Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:
CD
Neil Young and Promise of the Real – The Monsanto Years
Joy Williams – Venus
Refused – Freedom
Slightly Stoopid – Meanwhile … Back at the Lab
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Good Old War – Broken Into Better Shape
Matt Pond PA – State of Gold
August Burns Red – Found in Far Away Places (deluxe edition also available)
Main Attrakionz – 808s and Dark Grapes III
Jungle Rot – Order Shall Prevail
Bilal – In Another Life
The Velvet Teen – All Is Illusory
Thy Art is Murder – Holy War (deluxe edition also available)
Kissing Candice – Blind Until We Burn
Wilson – Right to Rise
Failure – The Heart is a Monster
Senses Fail – Pull the Thorns from Your Heart
Mutoid Man – Bleeder
Ky-Mani Marley – Maestro (deluxe edition also available)
X Ambassadors – VHS
Twin Danger – Twin Danger
Stevie Stone – Malta Bend
Ecstatic Vision – Sonic Praise
Jaill – Brain Cream
Easton Corbin – About to Get Real
Dew-Scented – Intermination
The Doors – The Best of the Doors (SACD)
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks 5: Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/26/79
Tina Turner – Private Dancer: 30th Anniversary Edition
Jethro Tull – Thick As a Brick (Steven Wilson Mix)
Jethro Tull – Passion Play (Steven Wilson Mix)
Harry Chapin – Bottom Line Archive Series: Live 1981
Janis Ian – Bottom Line Archive Series: Live 1980
Various Artists – Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own 1
Various Artists – Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own 2
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Trilogy
The Lovin’ Spoonful – Various Reissues
Various Artists – The Jewel/Paula Rock Story
Various Artists – Magic Mike XXL Soundtrack
311 – Archive
DJ Vadim and Sena – Grow Slow
Barbecue Bob – The Rough Guide to Barbecue Bob
Cut Up – Forensic Nightmares
Self Defense Family – Heaven is Earth
Being As An Ocean – Being As An Ocean
VINYL
Refused – Freedom
Of Monsters and Men – Beneath the Skin
Joy Williams – Venus
Failure – The Heart is a Monster
Joy Division – Closer
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
Future Islands – Chase
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (Steven Wilson Mix)
Good Old War – Broken Into Better Shape
Moby – Hotel Ambient
Big Data – 2.0
Vibrators – Pure Mania
Eyehategod – In the Name of the Suffering
Eyehategod – Take as Needed for Pain
Jaill – Brain Cream
August Burns Red – Found in Far Away Places
Nazareth – Hair of the Dog
Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up
Hank Mobley – Turnaround
Donald Byrd – New Perspective
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Alright Again!
Bud Powell – Scene Changes
Lovin’ Spoonful – Various Reissues
London Souls – Here Come the Girls
Tigers Jaw – Studio 4 Acoustic Session
Senses Fail – Pull the Thorns from Your Heart
G. Love and Special Sauce – Sweet n Blues (Sugar Outtakes)
Matt Pond PA – State of Gold
Slash – Live at the Roxy 09.25.14
Whitesnake – The Purple Album
DVD/BLU-RAY
The Who – Live at Shea Stadium 1982 DVD and Blu-ray
The Decline of Western Civilization Collection DVD
