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 a brand new release from the king of piano-pop himself, Elton John, a spanking LP from perma-rockers Arctic Monkeys, a crowd funded ditty from Misery Signals, the sophomore release from one of Australia’s best hardcore exports, Tonight Alive, and some metal-core from Norma Jean to top it all off. Enjoy!
Elton John
The Diving Board
Do you remember when rock was young? No? Well you’re about to thanks to a much anticipated release from Sir Elton John. A return to the piano-bass-drums construction of Elton’s early years, and a celebration of his brilliance not just as a song craftsman but as a world-class pianist, The Diving Board will evoke memories of the groundbreaking albums that established him in the early 1970s and will mark his 30th release.
It’s only a year since he topped the UK album chart with Good Morning To The Night, which saw Aussie duo PNAU reinhabiting his classic catalogue. But The Diving Board is Elton’s first studio recording of all-new solo material since 2006’s The Captain & The Kid, and when the sessions started, he came roaring out of the traps.
As on his formative first albums, John’s collaborations with long time work partner Bernie Taupin have echoes of the gospel, blues and country of the great American outdoors that always inspired themThe
The Diving Board will be available September 23rd through Capitol.
Tracklisting:
‘Oceans Away’
‘Oscar Wilde Gets Out’
‘A Town Called Jubilee’
‘The Ballad of Blind Tom’
‘My Quicksand’
‘Can’t Stay Alone Tonight’
‘Voyeur’
‘Home Again’
‘Take This Dirty Water’
‘The New Fever Waltz’
‘Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight)’
‘Candlelit Bedroom’
‘The Diving Board’
Arctic Monkeys
AM
Arctic Monkeys have announced that they will release their fifth album, the first since 2011’s Suck It And See come September.
AM has an all star lineup with production by James Ford and Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording, LA and Rancho De La Luna, Joshua Tree. Josh Homme, Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones all make guest appearances, as do the words of John Cooper Clarke, on the track ‘I Wanna Be Yours’.
Watch the video for ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ here.
The album will be available on CD, vinyl, special edition vinyl and via digital download.
AM will be available September 6th through Domino.
Tracklisting:
1. Do I Wanna Know?
2. R U Mine?
3. One For The Road
4. Arabella
5. I Want It All
6. No. 1 Party Anthem
7. Mad Sounds
8. Fireside
9. Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?
10. Snap Out Of It
11. Knee Socks
12. I Wanna Be Yours
Misery Signals
Absent Light
After five long years since their last release, Milwaukee metal band Misery Signals will return on July 26th with one of the year’s most anticipated albums.
Having funded the recording of the album through crowdsourcing, the band are super proud to present the fruits of their fan-funded labour to their musical followers.
the band that redefined a genre will return reinvigorated with a full time focus on the business at hand, and a determination to push the boundaries of hardcore-metal even further than before…
Absent Light will be available July 26th through UNFD.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Tonight Alive
The Other Side
After recording their 2011 debut album What Are You So Scared Of? the Australian pop-punk icons decided to make their sophomore album closer to home. After finding a stunning remote house near Coffs Harbour, NSW, on a property surrounded by acres of forest, they took it over and reinvented it as their own epic recording studio.
The first track to be released from the record shows a tougher and more sophisticated approach than their 2011 debut and is a promising insight to what is to come from The Other Side.
The band are currently touring the US as part of the 2013 Vans Warped Tour, and plan to tour Australia again later this year to introduce fans to the depth and intense live experience of the new album.
The Other Side will be available September 6th through Sony.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Norma Jean
Wrongdoers
Wrongdoers follows the release of Norma Jean’s fifth album Meridional (2010), a resurgent and brilliant reminder of everything the band has pioneered, modeled and become known for during their ten plus years in aggressive and progressive music.
The band began their quest for new songs in 2011 to make their sixth album, one they hoped would build on the successes of Meridional.
It’s not the extra chapter at the end of a great book, it’s the beginning of a whole new story.
You may be familiar with the visceral language and palette employed by Norma Jeanbut this is a new sound, powerfully regenerated and re-imagined for what lies ahead.
Wrongdoers is out August 9th through Razor & Tie/ Shock Records.
Tracklisting:
1. Hive Minds
2. If You Got It At Five, You Got It
3. Wrongdoers
4. Potter Has No Hands
5. Sword In Mouth, Fire Eyes
6. Afterhour Animals
7. The Lash Whistled Like A Singing
8. Neck In the Hemp
9. Triffids
10. Funeral Singer
11. Sun Dies, Blood Moon
