FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, July 29, 2021

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include Billie Eilish, Los Lobos, Prince, Scritti Politti, The Beach Boys, Lump, Dot Allison, and Seether.

Canadian releases includes albums by Steven Lee Olsen, The Effens, The Halluci Nation, Jean-Paul De Roover, Maggie Szabo, The Pumps, and Tush.

July

26: Ah-Mer-Ah-Su  - Hopefully Limitless

28: Sam Mehran - Cold Brew (Weird World) 

28: Michael Martinez - Divine Heart 

30: The Effens - Eventually (Hidden Pony/LootBag Records)

30: Dee Snider - Leave A Scar (Napalm Records)

30: Yola - Stand For Myself (Easy Eye Sound)

30: Foreign Films - Starlight Serenade

30: Myles Travitz - Mother Moon

30: Steven Lee Olsen -Relationship Goals (Umusic / The Core)

30: Scritti Politti  - Cupid & Psyche ’85 and  Anomie & Bonhomie (2LP)   (Rough Trade)

30: Skirts - Great Big Wild Oak  (Double Double Whammy)

30:  Babylung - To Live And Die In Surrey 

30: Ryan Kinder - Room To Dream 

30: Jean-Paul De Roover - Lone

30:  Death Valley Girls  - Street Venom vinyl (Suicide Squeeze Records)

30: Lump-  Animal’ (Partisan/Chrysalis)

30: Sweet Teeth - Acid Rain  ( Lövely Records)

30: The Pumps - Gotta Move (CD reissue)

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

30: Sweet Teeth - Acid Rain  (Lovely)

30: Alex Rex - Paradise (Neolithic Recordings)

30:  Bleachers  -Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night  (RCA Records)

30: Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever  (UMC)

30: Alan Vega - After Dark (In The Red Records) 

30: Shirley Collins - Crowlink EP (Domino)

30: The Great Leap Forward -  Revolt Against An Age of Plenty ( A Turntable Friend Records).

30: Lisa Mills - The Triangle (Expanded Edition ( – Melody Place Music)

30: Los Lobos - Native Sons (New West)

30: Tush - Fantast  (Do Right! Music)

30: Tragedy - Disco Balls to the Wall (Napalm Records)

30: Lakes -  Start Again  (Know Hope Records)

30: Parker McCollum - Gold Chain Cowboy

30: Prince - Welcome 2 America 

30: Maggie Szabo -Rebuild

30: Parmalee - For You  (Stoney Creek Records/BBR Music Group)

30: NEEDTOBREATHE  - Into The Mystery

30: Paper Birch morninghairwater  (Reckless Yes)

30: Punk Rock Factory- Masters Of The Uniwurst

30: The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night

30: Leslie Winer - When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It (LITA)

30: The Beach Boys - The Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions  1969-1971 box set

30: The Five Hundred - A World On Fire (Long Branch Records)

30: Paul Oakenfold - Shine On (Perfecto Records)

30: Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars  (SA Recordings)   

30: Tayls - Have You Ever? (I've Always)

30: Flight Club - Until The Sun Drowns (Open Your Ears Records)

30: Seether -Wasteland – The Purgatory EP

August

4: Hans Deville Prophecies Of The Lost 

5: Praises - EP4  (Hand Drawn Dracula)

6: Grand Collapse  Empty Plinths

6: John Moods  -So Nice  (Arbutus Records)

6: Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of Light (Severn Songs)

6: Camie - troubadour

6: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray -Leave the Bones

6: FEUERSCHWANZD -ie letzte Schlacht (engl. The Final Battle), -BluRay/DVD/CD (Napalm Records)

6: Bigmcenroe - Brandon 

6: summersets -small town sunday

6: Janet Cull - Hear It Is

6: Mercy Bell - Golden Child  

6: Crossing I’s Dotting T’s  - S/T (Golden Robot / Riot Records)

6: Night Ranger - ATBPO (Frontiers Music Srl.)

6: The Umbrellas - S/T  (Slumberland Records)

6: Joshua Ben Joseph - I Want The Old World Back  

6: Gerry Gibbs - Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound/Naxos)

6: Long Shadows Dawn  - Isle Of Wrath

6: Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher- There's Someone Tryin' To Get In (Black Lagoon Records)

6: Andrea von Kampen -  That Spell (Fantasy Records)

6: Joseph Akins - Dream World

6: Tito Jackson - Under Your Spell (Gulf Coast Records and Hillside Global)

6: Wolf Castle -Da Vinci's Inquest (Forward Music Group)

6: Max Richter - Exiles  (UMC)

6: Brian Jackson -JID008 (Jazz Is Dead)

6: Circus Of Rock -Come One, Come All

6: Nas - King’s Disease II  ( Mass Appeal)

6: Paul Thorn - Never Too Late To Call  (Thirty Tigers)

6: Ro Myra - Nowhere, Nebraska

6: Spice -10 (VP Records)

6: Brian May - Back To The Light (reissue) - (UMC)

6: Andrew Rinehart - Have Fun Idiot (sonaBLAST!) 

6: Lion Babe - Rainbow Child’

6: Colin Hay - I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (Compass)

6: Patricia Barber - Clique (Impex)

9: Al Matcott - You Can Be Anyone

9: Taj Weekes - Pause

11: Cots -  Disturbing Body ( Boiled Records )

13: Jungle - Loving In Stereo (AWAL)

13: ALIAS  - It's Not Funny So Stop Smilin (Simone Records)

13: Caveman- Smash  (Fortune Tellers)

13: Shakey Trill  - S/T

13: Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1 (XL Recordings)

13: Lee DeWyze - Ghost Stories (Mavelle Records)

13: Josienne Clarke -  A Small Unknowable Thing

13: Typhoid Rosie  - Queen Of Swords

13: Sungaze This Dream 

13: Ditchbird - Some Dreams EP

13: Willie Nile - The Day the Earth Stood Still

13: Elijah Ocean - Born Blue  

13: Charles Spearin - My City of Starlings (Arts & Crafts)

13: Victory Kid -Discernation (SBÄM Records)

13: Lucinda Chua   Antidotes  (4AD)

13: Supreme Love Gods - We Are All Together (One Little Independent Records)

13: The Ugly Kings - Strange, Strange Times (Napalm Records)

13: Wednesday- Twin Plagues  (Orindal Records) 

13: The Rumperts - Escapism (SBÄM Records)

13: The Cruzados - She's Automatic (Scamco )

13: Pachyman - The Return of Pachyman (ATO Records)

13: F. Scott and the Nighthawks  - Hold Onto Your Heart. 

13: Jonathan Bauer – Sings and Plays (Slammin' Media)

13: Suzie Ungerleider - My Name is Suzie Ungerleider (MVKA) 

13: The Ugly Kings -Strange, Strange Times (Napalm Records)

13:  Explorer Tapes - S/T (Omnivore)

18: Jan Lisiecki  -Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon)

18: Nilufer Yanya - Feeling Lucky? Remix EP  (ATO Records)

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

20: Lorkin O'Reilly - Marriage Material (Team Love)

20: Lorde - Solar Power

20: Silver Pools - Chroma (Modern Laundry Recording Club)

20: Badge Epoch - Scroll (Telephone Explosion Records)

20: Shire T - Tomorrow’s People (Dama Dama)

20: Fen - Life Is So Beautiful 

20: Villagers - Fever Dreams  (Domino)

20: John Francis Flynn  I Would Not Live Always (River Lea)

20: Darrin Bradbury - Artvertisement (ANTI-)

20: Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet ( New Friends)

20: Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die ( Elektra/Low Country Sound)

20: Shannon & The Clams - Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound)

20: Kirty - We Are All On Fire (Postwar Records)

20: Kool & the Gang - Perfect Union (Ru-Jac Records/Omnivore)

20: Eric Hilton - Ceremony

20: Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks of the Trade 

20: Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton - Anniversary Deluxe Edition

20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)

20: Settle Your Scores - retrofit ( Mutant League Records)

20: Mano Le Tough - At The Moment  ( Pampa Records)

20: Manny Blu -  DEViL

20: Lung -Come Clean Right Now (Sofaburn Records)

20: Black Light Animals-  - Playboys of the Western World (Groove King)

20: James McMurtry -The Horses and the Hounds (New West Records)

20: Necronautica - Slain In the Spirit  (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)

20: Switchfoot - interrobang (Fantasy Records)

20: GA-20 - Does Hound Dog Taylor -  (Colemine Records/Alligator Records)

20: Occurrence - I Have So Much Love To Give  (Archie & Fox Records)

20: Zach Kleisinger -Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)

20: The Road Hammers - Boys Are Back EP (Open Road)

20: Warkings -Revolution (Napalm)

20: Chris Acker - Odd, Ordinary & Otherwise  (Gar Hole Records)

20: Martha Wainwright  - Love Will Be Reborn (Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl)

24: School of X -  Dancing Through The Void 

24: Container -Creamer EP (Drone)

27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)

27: Seong-Jin Cho - Return to Chopin (Deutsche Grammophon)

27:  Andrew Krull -It All Goes 

27: Wormwood -Arkivet

27:  ILY - Neurotic (Sadboy Records/Sony Canada)

27: December Rose – Raise Your Voice (Slammin' Media)

27: Mountain Time - Saint Francis, Zookeeper (Spartan Records)

27: Kat Von D - Love Made Me Do It

27: Gord Downie - Coke Machine Glow - expanded 20th anniversary release (Arts & Crafts)

27: Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World ( Constellation.)

27: Ben Heffernan - drive in movies

27: Ex Deo -  The Thirteen Years Of Nero (Napalm Records)

27: Grayson Jenkins - Turning Tides

27: Shawna Caspi - Hurricane Coming

27: Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (UMC)

27: Niko Moon - Good Time  (RCA Nashville)

27: Tim Easton -You Don't Really Know Me (Black Mesa Records)

27: Steve Gunn - Other You (2LP)  (Matador )

27: Jordana Talsky - Zahava

27: I See Hawks in L.A. -On Our Way

27: The Faux Paws - S/T 

27: Diane Warren - The Cave Sessions Vol.1 (Di-Namic Records/BMG)

27: Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale 

27: Mikaela Finne --Time Stands Still

27: Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take  (Saddle Creek)

September

1: Fair Visions - Modern Kids

1: Ivytide - softy

2: Finny McConnell -The Dark Streets of Love (True North)

3: Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland  (Feeltrip Records)

3: Geordie Gordon - The Tower

3: The Picturebooks - The Major Minor Collective

3: The Hawkins - The Aftermath' 

3: Bokassa -  Molotov Rocktail (Napalm Records)

3: Bob Marley And The Wailers - The Capitol Session ‘73 on DVD/CD/LP (Tuff Gong and Mercury Studios)

3: Megan & Shane - Daughter of Country 

3: Not On Tour - B-Sides (SBÄM Records)

3o: Vikingur Olafsson - Mozart & Contemporaries (UMC)

3: New Found Glory  - Forever And Ever x Infinity...And Beyond! (Hopeless Records)

3:  Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall  ( BMG.)

3: Laroie - Speed of Life EP

3: SUUNS - The Witness  ( Secret City Records)

3: Bad Waitress -  No Taste  (Royal Mountain Records)

3: David Ferguson - Nashville No More (Fat Possum Records)

3: BOKASSA  Molotov Rocktail (Napalm Records)

10: Matthew E. White - K Bay (Domino)

10: GWAR - Scumdogs Live ( Pit Records)

10: The Stranglers - Dark Matters  ( Coursegood/ BFD)

10: Matthew Fowler -The Grief We Gave Our Mother  (Signature Sounds)

10: Anette Olzon - Strong  (Frontiers Music Srl)

10: Hawthorne Heights -  The Rain Just Follows Me (Pure Noise Records)

10:  Black Sorrows - Saint Georges Road

10: Elvis Costello and Sebastian Krys  - Spanish Model  (UMe/UMC)

10: BON Pantheon’ (Spatial Awareness )

10: Amyl and the Sniffers =Comfort To Me (ATO Records)

10: De Beren Gierennic - Less Is Endless (Sdban Ultra)

10: Ross Adams - Escaping Southern Heat 

10: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View (Big Scary Monsters)

10: Various Artists - R&B in D.C. 1940-1960 (Bear Family)

10: Pokey LaFarge- In The Blossom of Their Shade (New West)

10: Central Heat Exchange - Directly Down

10: Sarah Davachi  -Antiphonals  (Late Music)

10: God Damn - Raw Coward' (One Little Independent Records)

10: Metallica -The Black Album -30th anniversary edition ( Blackened Recordings/Warner)

10: Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence (Inside Out Music)

10: Jonathan Paull Gertler - No Fear,

10: Homeshake -Under The weather (Dine Alone)

10: Samantha Fish - Faster

10: Rufus Wainwright  - Unfollow The Rules – The Paramour Sessions (UMC)

10: 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Before I Die ( Ninja Tune)

14: Gordie Tentrees - Mean Old World  ( Buckaroo Records)

17: Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out ­ (BMG)

17: Bob Dylan -  Springtime in New York 

17: Don Broco - Amazing Things  (Sharptone Records)

17: Jared James Nichols - Shadow Dancer (Black Hill Records)

17: Half String - A Fascination with Heights  ( IPR )

17: Karaboudjan - Imago 

17: Ana Egge -  Between Us  (StorySound Records)

17: Colin Linden - bLOW  ( Highway 20/Thirty Tigers).

17: Written By Wolves - The Collab Project EP 

17: José González - Local Valley (Mute)

17: Jimmie Vaughan - The Jimmie Vaughan Story  - box set (Last Music Co.)

17: Wesley Stace - Late Style (Omnivore Recordings)

17: Straylight Run  - Live at the Patchogue Theatre

17: June Garber- Off The Carousel (Versuvius Music)

17: Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator

17: Thrice - Horizons/East  (Epitaph Records)

17: Vika and Linda - The Wait 

17: Henrik Lindstrand -Reimagined (One Little Independent Records)

17: Tommy Castro - A Bluesman Came To Town (Alligator)

17: Matthew James Adkins - Stoned On My Own  (Whistlepig Records)

17: James Vincent McMorrow  Grapefruit Season (Columbia Records)

17: Jordan Rakei -What We Call Life (Ninja Tune )

17: Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman  - Folk for Little Folk Volume 1

17: Jorane - HEMENETSET

17: Alien Weaponry- Tangaroa (Napalm Records)

17: Edge Of Paradise - The Unknown(Frontiers Sri)

17: The Felice Brothers - From Dreams To Dust (Yep Roc Records)

17: Sweet Nobody -We’re Trying Our Best (Daydream Records

17: Matthew James Adkins  Stoned On My Own (Whistlepig Records)

17: Alex Southey -My Nights On The Island

17: Rage -Resurrection Day  (SPV/Steamhammer)

21: Andrew W.K. - God Is Partying ( Napalm Records )  

21: Simo Cell- YES.DJ  (TEMƎT Music)

24: Radiant Baby - Pantomine (Lisbon Lux)

24: Fernie - Aurora

24: Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name  (UMC)

24: Mara Simpson - In This Place (Downfield Records)

24: Spencer Cullum - Coin Collection (Full Time Hobby)

24: James Baley - A Story 

24: Badflower - This Is How The World Ends  (Big Machine/John Varvatos Records)

24: Pixies   Trompe Le Monde (Green Marbled 30th Anniversary Vinyl Edition)  (4AD)

24: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind (Asthmatic Kitty Records)

24: Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms 

24: Afternoon Bike Ride  - S/T (Friends of Friends Music)

24: Ashley Shadow  - Only the End  (Felte) - vinyl on Oct. 29

24: Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz- Milan  (AKP recordings)

24: A Pale Horse Named Death - Infernum In Terra (Long Branch Records / SPV)

24: Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic (Play It Again Sam)

24: Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb (Spinefarm)

24: The Franklin Electric - This Time I See It ( Nettwerk)

24: Soja -Beauty In The Silence (ATO Records)

24: Ada Lea - one hand steering the wheel the other sewing a garden (Saddle Creek and Next Door Records) 

24: Dayseeker -  Sleeptalk (Spinefarm)

24: K-Riz  Peace & Love

24: Manu Delago  - Environ Me (One Little Independent Records)

24: Sharon Corr - The Fool and the Scorpion (Warner)

24: Tony Kamel - Back Down Home

24: Randy Travis - Storms of Life (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 

30: Arkells –  Blink Once (Universal Music Canada)

October

1: Moist -  End of the Ocean (Known Accomplice)

1: Shad - TAO (Secret City Records)

1: Lana Love  - S/T

1: The Colorist Orchestra + Howe Gelb - Not On The Map  (Dangerbird Records) 

1: Foamboy - My Sober Daydream

1: Sonia Aimy – Reconnect (Slammin' Media)

1: Glok - Pattern Recognition

1: Leeroy Stagger - Dystopian Weekends

1: Tirzah - Colourgrade

1: Princess Century - s u r r e n d e r  (Paper Bag Records)

1: Goodbye Honolulu - S/T (Stray Dog)

8: Bardo Pond - Amanita 2LP 25th Anniversary Reissue  (Matador)

8: Porches All Day Gentle Hold 

8: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under  (Polydor Records/Universal Music Canada)

8: Nightwatchers - Common Crusades (Lövely Records)

8: Atmosphere - WORD? (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

8: The Honest Heart Collective - More Harm (AWAL)

8: The Velveteers -  Nightmare Daydream ( Easy Eye Sound)

8: LP - Churches  (Dine Alone)

8: Jeff Scott Soto - The Duets Collection, Vol. 1(Frontiers Srl)

8: The Charlatans UK   - S/T  (Beggars Archive)

8: AVAWAVES -Chrysalis’ (One Little Independent Records)

8: Efterklang - Windflowers (City Slang)

15: Rodrigo Leão - A Estranha Beleza (BMG / Modern Recordings)

15: John Wort Hannam - The Long Haul (Black Hen Music)

15: Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres (Warner)

15: Eleine - S/T  vinyl

15: Nic Dyson - Brain Fog (Birthday Cake)

15: Young Voices Toronto - Conversations

20:  Dooms Children - S/T (Dine Alone)

22: Duran Duran - Future Past (Tape Modern/BMG)

22: Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2   (Rough Trade)

22: Titus Andronicus -The Monitor 10th Anniversary Reissue)  (XL Recordings)

22: Helado Negro -Far In (4AD)

22: La Luz - S/T  (Hardly Art Records)

22: Lone -Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman)

22: The Fretless -  S/T

22: Siamese -Home

22: Clinic Fantasy Island (Domino)

22: The Parrots  -Dos (Heavenly Recordings)

22: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T  (Spinefarm /Search & Destroy)

22: Amaunet - While I'm Living (Lövely Records)

26: Jasper Sloan Yip - double EP, Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn (Tiny Kingdom)

29:  Laura Reznek -Agrimony (Birthday Cake)

29: Joni Mitchell - Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Warner)

29: Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings - Bachman Cummings The Collection (Sony Music Canada) 

November

2: Rubber Band Gun - Cashes Out  ( Earth Libraries)

5: T. Buckley -Frame by Frame  (Fallen Tree Records)

5: Julia Daigle - Un singe sur l'épaule ( Lisbon Lux)

5: Hard Feelings - S/T

5: AHI - Prospect

5: Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu - The Solution Is Restless

12: Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive Records)

19: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (UMC)

19: The Trews - Wanderer  (Known Accomplice)

December

10: Fucked Up  - David Comes to Life (Matador Revisionist History Edition) ( Matador)

10: Rising Insane - Afterglow

10: The New Pornographers  Mass Romantic 21st Anniversary Limited-Edition Red vinyl + 7 inch single  (Matador)

10: Tkay Maidza    Last Year Was Weird Vol. 3  (4AD)

Canadian artists marked in red