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 first release in five years from Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, some more funk-infused jams from The Stepkids, punk in the form of a new Parquet Courts EP, a crowdfunded LP from Saves The Day, and more!
Albert Hammond Jr.
AHJ
New details have been released about the Strokes’ guitarist’s soon to be released EP, his first since the release of ¿Cómo Te Llama? five years ago.
Featuring five brand-new original tracks produced by Gus Oberg at Hammond’s studio on Broome St. Manhattan and at One Way Studios in upstate New York, the musician plays everything himself except the drums on the recordings.
The EP will be available both digitally and as a limited edition 10″ vinyl and will be released on Hammond’s bandmate Julian Casablancas’ record label.
AHJ is out October 8th through Cult Records
Tracklisting:
1. Cooker Ship
2. Strange Tidings
3. Carnal Cruise
4. Rude Customer
5. St. Justice
The Stepkids
Troubadour
The trio of singer-songwriters who combine their musical background in funk, psychedelia and jazz with a serious pop pedigree.
After individually touring with a number of pop musicians, they formed a band to release their own music, and the result is a gleeful blend of psychedelia, soul, classic jazz, RnB, funk, 70s rock and countless other genres and styles.
On their second album, they consolidate those influences with their experience as touring musicians into a singular musical statement that they wrote, recorded and produced entirely themselves.
Troubadour is sure to appeal both to fans of complex instrumental music and catchy pop songs, and is recommended for fans of Steely Dan, Hall and Oates and Todd Rundgren.
Troubadour is out September 13th through Stones Through records.
Tracklisting:
Memoirs Of Grey
The Lottery
Desert In The Dark
Insecure Troubadour
Sweet Salvation
Symmetry
Moving Pictures
Bitter Bug
Brutal Honesty
The Art Of Forgetting
Parquet Courts
Tally All The Things You Broke
It’s been a while since the American punk rockers have shared new tunes. Aside from the brief B-side burst of “Smart Aleck Kid,” people haven’t heard new “properly recorded” songs from the boys since their critically acclaimed album, Light Up Gold, a surefire year-end best-of list staple.
That’s because, in between touring, they’ve been busy writing and recording more music for the nice people, and we’re pleased to announce the first taste, an EP they are calling Tally All The Things That You Broke.
‘You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now’ is the first salvo off the new EP. Tally All The Things You Broke is far more than a stopgap in between full-lengths; it’s the sound of Parquet Courts stretching out.
Tally All The Things You Broke is out later this year through Create/Control
Tracklisting:
1. You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now
2. Descend (The Way)
3. The More It Works
4. Fall On Yr Face
5. He’s Seein’ Paths
Yuck
Glow & Behold
With the release of their second LP, Yuck demonstrate an impressive step forward in their musical oeuvre, creating an album that is as mature, ruminative and elegiac as it is irresistible, immediate and chest burstingly anthemic. .
Following on from the gorgeous, swirling, melodic miasma of the aptly titled ‘Rebirth’, comes the new single from the next chapter of Yuck – the effervescent pop verve that is’Middle Sea’.
The track brings frontman Max Bloom’s beautifully evocative vocals to the fore for a galvanizing alt-rock anthem like only Yuck know how to do.
The much anticipated second album is produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On the Radio) and is bound to be a favourite among new and old fans alike.
Glow & Behold s out October 11th through Caroline Records
Tracklisting:
01 Sunrise in Maple Shade
02 Out of Time
03 Lose My Breath
04 Memorial Fields
05 Middle Sea
06 Rebirth
07 Somewhere
08 Nothing New
09 How Does It Feel
10 Twilight in Maple Shade (Chinese Cymbals)
11 Glow & Behold
Saves The Day
Saves The Day
The super influential alternative Americanos have just recently signed to UNFD and are releasing their self titles record late next month.
Produced by Saves The Day and engineered by Rob Schnapf, this is the first time the band have worked with Schnapf since 2003’s In Reverie.
Funded via a PledgeMusic campaign the band had more than 1,450 people contribute to the project, helping the band to surpass their goal and record the album on their own terms.
Even if you never pledged to their campaign, be sure to check out the band’s 8th studio release when it’s out in September.
Saves The Day is out September 13th through Equal Vision/UNFD.
Tracklisting:
1) Remember
2) In The In Between
3) Beyond All of Time
4) Ain’t No Kind of Love
5) Lucky Number
6) Xenophobic Blind Left Hook
7) The Tide of Our Times
8) Supernova
9) Verona
10) Ring Pop
11) Stand in The Stars
Dexys
One Day I’m Going To Soar
Featuring the new sleek and shortened name (formerly Dexys Midnight Runners), this is the iconic band’s first release in almost three decades.
Initially released in the UK, the new album has already been hailed as a masterpiece by the British press. The album was co-produced by co-producers Mick Talbot and Pete Schweir and rose to #3 on BBC Music’s Top 25 Albums of 2012.
First single “Incapable of Love” is witty and frank, while the captivating follow-up,”She’s Got A Wiggle,” showcases Kevin Rowland’s richly seasoned, yet smooth, voice. Other standouts include “Lost” (co-written with Blur’s Alex James) and the album-closing anthem “It’s Ok, John Joe.”
One Day I’m Going To Soar is out this September through Slimstyle Records.
Tracklisting:
“Now”
“Lost”
“Me”
“She Got a Wiggle”
“You”
“I’m Thinking of You”
“I’m Always Going to Love You”
“Incapable of Love”
“Nowhere Is Home”
“Free”
“It’s O.K. John Joe”
