Shania Twain - Queen Of Me [LP] Find at an Indie Store

Five-time GRAMMY� award winning and multi-platinum selling icon, Shania Twain, announces her new album, Queen Of Me, out February 3, 2023 on Republic Nashville, a division of Republic Records. Her sixth original full-length album, Queen Of Me, is the superstar's most triumphant-feeling body of work; an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself. Its lead single �Waking Up Dreaming� was co-written and produced with BTS hitmaker David Stewart.

Tycho - Dive [Orange & Red 2LP] Find at an Indie Store

While his formative years were spent listening to everything from Yes to Photek, Scott Hansen didn�t get his hands on an actual guitar or drum machine until he left his native Sacramento for San Francisco in 1995. �Encountering this whole new world at 20 years old was a profound experience,� says Hansen, better known by his musical pseudonym Tycho and as the graphic artist ISO50. �At the time, I was just learning the processes of design and music; both felt very similar, and have flowed back and forth for me ever since.�

As seamless as his two creative outlets have been, nearly a decade passed before the release of Hansen�s first proper Tycho LP, Sunrise Projector (later expanded and reissued under the title Past Is Prologue). And while three striking singles have emerged since then, the sum of all those sepia-toned parts�is nowhere near the double-exposed soundscapes of Dive.�The product of a prolonged break from IS050�s design work and blog, it pays tribute to Tycho�s prismatic past (the dense, guitar-guided turning points of �Daydream� and �Adrift�) but spends most of its time pointing to the project�s not-so-distant future.

SYML - The Day My Father Died [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone Blue Jay LP] Find at an Indie Store

2023 release. Syml's music has a sacred quality. The solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell, it's themes tap into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or person. "It comes back to your identity of being human; throughout time we've shared the same drive," he explains. His own upbringing - interwoven with experiences of abandonment, adoption, loss, grief and love - is what drives him to question how connections between people shape us as individuals. The Day My Father Died is an exceptional record. Over 15 songs, Syml offers a profound exploration of the ways in which our lives intertwine. Throughout the album, Syml weaves in familiar iconography as a means of examining his feelings towards others, and about himself.

The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part Two [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow LP] Find at an Indie Store

Get Up Sequences Part 2 is The Go! Team�s new album due on 3 February 2023, the follow up to 2020�s Get Up Sequences Part 1. Part 2 is the big, bold, brother to Part 1 with the anti amped and upped. The Go! Team, band leader Ian Parton, MC / rapper Ninja, guitarist / vocalist Nia Radical, bass player Adam and multi instrumentalist Sam Dook, have taken scissors to the technique, slamming noise rock into soda fountain soul and jump ready rhymes. It�s a school�s out, Friday free for all in the me frequency. The album features contributions from Detroit rapper IndigoYag (Divebomb), Benin�s The Star Feminine Band (Look Away, Look Away and The Me Frequency), Hilarie Bratset (drummer in Apples in Stereo) as well as Tokyo duo Lucie Too, French artists Tapeworms and Freschard, Indian singer Neha Hatwar and Brooklyn rapper Nitty Scott.

James Brandon Lewis - Eye Of I [LP] Find at an Indie Store

James Brandon Lewis is a New York-based jazz tenor saxophonist, composer,�and bandleader. His instrumental voice marries the emotional power of gospel�and the grit and groove of blues and R&B to the modal and vanguard influences of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins� expressive melodic�and tonal discipline. Moments, his 2010 debut, was followed by two outings�for Sony Masterworks� revived OKeh imprint: Divine Travels in 2014 and the�widely celebrated Days of Freeman the following year. After working American�stages and clubs, he toured European and Asian festivals. Radiant Imprints,�a duo outing with drummer Chad Taylor, appeared in 2018 and was followed�by the quintet offering An UnRuly Manifesto a year later. In 2021, after he was�selected as the �Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist� in the Downbeat International�Critics Poll, Lewis issued The Jesup Wagon, his debut for Tao Forms.

Along the way, Lewis drew the attention of many improvising artists, most notably the saxophonist and jazz deity Sonny Rollins, who doesn�t offer effusive�praise very often. Moved by Lewis� deep, spirit-seeking sound, Rollins said��When I listen to you, I listen to Buddha, I listen to Confucius ... I listen to the�deeper meaning of life. You are keeping the world in balance.�

Eye of I opens with 44 seconds of gritty, high-throttling low-down groove, an�ear pulverizing opening designed to cleanse all traces of ordinary from the�palette. From there, Lewis offers a prayerful cover of Donnie Hathaway�s��Someday We�ll All Be Free� and then the first of his disarmingly addictive�originals, �The Blues Still Blossoms� in addition to many others.

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red LP] Find at an Indie Store

"After the monumental success and critical acclaim of Cocoa Sugar, Mercury Prize winning Edinburgh trio Young Fathers will release their highly anticipated sixth studio album, Heavy Heavy. Made up of Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham �G� Hastings and Kayus Bankole, Young Fathers have long been recognised as one of Britain�s most vital and distinguished bands - merging incendiary and thought provoking lyrics with cutting edge visuals and an undeniable propulsive live show. Written and recorded over the course of three years, Heavy Heavy is a tour de force from the trio. An unashamedly soulful and heartfelt album, where the drums set the scene throughout to transport the listener to a place of celebration and awakening.

Cocoa Sugar received huge press support from Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork (7.3/10), NPR, Pop Matters (9/10 - �This album will resonate for years to come""), Under The Radar (8.5/10), Exclaim (9/10), Northern Transmissions (8/10), New York Times Magazine Music Issue, The Fader, Stereogum, Noisey, Hypebeast, Past and more. The band have had multiple sold out headline shows (Elsewhere in Brooklyn (The New Yorker praising the group�s �impressive ease"" and �versatility that can be heard in the pop harmonies and stomping rhythms that seem to glue their avant sounds together.�) and Moroccan Lounge in LA), support for LCD Soundsystem and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Hollywood Bowl as well as a SXSW performance for the New York Times showcase, KEXP live session and performance on Jimmy Kimmel.

Prior to Cocoa Sugar, Young Fathers released the Mercury Prize winning album DEAD in 2014 followed by the seminal White Men Are Black Men Too in 2015. Before these albums the band released two now-legendary mixtapes Tape One in 2011 and Tape Two in 2013, the latter of which also won Scottish Album of the Year."

Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Red LP] Find at an Indie Store

�I feel like there are two sides of me,� says the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso known as Sunny War. �One of them is very self-destructive, and the other is trying to work with that other half to keep things balanced.� That�s the central conflict on her fourth album, the eclectic and innovative Anarchist Gospel, which documents a time when it looked like the self-destructive side might win out.

Extreme emotions can make that battle all the more perilous, yet from such trials Sunny has crafted a set of songs that draw on a range of ideas and styles, as though she�s marshaling all her forces to get her ideas across: ecstatic gospel, dusty country blues, thoughtful folk, rip-roaring rock and roll, even avant garde studio experiments. She melds them together into a powerful statement of survival, revealing a probing songwriter who indulges no comforting platitudes and a highly innovative guitarist who deploys spidery riffs throughout every song.

Because it promises not healing but resilience and perseverance, because it doesn�t take shit for granted, Anarchist Gospel holds up under such intense emotional pressure, acknowledging the pain of living while searching for something that lies just beyond ourselves, some sense of balance between the bad and the good.

Featuring: David Rawlings, Allison Russell, Jim James, Micah Nelson

Twiztid - Freek Show: Twiztid 25th Anniversary [Limited Edition Transparent Red with Splatter 2 LP] Find at an Indie Store

Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 2000, this 25 Years of Twiztid re-release of Freek Show is part of a series of 5 albums reissued to celebrate Twiztid's 25 years as a band. Complete with metallic jacket and gold foil commemorative marketing sticker, longtime fans and collectors of Twiztid's material will not hesitate to pick these up.

Brit Taylor - Kentucky Blue [LP] Find at an Indie Store

Brit Taylor�s highly anticipated sophomore album, Kentucky Blue, is a drive down the famed Country Music Highway � Route 23 -- back to her Appalachian roots.� Grammy-winner Sturgill Simpson and renowned engineer and producer David Ferguson caught wind of the Kentucky gem after her self-reflective debut album, Real Me, garnered praise from Rolling Stone, American Songwriter and NPR�s World Caf�.� The two legends didn�t hesitate to jump in and get their hands dirty, producing the next musical chapter of Brit�s life story. The album is to be released on Brit�s own Cut A Shine Records in collaboration with Thirty Tigers.

Having the courage to find her �real me� set Brit free.� Kentucky Blue is a musical celebration of her healing and rebirth.� It exudes confidence with a touch of attitude that replaces the melancholy, contemplative sound of Real Me.� It is a progression of her life and her music and an introduction to the stand-your-ground and know-your-worth Brit of today.� It is a shift back to her East Kentucky influences where the cry of the fiddle, the moan of the steel guitar, the twangy banjo and the atmospheric string section are like a journey floating through space and time.

Brit continues to unabashedly write and sing about what she lives and what she knows and sees. It�s genuine. It�s who she is.

Kentucky Blue is Brit�s personal invitation to you to join her at her cabin in the woods for a bourbon, a swing on the porch and a story-telling song.

'Weird Al' Yankovic - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Find at an Indie Store

Weird: The Al�Yankovic Story�stars�Daniel Radcliffe as��Weird Al"�Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of�all�time. From�an unconventional�upbringing where playing the accordion was�considered�a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al�lived�an excessive lifestyle and�pursued�an infamous romance that nearly�destroyed�him. The movie is available to stream�via Roku, Fire TV or Samsung�devices, or�online�on the Roku Channel.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Original Soundtrack)�features 46 tracks - a mix of�newly-recorded�classic�Weird Al�parodies, a new�Weird Al original (�Now You Know�), various�other�artists� tracks, and the film�s�orchestral�score�by�Leo Birenberg�&�Zach Robinson (the team behind the score for the Netflix blockbuster�Cobra Kai) on a jam-packed single CD.

Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic [Purple Vinyl Single] Find at an Indie Store

In 1969, an up-and-coming band called Ghost, fronted by Papa Nihil, played at the Whisky A Go-Go to celebrate their first release on Galaxy Records. For the 50th-anniversary, they released Seven Inches of Satanic Panic, a 7� single featuring �Kiss The Go-Goat� and �Mary On A Cross,� which promptly sold out. Now, �Mary On A Cross� has become a viral social media moment and a streaming phenomenon. It�s a moment that calls for a new, never-before pressing of the 7� single on purple vinyl.

Weezer - SZNZ: Spring EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Glow In The Dark Vinyl] Find at an Indie Store

Weezer are proud to present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season via Crush Music/Atlantic Records. Each EP will offer it's own palette of colors, creatures, and emotions to explore. They're also being created in real time, made in tandem with the season themselves; the band only just finished SZNZ: Spring, and have yet to begin work on SZNZ: Summer, SZNZ: Autumn, and SZNZ: Winter. Once they've all been released, however, the EPs will create an incredible collection of some of Weezer's best songs yet, which is no small feat for a band that never leaves the Zeitgeist.�

Raye - My 21st Century Blues [LP] Find at an Indie Store

Four times BRIT nominated, RAYE is one of the most streamed artists in the world with over 2.3 billion streams of her music. She has a double-platinum, four platinum, two gold and three silver singles to her name. She is also indisputably one of the UK's premier songwriters. Her songs have amassed over 3 billion streams, having written for some of the world's biggest artists including: John Legend, Ellie Goulding, Khalid, David Guetta, Diplo, and Beyonce. In 2019 she was awarded The BMI Impact Award in recognition of her 'ground-breaking artistry, creative vision and impact on the future of music.

During the summer of 2021, her cries of frustration for not being able to release her album were heard worldwide, leading to a mutual separation from her label and allowing her to carve her own path. Having made her public tirade, followed by her personal 'declaration of independence', Raye in effect has obligated herself to deliver the ground-breaking first album that her 2019 BMI award prophesied. In 2022 she was nominated for the Ivors Songwriter of the year, landed R1 Brits List, made her debut solo TV performance on Jools Holland and made the face of Spotify's November Equal campaign. On February 3rd, 2023, RAYE will release her debut My 21st Century Blues. This is RAYE part two. It's RAYE on her own terms. -It's the RAYE of old, but reloaded. These are songs made by RAYE, for RAYE, but within that they're for everyone who has faced and overcome adversity. They're also anthems for other women in the industry, or stuck in a cycle of misogyny.

RAYE / MY 21ST CENTURY BLUES

Now That's What I Call Music! - NOW That�s What I Call Music, Vol. 85 Find at an Indie Store

NOW 85�features 16 major current hits from today�s hottest artists including Taylor Swift, Sam Smith & Kim Petras, Nicki Minaj, Selena Gomez, Lil Nas X, OneRepublic, Lizzo, Elton John & Britney Spears, Meghan Trainor and more. Each numerical NOW release also features �NOW Presents What�s Next� tracks, previewing tomorrow�s biggest hits.�

Now That's What I Call Music! - NOW That�s What I Call Music, Hip Hop Party Find at an Indie Store

NOW That�s What I Call Music! Hip Hop Party features 18 of the best of the hip hop repertoire with tracks from Outkast, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Flo Rida, Migos, Eve, Notorious B.I.G. and more.

The Soul Searchers - Salt Of The Earth [Coke Clear LP] Find at an Indie Store

Even if you�ve never heard this 1974 album, you�ve heard it. What do we mean? Well, the drum break from the song �Ashley�s Roachclip� is probably the single most sampled track in all of hip hop. Everybody, and we mean EVERYBODY, has used it�Run-D.M.C., Eric B. & Rakim, and LL Cool J to name a few (and Public Enemy sampled �Blow Your Whistle� for good measure). And when you throw in the fact that the D.C.-based Soul Searchers were led by the soon-to-be �Godfather of Go-Go� himself, Chuck Brown, you can understand why Salt of the Earth�which originally came out on the lightly distributed Sussex label�ranks among the most collectible R&B albums of all time. For its first-ever American LP reissue, we�ve pressed this puppy up on coke clear vinyl. You need to own this record! A1. I Rolled It You Hold It A2. Blow Your Whistle A3. Close to You A4. Funk to the Folks B1. Ain�t It Heavy B2. Windsong B3. Ashley�s Roachclip B4. We Share B5. If It Ain�t Funky

John Frusciante - . I : [2LP] Find at an Indie Store

"After a year and a half writing and recording rock music, I needed to clear my head. I listened to and made music where things generally happen gradually rather than suddenly. I would set up patches on a Monomachine or Analog Four and listen to them, hearing one sound morph into others, making changes to a patch only after having listened for quite a while, gradually adding elements, and finally manipulating the sounds on the fly. All tracks were recorded live to CD burner, with no overdubs, and executed on one or two machines. While I was almost exclusively listening to artists such as Chris Watson, Peter Rehberg, Bernard Parmegiani, CM Von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Oren Ambarchi, Hazard, Bruce Gilbert, Klara Lewis, Ryoji Ikeda, and so on, I was also inspired by my mental image of John Lennon's tape and mellotron experiments he made at home during his time in the Beatles, as well as events like the first minute of Bowie's Station To Station, '...And The Gods Made Love' by Jimi Hendrix, the synths in the song 'Mass Production' by Iggy Pop, and the general idea of Eno's initial concept of ambient music. Music being a solitary sculpture in sonic space was the main motivating thought. I was looking at pictures of sculptures and trying to make music that simultaneously conveyed both movement and stillness. I refrained from sudden musical changes, especially avoiding sequences of notes and rhythms. In fact, this music was made from sequences which never exceed a single note, many of these pieces being made on a single pattern. The movement which a good sculptor conveys when the shape of his medium meets the eyes of the viewer who walks around the piece, or the sun changes its position, are the kinds of movement which it was the role of the synth patches to communicate . . . I also cannot overstate the role that being in my band played. I had previously spent 12 years programming and engineering my own music, and then spent a year and a half making music where my role was basically to write songs and play guitar. When the band's recording phase was completed, I needed to go back to my adopted language. I had done enough with chords, rhythms, notes, defined sections, sharp transitions, etc. What I needed was to create music from the ground up with nothing but sound, and have that music reflect 'being' rather than 'doing'. It was a therapeutic way of re-balancing myself, before and during my band's mixing process..." --John Frusciante

John Frusciante - : II . Find at an Indie Store

"After a year and a half writing and recording rock music, I needed to clear my head. I listened to and made music where things generally happen gradually rather than suddenly. I would set up patches on a Monomachine or Analog Four and listen to them, hearing one sound morph into others, making changes to a patch only after having listened for quite a while, gradually adding elements, and finally manipulating the sounds on the fly. All tracks were recorded live to CD burner, with no overdubs, and executed on one or two machines. While I was almost exclusively listening to artists such as Chris Watson, Peter Rehberg, Bernard Parmegiani, CM Von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Oren Ambarchi, Hazard, Bruce Gilbert, Klara Lewis, Ryoji Ikeda, and so on, I was also inspired by my mental image of John Lennon's tape and mellotron experiments he made at home during his time in the Beatles, as well as events like the first minute of Bowie's Station To Station, '...And The Gods Made Love' by Jimi Hendrix, the synths in the song 'Mass Production' by Iggy Pop, and the general idea of Eno's initial concept of ambient music. Music being a solitary sculpture in sonic space was the main motivating thought. I was looking at pictures of sculptures and trying to make music that simultaneously conveyed both movement and stillness. I refrained from sudden musical changes, especially avoiding sequences of notes and rhythms. In fact, this music was made from sequences which never exceed a single note, many of these pieces being made on a single pattern. The movement which a good sculptor conveys when the shape of his medium meets the eyes of the viewer who walks around the piece, or the sun changes its position, are the kinds of movement which it was the role of the synth patches to communicate . . . I also cannot overstate the role that being in my band played. I had previously spent 12 years programming and engineering my own music, and then spent a year and a half making music where my role was basically to write songs and play guitar. When the band's recording phase was completed, I needed to go back to my adopted language. I had done enough with chords, rhythms, notes, defined sections, sharp transitions, etc. What I needed was to create music from the ground up with nothing but sound, and have that music reflect 'being' rather than 'doing'. It was a therapeutic way of re-balancing myself, before and during my band's mixing process..." --John Frusciante

Discovery - LP: Deluxe Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP] Find at an Indie Store

Originally released on XL in 2009, Discovery is the�collaborative synth pop project from Rostam�Batmanglij (founding member and producer of�Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (lead singer /�songwriter of Ra Ra Riot). The album features�guest appearances from Ezra Koenig and Angel�Deradoorian, and is reissued for the first time in 5�years on limited edition Orange vinyl, with an�unlisted bonus track that was not on the XL�pressing

Sparta - Sparta [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP] Find at an Indie Store

When the world came to a halt, Jim Ward couldn�t stop moving. He�d just released a reunion album, Trust the River, as the frontman of Sparta when the pandemic hit, and as tour dates dried up, Ward returned to the studio. A year later, he debuted his raucous solo record Daggers and now he�s offering up yet another Sparta album to the world.�

The resulting collection of songs were entirely written on keys in what Ward considers an effort to stretch musical muscles he wouldn�t otherwise have had the expanse of time to indulge in. Boldly self-titled some 20-odd years into Sparta�s career, the album serves as a kind of reintroduction to the band, what Ward calls �a fresh slate.��

He recorded the song at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, where for the first time in his long career, Ward had a state of the art recording space to himself, and an engineer able to help him enact his vision. The rest of the album was self-produced at Ward�s El Paso studio, Crowded Heart.�

Joe Chambers - Dance Kobina Find at an Indie Store

Joe Chambers, Andres Vial and the Montreal-based musicians on the Dance Kobina have a shared interest in exploring the deep musical connection between jazz, Latin and African music. Vial's original composition Dance Kobina, draws specific inspiration from African-American, Brazilian, Argentinian and Central African music. Originally lacking a title, Chambers suggested Dance Kobina as the name for the piece because of its uplifting, dancing quality.

Music Releases 02-03-23