FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Feb. 24, 2022

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Kanye West, Robert Glasper, Placebo, Scorpions, Swamp Dogg, Tears For Fears, Johnny Marr, Sasami, Spiritualized, and Hammerfall.

Canadians with new albums out this week include Basia Bulat, The Weber Brothers, NOBRO, Eamon McGrath, TÖME, Long Range Hustle, and Avril Lavigne.

February

21: The Infamous Stringdusters - Toward the Fray 

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

22: Kanye West - Donda2  (GOOD Music/ Def Jam Records)

22: B. Hamilton -  reissues  Everything I Own Is Broken and Fight Everything  (Sofaburn Records)

22: 22Gz - The Blixky Tape 2 - deluxe(Warner)

22: Hugs of the Sky – Tangerine Boredom Delusion

22: 22 Oceans-  Home

22: The Weber Brothers - Acüsta

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: Scorpions- Rock Believer

25: Richard Evans - Sentinel (Cold Star Media)

25: DLÙ -  Moch ( ARC Music)

25: Swamp Dogg -I Need A Job... So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune (Don Giovanni)

25: Shawn James -A Place in the Unknown (Parts & Labor Records)

25: David W. Donner - Timeless

25: Deathbell - A Nocturnal Calling

25: Robert Glasper - Blavk Radio 111 

25: Placebo - Never Let Me Go 

25: Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn (Napalm Records)

25: TÖME - LÖV

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

25: Death Dealer - Fuel Injected Suicide Machine (Steel Cartel Records)

25: Various Artists - The Batman- OST (Watertower Music)

25:  The Wooks -Flyin’ High

25: Nyokabi Kariũki -peace places: kenyan memories ( SA Recordings)

25: Willie D & the Hip Pockets  Rockin’, Swingin’, Jumpin’ and Jivin’

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

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

25: Dan Davidson - 6 Songs To Midnight

25:  Birds of Play - Murmurations Vol. 2

25: Sasami -Squeeze (Domino)

25: Keeley - Brave Warrior + Echo Everywhere EPs  (Dimple Discs)

25: Kenneth Brian - Keys to the Kingdom  (Southern Shift Records)

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: The Golden Age of Wrestling - Crossface Chicken Wing (Surviving the Game)

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

26: Panjoma - Sun and Moon

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: Peach Pit -From 2 to 3

4: Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways reissue 

4: MALIA - What's After 'I Love You?, (Black Sea Music)

4: Mary Wilson - Motown Anthology (UMC)

4: Marillion - An Hour Before It’s Dark

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: System Exclusive - S/T (Castle Face Records)

4: JC Campbell - Lately

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

4: Loney Hutchins- Appalachia  (Appalachia Record Co)

4: Sarah Hiltz - Calm Fury

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

4: Kate Klim - Something Green 

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 ( MNRK Heavy)

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

4: Sugaray Rayford  - In Too Deep ( Forty Below Records. 

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

8: Nicholas Payton - Smoke Sessions (Remixed)  (Smoke Sessions Records)

9: Shaolin- The Brightness

10: Sam Jr. - S/T (A&C)

10: Alex Spencer - Crawl'

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

11:  Disassembler - A Wave From A Shore (Western Vinyl)

11: NappyNappa - Ondamicunderacozmiklytz - (Bad Taste)

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

11: Jenny Hval  - Classic Objects  (4AD)

11: Alan Doyle -   Here, Tonight (Warner Music Canada)

11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)

11: Wicked - The Last American Rock Band

11: Glacier Veins - Lunar Reflection (Equal Vision Records)

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: Scott Martin - Corner of the World 

11: Jameszoo - Blind

11: Arkaik - Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts

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

11: Glaswegians - Quaternary

11: Cherokee Rose -Buckskin ( Don Giovanni)

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: Messa - Close (Svart Records)

11: Little Caesar - American Dream reissue  (Deko Ent) 

11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)

11: Hank Williams -I'm Gonna Sing (BMG)

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

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

18: A Fawn At Dawn  - S/T 

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

18: Jewels Gold -  Singles Collection  (Burnside/The Orchard)

18: Sonic Youth - In/Out/In  (Three Lobed Recordings)

18:  Bogdan Raczynski - Addle (Planet Mu)

18: Trench - Encased in Chrome (New Damage)

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: Island Of Love -Songs Of Love (Third Man)

18: Space of Variations- Imago (Napalm)

18: Jefferson Ross. - Southern Currency 

18: Priori - Your Own Power Remixes EP 

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

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: Cowboy Junkies - Five Years (Latent)

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

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

25: Hilary Ladd - Breastmilk + Tears

25: Superpoze - Nova Cardinale 

25: Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)

25: Jay Feelbender - Enter The Mirror 

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

25: Reba McEntire - Release Of My Chains

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

25: Jimi Jules  ‘+.’  (Innervisions)

25: Kindsight  - Swedish Punk  (Rama Lama Records)

25: Folly Group - Human and Kind  (Technicolour)

25: Hall & Oates - Marigold Sky -vinyl

25: Cadence Weapon -  Parallel World (Deluxe Edition) (MNRK Music Group)

25: Wallows - Tell Me That It’s Over

25: Sunglaciers -Subterranea ( Mothland)

25: Charissa - Love and Be Loved (Coalition Music)

25:  Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves - Hurricane Clarice (Free Dirt Records)

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

25: Devin Cooper - Good Things 

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

25: Maren Morris -  Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville)

25: Aldous Harding  -Warm Chris (4AD)

25: The Asteroid No.4 - Tones of the Sparrow

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: The Loud Family & Anton Barbeau - What if It Works (Omnivore)

25: Capricorn - For The Restless

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

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

28:  Van Chamberlain - In the Sun (Very Jazzed )

29: Clea Anais - Circle Zero

April

1:  No Frills -  Downward Dog

1: Misfire -Sympathy For The Ignorant

1: Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (Valory)

1: Sara-Danielle - Another Self

1:  Field Works -   Station (Temporary Residence)

1: Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers - Spencer Gets It Lit! (In The Red)

1: Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci -Murmurations (Cibachrome Editions)

1: HOROJO Trio - Set The Record (Stony Plain Records)

1:  Common Deer  - MAXIMALIST

1: Lights - PEP (Warner Music Canada)

1: Evil Invaders -Shattering Reflection (Napalm Records)

1: Kellarissa. Voice Leading (Mint Records)

1: Selbor - S/T

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

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

1: The Golden Glows  Moonlight and Rain

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

1:  Casually Here -Possible Worlds

1: Paula Boggs Band - Janus

1: Lords Of The Trident - The Offering

1: Sam Kogon - S/T

1: Nakaya - Fire Becomes Me EP   (Better Company Records)

3: Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu

6: Melted Wings - Cheer for the Deer

7: The Henrys - Shrug (Bandcamp)

8: B. Knox - Far From Folk  

8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)

8: Banks - Serpentina (AWAL

8: Amy Speace - Tucson ( Proper Records/Windbone Records)

8: Jordan Klassen - Glossolalia

8: PENDANT - Harp

8: Papercuts - Past Life Regression (Slumberland)

8: Roxi Copland - I Come From Crazy

8: Seth Swirsky -  Songs From The Green Couch (Lolipop Records)

8: Andy Frasco & The U.N. - Wash, Rinse, Repeat

8: Warden and Co. - Somewhere

8: Tanika Charles - Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly (Unique Applause) 

8: Dear Rouge - Spirit (Pheromone Recordings)

8: Riot Antigone - S/T

8: Dillon Vanders - Wildfires

8: Envy Of None - S/T ( Kscope)

8: Destruction - Diabolical (Napalm Records)

8: Oceanator  Nothing's Ever Fine (Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl)

8: Inglorious - MMXXI Live At The Phoenix (Frontiers Srl)

8: Bonnie Pointer -Like a Picasso, (Omnivore)

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)

8: Deanna Petcoff - To Hell With You, I Love You  (Royal Mountain Records)

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: Bobby Cole - A Point Of View (Omnivore)

15: Various Artists - Brother Johnny: A Tribute To Johnny Winter 

15: Axel Rudi Pell - LOST XXIII (Steamhammer)

 15: Manegarm - Ynglingaättens Öde  (Napalm Records)

15: Stone Broken - Revelation (Spinefarm)

15: GRAE - Whiplash 

15: Stone Broken - Revelation  (Spinefarm)

15: Semblant - Vermilion Eclipse (Frontiers Music Srl )

15: Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Mercy Me (Stony Plain Records)

15: Imminent Sonic Destruction - The Sun Will Always Set

15: David Owen - Oh Suzana Blues

15: Nazareth - Surviving The Law (Frontiers Music Srl)

22: Samantha Savage Smith -  Fake Nice 

22: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time (Outside Music)

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

22: Bonnie Raitt -Just Like That (BMG)

22: Ebunctions -This Just In Out 

22: Kate Clover Bleed Your Heart Out  (SVR)

22: Evan Barber - Until The Thunder

22: Ben Marc - Glass Effect (Innovative Leisure)

22: Barton Stanley David - Crest (Kenshire Records)

22: Georgia Harmer - Stay In Touch

22: Stew Cutler - The Blues From Another Angle

22: Travellin' Blue Kings -Bending The Rules

22: James Heather - Invisible Forces (Ahead of Our Time)

22: Lynne Hanson - Ice Cream

22: Niall Mutter -Pass Me By (Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys)

22: Audrey Horne -   Devil’s Bell (Napalm Records)

22: Bodysnatcher -Bleed-Abide (MNRK Heavy)

22: Jeanines -  Don't Wait For A Sign (Slumberland)

22: Richard Shelton - An Englishman in Love in LA

23: Nico + The Faction  -  Camera Obscura (Blue vinyl)  (Beggars Banquet)

23: Dalis Car  - The Waking Hour  (Purple vinyl)  (Beggars Banquet)

23: Erika de Casier -  The Sensational Remixes (Clear vinyl)  (4AD)

23: Camera Obscura    Making Money (4AD B-Sides and Rarities (Mint Green vinyl)  (4AD)

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

27: Personal Trainer - Reflex 

28: Dot Allison - Entangled Remix EP  (SA Recordings)

28: TWÏNS - The Human Jazz  (Earth Libraries)

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

29:  Julie Doiron and Dany Placard -Julie & Dany  (Simone Records)

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

29: Steven Lambke - Volcano Volcano (You've Changed)

29: Lydia Persaud - MOODY31 ( Next Door Records)

29: Allegories-Endless (Hidden Pony Records)

29: Dana Gavanski - When It Comes 

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

29: Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this… (Saddle Creek)

29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry

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

29: Izaak Opatz  Extra Medium (Mama Bird Recording Co)

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

29: Velcrocranes - What If I Die (InsideOutMusic)

29: Frog Eyes -The Bees

29: Blossoms -  Ribbon Around The Bomb

May

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

6: The Builders and The Butchers - Hell & High Water (Badman Recording Co.)

6: !!!  -Let It Be Blue ( Warp Records)

6: Ibeyi  -Spell 31  (XL Recordings)

6: Emeli Sandé  - Let’s Say For Instance (Chrysalis Records)

6: Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools ( ATO Records)

6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia

13: Craig David - 22

13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)

13: Cage Fight - S/T ( Candlelight)

13: The Bros. Landreth - Come Morning (Birthday Cake)

13: Ye Vagabonds  - Nine Waves ( River Lea Recordings / Rough Trade)

13: Steve Forbert - Moving Through America  (Blue Rose)

13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby

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

20: XPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange

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

20: Claudia Bouvette - The Paradise Club (Bonsound)

20: Cola - Deep In View (Next Door Records)

20: Avi Kaplan - Floating On A Dream (Fantasy Records)

20: Various Artists -Coverama (Popguru Sound & Vision/ The Confidence Emperors)

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

27: Lou Pomanti -  Lou Pomanti & Friends (Vesuvius)

27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)

 27: Sheenah Ko - Future Is Now

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)

10: slenderbodies - simple shapes

July

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

Canadian artists marked in red