Tag Archives: 2021

Gwenno: Tresor

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On July 1, 2022, “Heavenly Recordings” label released “Tresor”, the third Gwenno studio album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, at Gwenno’s home studio in Cardiff, and was produced by Rhys Edwards and Gwenno Saunders.

Personnel:

  • Gwenno Saunders – vocals 
  • Rhys Edwards – bass guitar, drums, guitar, piano, sounds, strings, vibraphone, mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • H. Hawkline – design, layout
  • Clare Marie Bailey – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Gwenno Saunders, except where noted.

  1. An Stevel Nowydh – Gwenno Saunders, Rhys Edwards
  2. Anima
  3. Tresor
  4. N.Y.C.A.W. – Gwenno Saunders, Rhys Edwards
  5. Men an Toll
  6. Ardamm
  7. Kan Me
  8. Keltek
  9. Tonnow
  10. Porth Ia

Modest Mouse: The Golden Casket

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On June 25, 2021, “Epic” label released “The Golden Casket”, the seventh Modest Mouse studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee.

Personnel:

  • Isaac Brock – vocals, electric guitar, banjo, bass guitar, synthesizer, melodica, drums, percussion, loops, drum machine, marimba, creative direction
  • Jim Fairchild – guitar
  • D. Sardy – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, tambourine, bass, piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, chimes, shaker, timpani, mixing
  • Tom Peloso – guitar, piano, bass guitar, horn, synthesizer
  • Russell Higbee – bass guitar, synthesizer, electric guitar, strings, drums
  • Jeremiah Green – drums
  • Jacknife Lee – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion, engineer, mixing
  • Ben Massarella – shaker, tambourine, tom toms, claves, cowbell, handbells, xylophone, drums, percussion, vibraslap, cymbals, bongos, snare drum, electronic drums
  • Lisa Molinaro – vocals, backing vocals, viola
  • Jordan Katz – horn
  • John McEntire – engineer
  • Cameron Barton – engineer
  • Jim Monti – engineer
  • Jeremy Sherrer – engineer
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Stewart Whitmore – mastering
  • Matt Bishop – editor
  • Dylan Odbert – art direction, design

Track listing:

  1. Fuck Your Acid Trip
  2. We Are Between
  3. We’re Lucky
  4. Walking & Running
  5. Wooden Soldiers
  6. Transmitting Receiving
  7. The Sun Hasn’t Left
  8. Lace Your Shoes
  9. Never Fuck a Spider on the Fly
  10. Leave a Light On
  11. Japanese Trees
  12. Back to the Middle

Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funyy Haha

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On June 25, 2021, “Secretly Canadian” label released “I Know I’m Funny Haha”, the fourth Faye Webster studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Drew Vandenberg and Faye Webster.

Personnel:

  • Faye Webster – vocals, guitar
  • Matt Stoessel – guitar
  • Nick Rosen – keyboards
  • Bryan Howard – bass
  • Harold Brown – drums
  • Jeremy Wheatley – drums
  • Mei Ehara – vocals 
  • Henry White – horn
  • Tressa Gold – violin
  • Jeanette Jang – violin
  • Annie Leeth – violin
  • Anna Bishop – violin 
  • Meredith Riley – violin
  • Stacy Matthews – violin
  • Adrian Pintea – violin 
  • Elizabeth O’Hara – viola
  • Derek Smith – viola 
  • Jocelyn Smith – viola 
  • Schuyler Slack – cello
  • Noah Johnson – cello 
  • Jordi Lara – cello 
  • Trey Pollard – conductor
  • Drew Vandenberg – recording, mixing
  • Alex Dejong – recording
  • Joe Lambert – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Faye Webster.

  1. Better Distractions
  2. Sometimes
  3. I Know I’m Funny Haha
  4. In a Good Way
  5. Kind Of
  6. Cheers
  7. Both All the Time
  8. A Stranger
  9. A Dream with a Baseball Player
  10. Overslept
  11. Half of Me

Hiatus Kaiyote: Mood Valiant

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On June 25, 2021, “Brainfeeder” label released “Mood Valiant”, the third Hiatus Kaiyote studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, and was produced by Arthur Verocal. At the 2020 “AIR Awards”, the album won “Best Independent Jazz Album or EP Award”.

Personnel:

  • Nai Palm – vocals, guitar
  • Simon Mavin – keyboards
  • Paul Bender – bass
  • Perrin Moss – drums
  • Arthur Verocai – vocal, guitar

Track listing:

All lyrics by Nai Palm, all music by Nai Palm, Paul Bender, Perrin Moss  and Simon Mavin.

  1. Flight of the Tiger Lily
  2. Sip into Something Soft
  3. Chivalry Is Not Dead
  4. And We Go Gentle
  5. Get Sun
  6. All the Words We Don’t Say
  7. Hush Rattle
  8. Rose Water
  9. Red Room
  10. Sparkle Tape Break Up
  11. Stone of Lavender
  12. Blood and Marrow

Porcupine Tree: Closure / Continuation

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On June 24, 2022, “Music for Nations” label released “Closure/Continuation”, the eleventh Porcupine Tree studio album. It was recorded 2011 – 2021, and was produced by Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Steven Wilson – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, mixing, design concept
  • Richard Barbieri – keyboards, synthesizers
  • Gavin Harrison – drums, percussion, drum mixing, production
  • Lisen Rylander Löve – voice sample
  • Suzanne Barbieri – voice sample
  • Inspector J – ambience field recording
  • Klankbeeld – ambience field recording sample
  • Paul Stacey – additional guitar recording
  • Ed Scull – additional guitar recording engineer
  • Ian Anderson (of The Designers Republic) – art direction, image editor, design, creative director, photography

Track listing:

  1. Harridan – Gavin Harrison, Steven Wilson
  2. Of the New Day – Steven Wilson
  3. Rats Return – Steven Wilson
  4. Dignity – Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson
  5. Herd Culling – Gavin Harrison, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson
  6. Walk the Plank – Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson
  7. Chimera’s Wreck – Gavin Harrison, Steven Wilson

Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind

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On June 24, 2022, “Roadrunner” label released “Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind”, the tenth Coheed and Cambria studio album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, and was produced by Claudio Sanchez and Zakk Cervini.

Personnel:

  • Claudio Sanchez – vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer
  • Travis Stever – guitar
  • Zach Cooper – bass
  • Josh Eppard – drums
  • Atlas Hendrix Sanchez – guest vocals
  • Christopher Jahnke – orchestral arrangements, orchestration
  • Taylor Williams – programming
  • Zakk Cervini – engineer, mixing
  • Nik Trekov – engineer, editing, mixing assistant
  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Jon Lundin – edit engineering
  • Chase Stone – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Claudio Sanchez.

  1. The Embers of Fire
  2. Beautiful Losers
  3. Comatose
  4. Shoulders
  5. A Disappearing Act
  6. Love Murder One
  7. Blood
  8. The Liars Club
  9. Bad Man
  10. One Love
  11. Ladders of Supremacy
  12. Rise, Naianasha, (Cut the Cord)
  13. Window of the Walking Mind

Regina Spektor: Home, Begore and After

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On June 24, 2022, “Sire” and “Warner Records” labels released “Home, Before and After”, the eighth Regina Spektor studio album. It was recorded 2021 -2022, at “Dreamland Recording Studios” in Hurley and “Big Orange Sheep” in New York, “Fame Recording Studios” in Muscle Shoals, AL, “United Recording Studios” and “Elmwood West” in Los Angeles, and was produced by John Congleton.

Personnel:

  • Regina Spektor – vocals, piano, keyboards, co-production
  • John Congleton – electric guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass, percussion, drums, marimba, vibraphone, theremin, drums programming, strings and horns arrangements, engineer, mixing
  • Luke Reynolds – acoustic and electric guitars, bass, synthesizer, strings and horns arrangement
  • Skopje Studio Orchestra
  • Joey Waronker – drums, percussion
  • Jherek Bischoff – strings and horn arrangements
  • Caleb Teicher – tap dancing
  • Ariel Shafir – engineer
  • David Turk – engineer
  • John Davis – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Regina Spektor.

  1. Becoming All Alone
  2. Up the Mountain
  3. One Man’s Prayer
  4. Raindrops
  5. Sugar Man
  6. What Might Have Been
  7. Spacetime Fairytale
  8. Coin
  9. Loveology
  10. Through a Door

Mammoth WVH: Same

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On June 11, 2021, “EX1 Records” label released the self-titled, debut Mammoth WVH studio album. It was recorded 2013 – 2018, at “5150 Studios”, in Studio City, Los Angeles, and was produced by Michael Baskette.

Personnel:

  • Wolfgang Van Halen – lead and backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards, piano, bass guitar, drums, percussion
  • Josh Saldate – engineer
  • Jef Moll – engineer, editing
  • Michael Baskette – mixing
  • Brad Blackwood – mastering
  • John Brosio – artwork
  • Chuck Brueckmann – art direction, design
  • Travis Shinn – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Wolfgang Van Halen.

  1. Mr. Ed
  2. Horribly Right
  3. Epiphany
  4. Don’t Back Down
  5. Resolve
  6. You’ll Be the One
  7. Mammoth
  8. Circles
  9. The Big Picture
  10. Think It Over
  11. You’re to Blame
  12. Feel
  13. Stone
  14. Distance

AFI: Bodies

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On June 11, 2021, “Rise Records” label released “Bodies”, the eleventh AFI studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, and was produced by Jade Puget.

Personnel:

  • Davey Havok – lead vocals
  • Jade Puget – guitar
  • Hunter Burgan – bass
  • Adam Carson – drums
  • Tony Hoffer – mixing
  • Vlado Meller – mastering

 Track listing:

All lyrics by Davey Havok.

  1. Twisted Tongues
  2. Far Too Near
  3. Dulceria
  4. On Your Back
  5. Escape from Los Angeles
  6. Begging for Trouble
  7. Back from the Flesh
  8. Looking Tragic
  9. Death of the Party
  10. No Eyes
  11. Tied to a Tree

Drive – By Truckers: Welcome 2 Club XIII

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On June 3, 2022, “ATO” label released “Welcome 2 Club XIII”, the fourteenth Drive-By Truckers released on June 3, 2022. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, and was produced by Favid Barne.

Personnel:

  • Patterson Hood – vocals, guitar, mandocello
  • Mike Cooley – vocals, guitar
  • Jay Gonzalez – keyboards, guitars and vocals
  • Matt Patton – bass, bass 6 and vocals
  • Brad Morgan – drums
  • Margo Price – vocals
  • Schaefer Liana – vocals
  • Mike Mills – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Patterson Hood, except where noted.

  1. The Driver
  2. Maria’s Awful Disclosures – Mike Cooley
  3. Shake and Pine
  4. We Will Never Wake You in the Morning
  5. Welcome 2 Club XIII
  6. Forged in Hell and Heaven Sent
  7. Every Single Storied Flameout – Mike Cooley
  8. Billy Ringo in the Dark
  9. Wilder Days