Tag Archives: 2012

Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Big Moon Ritual

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On June 5, 2012, “Silver Arrow Records” label released “Big Moon Ritual”, the debut Chris Robinson Brotherhood studio album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Sunset Sound” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tom Mohanan.

Personnel:

  • Chris Robinson – lead vocals, guitar
  • Neal Casal – vocals, guitar
  • Adam MacDougall – vocals, keyboards
  • Mark Dutton – vocals, bass
  • George Sluppick – drums
  • Thom Monahan – engineer, mixing
  • Nicolas Essig – assistant
  • Geoff Neal – assistant
  • Bruno Borges – artwork
  • Alan Forbes – artwork 

Track listing:

All tracks by Chris Robinson, except where noted.

  1. Tulsa Yesterday – Chris Robinson, Neal Casal
  2. Rosalee
  3. Star or Stone
  4. Tomorrow Blues
  5. Reflections on a Broken Mirror
  6. Beware, Oh Take Care – Chris Robinson, Neal Casal
  7. One Hundred Days of Rain – Chris Robinson, Neal Casal

Japandroids: Celebration Rock

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On June 5, 2012, “Polyvinyl” label released “Celebration Rock”, the second Japandroids studio album. It was recorded 2010 – 2011, at “The Hive Creative Labs” in Vancouver, and was produced by Brian King and David Prowse.

Personnel:

  • Brian King – lead vocals, guitar
  • David Prowse – drums, backing vocals
  • Jesse Gander – engineer, mixing
  • Alan Douches – mastering
  • Reiner Asscheman – photography
  • Brian Banks – photography
  • Annika Berglund – photography 
  • Christian Bobak – photography 
  • Simone Cecchetti – photography
  • Andy Collins – photography 
  • Sam Cowling – photography
  • Geoff Hargadon – photography 
  • Andy Mueller – photography 
  • Tom Øverlie – photography
  • Leonardo Solis Varela – photography
  • Maryanne Ventrice – photography 
  • Charlotte Zoller – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Brian King and David Prowse, except where noted.

  1. The Nights of Wine and Roses
  2. Fire’s Highway
  3. Evil’s Sway
  4. For the Love of Ivy – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Kid Congo Powers
  5. Adrenaline Nightshift
  6. Younger Us
  7. The House That Heaven Built
  8. Continuous Thunder

The Proclaimers: Like Comedy

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On May 7, 2012, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “Like Comedy”, the ninth Proclaimers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Steve Evans.

Personnel:

  • Craig Reid – vocals
  • Charlie Reid – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Jerry Crozier Cole – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Zac Ware – mandolin
  • David Macnab – banjo
  • Steve Evans – electric and bass guitars, piano, drums
  • Conor Breen – double bass
  • Clive Jenner – drums
  • Katie Stone Lonergan – violin
  • Beth Porter – cello
  • Steve Evans – string arrangements, additional programming
  • Tom Dalgety – additional programming
  • Lewis MacDonald – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Craig Reid and Charlie Reid.

  1. Whatever You’ve Got
  2. Simple Things
  3. Spinning Around in the Air
  4. After You’re Gone
  5. Women and Wine
  6. There’s
  7. The Thought of You
  8. Like Comedy
  9. Dance with Me
  10. Wherever You Roam
  11. I Think That’s What I Believe
  12. A Mix

Keane: Strangeland

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On May 4, 2012, “Island” label released “Strangeland”, the fourth Keane studio album. It was recorded 2011-2012, at “Sea Fog Studios” in East Sussex, England, “RAK Studios” and “Air Lyndhurst Hall” in London, and was produced by Dan Grech-Marquerat.

Personnel:

  • Tom Chaplin – vocal, guitar
  • Tim Rice-Oxley – vocals, keyboards, bass
  • Jesse Quinn – vocals, bass, keyboards
  • Richard Hughes – drums
  • Dave Fridmann – additional programming
  • Dan Grech-Marguerat – engineer, mixing
  • Liam Burn – engineer
  • Tom Hough – engineer
  • Will Fenlon – engineer
  • Alfie Grant – engineer assistant
  • Duncan Fuller – mixing assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Jesse Quinn and Richard Hughes.

  1. You Are Young
  2. Silenced by the Night
  3. Disconnected
  4. Watch How You Go
  5. Sovereign Light Café
  6. On the Road
  7. The Starting Line
  8. Black Rain
  9. Neon River
  10. Day Will Come
  11. In Your Own Time
  12. Sea Fog

Mark Kozelek And Jimmy LaValle: Perils From The Sea

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On April 30, 2013, “Caldo Verde” label released “Perils from the Sea”, album by Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle. It was recorded 2012 – 2013, and was produced by Mark Kozalek and Jimmy LaValle.

Personnel:

  • Mark Kozelek – vocals, photography
  • Jimmy LaValle – recording
  • Marcel Gemperli – strings
  • Peter Broderick – strings
  • Vanessa Ruotolo – strings
  • Aaron Prellwitz – vocals recording, mixing
  • Gabe Shepard – vocals recording
  • Nathan Winter – vocals recording
  • Et Cetera – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Mark Kozelek, all music by Jimmy LaValle.

  1. What Happened to My Brother
  2. 1936
  3. Gustavo
  4. Baby in Death Can I Rest Next to Your Grave
  5. Ceiling Gazing
  6. You Missed My Heart
  7. Caroline
  8. He Always Felt Like Dancing
  9. By the Time That I Awoke
  10. Here Come More Perils from the Sea
  11. Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails

Mystery Jets: Radlands

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On April 30, 2012, “Rough Trade” label released “Radlands”, the fourth Mystery Jets studio album. It was recorded in a home studio in the Westlake area in Austin, Texas, “Vinter’s” in London, and was produced by Dan Carey, Richie Cooper, Blaine Harrison, Jack Flanagan and Kapil Trivedi.

Personnel:

  • Blaine Harrison – vocals, guitar, keyboards, photography
  • Jack Flanagan – vocals, bass, photography
  • Kapil Trivedi – drums, photography
  • Matt Park – pedal steel guitar
  • Fred Stitz – dobro 
  • H. Harrison – art direction, cover photography
  • The Streatham Gospel Singers
  • Sophie-Rose Harper – vocal
  • Alexis Smith, Mr. Dan – engineer
  • Oli Baiston – engineer assistant
  • Alexis Smith, Dan Carey – mixing
  • Alison Fielding – design
  • Benedict Morgan – photography
  • Tabitha Denholm – photography

Track listing:

  1. Radlands
  2. You Had Me at Hello
  3. Someone Purer
  4. The Ballad of Emerson Lonestar
  5. Greatest Hits
  6. The Hale Bop
  7. The Nothing
  8. Take Me Where the Roses Grow
  9. Sister Everett
  10. Lost in Austin
  11. Luminescence

Lori McKenna: Massachusetts

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On April 23, 2013, “Signature Records” label released “Massachusetts”, the seventh Lori McKenna studio album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Mark Erelli.

Personnel:

  • Lori McKenna – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Rose Cousins – vocals 
  • Mike Viola – vocals, recording
  • Mark Erelli – vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, percussion
  • Jamie Edwards – piano, organ, keyboards, electric guitar, recording
  • Paul Kochanski – electric bass, electric upright bass
  • John Sands – drums, percussion
  • Jake Armerding – fiddle
  • Chris Rival – recording, mixing
  • Dave McNair – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Salt
  2. My Love Follows You Where You Go
  3. Susanna
  4. Smaller and Smaller – Barry Dean
  5. Make Every Word Hurt
  6. Shake
  7. How Romantic is That
  8. Shouting
  9. Better with Time
  10. Take Me with You When You Go
  11. Love Can Put It Back Together
  12. Grown up Now

Dave Douglas: Riverside

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On April 15, 2014, “Greenleaf” label released “Riverside”, the 39th Dave Douglas album. It was recorded in August 2012, at “Humber College Recording Studio” in Toronto, and was produced by Chet Doxas and Dave Douglas.

Personnel:

  • Dave Douglas – trumpet
  • Chet Doxas – clarinet, saxophone
  • Steve Swallow – electric bass
  • Jim Doxas – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Douglas, except where noted.

  1. Thrush
  2. The Train and the River – Jimmy Giuffre
  3. Old Church, New Paint (Intro) – Chet Doxas
  4. Old Church, New Paint – Chet Doxas
  5. Handwritten Letter
  6. Big Shorty – Chet Doxas
  7. Front Yard
  8. Backyard
  9. No Good Without You
  10. Travelin’ Light – Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Mercer
  11. Sing on the Mountain High/Northern Miner – Chet Doxas

Kishi Bashi: 151a

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On April 10, 2012, “Joyful Boise Recordings” label released “151a”, the debut Kishi Bashi album. It was recorded 2011 -2012, at “Home Studios” in Norfolk, VA, “Apollinaire Rave”, “Chase Park Transduction”, “Yoed’s Apartment Studios”, and was produced by Kishi Bashi.

Personnel:

  • Kishi Bashi (Kaoru Ishibashi) – vocal, guitar, violin, keyboards, programming, mixing, mastering
  • Bryan Poole – guitar
  • James Huggins III – guitar
  • Thayer Serrano – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards
  • Nicolas Dobbratz – tambourine
  • Dottie Alexander – keyboards
  • Clayton Rychlik – percussion
  • Davey Pierce – synth, snare
  • Nick Gould – saxophone
  • Yoed Nir – cello
  • Jarrod Fowler – instruments
  • Sola Ravel – Asian child sounds
  • The Athens Biohazard Manplayers – vocals, handclaps
  • Drew Vandenberg – mixing
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • David J. Woodruff – artwork
  • Jerrod Landon Porter – artwork
  • Woodruff & Sons – layout
  • Katie Belle Moore – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kishi Bashi.

  1. Intro / Pathos, Pathos
  2. Manchester
  3. Bright Whites
  4. It All Began with a Burst
  5. Wonder Woman, Wonder Me
  6. Chester’s Burst Over the Hamptons
  7. Atticus, In the Desert
  8. I Am the Antichrist to You
  9. Beat the Bright Out of Me

BadBadNotGood: BBNG2

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On April 3, 2012, BadBadNotGood self – released “BBNG2”, bands second album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Revolution Recording” in Toronto, and was produced by Matthew A. Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alexander Sowinski.

Personnel:

  • Matthew A. Tavares – piano, electric piano, synthesizer, arrangements, mixing, mastering
  • Chester Hansen – acoustic and electric bass, arrangements
  • Alexander Sowinski – drums, sampler, arrangements
  • Luan Phung – electric guitar
  • Leland Whitty – saxophone
  • Jack Clow – engineer
  • Matt MacNeill – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • Connor Olthuis – artwork, photography
  • Sam Zaret – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Matthew A. Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alexander Sowinski, except where noted.

  1. Earl – Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  2. Vices
  3. Rotten Decay
  4. Limit to Your Love – Leslie Feist
  5. Bastard / Lemonade – Tyler Gregory Okonma
  6. CHSTR
  7. UWM
  8. DMZ
  9. CMYK – James Blake
  10. Flashing Light – Kanye West
  11. You Made Me Realize – Kevin Patrick Shields