NEW RELEASES 2015 WEEK #20 MAY 19, 2015

MAY 19, 2015 (WEEK # 20)

1.    BHI BHIMAN-“RHYTHM & REASON” (5/19)

2.    NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS-“FAR FROM MEN” (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK RECORDING) (5/19)

3.    CEREMONY-“THE L-SHAPED MAN” (5/19)

4.    DUKE SPECIAL-“LOOK OUT MACHINES!” (5/19) 

5.    EKOPLEKZ-“REFLEKZIONZ” (5/19)

6.    FAITH NO MORE-“SOL INVICTUS” (5/19)

7.    FOOL’S GOLD-“FLYING LESSONS” (5/19)

8.    LAURENT GARNIER-“LA HOME BOX” (5/18)

9.    THEA GILMORE-“GHOSTS & GRAFFITI” [DELUXE EDITION 2-CD] (5/19) 

10. GIRLS NAMES-“ZERO TRIPTYCH” (5/19)

11. THE HELIO SEQUENCE-“THE HELIO SEQUENCE” (5/19)

12. RICH HOPKINS & LUMINARIOS-“ENCHANTED ROCK” (5/19)

13. HOT CHIP-“WHY MAKE SENSE?” (5/19)

14. JOANNA GRUESOME-“PEANUT BUTTER” (5/19) 

15. GRACE JONES-“DISCO” [3-CD BOX SET] (5/19) 

16. KERRIER DISTRICT-“#4” (5/19)

17. AMY LAVERE & WILL SEXTON-“HALLELUJAH I’M A DREAMER” (5/19)

18. LOOPER-“OFFGRID: OFFLINE” (5/19) 

19. LYDIA LUNCH RETROVIRUS-“URGE TO KILL” (5/22) (***No Wave iconoclast and Big Sexy Noise-queen LYDIA LUNCH, in conspiracy with Herculean guitarist WEASEL WALTER (THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS), fret-destroying bassist TIM DAHL (CHILD ABUSE) and legendary skinsbasher BOB BERT (SONIC YOUTH, PUSSY GALORE) unleash Urge To Kill--the follow up to 2013's face-melting live recording by this deadly combo called RETROVIRUS. Recorded live in studio by engineer COLIN MARSTON (Gorguts, Behold The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia) on one afternoon in November 2014, Urge To Kill stomps new life into classics from Lydia's immense and darkly evocative catalog, with no material repeated from the live debut. Included are re-invigorated re-imaginings of songs like "Snakepit Breakdown" and "Lock Your Door" from 13.13. (1981), "Fields of Fire" and "Three Kings" from Honeymoon in Red (1987), the Rowland S. Howard slow-scorcher "Still Burning," "Some Boys" from In Limbo (1984), "Tied and Twist" from Queen of Siam (1980) as well as a gloriously manic reworking of Suicide's seminal shriek, "Frankie Teardrop.")

20. MARCHING CHURCH (ICEAGE FRONTMAN ELIAS BENDER RONNENFELT’S SOLO DEBUT)-“THIS WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH” (5/19) (Since 2010, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage, Vår) has used the Marching Church moniker to a variety of musical ends, both live and recorded. However, the project as it exists on This World Is Not Enough wasn't born until November 2013. With a live performance looming and no real idea what the set would be, Rønnenfelt found a new vision for the band while daydreaming at a gig at the venue where Marching Church was set to perform. "What I pictured was me in a comfortable armchair, adorned in a golden robe, leading a band while a girl kept pouring me champagne when I required it," Rønnenfelt explained. "This raised the question, 'What sort of music would go along with this picture?'" ) (.64 MP3MILLION)

21. THE MILK CARTON KIDS-“MONTEREY” (5/19) 

22. JIM O’ROURKE-“SIMPLE SONGS”  (5/19) (***2015, and the silence has been broken with Simple Songs. JIM O'ROURKE is ready to talk to you again. First, he wants you to know he's not dead--yet. But you're not, either--and really, what have you done lately? Certainly not made your first pop album since 2001--and even if you had, it probably wasn't any good. Meanwhile Simple Songs is more than just a first of anything since whenever! It's an amazing record of musical song entertainment--because Jim O'Rourke knows what he wants and how to get it.--musically, that is. The rest of the world is still a mystery and a bottomless source of aggravation for the old boy. What do we care? We get a great new album out of it. Yes, Simple Songs is an album of songs sung by Jim O'Rourke all the way through! It has been ten years since Jim's voice rang out from a new album. What Simple Songs sounds like.... At this point, the range of sounds and songs that have turned Jim's head are numerous enough to have crushed together into something that is unmistakably his--the vast, glossy and glittering O'Rourkian (yes, like Kervorkian) wall of sound. The music's got OCD quality, played so immaculately by so many instruments, and most of them by the creator's hand. This time's really the widest screen yet for Jim's popular song-style, truly breathtaking!)

23. GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR-“MYSTERY GLUE” (5/19)

24. TODD RUNDGREN-“GLOBAL” [DELUXE EDITION] (5/19) 

25. TANLINES-“HIGHLIGHTS” (5/19) (Highlights, the band’s first collection of new material since their critically-lauded debut, Mixed Emotions, in 2012, began in a basement in Pittsburgh and ended in a church in Brooklyn. It trades world music sounds for a more alive, realized approach, the result of Emm and Cohen knowing they wanted to break from their ‘two guys, one screen’ writing style. Influenced by their time spent on the road touring Mixed Emotions, primarily in the States, they reached for the sounds of 90’s New York hip-hop drums, Detroit techno synths, and lots and lots of guitars. The result could almost be called an homage to the sonics of America, if that sort of phrase wouldn’t make the band cringe. Instead, let’s just call Highlights “the album where things started making more sense.” Between working in Los Angeles with producer Patrick Ford, and their hometown of New York City with Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) in his 100 year-old church studio, they eventually settled on the ten songs that make up the record. Highlights is like a renaissance for a band that began in 2008 as a one-off remix project. The upbeat dancefloor-ready tracks are imbued with colors and emotional range that go much deeper than ever before, with Emm’s vocals and lyrics, at once personal and observational, taking center stage.)

26. JANE WEAVER-THE AMBER LIGHT” (5/19) 

27. PAUL WELLER-“SATURN’S PATTERN” (5/19)