Today is Joni Mitchell’s 78th birthday, Lorde‘s 25th birthday and the fifth anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death. And yesterday would have been Doug Sahm and Guy Clark’s 80th birthdays, and Glenn Frey‘s 73rd. That ought to give you plenty of listening options while you peruse next week’s list of new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks and vinyl reissues. Ready … set … peruse:
Gracie Abrams | This Is What It Feels Like
Ace Of Hearts | Deadbeat Boulevard
Poppy Ackroyd | Pause
Adele | I Drink Wine
Aesop Rock & Blockhead | Garbology
Damon Albarn | The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
Alberta & the Dead Eyes | You Said Something
Jason Aldean | Macon
Alien Nosejob | Paint It Clear
All Hail The Yeti | Within the Hollow Earth EP
All That Remains | The Fall of Ideals Vinyl Reissue
Andorra | Andorra
Anna | Guilt
Andy Aquarius | Chapel
Architrave | Future Ruins
Area21 | Greatest Hits Volume 1
Aries | Believe In Me, Who Believes In You
Arrowounds & Acid Pool Moth Light | The Great Shapeshifting
Ars Magna Umbrae | Throne Between Worlds
Artson | Queendom
Byron Asher & Brad Webb | Little Bigby
As Light Decays | System Of Division
Astrophobos | Corpus
Atolah | Post, Cross and Yoke EP
Lorne Balfe | The Wheel Of Time Soundtrack
Bangkok | Madness
Courtney Barnett | Things Take Time, Take Time
Cecilia Bartoli | Unreleased
Batu | I Own Your Energy EP
Bawrut | In The Middle
Bea | Dual Natures
The Beau Brummels | Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964-1970
Beginners | Ooey Gooey EP
Belore | Artefacts
The Black Dog | Music For Photographers
Black Soul Horde | Horrors From The Void
Black Violence | Extinction Control
Blawan | Woke Up Right Handed EP
Blood Sport | Hot Blood and Cold Steel
Body Unltd | Genevieve
Bonded | Into Blackness
Borknagar | Borknagar 25th Anniversary Edition
Brillion. | Nocturnal Nostalgia
Brother Sundance | Rat Race EP
Brute Spring | The Perilous Transformations of Kid Spit
Michael Bublé | Christmas 10th Anniversary Edition
Brian Bulger | Dissolve
Burial Waves | Holy Ground
Burntfield | Impermanence
The Bush Tetras | Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras
Bysts | Palace
Charlotte Cadin | Phoenix Deluxe
Canadian Brass | Canadiana
Cân Bardd | Devoured By The Oak
Caned By Nod | None The Wiser
Cannibale | Life Is Dead
Mackin Carroll | Learning To Swim
Ca7riel | El Disko
Casper Skulls | Knows No Kindness
Cave Bastard | Wrath Of The Bastard
Fella Cederbaum | Truth & Destiny
Céu | Um Gosto de Sol
Bill Charlap | Street of Dreams
The Charlatans UK | A Head Full of Ideas
Melanie Charles | Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women
Cherokee | Blood & Gold
The Chieftains. Chronicles: 60 Years of The Chieftains
Chosen1 Beats | Black Superman The Instrumentals
Eric Clapton | The Lady In the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
Claptone | Closer
The Clean | Boodle Boodle Boodle 40th Anniversary Edition
The Clean | Tally Ho b/w Platypus 40th Anniversary Edition
Jelly Cleaver | Black Line
CNMA | My Life Is A Joke EP
Conociendo Rusia | La Dirección
Conjunto Corona | G De Gandim
Le Consort | Specchio Veneziano
Constant Smiles | Paragons
JP Cooper | She
Michael Cormier | Less Light: More Light!! Instrumental Demos
Creature | Eloge De l’Ombre
Claire Cronin | Bloodless
Alex Cuba | Mendó
Adam Cuthbert | Transits
DaBaby | Back On My Baby Jesus Shit. Again
Dappy | Fortune
Delmer Darion | Morning Pageants: Remixes
Dark Times | No Hope / The Early EPs
Darkwoods My Betrothed | Angel of Carnage Unleashed
Rush Davis + Kingdom | Transmission
Dawn Of Solace | Flames Of Perdition
Erika De Casier | The Sensational Remixes
Delta Sleep Spring Island
Departure Street | A Long Way To Now
Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner | C’Mon C’Mon Original Score
Disconnected Souls | Petrichor
Dltzk | Frailty
Djiin | Klonosphere
The Dodos | Grizzly Peak
Dold Vorde Ens Navn | Mørkere
Doomsday Profit | In Idle Orbit
Dope Lemon | Rose Pink Cadillac
Dotaki, Jonas, Dopeslinger + Various Artists | It’s In The Mind
Double Grave | Echinacea
Cat Dowling | Animals
Dream Phases | New Distractions
Drift Mouth | Loveridge Is Burning
Go Dugong | Meridies
Dying Hydra | Of Lowly Origin
L’Eclair | Confusions
Elaiza | Paradise Lost
Elitimesfour | The Remnants
Endless Boogie | Admonitions
Enuff Z’Nuff | Hardrock Nite
Exsul | Allegoresis
Eyemaster | Charcoaled Remains / Festering Slime Single
Eyes Wide Open | Through Life and Death
Family*5 | Ran!Ran!Ran! – The Best of Family*5 Vol. 1
FBC & Vhoor | Baile
Alan Fitzpatrick | Machine Therapy
Flavour Nurse | Flavour Nurse
The Fleshtones | Mi Engañaste Bien / Decimos Yeah!
Flight Facilities | Forever
Flipsyde | Acoustic
Floored Faces | Kool Hangs
Flowerkid | Everyone Has a Breaking Point EP
Foster The People | Torches X Deluxe Edition
Fourth Wife | Head Fell Between Two Horses
Fractures | Summer EP
The Freeway Jubilee | On The Horizon Vol 1
French For Rabbits | The Overflow
Dawson Fuss | Edge Of Adolescence
Polo G | Hall Of Fame 2.0
Atarashii Gakko! | Snacktime
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers | Imposter
Galán / Vogt | The Sweet Wait
Lennie Gallant | Christmas Day On Planet Earth
Jerry Garcia Band | GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal ’76
Jon Garcia | Temporary Universe
Manu Gavassi | Gracinha
Gazoline | Gazoline III
Geographer | Down And Out In The Garden of Earthly Delights
Glaskin | Klaftertief
Golden Fang | Man With Telltale Scars
Larry Goldings | Earthshine
Valentina Goncharova | Recordings 1987-1991 Vol. 2
Gov’t Mule | Heavy Load Blues
Granular | Ashes EP Reissue
The Greek Theatre | Simpler Times
Tim Green and Massimo Magee | Abeyance
Josh Grider | Long Way From Las Cruces
The Grip Weeds | Dig
Jembaa Groove | Bassa Bassa EP
Tama Gucci | Almost Blue
Robin Guthrie | Pearldiving
Hackedepicciotto | The Silver Threshold
Jenn Hartmann | Raise Your Voices (Songs Celebrating the Kids Who Are Changing the World)
Helm | Axis
Charlie Hickey | Count the Stairs EP Vinyl
Devin Hoff | Voices From the Empty Moor
Susanna Hoffs | Bright LIghts
Holm | Why Don’t You Dance
Jon Hopkins | Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Valentín Huedo | Tonight EP
Holly Humberstone | The Walls Are Way Too Thin
Humble Braggers | Love & Fear
Hushdrops | The Static
Hyperdontia | Hideous Entity
I Am A Rocketship | Lies and Legends
Idles | Crawler
Iedereen | Blumenfieber EP
Ill Considered | Liminal Space
Infinito 2017 | Vacuuming Flat Round Earth Anti Pro Vax Bleach Lies Bubble
Inkswel | Eachother (Fallin’) (ft. Andrew Ashong) EP
In Somnia | Harlequin
Intaglio | II
Irreversible Entanglements | Open The Gates
L. Jacobs | Enthusiasm
Eric Jacobsen, Kayhan Kahlor, Sandeep Das, Karen Ouzounian | Blue As The Turquoise Night
Oliver James | Storm Chasing
The Jazz Butcher | Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-Sides and Seasides
Ethan Jewell | Loneliness In The Presence Of Company
Cody Jinks | Mercy
Cody Jinks | None the Wiser
Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O | Umdali
Carissa Johnson | Blue Hour
Antonio José | Fénix
Juice WRLD | Already Dead
Jr. Gone Wild | Still Got The Jacket
Ronan Keating | Songs From Home
Kentucky Headhunters | … That’s A Fact Jack! Single
Keys N Krates | Original Classic
Kid Apollo | All I Think About EP
Kills Birds | Married
Kevin Knapp, DJ Minx | Dancing With The Devil EP
Kofi the Spiderman | February 21
Ton Koopman / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir | Famous Cantatas Vol. 1
Kraków Loves Adana | Follow The Voice
Kramer | Words & Music, Book One
Ajak Kwai | Red Sands EP
L.A. Guns | Checkered Past
Julian Lamadrid | Rebels Of The Neon God
Land Of Talk | Calming Night Partner EP
Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda | Circle Of Celebration
Avril Lavigne | Bite Me
Noam Lemish | Erlebnisse
Nick León | EP
Lida | Мoe ИМЯ ЛИДА
Lightleak | Tender Fits
Lilac Kings | I’m Only Dreaming EP
Lil Reese | Supa Savage III
Lil Wayne | Tha Carter Singles Collection
Lil Zay Osama | Trench Baby 2
Lionlimb | Spiral Groove
Little Mix | Between Us
Log Across The Washer | It’s Funny How The Colors
Logic1000 | In The Sweetness of You EP
Lølø | Overkill EP
Long Range Hustle | I Am Alive, But Only If You Say I Am
Cecilia Lopez / Joe Moffett | Caprichos
Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy | Son
Lubelski | Happy Accident
Makthaverskan | För Allting
Dellacasa Maldive | Sale Rosa
Malota | The Uninvited Guest EP
Manchester Orchestra | Christmas Songs Vol. 1
Plamena Mangova | Lettres Intimes
Marcellus Rex | II
Tertia May | TM Radio EP
Medhane | Do The Math
Meskerem Mees | Julius
Memorist | Oni / Kijo EP
MF Robots | Gold Atjazz & Beanz n Kornbread Remixes EP
Haviah Mighty | Stock Exchange
Buddy Miles Express \ Expressway To Your Skull / Electric Church / Them Changes / We Got To Live Together
Mills | Final Thoughts EP
Kristine Mills | Looking Back. Moving Forward.
Ronnie Milsap | Christmas With Ronnie Milsap
Kylie Minogue | Disco Guest List Edition
Mirrors | Mirrors
Joni Mitchell | Archives Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)
Mona Kazu | Steel Your Nerves
Elektra Monet | The Black Opal
Monophonics | Last One Standing Single
The Monsters | You’re Class, I’m Trash
Bebi Monsuta | 11:11 EP
French Montana | They Got Amnesia
Monument Of Misanthropy | Unterweger
Honey Mooncie | To Whom It May Concern
Sally Anne Morgan | Cups
Morgxn | Meridian: Vol 2 EP
The Motion Orchestra | All One
Casey MQ | Babycasey: Ultra
MSC | What You Say Of Power EP
Lindsay Munroe | Softest Edge EP
Karen Myatt | Femoir
NcL-DøøFus | Swamp Phønk
Negură Bunget | Zău
New Cool Collective | Yunikōn
Nich | Overwhelmed
Nirvana | Nevermind 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Cedric Noel | Hang Time
Leo Nocentelli | Another Side
Non Serviam | Il Pleut Partout Derrière
Not A Moment Too Soon | Wait, What?
Nova Spei | Sequentis
NOW Ensemble, Sean Friar | Before and After
NRBQ | Dragnet
Nyt LIv | Den Døde Sol
Oberhofer | Smothered
Obscura Qalma | Apotheosis
Orgone | Working for Love / Dreamer
Joell Ortiz | Autograph
Otik | Soulo EP
Oscean | Ideoma
Sam Outlaw | Popular Mechanics
Outrun the Sunlight | A Vast Field of Silence
Palko!Muski | Bugs in The System
Jenny Parrott | The Fire I Saw
Perc | Greed Dance
Permanent Vacation | Hymns from the Backseat
Justin Courtney Pierre | Ghost World
Pip Blom | Welcome Break
Placebo | Surrounded By Spies
Les Plaisirs Du Parnasse / David Plantier | Violin Sonatas
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss | Raise The Roof
Portico Quartet | Monument
Mariá Portugal | Erosão
Elvis Presley | Elvis: Back In Nashville
Priori | Your Own Power
Propagandhi | Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes 20th Anniversary Edition
PRP | No Pristine Rubbery Perception
Quel Bordel | Dinner for Derelicts
Sara Rachele | Heartstrings
Randy Rainbow | A Little Brains, A Little Talent
Lee Ranaldo | In Virus Times
Randa And The Soul Kingdom | Is This I Single
Ravens Flight | All By My Ownsoe
Red Rum Club | How To Steal The World
Red Snapper | The Warp and The Weft Single
Rees | Romanticism EP
Regas-McDonald | Hall Of Fame Cities
Rejoicer | Voodoo at Home
Corrina Repp | Islands
Rise Against | Nowhere Sessions EP
Rocket Science | Strong Again (Radio Edit)
Dave Ruder | Not Great
Run To Stay | Paragons
Safety Town | Fake It
Abby Sage | Fears Of Yours & Mine EP
Anthony Sahyoun | Proof By Infinite Descent
Zeb Samuels | Arrival
Savage Ga$p Forever Yours
Gabriel Sayer | Beautiful Relaxing Music
Scandroid | Dreams of Darkness, Visions of Light
Scattered Hamlet | Stereo Overthrow
Paul Schütze | The Second Law
The Seafloor Cinema | In Cinemascope with Stereophonic Sound
Seaform Walls | XVI
Seagoth | Eternity EP
David Sebastian | Sista EP
Sectorsept | 954
Sega Bodega | Romeo
Sewerslvt | We Had Good Times Together, Don’t Forget That
She & Him | Christmas 10th Anniversary Edition
Jake Shimabukuro | Jake & Friends
Amanda Shires | For Christmas
Shizzura | Ronin
Louie Short | Omw 4ev
Show-Ya | Showdown
Siem Reap | Now What?
Silent Planet | Iridescent
Silk Sonic | An Evening With Silk Sonic
Jack Silverman | Live at The 5 Spot
Simulacra & Triangular Ascension | Ashes Of The World Empire
Skanger | Mistakes Single
Sleepmakeswaves | Live At The Metro
Slow Pulp | Deleted Scenes Vinyl
Smiley | Buy Or Bye 2
Nishla Smith | Friends With Monsters
Snarls | What About Flowers? EP
Solid Gold Playaz | Next To Me EP
Georg Solti | Solti in London: The Orchestral Recordings
Robert Sotelo | Upset The Rhythm
Soundwalk Collective | Lovotic
Speedy Ortiz | The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker ...Forever
Mike Squires | #2 Record
Rod Stewart | The Tears Of Hercules
Allen Stone | Apart
Subjoi | Steadfast EP
Suntitle | In A Dream
Sweet Justice | Redline EP
Taylor Swift | Red (Taylor’s Version)
The Taboos | Midnight Single
Katelyn Tarver | Subject To Change
Ben Tatar and the Tatar Tots | Seconds
Tatora | Confessions
Tending Bike | Bike’s Fun Adventure
Soichi Terada | Asakusa Light
Terror Cult | Terror Cult EP
Thårn | Collisions
They Might Be Giants | Book
13 Necklace | Mangled Bird
3Breezy | Catch A Breeze
Tigers & Flies | Among Everything Else
Stanislav Tolkachev | To You
Nicolas Tourney | Impact: Visual Artists & Music
Trousdale | What Happiness Is
Twice | Formula of Love: O+T=<3
Twig Harper | Two Variations for the Shadow of the Absolute
Twit One | Audda Control
200 Stab Wounds | Slave To The Scalpel
Ültra Raptör | Tyrants
The Underground Youth & Laura Carbone | In Dreams EP
Union of Knives | Endless From the Start
The Unity | The Devil You Know Live
Unleashed | No Sign Of Life
Vale | Línea Recta
Joel Vandroogenbroeck | Far View
Vant | Extinction Ballads
Various Artists | BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Cover Collection Vol.6
Various Artists | Box of Pin-Ups: The British Sounds of 1965
Various Artists | Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country
Various Artists | Fake Chapter Records: The First 25 Years
Various Artists | Gok Wan Presents Isolation Nation Volume 2
Various Artists | Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal
Various Artists | Philadelphia International Records: The 12” Mixes, Volume 3
Various Artists | Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund
Various Artists | RidingEasy Records: Scrap Metal – Vol. 1
Various Artists | Root Records, Vol. 1
Various Artists | Scrap Metal: Excavated Heavy Metal From The Era Of Excess
Various Artists | Toolroom Radio EP563: Presented by Illyus & Barrientos
Vaticinal Rites | Vaticinal Rites
Vended | What Is It/Kill It EP
Vertebra Atlantis | Lustral Purge In Cerulean Bliss
Nick Vivid | No More Secrets
Vomit the Soul | Cold
Walk The Moon | Heights
The Wanted | Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits
War | Greatest Hits 2.0
Warbly Jets | Monsterhouse
Nikara Warren | Nikara Presents Black Wall Street
Doc Watson | Life’s Work: A Retrospective
Weval | Changed For The Better EP
Matt Wilde | Remote Planet
Wild Heart Club | Arcade Back In Manitou
Daniel Wyche | Earthwork
Xenia Xamanek | Delirio Real
Aaron Yan (炎亞綸) | Vacation
Yoasobi | E-Side
Ysy A | Trap De Verdad
Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Teaser and the Firecat 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Ziak | Akimbo
Zilched | A Valentine / Stand Back
Die Zimmermänner | Goldene Stunde (Alle Hits 1980-2017)
Ziúr & James Ginzburg | Myxomy
Ztilo | No Hard Feelingz EP
Zuzu | Queensway Tunnel
