JOHN COLTRANE THE RECORD COMPANY BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE MT. JOY GUNS N ROSES BOTH DIRECTIONS AT ONCE: THE LOST ALBUM ALL OF THIS LIFE GRAVITY MT. JOY APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION VERVE LABEL GROUP CONCORD MUSIC SPINEFARM DUALTONE IGA Recorded in 1963, unknown until 2004, and unheard The L.A.-based rock/roots trio of Chris Vos (guitar, lead Gravity finds Bullet For My Valentine rewriting its Steeped in folk-rock tradition and powered by the Right out of the gate Guns N’ Roses’ music was primal until now, the music on Both Sides at Once: The Lost vocals, harmonica), Alex Stiff (bass, guitar, vocals) and own future – finding new ways to invent heavy noise intuitive creative connection between Matt Quinn and gritty, with a solid hard, bluesy base. They were Album represents one of the most influential groups Marc Cazorla (drums, piano, vocals) has already been and remaining unshackled by the legacy that comes (vocals, guitar) and Sam Cooper (guitar), the songs on dark, sleazy, dirty, and honest – everything that good in music history experimenting with a musical style it hailed by LA Weekly for “making bluesy music that with being masters of their trade. The four musicians Mt. Joy’s eponymous debut depicts a place where the hard rock and heavy metal should be. While Slash and had otherwise perfected. The first week of March in would sound more at home in a sweaty, backwoods have stretched their creative wings like never before, mundane and the fantastic collide. Opener “I’m Your Izzy Stradlin ferociously spit out dueling guitar riffs 1963 was busy for John Coltrane – a two-week run Mississippi juke joint,” while Time Out has described delicately balancing film-score electronica and icy Wreck” describes “monsters in [the] closet, using up worthy of Aerosmith or the Stones, Axl Rose screeched at Birdland and was gearing up to record the famed their sound as “reminiscent of some of the best acts synths in their hard rock hellfire. With drummer Jason the wi-fi” as it cycles from its desperate, spiraling verses out his tales of sex, drugs, and apathy in the big city. Coltrane and Johnny Hartman album (which he did of the ‘50s and ‘60s – like if John Lee Hooker and the Bowld joining founding members singer/guitarist Matt to its swinging, stubbornly optimistic coda, while the Meanwhile, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven on March 7) – but there was a session the day before Stooges had a well-behaved love child” – which is a lot Tuck, axe-man Michael ‘Padge’ Paget, and bassist loping, plaintive chords of “Younger Days” meditate Adler were a limber rhythm section who kept the music that became the stuff of legend… Until now. Here, more fun than it sounds. Says Vos: “Our sound has a lot Jamie Mathias (part of the Bullet story since 2015), on the fear of choosing the wrong path. “Sheep,” is a loose and powerful. Just over three decades later, Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin of early rock n’ roll but with a greater emphasis on the Gravity is the sound of a band reborn. Produced and post-Trump salvo on political and social despondency. Guns N’ Roses’ highly influential debut Appetite For Jones laid down 7 original compositions in a variety of drums and bass. We aim to make the speakers move.” mixed by Carl Bown, Gravity is an album of true craft Taken together, the LP is a startlingly open document, Destruction gets its first ever album remaster from the forms, toying with arrangements, instrumentation, and And they do. and vision – an ambitious labor of love with the weight wracked with the anxieties and fears that come just as original analog tapes – and it’s never sounded livelier approach as they go. A treasure. and the punch you’ve come to expect. life seems to start working out. or grittier! KAMASI WASHINGTON PRISCILLA RENEA JIM JAMES THE SHEEPDOGS JONNY GREENWOOD HEAVEN AND EARTH COLOURED UNIFORM DISTORTION CHANGING COLOURS YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE YOUNG TURKS WHITE ROSE GARDEN MUSIC ATO RECORDS DINE ALONE MUSIC LAKESHORE Neo-jazz titan Kamasi Washington’s sophomore With Coloured, LA-based hit songwriter (she’s written “My head feels like it is exploding with the amount Canadian chooglers, The Sheepdogs’ new album, In Lynne Ramsay’s 2018 thriller You Were Never Really album Heaven and Earth is the sequel to his critically for Pitbull, Kesha, Mary J. Blige) and R&B powerhouse of information we are forced to consume on a daily Changing Colours is a masterclass in “boogie.” It’s also Here, based on Jonathan Ames’ novel, a traumatized acclaimed debut The Epic – consisting of two halves Priscilla Renea tells her own story with poetic prowess, basis, and how that information is so distorted there is great, passionate music born out of spontaneity – first veteran (Joaquin Phoenix), unafraid of violence, tracks where the groundbreaking artist explores the realities emotional intelligence, and chameleon-like stylistic almost no longer any tangible truth,” says My Morning resonating in the 17-song album’s euphoric opener down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of and cosmic themes of life. The album is about range. Coloured brings together the talent of hip- Jacket frontman Jim James. “The name of my new “Nobody” and continuing to flavor such invigorating control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy Washington’s settlement with today’s global chaotic hop’s top producers with Nashville’s top songwriters record is Uniform Distortion because I feel like there numbers as the electrifying “Saturday Night” and is uncovered. Here, Greenwood weaves his talents on states, as well as his vision for the future. Heaven and to create a bold and lush sound. Spanning classic R&B, is this blanket distortion on society / media and the the driving “I’ve Got A Hole Where My Heart Should synthesizers, drum machines, recorders and guitars Earth not only fulfills its overarching ambition, but dark-edged country and urban-soul, Coloured is a way we gather our ‘news and important information. Be.” But The Sheepdogs haven’t only stretched their alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra and illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real fierce, political, and personal collection of stories that More and more of us are feeling lost and looking for sonic palate, they’ve also expanded stylistically, best experimental string player Ollie Coates (Under the and imagined, citizen and culture, self and self, as well reckon with Priscilla’s childhood in rural Florida, love, new ways out of this distortion and back to the truth.” exemplified on the country-lite feel of “Let It Roll,” the Skin) to create a compelling backdrop to the intense as self and other. In other words, this is over 2.5 hours heartbreak and racial trauma. The swaggering, sultry Uniform Distortion was co-produced by James, who Stax-soul aura of the mid-tempo anthem “I Ain’t Cool” and harrowing thriller. Pitchfork calls Greenwood’s (8 sides of vinyl!) of music that relentlessly chases the twang of “Gentle Hands” melts into the soulful R&B gave the album a gritty, almost lo-fi sound worthy of that features trombone -- and the resplendent Latin- score as calmly brutal as Phoenix’s dead-eyed shuffle, young – and very much in-demand – bandleader’s of “Heavenly,” encapsulating Priscilla’s genre-defying its album title. rock vibe that fuels “The Big Nowhere.” Fans of The and as tender as the way Joe clasps the hand of the vision. But don’t worry: It slams! sound and vast emotional range. Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic, and classic rock in dying man he has just dispatched with a bullet to the general will find much here to love. gut.” Exceptional… And his best yet. 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