SHOTGUN JIMMIE – TRANSISTOR SISTER 2 LABEL: YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS CATALOG: YC-039 FORMAT: LP/CD RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2, 2019 Are you ready for the new sincerity?! Shotgun Jimmie’s new album Transistor Sister 2 is full of genuine pop gems that champion truth and love. Jimmie is joined by long- time collaborators Ryan Peters (Ladyhawk) and Jason Baird (DoMakeSayThink) for this sequel to the Polaris Prize nominated album Transistor Sister from 2011. José Contreras (By Divine Right) produced and recorded the record in Toronto, Ontario at The Chat Chateaux and joins the band on keys. In characteristic Shotgun Jimmie fashion, the songs on Transistor Sister 2 focus largely on family and friends with a heavy dose of nostalgia. Jimmie’s hyperbolic takes on the everyday reconstruct familiar scenarios, from traffic on the 401 (the beloved and scorned mega- highway through Toronto known to all touring musicians Blues Riffs as the place where punctual arrival at soundcheck goes Tumbleweed to die) to cooking dinner. Hot Pots Ablutions The album’s lead single Cool All the Time is a plea for Fountain people to abandon ego and strive for authenticity, Suddenly Submarine featuring contributions by Chad VanGaalen, Steven Piano (with band) Lambke and Cole Woods. The New Sincerity serves as The New Sincerity the album’s manifesto; it renounces cynicism and Cool All The Time promotes positivity. Sappy Slogans Highway 401 Jack Pine Sorry We’re Closed Shotgun Jimmie: IG: @shotgunjimmie FB: @shotgunjimmie Twitter: @jimmieshotgun You’ve Changed Records: www.youvechangedrecords.com CD – CD-YC-039 LP with download – LP-YC-039 Twitter: @youvechangedrec IG: @youvechangedrecords FB: @youvechangedrecords Also available from You’ve Changed Records: Partner – Saturday The 14th (YC-038) 12”EP/CD You’ve Changed Records Steven Lambke – Dark Blue (YC-037) LP 123 Pauline Ave. Ian Daniel Kehoe – Secret Republic (YC-036) LP Toronto, ON Daniel Romano – Finally Free (YC-035) LP M6H 3M7 Partner – In Search Of Lost Time (YC-032) LP/CD MARIKA HACKMAN ANY HUMAN FRIEND NON-EXPORTABLE CD / LP / DIGITAL SP 1314 RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 9TH, 2019 OUTSIDE OF THE US. TRACKLISTING: 1. wanderlust 2. the one 3. all night 4. blow 5. i'm not where you are 6. send my love 7. hand solo 8. conventional ride 9. come undone 10. hold on 11. any human friend GENRE: Alternative Rock “hand solo,” “blow,” “conventional ride”—these are just a few of the cheeky offerings off Any Human Friend, the new album from rock provocateur Marika Hackman. “This whole record is me diving into myself and peeling back the skin further and further, exposing myself in quite a big way. It can be quite sexual,” Hackman says. “It’s blunt, but not offensive. It’s mischievous.” There’s also depth to her carnal 0 9 8 7 8 7 1 3 1 4 2 009 8 7 8 7 1 3 1 4 1 3 knowledge: Any Human Friend is ultimately about how, as she puts it, CD Packaging: Digipack LP Packaging: Single-pocket “We all have this lightness and darkness in us.” jacket with insert Includes mp3 coupon NON- Hackman lifted the album’s title from a documentary about RETURNABLE four-year-olds interacting with dementia patients in senior homes. At one point, two little girls confer about their experience there, with one musing on how it’s great to make “any human friend,” whether old or young. “When she said that it really touched a nerve in me,” says the London-based musician. “It’s that childlike view where we really accept people, are comfortable with their differences.” Such introspection has earned Hackman her name. Her folky 2015 debut, We Slept at Last, was heralded for being nuanced and atmospheric. She really found her footing with her last release, I’m Not Your Man—which earned raves from The Guardian, Stereogum, and Pitchfork—and its sybaritic, swaggering hit “Boyfriend,” which boasts of seducing away a straight guy’s girlfriend. “Her tactile lyrics keep the songs melodically strong and full of surprises,” remarked RETAIL: Posters and play copies will be available. Pitchfork. PUBLICITY: Album serviced to all music & lifestyle media. “I’m a hopeless romantic,” she explains. “I search for love and sexual experience, but also I’m terrified by it.” Hackman is a Rid of Me-era ONLINE: Artist page (incl. album art and a focus track): PJ Harvey for the inclusive generation: unbounded by musical genre, https://www.subpop.com/artists/marika_hackman a preternatural lyricist and tunesmith who isn’t afraid to go there. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarikaHackman (Even her cover art, which finds Hackman nearly nude while cradling a baby pig, is a nod to Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marikahackman/ unfiltered photos of mothers just after they gave birth.) To that end, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarikaHackman “hand solo” extorts the virtues of masturbation and features Website: http://marikahackman.com Hackman’s favorite line, “Under patriarchal law, I’m going to die a virgin.” The song “blow” paints a picture of social excess. And Advertising will be purchased on select sites. “conventional ride” thumbs its nose at heterosexual sex through “the trope a lot of gay women experience: sleeping with someone, then it RADIO: Any Human Friend will be worked to commercial and non-commercial/college radio. becomes apparent you’re kind of an experiment.” ALSO AVAILABLE: Marika wrote the album over a year, recording a few songs at a time with co-producer David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx). The longer recording process meant that Hackman had the time to experiment in the studio, especially with electronic songs. She was inspired by Wrench’s vast synth collection, many of which she used throughout Any Human Friend, notably on “hold on,” a deep dive into ennui expressed as ethereal R&B. She also switched up drum rhythms and wrote songs on the bass, such as the upbeat, idiosyncratic “come undone.” SP1202 Hackman bookends Any Human Friend with some of her most I’m Not Your Man unexpected musical turns. The first song she wrote, “the one” CD / LP (technically its second track), is “probably the poppiest song I’ve ever written,” she says. “It’s about that weird feeling of starting the process again from scratch.” To that end, it features a riot grrrl Greek chorus hurling such insults at her as, “You’re such an attention whore!” The title track closes out the album and explores how, “when we’re interacting with people, it’s like holding a mirror up to yourself.” It’s a weightless coda that’s jazz-like in its layering of rhythmic sounds as if you’re leisurely sorting through Hackman’s headspace. NÉRIJA BLUME TRACKLISTING 1. Nascence 2. Riverfest 3. Last Straw 4. Partner Girlfriend Lover 5. EU (Emotionally Unavailable) 6. Blume 7. Equanimous 8. Swift 9. Unbound 10. Blume ii OVERVIEW CATALOG NUMBER: WIG433 Following their acclaimed Nérija EP, Domino are very happy to share Blume, the debut album RELEASE DATE: August 2nd, 2019 from Nérija. FILE UNDER: Alternative “N” CD Recorded in Soup Studio, Blume sees Nérija – comprised of contemporary jazz luminaries, UPC: 887828043323 Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet), Cassie Kinoshi (alto saxophone), Rosie Turton (trombone), Shirley Tetteh (guitar), Lizy Exell (drums) and Rio Kai (bass) - build upon their effortlessly beautiful sound and compositional style, sprawling in scope and depth, confirming their position as one of the most exciting bands to have come from London in recent years. DOUBLE LP w/ DOWNLOAD Blume is a truly breath-taking collection of compositions that perfectly encapsulates UPC: 887828043316 everything Nérija; vibrant, engaging, infectious and truly current. It certainly is a London thing and a whole lot more. Vinyl is non-returnable SELLING POINTS - The 7-piece (pronounced NEH-REE-AH) have been making great waves on London's jazz scene over the past couple of years - both collectively and with their own solo endeavours, garnering 2017's Jazz Newcomer Parliamentary Jazz Award; 2016's Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year. - Double LP on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl that includes a download card. - North American touring to occur in 2019. - Early press support from New York Times, New York Times Popcast, Rolling Stone, and NPR. - Non-commercial radio campaign to impact on album's release date. Davina And The Vagabonds SUGAR DROPS CD & LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYL “... part Bonnie Raitt, part Etta James and a little Amy Winehouse” —Star Tribune “Davina Sowers is a one-of-a-kind performer whose singing… has a sassiness bearing some comparison to that of heart-thumping blues queens Ma Rainey and Ida Cox.” —Downbeat OVERVIEW SUGAR DROPS is the first album on Red House Records fromDavina and the Vagabonds and marks the first time singer/songwriter/pianist Davina Sowers entered a proper studio to record an album. The Minneapolis-based artist holed up in Nashville’s Compass Sound Studio with producer (and Compass Records co-founder) STREET DATE August 2, 2019 Garry West, along with her trumpeter, string arranger and husband, Zack Lozier, and a rotating cast of powerhouse players including Todd Phillips (David Grisman, Robbie LABEL Red House Records Fulks) on bass, Doug Lancio (Patty Griffin, John Hiatt, Tom Jones) on guitar and CAT# RHR313CD, RHR313LP Reese Wynans (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa) on Hammond B3. FILE UNDER Rock SUGAR DROPS is distillation of bluesy barroom baritone and bravado, graveyard jazz grooves, and noir-ish confessional lyricism backed by boisterous piano, guitar, and strings. Eclectic, engaging and instilled with a deep respect and knowledge for the Great American Songbook, SUGAR DROPS is the actualization of longstanding intent for Davina.