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.
Flying Lotus
ideas+drafts+loops
Taking to social media, producer and rapper Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison has released a zip file titled “ideas+drafts+loops”.
Upon closer inspection, it’s a 24-track outtakes mix including collaborations with Earl Sweatshirt, Shabazz Palaces, the Underachievers and Baths to name a few – and also features a remix of Kanye West’s killer track ‘Black Skinhead’.
The file also features the work of Captain Murphy – the alias of the man himself. Posting it on his Twitter, Ellison wrote, “Hey u guys are gonna share this folder right? Pls pass it around. Thanks for everything… I’m feelin all emo about this.”
Ideas+drafts+loops is out now. Download it here.
Tracklisting:
ABOUT THAT TIME
ADVENTURE SOUND FEAT. THE UNDERACHIEVERS
AN XBOX KILLED MY DOG
AQUA TEEN 24
BETWEEN VILLAINS
CHASING APPLES
COLEMANS GROOVE FEAT. ANDREYA TRIANA AND NIKI RANDA
COSWERED DRAFT
FLOTUS
DJ MEHDI – MAPEI IDEAS 1 MIX
HIDE ME FEAT. SHABAZZ PALACES
LITTLE HOURS FEAT. BATHS
MEADOW MAN 2
OATMEAL FACE
OSAKA TRADE
PUPPET TALK
STONECUTTERS
SUCH A SQUARE
THE DIDDLER
THE IN BETWEEN
THE KILL FEAT. NIKI RANDA
BLACK SKINHEAD REMIX FEAT. THUNDERCAT
TREE TUNNELS
WAKE ME
St Vincent
St Vincent
St. Vincent showcases Annie Clark at her most assured and gripping, as she meshes distorted, aggressive electric guitars and ethereal vocal and synthesizer arrangements on top of an infectious rhythm section and relentless percussion.
“I knew the groove needed to be paramount,” Clark says of the album, which she arranged and demoed extensively in Austin before heading into the studio in Dallas to record. “I wanted to make a party record you could play at a funeral.”
The result is Clark’s most riveting work yet. The album follows her last solo release, 2011’s Strange Mercy – a record which cemented her status as one of her generation’s most fearsome and inventive guitarists.
St. Vincent is set for release 21st February 2014 through Loma Vista/Caroline International.
Tracklisting:
1. Rattlesnake
2. Birth In Reverse
3. Prince Johnny
4. Huey Newton
5. Digital Witness
6. I Prefer Your Love
7. Regret
8. Bring Me Your Loves
9. Psychopath
10. Every Tear Disappears
11. Severed Crossed Fingers
Mark Lanegan
Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011
As one of America’s great modern day vocalists and songwriters, Mark Lanegan has much in common with the timeless work of such legends as Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and Karen Dalton.
The former frontman of Screaming Trees, collaborator with Kurt Cobain and Queens Of The Stone Age, and, most commonly, as a solo artist, Lanegan is a man whose career has been defined by an unwillingness to sit still.
2014 sees Lanegan release Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011 – with Light In The Attic Records set to shine a spotlight on this great American performer and songwriter. Released in two sumptuous formats: a Double-CD edition and a Triple-LP box set, it is the result of collecting Lanegan’s solo material from Sub Pop, Beggars Banquet and more.
Has God Seen My Shadow? is out 17th January 2013 through Inertia
Tracklisting not yet available.
You Me At Six
Cavalier Youth
The British alt-rock juggernauts continue to hurtle from strength to strength in 2013, driven by the release of the bombastic second single from their forthcoming Cooking Vinyl album Cavalier Youth.
Cavalier Youth is the bands’ fourth album, and showcases a renewed vigor for You Me At Six, who despite still being in their early twenties, have clocked up almost a decade of writing, recording and touring.
Recorded under the motivating watch of renowned producer Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Weezer, Fall Out Boy) in Los Angeles, Cavalier Youth’s riffs are catchy and the drums, colossal. Where wildly successful third album ‘Sinners Never Sleep’ had more of a pick’n’mix approach, Cavalier Youth displays a consistency born of confidence. This is next level musicianship, channeling influences as diverse and as ambitious as the Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys and The Gaslight Anthem; it’ll capture the hearts and imaginations of fans both old and new.
Cavalier Youth is set for release 27 January 2014 via Cooking Vinyl.
Tracklist:
1. Too Young To Feel This Old
2. Lived A Lie
3. Fresh Start Fever
4. Forgive And Forget
5. Room To Breathe
6. Win Some, Lose Some
7. Cold Night
8. Hope For The Best
9. Love Me Like You Used To
10. Be Who You Are
11. Carpe Diem
12. Wild Ones
Johnny Cash
Out Among The Stars
Prepare yourselves for Out Among The Stars, a remarkable new album comprised of 12 recently discovered Johnny Cash studio recordings.
Originally recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Columbia Studios in 1981, 1111 Sound Studios in 1984 and produced by Billy Sherrill (the architect of the “countrypolitan” sound), the album includes duets with June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings.
The recordings, which have never been released in any form, are not demos, outtakes or alternate versions. Johnny Cash was not only one of the most prolific artists to ever cut records, he was also an American music archetype, the Man in Black who crossed over into pop culture and never sold out.
Thirty years in the making, Out Among The Stars is a classic Johnny Cash album, about to be heard for the very first time.
Out Among The Stars will be released 28 March 2014 via Columbia/Legacy.
Tracklisting:
1. Out Among The Stars
2. Baby Ride Easy – duet with June Carter Cash
3. She Used To Love Me A Lot
4. After All
5. I’m Movin’ On – duet with Waylon Jennings
6. If I Told You Who It Was
7. Call Your Mother (written by Johnny Cash)
8. I Drove Her Out Of My Mind
9. Tennessee
10. Rock and Roll Shoes
11. Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time – duet with June Carter Cash
12. I Came To Believe (written by Johnny Cash)
