Tag Archives: 2016

Skunk Anansie: Anarchytecture

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On January 15, 2016, “earMusic” and “Carosello Records” labels released “Anarchytecture”, the sixth Skunk Anansie studio album. It was recorded in 2015, at “RAK Studios” in London, and was produced by Tom Dalgety.

Personnel:

  • Skin – lead and backing vocals
  • Martin “Ace” Kent – guitar
  • Richard “Cass” Lewis – bass guitar, keyboards
  • Mark Richardson – drums, percussion
  • Pete Davis – keyboards, programming
  • Tom Dalgety – recording
  • Robbie Nelson – engineer
  • Jeremy Wheatley – mixing
  • Ryan Art – artwork
  • No Curves – cover art
  • Emilio Tini – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Skin, Martin Kent, Richard Lewis and Mark Richardson, except where noted.

  1. Love Someone Else – Skin, Martin Buttrich
  2. Victim
  3. Beauty Is Your Curse
  4. Death to the Lovers
  5. In the Back Room
  6. Bullets
  7. That Sinking Feeling
  8. Without You
  9. Suckers!
  10. We Are Flames
  11. I’ll Let You Down

Gone Is Gone: Echolocation

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On January 6, 2017, “Rise Records” label released “Echolocation”, the second Gone Is Gone album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Sencit Music” and “Rock Garden Recording Studio” in Clearwater, Florida, and was produced by Troy Van Leeuwen, Mike Zarin, Troy Sanders and Tony Hajjar.

Personnel:

  • Troy Van Leeuwen – guitar
  • Mike Zarin – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Troy Sanders – lead vocals, bass guitar
  • Tony Hajjar – drums
  • The Budapest Film Orchestra
  • Matthew Janszen – orchestration
  • Dan Byers – recording
  • Axel Marrin – engineer
  • Mike Stern – additional engineering
  • Jared Kvitka – additional engineering
  • Ken Andrews – mixing
  • Dave Greenberg – mastering
  • Lurie Belegurschi – photography

Track listing:

  1. Sentient
  2. Gift
  3. Resurge
  4. Dublin
  5. Ornament
  6. Pawns
  7. Colourfade
  8. Roads
  9. Slow Awakening
  10. Fast Awakening
  11. Resolve
  12. Echolocation

Dr. Dog: Abandoned Mansion

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On November 29, 2014, “We Buy Gold Records” label released “Abandoned Mansion”, the ninth Dr. Dog studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Mt. Slippery Studio” in Clifton Heights, PA, and was produced by Nathan Sabatino.

Personnel:

  • Francis Xavier McElroy – vocals, guitar
  • Scott Anthony McMicken – vocals, guitar
  • Zachery Ulrich Miller – keys
  • Toby Mark Leaman – vocals, bass
  • Eric James Marshall Slick – drums
  • Dimitri Robert Manos – percussion, drums, guitar
  • Conner Gallaher – pedal steel
  • String quartet: Sarah Larsen (viola), Valerie Vuolo (violin), Kaveh Saidi (violin), John Thorell (cello)
  • Sarah Larsen – arrangements
  • Nathan Sabatino – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Francis Xavier McElroy, Scott Anthony McMicken, Zachery Ulrich Miller, Toby Mark Leaman, Eric James Marshall Slick and Dimitri Robert Manos except where noted.

  1. Casual Freefall
  2. Ladada
  3. Jim Song
  4. Survive
  5. I Saw Her for the First Time
  6. Peace of Mind
  7. Could’ve Happened to Me
  8. Both Sides of the Line
  9. I Know
  10. Abandoned Mansion

Dungen: Allas Sak

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On September 25, 2016, “Smalltown Supersound” label released “Allas Sak”, the seventh Dungen album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Kungsten Studios”, “Fashion Police Studios”, and was produced by Mattias Glavå.

Personnel:

  • Gustav Ejstes – vocals, flute, organ, percussion, piano, strings, engineer
  • Reine Fiske – bass guitar, guitar, percussion
  • Mattias Gustavsson – bass guitar
  • Johan Holmegard – drums, percussion
  • Jonas Kullhammar – saxophone, clarinet
  • Sven Johansson – recording
  • Petter Winnberg – recording

Track listing:

All tracks by Gustav Ejstes.

  1. Allas Sak
  2. Sista Festen
  3. Sista Gästen
  4. Franks Kaktus
  5. En Gång Om Året
  6. Åkt Dit
  7. En Dag På Sjön
  8. Flickor Och Pojkar
  9. Ljus In i Min Panna
  10. Sova

Okkervil River: Away

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On September 9, 2016, “ATO” label released “Away”, the eight Okkervil River album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Sabella Recording Studios”, “Seaside Lounge”, “The Reservoir”, “Ring the Alarm”, and was produced by Will Sheff.

Personnel:

  • Will Sheff – vocals, rhythm guitar, Moog synthesizer, keyboards
  • Jesse Marchant – vocals
  • Jonathan Meiburg – vocals
  • Marrisa Nadler – vocals
  • Will Graefe – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Brian Donohoe – upright and electric piano
  • Mick Rossi – piano
  • Noah Garabedian – upright bass
  • Benjamin Lazar David – electric bass
  • Cully Symington – drums, tambourine, shaker
  • José Galeano – congos, bongos, shaker
  • Brittany Anjou – vibraphone
  • Zohra Atash – finger cymbals, coins
  • Alec Spiegelman – saxophone
  • C. J. Camerieri – trumpet
  • Mike Davis – trombone
  • Hideaki Aomori – clarinet
  • Alex Sopp – flute
  • Lauryn Gold – flute
  • Christa Robinson – English horn, oboe
  • David Byrd-Marrow – French horn
  • Laura Lutzke – violin
  • Rob Moose – violin
  • Christina Courtin – viola
  • Gabriel Cabezas – cello
  • Nathan Thatcher – orchestration
  • Phil Palazzolo – engineer
  • Charles Burst – additional engineering
  • James Yost – additional engineering
  • Matt Gerhard – additional engineering
  • Jonathan Wilson – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Will Sheff.

  1. Okkervil River R.I.P.
  2. Call Yourself Renee
  3. The Industry
  4. Comes Indiana Through the Smoke
  5. Judey on a Street
  6. She Would Look for Me
  7. Mary on a Wave
  8. Frontman in Heaven
  9. Days Spent Floating (In the Halfbetween)

Pvris: All We Know of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell

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On August 25, 2017, “Rise” label released “All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell”, the second Pvris studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, at “Big Blue North” in Utica, New York, “Songboi” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Blake Harnage.

Personnel:

  • Lynn Gunn – vocals, guitar, drums, percussion, piano, organ, programming, additional production
  • Alex Babinski – guitar
  • Brian MacDonald – bass
  • Chris Kamrada – drums, percussion
  • Blake Harnage – synthesizers, programming
  • Mikaela Davis – harp
  • Blake Harnage – engineer
  • Anthony Reeder – engineer, editing
  • Jef Moll – drum engineer
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Michael Freeman – assistant
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Jeff Juliano – mixing
  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Jarrod Fallon – drum technician
  • John Colangelo – drum technician
  • Taylor Bringuel – creative direction
  • Lynn Gunn – creative direction, layout, design
  • Randall Leddy – layout, design
  • Andi Elloway – front cover photo, composite

Track listing:

  1. Heaven
  2. Half
  3. Anyone Else
  4. What’s Wrong
  5. Walk Alone
  6. Same Soul
  7. Winter
  8. No Mercy
  9. Separate
  10. Nola I

Everything Everything: A Fever Dream

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On August 18, 2017, “RCA” label released “A Fever Dream”, the fourth Everything Everything studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by James Ford.

Personnel:

  • Jonathan Higgs – vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming, recording, additional engineering
  • Alex Robertshaw – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, recording, additional engineering
  • Jeremy Pritchard – bass guitar, programming, backing vocals, recording, additional engineering
  • Michael Spearman – drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals, recording, additional engineering
  • Jimmy Robertson – engineering
  • Archie Carter, Luke Gibbs, Ben McClusky, Rob Sellens, Chris Taylor – recording assistants
  • Cenzo Townshend – mixing
  • Joe Mortimer – art direction, design, typography
  • Billy Bull – design, typography
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Paul Phung – photography

Track listing:

  1. Night of the Long Knives
  2. Can’t Do
  3. Desire
  4. Big Game
  5. Good Shot, Good Soldier
  6. Run the Numbers
  7. Put Me Together
  8. A Fever Dream
  9. Ivory Tower
  10. New Deep
  11. White Whale

Blossoms: Same

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On August 5, 2016, “Virgin EMI” label released the self-titled, debut Blossoms album. It was recorded in July – December 2014, and was produced by James Skelly and Rich Turvey.  

Personnel:

  • Tom Ogden – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
  • Josh Dewhurst – lead guitar
  • Myles Kellock – keyboards
  • Charlie Salt – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Joe Donovan – drums
  • Rich Turvey – additional keyboards
  • Ian Skelly – percussion
  • James Skelly – backing vocals
  • Marta Salogni – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Salvador Design – design
  • Jenna Foxton – photography
  • Danny North – photography
  • Charlie Salt – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Tom Ogden, Josh Dewhurst, Charlie Salt, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock

  1. Charlemagne
  2. At Most a Kiss
  3. Getaway
  4. Honey Sweet
  5. Onto Her Bad
  6. Texia
  7. Blown Rose
  8. Smashed Pianos
  9. Cut Me and I’ll Bleed
  10. My Favorite Room
  11. Blow
  12. Deep Grass

In This Moment: Ritual

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In July 21, 2017, “Atlantic” and “Roadrunner” labels released “Ritual”, the sixth In This Moment studio album.  It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by Kevin Churko.

Personnel:

  • Maria Brink – vocals
  • Chris Howorth – lead guitar
  • Randy Weitzel – rhythm guitar
  • Travis Johnson – bass
  • Kent Diimmell – drums
  • Rob Halford – guest vocals
  • Scott Stevens – piano
  • Kevin Churko – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • Tristan Hardin – additional engineering
  • Josh Connolly – additional engineering
  • Khloe Churko – studio management and coordination
  • Randy Weitzel – pre-production
  • Virgilio Tzaj – art direction, design
  • Jason Blake – photography

Track listing:

 All tracks by Maria Brink, Chris Howorth, and Kevin Churko, except where noted.

  1. Salvation
  2. Oh Lord
  3. Black Wedding – Maria Brink, Chris Howorth, Kevin Churko, Johnny Andrews
  4. In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins
  5. Joan of Arc – Maria Brink, Chris Howorth, Kevin Churko, Johnny Andrews
  6. River of Fire
  7. Witching Hour
  8. Twin Flames – Maria Brink, Chris Howorth, Kevin Churko, Randy Weitzel
  9. Half God Half Devil – Maria Brink, Chris Howorth, Kevin Churko, Dave Bassett
  10. No Me Importa
  11. Roots
  12. Lay Your Gun Down

MisterWives: Connect the Dots

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On May 19, 2017, “Photo Finish” and “Republic Records” labels released “Connect the Dots”, the second MisterWives studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Rubyred Productions” in California, “DB Studios” in New York, and was produced by Butch Walker and Etienne Bowler.

Personnel:

  • Mandy Lee – lead vocals
  • Marc Campbell – lead guitar, gang vocals
  • Jesse Blum – keyboards, synthesizer, piano, gang vocals
  • William Hehir – bass guitar, gang vocals
  • Butch Walker – keyboards, synthesizer, gang vocals, programming, recording
  • Etienne Bowler – drums, percussion, synthesizer, gang vocals, programming
  • Todd Stopera – recording
  • Neal Avron – mixing
  • Joe Spix – art direction, design
  • Viktoriya Tsoy – design
  • Matt Burnette-Lemon – package production
  • Mary Ellen Matthews – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mandy Lee, except where noted.

  1. Machine – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  2. Chasing This
  3. Only Human
  4. Drummer Boy
  5. Revolution
  6. My Brother
  7. Out of Tune Piano – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  8. Band Camp – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler, Marc Campbell
  9. Let the Light In – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  10. Coloring Outside the Lines – Mandy Lee, Marc Campbell
  11. Oh Love