Joan Baez Dessa Caroline Rose Buddy Rich I'm with Her Car Seat Headrest the Breeders Mt. Joy Editors Brandi Carlile
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MT. JOY THE BREEDERS I’M WITH HER CAROLINE ROSE JOAN BAEZ MT. JOY ALL NERVE SEE YOU AROUND LONER WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND DUALTONE 4AD ROUNDER NEW WEST RAZOR & TIE Steeped in folk-rock tradition and powered by the The Breeders’ first album in a decade, All Nerve, I’m With Her features Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and An obsession with money, an unfaithful lover, a friend’s Singer, activist, musician and cultural icon Joan intuitive creative connection between Matt Quinn reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Aoife O’Donovan. Collectively, these multi-Grammy accidental pregnancy, misogyny, loneliness, death... Baez returns with Whistle Down the Wind, her first (vocals, guitar) and Sam Cooper (guitar), the songs Wiggs and Jim Macpherson – the line-up behind the winners have released seven solo efforts, co-founded This is just some of the lighthearted subject matter new album since 2008’s Grammy-nominated Day on Mt. Joy’s eponymous debut depict the former iconic and platinum-selling record, Last Splash. The two seminal bands, and contributed to critically- that make up LONER – the darkly comedic second After Tomorrow. The elegant 10-track collection was wrestling with his own conscience, where the mundane quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate acclaimed albums from a host of esteemed artists. album from songwriter/producer Caroline Rose. recorded over a ten-day period in Los Angeles, and and the fantastic collide as he processes tragedy, the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly Their full-length debut See You Around reveals the LONER captures the cheeky satire, comical musings, was produced by Grammy Award-winner Joe Henry society, and love. Musically speaking, Mt. Joy’s folk- working on new material since then, recording the commitment to creating a wholly unified sound. With and often jarring mood swings – sometimes goofy, (Bonnie Raitt, Allen Toussaint) and features peerless rock sound can be attributed to some of the band’s new album throughout the Midwest, including sessions each track born from close collaboration, I’m With sometimes emotional – that make up much of Rose’s renditions of songs by artists Baez holds dear, including biggest influences: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, The Grateful with frequent non-producer, Steve Albini. Speaking of Her builds an ineffable magic from their fine-spun personality. “I call it ‘Schizodrift,’” says Rose. “I want to Tom Waits, Josh Ritter, Anohni, Joe Henry, and Mary Dead, The Beatles, and even contemporaries such as recording: As weird and tuneful as The Breeders’ songs narratives and breathtaking harmonies. The result is an make music that sounds as manic as I feel.” Filled with Chapin Carpenter. “I’m looking forward to being on The Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket, and Vampire remain, All Nerve reinforces the fact that Kim Deal is album both emotionally raw and intricate. Co-produced catchy synths, Ray Manzarek-esque Farfisa, surf guitar, the road with a beautiful new album about which I am Weekend. Lyrically, Mt. Joy are all about modern dread, also a genius in the studio – and her sonic vocabulary by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Paul McCartney) and and a punk attitude, LONER captures the energy of truly proud,” Baez notes. “I welcome the opportunity anxiety, the joy and pain of keeping your dreams alive is as beguiling as her twisty hooks – every dirty sound recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, See bands like Le Tigre, The Cramps, Blondie, DEVO, and to share this new music as well as longtime favorites against long odds – a thing we can all relate to. stacked just so. It’s great to have them back. You Around delivers a warmly textured yet stripped- Kate Bush, while still honoring Pop Royalty like Justin with my audiences around the world.” down sound that proves both fresh and timeless. Timberlake and Britney Spears. EDITORS BRANDI CARLILE CAR SEAT HEADREST BUDDY RICH DESSA VIOLENCE BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE YOU TWIN FANTASY THE LOST TAPES CHIME PIAS AMERICA ATL MATADOR RECORDS LIGHTYEAR DOOMTREE Violence is the sixth album from English rockers Brandi Carlile’s highly anticipated new album By Car Seat Headrest mastermind, Will Toledo, always In April 1985, legendary jazz drummer Buddy Rich and Singer, rapper, writer, and a key member of Minneapolis Editors. It was produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, the Way, I Forgive You was helmed by Grammy knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did his band recorded a concert at One Pass Productions’ Hip Hop collective Doomtrree, Dessa has made a Florence & The Machine, Frightened Rabbit) and the Award-winning producer Dave Cobb and acclaimed complete the work. Listen to his first attempt, recorded King Street Studio in San Francisco. The masters were career of defying expectations. Her résumé includes band with help from Benjamin John Power (Blanck Outlaw Legacy Shooter Jennings, and was recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what stored at One Pass, which a few years later was sold performances at Lollapalooza and Glastonbury, Mass, Fuck Buttons), and mixing by Cenzo Townshend. at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A. By the Way, I Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, to Editel. In 1990, when a fire swept through the Editel collaborations with the Minnesota Orchestra, and These collaborators have brought new extremes out Forgive You features 10 new songs written by Carlile extraordinary, and compelling failure. Will’s first love facility, the tapes were soaked in water and presumably “Congratulations” – her contribution to The Hamilton Editors’ ever-evolving sound. “When it’s electronic, with longtime collaborators Tim and Phil Hanseroth, – rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, destroyed – but as it turned out, producer Gary Mixtape. Chime finds Dessa changing up her game – it’s very electronic,” says singer Tom Smith. “But then and features string arrangements and conducting bruised shins, favorite songs, and weird sex – was an Reber had the tapes stored away. Needless to say, from the production, to her approach to writing, and when it’s guitar-y, it’s very band driven. I think there’s a by the late (and legendary) Paul Buckmaster (Elton event too momentous for the means he had to record everything was in wretched condition, but Reber and to her performance. “There are deliberate, writerly balance here between melody and brutality that I don’t John, The Rolling Stones). “This album deserves to be it. He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full Steve Michelson (the owner of One Pass) with expert moments on this record, because I’m a writer and think we’ve managed to get before.” The lyrics have mainstream,” Cobb says. “It’s one of those records that band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. But this technical help – painstakingly restored the audio. Even a neurotic... and a single woman in her 30s and an fangs, too – and they tear into the tissue connecting people who love classic records will appreciate… It’s is no shallow, sanitized second take: This is the epic at 67, Rich is ball of pure energy who, along with his American freaked out by the stories on the news. And, intimacy and power in the delicious ways. This is the art, and this feels like this is a moment when art can album he always wanted to make. incredible band, delivers an astounding performance. in this particular moment, I am a person feeling excited, arena-ready post-punk U2 wish they could still make. break through to the mainstream.” And how could you A must! proud, and nervous to be a little more fully herself.” resist that voice? Prepare to be suitably impressed. STRANGE NAMES BUFFALO TOM JONATHAN WILSON DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL DARLINGSIDE DATA QUIET AND PEACE RARE BIRDS CROOKED SHADOWS EXTRALIFE FRENCKISS RECORDS SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS BELLA UNION ATL MORE DOUG RECORDS Written and recorded in Brooklyn and self-produced Having first made their mark with a raw, raucous Between producing Father John Misty’s Grammy- Chris Carrabba had written over a dozen new songs Extralife is acclaimed alt-folk quartet Darlingside’s by Minneapolis to NYC transplants Strange approach that put the band at the forefront of the ‘90s nominated Pure Comedy and touring arenas with when he uncovered “We Fight,” the opening track on follow up to their 2015 breakthrough Birds Say which Names, Data is an album about perspective, boldly alt-rock explosion thanks to records like Let Me Come Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters, Jonathan Wilson Crooked Shadows. The song became the launching emphatically marked the arrival of an eclectic, intelligent conceptualized from the viewpoint of aliens observing Over and Big Red Letter Day, Buffalo Tom has built a had a busy 2017. 2018 looks to be equally lit, thanks point for each note that followed – a dynamic force and dynamic band. Darlingside stretch the boundaries human behavior on earth. Leading with bouncy opener formidable body of work. The group has consistently to the release of his new solo album, Rare Birds. A that resonates throughout the album and reflects back of traditional folk, chamber pop, baroque, progressive “UFO,” Strange Names establish a driving framework revealed new layers of musical and emotional depth, “maximalist,” high-density album influenced by the on everything Dashboard Confessional has achieved and indie rock by melding the various styles together that carries throughout the entire album – a little bit which has manifested in the bittersweet, yearning, and ‘80s British production style made famous by Trevor in the past two decades. The rest of Crooked Shadows, and creating something not easily categorized. Where of Ariel Pink; a dollop of OKGO; a dash of Of Montreal.