February releases continue in earnest. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know) – with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to see releases from the past several weeks…Blackberry Smoke, Holding All The Roses (Rounder)
Michelle Chamuel, Face The Fire (The End Records)
Death Grips, The Powers That B (Harvest)
A double LP release of the experimental hip hop duo's two 2014 albums, Niggas on the Moon (which saw a digital release last June) and Jenny Death (which was never actually released at all).
The Districts, A Flourish And A Spoil (Fat Possum)
Ex-Cult, Cigarette Machine EP (Castle Face)
Fat Mike, Home Street Home (Fat Wreck Chords)
Punk-rock musical concept album by the frontman of NOFX.
Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop)
The indie psych-folk singer-songwriter also known as Joshua Tillman, formerly of Fleet Foxes, presents the much-anticipated follow-up to well-regarded 2012 LP, Fear Fun. Take a listen to ambling single "Chateau Lobby #4" below.
William Ryan Fritch, Revisionist (Lost Tribe Sound)
Rhiannon Giddens, Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)
The singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who normally leads folk-blues group Carolina Chocolate Drops has been all over of late, what with her performance on Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis' as well as with The New Basement Tapes, that new Bob Dylan tribute project with Elvis Costello and Jim James. This is her T Bone Burnett-produced debut solo album. Check out her rendition of Patsy Cline favorite "She's Got You" below.
Robert Earl Keen, Happy Prisoner (Dual Tone)
Knifight, V (KnifightMusic)
JD McPherson, Let The Good Times Roll (Rounder)
Gretchen Peters, Blackbirds (Scarlet)
Prima Donna, Nine Lives and Forty-Fives (Alive Naturalsound Records).
Retox, Beneath California (Epitaph)
Martin Sexton, Mixtape Of The Open Road (KTR/Redeye)
Tomorrow We Move to Hawaii, Indépendance (Red Eye Transit)
The Treasure Fleet, The Sun Machine Soundtrack (Recess Records)
Chicago's Treasure Fleet expanded their line-up with a guitarist to produce this '70s vintage progressive soundtrack for a stylized rock n' roll space flick. The idea for the conceptual album narrative was inspired by old Twilight Zone episodes, the songs jumping from psychedelia to space travel to mind control and was written concurrently with a short film. The album/soundtrack and film altogether cost less than $3,000 to produce. It premiered September 27 at the Raindance film festival in London. Set opener "The View from Mt. Olympus" below.
Vision Fortune, Country Music (ATP Recordings)
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Adolescents, La Vendetta... È Un Piatto Che Va Servito Freddo
Johan Agebjorn, Notes
Anomie, Anomie EP
Blacklisted, When People Grow, People Go
Bonz, Broken Silence
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, A Year With 13 Moons
Clemency, You've Got the Fire
Janet Devlin, Running with Scissors
The Dreaming, Rise Again
Heiress, Of Great Sorrow
Vijay Iyer Trio, Break Stuff
Kodaline, Coming Up For Air
Ricky Martin, A Quien Quiera Escuchar
Sisqo, Last Dragon
Stage Hands, Stage Hands
Small Houses, Still Talk; Second City
