dance Songs for Hard Times (Thirty Tigers)

9: Powerwolf - Vinyl Re-Release -Blessed & Possessed  (Napalm Records)

9: Cheap Trick -  In Another World

11: Mista Books & Teck-Zilla -The Harder The Better'

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

16: Stephen Flatt - Cumberland Bones

16: Will Porter - Tick Tock Tick (Gramofono Sound Label)

16: Waxflower - We Might Be Alright (Rude Records)

16: The Vintage Caravan -  Monuments  (Napalm)

16: Greg Keelor – Share the Love (Warner)

16: The Gloria Record - Start Here  vinyl reissue (Big Scary Monsters)

16: Icon of Sin - S/T

16: Born Ruffians - PULP (Wavy Hazy Records/Yep Roc Records)

16: Manika Kaur - EK (Six Degrees Records)

16: Arthur King - Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg)  (AKP Recordings)

16: Julia Stone - Sixty Summers (Arts & Crafts)

16: The Workday - Like The Light Of Stars

16: Black Orchid Empire - Live In The Studio (Long Branch Records)

16: Miesha and The Spanks - Singles EP 

16: Annie Moses Band - Tales From My Grandpa’s Pulpit (Gaither Music Group)

16: Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden’s Gate (Lava/Republic)

16: Jethro Tull - ‘A’ (A La Mode)  3 CD/3 DVD box set 

16: Alex Henry Foster - Standing Under Bright Lights (Hopeful Tragedy)

16: The Brother Brothers - Calla Lilly  ( Compass Records)

16: James Holvay - Sweet Soul Song (Mob Town Records)

16: Temple Balls - Pyromide (Frontiers Music Srl )

16: Isaac + Yaehsun - Natura Sophia (Crystal Math/Universal)

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

16 Lea Bertucci - A Visible Length Of Light  (Cibachrome Editions)

16: Julia Stone - Sixty Summers  (Arts & Crafts)

16: Jakob Mind -The One Who Got Away (Lövely Records)

16: The Vintage Caravan -  Monuments (Napalm Records)

16: Hail The Sun - New Age Filth (Equal Vision Records)

16: John Moods - So Sweet ( Arbutus Records)

19: Paul Chin - Full Spectrum (Deluxe Remixes)

23: Randy McAllister - Paperbag Salvation (Reaction Records)

23: Fog Lake -Tragedy Reel (Orchid Tapes)

23: Charlie Houston -  I Hate Spring EP (Arts & Crafts) 

23: Tristan Kasten-Krause -Potential Landscapes 

23: Birthday Ass - Head of the Household

23: Peter Frampton - Frampton Forgets the Words (Universal Music)

23: Oxlip -Your Mother Was A Peacock (Garment District Records)

23: Rag‘n’Bone Man - Life By Misadventure ( Columbia)

23: glimmers- Worlds Apart (Common Ground Collective)

23: JayWood-Some Days (Royal Mountain Records/Captured Tracks)

23: Art d'Ecco - In Standard Definition (Paper Bag Records)

23: Proper Nouns  Feel Free  (Phone Booth Records)

23: TDA  - Ascète (Michel Records)

23: Animal Collective - Crestone (Original Score) 

23: Claire Rousay -  a softer focus (American Dreams Records)

23: Ditchbird - Real Enough For You Now

23: The Who - The Who Sell Out - deluxe edition (UMC)

23:  Laurence-Anne - Musivision (Bonsound)

23: Tom Jones - Surrounded By Time  (S-Curve Records/BMG)

23: Pet Shop Boys  - Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 concert

23: Jimmie Bratcher - I'm Hungry (Ain't Skeert Tunes)

23: The Rose Petals - American Grenadine 

23: WarCall  -Dead End Pt. 1 (Plan B Music)

23: Harker - Axiom (Wiretap Records)

30: Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever  (Ninja Tune)

30: Thomas Rhett - Country Again, Side A ( Valory Music Group)

30: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty (BMG)

30: Amy Shark - Cry Forever

30: Noa -  Afterallogy

30: girl in red -if i could make it go quiet (AWAL)

30: Amy Speace and The Orphan Brigade -There Used To Be Horses Here

30: Nick Hudson -Font of Human Fractures

30: Pink Floyd - Live At Knebworth 1990 (Sony Music)

30: Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (Loma Vista Recordings)

30: The Shootouts - Bullseye (Soundly Music)

30: Royal Blood - Typhoons (UMC)

30:  Tōth - You And Me And Everything ( Northern Spy)

30: Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship (Telephone Explosion)

30: Paul Jacobs  - Pink Dogs on The Green Grass ( Blow The Fuse)

30: Evile -  Hell Unleashed (Napalm Records)

30: Mick Fleetwood & Friends - Celebrating the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac (BMG)

30: VISSIA - With Pleasure (Hurry Hard Records/Symphonic Distribution)

30: Kristian North - Passion Play ( Mothland)

30: Tetrarch - Unstable (Napalm Records)

30: Kenny Rogers -  21 Number Ones - vinyl (The Kenny Rogers Estate/Capitol Records/UMe)

30: Elsa Hewitt-  Lupa (Cargo Records)

30: Bob Bradshaw- The Ghost Light (Fluke Records)

30: Nick Hudson - Font Of Human Fractures 

30: Rochelle Jordan - Play With the Changes ( Royal Mountain Records/Young Art Records)

May

7: GHOST IRIS - Comatose (Long Branch Records)

7: Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp Records)

7: Robin McAuley's- Standing On The Edge

7: Leftover Salmon - Brand New Good Old Days  (Compass Records)

7: Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney ( Easy Eye Sound)

7: Jeffery Straker  - Just Before Sunrise (Independent) 

7: Manolo Redondo -  "The Lost & Found EP (Violette Records)

7: Van Morrison  -Latest Record Project: Volume 1 (Exile/BMG)

7: GoGo Penguin - GGP/RMX (Blue Note Records)

7: Treephones  - Pink Objects 

7: Peter Murphy   - Deep (Clear vinyl) reissue (Beggars Banquet)

7: Peter Murphy  -  Holy Smoke  (Smoke vinyl) reissue  (Beggars Banquet)

7: Man on Man - S/T (Polyvinyl Record Co. / Big Scary Monsters)

7: Scott B. Sympathy - Neil Yonge Street - reissue (Curve Music)

7: Scott B. Sympathy - Drinking With The Poet- reissue (Curve Music)

7: Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen (Telephone Explosion Records)

7: Sumo Cyco - Initiation  (Napalm Records! Interlaced )

7: TEKE::TEKE   Shirushi  May 7 (Ray-On)

7: The Accidentals  Time Out (Session 1)

7: Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney

7: False Memories - The Last Night Of Fall ( Frontiers Music Srl)

7: Alphaville The Deluxe Editions Warner)

7: Alphaville  Afternoons In Utopia (Warner)

7: Slow Leaves  - Holiday (Birthday Cake Records)

12: Ian Janes - Episode 5 (Bandcamp)

14: The Go-Go’s =God Bless The Go-Go’s  (Eagle Records)

14: St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (Loma Vista)

14: Great Lake Swimmers - Live At The Redeemer 2007 (weewerk)

14: Sarah Neufeld -Detritus (One Little Independent Records)

14: Siniestro- Vortexx ( Black Lodge Records)

14: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Déjà Vu  reissue (Rhino)

14: Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) (Black Box)

14: Sunbomb - Evil And Divine (Frontiers srl)

14: Rodrigo y Gabriela JAZZ EP (ATO)

14: Belvedere - Hindsight is The Sixth Sense (Thousand Islands Records)

14: Seventh Crystal - Delirium (Frontiers Music Srl)

21: Gary Numan - Intruder

21: We Were Sharks - New Low (Revival Recordings)

21: Nineteen Hand Horse  Revel

21: Vexed - Culling Culture (Napalm)

21: Eamonn McCormack - Storyteller (BEM Records/Amplified Distribution)

21: Jim McCulloch - When I Mean What I Say: (Violette Records)

 21: Kaktus Einarsson - Kick The Ladder ( One Little Independent)

21: San Holo - bb u ok? (bitbird/Counter Records)

21: CHAI - Wink (Sub Pop)

21: Mdou Moctar    Afrique Victime  (Matador)

21: Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (Mothland)

21: PACKS take the cake (Fire Talk/Royal Mountain Records)

21: Gruff Rhys  - Seeking New Gods  (Rough Trade)

21: Bob Malone -Good People 

21: Lambchop  Showtunes (Merge)

21: Art Bergmann - Late Stage Empire Dementia (Weewerk/Porterhouse Records)

21: San Holo - BB U OK? (Counter Records)

25: Annette Peacock. X-Dreams  (Sundazed)

28: André Ethier- Further Up Island  (Telephone Explosion)

28: Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions  

28: k.d. lang -  makeover (Nonesuch)

28: Stormruler- Under The Burning Eclipse (Napalm Records)

28: Beth Whitney - Into the Ground

28: Hillburn - Slipping Away (LHM Records)

June

4: Satsang - All. Right. Now. (SideOneDummy Records)

4: Dobet Gnahoré -  Couleur (Cumbancha) 

4: Mndsgn - Rare Pleasure (Stones Throw Records)

4: Atreyu - Baptize (Spinefarm Records)

4: Ormiston - Hammer Down (Lisbon Lux Records)

4: Loraine James - Reflection  (Hyperdub)

4: Paris Pick -Hope For The Best (Care Records)

4: Various Artists - Unbroken | Empty Room, Full Circle (Grand Ole Opry) 

4: Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (BMG)

11: Islands -  Islomania (Royal Mountain Records)

11: Courtney Wolfe- New Moon

11: Dany Laj and the Looks - Ten Easy Pieces, (We Are Busy Bodies)

11: The Hello Darlins - Go By Feel!

18:  Rory Feek -Gentle Man  (Gaither Music)

18: Tamara Williamson -  Enough

25: Peter Murphy    Cascade (2LP) (Scarlet vinyl) reissue ( Beggars Banquet)

25: Peter Murphy  The Last and Only Star Rarities ( Beggars Banquet)

25: Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune)

July

23: Various Artists  Bills & Aches & Blues” (2LP 4AD 40th Anniversary Compilation)   (4AD)

30: Nobody's Girl - Folk and Heavenly Pop  ( Lucky Hound Music)

August

6: John Moods  -So Nice  (Arbutus Records)

20:  LTtheMonk - On The Wall (Sonic Unyon Records)

27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)

Canadian artists marked in red