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Too Much Of A Good Thing: 60-Some New Album Announcements

St. Vincent, Richard Thompson, Eels, Twenty One Pilots & tons more new arrivals.

2024-02-29

Some days are quiet. Some days are busy. And some days are just freaking nuts.

Today started off the first way. Then I got a whole whack of sponsored posts to deal with, so it turned into the second variety. Then everybody and their dog decided to announce a new album today — probably to get the jump on Bandcamp Friday tomorrow — and everything went to hell.

The list of artists who unveiled new releases today includes St. Vincent, Richard Thompson, Eels, Twenty One Pilots, Cage The Elephant, Collective Soul, Lake Street Drive, Jesse Malin, Brothers Osborne and more than 50 others. See below for more on some of the top titles, along with preview singles and videos and whatnot. Then scroll down to peep the list of everything that was announced today. And don’t forget to head over to the Upcoming Releases page to scope the entire list of 1,000+ titles on the way between now and the end of time.

St. Vincent
All Born Screaming

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Annie Clark, the musician better known as triple-Grammy-winning iconoclast St. Vincent, has confirmed the release date of her seventh full-length studio album: All Born Screaming will be delivered April 26. St. Vincent’s first self-produced record, All Born Screaming is Clark at her most unfiltered. Assuming the mantle of sole producer made for an unprecedented direct translation to tape of the sounds originating in her head, heart and hands: “There are some places, emotionally, that you can only get to by taking the long walk into the woods alone — to find out what your heart is really saying,” Clark says. “It sounds real because it is real.” All Born Screaming is an invitation to test the limits of what is possible — and to then keep going. Brought to life with the aid of a highly curated dream lineup of friends — Rachel Eckroth, Josh Freese, Dave Grohl, Mark Guiliana, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Stella Mogzawa and David Ralicke — the album is an unadulterated expression of St. Vincent’s singular vision.”

Richard Thompson
Ship To Shore

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The legendary Richard Thompson will return with Ship To Shore on May 31. The 12-song set was produced by Thompson and recorded in Woodstock, N.Y. Ship To Shore follows his 2018 studio album 13 Rivers and his 2021 memoir Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975. The time taken between 13 Rivers and Ship To Shore is something like an eternity for the prolific artist, but once Thompson began writing, new songs came in a burst of inspiration. To craft the album, he was joined by his longtime band — guitarist Bobby Eichorn, bassist Taras Prodaniuk, and drummer Michael Jerome — along with harmony vocalist Zara Phillips, fiddle player David Mansfield, and engineer Chris Bittner. The team worked quickly — roughly a week to track, vocals included. Ship To Shore pulls from various styles, genres and eras, but remains unmistakably Thompson. “I liked the idea of having a strong base to work from and reaching out from there,” he says. “And I think of my base as being British traditional music, but there’s also Scottish music, there’s Irish music. There’s jazz and country and classical. As far as I’m concerned, once you establish your base, you can reach out anywhere. It’ll still be you ringing through, wherever you decide to go musically.”

Eels
Eels Time

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Eels are releasing their 15th studio album. Titled Eels Time!, the record is due for release on June 7. The album news follows a busy 2023 for Eels, where they finally hit the road for their long-awaited Lockdown Hurricane tour of Europe and North America and brought the year to a close by releasing their second best of compilation album Eels So Good: Essential Eels, Vol. 2 and a brand new track, Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This. Recorded between Los Feliz, California and Dublin, Ireland, Eels Time! consists of 12 new tracks with collaborators such as Kool G Murder, The Chet, Tyson Ritter, Sean Coleman and more. Eels — an ever-changing project of its 60-year-old lead singer and songwriter E (real name Mark Oliver Everett) — have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music, and have released 14 studio albums since their 1996 debut Beautiful Freak.”

Twenty One Pilots
Clancy

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy-winning duo Twenty One Pilots have announced details of their new album Clancy, which will be released May 17. Clancy is their first studio album in three years and follows their RIAA gold-certified LP, Scaled And Icy. Having amassed over 33 billion streams worldwide and over 3 million tickets sold across global headline tours, the Columbus, OH duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have established themselves as one of the most successful bands of the 21st century and redefined the sound of a generation. Co-produced by Joseph and Paul Meany, Clancy marks the final chapter in an ambitious multi-album narrative first introduced in the band’s 2015 multi-platinum breakthrough Blurryface. Furthermore, Clancy’s forthcoming release coincides with the anniversary of Blurryface, which was released exactly nine years prior to the day.”

Cage The Elephant
Neon Pill

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Cage The Elephant’s new album Neon Pill finds the Kentucky-bred six piece — brothers Matthew Shultz (vocals) and Brad Shultz (guitar), Daniel Tichenor (bass), Jared Champion (drums), Nick Bockrath (lead guitar) and Matthan Minster (guitar, keys, backing vocals) — forging new musical ground, while maintaining its uncompromising creativity and wildly cathartic performances. “To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” Matthew said. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self-expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”

JUST ADDED

March 8

Nerd Magnet | Take A Walk Single

March 15

March 22

March 29

April 5

Bruno Berle | No Reino Dos Afetos 2
Eric Gales | Good For Sumthin’ Deluxe Edition
Loscil / Lawrence English | Chroma
Ivo Perelman Quartet | Water Music

April 12

Avalanche Kaito | Talitakum
Fontanarosa | Take A Look At The Sea
Soft Kill | Escape Forever
Guido Spannocchi | Live at London Jazz Festival 2022

April 19

Fouk | Mirage EP

April 26

May 3

Fergus McCreadie | Stream
Spahn Ranch | The Coiled One Deluxe Edition

May 10

Gjenferd | Gjenferd
How To Dress Well | I Am Toward

May 17

May 24

Mui Zyu | Nothing Or Something To Die For

May 31

Richard Thompson | Ship To Shore

June 7

Nikka Costa | Dirty Disco
Eels | Eels Time!

June 14

Been Stellar | Scream From New York, NY

June 21

Lake Street Dive | Good Together
Jesse Malin | Chasing The Light

November 22

Reverend Genes | Time EP