Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis. This week’s features noisenik Kirin J Callinan, Devildriver’s latest, Washed Out’s latest chillwave entry, and the Vans Warped Tour compilation
Kirin J Callinan
Embracism
Controversial guitar-abusing noisenik, Sydney’s Kirin J Callinan, has slowly been working his way towards his debut album Embracism. After having released the captivating music video for his equally inventive and engaging single ‘Way To War‘ and new track ‘Love Delay‘, Callinan is set to drop his first solo full-length this June.
Released through Siberia Records, in partnership with Terrible Records & XL Recordings, Embracism’s ten tracks are sure to be rife with Callinan’s unique brand of music-making. Experimental in concept but razor-sharp in focus, combined with a wealth of abstract soundscapes, cutting guitar parts, and enthralling lyricism.
The record is released just as Callinan heads out on a tour of the States, where he is already gaining considerable buzz from the blogosphere who are positively swooning his cult-like appeal and unconventional live shows.
Out June 28th through Siberia Records via Terrible Records/XL Recordings
Tracklisting:
- HALO
- EMBRACISM
- COME ON USA
- VICTORIA M.
- SCRAPS
- CHARDONNAY SEAN
- STRETCH IT OUT
- WAY TO WAR
- LANDSLIDE
- LOVE DELAY
Devildriver
Winter Kills
Devildriver have recorded their new album Winter Kills in Florida at Audio Hammer Studios and vocals in Los Angeles, CA with Mark Lewis (Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, All That Remains) handling production duties.
Having worked with Lewis previously on Beast and The Last Kind Words Lewis’ prolific leadership of the new school of metal has yet again helped the boyd deliver another epic heavy Metal record.
The new album melds what the band does best. In your face power as well as the California Groove sound the band pioneered.
OutAugust 23 through Roadrunner Records
Thriftstore Masterpiece
Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
Thriftstore Masterpiece is a revolving music collective devoted to paying homage to the underdog records of years past. Their debut album revisits Lee Hazlewood’s1963 lost classic Trouble Is A Lonesome Town.
In 1963, Hazlewood released his debut album to little fanfare. He had originally intended the songs as demos for his publisher, in hopes that other artists might someday record them. Half a century later, the music collective known as Thriftstore Masterpiece has done exactly that.
Through Thriftstore Masterpiece, Charles Normal has reimagined Trouble Is A Lonesome Town as a fully orchestrated affair and has enlisted a few of his talented friends to help out on vocal duties including Frank Black (Pixies), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Courtney Taylor-Taylor (Dandy Warhols), Kristin Blix (Guards of Metropolis), the late Larry Norman, Eddie Argos (Art Brut) and Pete Yorn.
Out July 12 through Side One Dummy Records/Shock
Tracklisting:
1. LONG BLACK TRAIN – FEATURING FRANK BLACK
2. UGLY BROWN -FEATURING LARRY NORMAN
3. SON OF A GUN- FEATURING FRANK BLACK
4. WE ALL MAKE THE FLOWERS GROW- FEATURING KRISTIN BLIX
5. RUN BOY RUN – FEATURING FRANK BLACK
6. SIX FEET OF CHAIN- FEATURING PETE YORN
7. THE RAILROAD- FEATURING ISAAC BROCK
8. LOOK AT THAT WOMAN – FEATURING COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
9. PECULIAR GUY- FEATURING EDDIE ARGOS
10. TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN – FEATURING LARRY NORMAN
The Almost
Fear Inside Our Bones
Following 2009’s acclaimed release Monster, Monster, Florida natives The Almost ahave announced the release of their third album.
Written over the course of one year and recorded live by Marshall Altman (Tom Morello, Ingrid Michaelson, William Fitzsimmons), The Almost bunkered down in a small room in Nashville’s Omni Studios for only five days and played every note of Fear Inside Our Bones together in unison.
The band made the decision to record the album in the same roomcompletely live, and the album was born in their collective blood, sweat, and tears.
Listen ‘I’m Down’ to the first single off the album here.
Out June 14th through Tooth & Nail Records/Shock
Tracklisting:
- Ghost
- Fear Inside Our Bones
- I’m Down
- Never Be Like You
- Come On
- The Florida Sun
- Fight Song
- I Won’t Let Go
- So What
- Love Is Coming Down
- Lonely Boy
Washed Out
Parocosm
The music recorded by Ernest Greene as Washed Out has been nothing if not dreamy, but for his second full-length, he’s taken the idea of letting your mind wander to another state a huge leap further. On Paracosm, the Georgia-based musician explores the album’s namesake phenomenon, where people create detailed imaginary worlds.
Listeners will be immediately struck by Paracosm’s seamless melding of organic and synthetic sounds, which are related to Washed Out’s past but also find Greene redefining his trademark dreaminess. The live drums, bass, and guitar were recorded at Maze Studios with producer Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Gnarls Barkley), who also worked on Greene’s last album.
Despite the vintage instruments and Greene’s throwback tendencies, everything feels like it was made right here and now.
You can watch the album trailer here.
Out August 9th through Pod /Inertia
Tracklisting:
- Ghost
- Fear Inside Our Bones
- I’m Down
- Never Be Like You
- Come On
- The Florida Sun
- Fight Song
- I Won’t Let Go
- So What
- Love Is Coming Down
- Lonely Boy
Tracklisting not yet available.
Various Artists
Vans Warped Tour 2013 Compilation
The official soundtrack to the 2013 Vans Warped Tour will be released on June 7 through SideOneDummy Records via Shock Records.
This 2CD collection features 50 killer tracks – representing excellent value, covering old favourites with many acts that have toured Australia, and those bands that will become new favourites.
Featuring the likes of Anarbour, Motion City Soundtrack, The Used, and other big names, the compilation is defintely a collector’s item for devoted hardcore fans
The compilation also comes just in time for Australia to gear up for our very own the return to Australia of the Vans Warped Tour this November/December, proudly brought to us (in part) by rough-tongued promoter AJ Maddah, who is teaming up with the tour’s founder, Kevin Lyman.
Out Now Through Shock
Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1 – All Mine – Never Shout Never
2 – Boomerang – The Summer Set
3 – I Won’t Lie – Go Radio
4 – Good or Bad – Action Item
5 – Nothing to Lose – GOLDHOUSE
6 – Sun Goes Down – Itch
7 – Flow Like Poe – MC Lars
8 – Do It Now, Remember It Later – Sleeping With Sirens
9 – Nightmare – Set It Off
10 – Vices – Memphis May Fire
11 – Children of Love – Crown the Empire
12 – I Came, I Saw, I Conquered – Woe, Is Me
13 – Chin Up, Kid – Forever the Sickest Kids
14 – She’s a Blast – The Beautiful Bodies
15 – No Consequences – VersaEmerge
16 – Blue Milk – Big Chocolate
17 – Orion – Shy Kidx
18 – All Fall Down – Five Knives
19 – Broken – Young London
20 – We’re Coming Up – For the Foxes
21 – Damage I’ve Done – Anarbor
22 – Ghosts – Driver Friendly
23 – Hand Out – Beebs and Her Money Makers
24 – Myth Head – Mighty Mongo
25 – The Reckoning – Nathen Maxwell
Disc 2
1 – Go To Hell For Heaven’s Sake – Bring Me the Horizon
2 – The Summer – Citizen
3 – Put Me Out – The Used
4 – Cul-De-Sac – The Wonder Years
5 – Late Nights In My Car – Real Friends
6 – Empty Space – The Story So Far
7 – Let Me In – The Swellers
8 – Banshee (Ghost Fame) – letlive.
9 – Empty Glass – Defeater
10 – Hope – We Came As Romans
11 – In the End – Black Veil Brides
12 – Into the Everblack – The Black Dahlia Murder
13 – On Brave Mountains We Conquer – Silverstein
14 – Tell Me Why – The Early November
15 – Blood Orange – The American Scene
16 – Heart Attack – Man Overboard
17 – Everything’s Eventual – Mixtapes
18 – Timelines – Motion City Soundtrack
19 – One Way Love – Allison Weiss
20 – If Bukowski Could See Me Now – Forever Came Calling
21 – Stay With Me – Handguns
22 – Social Muckery – Big D and the Kids Table
23 – All Aboard the Friend Ship – Middle Finger Salute
24 – Nothing Left To Lose – Strawberry Blondes
25 – Sleeping’s a Waste of My Youth – The Exposed
