The following Pop titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
Aespa
Girls - The 2nd Mini Album [ Warner / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] aespa's 2nd mini album 'Girls' has 6 songs of various genres containing aespa's worldview story, starting with the strong lead single 'Girls' and a bonus track Life's Too Short (English Ver.). CD contains: *Folded Poster (random 1 out of... |
Aespa
Girls - The 2nd Mini Album (Digipack Version) [ Warner / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] aespa's 2nd mini album 'Girls' has 6 songs of various genres containing aespa's worldview story, starting with the strong lead single 'Girls' and a bonus track Life's Too Short (English Ver.). CD contains: *Random album cover (random 1 out of... |
Alec Benjamin
(Un)Commentary (LP) [ Elktra / Warner / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] (Un)commentary is the sophomore album from acclaimed singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin. It features 13 tracks, including the previously released "The Way You Felt", "Older", and "Shadow Of Mine". (Un)commentary was produced by Sir Nolan (Kehlani,... |
Joey Alexander
Origin [ Mack Avenue / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Origin will be the 18-year-old pianist, composer and bandleader's sixth album. It follows 2020's Warna, released by Verve. "I'm honoured to be a part of the Mack Avenue family of amazing artists, and grateful to be able to work and collaborate... |
Basil Kirchin
Abstractions Of The Industrial North (Limited 10") [ Trunk / 10in - due 8/Jul/2022 ] This is music from one of Basil's most creative periods. Basil had finished his world tour of weird discovery, and came back to the UK to make, in his words, music for imaginary films. This is basically library music but lead to quite a few original... |
Baxter Dury
Mr. Maserati 2001-2021 (LP) [ Heavenly / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Mr Maserati showcases two decades of Baxter Dury's idiosyncratically louche music, a universe of late-night London meet-ups, shuffling basslines and comedown disco tunes, all run through with a wry bleakness and sweet love of humanity. Mr Maserati... |
Brett Adams
Black Clouds In Stereo [ Rattle Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] An album of instrumentals featuring electric guitar, composed, performed and recorded by Brett Adams. Guitarist Brett Adams started his musical journey with 80s pop-rock icons, The Mockers, who regularly featured on the NZ music charts at the... |
Bruce Hornsby
'Flicted [ Thirty Tigers / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] 'Flicted is the new studio album from award-winning pianist, singer, and songwriter Bruce Hornsby. Recorded last summer, the record is the follow up to Hornsby's acclaimed albums, 'Absolute Zero' and 'Non-Secure Connection'. 'Flicted completes a... |
Bruce Hornsby
'Flicted (LP) [ Thirty Tigers / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] 'Flicted is the new studio album from award-winning pianist, singer, and songwriter Bruce Hornsby. Recorded last summer, the record is the follow up to Hornsby's acclaimed albums, 'Absolute Zero' and 'Non-Secure Connection'. 'Flicted completes a... |
Cabaret Voltaire
The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord (Limited LP) [ Inertia / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Cabaret Voltaire's 'The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of The Lord', as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on limited white vinyl. Known for being the harder, more experimental album of their "Pop" period, 'The Covenant, The Sword and... |
Cabaret Voltaire
Micro-Phonies (Limited LP) [ Inertia / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] 'Micro-Phonies' is Cabaret Voltaire's most sleek dance record, featuring charting singles 'James Brown' and 'Sensoria'. Released in 1984, the record gained its reputation as the Cabs' most mainstream album. Their partnership with Peter Care on... |
Cake
Fashion Nugget (LP) [ Legacy / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] CAKE's second studio album Fashion Nugget, originally released in 1996, is remastered and reissued on 180g black vinyl. Includes hits "The Distance", "Frank Sinatra", and "I Will Survive". |
Chuck Higgins
Come on and Blow Your Horn - Selected Singles 1953 - 1957 [ Jasmine Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] A seminal influence on a young Frank Zappa and his various Mothers, and a powerful live performer to boot, saxblaster CHUCK HIGGINS was one of the most popular attractions of the West Coast's mid 50s early R&R scene. He recorded prolifically, for... |
Daniel Johns
Futurenever (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] |
David Long
Ash And Bone [ Rattle Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] This new recording by David Long defies easy generic tags. Acoustic electronica, alt-folk, alt-chamber music or experimental instrumental are vaguely in the ballpark, but as David says, his music makes a constellation of these musical styles but... |
Defset
Proximity (LP) [ Emk / 2 LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Proximity is a 12-track album of richly textured and 100% analog electronic music that will appeal to fans of Daniel Avery, Andy Stott, Jon Hopkins, and Max Cooper. Although new to the electronic music scene, DEFSET is the moniker of Leo Neelands,... |
Dire Straits
Money For Nothing 2022 Remaster (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Reissue of the first Dire Straits greatest hits collection, originally released in October 1988 and featuring songs from their first five albums. Fully remastered by Bob Ludwig, and cut by Bernie Grundman, this vinyl reissue includes 'Telegraph... |
The Districts
Great American Painting [ Fat Possum / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Great American Painting is the rare album that shines a bright light on all that's wrong in the world but somehow still channels a galvanizing sense of hope. With equal parts nuanced observation and raw outpouring of feeling, the Philadelphia-based... |
The Districts
Great American Painting (Limited LP) [ Fat Possum / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Great American Painting is the rare album that shines a bright light on all that's wrong in the world but somehow still channels a galvanizing sense of hope. With equal parts nuanced observation and raw outpouring of feeling, the Philadelphia-based... |
Elton John
Regimental Sgt. Zippo [ Universal / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Regimental Sgt Zippo is the legendary 'album that never was' for Elton John. Signed to DJM as an artist in early 1968, he cut 12 tracks at DJM studios in London's New Oxford Street, for a debut album. It is unclear as to why the album was never... |
Elton John
Regimental Sgt. Zippo (LP) [ Universal / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Regimental Sgt Zippo is the legendary 'album that never was' for Elton John. Signed to DJM as an artist in early 1968, he cut 12 tracks at DJM studios in London's New Oxford Street, for a debut album. It is unclear as to why the album was never... |
Elvis Presley
30 #1 Hits (Expanded Edition) [ RCA / 2 CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] A new 2CD collection from the king of rock 'n' roll! #30 Hits is a Greatest Hits album released in 2002. Includes the stellar hits 'Burning Love', 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Suspicious Minds', 'All Shook Up', 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?', 'Hound Dog', In... |
Emily Fairlight & Shifting Sands
Sun Casts A Shadow [ Fishrider Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] "We never meant it to result in an album. Before the tour we'd been working tirelessly on Emily's solo record, both putting huge amounts of time and effort into meticulous details, which was totally appropriate for that album - and it sounds... |
Emily Fairlight & Shifting Sands
Sun Casts A Shadow (LP) [ Fishrider Records / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] "We never meant it to result in an album. Before the tour we'd been working tirelessly on Emily's solo record, both putting huge amounts of time and effort into meticulous details, which was totally appropriate for that album - and it sounds... |
Empath
Visitor [ Fat Possum / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Empath's second studio album and their first for Fat Possum. Visitor was produced and mixed by Jake Portrait (Unknown Mortal Orchestra). On Visitor, Empath sought to one-up the range of sounds heard on their previous album. During what he calls... |
The Faim
Talk Talk [ BMG / ADA / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Australian four-piece pop rock band The Faim present their sophomore studio album. Recorded between Los Angeles and Perth, the band worked with producers Zakk Cervini (Bring Me The Horizon, Yungblud, Machine Gun Kelly), Erik Ron (Panic! At The... |
Hoodoo Gurus
Chariot Of The Gods (LP) [ Universal / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] With immense enthusiasm, Hoodoo Gurus are taking the reins of 2022 and are happy to announce the details of their long-awaited, and hotly-anticipated, new studio album - Chariot of the Gods. |
Huey 'Piano' Smith
Would You Believe it! In Session in New Orleans 1951 - 1962 [ Jasmine Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Part of Jasmine's ongoing and popular "In Session" series this new set can also be seen as the companion to an earlier Jasmine release, Don't You Just Know It, The Very Best Of Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns 1956-62 (JASMCD 3059), this set... |
Jack Johnson
Meet the Moonlight [ Universal / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Meet The Moonlight, Johnson's eighth studio album and first full-length release in five years, was produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, Jim James) and recorded both in Los Angeles (at Sound City and EastWest) and The Mango Tree... |
Jam & Lewis
Volume One (LP) [ Bmg / Ada / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Grammy winning producers and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis are one of the most successful production duos with an astonishing amount of hit records. They started this journey in music over 30 years ago creating hits for... |
James Bay
Leap (LP) [ Universal / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Three-time Grammy Award-nominated and BRIT Award-winning multi-platinum singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist James Baywill release his highly anticipated third full-length album, Leap, via Mercury/Republic Records. |
John Schofield
Solo [ ECM / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] John Scofield's first guitar-solo-recording ever gives a résumé of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Besides... |
Kaina
It Was A Home (Limited Edition LP) [ City Slang / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] 'It Was A Home' showcases KAINA's stunning new artistic direction, the result of her own personal evolution and newly found sense of self, while maintaining roots in her signature sound. The album includes features from beloved artists such as... |
Mabel
About Last Night... (LP) [ Universal / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] About Last Night… is Mabel's second debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Mabel. Mabel worked with artists such as 24kGoldn, Lil Tecca, Jax Jones, Galantis, Joel Corry on this album. A candid, positive and important voice in... |
Machine Gun Kelly
Mainstream Sellout (LP) [ Universal / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Mainstream Sellout is the sixth studio album by American musician Machine Gun Kelly. It's his second collaborative project with drummer and producer Travis Barker, following 2020's Tickets to My Downfall |
Magician
Magician (LP) [ Trunk / LP - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Mythically rare British album from the late 1970s, only a handful of original copies have ever been found. This is because a 1977 British jazz album that looked like a 1970 prog album that was issued on a brand-new label that didn't know what it was... |
Marion Ryan
The Godmother of Britpop [ Jasmine Records / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] Once described as "The Marilyn Monroe of popular song", the diminutive MARION RYAN (she stood just 5' tall) emerged from Ray Ellington's band to establish herself as one of the most popular female singers of the 50s. Commercial television was new... |
Metric
Formentera [ Metric Music International / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] After an almost 25 year history, Metric reigns as an iconic, beloved and critically acclaimed indie rock band, staying true to their roots while at the same time breaking through to the mainstream. Their 2022 album Formentera is the follow-up to... |
Muna
Muna [ Saddest Factory / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] MUNA is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms, could have made you sing (and maybe even believe) that "Life's so fun, life's so fun", during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of... |
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Toast [ Reprise / Warner / CD - due 8/Jul/2022 ] A 7-song album from Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded at Toast studio in San Francisco in late 2000 and early 2001. It was shelved at the time and Are You Passionate was the next album Neil released. For the past two decades, Toast has been... |