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Monday, January 30, 2017

New Music Album Releases: January 27, 2017

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The new music album releases for the week of January 27, 2017 include "The Devil Don't Sleep" by Brantley Gilbert, "A Girl A Bottle A Boat" by Train, "Road less Traveled" by Lauren Alaina, "Near to the Wild Hear of Life" by Japandroids, "Gods of Violence" by Kreator, "SweetSexySavage" by Kehlani, and "Culture" by Migos.

Find out more about all the new music album releases after the jump.





THE DEVIL DON'T SLEEP (Brantley Gilbert)

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Artist:
Brantley Gilbert

Genre:
Country

Total Length:
1:49:28

Label:
The Valory Music Co

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD


Product Description: A lot has happened, marvels the man nominated for CMA Song of the Year for Jason Aldean s signature Dirt Road Anthem. And anyone who knows me knows that every album is another chapter of my life. Even though it s my life, even though some of what I write about is very specific to what happens to me, I think the challenges, the places where we figure things out are all the same no matter what we re facing, realizations all mean the same things.

By now, everyone knows the story turned out okay for me, laughs the man who sold out his entire BLACKOUT arena tour last winter, as well as his TAKE IT OUTSIDE amphitheater tour which closed with two nights at Red Rocks. But the truth is there s always temptation, there s always something whether it s work or substances or gambling or whatever that can pull you off the path. For me, thankfully, I got through it, got the girl back, got to keep my career moving...

Life isn t just chapters, explains the songwriter/rocker. What happens before influences what happens next. Not always the way you d expect. Sometimes you don t even see it til later. But with these CDs, I feel like it s the story and then more of the story. You know, depending on how deep you want to go, it s a way to understand the journey to THE DEVIL DON T SLEEP.


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A GIRL A BOTTLE A BOAT (Train)

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Artist:
Train

Genre:
Pop

Total Length:
37:09

Label:
Columbia

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: a girl a bottle a boat is the from three-time Grammy-winning San Francisco based band Train. The lead single from a girl a bottle a boat is the infectious pop smash "Play That Song."

Train has released 7 studio albums, selling more than ten million albums worldwide and thirty million tracks across the globe. The band has been awarded numerous platinum/gold citations, 3 Grammy Awards and dozens of other honors and nominations. Led by passionate frontman Pat Monahan, the eight-time Grammy nominees have delivered riveting, roots-based pop for more than two decades. Signature hits include "Angel In Blue Jeans," the multi-platinum smash "Drive By," the Grammy winning classic "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)," the chart-topping "Meet Virginia," "Hey Soul Sister," and "Calling All Angels" among others.


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THREE STRIPES (Bell Biv DeVoe)

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Artist:
Bell Biv DeVoe

Genre:
R&B/Soul

Total Length:
34:59

Label:
eOne Music

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD


Product Description: With over 20 million albums sold under their belts, Bell Biv DeVoe and/or or BBD are back with a new album featuring all new music. The lead single “RUN,” produced by Erick Sermon, finds BBD in a familiar space with the Notorious BIG sampled, “Hypnotize” beat. The remix for “RUN” will feature some of today’s hottest rappers adding a youthful flair to the cut. With Bell Biv DeVoe being one third of the original boy band New Edition, the project will receive additional exposure via BET’s marketing and publicity campaigns for the highly anticipated 3-part mini-series “The New Edition Story” airing January 24th -26th.


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ROAD LESS TRAVELED (Lauren Alaina)

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Artist:
Lauren Alaina

Genre:
Country

Total Length:
41:59

Label:
Mercury Nashville

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD


Product Description: Country star Lauren Alaina releases her brand new album, Road Less Traveled, on Mercury Nashville / 19 / Interscope Records on Jan. 27. Lauren, showing her evolution as a songwriter since her No. 1-debuting first album, Wildflower, co-wrote all 12 songs on the new album including her current Top 20 single and title track, Road Less Traveled.

In Road Less Traveled, a triumphant anthem written with Meghan Trainor and Jesse Frasure, Lauren's empowering message of embracing your own individuality is made even more poignant by her impressive vocals.

The highly-anticipated and highly personal album was produced by the award-winning busbee (Lady Antebellum, Maren Morris, Keith Urban). From start to finish, Lauren shares the complexities of her life with sophistication and personality.

"I am so excited to get this album out," shares Lauren. "I wrote for it for three and a half years. I've grown so much as a person, a songwriter and an artist in that time. These songs are a true representation of who I am, where I ve been and where I'm going. This album has pushed me to accept who I am and be 100% honest about it. Road Less Traveled is truly ME. I can't wait to share my stories, my music and myself with the world."

Recognized by Rolling Stone as a Must-See Act, Lauren joins Martina McBride for the CMT Next Women of Country Love Unleashed Tour 2017. The tour kicks off in Feb. with dates in St. Louis, Chicago and Louisville. Tickets are on sale now.


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RED SEA ROAD (Ellie Holcomb)

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Artist:
Ellie Holcomb

Genre:
Christian, Gospel

Total Length:
46:36

Label:
Full Heart Music

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD


Product Description: Ellie Holcomb won New Artist Of The Year at the 2014 Dove Awards after the release of her debut record, As Sure As The Sun. Ellie is the daughter of Grammy and Dove Award winning producer Brown Bannister (Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman). Ellie has toured with Christian acts such as Third Day, Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Crowder, and others. Holcomb began her musical career with Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors in 2005, and she started her individual career pursuit in 2011. In 2011, she released the Magnolia EP, which charted on numerous Billboard charts on September 10, 2011. Her second EP entitled With You Now did not come out until 2013, and this album peaked at # 7 on the Christian Albums chart. Holcomb released her debut studio album on February 18, 2014, entitled As Sure as the Sun, which has garnered critical praise.


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NEAR TO THE WILD HEART OF LIFE (Japandroids)

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Artist:
Japandroids

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
36:45

Label:
Anti/Epitaph

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: JAPANDROIDS is a two-piece band from Vancouver, BC., which began in 2006 and consists of Brian King and David Prowse. JAPANDROIDS are one guitar, one set of drums, and two vocalizers. JAPANDROIDS are maximal in their delivery; a two- piece band sounding like a five-piece band. With the release of their second album, Celebration Rock in 2012 the band embarked on what seemed like an endless world tour, performing over 200 shows in over 40 countries, and played their final show in support of Celebration Rock in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2013. They would not perform live again for three years. Their third album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, was written clandestinely throughout 2014 and 2015 in Vancouver, Toronto, New Orleans, and Mexico City. It was (mostly) recorded at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC (Fall of 2015), with one song, “True Love And A Free Life Of Free Will”, recorded at Golden Ratio in Montreal, QC (February, 2015). The title, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, comes from a passage in the novel A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce: “He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.” Like their prior albums Post-Nothing and Celebration Rock, the album is 8 songs. This is because 8 songs is the standard template for a great rock n roll album. Like Post-Nothing and Celebration Rock, the album was sequenced specifically for the LP. On Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, side A (songs 1-4) and side B (songs 5-7) each follow their own loose narrative. Taken together as one, they form an even looser narrative, with the final song on side B (song 8) acting as an epilogue. If Celebration Rock was the culmination of something, then Near To The Wild Heart Of Life can be considered the beginning of something else.


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TY SEGALL (Ty Segall)

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Artist:
Ty Segall

Genre:
Rock

Total Length:
36:06

Label:
Drag City

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: Life is a Rorschach, life is a Rashomon. Fuck your facts. Throw em out with yesterday s webpages. Lives lie beyond the equations of currency, border lines and government and truth is just a drop in the beholder s eye. Ty Segall has made whole records that wrestle with realities fighting against some, pulling mightily to bring others into being. Of late, he s thrown up his hands and donned clown shoes, dancing merrily in the dual role of oppressed/oppressor! His hands aren t any more or less dirty than anyone else s but amidst the thunder and the chaos of the ongoing storm, he s looking for the eye within. The new self-titled record the next record after Emotional Mugger, Manipulator, Sleeper, Twins, Goodbye Bread, Melted, Lemons, and the first self-titled album that started it up in the nowdistant year of 2008 is a clean flow, a wash of transparency falling into a world that needs to see a few things through clearly, to their logical end. It s got some of the most lobe-blasting neckwork since the Ty Segall Band s Slaughterhouse (from way back in the long, hot summer of 2012), but it also features a steep flight of fluent acoustic settings, as Ty s new songs range around in their search for freedom without exorcism, flying the dark colors high up the pole in an act of simple self-reclamation. All he wants is some truth! The construction and destruction of his chosen realities has, until now, been a luxury Ty has rightfully reserved for himself, striping overdubs together to form the sound but for this new album, he entered a studio backed by a full band Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin, Charles Moothart and Ben Boye to get a read on this so-called clarity. This leads to a new departure in group sound, as well as some of the most visceral and penetrating vocal passages yet heard from Ty Segall. Freedom/Warm Hands puts the sweet back into suite; Orange Color Queen is a supreme moment of tenderness; Talkin , a roots-infused truth-attack. Papers, looks behind the doors of Ty s process; Break A Guitar is a brutal fun-fest pitched to the back of the house. Ty Segall keeps you guessing, bracing your skin with a welcome astringency, seeking to stem the bleeding with chunks and splashes of guitar, tight beats, audio-verité toilet smashes, a Wurlitzer electric piano in a jam, blazing harmonies, and LOTS of songs to sing. There s no concept beyond that; finding the right places to be is a momentary thing. Ty Segall is the sum of his songs and about getting the free. The free to be!


TRACK LIST:

1. Break a Guitar (3:38)

2. Freedom (2:07)

3. Warm Hands (Freedom Returned) (10:21)

4. Talkin' (3:51)

5. The Only One (3:54)

6. Thank You Mr. K (2:52)

7. Orange Color Queen (3:04)

8. Papers (3:00)

9. Take Care (To Comb Your Hair) (3:07)

10. Untitled (0:12)




TOURIST IN THIS TOWN (Allison Crutchfield)

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Artist:
Allison Crutchfield

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
32:28

Label:
Merge Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: The debut full-length by Allison Crutchfield titled Tourist in This Town sonically pulls back the curtain on her life and places Crutchfield center stage, fully revealing her power, conviction, and grace. The Alabama native has immersed herself in music since her teenage years, forming notable bands such as P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana (both with her twin sister Katie of Waxahatchee). In 2012, she co-founded Swearin’—the band in which she would truly begin to formulate and understand her full potential as a songwriter—and in 2014, she recorded and released her first solo EP Lean In To It. Her debut album is an accomplished work that integrates her past musical experiences with a pronounced growth in arrangement and instrumentation. Tourist in This Town was made at Uniform Recording in Philadelphia with Jeff Zeigler, who is known for his work with Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, and Mary Lattimore, among others. His synthesizer collection and related expertise proved an alluring draw for Crutchfield, who had started incorporating synths into her work when she branched off into a solo career. “This record marked a sonic transition in the way I think about the element of space in music, and I attribute that mainly to Jeff,” says Allison. “His arsenal and knowledge of analog synths, along with his ear for spatial addition and subtraction within a song, really sculpted this album and impacted me artistically forever.” “Tourist in This Town is completely made up of heightened anxiety and became a clearly defined puzzle that I slowly put together over the course of a year,” says Crutchfield. “It’s a record about change—change of scenery, of partner, of band, of home, of friends, of outlook—and how that change can cause a temporary panic but ultimate triumph in most of us.”


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STITCH OF THE WORLD (Tift Merritt)

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Artist:
Tift Merritt

Genre:
Country, Folk

Total Length:
37:45

Label:
Yep Roc Records

Purchasing Links:
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Product Description: Stitch Of The World, Tift Merritt's sixth studio album was written on a friend's farm in Marfa, Texas, at Merritt's California cabin, and in New York City in the wake of several major changes in her life. The album was recorded in Los Angeles while Merritt was six months pregnant, after which she relocated to her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina.

The time since the release of Traveling Alone has also found Merritt recording and touring with Andrew Bird in his Hands of Glory, MC Taylor,s Hiss Golden Messenger, and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Merritt work-shopped the songs on Stitch Of The World with longtime friend Sam Beam of Iron & Wine after bumping into him in an airport.

The Limited Edition CD is only available on initial pressing. These bonus tracks are not available for purchase with the digital album.


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GODS OF VIOLENCE (Kreator)

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Artist:
Kreator

Genre:
Metal

Total Length:
2:02:39

Label:
Nuclear Blast

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD + DVD, Vinyl

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NOT EVEN HAPPINESS (Julie Byrne)

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Artist:
Julie Byrne

Genre:
Alternative Folk

Total Length:
32:37

Label:
Ba Da Bing!

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: Sometimes it can take years to find your calling. Not so for Julie Byrne, whose power of lyrical expression and musical nous seems inborn. Her second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at it's own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. Teaching herself guitar, having picked it up when her father became ill and could no longer play, Byrne also admits she can't read music and doesn't even listen to it all that much - her own vinyl was the first in her possession. "Without possessing the right words, I'd describe to [producer] Eric Littman (Phantom Posse) and Jake Falby (who contributed strings) the feeling I wanted a song to evoke, or I would take a shot at singing what was in my head. Though over all, their contributions to the record are entirely their own vision and their own power." The follow-up to 2014's critically lauded Rooms With Walls And Windows, this release offers a bigger picture through a wider exploration of instruments and atmospherics, revealing an artist who has grown in confidence over time. Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time ("Melting Grid"), the morning sky in the mountains of Boulder ("Natural Blue"), or a journey fragrant with rose water or reading Frank O'Hara aloud from the passenger seat during a drive through the Utah desert into the rainforest of Washington State ("The Sea As It Glides"), Not Even Happiness is Byrne's beguiling ode to the fringes of life.


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LIFE WITHOUT SOUND (Cloud Nothings)

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Artist:
Cloud Nothings

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
37:37

Label:
Carpark Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, CD, Vinyl


Product Description: Dylan Baldi maintains simple, admirable standards in quality. “A thing I like to do with all of my records is drive around with them,” the 25-year-old Cloud Nothings frontman says. “In high school, I would listen to music for hours like that: just driving through the suburbs of Cleveland. And if it sounds good to me in that context and I can think of high school me listening to it and saying, ‘That’s okay,’ I feel good about the record. This is the one that’s felt best.” “This” is Life Without Sound, the radiant, far-far-better-than-okay fourth full-length his rock outfit has recorded since he began writing and releasing songs on his own under the Cloud Nothings alias in 2008. While its highly acclaimed predecessor—2014’s Here and Nowhere Else—came together spontaneously, in the little time that touring allowed, Life Without Sound took shape under far less frenetic circumstances. For more than a year, Baldi was able to write these songs and flesh out them out with his bandmates—drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist TJ Duke—before they finally joined producer John Goodmanson (Sleater Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas, for three weeks in March of 2016. The result is Baldi’s most polished and considered work to date, an album that speaks to his evolving gift with melody while also betraying the sort of perspective that time provides. You can hear it in the aerodynamic guitar pop of “Modern Act,” and feel it in the devastating wisdom of “Internal World,” a lullaby-like howler that dwells on “the fact that being yourself can be uncomfortable and even potentially dangerous at times.” “Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world,” Baldi says. “But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn't realize you were missing until it's there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music,” he adds. “It’s supposed to be inspiring.” It is. Limited deluxe LP on green marble vinyl; special embossed jacket; includes exclusive poster and audio download.


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SWEETSEXYSAVAGE (Kehlani)

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Artist:
Kehlani

Genre:
R&B, Soul

Total Length:
64:57

Label:
Atlantic Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3

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FAKE FAMOUS (Mozzy)

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Artist:
Mozzy

Genre:
Hip-Hop, Rap

Total Length:
54:26

Label:
Mozzy Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3

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CULTURE (Migos)

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Artist:
Migos

Genre:
Hip-Hop

Total Length:
58:19

Label:
Quality Control Music

Purchasing Links:
MP3

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