What's New 8-7-20

Glass Animals

Dreamland

Republic

Dreamland marks the first album from the Oxford quartet since drummer Joe Seaward was severely injured in 2018 riding his bike in Dublin. “The idea for this album came at a time of confusion and uncertainty,” frontman Dave Bayley explains. “My best friend was in the hospital. I didn’t know if he’d make it. The future was damn scary and completely unknown.”

Deep Purple

Whoosh!

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“Deep Purple is putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half-joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that the band and three-time collaborator/producer Bob Ezrin were on their path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.

Washed Out

Purple Noon

Sub Pop

Brighter, more robust sounds made their way into the songs of Purple Noon and mark a new chapter for Ernest Greene as a producer and songwriter. The vocals are front and center, tempos are slower, beats bolder, and there’s a more comprehensive depth of dynamics. One can hear the luxuriousness of Sade, the sonic bombast of Phil Collins, and the lush atmosphere of the great Balearic beat classics.

Joe Bonamassa

A New Day Now

J&R Adventures

To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of his debut album, A New Day Yesterday, Bonamassa is releasing a newly re-mixed and re-recorded version. Joe re-sang all the vocals over and played new guitar tracks on some songs. Includes 3 bonus tracks written by Stevie Van Zandt and Joe which were demos from the 90's that never made it on to any records. Never heard before vintage Joe!

Bronson

Bronson

Ninja Tune

Grammy-nominated duo Odesza and acclaimed Australian producer Golden Features have come together to form the powerhouse group Bronson. The self-titled album pushes the soundscapes of their previous projects to explore the darker edges of dance music, something reflective of the duality of lightness and darkness in the human condition. Featuring heavyweight collaborations from lau.ra of Ultraista, Gallant, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

New Release Round-Up 08-07-20

Taylor Swift - folklore - Republic
Taylor Swift’s surprise album, folklore! "Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my 8th studio album, folklore," she said, letting fans know she poured all her whims, dreams, fears, musings into the 17 tracks. "I wrote and recorded this music in isolation but got to collaborate with some musical heroes of mine; Aaron Dessner, Bon Iver, William Bowery and Jack Antonoff.”

Glass Animals - Dreamland - Republic
Amassing over 2 billion streams, British four-piece Glass Animals is led by singer/songwriter/producer Dave Bayley with bandmates and childhood friends Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer & Drew MacFarlane. A fan favorite, their album How To Be A Human Being was one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2016. Now, Glass Animals is back with new album Dreamland. Featuring hit singles “Tokyo Drifting” with Denzel Curry and “Your Love (Déjà Vu)”.

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Washed Out - Purple Noon - Sub Pop
Washed Out is Atlanta-based producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene. Over three enchanting, critically-lauded albums and an EP, his music has proved both transportive and visual, each release inviting listeners into immersive, self-contained universes. With Purple Noon, his fourth album, and his return to Sub Pop, he delivers the most accessible Washed Out creation to date. For Purple Noon, Greene again wrote, recorded, and produced the entirety of the album, with mixing handled by frequent collaborator Ben H. Allen (Paracosm, Within and Without). Production of the album followed a brief stint of writing for other artists (most notably Sudan Archives) which enabled Greene to explore genres like R&B and modern pop. These brighter, more robust sounds made their way into the songs of Purple Noon and mark a new chapter for Greene as a producer and songwriter. The vocals are front and center, tempos are slower, beats bolder, and there's a more comprehensive depth of dynamics. Capism of Washed Out's oeuvre, taking the music to dazzling new heights.

BRONSON - BRONSON - Ninja Tune
BRONSON, the brand new group by ODESZA and Golden Features, unveils their debut self-titled album on Foreign Family Collective / Ninja Tune. BRONSON is available on clear LP, limited edition black and yellow LP, and CD. GRAMMY-nominated duo ODESZA and acclaimed Australian producer Golden Features have come together to form the powerhouse group BRONSON. The self-titled album BRONSON pushes the soundscapes of their previous projects to explore the darker edges of dance music. The LP features heavyweight collaborations from lau.ra of Ultraista, Gallant, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The BRONSON album reflects on their respective needs to challenge personal struggles, both internal and external. Moreover, the trio recognized that their own battles were merely microcosms of the surrounding world. The hope was to craft a body of work that was reflective of that duality of lightness and darkness inherent to the human condition.

 

Luke Bryan - Born Here Live Here Die Here - Capitol Nashville
Luke Bryan releases his latest album this week. `Born Here Live Here Die Here' includes the #1 hit "Knockin' Boots" and his current hit single "Whatever She Wants Tonight". Bryan is known for his catchy, chart-topping tracks like ""Country Girl Shake It For Me" which was included in Billboard Magazine's "100 Songs that Defined a Decade" list out last month.

 

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Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter - Chrysalis / Partisan
Laura Marling’s exquisite seventh album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ arrives almost without pre-amble or warning in the midst of uncharted global chaos, and yet instantly and tenderly offers a sense of purpose, clarity and calm. As a balm for the soul, this full-blooded new collection could be posited as Laura’s richest to date, but in truth it’s another incredibly fine record by a British artist who rarely strays from delivering incredibly fine records. Taking much of the production reins herself, alongside long-time collaborators Ethan Johns and Dom Monks, Laura has layered up lush string arrangements and a broad sense of scale to these songs without losing any of the intimacy or reverence we’ve come to anticipate and almost take for granted from her throughout the past decade.
   

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The Stooges - Live At Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970 - Third Man Records
Third Man Records is excited to announce The Stooges' Live At Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970. This previously-unheard, high-quality soundboard recording of the original Stooges lineup's final performance -- recorded just before the release of their earthshaking 1970 album Fun House -- is available on vinyl, CD and digital on August 7, 2020, nearly 50 years to the day after the performance. 

   

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ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

Deep Purple - Whoosh!
BTS - MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 – THE JOURNEY
Fleetwood Mac - Before The Beginning, Vol. 2: Live & Demo Sessions 1970
PARTYNEXTDOOR - Partymobile
Jenny O - New Truth
Jason Molina - Eight Gates
Another Sky - I Slept On The Floor
Joe Bonamassa - A New Day Now
Pixies - Bossanova: 30th Anniversary
Alison Mosshart - Sound Wheel
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Dirt And The Stars
Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant
Michelle - Heatwave
A Grape Dope - Arthur King Presents A Grape Dope: Backyard Bangers
Collective Soul - Collective Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition
Year of the Knife - Internal Incarceration
Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep
Now That's What I Call Music! - NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 75

& More .....

UPCOMING RELEASES

Bruce Hornsby - Non-Secure Connection - Zappo Productions
Bruce Hornsby is on a roll. After taking the music world by surprise with his wide-ranging, critically acclaimed 2019 album Absolute Zero, the singer, songwriter, composer and bandleader returns with a follow-up that picks up where its predecessor left off. Non-Secure Connection features 10 new songs exploring a broad range of themes, from civil rights to computer hackers, mall salesmen to the tribulations of youth basketball. Hornsby plays piano, of course, but the songs on Non-Secure Connection also feature Hornsby’s electric sitar and Chamberlin, along with guitars, horns, strings and subtle samples from sources as varied as minimalist composer John Cage and Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand. Like Absolute Zero, Non-Secure Connection also features a wealth of collaborators: singer James Mercer of The Shins and Broken Bells, singer and poet Jamila Woods, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon and the late Leon Russell, who appears thanks to a demo that he and Hornsby recorded together more than 25 years ago.

   

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For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

Books and Music signed by Dave Pirner!

Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum was kind enough to sign copies of his new book Loud Fast Words, as well as Soul Asylum Hurry Up and Wait CDs and LPs. These are available in the store and online now. Orders of $35+ ship free U.S. media mail.

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Orders for these items will automatically receive signed copies. No further action is needed on your part.

What's New 7-31-20

Paul McCartney

Flaming Pie

UMe

Flaming Pie is the 13th release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, personally supervised by McCartney and remastered at Abbey Road Studios. Originally released in 1997, the critically acclaimed & universally beloved solo album was produced by Paul, Jeff Lynne, and George Martin, featuring a supporting cast of family and friends including Ringo Starr, Steve Miller, Linda McCartney, and son James.

Fontaines DC

A Hero's Death

Partisan

Barely a year after the release of their acclaimed debut album Dogrel, Fontaines DC have returned with an intensely confident, patient, and complex sophomore album. A Hero's Death arrives battered and bruised, albeit beautiful - a heady and philosophical take on the modern world, and its great uncertainty.

Charley Crockett

Welcome To Hard Times

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After undergoing open heart surgery that saved his life, Crockett says he considered calming down for “just a minute.” Welcome to Hard Times was shaped by his heart issues and producer Mark Neill’s desire to make a dark, gothic, country record. “I think you can hear that deep, dark sadness in this record,” he says, “but I think it’s the kind of darkness that will uplift others.”

The Psychedelic Furs

Made of Rain

Cooking Vinyl

The groundbreaking British band’s eighth studio album and first new album in nearly three decades sees the band returning to the fray as relevant and original as ever before, fueled by their innovative sonic approach of distinct, desperate wall of sound, melding haunting melodies and driving rhythms with ambition, aggression, and subversive lyrical power.

Alain Johannes

Hum

Ipecac Recordings

The third solo album from the Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, who is a founding member of several bands, including the alternative rock group Eleven, and has been involved with acts such as Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Chris Cornell, Arctic Monkeys, and Mark Lanegan, both as a musician and as a producer.

Bright Eyes Pre-Order & virtual in-store performance

Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was

August 21st release date

Bright Eyes fans who pre-order Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was from select indie retailers will gain access to a virtual in-store performance from the band!

Pre-order by August 18th and we'll submit your email address to the record label and you'll receive access to this special virtual performance on the release date of August 21st. Pre-order of any configuration is valid for access to the performance.

PRE-ORDER HERE:

Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Red/Orange Vinyl 2LP - 24.98

Regular Black Vinyl 2LP - 24.98

CD - 14.98

Cassette - 9.98

Creem Magazine Documentary Screening - August 7th

Tune in. Drop out. Get loud. Electric Fetus & CREEM Magazine join together to bring you an exclusive advanced screening of ‘CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine’ on August 7th. Save the date. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE TRAILER AND GRAB YOUR TIX

Soul Asylum - "Let Your Dim Light Shine" 25th Anniversary

Release date: July 31st

The first 25 pre-orders for the 25th anniversary vinyl release of Soul Asylum’s Let Your Dim Light Shine will get one of these 2-sided promo flyers from 1995. One per person. Vinyl is limited edition Coke bottle clear with blue swirl. Out 7/31.

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Electric Fetus Pins

Always in season...Electric Fetus enamel pins!

One size fits all. 8.99 each

CLICK HERE TO ORDER Cattail Logo Pin

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Shaggy - Hot Shot 2020

New Shaggy out now!

After serving in the US Marines where he found his distinctive baritone sound by chanting cadences while marching, Shaggy has gone on to almost single-handedly usher dance hall music into the mainstream and, in the process, create some of the most memorable musical moments in our lives.  Who hasn’t quoted his cheeky smash “It Wasn’t Me,” dabbed to “Boombastic” or hummed along to “Angel?”  On his new album Hot Shot 2020 - commemorating the 20th anniversary of his 10-million selling Hot Shot album, the two-time GRAMMY award winner puts a new spin on his most beloved songs and invites special guests such as Sting and Rayvon to celebrate along. Hot Shot 2020 even includes an irresistible rendition of Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” and Shaggy’s new world wide hit “Banana” with fellow Jamaican Conkarah. 

Hot Shot 2020 is now available on import CD and vinyl.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER Hot Shot 2020 on import CD

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New Bob Mould Release! Pre-Order indie vinyl now

JULY 20TH UPDATE: We have pre-sold over 200 copies of Blue Hearts on multi-colored vinyl and that is the limit for the signed album jacket. In the next few weeks we will contact customers who didn't make it in the first 200 pre-orders to see if they'd still like to keep their order open. Thank you!

Bob Mould's new release, Blue Hearts, will be released on September 25th, 2020. Blue Hearts is an explosive album of pain, rage and fear with some of the most direct and confrontational lyrics of his four-decade career. According to Bob, “This is the catchiest batch of protest songs I’ve ever written in one sitting.”

This release will be available on indie exclusive limited edition black/blue/white vinyl and the first 200 orders for this version or the bundle will receive an autographed album jacket. No special note necessary on your order.

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER BOB MOULD BLUE HEARTS INDIE VINYL 19.99 

For those of you who don't already have Mould's previous release, Sunshine Rock on clear vinyl, we have a special Blue Hearts/Sunshine Rock bundle available.

Bundle includes Blue Hearts LP on white/black/blue striped vinyl w/autographed album jacket and Electric Fetus exclusive Sunshine Rock LP on clear vinyl. Free U.S. media mail shipping. July 20th update: Bundles w/autographed album jacket have been sold out. New orders for the bundle will have unsigned copies of Blue Hearts.

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER BOB MOULD BLUE HEARTS INDIE VINYL 19.99

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER SPECIAL BOB MOULD BUNDLE 35.99

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER BOB MOULD BLUE HEARTS BLACK VINYL 19.98

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER BOB MOULD BLUE HEARTS CD 12.98