{"id":2488,"date":"2021-01-29T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:46:13","slug":"new-releases-5feb2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-5feb2021\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 5 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our pick of the bunch for 5 February<\/strong> starts with Shore<\/em><\/strong> is a celebration of life in the face of death, honouring Fleet Foxes<\/strong>\u2019 lost musical heroes, from David Berman to John Prine to Judee Sill to Bill Withers. It\u2019s an object levitating between the magnetic fields of the past and the future. The album was recorded in upstate New York at Aaron Dessner\u2019s Long Pond Studio, in Paris at Studios St. Germain, in Los Angeles at the legendary Vox, in Long Island City at Diamond Mine, and New York City\u2019s Electric Lady.<\/p>\n

Recorded by Black Country, New Road<\/strong> with Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine) during the early part of this year and then finished at the end of the nationwide lock-down, For The First Time<\/em><\/strong> is the perfect capturing of a new band and all the energy, ferocity and explosive charge that comes with that whilst also clearly the work of a group who have no interest in repetition, one-note approaches or letting creative stagnation set in. Featuring six new songs including reinterpretations of early tracks \u2018Sunglasses\u2019 and \u2018Athens, France\u2019, For The First Time<\/em> is a sonic time capsule that somehow manages to bottle the past, the present and the future. \u201cWe wanted it to sound exactly how we love to sound live,<\/em>\u201d says saxophonist Lewis Evans. \u201cThis is basically representative of our first 18 months,<\/em>\u201d continues frontman Isaac Wood. Indeed the band found they had to stop themselves running too far ahead in order to document this album in a way that felt as truthful as possible. We see this as being a stop in the road,<\/em>\u201d explains Isaac. \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in a really honest portrayal of what a band is and what they\u2019ve been working on. I think it\u2019s really nice if people can see an artist like: this was them in the early days, this was their next phase and that they\u2019re quite clear and honest about genuine progression as people and musicians.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Good Woman<\/em><\/strong>, the first new album in six years from The Staves<\/strong> \u2013 sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor \u2013 was written and recorded in a time of tremendous turmoil and change for the band, between the ending of relationships, the death of their beloved mother, and the birth of Emily\u2019s first child. Produced by John Congleton, the album is a testament to the strength of women; to sisters, mothers, and daughters; to love, loss, and change; and to trying to be a good woman. The band explains: \u201cWhen we think about making this album we think about moments and snapshots of all the different contexts we were in as it was made. Living in each other\u2019s pockets and then living with oceans between us. We think of homesickness and family. Of being an outsider. Of endless notebooks and scraps of paper. We think of love. Big, big love. Our Mum. Our Dad. Our friends. And of loss. Death and birth. Womanhood, motherhood. Sisterhood. And coming home.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

An f-bomb-saturated hip-hop call and response club cut \u2026 from Sun Ra<\/strong>?! While the most renowned track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee \u2018Nuclear War,\u2019 there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to \u2018Nuclear War,\u2019 Ra\u2019s organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. A Fireside Chat With Lucifer<\/em><\/strong> offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist\u2019s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything… except predictability. This is the first ever reissue of this iconic album!<\/p>\n

Much has changed in the musical life of renowned composer and director John Carpenter<\/strong> since 2016\u2019s Lost Themes II<\/em>. Following the release of that album, he went on his first-ever concert tour, performing material from the Lost Themes albums as well as music from his classic film scores. He re-recorded many of those classic movie themes for 2017\u2019s Anthology<\/em>, working alongside son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies. The following year, he was asked to executive produce and compose the music for the new Halloween movie directed by David Gordon Green, which promptly became the highest-grossing instalment in the series. Now, he returns with his first album of non-soundtrack music in nearly five years, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Medicine At Midnight<\/em><\/strong>, the new album from Foo Fighters<\/strong>, which packs nine new songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes. This collection includes the smouldering new single \u2018Shame Shame\u2019. Medicine At Midnight<\/em> is the band\u2019s 10th album, and was produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, and Rami Jaffee.<\/p>\n

\"Foo<\/a>\"Fleet<\/a>\"Black<\/a>\"The<\/a>\"Sun<\/a>\"John<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy. Look out for our special low pre-sale prices<\/strong> in red \u2013 order early so you don\u2019t miss them!<\/p>\n

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