Happy New Year. We made it through another year. We thought we would kick off the festivities with a list of what new music to expect during the month of January. But first we will start with a list of what you may have missed in December; after all maybe you have a gift card or two to use.
December:
Bruce Springsteen: “The Ties That Bind (The River Collection)”.
Coldplay: “A Head Full Of Dreams”
Kid Cudi: “Speedin’ Bullet To Heaven”
Rick Ross: “Black Market”
Sunn O))): “Kannon”
Grimes: “Art Angel” (it would have been on my “best of” list)
Baroness: “Purple”
Cage The Elephant: “Tell Me I’m Pretty”
January 1
Rachel Platten: “Wildfire”
January 8
David Bowie: “Blackstar” (we will review this)
Official Soundtrack for “Straight Outta Compton” (featuring N.W.A., Eazy-E and Ice Cube)
January 15
Panic At The Disco: “Death Of A Bachelor”
January 22
Eleanor Friedberger: “New View” (you can hear a cut at our Spotify playlist)
Half Japanese: “Perfect”
Megadeath: “Dystopia”
Savages: “Adore Life”
Shearwater: “Jet Plane And Oxbow” (one of our favorite bands)
The London Suede: “Night Thoughts”
The Besnard Lakes: “A Coliseum Complex Museum”
Tindersticks: “The Waiting Room”
Tortoise: “The Catastrophist”
Ty Segall: “Emotional Mugger”
Black Sabbath: deluxe editions of “Black Sabbath”, “Paranoid” and “Master Of Reality”
Santigold: “99c”
January 29
Basement: “Promise Everything”
Bloc Party: “Hymns”
Nevermen: “Nevermen” (TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Mike Patton of Faith No More and Adam “Doesone” Drucker)
Sia: “This Is Acting” (Her last album made our “best of list”)
Tedeschi Trucks Band: “Let Me Get By”