PRESS PLAY: 8 New Albums out October 1st!
Brandi Carlile | photo by Neil Krug | courtesy of the artist
The dawn of a new month brings a bounty of new albums for October! Brandi Carlile‘s In These Silent Days is the long-awaited followup to the XPN favorite’s Grammy-winning By the Way, I Forgive You; as you’d expect, it packs an emotional wallop. The same can be said of In Heaven, the latest heart-wrenching set from Strand of Oaks. Their second full-length collaboration, Love for Sale finds Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett playfully making their way through the Cole Porter songbook. illuminati hotties began as a project for Sarah Tudzin to show off her prowess as an engineer and producer; the tracks on Let Me Do One More showcase those skills alongside blistering hooks and tender turns.
As its name implies, Half a Hundred Years is a collaborator-heavy milestone celebration from Western swing icons Asleep at the Wheel. Toronto’s Ducks Ltd. (fka Ducks Unlimited) offer up their charming debut, Modern Fiction. A pair of live recordings caught our attention this week: The Comeback Special is, true to its name, Matt Johnson’s first non-soundtrack release as The The in over 20 years. Recorded over three nights in in late 2014, The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo captures sets by some of the label’s immortal stars, including Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, and Naomi Shelton. PRESS PLAY on these new releases and more below…
Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days
WE LOVE: “Right on Time” “This Time Tomorrow” “Broken Horses”
Strand of Oaks – In Heaven
WE LOVE: “Galacticana” “Jimi & Stan”
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga – Love for Sale
WE LOVE: “I Get a Kick Out of You” “Love for Sale”
illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More
WE LOVE: “MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA” “Pool Hopping”
Asleep at the Wheel – Half a Hundred Years
WE LOVE: “Take Me Back to Tulsa (feat. George Strait)” “There You Go Again (“feat. Lyle Lovett)”
Ducks Ltd. – Modern Fiction
WE LOVE: “18 Cigarettes” “How Lonely Are You?”
The The – The Comeback Special
WE LOVE: “Sweet Bird of Truth” “The Beat(en) Generation”
Various Artists – The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo
WE LOVE: Charles Bradley & the Extraordinaires – “Let Love Stand a Chance” Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings “Get Up and Get Out”
EXTENDED PLAYS:
The Accidentals – Vessel, Black Dice – Mod Prog Sic, Boy Scouts – Wayfinder, Dar Williams – I’ll Meet You Here, Diet Cig – I Don’t Like Driving Like I Used To EP, The Doobie Brothers – Liberté, Double Dagger – Sophisticated Urban Living (Contemporary Conveniences Edition), Explosions in the Sky – Big Bend: (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television), Garbage – beautifulgarbage (20th Anniversary Edition), GLOK – Pattern Recognition, Goodbye Honolulu – Goodbye Honolulu, Grateful Dead – Listen to the River: St. Louis ’71 ’72 ’73, Hovvdy – True Love, Kevin Morby – A Night at the Little Los Angeles (Sundowner 4-Track Demos), Meek Mill – Expensive Pain, Ministry – Moral Hygiene, Neil Young – OBS1: Carnie Hall 1970, Pond – 9, The Tisburys – Pictures of Fireworks, Yes – The Quest, Various Artists – Mighty Fine: An Austin City Limits Tribute to Walter Hyatt