!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Wallop CD/LP (Warp)
Doesn’t it seem like everyone’s freaking out lately? !!! know the feeling well. The NYC dance-punk lifers have been chronicling the perpetual meltdown that is American society for nearly 20 years now, from the clattering full-band thrust of their instantly iconic 2003 single “Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story)” to the dark disco of 2017’s wonderfully eclectic Shake The Shudder. Their eighth full-length, Wallop, follows in the band’s grand tradition of plugging straight into our collective nervous system and sending funky, rubbery shock waves through the body politic. If you’ve found yourself rubbing your temples while contemplating the collapse of everything around us, !!! are proud to provide the soundtrack to your next nervous breakdown.

Common – Let Love CD (Loma Vista)
Grammy and Academy Award-winning rapper Common’s twelfth studio album Let Love was inspired by his 2019 memoir Let Love Have The Last Word, which left him “charged to go to raw, personal and spiritual places in the music.” Boasting contributions from Leon Bridges, A-Trak, Leikeli47, BJ the Chicago Kid, Jill Scott, Samora Pinderhughes and Jonathan McReynolds, the 11-track collection comes preceded by lead single “Her Love”, featuring guests Daniel Caesar and Dwele over an unreleased beat by the late J Dilla and the Swizz Beatz-assisted “Hercules”. “Production-wise, I knew that the music had to have depth, soul and dimension to it,” Common notes. “I wanted the musicianship and the spirit of what live music brings but it also had to have something raw and basement about it. When my team said, ‘You should do some music revolving around the book,’ I just took that energy and went running into my artistry without focusing on anything else.” [Vinyl edition due October 11.]

Joan Shelley – Like The River Loves The Sea CD/LP (No Quarter)
Joan Shelley’s fifth solo album, Like The River Loves The Sea was recorded at Greenhaus studios in Reykjavik, Iceland with Shelley and James Elkington serving as co-producers. Shelley says of the collection, “Woven into the melodies and rhythms of these songs are fragments of the many musical traditions that comprise what we now call Kentucky music: Irish, British, and African to name a few. The best music would be a conversation with the divine that has seen all of it, or with the oldest trees that have witnessed the whole human story. These songs are partly that conversation, at times through the lens of lovers. They are also a longing cry born of all the dividing; a call across the slowly spreading ocean.” “Primarily, Like The River Loves The Sea is built as a haven for overstimulated heads in uncertain times,” she adds. “The title (which comes from a song by Si Kahn) speaks of the inevitable and at times indifferent nature of love. Whether it be a physical place or an idea, everyone needs a place of comfort. One where we can look out again from that place of calm and see how to best act and to be in an uncertain world.”

Tool – Fear Inoculum CD (RCA)
Fear Inoculum is the long-awaited new album from Tool, and the band’s first new album in 13 years. The limited-edition CD is packaged in a state-of-the-art tri-fold soft pack video brochure featuring a 4” HD rechargeable screen with exclusive video footage, a USB charging cable, a 2-watt speaker and a 36-page insert book. “This is the most intricate and densely-layered album Tool have yet made, but to use the word like “complex” to describe the counting-in-prime-numbers time signatures of Invincible or digital-only track Legion Inoculant would be lazy in the extreme. … An album that pushes and challenges its creators and its audiences in new ways, the finer details of which will probably take another 13 years to fully unwrap and appreciate” (Kerrang!). “As with releases previous, there are wrinkles that will only emerge after the record is lived with and absorbed. But if you’re wondering whether ‘Fear Inoculum’ was worth the wait, then the answer is yes. If you’re wondering whether it’ll touch your heart, soul and spirt, the answer is also so” (NME). “They continue to blur the lines between art, psychedelia, alt metal, and prog rock with undiminished curiosity and skill. … As with previous work, on Fear Inoculum, the band’s songwriting can at times seem like a riddle, daring listeners to lean in and figure out exactly what is going on” (Spin).

Whitney – Forever Turned Around CD/LP/Cassette (Secretly Canadian)
The second LP from Chicago indie rockers Whitney deals with fear, confusion, and substance abuse. Forever Turned Around came together over several sessions across the country. Though Julien Ehrlich is Whitney’s lead singing drummer while Max Kakacek is the lead guitarist, when writing, both transcend their roles to piece together each offering lyrically and compositionally. “The way it ends up working is one of us comes up with a basic idea for a song and the other person serves as the foil to complicate that idea. We ask, ‘What can we change to make it more interesting?'” says Kakacek. Challenging each other is the core of their songwriting partnership. It’s these risks and experiments that make Forever Turned Around a triumph. [Limited forest brown colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Carter Tutti Void – Triumvirate CD/LP (Conspiracy International)
Containing all new studio recordings, Triumvirate brings legendary industrial music pioneers Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Nik Void’s collaborative partnership as Carter Tutti Void to a conclusion.

Sheryl Crow – Threads CD/2xLP (Valory)
Threads is the nine-time Grammy Award-winner singer-songwriter’s album of collaborations. The set includes “Still The Good Old Days” featuring Joe Walsh, “Redemption Day” featuring Johnny Cash, “Live Wire” featuring Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples, and “Prove You Wrong” featuring Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris. Additional guests include Eric Clapton, Chris Stapleton, Sting, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price, Jason Isbell, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Lucius, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, St. Vincent, Chuck D, Gary Clark Jr., Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor and Andra Day.

Lana Del Rey – NFR! CD/2xLP (Interscope)
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is the highly anticipated sixth studio album by Lana Del Rey and follow-up to 2017’s Grammy-nominated Lust For Life. The singer notes that the album is, “in the vein of a Laurel Canyon sound. And its kind of transformed a little bit because there’s some surf elements to some of the songs – it’s not really surfy like Dick Dale but a lot of electric guitar, a little Red Hot Chili Peppers influence in there.”

Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes CD/LP (Bella Union)
Furman says Twelve Nudes has two spiritual heroes – the late great punk rock rocker Jay Reatard, and Canadian poet, philosopher and essayist Anne Carson. “She’s one of my top three living writers,” he says. “Anne had these visions, or meditations, to deal with the intense pain in her life, which she calls ‘nudes’, and similarly these songs are meditations on pain and recognizing what’s there if you go digging around in your anger and fear and anxiety. So, my album is called Twelve Nudes.” [Limited yellow colored vinyl pressing also avialable.]

Robert Gordon & Chris Spedding – Tear Up The House 2xCD (Sunset Blvd)
30 performances spanning over 40 years – ’78, ’80, ’85 & ’15 – Boston, New York, Los Angeles. Together, Gordon and Spedding were an unstoppable combination. Tear Up The House underscores just how powerful Robert’s pipes were and continue to be as he rips through a slew of early Elvis classics and more.

Hesitation Wounds – Chicanery CD/LP (Deathwish Inc)
Hesitation Wounds is a hardcore punk band featuring Jeremy Bolm of Touche Amore, Stephen LaCour (Trap Them), Neeraj Kane (The Hope Conspiracy), and Thomas Cantwell (Gouge Away, Axis).

Kandodo 3 – k3 CD/LP (Rooster)
A brand new studio full length from Bristol based sike-o-nauts Kandodo 3, orbiting in the Heads’ realm and led by Heads’ Simon Price, k3 continues their trajectory of outer space excursions. Out of focus, relaxed and expansive vibes fuse together into serpentine rivers of minimalist rhythms and echoed tones, drawing the listener into tunnels of sound and scorched sonic landscapes-it’s one for the headphones at 30,000 feet or late night deserted drives

Snail Mail – Habit CDEP/12” (Matador)
Snail Mail’s debut EP Habit serves as a nascent example of Lindsey Jordan’s extraordinary talent as a songwriter, singer and guitarist. The seven-song disc features the six original 2016 tracks as well as “The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World”, penned by K Records Band Courtney Love and recorded by Snail Mail in 2018, available on record for the first time.

Velvet Negroni – Neon Brown CD/LP (4AD)
Velvet Negroni is the alter-ego of creative polymath Jeremy Nutzman. Raised in an outer suburb of the Twin Cities, Jeremy – a black kid adopted into a white evangelical Christian family – split his formative years between classical piano lessons and late night jam sessions. A duality that permeates every corner of his music, with new album Neon Brown thriving in the borderlands between indie rock and R&B. Since touring with close friend Bon Iver, Nutzman notched writing credits for Kanye West and Kid Cudi ahead of his debut single releases on NYC label b4 in 2018. Now, alongside prolific co-producer Psymun (Young Thug, Juice WLRD, The Weeknd), Nutzman’s new releases transcend the borders between his often polarized influences, bringing R&B slow jams and nods to hometown hero Prince with guitar licks and full band energy.

Why? – AOKOHIO CD/LP (Joyful Noise)
Yoni Wolf has spent the last two decades traveling the remote sonic terrain where underground hip hop, avant-pop, and psych-rock meet. On AOKOHIO, Yoni Wolf condenses the essential elements of Why? into a stunningly potent musical vision. Co-produced by Wolf and his brother Josiah, the record presents a rich palette of musical voices that emerge and disappear into a constantly shifting kaleidoscope of sound. [Limited yellow colored vinyl pressing also available.]

Beirut ‎– Gulag Orkestar [Reissue/2006] LP+MP3 (Pompeii)
Beirut ‎– Flying Club Cup [Reissue/2007] LP+MP3 (Pompeii)
Beirut ‎– The Rip Tide [Reissue/20011] LP+MP3 (Pompeii)
Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zachary Francis Condon, and later expanded into a band. The band’s first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. Beirut’s music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. Their first three albums are back in-print on vinyl.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy/Bryce Dressner/Eighth Blackbird – When We Are Inhuman LP (37D03D)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, the National’s Bryce Dessner, and the contemporary classical outfit Eighth Blackbird have teamed up for a new album. When We Are Inhuman includes Eighth Blackbird’s new arrangements of Will Oldham songs, a live performance of Julius Eastman’s “Stay on It”, and movements from Bryce Dessner’s Murder Ballades.

Cabaret Voltaire – Chance Versus Casualty CD/LP (Mute)
Cabaret Voltaire – 1974-1976 CD/LP (Mute)
Mute are excited to announce the launch of a new campaign of Cabaret Voltaire releases: Chance Versus Casualty is the previously unreleased soundtrack to a 16MM film for two projectors by Babeth Mondini from 1979; 1974-76 is a selection of material recorded by Cabaret Voltaire during the earlier and formative years of their existence. All of the recordings were done in an attic 10 feet by 6, on a domestic reel to reel tape recorder. [Transparent colored vinyl pressings are also available.]

Guided By Voices ‎– Half Smiles Of The Decomposed [Reissue/2004] LP+MP3 (Matador)
2004’s Half Smiles Of The Decomposed was intended to be GBV’s swan song, a final album. They would eventually reunite in 2010 for Matador’s 21st birthday celebrations in Las Vegas, but either way, it may well be the strongest set of music the band has ever released for public consumption, and featured Robert Pollard (vocals), Doug Gillard (guitar), Nate Farley (guitar), Chris Slusarenko (bass), and Kevin March (drums). GBV’s final Matador album back in print for the first time since 2008 on red colored vinyl LP as part of the Matador Revisionist History Catalog Campaign.

Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – Take Heart, Take Care LP (Big Legal Mess)
Kinkel-Schuster isn’t only one of our greatest songwriters; he’s also one of our greatest empaths. This ability to access deceptively simple moments and turn them into epiphanies about kindness and wonder and human communion sets him apart from a world of songwriters whose only interest is the slick image or the well-crafted turn of phrase. His songs are reminiscent of William Eggleston’s photos, in that there’s a whole entire mysterious world under the surface, a story under every rock left unturned and every slash of light, behind every character we meet, every indecisive mother, every haunted figure on the edges of the song, behind every lesson his unnamed narrators impart to us.

Morrissey ‎– The Best Of Morrissey [Reissue/2001] 2xLP (WB/Parlophone)
Double 180gm vinyl pressing of the 2001 compilation of tracks by the former Smiths vocalist. Features his biggest solo hits including “Everyday Is Like Sunday”, “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get”, “Suedehead”, “Sing Your Life”, and many more.

Nirvana – Live And Loud [Reissue/1994] 2xLP+MP3 (Geffen)
First-time stand-alone vinyl release of the Nirvana concert Live And Loud from the MTV-shot performance. Filmed on December 13, 1993, at Seattle’s Pier 48 (less than a month after the band’s influential MTV Unplugged In New York show taping), Nirvana: Live And Loud originally aired on MTV on New Year’s Eve in 1993 and issued on DVD in 2013.

Pharmakon – Devour LP (Sacred Bones)
Devour marks the fourth full-length record from Margaret Chardiet’s project Pharmakon and her most intense output to date. Like her previous albums, Devour comes with a strong concept that is exorcised throughout the five demolishing tracks on the album, using imagery and language of self-cannibalism as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans. Each of the five songs echoes a stage of grief associated with this cyclical chamber of self-destruction and the chaos surrounding us that leads us to devour ourselves in an attempt to balance the agony. [Limited black & white colored vinyl pressing also available.]

COMING NEXT WEEK!
IGGY POP – Free CD/LP
LOWER DENS – Competition CD/LP
FRANKIE COSMOS – Close It Quietly CD/LP
TINARIWEN – Amadjar CD/LP
BAT FOR LASHES – Lost Girls CD/LP
ADAM GREEN – Engine Of Paradise CD/LP
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE – Blue CDEP/12′
THE HIGHWOMEN – Self-Titled CD
MELANIE MARTINEZ – k-12 CD/LP
THROBBING GRISTLE – D.O.A. CD/LP
THROBBING GRISTLE – Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits CD/LP
MOONCHILD – Battle Ghost CD/LP
CHRISSIE HYNDE + VALVE BONE WOE – Self-Titled CD/LP
HAMMERED HULLS (Mary Timony) – Selt-Titled CD/LP
MESSTHETICS – Anthropocosmic Nest CD/LP
PAUL AND THE TALL TREES – So Long CD/LP
SANDRO PERRI – Soft Landing CD/LP