On June 15, 2018, “Thrill Jockey” label released “Cloud Corner”, the sixth Marisa Anderson studio album. It was recorded in January 2017, at Anderson’s home studio, in Portland, Oregon, and was produced by Marisa Anderson.
Personnel:
Marisa Anderson – acoustic and electric guitar, charango, requinto guitar, Wurlitzer electronic piano, recording
On June 15, 2018, “Cleopatra Records” label released “Mixed Reality”, the sixth Gin Blossoms studio album. It was recorded 2017 – 2018, at “Drive-In Studios” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was produced by Don Dixon.
Personnel:
Robin Wilson – lead vocals
Jesse Valenzuela – lead and backing vocals, rhythm and lead guitar
Scott “Scotty” Johnson – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Bill Leen – bass guitar
Scott Hessel – drums, percussion
Mitch Easter – engineer
Track listing:
All tracks by Robin Wilson, except where noted.
Break
Face the Dark
New Mexico Trouble – Scott Johnson, Bill Leen
Angels Fly – Jesse Valenzuela, Danny Wilde
Here Again – Jesse Valenzuela, Danny Wilde
Still Some Room in Heaven – Scott Johnson, Bill Leen
On June 5, 2001, “Stray Records” label released “Somewhere over the Slaughterhouse”, the sixth Buckethead studio album. It was recorded 2000 – 2001, in the kitchen Pilo’s Loft”, “Travis Dickerson’s studio, and was produced by Travis Dickerson.
Buckethead (Brian Patrick Carroll) – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar
On June 3, 2022, “Jagjaguwar” label released “Big Time”, the sixth Angel Olsen studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Fivestarstudios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jonathan Wilson and Angel Olson.
Personnel:
Angel Olsen – vocals, guitar
Jonathan Wilson – guitar, Mellotron, zither, bass, double bass, mandolin, harmonium, drums, percussion, mixing
On May 25, 1970, “World Pacific” and “Liberty” labels released “King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa”, the sixth Jean-Luc Ponty album. It was recorded in October 1969, at “Whitney Studios” in Glendale, California, and was produced by Richard Bock.
Personnel:
Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin, baritone violectra
Frank Zappa – electric guitar, arrangements, conductor
George Duke – acoustic and electric piano
Buell Neidlinger – double bass
Wilton Felder – Fender Precision electric bass
John Guerin – drums
Arthur Dyer Tripp III – drums
Gene Estes – vibraphone, percussion
Ernie Watts – alto and tenor saxophone
Ian Underwood – tenor saxophone, orchestra conductor
Gene Cipriano – oboe, English horn
Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba
Vincent DeRosa – descant recorder, French horn, descant
Jonathan Meyer – flute
Donald Christlieb – bassoon
Milton Thomas – viola
Harold Bemko – cello
Gerald Wilson – conductor
Ian Underwood – conductor
Dick Kunc – engineer
Ron Wolin – art direction, design
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
King Kong
Idiot Bastard Son
Twenty Small Cigars
How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That – Jean-Luc Ponty
Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra
In May 1978, “Warner Bros” label released “My Radio Sure Sounds Good to Me”, the sixth Larry Graham & Graham Central Station (the first by the name Larry Graham & Graham Central Station as opposed to Graham Central Station). It was recorded in 1978, and was produced by Benny Golson and Larry Graham.
Personnel:
Larry Graham – lead and backing vocals, bass, clavinet, guitar
Gemi Taylor – guitar
Nate Ginsberg – keyboards
Gaylord “Flash” Birch – drums
Robert “Butch” Sam – keyboards, organ, piano, backing vocals
On May 20, 2022, “Infinity Industries” label released “Raw Data Feel”, the sixth Everything Everything album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Eve Studios” in Bredbury, England, and was produced by Kanies & Tom A. D.
Personnel:
Jonathan Higgs – lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar
Alex Robertshaw – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Jeremy Pritchard – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
On May 6, 2022, “Jagjaguwar” label released “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong”, the sixth Sharon Van Etten studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Daniel Knowles and Sharon Van Etten.
On May 6, 2022, “Columbia” label released “WE”, the sixth Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, at “RAK Studios”, “Wack Formula” and “The Crow’s Nest Studios” in London, “Boombox Studios” and “Marigny Recording Studio” in New Orleans, “Dockside Studio” in Los Angeles, “Sonic Ranch Studios” in Tornilo, Texas, and was produced by Nigel Godrich, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.
Personnel:
Régine Chassagne – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, piano, accordion, orchestral arrangements
Win Butler – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, piano, percussion
Richard Reed Parry – electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Tim Kingsbury – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Will Butler – keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals
Jeremy Gara – drums, percussion
Peter Gabriel – additional vocal
Andre Michot – accordion
Geoff Barrow – granular synthesis, additional production
Orlando Primo – congas, djembe
Willonson Duprate – congas
Louis Michot – fiddle
Charlie Gabriel – saxophone
Mark Braud – trumpet
Wendell Brunious – trumpet
Liza Rey – harp
Paul Beaubrun – sound effects
Owen Pallett – orchestral arrangements, strings
Sally Herbert – conductor, additional arrangements
Helen Gillet – strings
Harry Hardin – strings
Matt Rhody – strings
Sarah Neufeld – strings
Edwin Farnham Butler IV – whispers
Josh Tillman – stomps and breaths, additional production
Romeo Bougere – agogô bell
Michael Brun – additional synthesis
Emily Eck – recording
Eric Heigle – recording, co-producer
Mikko Gordon – recording, mixing assistant, additional production
Suvi-Eeva Äikäs – additional recording
Julia Simpson – additional recording
Owen Pallett – additional recording
James Seymour – additional recording
Mark Lawson – additional recording
Jerry Ordonez – recording assistant
Marco Ramirez – recording assistant
Justin Tocket – recording assistant
Matt Aguiluz – recording assistant
Nathanael Graham – recording assistant
Francesca Edwards – recording assistant
Joy Stacey – recording assistant
Pablo Godin – recording assistant
Felipe Gutierrez – recording assistant
Craig Silvey – mixing
Nigel Godrich – mixing
Dani Bennett Spragg – mixing assistant
Greg Calbi – mastering
Steve Fallone – mastering
Ryan Smith – vinyl mastering
Steve Mackey – pre-production
JR – cover image, WE poster image, additional eye photography
Terry Pastor – airbrush color tinting
Ping Pong Ping – album graphic design
Julia Simpson – album creative production
Alison Green – center image, Polaroids
IV – “I Guy” Character, handwriting
Camille Pajot – studio art director
Rick Rose – digitech
Fabien Barrau – cover image photo post-production
Chroma Center – photo printing, post-production
EHT Collaboration – “Black Hole” image
Danny Clinch – David Bowie photograph
Pneuhaus – “Giant Eye”
Maria Jose Govea – additional photography
JF Lalonde – additional photography
Wes Winship – “Acropolis Is Burning” poster
Don Hertzfeldt – still from World of Tomorrow: Episode 2
Gift Horst Tintypes – WE poster photo development
Track listing:
All tracks by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, except where noted.
Age of Anxiety I
Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
Prelude
End of the Empire I-III
End of Empire IV (Sagittarius A)
The Lightning I
The Lightning II
Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Unconditional II (Race and Religion) – additional writing by Will Butler
May 4, 2018, “Nonesuch” label released “Free Yourself Up”, the sixth Lake Street Dive studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Goosehead Palace Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Dan Knobler, Rachel Price, Mike Olson, Akie Bermis, Bridget Kearney and Mike Calabrese.
Personnel:
Rachael Price – lead vocals
Mike “McDuck” Olson – guitar, trumpet
Akie Bermiss – vocals, keyboards
Bridget Kearney – vocals, bass
Mike Calabrese – vocals, drums, percussion
Jamie Dick – additional drums
Dan Knobler – engineer
Joe Visciano – mixing
Randy Merrilln – mastering
Ben Tousley – art direction, design
Shervin Lainezh – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Bridget Kearney, except where noted.
Baby, Don’t Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts
Good Kisser
Shame, Shame, Shame
I Can Change – Bridget Kearney, Rachel Price
Dude – Mike Olson, Bridget Kearney
Red Light Kisses – Michael Calabrese, Mike Olson
Doesn’t Even Matter Now – Michael Calabrese, Mike Olson