New Music Friday: Jan. 17, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Willow Avalon | “Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell” (Georgia-born country singer’s debut album; she is the daughter of alt-country artist Jim White; producers: JR Atkins, Tofer Brown, Willow Avalon; guest: Maggie Antone; new single: “Something We Regret”; Hear here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Atlantic)
Victoria Canal | “Slowly, It Dawns” (London-based Spanish-American singer-songwriter’s debut album; winner of the 2023 “Rising Star” Ivor Novello Award; new single: “Cake”; See here; Transparent Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Parlophone)
Seong-Jin Cho | “Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works” (Double CD; young Korean pianist marks the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, collaborating with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons; new single: “Sonatine, M. 40”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Deutsche Grammophon)
David Gray | “Dear Life” (British singer-songwriter’s 13th album; new single: “Plus & Minus,” feat. Talia Rae; See here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Olive Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Laugh a Minute Records / Secretly Distribution)
Rose Gray | “Louder, Please” (U.K. pop singer’s debut album; new single: “Party People”; See here; Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; [PIAS] Recordings)
Steve Hackett | “Live Magic At Trading Boundaries” (new single: “Ace of Wands”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; InsideOutMusic)
LANCO | “We’re Gonna Make It” (Download; country band’s second album; producers: Jay Joyce, Jared Conrad, LANCO; new single: “Where I Belong”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour; Riser House)
Dua Lipa | “Dua Lipa Live From the Royal Albert Hall” (Double CD – U.K. version; recorded on Oct. 17, joined by the 53-piece Heritage Orchestra, conductor Ben Foster, guest Elton John on “Cold Heart,” a 14-member choir, and a seven-piece band; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Dec. 6; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner)
Mac Miller | “Balloonerism” (second posthumous album, containing recordings created around the time of the release of “Faces” in 2014; producers: Flying Lotus, Larry Fisherman, Thundercat; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Emerald Green Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Warner)
| “Dream Requiem” (Download; narrated by Meryl Streep, with soprano Anna Prohaska joining the choruses and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under the baton of Mikko Franck; See here; Read here; CD and Double Vinyl out Feb. 21; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner Classics)
The Weather Station | “Humanhood” (seventh album from the project led by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman; producers: Lindeman, Marcus Paquin; new single: “Neon Signs”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Eco Red Mix Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Ghost Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Next Door / Fat Possum)
REISSUES + MORE
Gracie Abrams | “The Secret of Us (Deluxe)” (2024 album; with four new songs, including “That’s So True”; See here; Transparent Moonlight Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Oct. 16; Apple Music; On Tour; Interscope / UMe)
Vince Guaraldi | “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording) – 50th Anniversary Extended Edition” (1975 album; complete 22 cue score, with eight bonus tracks; mixed and mastered from the original 2″ session tapes to a 192kHz/24bit master; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Puppy Love Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Lee Mendelson Film Productions)
Nick Heyward | “North of a Miracle (Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1983 debut solo album, featuring “Whistle Down the Wind,” “Blue Hat for a Blue Day,” “Take That Situation” and “On a Sunday”; with two discs of non-album A-sides and B-sides and other recordings from 1984; Vinyl, half-speed mastering at AIR Mastering, cut from the original master tapes; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Edsel / Demon Music Group)
Michael Jackson | “Off the Wall” (Hybrid SACD; 1979 album, featuring “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Rock With You,” the title track and “She’s Out of My Life”; sourced from the original master tapes; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Merch; Mobile Fidelity)
Doug Kershaw | “Mama Kershaw’s Boy / Alive & Pickin’ / Ragin’ Cajun / Flip, Flop & Fly” (four albums from 1974 to 1977 on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Morello)
Denise LaSalle | “Trapped By a Thing Called Love” (1972 album, featuring the title track; remastered by Dave Gardner; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Org Music)
Various artists | “The Hits Album: The 70’s Love Album” (three CDs, 64 tracks; Amazon UK; Sony Music / Spectrum Music / Universal UK)
Various artists | “NOW 12” 80s: 1984 – Part One” (four CDs, 36 songs; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
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Dedicated to the loving memory of Ginny Galipault