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 the much anticipated re-issue of Nirvana’s last official studio album, a new solo record from Jonathan Rice, some local releases from Wolf & Cub and Adalita, and more!
Jonathan Rice
Good Graces
Rice’s third solo album and first since he released the critically lauded I’m Having Fun Now with Jenny Lewis as Jenny & Johnny in 2010 is out soon.
Although unequivocally his vision, Rice wasn’t entirely alone during the recording of Good Graces with help from Wiley Gelber, Jason Boesel, Pierre de Reeder and many others.
The record also features vocal contributions from Z Berg as well as Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins for the track ‘Lou Rider’, which Rice explains that “the vocal is kinda Lou Reed and the groove is kinda Low Rider.”
The record’s first single ‘Nowhere At The Speed Of Light’ marries organic instrumentation with the track.
Good Graces is out September 20th through Stop Start
Tracklisting:
1. Acapulco Gold
2. My Heart Belongs To You
3. Nowhere At The Speed of Light
4. Lou Rider
5. Empty Head
6. Good Graces
7. Surfer’s Lament
8. Soldiers
9. That Summer Feeling
Wolf & Cub
Heavy Weight
‘I Need More’ is the current single from Wolf & Cub’s forthcoming album Heavy Weight.
It’s a gripping rock song, dripping with discontent and delivered via a thumping rock beat. ‘I Need More’ is available now via iTunes & Bandcamp.
The album was recorded and produced by the band at Sydney’s Linear studios, and mixed by Burke Reid (The Drones, PVT, Oh Mercy).
Heavy Weight is out September 13th through MGM
Tracklisting:
1. Can’t Remember The Last Time
2. Salao
3. John Alone
4. Shut Me Out
5. Lizard Skin
6. Only In Your Mind
7. I Need More
8. See The Light
9. All Through The Night
10. What More Could I Say
11. Got A Feeling
Adalita
All Day Venus
Recorded with renowned producer Lindsay Gravina at Birdland Studios in Melbourne, All Day Venus is the follow up to Adalita’s acclaimed self-titled LP.
Borne from periods of intense creativity and personal reflection, the twelve songs on the album are dark, brooding and unflinchingly honest, bursting with energy and physicality. This is an album aimed equally at the head, heart, hips and feet.
The first glimpse of the new LP was revealed at the beginning of July, with the release of the title track. With its eloquent and insightful lyrics and exhilarating, reverb-soaked guitars, ‘All Day Venus’ proclaimed the return of one of our most lauded and loved local artists.
Check out our interview with the songstress here.
Al Day Venus is out September 20th through Liberation
Tracklisting:
Annihilate Baby
I Want Your Love
Warm Like You
Trust Is Rust
All Day Venus
He Wrote
Blue Sky
Too Far Gone
Homesick
My Ego
Heavy Cut
Rolled In Gold
Korn
The Paradigm Shift
Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum hard rock innovators KORN have revealed their 11th studio album.
It marks the emotional return of much-revered co-founding guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch for his first album with Korn since 2003’s Take A Look In The Mirror.
This record serves as the follow-up to the band’s critically acclaimed 2011 dubsteb-metal hybrid The Path Of Totality, which entered the Top 10 in the US Billboard chart.
The record will mark Korn’s first time working with super-producer Don Gilmore, whose legacy also includes producing Linkin Park’s legendary ‘Hybrid Theory’ album
Watch the album trailer here.
The Paradigm Shift is out October 4th
Tracklisting:
1. Prey For Me
2. Love & Meth
3. What We Do
4. Spike In My Veins
5. Mass Hysteria
6. Paranoid And Aroused
7. Never Never
8. Punishment Time
9. Lullaby For A Sadist
10. Victimized
11. It’s All Wrong
12. Wish I Wasn’t Born Today (Deluxe)
13. Tell Me What You Want (Deluxe)
Blitzen Trapper
VII
Americana stalwarts Blitzen Trapper have announced their seventh studio album.
VII opens with “Feel The Chill,” a southern adventure complete with a woman in her underwear, deer hunting, and of course drowning at the local bar.
The band take us down a crooked bend so dark and gloomy you can smell the heat and feel the humidity oppress you.
Frontman Eric Earley has said of the upcoming release “”Each song starts from a small place, a headwater-like remembrance and then widens into a song. May these songs minister in ways mysterious and eternal, or at least maybe make you shake a hip.”
VII is out out October 4 via Vagrant/Shock Records
Tracklisting not yet available.
Nirvana
In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition
To say that Nirvana’s third and ultimately final studio album In Utero was 1993’s most polarizing record would be the understatement of a decade.
The unadorned sonic rawness of Steve Albini’s recording laid bare every primal nuance of the most confrontational yet vulnerable material Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl would ever record.
Universal Music Group will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the unwitting swansong of the single most influential artist of the 1990s with a multi-format release that spreads more than 70 remastered, remixed, rare, unreleased and live recordings over configurations ranging from a 3-CD/1-DVD Super Deluxe Edition to a standard digital/CD remaster of the original album.
In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition is out September 20th through Universal
Tracklisting:
CD ONE – Original album remastered plus all B-sides & bonus tracks recorded at Pachyderm
1. Serve The Servants (Albini mix/original release) – 3:39
2. Scentless Apprentice (Albini mix/original release) – 3:47
3. Heart-Shaped Box (Litt mix/original release) – 4:41
4. Rape Me (Albini mix/original release) – 2:51
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Albini mix/original release) – 4:09
6. Dumb (Albini mix/original release) – 2:32
7. Very Ape (Albini mix/original release) – 1:55
8. Milk It (Albini mix/original release) – 3:54
9. Pennyroyal Tea (Albini mix/original release) – 3:37
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Albini mix/original release) – 4:51
11. Tourette’s (Albini mix/original release) – 1:35
12. All Apologies (Litt mix/original release) – 3:55
13. Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip (ex-U.S. bonus track) – 7:35
14. Marigold (B-side; “Heart Shaped Box) – 2:34
15. Moist Vagina (B-side; “All Apologies”) – 3:33
16. Sappy (from “No Alternative” compilation) – 3:28
17. I Hate Myself And Want To Die (from “The Beavis And Butthead Experience” compilation) – 2:59
18. Pennyroyal Tea (Litt mix) – 3:36
19. Heart-Shaped Box (Albini mix/unreleased) – 4:42
20. All Apologies (Albini mix/unreleased) – 3:58
CD TWO – 2013 album mix plus pre-album demos
1. Serve The Servants (2013 mix) – 3:36
2. Scentless Apprentice (2013 mix) – 3:49
3. Heart-Shaped Box (2013 mix) – 4:41
4. Rape Me (2013 mix) – 2:49
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (2013 mix) – 4:12
6. Dumb (2013 mix) – 2:32
7. Very Ape (2013 mix) – 1:57
8. Milk It (2013 mix) – 3:56
9. Pennyroyal Tea (2013 mix) – 3:32
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (2013 mix) – 4:51
11. Tourette’s (2013 mix) – 1:35
12. All Apologies (2013 mix) – 3:55
13. Scentless Apprentice (Rio demo) – 3:54
14. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Laundry Room demo) – 4:33
15. Dumb (Word Of Mouth demo) – 2:39
16. Very Ape (Rio demo) — 2:21
17. Pennyroyal Tea (Word Of Mouth demo) – 3:31
18. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Word Of Mouth demo) – 2:40
19. Tourettes (Word Of Mouth demo) – 2:14
20. Marigold (Upland Studios demo) – 3:25
21. All Apologies (Music Source demo) – 4:25
22. Forgotten Tune (Rehearsal) – 2:04
23. Jam (Word Of Mouth demo) – 5:44
CD THREE – LIVE & LOUD: LIVE AT PIER 48, SEATTLE, WA – 12/13/93
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
2. Drain You
3. Breed
4. Serve The Servants
5. Rape Me
6. Sliver
7. Pennyroyal Tea
8. Scentless Apprentice
9. All Apologies
10. Heart-Shaped Box
11. Blew
12. The Man Who Sold The World
13. School
14. Come As You Are
15. Lithium
16. About a Girl
17. Endless, Nameless
DVD – LIVE & LOUD: LIVE AT PIER 48, SEATTLE, WA – 12/13/93
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter*
2. Drain You*
3. Breed*
4. Serve The Servants*
5. Rape Me*
6. Sliver
7. Pennyroyal Tea*
8. Scentless Apprentice*
9. All Apologies
10. Heart-Shaped Box*
11. Blew
12. The Man Who Sold The World
13. School
14. Come As You Are
15. Lithium*
16. About a Girl
17. Endless, Nameless*
EXTRAS:
18. Very Ape (Live & Loud Rehearsal)
19. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live & Loud Rehearsal)
20. Rape Me (Live & Loud Rehearsal)
21. Pennyroyal Tea (Live & Loud Rehearsal)
22. Heart-Shaped Box (Original Music Video + Director’s Cut)
23. Rape Me (Live on “Nulle Part Ailleurs” – Paris, France)
24. Pennyroyal Tea (Live on “Nulle Part Ailleurs” – Paris, France)
25. Drain You (Live on “Nulle Part Ailleurs” – Paris, France)
26. Serve The Servants (Live on “Tunnel” – Rome, Italy)
27. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live in Munich, Germany)
28. My Best Friend’s Girl (Live in Munich, Germany)
29. Drain You (Live in Munich, Germany)
