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.
Emmylou Harris
Wrecking Ball (Reissue)
Before Miley Cyrus came in on her wrecking ball, there was Emmylou Harris’ ground-breaking, Grammy-winning record of the same name, argued by many to be the Country Music Hall of Fame inductee’s finest work from her illustrious 40 year career.
Wrecking Ball swept the globe when it was first released in 1995. Produced by Daniel Lanois. Harries breathes a haunting, mysterious life into her renditions of songs written by the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young. Now, nearly two decades later, her acclaimed record is receiving a glossy reissue complete with a three-disc set featuring a remastered version of the original album, a bonus CD of previously unreleased material and a ‘Making Of’ documentary including interviews with special guests Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Neil Young and Steve Earl, among others.
The three-disc Wrecking Ball reissue is due out April 4th on Nonesuch Records
Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Where Will I Be (Daniel Lanois)
2. Goodbye (Steve Earle)
3. All My Tears (Julie Miller)
4. Wrecking Ball (Neil Young)
5. Goin’ Back to Harlan (Anna McGarrigle)
6. Deeper Well (David Olney, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris)
7. Every Grain of Sand (Bob Dylan)
8. Sweet Old World (Lucinda Williams)
9. May This Be Love (Jimi Hendrix)
10. Orphan Girl (Gillian Welch)
11. Blackhawk (Daniel Lanois)
12. Waltz Across Texas Tonight (Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris)
Disc 2
Deeper Well: The Wrecking Ball Outtakes
1. Still Water
2. Where Will I Be (alternate version)
3. All My Tears
4. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
5. Deeper Well
6. The Stranger Song
7. Sweet Old World (alternate version)
8. Gold
9. Blackhawk (alternate version)
10. May This Be Love (acoustic)
11. Goin’ Back to Harlan
12. Where Will I Be (alternate version)
13. Deeper Well
Gentlemen
Night Reels II
Formed in 2012, this London-based five-piece first emerged on radars last year with the spacey psychedelic rock jams on their debut EP Night Reels I. They’ve come back with the follow-up, which sees the quintet exploring darker, murkier experimental territories.
“With ‘Night Reels II’ we wanted to draw on the sounds we saw as classic but make a forward-thinking record – the sort of record we would want to lay back and listen to late at night,” said drummer Geno Carrapetta. “We had to remove ourselves so we found this remote cottage with only cows for neighbours.”
With fine pop sensibilities and instrumentation, Gentlemen are proving themselves to be one of London’s best-kept secrets on the cusp of being broken.
Night Reels II releases on February 28th through Week Of Wonders.
Tracklisting:
1. Gentle Duke
2. Midnight Movie
3. Saturday Noir
4. Underground
Various artists
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Original Soundtrack)
Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated eighth film The Grand Budapest Hotel is just a month away from hitting cinemas on March 7th, and now the full details of the official soundtrack have been announced.
Anderson is known for his instantly recognisable stylistic aesthetic – think still shots, cursive fonts and vintage sepia tones – but over the years it’s also his soundtracks that have become a much-talked about component of his cult movies. While Anderson has been known to use big-name pop tracks in the past, from The Rolling Stones to The Beach Boys, for The Grand Budapest Hotel he has gone completely classical.
Composed almost entirely by the renowned Alexandre Desplat, who previously worked with Anderson on Fantastic Mr. Fox, the 32-tracks in the film have been inspired by Russian folk. This could be Anderson’s quirkiest score yet – and that’s saying something.
The Grand Budapest Hotel Official Soundtrack is due out March 7th via Abkco Records.
Tracklisting:
1. s’Rothe-Zäuerli – Öse Schuppel
2. The Alpine Sudetenwaltz – Alexandre Desplat
3. Mr. Moustafa – Alexandre Desplat
4. Overture: M. Gustave H – Alexandre Desplat
5. A Prayer for Madame D – Alexandre Desplat
6. The New Lobby Boy – Alexandre Desplat
7. Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings I. Moderato Siegfried Behrend & DZO Chamber Orchestra
8. Daylight Express to Lutz – Alexandre Desplat
9. Schloss Lutz Overture – Alexandre Desplat
10. The Family Desgoffe und Taxis – Alexandre Desplat
11. Last Will and Testament – Alexandre Desplat
12. Up the Stairs/Down the Hall – Alexandre Desplat
13. Night Train to Nebelsbad – Alexandre Desplat
14. The Lutz Police Militia – Alexandre Desplat
15. Check Point 19 Criminal Internment Camp Overture – Alexandre Desplat
16. The Linden Tree Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov
17. J.G. Jopling, Private Inquiry Agent – Alexandre Desplat
18. A Dash of Salt (Ludwig’s Theme) – Alexandre Desplat
19. The Cold-Blooded Murder of Deputy Vilmos Kovacs – Alexandre Desplat
20. Escape Concerto – Alexandre Desplat
21. The War (Zero’s Theme) – Alexandre Desplat
22. No Safe-House – Alexandre Desplat
23. The Society of the Crossed Keys – Alexandre Desplat
24. M. Ivan – Alexandre Desplat
25. Lot 117 – Alexandre Desplat
26. Third Class Carriage – Alexandre Desplat
27. Canto at Gabelmeister’s Peak – Alexandre Desplat
28. A Troops Barracks (Requiem for the Grand Budapest) – Alexandre Desplat
29. Cleared of All Charges – Alexandre Desplat
30. The Mystical Union – Alexandre Desplat
31. Kamarinskaya Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov
32. Traditional Arrangement: Moonshine – Alexandre Desplat
