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Nathaniel Rateliff: And It’s Still Alright

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On February 14, 2020, “Stax” label released “And It’s Still Alright”, the third Nathaniel Rateliff studio album. It was recorded 2019 -2020, at “National Freedom” in Cottage Grove, Oregon, “Broken Creek” in Littleton, Colorado, “Crown Lane Studios” in Denver, and was produced by Patrick Meese, James Barone and Nathaniel Rateliff.

Personnel:

  • Nathaniel Rateliff – vocals, acoustic slide and electric guitar, bass, congas
  • Luke Mossman – electric guitar
  • Daniel Creamer – organ, mellotron, piano
  • Eric Swanson – pedal steel 
  • Elijah Thomson – bass 
  • Patrick Meese – drums, percussion, vibraphone, bass, keyboards, piano, theravox, synths, backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • James Barone – noise synth, engineer, mixing
  • Cat Martino – backing vocals
  • Elizabeth Ziman – backing vocals
  • Joanna Schubert – backing vocals
  • Kelly Winrich – additional recording
  • Joshua Block – additional recording
  • Chris Colbert – mastering
  • Rett Rogers – design, photography
  • Emily Philpott – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Nathaniel Rateliff.

  1. What a Drag
  2. And It’s Still Alright
  3. All or Nothing
  4. Expecting to Lose
  5. Tonight No. 2
  6. Mavis
  7. You Need Me
  8. Time Stands
  9. Kissing Our Friends
  10. Ruch On

Mucc: Kowareta Piano to Living Dead

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On February 13, 2020, “Danger Crue” label released “Kowareta Piano to Living Dead”, the fourteenth Mucc studio album. It was recorded in 2019 at “MIt Studio”, “Bazooka Studio”, “Heide Chiyoda Studio”, “Heide Ishioka Studio” and “Six Inc Studio” in Tokyo, and was produced by Miya.

Personnel:

  • Tatsurou – vocals, art direction
  • Miya – guitar, backing vocals, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Yukke – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Satochi – drums, backing vocals
  • Tooru Yoshida – keyboards, piano, organ, photography
  • Miyako – backing vocals
  • Sacchan – backing vocals
  • Sora – backing vocals
  • Yasuyuki Hara – recording
  • Soushi Kaneko, TeruKazu “Teru” Naito – engineer assistant
  • Yasuji “Yasuman” Maeda – mastering
  • Kirari – illustration
  • Taichi Nishimaki – photography
  • Masahiro Oishi – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Miya, except where noted.

  1. Kowareta Piano
  2. Psycho – lyrics by Miya, music by Miya, Yukke
  3. Iris
  4. Vampire
  5. In the Shadows – lyrics by Tatsurou, music by Miya
  6. Dekisou – Tatsurou
  7. Yuri to Tsubasa – lyrics by Tatsurou, Satochi, music by Miya, Satochi
  8. Countdown
  9. Living Dead – Tatsurou

The Pretty Reckless: Death by Rock and Roll

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On February 12, 2021, “Fearless Records” label released “Death by Rock and Roll”, the fourth Pretty Reckless (The) studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, at “London Bridge” in Seattle, Washington, and was produced by Jonathan Wyman, Taylor Momsen, Ben Phillips and Nate Yacchichino.

Personnel:

  • Taylor Momsen – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Ben Phillips – lead guitar, keyboards, piano, backing vocals
  • Mark Damon – bass
  • Jamie Perkins – drums, percussion
  • Kim Thayil – additional guitars 
  • Tom Morello – additional guitars
  • Jonathan Wyman – keyboards, additional guitars, drum programming, engineer, mixing
  • Isaac Phillips – harmonica
  • David Pontbriand – sitar, tanpura
  • Duncan Watt – keyboards, orchestra, organ, piano
  • Matt Cameron – additional drums, additional vocals
  • Sara Hallie Richardson – backing vocals
  • Anna Lombard – backing vocals
  • Sean Kelly – engineer assistant, production technician
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Jay Colangelo – drum technician
  • Neil Hundt – drum technician
  • Adam Larson – package design
  • Danny Hastings – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Taylor Momsen and Ben Phillips.

  1. Death by Rock and Roll
  2. Only Love Can Save Me Now
  3. And So It Went
  4. 25
  5. My Bones
  6. Got So High
  7. Broomsticks
  8. Witches Burn
  9. Standing at the Wall
  10. Turning Gold
  11. Rock and Roll Heaven
  12. Harley Darling

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: New Fragility

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On February 12, 2021, band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah self-released its sixth album “New Fragility”. It was recorded in 2020, at “Ramble Creek Studios” and “Silent Partner Studios”, and was produced by Alec Ounsworth and Will Johnson.

Personnel:

  • Alec Ounsworth – vocals, bass, guitar, piano, engineer
  • Will Johnson – drums, guitar
  • Britton Beisenherz – bass
  • Jonas Oesterle – drums
  • Jaron Olevsky – drums
  • Carlos Santiago – violin
  • Gabriel Miller – violin
  • Veronica Jurkiewicz – viola
  • Carolina Diazgronados – cello
  • Brendan Cooney – string arrangements
  • Matthew Poirier – engineer
  • Britton Beisenherz – engineer
  • John Agnello – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Beth Ounsworth – cover art
  • Claire Kimock – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Alec Ounsworth.

  1. Hesitation Nation
  2. Thousand Oaks
  3. Dee, Forgiven
  4. New Fragility
  5. Innocent Weight
  6. Mirror Song
  7. CYHSY 2005
  8. Where They Perform Miracles
  9. Went Looking for Trouble
  10. If I Were More Like Jesus

Foo Fighters: Medicine at Midnight

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On February 5, 2021, “RCA” and “Roswell Records” label released “Medicine at Midnight”, the tenth Foo Fighters studio album. It was recorded October 2019 – February 2020, in Encino, Los Angeles, and was produced by Greg Kurstin, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.

Personnel:

  • Dave Grohl – lead vocals, guitar
  • Chris Shiflett – guitar
  • Pat Smear – guitar
  • Rami Jaffee – keyboards, piano
  • Nate Mendel – bass guitar
  • Taylor Hawkins – drums
  • Omar Hakim – percussion
  • Jacob Braun – cello
  • Greg Kurstin – strings
  • Alma Fernandez – viola
  • Charlie Bisharat – violin
  • Songa Lee – violin
  • Samantha Sidley – backing vocals
  • Violet Grohl – backing vocals
  • Barbara Gruska – backing vocals
  • Laura Mace – backing vocals
  • Inara George – backing vocals
  • Darrell Thorp – engineer
  • Matt Wolach – engineer, assistant
  • Alex Pasco – engineer assistant
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Randy Merrill – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.

  1. Making a Fire
  2. Shame Shame
  3. Cloudspotter
  4. Waiting on a War
  5. Medicine at Midnight
  6. No Son of Mine
  7. Holding Poison
  8. Chasing Birds
  9. Love Dies Young

Black Country: For the First Time

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On February 5, 2021, “Ninja Tune” label released “For the First Time”, the debut Black Country, New Road studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Andy Savours.

Personnel:

  • Isaac Wood – vocals, lead guitar
  • Luke Mark – guitar
  • May Kershaw – keyboards
  • Georgia Ellery – violin
  • Lewis Evans – saxophone
  • Tyler Hyde – bass
  • Charlie Wayne – drums

Track listing:

  1. Instrumental
  2. Athens, France
  3. Science Fair
  4. Sunglasses
  5. Track X
  6. Opus

Clint Lowery: God Bless the Renegades

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On January 31, 2020, “Rise” label released “God Bless the Renegades”, the debut Clint Lowery album. It was recorded in June 2019, at “Studio Barbarosa” in Gotha, Florida, and was produced by Michael “Elvis” Baskette.

Personnel:

  • Clint Lowery – lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar, drums
  • Wolfgang Van Halen – additional drums
  • Michael “Elvis” Baskette – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Clint Lowery.

  1. God the Bless the Renegades
  2. Here
  3. Kings
  4. Alive
  5. What’s the Matter
  6. You Go First
  7. Allowed to Run
  8. Silver Lining
  9. She’s here
  10. Do We Fear God

Steven Wilson: The Future Bites

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On January 29, 2021, “Caroline International” label released “The Future Bites”, the sixth Steven Wilson studio album. It was recorded in 2020, in London, and was produced by Steven Wilson and David Kosten.

Personnel:

  • Steven Wilson – vocals, guitars, keyboards, sampler, bass, percussion, programming
  • David Kosten – synthesizers, drums, programming. engineer, mixing
  • Adam Holzman – keyboards
  • Richard Barbieri – synthesizers
  • Nick Beggs – bass guitar, stick 
  • Michael Spearman – drums, percussion
  • Jason Cooper – cymbals, percussion
  • The London Session Orchestra
  • Elton John – spoken word
  • Blaine Harrison, Jack Flanagan – backing vocals
  • Bobbie Gordon, Crystal Williams, Wendy Harriott, Fyfe Dangerfield, Rotem Wilson – backing vocals
  • Simon Moore – art direction
  • Andrew Hobbs – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Steven Wilson.

  1. Unsell
  2. Self
  3. King Ghost
  4. 12 Things I Forgot
  5. Eminent Sleaze
  6. Man of the People
  7. Personal Shopper
  8. Follower
  9. Count of Unease

The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

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On January 29, 2021, “Flemish Eye Records” label released “The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings”, sixth studio Besnard Lakes (The) album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Rigaud Ranch”, “Breakglass Studios” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek.

Personnel:

  • Jace Lasek – vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, string and horn arrangements, sounds, mixing
  • Olga Goreas – vocals, bass, keyboards, synthesizer, string and horn arrangements, handwritten font
  • Richard White – guitar
  • Robbie MacArthur – electric and 12 string guitars, baritone guitar
  • Sheenah Ko – vocals, keyboards, synthesizer 
  • Kevin Laing – drums, percussion
  • Welkom in De Blaak – organ
  • Joel Campbell – drums
  • Philip Gosselin – mastering
  • Todd Stewart – design
  • Corri-Lynn Tetz – design
  • Dave Thomas – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas.

  1. Blackstrap
  2. Raindrops
  3. Christmas
  4. Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again
  5. Feuds with Guns
  6. The Dark Side of Paradise
  7. New Revolution
  8. The Father of Time Wakes Up
  9. Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

Typhoon: Sympathetic Magic

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On January 22, 2021, “Roll Call Records” label released “Sympathetic Magic”, the fifth Typhoon studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Kyle Morton.

Personnel:

  • Kyle Morton – vocals, guitar, keyboards, synths, drums
  • Shannon Steele – vocals, violin
  • Dave Hall – guitar
  • Toby Tanabe – bass
  • Alex Fitch – drums, percussion
  • Devin Gallagher – kalimba, ukulele, glockenspiel, percussion
  • Eric Stipe – vocals, trumpet
  • Pieter Hilton – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Ben Morton – guitar
  • Jeff Stuart Saltzman – mixing
  • Adam Gonsalves – mastering
  • Jayson Payne – design
  • Tyler Ferrin – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Kyle Morton.

  1. Sine Qua Nonentity
  2. Empire Builder
  3. Motion and Thought
  4. Santos
  5. We’re In It
  6. Two Birds
  7. Evil Vibes
  8. And So What If You Were Right
  9. Time, Time
  10. Room Within the Room
  11. Masochist Ball
  12. Welcome to the Endgame