FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, May 5, 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 Midland, Anna Calvi, Yawners, The Waterboys, Lord Of The Lost, Sheryl Crow, and Belle & Sebastian.

Canadian artists with new releases in a very busy week include Three Days Grace, Fist,  Absolutely Free, Gnarfunkel, Arcade Fire, Pink Mountaintops, Simple Plan, Domanique Grant, Marc Jordan and Amy Sky, Anyway Gang, Ori Dagan, Hogtown Allstars, Blunt Chunks, Silverstein, Vivienne Wilder, Ellevator, Keith Glass Band, and Early Spirit.

May

5: Fist - Alive

5: Absolutely Free - How To Repaint Clouds (Boiled)

5: Domanique Grant – QUEEN/DOM Chapter 1 – Queen

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

6: Yawners Duplo  (Big Scary Monsters)

6: Silverstein -  Misery Made Me

6: Joyfultalk - Familiar Science  (Constellation)

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

6: Sigrid - How To Let Go (UMC)

6: Russell Simins - Drag Me Out (Let's Pretend)

6: Early Spirit - The Hollow Tree

6: Zakoor - Life Cycle

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

6: Keith Glass Band - Different World

 6: Valorie Miller - Only The Killer Would Know  (Blackbird Record Label)

6: Vivienne Wilder - I Don't Believe (Fallen Tree)

6: Keeper E. - thank u and please and don’t go  ( LHM Records)

6: Marc Jordan and Amy Sky - He Sang She Sang  ( Linus Entertainment)

6: Anyway Gang - Still Anyways (Royal Mountain)

6: Raheem Devaughn - Presents From Lust Til Dawn  (New Era Soul/SRG-ILS Group)

6: Tone Ranger - Desert Rose (Casa Animalia)

6: Midland - The Last Resort

6: Cliffdiver -Exercise Your Demons (SideOneDummy Records) 

6: John Mayall- The Sun Is Shining Down (Fontana North)

6: col3trane - Lush Life (UMC)

6: Cody Frost - Teeth

6: Bad Planning - Et Fortes (Jump Start Records)

6: Ori Dagan -Click Right Here (Bandcamp)

6: Hogtown Allstars - Hog Wild (Stony Plain)

6: The Actual Goners - Lost Highway

6: Ibeyi  -Spell 31  (XL Recordings)

6: Zach Willdee -  HeartThat Ain't Tame 

6: Tone Ranger - Desert Rose  (Casa Animalia)

6: Ellevator - The Words You Spoke Still Move Me ( Arts & Crafts)

6: Blunt Chunks - S/T  (Telephone Explosion Records)

6: The Black Crowes - 1972 

6: Bryan Ferry -  Love Letters 

6: Graham Nash, Live – Songs for Beginners / Wild Tales

6: The Knack -  Live at the House of Blues

6: Stoney & Meatloaf - Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings

6: Timothy B. Schmit - Day by Day

6: Whitesnake - Greatest Hits (vinyl reissue)

6: Tim Montana -  Reno (Music Knox Records/BBR Music Group)

6: Wilma Vritra - Grotto (Bad Taste)

6: Maximum Joy - BBC Radio 1 Sessions (London Field Recordings)

6: Annika - Stand Still: Side A 

6: Ariane Racicot - Envolée (Multiple Chord Music)

6: Kelly Hoppenjens- Can't Get The Dark Out

6: Kaleidobolt -  This One Simple Trick

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

6: James Lee Baker - Impressions 

6: Love & Pain - It Comes in Waves

6: Noah Deemer - The Sleepwalker

6: Jani Liimatainen -  My Father's Son (Frontiers Music Srl )

6: Gabriella Marinaro - Inner Space 

6: Arcade Fire - WE (Columbia)

6: Anna Calvi - Tommy

6: Gooseberry -  EP Broken Dance

6: Kisskadee -  Black Hole Era (Anxiety Blanket Records)

6 Jeff Scott Soto - Complicated

6: Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included

6: The Rumjacks & Flatfoot 56 - The Split EP

6: Sheryl Crow - Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary ( UMe/Big Machine Records)

6: Simple Plan - Harder Than It Looks

6: Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous    (Matador)

6: Zach Willdee - Heart That Ain't Tame

6: Maryze - 8 (Hot Tramp Records)

6: Tennessee Stiffs - Dearly Departed  

6: Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools ( ATO Records)

6: Yawners - Duplo (Big Scary Monsters)

6: The Waterboys - All Souls Hill’ (Cooking Vinyl)

6: Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch

6: Lord Of The Lost - The Heartbeat Of The Devil

6: Fozzy -  Boombox

6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia

8:  Less Miserable - 43 Chinook (Almost Music)

10: Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions

10: Kobo Town- Carnival of the Ghosts 

11: Keegan Powell - Previous Pain

12: Group Project EP happily catastrophic (via Spectra Musique)

13: WiL -The Gold Mine

13: Dreaded Laramie-  EP Everything A Girl Could Ask (Wiretap / Sell The Heart/ Engineer Records)

13: Craig David - 22

13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)

13: Wayne Willingham - Temptation Row 

13: Eucalyptus - Moves (Telephone Explosion Records)

13: Busty and the Bass - Karneval (A&C)

13: Visions of Atlantis - Pirates ( Napalm Records) 

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

13: Chad Lawson - irreplaceable  (Decca Records/Universal Music Canada)

13: Florence & The Machine - Dance Fever(UMC)

13: Hard Rubber Orchestra - Iguana

13: Dual Unity - S/T

13: Mama's Broke - Narrow Line (Free Dirt Records)

13: Pulley - The Golden Life (SBÄM Records)

13: Why Not - S/T

13: The Pineapple Thief - Give It Back (KScope)

13: Jenny Berkel -These Are The Sounds Left From Leaving (Outside Music)

13: Vonica - If You're New Here Dance EP 

13: Alanna Matty - Thoughts // Feelings 

13: Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers 

13: Khamsin - What's Left Of Life

13: Cage Fight - S/T ( Candlelight)

13: The Graham Bonnet Band - Day Out In Nowhere(Frontiers Sri)

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

13: Moonraker - The Forest (Tiny Dragon Music)

13: Misery Index  -Complete Control  (Century Media)

13: The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (XL Recordings)  June 17- Physical 

13: The Big Deal - First Bite (Frontiers Sri)

13:  Bruno Capinan  Tara Rara (Lulaworld Records)

13: Vonica - If You're New Here Dance

13:  Sister Ray - Communion

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

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

13: Cam Maclean- Secret Verses

13: Rolling Stones -Live At The El Mocambo (UMC)

13: Yves JarvisThe Zug  ( ANTI- / Flemish Eye)

13: Delbert McClinton - Outdated Emotion (Hot Shot Records)

13:  Amyl & the Sniffers - Comfort To Me (Expanded Edition) vinyl  (ATO Records/Rough Trade)

13: Pkew Pkew Pkew - Open Bar (Dine Alone)

13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby

19: Flõstate - Moments Of Feeling  (Lekker Collective)

19: Faouzia - CITIZENS (WMC) 

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

20: Les Cooper - Noise

20: Sauna - Dose Yourself

20: John Rocca  - One Upon a Time in N.Y.C. (Beggars Archive)

20: Todd Sharpville - Medication Time (DixieFrog/Redeye)

20: Cheryl Cawood - Bullet In The Cabin Wall

20: Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals  (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)

20: XPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange

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

20: Yotam Ben Horin - Young Forever (Double Helix)

20: Sea Lemon -Close Up (Spirit Goth)

20: Santiago “Jimmy” Jimenez Jr., -Still Kicking!, (Hardcharger Records)

20: Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena - West Kensington  (Three Lobed Recordings)

20: Blake Morgan - Violent Delights 

20: Bennett Matteo Band -Shake the Roots (Gulf Coast Records)

20: J. Brown - Chapter & Verse

20: Mike Stevens - Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain) 

20: Everett Wren - Porchlight

20: Omni of Halos  - Care Free

20: Harry Styles - Harry’s House

20: Wolftooth -  Wolftooth and Valhalla - Vinyl reissues (Napalm Records)

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

20: Claudia Bouvette - The Paradise Club (Bonsound)

20: Van Morrison - What’s It Gonna Take? (Exile/Virgin)

20: Brandon Coleman -Interstellar Black Space (Brainfeeder)

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

20: Shawn Williams -Wallowin' in the Night 

20: J. Brown - Chapter & Verse (Sono)

20: Lucy Liyou  - Welfare / Practice  (American Dreams Records)

20: High Valley - Way Back

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

20: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -Dirt Does Dylan

20: Alex Izenberg -  I’m Not Here (Weird World.)

20: Mike Stevens - Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain Records)

20: NOA- Hurting EP

20: mxmtoon - rising (AWAL) 

20: Sophie Powers - red In Revenge (Set Records)

20: The Unlikely Candidates  - Panther Island 

26: Mon Doux Saigneur - Fleur de l’Âge (Bonsound)

26: Delta Days - Fast Forward 

26:  Steve & Ginie Jackson -Colder Than The Sea

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

27: lullahush -  A City Made of Water and Small Love 

27: Wild Wild Wets - Love Always

27: Model Home - Saturn In The Basement

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

27: Tia Brazda - When I Get Low 

27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)

27: 70x7 - Above the Waters

27: Adam Brian Paul  - For the Good

27: Amanda Rheaume -  The Spaces In Between (Ishkōdé Records)

27: Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos (UMC)

 27: Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - Echo (bendigedig)

27: Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends deluxe reissue (Craft Recordings)

27: Hilary Purrington and JIJI - Harp of Nerves (AZ Arts)

27: Wilco - Cruel Country (dBpm Records)

27: Shanna in a Dress - Robot 

27: Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings (UMe)

27: Steven R. Smith -Spring

27: Onna Lou - Diamante

27: Crematory -  Inglorious Darkness (Napalm Records)

27: Ghostkeeper - Multidimensional Culture (Victory Pool)

27: Jahmal Padmore -Esparonto ( Telephone Explosion Records )

27: With The Punches - Discontent (Mutant League Records)

27: Corner House - How Beautiful It's Been  

 27: Sheenah Ko - Future Is Now

June

1: Sky Creature - Bear Mountain/Childworld  (Open Ocean)

.3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide

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

3: Lhasa Petik - The Deep End EP (Friends of Friends)

3: Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer (Relapse Records)

3: Andrew Bird -  Inside Problems (Loma Vista Recordings)

3: Chelsea Rose - Truth or Consequences (Paul Is Dead Records)

3: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Going The Distance (Berkalin Records)

3:  Lettuce - Unify

3: Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring (Craft Recordings)

3: 070 Shake - You Can't Kill Me  (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings)

3: Barenaked Ladies - Tour de Force Deluxe

3: Polica - Madness  (Memphis Industries)

3: El Perro - Hair of El Perro  (Alive Naturalsound Records)

3:  Matt York - Gently Used

3: Jasmyn -  In The Wild (Royal Mountain Records and ANTI-)

3: hill of iamhill - Sellout (Text Me Records)

3: Chris Young - Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition)

3: The Venomous Pinks - Vita Mors

3: Twinnie - Welcome To The Club 

3: The Kills -  No Wow -deluxe reissue(Domino)

3: Sass Jordan - Bitches Blues (Stony Plain Records)

3: Florian Hoefner Trio: -Desert Bloom (Alma Records)

3: Tuff Bear -Tuff Bear's Picnic  ( Acrophase Records )

3: Kamikaze Nurse - Stimuloso (Mint Records)

3: Flaccid Mojo - S/T ( Castle Face Records)

3: Fortunate Ones - That Was You and Me

3: Charlie Musselwhite - Mississippi Son (Alligator)

3: Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive  (Compass Records)

3: Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos,' A Love Letter to Latin American Balada Music ( ATO Records)

3: Courtney Hale-Revia - Growing Pains

3: Ken Yates -Cerulean

3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend

3: Serena Sun  Shadows On The Ceiling

3: Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

6: Ianai- Sunir (Svart)

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

10: Lyle Odjick & The Northern Steam - Through The Rain 

10:  Boris Pelekh - I See It Now 

10: Michael Rault - S/T  (Majesticsilk Records)

10: The Souljazz Orchestra - Freedom No Go Die (Do Right Music) 

10: Rolling Stones -Licked Live In NYC  (Mercury Studios)

10: Dion Lunadon - Beyond Everything  ( In The Red Records)

10: slenderbodies - simple shapes

10: Wind Rose - Warfront (Napalm Records)

10: Vance Joy - In Our Own Sweet Time (Warner)

10:  A Vulture Wake -Kingdom (Thousand Islands Records)

10: Jonathan Kawchuk - Everywhen, (Paper Bag Records)

10: Bud Rice -Piece of Heaven

10: Michael Monroe  (Silver Lining Music)

10: Inanimate Existence -  The Masquerade (The Artisan Era)

10: Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis (SPV Recordings)

10: Seventh Wonder - The Testament (Frontiers Sri)

10: Bloody Heels - Rotten Romance (Frontiers Srl)

10: Venus 5 - S/T

10: Michaela Anne - Oh To Be That Free  (Yep Roc Records)

10: Rod Picott - Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows

10: The Range -  Mercury (Domino Records)

10: Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios (BMG)

14: Handheld -A Canadian Tragedy (Thousand Islands Records)

17: The Damn Quails - Clouding Up Your City

17: Meredith Lazowski - Other Way Home

17: Me Rex - Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

17: Chastity Brown - Sing To The Walls (Red House Records)

17: Pollyanna - Slime P (I Surrender Records)

17: Fresh Pepper - S/T (Telephone Explosion Records)

17: Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)

17: Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia (Sneaker Social Club)

17: Alice Merton  -S.I.D.E.S. (Mom + Pop Music and Paper Plane Records Int.)

17: Void Patrol  - Infrequent Seams

17: Silver Lake 66 - The Space Between Us

17: Dylan Moon - Option Explore (RVNG Intl)

17: Harrison Kennedy - Thanks For Tomorrow   (Electro-fi) 

17: the della kit - moonbeams + frequencies 

17: The Royal Foundry - Little High Little Low 

17: Digging Roots - Zhawenim (Ishkōdé Records)

17: The Strongman Blues Remedy -  Volume 1  (Stony Plain Records)

17: Nick Cave - Seven Psalms

17: Iconic - Second Skin (Frontiers)

17: Counterpunch - Rewire (Thousand Islands Records/SBÄM Records)

17: Bartees Strange - Farm to Table    (4AD)  -  October 7 (Physical LP/CD)

17: Stacy Antonel  - Always the Outsider

17: Pharis and Jason Romero - Tell ’Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

17: Praises - In This Year: Hierophant (Hand Drawn Dracula)

17: Pip Skid -A Really Nice Day (Peanuts & Corn Records)

17: Flasher - Love Is Yours (Domino)

17:  Pat Matshikiza - Sikiza Matshikiza (We Are Busy Bodies)

17: Seven Kingdoms -  Zenith

17: RX Y - Blood Moon

17: Me Rex -  Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

24 Madonna - Finally Enough Love  (Warner Music Group)

24: Alexisonfire - Otherness (Dine Alone Records)

24: Lindsay Clark - Carpe Noctem  (Audiosport Records)

24: Luke Combs - Growin’ Up (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville)

24: Motherhood - Winded  (Forward Music Group)

24: Soccer Mommy -  Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)

24: Mikey Erg -  Love At Leeds (Don Giovanni Records )

24: Martin Courtney - Magic Sign (Domino)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash,

24: Sarah Hansen - Gather Up Your Days

24: Hollie Cook  - Happy Hour (Merge Records)

24: Kat Riggins - Progeny (Gulf Coast Records)

24: The Dreadnoughts - Roll & Go  (Stomp Records)

24: Art d‘Ecco - After The Head Rush (Paper Bag Records)

24: Katrina Ford - S/T  (Violin Films)

24: Automatic - Excess (Stones Throw)

24: The Burning Hell - Garbage Island  (You’ve Changed Records)

24: Conan Gray - Superache (UMC)

29: Classified - RETROSPECTED

July

1: Fresh -Raise Hell  (Specialist Subject Records)

1: Guided By Voices - Tremblers And Goggles By Rank  (GBV Inc.)

1: Saint Asonia - Introvert  (Spinefarm)

6: Ghost Woman - S/T  (Victory Pool)

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

8: Sonder//Satori (Blood Blast Distribution)

8: Metric - Formentera

8: Maxim Mental - Make Team Presents Maxim Mental in Maximalism (Dine Alone Records)

8: Journey -  Freedom  ( BMG)

8: Blood –  Bye Bye ( Permanent Creeps)

8: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T  - deluxe  (Spinefarm/Search and Destroy)

8: Wu-Lu - LOGGERHEAD (Warp Records) 

8: Among Legends - Take Good Care (Little Rocket/Rad Girlfriend)

8: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings -  O Glory  (WMC)

8: Greylotus -Dawnfall ( The Artisan Era)

15:  Tami Neilson-  KINGMAKER (Outside Music)

15:  Lizzo - Special (Nice Life Recording Company/Atlantic Records)

15: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One” 25th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

15: Noah Cyrus -The Hardest Part

15: Superorganism -  World Wide Pop 

15: JayWood - Slingshot

20: iskwē and Tom Wilson - Mother Love

22: Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)

22: Gilbert O’Sullivan -Driven (BMG)

22: Maya Lucia - miss girl world 

22: George Crotty Trio -Chronotope 

22: The Sadies  - Colder Streams   (Dine Alone)

22: ODESZA - The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)

29: Tallies - Patina (Hand Drawn Dracula)

29: DC Gore  All These Things (Domino)

29: Patrick Holland You're The Boss (Next Door Records)

29: Andrew Duhon - Emerald Blue

August

5: Colyn Cameron - Freehand

5 John Calvin Abney: - Tourist (Black Mesa)

5: Various Artists  - Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson (Easy Eye Sound)

12: Pavement  - Slanted & Enchanted” 30th Anniversary Edition (Matador)

12: Heart of Gold - Beautiful Dangerous

19: Hot Chip - Freakout (Domino)

26: Muse -Will Of The People (Warner Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer  (Long Branch)

26: Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon - Step By Step (Smugglers Way/Domino)

26: LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE  -How To Shroud Yourself With Night

September

9:  Melissa Lauren - My Voice

9: The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?, (Royal Cream/BMG)

16: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, deluxe reissues (Nonesuch)

23: STRÖM! - S/T ( Black Lodge Records)

30: Nestor-  Kids in a ghost town Deluxe Album Edition( Napalm Records)

30: By Divine Right - Otto Motto (Fortune Stellar Records)

October

21: Uji  - Timebeing (ZZK Records)

Canadian artists marked in red