{"id":2788,"date":"2022-02-25T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2022-02-23T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:06:08","slug":"new-releases-4mar2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-4mar2022\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 4 March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We kick off this week\u2019s sparkling six with <strong><em>Oochya!<\/em><\/strong>, the brand new studio album by <strong>Stereophonics<\/strong>, which features 15 tracks including the brand new single \u2018Hanging On Your Hinges\u2019. As Stereophonics celebrate 25 years as one of the UK\u2019s most loved bands, Kelly Jones continues to cement his place amongst the great British songwriters with <em>Oochya!<\/em> Having now achieved 7 number 1 albums and more than 8 million albums sold in the UK alone, Stereophonics stand as undeniable giants of British music.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars<\/em><\/strong> is the album <strong>The Weather Station<\/strong> made during Covid lockdown of 2020. This is a ballads album, containing songs that are quieter, more subdued, than TWS\u2019 breakout success <em>Ignorance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Illsley<\/strong>, bass player of Dire Straits, returns with his 8th solo studio album, the aptly named <em>VIII<\/em>. Following the publication of the successful autobiography <em>My Life in Dire Straits<\/em>, John\u2019s new album instantly evokes the sound of the band and will be a delight to fans old and new. The album features 8 brand-new songs plus a newly recorded studio version of the classic Beatles track \u2018I\u2019m Only Sleeping\u2019 which John performed at the virtual Dear John concert in 2020 to celebrate John Lennon\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the demise of his previous band, Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper \u2013 under his <strong>Modern Nature<\/strong> guise \u2013 has never stopped looking ahead, exploring, and reaching for something further. Since 2019, he\u2019s released an EP, mini album <em>Annual<\/em>, one full-length LP, one 7&#8243; and three live cassettes \u2013 in the process mapping out astonishing new terrain. <strong><em>Island Of Noise<\/em><\/strong> presents an obvious new peak in his discography.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Artifacts<\/em><\/strong> began humbly as a means of compiling a few early <strong>Beirut<\/strong> EPs for a proper physical release. However, as Zach Condon explains in album\u2019s excellent liner notes, reconnecting with old recordings through fresh ears turned a simple reissue project into something much more expansive. \u201c<em>When the decision came to re-release this collection, I found myself digging through hard drives looking for something extra to add to the compilation. What started as a few extra unreleased tracks from my formative recording years quickly grew into an entire extra record\u2019s-worth of music from my past, and a larger project of remixing and remastering everything I found for good measure.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our release of the week is <strong><em>Things Are Great<\/em><\/strong>, the sixth studio album and first record in more than five years from <strong>Band Of Horses<\/strong>. This is a return to the sonic landscape of their earlier work and the kind of raw ethos that lies at the band\u2019s heart: emotionally intense, both on a personal and elemental level. On <em>Things Are Great<\/em> we find founder Ben Bridwell more autobiographical than he\u2019s ever been on record, detailing the nebulous frustrations and quiet indignities of relationship changes and what a person will do to make things right.<\/p>\n<div id=\"thumbs_6\"><a title=\"Band Of Horses - Things Are Great\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/band-of-horses-things-are-great\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"Band Of Horses - Things Are Great\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/BandOfHorses.jpg\" alt=\"Band Of Horses - Things Are Great\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Stereophonics - Oochya!\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/stereophonics-oochya\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"Stereophonics - Oochya!\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/Stereophonics.jpg\" alt=\"Stereophonics - Oochya!\" \/><\/a><a title=\"The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/weather-station-the-how-is-it-that-i-should-look-at-the-stars\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/WeatherStation.jpg\" alt=\"The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars\" \/><\/a><a title=\"John Illsley - VIII\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/john-illsley-viii\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"John Illsley - VIII\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/JohnIllsley.jpg\" alt=\"John Illsley - VIII\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Modern Nature - Island Of Noise\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/modern-nature-island-of-noise\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"Modern Nature - Island Of Noise\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/ModernNature.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Nature - Island Of Noise\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Beirut - Artifacts\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/beirut-artifacts\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover3 alignnone\" title=\"Beirut - Artifacts\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/220304\/Beirut.jpg\" alt=\"Beirut - Artifacts\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We kick off this week\u2019s sparkling six with Oochya!, the brand new studio album by Stereophonics, which features 15 tracks including the brand new single \u2018Hanging On Your Hinges\u2019. As Stereophonics celebrate 25 years as one of the UK\u2019s most loved bands, Kelly Jones continues to cement his place amongst the great British songwriters with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[655,342,1631,1629,1630,36,326,1628],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-band-of-horses","tag-beirut","tag-jack-cooper","tag-john-illsley","tag-modern-nature","tag-new-release","tag-stereophonics","tag-the-weather-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}