New Music Friday: Jan. 10, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Joan Armatrading | “How Did This Happen and What Does It Now Mean” (her 13th album; producer: Armatrading; new single: “I’m Not Moving”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Nov. 22; Apple Music; BMG Rights Management)
Busta Rhymes | “Dragon Season” (Download; his 12th album; producers: Busta Rhymes, Nottz, Ted Smooth; guests: Killer Mike, Barrington Levy, YG Marley, Conway the Machine, Symba, et al; The Conglomerate / Hitmaker Music Group / Hitmaker Distro)
Julian Cope | “Friar Tuck” (U.K. release; his first album in four years; Vinyl; Head Heritage)
Franz Ferdinand | “The Human Fear” (their sixth album; producer: Mark Ralph; new single: “Audacious”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Domino)
Early James | “Medium Raw” (Alabama singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Tinfoil Hat”; See here; Well-Done Brown Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Easy Eye Sound / Concord)
Lambrini Girls | “Who Let the Dogs Out” (Brighton-based noise-punk duo’s debut album; new single: “Big Dick Energy”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; City Slang)
Moonchild Sanelly | “Full Moon” (South African “future ghetto funk” artist’s third album; producer: Johan Hugo; new single: “Do My Dance”; See here; Read here; Glow-in-the-Dark Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Transgressive)
Ringo Starr | “Look Up” (11-track country album; his first new LP in six years; producer: T Bone Burnett; guests: Billy Strings, Alison Krauss, Larkin Poe, Molly Tuttle, Lucius; new single: “Time On My Hands”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Lost Highway)
Nolan Taylor | “Nolan Taylor” (Download; Ohio-raised and Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; 16 songs; new single: “I Belong in Your Arms”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour; Atlantic)
Tremonti | “The End Will Show Us How” (sixth album from Creed / Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti’s namesake band; new single: “Just Too Much”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Napalm)
Various artists | “Moana 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (animated sequel opens Nov. 27; original songs by Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear, Opetaia Foa’i, and Mark Mancina; voice cast includes Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison and Nicole Scherzinger; Trailer; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Blue Splatter Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Orange Swirl Vinyl; Download released on Nov. 22; Apple Music; Merch; Disney Store; Walt Disney)
REISSUES + MORE
Rosanne Cash | “The Essential Rosanne Cash” (two CDs, 40 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; RumbleStrip)
Miles Davis | “Birth of the Blue” (Hybrid Stereo SACD; 1958 pre-“Kind of Blue” session with Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane on saxophones, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums; mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab direct to DSD from a new 30 ips quarter-inch stereo master tape transferred from the original 3-track session tapes; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Merch; Analogue Productions)
Glenn Miller | “100 Hits” (four-CD collection; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Not Now Music)
Pilot | “The Albums” (four-CD, 56-track clamshell box includes all four LPs, with bonus tracks; 7T’s)
Elvis Presley | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (a collection tracks drawn from EPs issued in the United States between 1956-1962; Amazon UK; Merch; Jasmine)
Tina Turner | “Rough” (1978 album; Vinyl, half-speed mastered; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Parlophone)
Various artists | “The Hamburg Repertoire: The Original Classic Recordings of Songs Performed By The Beatles Onstage In Hamburg” (two-CD, 67-track collection, featuring original hits by Elvis Presley, The Isley Brothers, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; El Records / Cherry Red)
Various artists | “Legends” (three CDs, 63 songs, featuring Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Gloria Gaynor, Sister Sledge, Journey, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, et al; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Spectrum Music / UMR / Sony Music)
Various artists | “NOW Yearbook Extra 1977” (three CDs, 62 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Music / EMI)
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