Tag Archives: 2020

Lonely The Brave: The Hope List

On January 22, 2021, “Easy Life” label released “The Hope List”, the third Lonely the Brave studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Jack Bennett.

Personnel:

  • Jack Bennett – vocals, mixing
  • Mark Trotter – lead guitar
  • Ross Smithwick – rhythm guitar
  • Andrew Bushen – bass
  • Gavin Edgeley – drums
  • Robin Schmidt – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Bound
  2. Distant Light
  3. Bright Eyes
  4. Chasing Knives
  5. The Hope List
  6. Keeper
  7. Untitled
  8. Something I Said
  9. Open Door
  10. Your Heavy Heart
  11. The Harrow

Dale Crover: Rat-A-Tat-Tat

On January 15, 2021, “Joyful Noise Recordings” label released “Rat-A-Tat-Tat”, the fourth Dale Crover album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Sound of Sirens Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Toshi Kasai and Dale Crover.

Track listing:

  • Dale Crover – vocals, guitar, vibraphone, drums, percussion
  • Toshi Kasai – keyboards, synths, Jews harp, backing vocals, recording, mixing
  • Dan Southwick – bass
  • Steve McDonald – bass
  • Mindee Jorgensen – saxophone, drums
  • John Golden – mastering
  • Mackie Osborne – artwork
  • King Buzzo – photography

All tracks by Dale Crover, except where noted.

  1. Moclips
  2. I Can’t Help You There
  3. Tougher – Toshi Kasai
  4. Stumbler
  5. Shark Like Overbite
  6. Supine Is How I Found Him
  7. I’ll Never Say
  8. New Pharaoh
  9. Untrue Crime
  10. The Bowie Mix
  11. Piso Mojado
  12. Kiss Proof World
  13. Swiss Triplets

Chelsea Wolfe: The Grime And The Glow

On December 28, 2020, “Pendu Sound” label released “The Grime and the Glow”, the debut Chelsea Wolfe studio album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, and was produced by Chelsea Wolfe.

Personnel:

  • Chelsea Wolfe – vocals, guitar
  • Kevin Dockter – lead guitar
  • Ben Chisholm – piano
  • Addison Quarles – bass guitar
  • Drew Walker – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Chelsea Wolfe.

  1. Advice & Vices
  2. Cousins of the Antichrist
  3. Moses
  4. Deep Talks
  5. Fang
  6. Benjamin
  7. The Whys
  8. Nnorus
  9. Halfsleeper
  10. Bounce House demons
  11. Widow

Kashiwa Daisuke: Program Music III

On December 19, 2020, “Virgin Babylon” label released “Program Music III”, album by Kashiwa Daisuke.  

Personnel:

  • Kashiwa Daisuke – acoustic and electric guitar, mixing, mastering
  • Piana – vocals
  • Shadi – rap
  • Hiromi Kurosaki – piano
  • Hiroki Chiba – contrabass, electric bass
  • Yu Ojima – drums
  • Atowa Yuri – violin
  • Yamaguchi Housui – artwork

Track listing:

All lyrics by Shadi, all music by Kashiwa Daisuke.

  1. Sons
  2. Talion

Vince Clarke: Songs Of Silence

On November 17, 2023, “Mute” label released “Songs of Silence”, the third Vince Clarke studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2023, and was produced by Vince Clarke.

Personnel:

  • Vince Clarke – modular synthesizer, mixing
  • Stefan Betke – mastering
  • Paul A. Taylor – art direction
  • Eugene Richards – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Vince Clarke, except where noted.

  1. Cathedral
  2. White Rabbit
  3. Passage
  4. Imminent
  5. Red Planet
  6. The Lamentations of Jeremiah” – Vince Clarke, Reed Hays
  7. Mitosis
  8. Blackleg
  9. Scarper
  10. Last Transmission

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

On November 4, 1991, “Creation” label released “Loveless”, the second My Bloody Valentine studio album. It was recorded in February 1989 – September 1991, and was produced by Kevin Shields and Col Ó Cíosóig. In 2020, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “Loveless” at number 73, on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Shields – vocals, guitar, bass, sampling keyboard, cover concept
  • Bilinda Butcher – vocals, guitar, cover concept
  • Debbie Googe – bass, cover concept
  • Colm Ó Cíosóig – drums, sampling keyboard, cover concept
  • Angus Cameron – photography
  • Ann Marie Shields – coordination

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Kevin Shields, except where noted.

  1. Only Shallow – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  2. Loomer – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  3. Touched – Colm Ó Cíosóig
  4. To Here Knows When – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, music by Kevin Shields
  5. When You Sleep
  6. I Only Said
  7. Come in Alone
  8. Sometimes
  9. Blown’s a Wish – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  10. What You Want
  11. Soon

Ben Harper: Winter Is For Lovers

On October 23, 2020, “Anti-“ label released “Winter Is For Lovers”, the 15th Ben Harper album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Sheldon Gomberg.

Personnel:

  • Ben Harper – lap steel guitar, arrangements
  • Sheldon Gomberg – engineer, mixing
  • Jason Gossman, Johnnie Burik, Larry Ferguson, Tim Sonnefeld – engineer assistant
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Mathieu Bitton – art direction, design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Harper.

  1. Istanbul
  2. Manhattan
  3. Joshua Tree
  4. Inland Empire
  5. Harlem
  6. Lebanon
  7. London
  8. Toronto
  9. Verona
  10. Brittany
  11. Montreal
  12. Bizanet
  13. Toronto (reprise)
  14. Islip
  15. Paris

The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds

On October 20, 2023, “Polydor” label released “Hackney Diamonds”, the twenty-fourth  Rolling Stones (The) studio album. It was recorded February 2019, 2020, December 2022, January 2023, at “Electric Lady” in New York City, “Henson” in Los Angeles, “The Hit Factory” in New York City, “Metropolis” in London, “Sanctuary” in Nassau, Bahamas, and was produced by Andrew Watt and Don Was.

Personnel:

  • Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, guitar, percussion, harmonica
  • Keith Richards – lead and backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar
  • Ronnie Wood – guitar, bass guitar
  • Charlie Watts – drums
  • Matt Clifford – keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Rhodes electric piano, organ. Hammond B3 organ 
  • Elton John – piano 
  • Benmont Tench – Hammond organ
  • Stevie Wonder – piano, Rhodes electric piano, Moog synthesizer
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar
  • Paul McCartney – bass guitar
  • Andrew Watt – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Karlos Edwards – percussion
  • James King – saxophone
  • Ron Blake – trumpet
  • Lady Gaga – vocals
  • David Campbell – string arrangements
  • Matt Clifford – vocal engineering, recording 
  • Don Was – drum recording
  • Andrew Watt – mixing
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing 
  • Paul Lamalfa – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Studio Fury – art direction, design
  • Paulina Almira – illustration
  • Marc VanGool – guitar technician, studio assistance

Track listing:

All tracks by Keith Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

  1. Angry – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  2. Get Close – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  3. Depending On You – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  4. Bite My Head Off
  5. Whole Wide World
  6. Dreamy Skies
  7. Mess It Up
  8. Live by the Sword
  9. Driving Me Too Hard
  10. Tell Me Straight
  11. Sweet Sounds of Heaven
  12. Rolling Stone Blues – Muddy Waters

Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension

On September 25, 2020, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “The Ascension”, the eighth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Sufjan Stevens – vocals, drums and percussion, tempest, electric guitar, Prophet ’08, Prophet 6, Prophet X, piano, recorders, performance, recording, engineer, arrangements, mixing, original art, layout, design, typography
  • Bryce Dessner – electric guitar
  • Casey Foubert – bass guitar, vibraphone, electric guitar, lead electric guitar, recording, engineer
  • James McAlister – additional drums, percussion, vocal cut-up effects, recording, engineer
  • Emil Nikolaisen – black magic; engineer
  • TW Walsh – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Sufjan Stevens.

  1. Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse
  2. Run Away with Me
  3. Video Game
  4. Lamentations
  5. Tell Me You Love Me
  6. Die Happy
  7. Ativan
  8. Ursa Major
  9. Landslide
  10. Gilgamesh
  11. Death Star
  12. Goodbye to All That
  13. Sugar
  14. The Ascension
  15. America

Throwing Muses: Sun Racket

On September 4, 2020, “Fire Records” label released “Sun Racket”, the tenth Throwing Muses studio album. It was recorded February – June 2020, at “Stable Sound Studio” in Portsmouth, RI, US, “Hobby Shop” in Los Angeles, and was produced Kristin Hersh and Steve Rizzo.

Personnel:

  • Kristin Hersh – vocals, guitar, mixing
  • Bernard Georges – bass guitar
  • David Narcizo – drums
  • Andrew Murdock – recording
  • Steve Rizzo – mixing, mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Kristin Hersh.

  1. Dark Blue
  2. Bywater
  3. Maria Laguna
  4. Bo Diddley Bridge
  5. Milk at McDonald’s
  6. Upstairs Dan
  7. St Charles
  8. Frosting
  9. Kay Catherine
  10. Sue’s