{"id":2631,"date":"2021-07-16T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:35:23","slug":"new-releases-23jul2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-23jul2021\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 23 July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s six of the best starts with Gold-Diggers Sound<\/em><\/strong>, the new album from Leon Bridges<\/strong>. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles studio of the same name, and it celebrates Leon\u2019s immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked, and drank over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the soon-to-be legendary complex.<\/p>\n

Triage<\/em><\/strong> offers a rare look inside the songwriter. This album finds Rodney Crowell<\/strong> looking inwards for answers, resulting in what he has called his most personal record yet. This new collection of songs was written during the great political, environmental and economic upheaval of recent years. The noise of that chaos encouraged Crowell to look inward for solace and answers. The result is this series of songs that contends with these themes but approaches them from a place of healing, love and solution. That they are being released while we find ourselves walking through a global pandemic is a gift of perfect timing.<\/p>\n

In 2020, 4AD<\/strong> turned 40. Never one to be on time for a party, the label is commemorating that landmark a year later with the release of Bills & Aches & Blues<\/em><\/strong>, in which 18 of its current artists cover a song each of their choosing from 4AD\u2019s past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD four decades after its inception. The 18 recordings herein contain fascinating connections between artist and track. Tracks chosen range from The Birthday Party\u2019s \u2018Junkyard\u2019 from 1981 to two Grimes songs from 2012, and the artists covering them include U.S. Girls, Spencer., Dry Cleaning, Tune-Yards, Jenny Hval, Big Thief, SOHN, and The Breeders, three of whose songs are themselves covered by other artists.<\/p>\n

Mudhoney<\/strong>\u2019s classic 1991 album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge<\/em><\/strong>, considered a landmark of the grunge era, has been remastered and expanded with rare and previously unreleased tracks and liner notes by band biographer Keith Cameron. By going back to basics on this album, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time \u2013 or the last \u2013 they would be vindicated. A month after release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 \u2013 five weeks before Nirvana\u2019s Nevermind<\/em> entered at 36 \u2013 and went on to sell 75,000 copies worldwide. A more meaningful measure of success, however, lay in its revitalisation of the band, casting a touchstone for the future. The record is a major chapter in Mudhoney\u2019s ongoing story, the moral of which has to be: when in doubt, fudge it.<\/p>\n

Stone Temple Pilots<\/strong> embraced experimentation and open-mindedness to record the band\u2019s third album, 1996\u2019s Tiny Music\u2026 Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop<\/em><\/strong>. Released 25 years ago, the album is a pitch-perfect amalgamation of the band members\u2019 musical personalities, yielding three US #1 hits \u2013 \u2018Big Bang Baby\u2019, \u2018Lady Picture Show\u2019 and \u2018Trippin\u2019 On A Hole In A Paper Heart\u2019. Along with a newly remastered version of the original album, the deluxe editions feature 15 unreleased tracks that pull back the curtain on the creative process, including early versions of nearly every song on the album, alternate takes and instrumental versions. The super-deluxe edition includes the original album on both CD and 180g black vinyl, the bonus tracks, plus an exclusive and previously unreleased live recording of the band\u2019s concert in Panama City Beach, Florida on 14 March 1997. STP is dialled in from start to finish, delivering blistering takes of songs from the new album (\u2018Tumble In The Rough\u2019 and \u2018Big Bang Baby\u2019), as well as hits from their earlier records (\u2018Vasoline\u2019, \u2018Plush\u2019 and \u2018Interstate Love Song\u2019).<\/p>\n

Our release of the week comes from Jackson Browne<\/strong>, who \u2013 nearly five decades after his debut album \u2013 combines that record\u2019s soulful intimacy with a power and wisdom gained from a life pursuing positive change on his latest album, Downhill From Everywhere<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cOn the surface, it\u2019s about living in L.A.,<\/em>\u201d Browne said in a press release. \u201cBut it\u2019s really a metaphor for life itself. I adore this city, but I\u2019ve been trying to leave since around the time I finished my first album. You can love and appreciate and depend on a life as you know it, but deep down you may also long for something else, even if you don\u2019t know what it is.<\/em>\u201d Nevertheless, Browne stuck close to home for the album. \u201cLately, I find that much of the writing process takes place in the studio,<\/em>\u201d he noted. \u201cThe music is informed by the way that everyone interacts with it in the room, and there\u2019s this journey of exploring and cutting and recutting that can lead you to places you never would have ended up at on your own.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jackson<\/a>\"Leon<\/a>\"Rodney<\/a>\"Various<\/a>\"Mudhoney<\/a>\"Stone<\/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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