FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Jan. 27, 2022

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace, and have increased after the holiday break. Notables with new albums include North Mississippi All-Stars, Eels, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Urge Overkill, Anaïs Mitchell, Ghostly Kisses, PJ Harvey, Jethro Tull, Maddie & Tae, and Kimberly Morgan York.

A strong week for Canadians includes Jann Arden, Sweet Alibi, Our Lady Peace, Sam Drysdale, Mother Mother, Lou Canon, Knights of the Mystic Eye, and The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer.

January

24: Knights of the Mystic Eye - Cosmic Top Secret (Bandcamp)

26: Sam Drysdale - Testarossa (Slaight Music / Fontana North)

26: Scandal - Mirror

26: Lou Canon - Reimagine The Body (Paper Bag Records)

26: SUGARFUNGUS -  Letting Go, Moving Still

27: David Jameson - Talk Dark Pines

27:  jackie  -  Hey Angel

28: Eels -  Extreme Witchcraft (PIAS/E Works Records)

28: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail - digital. April 1 physical release (New West)

28: Black Flower -Magma’ ( Sdban Ultra)

28: Joe McLeod - Cloud Berries In Alaska

28: Roedelius & Story - 4 Hands  (Erased Tapes)

28: Adam Shoenfeld -All the Birds Sing ( Lozen Entertainment Group/Copperline)

28: Jann Arden - Descendant (UMC)

28: Kulick -'Everyone I Know Will Die

28: Ghostly Kisses - Heaven, Wait (Akira Records) 

28: The Temptations - Temptations (UMC)

28: Maddie & Tae - Through The Madness (UMC)

28: Dianthus - Realms (Deko Ent.) 

28: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (UMC)

28: Cat Dowling - Animals (FIFA Records)

28: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail  (New West) LP and CD on April 1 

28: Russ Rankin - Come Together Fall Apart  (SBÄM Records)

28: The Sad Tomorrows - S/T (Don Giovanni Records)

28:  Dan Weber - The Way The River Goes

28: Viguela - La Manera Artesana (ARC Music)

28: Sweet Alibi -  Make A Scene 

28: Our Lady Peace  - Spiritual Machines II 

28: St. Paul & The Broken Bones  -The Alien Coast  (ATO Records)

28: John Lodge -The Royal Affair and After

28: Black Flower - Magma (Sdban Ultra)

28: Toxpack - Zwanzig.Tausend Volt (Napalm)

28:  Anaïs Mitchell - S/T 

28: Urge Overkill  - Oui (Omnivore Recordings)

28: Toxpack -  ZWANZIG.TAUSEND VOLT (Napalm Records)

28: Kimberly Morgan York - Found Yourself a Lady 

28: Adam Shoenfeld - All the Birds Sing (Lozen Entertainment Group/Copperline)

28: Pinegrove - 11:11 (Rough Trade)

28: Mother Mother - INSIDE (Warner Music Canada)

28: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer - Live At The King Eddy

28: The Furniture  - S/T  (Spanish Prayers)

28: Jethro Tull -The Zealot Gene (Inside Out Music)

28: Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story 4 Hands ( Erased Tapes)

29: Villager - Frontier

31: Juho & the Jellyfish from Jupiter  -Quarantine Diaries, Chapter I

31: Ruby Singh - Vox.Infold (Bandcamp)

February

1:  Eve Michelson -Evolutive Electro

3: Almalé- Hixa Mia

4: Ryan Kennedy -  Libertine

4: Manuel the Band - Things That Can't Be Seen 

4: Micki Free - Turquoise Blue (Dark Idol Music)

4: Good Morning Bedlam - Lulu 

4: Carl Schilde  EUROPOP  (Fun In The Church)

4: Marshall Crenshaw -  #447 (Shiny-Tone label via Megaforce)

4: The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Summer at Land's End  ( Slumberland) 

4: Persefone- metanoia (Napalm Records)

4: B.J. Thomas - Love Songs & Lost Treasures ( Real Gone Music)

4: AV (Ann Vriend)-  Everybody Matters 

4: Jean-Michel Blais -aubades

4: Black Country, New Road -Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)

4: Jami Templeton - The Shape of my Heart

4: Good Morning Bedlam  Lulu 

4: Gene MacLellan - S/T

4: Animal Collective-  Time Skiffs (Domino)

4: Karl Strømme - Song Dust

4: Big Kill - Big Kill Future

4: Persefone -  metanoia (Napalm)

4: Jana Pochop -The Astronaut 

4: EXEK - Advertise Here  (Castle Face Records)

4: Charbonneau x Amato - Synth Works Vol. 2  ( Backward Music)

4: Silent Skies - Nectar

4  Jack Barksdale - Death of a Hummingbird

4: Rolo Tomassi -  Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK Heavy)

4: Paul McCartney and Wings - Wild Life 50th anniversary vinyl reissue (UMe/Universal Music Canada)

4: Hembree - It’s a Dream! 

4: Muscadine Bloodline -Dispatch to 16th Ave.

4: Scott Hardware -Ballad of a Tryhard  (Telephone Explosion Records)

4: Sam Weber - Get Free (Sonic Unyon)  

4: Alai K - Kila Mara (On the Corner Records)

4: Reddog -  Booze, Blues and Southern Grooves (Survival South Records)

4: Me Rex - Pterodactyl (Big Scary Monsters)

4: Bastille - Give Me The Future (UMC)

4: Eleon - Epoch

4: Still Insane - Black Sheep EP 

7: AETHEREUS - Leiden (The Artisan Era)

10: Ombiigizi - Sewn Back Together (A&C)

11: Trentemøller -Memoria  (In My Room)

11: Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa  (Matador)

11: We Are In Transit (WAIT) - The End of Noise (The Artisan Era)

11: Big Thief -  Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You   (4AD)

11: Kevin Hearn -There and Then: Solo Piano Improvisations 

11: Anne Elise Hastings And Her Revolving Cast Of Characters -Unmasking A Confidence Trickster

11: La Armada - Anti-Colonial Vol. 2 (Thousand Islands Records)

11: Hot Flash Heat Wave - Sportswear

11: Blonder - Knoxville House  (Cool World Records)

11: Pretty Archie - S/T (Curve Music) 

11:  Mild Orange - Looking For Space 

11: Big Al and the Heavyweights - Love One Another (VizzTone)

11: Allison Moorer -  Wish For You (Autotelic Records via Thirty Tigers)

11: Buke and Gase and Rahrah Gabor - S/T (Brassland)

11: Foxes - The Kick ( [PIAS] Recordings)

11: Voivod - Synchro Anarchy (Century Media Records)

11: Curtis Godino Presents The Midnight Wishers - S/T  (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)

11: Night Shop - Forever Night  (Dangerbird Records)

11: Mild Orange -  Looking For Space 

11: The Rumjacks - Brass for Gold 

11: Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - 4 (Gibson Records/BMG)

11: Rob Burger  Marching With Feathers (Western Vinyl)

12:  Carl Weingarten - Stop Me Try  (Multiphase Records)

15: Ben Auld - Lemongrass  (Earth Libraries)

15: Church of Trees-Pish Posh

18: White Lies -  As I Try Not To Fall Apart  [PIAS] 

18: Manic Sinners - King Of The Badlands  (Frontiers Music Srl)

18: Lavender Country - Blackberry Rose  (Don Giovanni Records)

18: Spirits Of Fire -Embrace The Unknown 

18: Mike Zito - Blues for the Southside ( Gulf Coast Records)

18: Louisiana Red &Bob Corritore - Tell Me 'Bout It  (VizzTone)

18: Fortunato Durutti Marinetti  -  Memory’s Fool (Soft Abuse)

18: The Circle Jerks  - Wild in the Streets - deluxe anniversary edition(Trust Records)

18: Basement Revolver - Embody (Sonic Unyon Records)

18: Matt Pike - Pike vs. the Automaton (MNRK Heavy)

18: Catcher  The Fat Of A Broken Heart 

18: Howless -To Repel Ghosts

18: Katie Tupper - Towards The End (A&C)

18: Del McCoury -Almost Proud

18: Howless - To Repel Ghosts  (Static Blooms Records)

18: Dana Cooper -  I Can Face The Truth

18: Nash Albert - Yet

18: George Alice -Growing Pains

18: Eric Bolander- Can't Get There From Here. 

18: Lumberob -Language Learner (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)

18: Elephant Stone-   Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune 

18: Beshken - Pantomime (MATH Interactive)

18: Catcher - The Fat Of A Broken Heart 

18: Spirits Of Fire -  Embrace The Unknown 

18: Dagoba -  By Night (Napalm Records)

21: The Infamous Stringdusters - Toward the Fray 

22: Sylvia- Nature Child – A Dreamer's Journey (Red Pony Records)

22: Hugs of the Sky – Tangerine Boredom Delusion

23: Uma Bloo - Don't Drive Into the Smoke  ( Earth Libraries)

23: NOBRO -  Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (Dine Alone Records)

24: Julia Blair  - Better Out Than In

25:  Bambara -  Love Is On My Mind (Wharf Cat Records)

25: Richard Evans - Sentinel (Cold Star Media)

25: Deathbell - A Nocturnal Calling

25: Robert Glasper - Blavk Radio 111 

25: Placebo - Never Let Me Go 

25: Swamp Dogg - I Need A Job... So I Can Buy More Autotune

25: Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn (Napalm Records)

25: Vavrious Artists - Euphoria Season 2 Soundtrack  (Interscope Records)

25: Tears For Fears -THE TIPPING POINT (Concord Records)

25: Eamon McGrath -Bells of Hope (Saved By Vinyl)

25:  Birds of Play - Murmurations Vol. 2

25: Sasami -Squeeze (Domino)

25: Basia Bulat -The Garden - digital. Physical March 25 (Secret City Records)

25: Kyle Morgan - Younger At Most Everything (Team Love Records)

25: Johnny Marr- Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)

25: Avril Lavigne -Love Sux

25: The Wooks -  Flyin’ High 

25: Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful ( Fat Possum)

25: Anne Elise Hastings Unmasking A Confidence Trickster

25: Deserta  Every Moment, Everything You Need  (Felte)

25: Left Banke -Strangers On A Train  (Omnivore Recordings)

25: Long Range Hustle - I am alive, but only if you say I am

25: Wolfrik - Clones  (Thousand Islands Records) 

25: VHS Collection - Drive (Tiger Tone/PIAS)

25: Tankard - For A Thousand Beers box set (Noise Records)

25: Caroline - S/T  (Rough Trade)

25: Ellemetue - Les crucifiés figuratifs (Bravo musique)

25: Jon Tyler Wiley -The Longing

25: Yonder Mountain String Band - Get Yourself Outside

March

4: The Dead South - Easy Listening for Jerks, Parts I & II (Six Shooter)

4: Nilüfer Yanya - Painless  ( ATO Records)

4: Matt Andersen - House to House (Sonic Records)

4: Guided By Voices - Crystal Nuns Cathedral

4: Rick Holmstrom -  Get It! 

4: Erinn Peet Lukes - EPL

4:  Stromae - Multitude  (Darkroom/Interscope Records)

4: Fieh  -In The Sun In The Rain  (Jansen Records)

4: Peach Pit -From 2 to 3

4: Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways reissue 

4:Just A Season -Leave To Come Home

4: Jack Barksdale - Death of a Hummingbird

4: Ivy Ryann  - A Nonaggressive Extreme Violation of Boundaries

4: Oh Hiroshima - Myriad (Napalm Records)

4: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars ( Next Door Records)

4: Sarah Hiltz - Calm Fury

4: Fieh - In The Sun In The Rain  (Jansen Records)

4: Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs - External Combustion  (BMG)

4: Kristine Leschper -The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door  (ANTI- Records)

4: Landon Lloyd Miller-- Light Shines Through (Twin Mesa)

4: Kenny ‘Blues Boss” Wayne-  Blues From Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain Records)

4: Crowbar -  Zero And Below, (via MNRK Heavy)

4:  Ceramic Animal -Sweet Unknown ( Easy Eye Sound.)

4: System Exclusive (ft. Matt Jones) - S/T (Castle Face Records)

4: Thus Owls - Who Would Hold You If The Sky Betrayed Us? 

4: Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (Anti-)

4: Lammping -Stars We Lost, (We Are Busy Bodies)

4: Band of Horses - Things Are Great (BMG)

4: Maylee Todd - Maloo (Stone Throw Records)

4: Letting Up Despite Great Faults -IV

10: Sam Jr. - S/T (A&C)

10: Alex Spencer - Crawl'

11: Franz Ferdinand  -Hits To The Head (Domino)

11: New Horizon - Gate Of The Gods (Frontiers Music Srl)

11: Jenny Hval  - Classic Objects  (4AD)

11:  Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)

11: PJ Harvey  The Hope Six Demolition Project – Demos 

11: The Lazy Eyes - Songbook  (Lunatic / The Orchard)

11: Junk Drawer - The Dust Has Come To Stay  (Art For Blind Records)

11: Rex Orange County - Who Cares? (Sony) 

11: Jameszoo - Blind

11: Arkaik - Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts

11: Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts (BMG)

11: Rust n' Rage One For The Road

11: Paul Waring and His Band of Blues Men  - It's a Mad Mad Bad Dad World (PieHole Records)

11: Apollo Ghosts – Pink Tiger (You’ve Changed Records)

11: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Next Door Records)

11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)

11: Broadcast - three albums (Warp Records)

11: Brock Davis  - A Song Waiting To Be Sung (Raintown Records)

11: Angel Forrest -  Angel’s 11 vol. II

11: Ghost - Impera  ( Loma Vista Recordings)

11: Konvent -  Call Down The Sun (Napalm Records)

11: Tony Price  MARK VI  (Telephone Explosion Records)

11: Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods

16: Jerry Leger -Nothing Pressing (Latent Recordings)

18: Lisa LeBlanc - Chiac Disco

18: Midlake - For The Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO) 

18: Blue States - World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)

18: The Duke Robillard Band - They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain Records)

18: Chip Z'Nuff - Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers Music Srl)

18: Space Of Variations, ... Imago  (Napalm Records)

18:  Bogdan Raczynski - Addle (Planet Mu)

18: April March - In Cinerama (Omnivore)

18: Sabertooth Swing – Delta Bound (Slammin' Media)

18: Steve Dawson - Gone, Long Gone  (Black Hen)

18: Son House - Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)

18: Jamie McLean Band - Paradise Found (Harmonized Records)

18: Donovan Woods - Big Hurt Boy EP ( End Times Music)

18: Mattiel - Georgia Gothic  (ATO Records)

18: Blue States - World Contact Day  (Memphis Industries)

18: Agathodaimon - The Seven (Napalm Records)

18: SheWolf - S/T (,Frontiers Music Srl)

23: Uma Bloo- Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)

25: Jason Erie -Tiny Fires  (Wirebird Records)

25: Bakers Eddy -  Love Boredom Bicycles 

25: Bomber - Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm Records)

25: The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys - Never Slow Down (Smithsonian Folkways)

25: Superpoze - Nova Cardinale 

25: Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)

25: Jay Feelbender - Enter The Mirror 

25: Kindsight - Swedish Punk  (Rama Lama Records)

25: Proper. - The Great American Novel  (Father/Daughter)

25: Tom Rogerson  - Retreat To Bliss  (Western Vinyl)

25: Sunglaciers -Subterranea ( Mothland)

25:  Albert Castiglia -I Got Love (Gulf Coast Records)

25: Avalon Tassonyi  - S/T ( Vain Mina Records)

25: Maren Morris -  Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville)

25: Aldous Harding  -Warm Chris (4AD)

25: Destroyer-Labyrinthitis (Merge Records)

25: Åskväder - Fenix

25: The Mary Veils - Esoteric Hex (PNKSLM Recordings)

25:  Ex-Vöid - Bigger Than Before (Don Giovanni Records)

25: Don't Worry - Remorseless Swing  (Specialist Subject)

25: Fucked Up  - Do All Words Can Do  (Matador)

April

1:  No Frills -  Downward Dog

1: Misfire -Sympathy For The Ignorant

1: Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (Valory)

1: P'tit Belliveau -Un homme et son piano (Bonsound)

1: Cassidy Mann  - If It’s Not Forever (End Times Music)

1: PUP - The Unravelling of PupTheBand (Little Dipper/UMC)

1: Lords Of The Trident - The Offering'

3: Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu

6: Melted Wings - Cheer for the Deer

8: B. Knox - Far From Folk  

8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)

8: Papercuts - Past Life Regression (Slumberland)

8: Riot Antigone - S/T

8: Dillon Vanders - Wildfires

8: Envy Of None - S/T ( Kscope)

8: Michelle Willis - Just One Voice  (GroundUP Music)

8: Joe Satriani The Elephants of Mars  (earMUSIC)

8: Jesse Mac Cormack - Solo (Secret City Records)

8: Lucius - Second Nature (Dine Alone)

8: Dahlia Sleeps - Overflow 

8: RIP Pop Mutant - Fluxus Pop 

8: Pavement -Terror Twilight : Farewell Horizontal - 4LP/2CD Deluxe reissue  (Matador)

12: Ariane Moffatt -  1969 

15: Fozzy - Boombox

15:  Urferd - Resan  (Black Lodge Records)

15: Sophia Bel -Anxious Avoidant (Bonsound)

15: Altameda  - Born Losers (Pheromone/Missing Piece)

15:  GRAE - Whiplash 

15: Stone Broken - Revelation  (Spinefarm)

22: Samantha Savage Smith -  Fake Nice 

22: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time (Outside Music)

22: Old Crow Medicine Show - Paint This Town (ATO Records)

22: Dear Rouge - Spirit (Pheromone Recordings)

27: The Mellons - - Introducing... The Mellons!  (Earth Libraries)

29: Gus Englehorn - Dungeon Master  (Secret City Records)

29: Bloc Party - Alpha Games  ( Infectious / BMG)

29: Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal (Domino)

29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry

29: Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote (Warner)

29: Pierre Kwenders -José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)

29: Blossoms -  Ribbon Around The Bomb

May

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia

13: Craig David - 22

13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)

13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby

20: Zinny Zan - Lullabies for the Masses (Wild Kingdom)

20: Soak  - If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade)

27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)

June

3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide

3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)

3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend

10: George  Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)

July

8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)

Canadian artists marked in red