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After 16 years, THE CURE is back with their 14th studio album, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus... that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle,’ a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players and is evocative of the energy of her incredible live show.
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‘Leon’ is the highly anticipated fourth album from Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and performer Leon Bridges. With 13 tracks featuring Leon’s signature storytelling and a unique blend of organic genre alchemy, ‘Leon’ is his most poignant, powerful, and personal work to date. He takes fans on a trip through the heart of Ft. Worth he knows best, the things he holds dear, and the people and places that shaped him. Featuring production by Ian Fitchuk (Beyonce, Noah Kahan), Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves), and Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), Leon describes the album as “somewhat of a self-portrait… I'm excited to share these stories about my home, about nostalgia, about my upbringing, about where I'm from, with all of you. I hope this music brings you back to your roots and your journey.”
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Cast of Joker: Folie a Deux
Joker: Folie a Deux (Music From The Motion Picture) [Translucent Red LP]
Vinyl: $32.99 Buy
Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2 [2 LP indie exclusive Translucent Yellow and Red]
Vinyl: $32.98 Buy
TESTAMENT is an undisputed titan of thrash metal. One of the definitive acts of the historic and high-octane genre since they first emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983, the modern icons established themselves with a series of classic records (released each year from 1987 through 1990). They never wavered creatively, unleashing one acclaimed album after another across four decades.
Originally released in 1989, Practice What You Preach is the third album from TESTAMENT. Guitar World recognized the album as one of the Top 10 Shred Albums of the Eighties.
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer James Bay upholds traditions of timeless songcraft and clever lyricism on his fourth studio album, Changes All The Time, via Mercury Records. The 11-track project features hit single “Up All Night” with The Lumineers & Noah Kahan, the latter of whom James recently supported on sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Boston’s Fenway Park.
Bridgerton Season Three (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) [Wedding Ring Gold Vinyl]
Vinyl: $39.98 Buy
Shaboozey - Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going - Vinyl
1xLP, Gatefold Jacket, Black Vinyl, Protective Poly-lined Sleeves, Marketing Sticker
Rising multi-media artist Shaboozey intends to build his own world. Determined to carve his own lane in the Alt-Country / Hip-Hop space; he crafts a sound that pays homage to a cast of traditional Western influences, such as Bob Dylan, Lead Belly, Johnny Cash, and Leonard Cohen, while looking into the future of what the two genres have yet to introduce. Remaining true to his Virginia roots, Shaboozey hopes to continue the region's long-standing tradition of producing some of the most prolific creatives of the new millennium. This time through elevating the scope of contemporary hip-hop and introducing a modern Americana culture to a global audience. Fresh off of his inclusion in the groundbreaking Beyonce album, Cowboy Carter, of which he was the only featured artist to appear twice, Shaboozey is set to release his own album, Where I've Been, isn't Where I'm Going. An album that has been years in the making, it includes standout singles "Let It Burn," "Vegas," "Anabelle," & the infectiously fun singalong anthem "A Bar Song (Tipsy)." Millions of streams later, and appearances on esteemed programs such as COLORS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Shaboozey is set to become the new face of modern American country music.
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New Release Round-Up 10-11-24
The Offspring - SUPERCHARGED - Concord Recordings
Following up on the global success of their album "Let The Bad Times Roll,"ť legendary So-Cal punk group The Offspring release their 11th album SUPERCHARGED. Produced by Bob Rock, the record continues the band's legacy with some of their best songwriting to date and unmatched musical energy.
Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken - Republic Records
Jelly Roll - "Beautifully Broken" [Clear/Gold Splatter LP] Beautifully Broken is the new studio album from Jelly Roll, releasing October 11, 2024 and featuring the hit single "I Am Not Okay. " Clear/Gold Splatter LP. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive. EXPLICIT
Samara Joy - Portait - Verve
Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players and is evocative of the energy of her incredible live show.
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue - Blue Note Records
Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas. Burrell originals including “Chitlins con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Saturday Night Blues,” and the stunning solo guitar piece “Soul Lament” set the tone for this timeless classic adorned by one of the all-time great Reid Miles cover designs.
Hank Mobley - Soul Station - Blue Note Records
Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station. The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley’s lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin’s “Remember” through bluesy originals like “Dig Dis” and the title track, and the swinging up-tempo numbers “This I Dig of You” and “Split Feelin’s.” Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Lady Gaga - Harlequin [Red LP]
Linda Lindas - No Obligation [Indie Exclusive Translucent Pink LP]
Various Artists - Punk Goes Christmas [Ruby Red LP]
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition) [White 2 LP]
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny [LP]
Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line [Indie Exclusive Rose-Tinted LP]
Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike [Indie Exclusive]
Teddy & Rough Riders - Down Home [Indie Exclusive]
Immanual Wilkins - Blues Blood [2 LP]
Ensemble Paramirabo - Voix Jetees [CD]
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics And Covers [Transparent Amber 2 LP]
Old Dominion - Odies But Goodies
Abstract Crimewave - Longest Night
Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNA [Blue LP]
Chat Pile - Cool World [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] (Ylw)
Chesterfield Kings - We're Still All The Same
Current Joys - East My Love - Olive [Colored Vinyl]
Dawes - Oh Brother [Colored Vinyl]
Def Leppard - One Night Only: Live At The Leadmill, Sheffield
Steve Earle - Alone Again (Live)
E L U C I D - REVELATOR [Compact disc]
Myles Kennedy - The Art Of Letting Go [Indie exclusive]
Justin Moore - This Is My Dirt [Dirt Color LP]
Woody Platt - Far Away With You
Propaganda - Propaganda [Colored Vinyl] (Org)
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NEW THIS WEEK AT THE SHOP
Happy almost-Friday, newsletter readers. We certainly do live in some interesting times these days, and for the purposes of this message, I'm just talking about the records. I'd need a full editorial team to handle the true volume of what's coming out this week, so I'm just gonna hit you with the top 48 or so. First up, THE SMILE. The trio of Thom and Jonny Radiohead plus drummer Tom Skinner is bookending their explosive 2024 with a second album, called 'Cutouts'. I don't want to commit the common flub of taking Thom Yorke literally, but that title would indicate that these are the leftovers from the 'Wall Of Eyes' sessions. Radiohead's already pulled this move with 'Amnesiac', a record every bit as good as its host album 'Kid A', and its the same story here. Polished, pumping, propulsive guitar-forward jams aplenty, with some of Yorke's trademark lyricism. Limited white vinyl available on this one. # We've had a very enjoyable week of listening to APHEX TWIN real loud at the shop, something we can never really do enough. The first-ever proper reissue of 'Selected Ambient Works 2' has landed, with bonus unheard material stretching it to an overwhelming 4LPs. We sold a lot of these at our listening event on Tuesday but still have plenty left. # You know you've hit some kind of upper echelon of the underground when your record label is kicking off the promotional bio for your latest album with philosophical musings like "what is a band anyway?" The label in question is Matador, and the band is THE HARD QUARTET, consisting of indie demigods Stephen Malkmus of Pavement, Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang, Jim White of the Dirty Three, and Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Superwolf. Apparently, this foursome joined forces a few years ago without telling anyone (ok they probably told their significant others, and Rick Rubin, apparently), all so they could pull off this October Surprise of an album. As you might expect, this album is just the type of stuff you'd expect from these guys: Malkmus remains an incisive, cryptic, and hilarious lyricist, Sweeney can absolutely shred at will, Kelly and White provide a limber and loose rhythm section. Our initial copies of this album come with a promo photo glossy of the handsome gentlemen. # Dan Snaith continues to party hardy as CARIBOU, which continues to take on the inflection of his housey alias Daphni on his latest, called 'Honey', in stock on yellow vinyl. Guitarist YASMIN WILLIAMS quietly released one of the decade's best albums a few years back with 'Urban Driftwood', which landed her on the Nonesuch for her latest, the graceful and gorgeous 'Acadia'. Everyone's going understandably nuts for MJ Lenderman on the strength of his latest solo album (which we have a few copies of back in stock), so how about a fresh look at his old band WEDNESDAY. Their album of lofi covers called 'Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up' was previously only available at the merch table at shows, but now we've got some!Southern crooner LEON BRIDGES goes absolutely "grown folks" on his latest album, fittingly titled 'Leon', sultry grooves augmented by a string section class this one up a lot. Beachcombers COLDPLAY return with a new album called 'Moon Music', in the house on a limited pink vinyl first edition, as well as a short-run zoetrope version, to give you the spins. JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT rewards his lovely fans with a second installment of 'Live From The Ryman' on red and yellow wax. Erstwhile Eilish sibling FINNEAS returns with 'For Cryin Out Loud', plus we've got Rocktober represses from STEVIE NICKS, INXS, and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS.The Warp label concludes their archival tribute to BROADCAST with 'Distant Call', a collection of demos for some of the band's most beloved songs from albums like 'Haha Sound' and 'Tender Buttons'. As with the previous collection of Broadcast demos, a lot of these versions sound incredibly different from their finished versions, providing a fleeting window into the sonic practice of a departed musical hero, Trish Keenan, who would have turned 55 this week. Swaggering 70s style soul trio THEE SACRED SOULS return with 'Got A Story To Tell' on Daptone. JORJA SMITH re-interprets her 2023 album with 'Falling Or Flying (Reimagined)'. Sudanese-Canadian folk singer MUSTAFA has a gorgeous new record called 'Dunya', recommended to fans of Michael Kiwanuka. Australia's NED COLLETTE returns with 'Our Other History', continuing his run of albums that revive the sound of Bert Jansch for a new century. Time has redeemed the once-forgotten folk singer NORMA TANEGA; her mixtape classic 'Walkin My Cat Named Dog' gets a fresh color vinyl edition this week.Time for bed, kids! Lots of doom, gloom and black metal in the house this week. Social media sensation BLOOD INCANTATION are back with a bang. None of that goofy "oh we're doing an all synth album" business here: 'Absolute Elsewhere' is a full-on Nibelungenlied-style multi-suite prog-metal assault, in the house on gold wax. UNDEATH issue their challenge for the week's heaviest with 'More Insane', that cover art is looking like about a 9 on the pain rating scale. Oklahoma mind destroyers CHAT PILE continues to conquer with 'Cool World', in on highlighter yellow wax. DARKTHRONE's classic 'Transilvanian Hunger' gets a new pressing, plus we have more experimental and noisy affairs from MAMALEEK and PHARMAKON.After turning ears in Jeff Parker's group and as a member of the SML ensemble, bassist and composer ANNA BUTTERSS takes on a solo album for the International Anthem label called 'Mighty Vertebrate', and it's a lovely, buoyant set of soft fusion jams. The Gondwana label represses the transcendent album 'Monument' by the PORTICO QUARTET, alongside a new live album from pianist HANIA RANI called 'Nostalgia'. Audiophile jazz LPs this week include TEDDY EDWARDS and HOWARD McGHEE's 'Together Again', BOOKER LITTLE's debut album, and DONALD BYRD's seldom-heard 'Kofi'.Montreal's GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR reconvene for another session of apocalyptic post-rock called 'NO�TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD'. GUIDED BY VOICES' mid-90s fanclub only release 'Tonics and Twisted Chasers' gets a legit pressing from Superior Viaduct. Drummer Chris Corsano teams up with legends Joe Baiza from Saccharine Trust and Mike Watt from everything everywhere ever as the CORSANO BAIZA WATT TRIO. Guitar hero THURSTON MOORE returns to the dreamy lilt of 'Psychic Hearts' and 'Washing Machine' on an exciting new solo album called 'Flow Critical Lucidity', and his new UK imprint Daydream Library releases some excellent London art rock from the trio SCHANDE on 'Once Around'. Another New York guitar legend, ALAN LICHT, rouses from his slumber with an incredible album of maximalist folk guitar abstractions on 'Havens'.Some of the better news we've gotten lately is that a domestic distributor has finally teamed up with the Backwoodz label to bring us far more affordable editions of records like BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL's 2019 classic 'Hiding Places', a modern masterpiece of twisted and splintered hiphop. The femme-funk duo SAADA BONAIRE made music that didn't sell in the 80s but makes a whole lot of sense nowadays. Their glammed-out take on reggae, disco and italo is collected on 'Saâda Bonaire', a decade-old compilation on Captured Tracks that gets a fresh edition this week on bone colored vinyl and with a bonus flexi disc of covers. The modern boogie funk gem of WILL SESSIONS and AMP FIDDLER's 'The One' is back in print, as well as a newish EP from the pairing of OVERMONO & THE STREETS. Studio legend SCIENTIST releases a new hot plate called 'Direct-to-Dub', and we have a fresh pressing of the exquisite Japanese jazz-funk classic 'Awakening' by HIROSHI SATO.Go back to where it all began with a fresh pressing of BLACK SABBATH's mighty self-titled debut, which gets the heavyweight Rhino Hi-Fi treatment this week. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE's noisy folk rollercoaster of wub 'Sung Tongs' turns 20 this week with a new yellow & red vinyl edition, and some live material appended. First-wave noise-poppers MCLUSKY's Albini-produced banger 'The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire' is back in print, plus we've got a new printing of the mighty DC garage-poppers SLANT 6's 'Soda Pop Rip Off', which is the best record Dischord ever released (after the usual suspects, of course). Last up, new recital music from the Fourth World ambient investigator CARMEN VILLAIN on 'Music From The Living Monument', and an awesome archival compilation of unheard No Wave material from New York's BETH ANDERSON, on the Finders Keepers-released 'I Can't Stand It!' -
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Here is your weekly update for October 3rd. We'll pickup where the Thursday night sneak peek video on our @StrictlyDiscs Instagram and Facebook left off. No frills. Just the artists. The rest is for your 500+ fresh-used digging pleasure downstairs. Some of the headliners this week:
Jazz: Pharoah Sanders, Jon Hassell, Patrice Rushen, Lonnie Liston Smith, Idris Muhammad, Archie Shepp, Michael Longo, Joe Farrell, Chico Hamilton, Art Pepper
Soul: Dexter Wansel, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex, Spinners, Kool & The Gang, Stevie Wonder, Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave, Instant Funk, Sister Sledge, Earth, Wind & Fire
Rock / Pop: Sparks, Captain Beefheart, Bob Dylan, Dennis Wilson, Velvet Underground, Faces, Beach Boys, Ginger Baker, Hawkwind, Electric Prunes, Gram Parsons, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, B-52s, Violent Femmes, New York Dolls, Death Cab for Cutie
Country: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings
Reggae: Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Eddy Grant, Toots & Maytals, Third World, Ini Kamoze, Mighty Diamonds
Contemporary / Hip Hop: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DMX, Juice WRLD
Experimental: Tangerine Dream, Tomita, Dick Hyman, Walter Carlos
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