Tag Archives: 2019

Dune Rats: Hurry Up and Wait

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On January 31, 2020, Dune Rats self-released “Hurry Up and Wait”, the second band’s album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Mitch Kenny, James Tidswell, Danny Beus, Brett Jansch, BC Michaels and John Feldman.

Personnel:

  • Danny Beus – vocals, guitar
  • Brett Jansch – bass, backing vocals
  • BC Michaels – drums, backing vocals
  • Mitch Kenny – engineer
  • Kris Crummett – mastering
  • Lee McConnell – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks Danny Beus, Brett Jansch and BC Michaels.

  1. Intro
  2. Bobby D
  3. Rubber Arm
  4. No Plans
  5. Rock Bottom
  6. Crazy
  7. Patience
  8. Bad Habits
  9. Stupid Is as Stupid Does
  10. If My Bong Could Talk
  11. The Skids
  12. Mountain Come and go But Aussie Pub Rock Lives On (Forever)

Blossoms: Foolish Loving Spaces

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On January 31, 2020, “Virgin EMI” label released “Foolish Loving Spaces”, the third Blossoms studio album. It was recorded May – December 2019, at “Parr Street Studios” in Liverpool, and was produced by James Skelly and Rich Turvey.

Personnel:

  • Josh Dewhurst – lead guitar, lap steel guitar 
  • Tom Ogden – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano 
  • Myles Kellock – keyboards
  • Charlie Salt – bass guitar, Moog bass, backing vocals 
  • Joe Donovan – drums, percussion
  • Rich Turvey – piano, additional keyboards
  • Ian Skelly – additional percussion
  • Zak McDonnell – cymbal, clapping 
  • Kristopher Bradford – clapping 
  • James Skelly – backing vocals 
  • Kim Wedderburne – backing vocals
  • Mica Townsend – backing vocals 
  • Yvonne Shelton – backing vocals
  • Ben Claughan – engineer
  • Kristopher Bradford – engineer
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Kennie Takahashi – mixing
  • Leo Villareal – artwork
  • Erik Djurklou – photography
  • Ewan Ogden – photography

Track listing:

  1. If You Think This is Real Life
  2. Your Girlfriend
  3. The Keeper
  4. My Swimming Brain
  5. Sunday Was a Friend of Mine
  6. Oh No (I Think I’m in Love)
  7. Romance, Eh?
  8. My Vacant Days
  9. Falling for Someone
  10. Like Gravity

Nektar: The Other Side

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On January 24, 2020, “Esoteric Antenna” label released “The Other Side”, the 15th Nektar album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Shorefire Recording Studios” in Long Branch, NJ, and was produced by Benjamin Meade.

Personnel:

  • Ryche Chlanda – vocals, guitar
  • Kendall Scott – keyboards, synth 
  • Randy Dembo – twelve string guitar, bass
  • Derek Moore – vocals, bass, liner notes
  • Ron Howden – vocals, drums
  • Roye Albrighton – guitar
  • Joe DeMaio – engineer
  • Vinny Schmid – recording
  • Leon Zervos – mastering
  • Helmut Wenske – cover art
  • Jay Petsko – design, photography
  • Mick Brockett – visual concept, liner notes
  • Ed Igoe – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. I’m on Fire
  2. Skywriter
  3. Love Is / The Other Side
  4. Drifting
  5. Devil’s Door
  6. The Light Beyond
  7. Look Thru Me
  8. Y Can’t I B More Like U

 

Wire: Mind Hive

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On January 24, 2020, “Pinkflag” label released “Mind Hive”, the seventeenth Wire studio album. It was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Rockfield Studios” in Rockfield, Wales, “Swim Studios” in London, and was produced by Colin Newman.

Personnel:

  • Colin Newman – lead vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, keyboards, stylophone, mixing
  • Matthew Simms – guitar, synths, organ, effects, additional engineering
  • Graham Lewis – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer, effects
  • Robert Grey – drums, cymbals
  • Sean Douglas – organ, engineer
  • Harald Pettersson – hurdy gurdy
  • Denis Blackham – mastering
  • Jon Wozencroft – art direction, photography

Track listing:

  1. Be Like Them
  2. Cactused
  3. Primed and Ready
  4. Off the Beach
  5. Unrepentant
  6. Shadows
  7. Oklahoma
  8. Hung
  9. Humming

Weezer: Same

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On January 24, 2019, “Crush Music” and “Atlantic” labels released the self-titled, twelfth Weezer studio album (known as Teal Album). It was recorded in 2018, and was produced by Mark Rankin, Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bell and Scott Shriner.

Personnel:

  • Rivers Cuomo – lead and backing vocals, lead guitar, piano, keyboards
  • Brian Bell – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
  • Scott Shriner – bass, backing vocals
  • Patrick Wilson – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Mark Rankin – engineer, mixing
  • Jason Clark – engineer
  • Suzy Shinn – vocal engineer
  • Eric Boulanger – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Africa – David Paich, Jeff Porcaro
  2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes
  3. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Annie Lennox, David A. Stewart
  4. Take on Me – Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar
  5. Happy Together – Alan Gordon, Garry Bonner
  6. Paranoid – Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osborne, Bill Ward
  7. Mr. Blue Sky – Jeff Lynne
  8. Np Scrubs – Kevin Briggs, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, Lisa Lopes
  9. Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
  10. Stand by Me – Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

David Crosby

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On January 19, 2023, David Van Cortlandt Crosby died aged 81. He was musician (guitar), singer and songwriter, regarded as one of the most influential artists who helped shape the sound of Sixties rock music. Crosby was founding member of The Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and CPR, and was member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Crosby performed and recorded with Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dave Mason, Rick Roberts, Art Garfunkel, Carole King, Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis, Gary Wright, Elton John, J. D. Souther, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Michael League, Chris Thile, Hot Tuna, Phil Collins, Lucinda Williams, Indigo Girls, David Gilmour and John Mayer. Crosby was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” twice: once as member of The Byrds and again as member of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Five albums to which he contributed are included in Rolling Stone’s magazine list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2019 documentary “David Crosby: Remember My Name” was produced by Cameron Crowe. As leader Crosby released eight albums.  

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

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On January 17, 2020, “Dine Alone” label released “X: The Godless Void and Other Stories”, the tenth …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead studio album. It was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Mosaic Sound Collective”, “Scary American”, ”The Henhouse Studio”, “The Library Studios” in Nashville, and was produced by Charles Godfrey and Conrad Keely.

Personnel:

  • Jason Reece – drums, guitar
  • Conrad Keely – vocals, guitar, artwork, design
  • Aaron Blount – guitar
  • Autry Fulbright II – bass guitar
  • Jamie Miller – drums, percussion
  • Krystal Morris – vocal, percussion
  • Cully Symington – drums
  • Will Courtney – backing vocals
  • Charles Godfrey – recording
  • Rich Mendez – pre-production assistant
  • Peter Van ‘t Riet – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Jason Reece and Conrad Keely.

  1. The Opening Crescendo
  2. All Who Wander
  3. Something Like This
  4. Into the Godless Void
  5. Don’t Look Down
  6. Gone
  7. Children of the Sky
  8. Who Haunts the Haunter
  9. Eyes of the Overworld
  10. Gravity
  11. Blade of the Wind
  12. Through the Sunlit Door

Cory Wong: Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood

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On January 10, 2020, Cory Wong self-released “Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood”, his fifth studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Cory Wong.

Personnel:

  • Cory Wong – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, synth, percussion, mixing
  • Phoebe Katis – vocal
  • Claire Wong – vocal
  • Ellie Wong – vocal
  • Rachel Mazer – vocal
  • Cody Fry – lead vocals, piano, electric piano, synth
  • Kevin Gastonguay – organ, piano, electric piano, keyboards, synth
  • Marti Fischer – keyboards, synth
  • Ben Rector – electric piano
  • Ricky Peterson – organ
  • Seth Tackaberry – bass
  • Kevin MacIntire – bass
  • Jim Anton – bass
  • Sonny Thompson – bass
  • Nate Smith – drums
  • Jordan Rose – drums
  • Steve Goold – drums
  • Petar Janjić – drums
  • Aaron Sterling – loops
  • Dave Koz – alto saxophone
  • Kenny Holman – saxophone
  • Sam Greenfield – tenor saxophone
  • Jake Baldwin – trumpet
  • Matt Salazar – trumpet
  • Steve Strand – trumpet
  • Michael Nelson – trombone
  • Ian Gray – trombone
  • Alison Comerford – violin, viola
  • Michael Nelson – horns arrangements
  • Bill Palmer, Chris Allen, Christian Thomas, John Fields, Matt Patrick – engineer
  • John Fields – engineer, mixing
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Sebastian White – artwork, design

Track listing:

  1. Golden – Cory Wong, Cody Fry, Marti Fischer
  2. Airplane Mode – Cory Wong
  3. Restoration – Cory Wong
  4. Treehouse – Cory Wong, Phoebe Katis
  5. Meditation – Cory Wong
  6. Team Sports – Cory Wong
  7. Winslow – Cody Wong
  8. Watercolours – Cody Wong
  9. Takeoff – Rachel Mazer, Cody Wong, Robbie Wulfsohn
  10. Julia – Cory Wong, Kevin Gastonguay
  11. BBC News – Cory Wong

Alexandra Savior: The Archer

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On January 10, 2020, “30th Century Records” label released “The Archer”, the second Alexandra Savior studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Sam Cohen.

Personnel:

  • Alexandra Savior – vocal, guitar

Track listing:

All tracks by Alexandra Savior.

  1. Soft Currents
  2. Saving Grace
  3. Crying All the Time
  4. Howl
  5. Send Her Back
  6. Can’t Help Myself
  7. The Phantom
  8. Bad Disease
  9. But You
  10. The Archer

Passenger: Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted

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On January 8, 2021, “Black Crow Records” label released “Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted”, the twelfth Passenger studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2021, at “Black Crow Studios”, and was produced by Chris Vallejo.

Personnel:

  • Passenger (Michael Rosenberg) – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Benjamin Edgar – acoustic, electric and baritone guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, cittern
  • Andrew Phillips – electric guitar, additional engineering
  • Jon Solo – piano, electric piano, organ, mellotron, additional engineering
  • Owen Parker – piano, Hammond organ, additional engineering
  • Chris Vallejo – bass, engineer, mixing
  • Jerry Meehan – bass 
  • Rob Calder – bass
  • Karl Brazil – drums, percussion
  • Peter Marin – drums, percussion
  • Kristy Mangan – violin, viola
  • Charlotte Jacke – cello
  • Ross Irwin – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Georgia Mooney – backing vocals
  • Ross Irwin – strings and brass arrangements
  • Matt Fury – engineer and mixing assistant
  • Ben Edgar – additional engineering
  • Sarah Larnach – art direction, artwork, design
  • Joe Rubel – additional production

Track listing:

All tracks by Mike Rosenberg.

  1. Sword from the Stone
  2. Tip of My Tongue
  3. What You’re Waiting For
  4. The Way That I Love You
  5. Remember to Forget
  6. Sandstorm
  7. A Song for the Drunk and Broken Hearted
  8. Suzanne
  9. Nothing Aches Like a Broken Heart
  10. London in the Spring