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The Offspring: Supercharged

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On October 11, 2024, “Concord” label released “Supercharged”, the eleventh Offspring (The) studio album. It was recorded September 2022 – May 2024, at “D-13” in Huntington Beach, “Plantation” and “A’ala” in Maui, “The Warehouse” in Vancouver, and was produced by Bob Rock.

Personnel:

  • Dexter Holland – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
  • Noodles – guitar
  • Jonah Nimoy – keyboards
  • Todd Morse – bass
  • Brandon Pertzborn – drums
  • Bob Rock – guitar, backing vocals
  • Adam Greenholtz – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards
  • Josh Freese – drums
  • Dave Pierce – strings, keyboards
  • Rebecca Shoichet – additional vocals
  • Adam Garrett – backing vocals
  • Bob Rock – mixing
  • Adam Greenholtz – mixing
  • Emily Lazar – mastering
  • Annie Kennedy – engineer assistant
  • Theo Wagner – engineer assistant
  • Ryan Enockson – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Hogan – engineer assistant
  • Andrew Fowler – engineer assistant
  • John Dibiasi – engineer assistant
  • Eric Helmkamp – additional recording
  • Daveed Benito – cover art

Track listing:

All tracks by Dexter Holland.

  1. Looking Out for #1
  2. Light It Up
  3. The Fall Guy
  4. Make It All Right
  5. OK, but This Is the Last Time
  6. Truth in Fiction
  7. Come to Brazil
  8. Get Some
  9. Hanging by a Thread
  10. You Can’t Get There from Here

Beth Orton: Weather Alive

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On September 23, 2022, “Partisan” label released “Weather Alive”, the eighth Beth Orton studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Beth Orton.

Personnel:

  • Beth Orton – lead and backing vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, loops, MIDI controller, electronics, engineer
  • Grey McMurray – electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Shahzad Ismaily – electruc guitar, bass, harmonica, synthesizer, percussion
  • Francine Perry – synthesizer
  • Dustin O’Halloran – synthesizer
  • Sam Beste – piano, vibraphone
  • Jesse Chandler – instruments
  • Tom Herbert – bass
  • Ali Friend – double bass
  • Chris Vatalaro – bass, drums
  • Tom Skinner – drums, drum programming
  • Alabaster DePlume – saxophone
  • Stuart Bogie – saxophone
  • Aaron Roche – trombone
  • Fabio Senna – engineer
  • Francine Perry – engineer
  • Dani Bennet Spragg – engineer
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Dani Bennett-Spragg – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Joe Nino – Hernes – lacquer cut
  • Eliot Lee Hazel – creative director, artwork
  • Aaron Mitchell – packaging design

Track listing:

All tracks by Beth Orton.

  1. Weather Alive
  2. Friday Night
  3. Fractals
  4. Haunted Satellite
  5. Forever Young
  6. Lonely
  7. Arms Around a Memory
  8. Unwritten

The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

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On September 23, 2022, “Impulse!” label released “Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam”, the third and final Comet Is Coming (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Real World Studios” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Danalogue and Betamax.

Personnel:

  • Danalogue (Dan Leavers) – keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings, arrangements, mixing
  • Shabaka Hutchings – saxophone, Shakuhachi
  • (Betamax) Max Hallett – drums, percussion, drum machine, electronic drums, synthesizer, arrangements, mixing
  • Kristian Craig Robinson – recording, additional production
  • Daddy Kev – mastering
  • Chris Bellman – lacquer cut
  • Daniel Martin Diaz – artwork
  • Veil Projects – layout
  • Tom Arndt – production coordinator
  • Dahlia Ambach-Caplin – A&R

Track listing:

All tracks by Shabaka Hutchings, Max Hallett and Dan Leavers.

  1. Code
  2. Technicolour
  3. Lucid Dreamer
  4. Tokyo Nights
  5. Pyramids
  6. Frequency of Feeling Expansion
  7. Angel of Darkness
  8. Aftermath
  9. Atomic Wave Dance
  10. The Hammer
  11. Mystik

Marisa Anderson: Still, Here

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On September 23, 2022, “Thrill Jockey” label released “Still, Here”, the tenth Marisa Anderson studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Marisa Anderson.

Personnel:

  • Marisa Anderson – nylon-string guitar, steel-string guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, requinto guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, arrangements, recording
  • Jesse Munro Johnson – mixing
  • Amy Dragon – mastering
  • Daniel Castrejon – design
  • Dante Korinto – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Marisa Anderson, except where noted.

  1. In Dark Water
  2. The Fire This Time
  3. The Low Country
  4. Night Art
  5. Walking
  6. The Crack Where the Light Gets In
  7. La Llorona – traditional
  8. Beat the Drum Slowly – traditional

Joshua Redman: Long Gone

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On September 9, 2022, “Nonesuch” label released “Long Gone”, the second Joshua Redman Quartet studio album. It was recorded in 2007 at “The Herbst Theater” in San Francisco, and in September 2019, at “Sear Sound Studio C” in New York City, and was produced by James Farber and Joshua Redman.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Redman – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Brad Mehldau – piano
  • Christian McBride – bass
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • James Farber – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Montgomery – engineer
  • Owen Mulholland – engineer assistant
  • Steven Sacco – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Joshua Redman.

  1. Long Gone
  2. Disco Ears
  3. Statuesque
  4. Kite Song
  5. Ship to Shore
  6. Rejoice

Foster The People: Paradise State Of Mind

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On August 16, 2024, “Atlantic” label released “Paradise State of Mind”, the fourth Foster the People studio album. It was recorded 2022 – 2024, at “EastWest” in Hollywood, “The Church” in London, and was produced by Chrome Sparks, Paul Epworth, Mark Foster and Isom Innis.

Personnel:

  • Mark Foster – lead vocals, synthesizer, guitar, piano, bass, drums, percussion, engineer
  • Sean Cimino – guitar, slide guitar, synthesizer, programming
  • Isom Innis – piano, synthesizer, drums, programming, engineer
  • Jack Peñate – guitar, backing vocals, programming
  • Nikolaj Torp Larsen – organ, piano, synthesizer
  • Jherek Bischoff – double bass 
  • Jeremy Malvin – bass, synthesizer, programming
  • Paul Epworth – synthesizer, drums, backing vocals
  • Aaron Redfield – drums
  • Jacob Scesney – tenor and baritone vocals, Western concert flute, bass saxophone
  • Stewart Cole – chant vocal, trumpet, baritone horn, flugelhorn, synthesizer
  • Paul Jacob Cartwright – concert master
  • Alyssa Park – violin
  • Andrew Duckles – violin
  • Ina Veli – violin
  • Kerenza Peacock – violin
  • Luanne Homzy – violin
  • Paul Jacob Cartwright – violin
  • Zach Dellinger – violin
  • Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – cello
  • Lily Kershaw – backing vocals
  • Riley MacIntyre – programming
  • Jherek Bischoff – string arrangements
  • Chaz Sexton – engineer
  • Patrick Ford – engineer
  • Riley MacIntyre – engineer
  • Luke Pickering – engineer
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Mike Bozzi – mastering
  • Mayumi Heider – engineer assistant
  • Matt Hansel – painting

Track listing:

  1. See You in the Afterlife – Mark Foster, Isom Innis, Riley McIntyre
  2. Lost in Space – Mark Foster, Ison Innis
  3. Yake Me Back – Mark Foster, Ison Innis
  4. Ket Go – Mark Foster, Sarah Aarons, Paul Epworth
  5. Feed Me – Mark Foster, Ison Innis
  6. Paradise State of Mind – Mark Foster, Paul Epworth, Jack Peñate
  7. Glitchzig – Mark Foster
  8. The Holy Shangri-La – Mark Foster, Paul Epworth, Riley McIntyre, Asa Taccone
  9. Sometimes I Wanna Be Bad – Mark Foster
  10. Chasing Low Vibrations – Mark Foster, Ison Innis, Jeremy Malvin
  11. A Diamond to Be Born – Mark Foster, Ison Innis

And So I Watch You from Afar: Megafauna

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On August 9, 2024, “Velocity” label released “Megafauna”, the seventh And So I Watch You from Afar studio album. It was recorded in September 2022, at “Attica Audio” in Donegal. Ireland, and was produced by Tommy McLaughlin, Rory Friers, Niall Kennedy, Chris Wee, and Ewen Friers.

Personnel:

  • Rory Friers – guitar, string arrangements, piano arrangements, mixing, photography
  • Niall Kennedy – guitar
  • Ewen Friers – bass
  • Chris Wee – drums
  • Michael Keeney – piano, string arrangements, piano arrangements
  • Arco String Quartet – strings
  • Tommy McLaughlin – engineer, mixing
  • Katie Tavini – mastering
  • Glenn Kennedy – design
  • Ciara McMillan – cover photography
  • Nicholas Sayers – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Rory Friers, Niall Kennedy, Chris Wee, and Ewen Friers.

  1. North Coast Megafauna
  2. Do Mór
  3. Gallery of Honour
  4. Mother Belfast (Part 1)
  5. Mother Belfast (Part 2)
  6. Years Ago
  7. Any Joy
  8. Button Days
  9. Me and Dunbar

Rain Parade: Last Rays Of A Dying Sun

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On August 4, 2023, “51 Recordings” label released “Last Rays of a Dying Sun”, the third Rain Parade studio album. It was recorded 2022 – 2023, at “25th Street Recording”, “Wally Sound”, and “Skyline Studio” in Oakland, California, “Babwe Sound” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jim Hill.

Personnel:

  • Matt Piucci – vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, baritone guitar, sitar, bass
  • John Thoman – vocals, guitar
  • Derek See – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Steven Roback – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
  • Stephan Junca – drums, percussion
  • Mark Hanley – vocals, keyboards, bass
  • Jim Hill – vocals, treatments and manipulations, synthesizer, tambourine
  • Meena Makhijani – tabla
  • Mac Hill – synthesizer
  • Aryeh Frankfurter – strings
  • Debbi Peterson – backing vocals
  • Vicki Peterson – backing vocals
  • Greg Moore – backing vocals
  • Thom Moore – backing vocals
  • Rob Bonfiglio – backing vocals
  • Marcus Blake – backing vocals
  • Darian Sahanaja – backing vocals, backing vocal arrangements
  • Jim Hill – engineer
  • Gabriel Shepard – engineer assistant
  • Wally Sound – engineer assistant
  • Varun Kejriwal – engineer assistant
  • Chris Bellman – mastering
  • Stefanie Beltran – art direction
  • Jon Krop – packaging layout
  • Emily Wick – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback.

  1. Angel Sister
  2. Last Rays of a Dying Sun
  3. Couldn’t Stand to Be Alone
  4. Bring You Back
  5. Got the Fear
  6. Share Your Love
  7. Sundays Almost Gone
  8. Green
  9. Forgetfulness
  10. Other Side of You
  11. Left the Fire

The Smashing Pumpkins: Aghori Mhori Mei

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On August 2, 2024, “Martha’s Music” and “Thirty Tigers” labels digitally released “Aghori Mhori Mei”, the thirteenth Smashing Pumpkins (The) album. It was recorded 2022 – 2024, and was produced by Billy Corgan.

Personnel:

  • Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
  • James Iha – guitar
  • Jimmy Chamberlin – drums
  • Katie Cole – backing vocals
  • Jenna Fournier – backing vocals
  • Howard Willing – mixing
  • Andrew Scheps – mixing
  • Ryan Hewitt – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Billy Corgan.

  1. Edin
  2. Pentagrams
  3. Sighommi
  4. Pentecost
  5. War Dreams of Itself
  6. Who Goes There
  7. 999
  8. Goeth the Fall
  9. Sicarus
  10. Murnau