NEW ALBUMS
ADELE – 30
Adele has been “teasing” 30 since 2019. It was supposed to arrive a year ago but, you know… COVID.
With materials for vinyl albums in short supply lately, one reason it’s said, is this sure-to-debut-at-#1 album has vinyl plants working overtime to 500,000 copies in the surging physical format.
Stream • Columbia • 2021
CONVERGE & CHELSEA WOLFE – BLOODMOON: I
Massachusetts metalcore outfit Converge are releasing their first new album since 2017. Bloodmoon: I is a collaborative effort with sometimes-folk, sometimes-doom metal / sometimes-goth / sometimes-industrial / sometimes all-the-above-at-the-same-time singer, Chelsea Wolfe.
Stream • Epitaph • 2021
THE DARKNESS – MOTORHEART
Queen, AC/DC and Aerosmith-loving British glam rockers, The Darkness release Motorheart this week.
In their review of The Darkness‘ follow up to 2019’s Easter is Cancelled, Kerrang.com says of the new album: “On the scale of rock’n’roll silliness, The Darkness take seventh album Motorheart all the way to 11″.
Stream • Cooking Vinyl Limited • 2021
ELBOW – FLYING DREAM 1
Elbow, the Mercury Prize-winning indie alternative group from England, have released Flying Dream 1; their ninth set of consistently well-written songs since 2001.
Stream • Universal • 2021
EXODUS – PERSONA NON GRATA
It’s been seven years since singer Steve “Zetro” Souza returned to Exodus for Blood In, Blood Out. He continues his third stint with the band with the release of Persona Non Grata.
Stream • Nuclear Blast • 2021
ME AND THAT MAN – NEW MAN, NEW SONGS, SAME SHIT, VOL. 2
Behemoth‘s Adam “Nergal” Darski has brought back his Me And That Man project for album number three, and the sequel to last year’s New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 1.
New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 2 features appearances from Tobias Forge of Ghost (under the alias “Mary Goore”) Blaze Bayley, Lamb of God‘s Randy Blythe, Devin Townsend, Gary Holt of Slayer and Exodus, and many more.
Stream • Napalm • 2021
OASIS – KNEBWORTH 1996
Recorded over two nights in England during their 1996 (What’s the Story) Morning Glory tour, Oasis‘s Knebworth 1996 live album features the eight best songs from their classic Morning Glory album, five from their Definitely Maybe debut, and rounded out with a few B-sides, a Beatles cover, and 2 songs from their (then) upcoming Be Here Now album.
Stream • Big Brother Recordings • 2021
BRIAN WILSON – AT MY PIANO
Brian Wilson‘s At My Piano finds the Beach Boys legend reimagining some of his most iconic compositions in solo, instrumental form. Just Wilson and his piano. 15 tracks featuring “God Only Knows”, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, “Good Vibrations” and more.
Stream • Decca • 2021