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 some new-jazz from Thundercat, former Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale’s debut, the long awaited Deap Valley record and more.
Editors
The Weight Of Your Love
The follow-up to Editors’ two consecutive #1 UK and ARIA Top 40 Albums, 2007’s An End Has A Start and 2009’s In This Light And On This Evening. Their debut album, 2005’s The Back Room has sold over half a million copies in the UK.
The Weight Of Your Love is the first album to feature new members Justin Lockey and Elliott Williams following the departure of founding member Chris Urbanowicz in 2012. It was recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville with producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Of Monsters And Men, Kings Of Leon) and mixed by Craig Silvey (Arctic Monkeys, The Horrors, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver).
Out July 5th through [PIAS] Australia
Tracklisting:
- The Weight
- Sugar
- A Ton Of Love
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Honesty
- Nothing
- Formaldehyde
- Hyena
- Two Hearted Spider
- The Phone Book
- Bird Of Prey
Andrew Stockdale
Keep Moving
To realign his musical planets, Stockdale has decided to put out these new recordings under his own name, Andrew Stockdale. Featuring all the current Wolfmother members, collectively the team is thrilled with this mojo soul shift. Albeit that it is new musical territory, though essentially it’s about the music and hopefully the music will speak for itself. So for this chapter, the Wolfmother is put to rest for the time being.
Following on from the EP of the same name, which was exclusively released on iTunes in Australia on the 26th of April and has been hovering around the Top Ten on the Rock Charts – Keep Moving represents all the killer singing, cosmic riffs, and sweet production that Stockdale has come to be known for.
Out June 7 through Universal Music
Tracklisting:
- “Long Way to Go”
- “Keep Moving”
- “Somebody’s Calling”
- “Vicarious”
- “Year of the Dragon”
- “Meridian”
- “Ghetto”
- “Of the Earth”
- “Let It Go”
- “Let Somebody Love You”
- “She’s a Motorhead”
- “Standing on the Corner”
- “Country”
- “Black Swan”
Deap Vally
Sistrionix
Following hot on the heels of their two-date Australian stopover and Splendour announcement, comes the news of Deap Vally’s debut album. Recorded with producer Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta) in the band’s hometown, Los Angeles, the album’s 11 songs of visceral, heart-churning rock ‘n’ roll demonstrate why Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards are fast emerging as one of the most talked-about new bands on the planet.
Deap Vally break blues down to its simplest, most fundamental form: beat, melody, and meaning, while the duo’s scorching live shows are fast becoming the stuff of legend. Unlikely as it may seem, the pair did actually first meet at a needlework class, just last year – bonding over their crochet hooks with a love of the blues. From stitch to stage, their album is highly anticipated.
Out June 21 through Island UK/UA
Tracklisting:
- End Of The World
- Baby I Call Hell
- Walk Of Shame
- Gonna Make My Own Money
- Creeplife
- Your Love
- Lies
- Bad For My Body
- Women Of Intention
- Raw Material
- Six Feet Under
Dream On Dreamer
Loveless
After the massive worldwide success of the debut album Heartbound in 2011, Dream On Dreamer will release their much anticipated sophomore record Loveless on Friday 28 June via UNFD.
Loveless will be Dream On Dreamer’s first record as a five piece, after a lineup shuffle saw them move keyboardist Daniel Jungwirth to bass, as well as the addition of new clean vocalist, Zachary Britt, into the fold. Britt made his debut with DOD as one of the headliners at Push Over Festival in March, before completing a 30 date European tour, which included the band’s first ever headline shows in Russia.
Loveless is the first time the band has been able to really focus on writing music with their intense touring schedule. The extra work and effort shows, and fans and critics alike will be rewarded with Dream On Dreamer delivering their strongest album to date; A definitive statement about what they’ve learnt from the last three years of ridiculously hard work.
Out June 28 through UNFD.
Track listing TBA.
Pet Shop Boys
Electric
Pet Shop Boys return in triumphant form with their new studio album ‘Electric’, the first to
appear on their own label x2 (via Kobalt Label Services). The album is the first Pet Shop Boys studio album to beproduced by Stuart Price and their 12th overall.
Electric features nine tracks in total – eight brand new Pet Shop Boys’ songs plus a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Last To Die’. Singer/rapper Example, who won a BRIT award last year for Best British Single, appears as a guest vocalist on the track ‘Thursday’. The result is as uncompromising a collection of dance anthems as Pet Shop Boys have ever made.
Out June 28 through x2 (via Kobalt Label Services)
Tracklisting:
- Axis
- Bolshy
- Love Is A Bourgeois Construct
- Fluorescent
- Inside A Dream
- The Last To Die
- Shouting In The Evening
- Thursday
- Vocal
Tricky
False Idols
Trip Hop legend, founding member of Massive Attack and pioneer of the celebrated ‘Bristol sound’, Tricky, is back, back with a new record label and a stunning new studioalbum set to be released in Australia on May 29. The new LP ‘False Idols’ features collaborations with label mates Francesca Belmonte, Fifi Rong, and Nneka, alongsideThe Antlers’ Peter Silberman, and stands as Tricky’s most accomplished album since his legendary early works.
The spirit of Tricky’s ‘90s output looms large over ‘False Idols’. There are times when his entire career has seemed like a stubborn refusal to be defined by its success or sound. He has finally come to terms with it, and with this his 10th studio album, even learned to embrace it;
“I was lost for ages,” Tricky says. “I was trying to prove something to people, trying to do something to please other people and also myself at the same time, which is never going to work.”
Out May 29 through False Idols an imprint of !K7 RECORDS
Tracklisting:
- Somebody’s Sins
- Nothing Matters
- Valentine
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Parenthesis
- Nothing’s Changed
- If Only I Knew
- Is that Your Life
- Tribal Drums
- We Don’t Lie
- Chinese Interlude
- Does It
- I’m Ready
- Hey Love
- Passion of the Christ
Thundercat
Apocalypse
Ahead of his appearance in Australia for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Thundercat will release a new Flying Lotus produced album ‘Apocalypse’ July 8th on Brainfeeder through Inertia.
The new record follows up the great 2011 release ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse’ and a features a directly Flying Lotus, Bruner and Mono/Poly co-written and co-produced track “Heartbreaks + Setbacks”
Out July 8 through Brainfeeder (via Inertia)
Tracklisting:
1 Tenfold
2 Heartbreaks + Setbacks
3 The Life Aquatic
4 Special Stage
5 Tron Song
6 Seven
7 Oh Sheit It’s X
8 Without You
9 Lotus and the Jondy
10 Evangelion
11 We’ll Die
12 A Message for Austin / Praise the Lord / Enter the Void
Boards Of Canada
Tomorrow’s Harvest
After considerable speculation since Record Store Day, which saw mysterious 12” records being discovered by enterprising fans. Boards of Canada started a wild goose chase that involved cryptic coding, secret video messages, and fans going gaga over a new release for the influential iconic group; their first album in nearly a decade since 2005’s The Campfire Headphase.
Eventually the Scottish duo broke the speculation and revealed the existence of a new Boards of Canada album called ‘Tomorrow’s Havest’
Set to continue the legacy started by their series of EPs and their iconic 1998 album Music Has The Right To Children, and 2002’s equally lauded Geogaddi, ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ is set to reinstate the Warp Records gems into the upper reaches of the musical firmament once more.
Out June 7 through Warp Records (via Inertia)
Tracklisting:
1. “Gemini” 2:56
2. “Reach for the Dead” 4:47
3. “White Cyclosa” 3:13
4. “Jacquard Causeway” 6:35
5. “Telepath” 1:32
6. “Cold Earth” 3:42
7. “Transmisiones Ferox” 2:18
8. “Sick Times” 4:16
9. “Collapse” 2:49
10. “Palace Posy” 4:05
11. “Split Your Infinities” 4:28
12. “Uritual” 1:59
13. “Nothing is Real” 3:52
14. “Sundown” 2:16
15. “New Seeds” 5:39
16. “Come to Dust” 4:07
17. “Semena Mertvykh” 3:30
Booker T. Jones
Sound The Alarm
Booker T. Jones will follow back-to-back GRAMMY wins for his previous two albums with Sound The Alarm out June 21st on Stax/Concord Music Group. This marks Booker’s return to Stax, a label revered for the gritty soul sound he helped create with Memphis’ first integrated band in the early ‘60s, and features collaborations with some of the finest talents in modern soul and R&B including Mayer Hawthorne, Anthony Hamilton, Vintage Trouble, Estelle, Gary Clark, Jr., Luke James and more.
Booker T wrote or co-wrote all twelve songs on ‘Sound The Alarm.’ He co-produced the album with brothers Bobby Ross and Issiah “IZ” Avila, who have worked with Usherand Mary J. Blige. The Avila brothers also play in the rhythm section on most of the tracks.
Out June 12 through Stax
Tracklisting:
1. Sound The Alarm – featuring Mayer Hawthorne
2. All Over The Place – featuring Luke James
3. Fun
4. Broken Heart – featuring Jay James
5. Feel Good
6. Gently – featuring Anthony Hamilton
7. Austin City Blues – featuring Gary Clark, Jr.
8. Can’t Wait – featuring Estelle
9. 66 Impala – featuring Poncho Sanchez and Sheila E.
10. Watch You Sleeping – featuring Kori Withers
11. Your Love Is No Love – featuring Vintage Trouble
12. Father Son Blues – featuring Ted Jones
Falling In Reverse
Fashionably Late
Voted as Alternative Press magazine’s 2012 Artist of the Year, one of Revolver’s 100 Greatest Living Rock Stars and Kerrang’s 50 Greatest Rock Stars In The World, Ronnie Radke’s band Falling In Reverse will release their second album Fashionably Late on June 21 via Epitaph Records. It’s the follow up to their Top 20 debut The Drug In Me Is You.
With Fashionably Late, Falling In Reverse continues to push the envelope musically, while writing songs that are strong enough to cross over into the mainstream. Their new album is arriving right on time.
Out June 21 through Epitaph Records
Tracklisting:
- Champion
- Bad Girls Club
- Rolling Stone
- Fashionably Late
- Alone
- Born To Lead
- It’s Over When It’s Over
- Game Over
- Self-Destruct Personality
- Fuck The Rest
- Keep Holding On
- Drifter
