{"id":3124,"date":"2023-05-26T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2023-05-23T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:51:58","slug":"new-releases-2jun2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-2jun2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 2 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of this week\u2019s peaches to be unpeeled is Such Ferocious Beauty<\/em><\/strong>, which is vintage Cowboy Junkies<\/strong> and another dimension from the lo-fi Canadian band that comprises \u2026 well, family. A tangle of sonic textures, the album is a rumination on ageing, losing parents, facing mortality and creating space for one\u2019s life in the midst of the ruin that comes from merely living. \u201cMike has never shied away from the darker, harder and sometimes uglier realities of our human condition,<\/em>\u201d Margo Timmins explains of the band\u2019s singular focus, \u201cnor has he shied from its beauty. Thankfully, with one comes the other.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Shadow Kingdom<\/em><\/strong> presents Bob Dylan<\/strong> performing revelatory 21st-century versions of songs from his storied back catalogue, including fan favourites like \u2018Forever Young\u2019 and \u2018It\u2019s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u2019, plus deep catalogue gems such as \u2018Queen Jane Approximately\u2019 and \u2018The Wicked Messenger\u2019. Originally reinterpreted for an exclusive streaming film event, which aired in July 2021, Shadow Kingdom<\/em> will now be available on vinyl and CD for the first time. The album\u2019s set list includes 13 original songs hand-picked by Dylan for his Shadow Kingdom performance.<\/p>\n

I Thought I Was Better Than You<\/em><\/strong> marks a new era for Baxter Dury<\/strong>, and with this new era comes a new character: \u2018Faux-confrontational\u2019, Baxter calls him. Here, not only is he recounting his childhood, he\u2019s also reckoning with it. Instead of just swinging blindfolded at his past with a baseball bat, he talks openly about the toxic cocktail of being born into unfortunately fortunate circumstances, with a famous surname but no structure or sense of responsibility with which to reap its rewards. \u201cReally, it\u2019s about being trapped in an awkward place between something you\u2019re actually quite good at and somebody else\u2019s success.<\/em>\u201d That \u2018somebody else\u2019 being his dad, Ian Dury. As one of the album centrepieces \u2013 \u2018Shadow\u2019 \u2013 agonisingly puts it: \u201cBut no one will get over that you\u2019re someone\u2019s son \/ Even though you want to be like Frank Ocean \/ But you don\u2019t sound like him, you sound just like Ian.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Including the singles \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019 and \u2018Easy Now\u2019 plus an album version of the demo \u2018We\u2019re Gonna Get There in the End\u2019, Council Skies<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the fourth album from Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/strong> \u2013 is yet another songwriting masterpiece. The deluxe 2-CD edition features a bonus disc including previously unreleased live sessions, instrumentals, and remixes from The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith, Pet Shop Boys, and David Holmes, while the vinyl\u2019s bonus 7″ includes the demo \u2018We\u2019re Gonna Get There In The End\u2019 and an acoustic version of the single \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019.<\/p>\n

Twice Grammy-nominated band Rival Sons<\/strong> bring us their anxiously awaited new full-length album, Darkfighter<\/em><\/strong>, produced by long-time collaborator Dave Cobb. Vocalist Jay Buchanan shares: \u201cYou live your life knowing that the sword of Damocles is hanging over your head by a thread. You\u2019re fully aware of the impermanence of your existence, but you can\u2019t think about it all the time. I used to work in a mortuary as a service advisor for a few years, driving and opening the hearses. I\u2019d attend three funerals per day. Sometimes, they would be filled over capacity. Other times, it would just be me, a priest, and a hole in the ground. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are; the great equaliser is coming. I was thinking of this because the music sounded like pursuit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is But Here We Are<\/em><\/strong>. This is in nearly equal measure the eleventh Foo Fighters<\/strong> album and the first chapter of the band\u2019s new life. Sonically channelling the naivet\u00e9 of their 1995 debut while informed by decades of maturity and depth, But Here We Are<\/em> is the sound of brothers finding refuge in the music that brought them together in the first place 28 years ago, a process that was as therapeutic as it was about a continuation of life.<\/p>\n

\"Foo<\/a>\"Cowboy<\/a>\"Bob<\/a>\"Baxter<\/a>\"Noel<\/a>\"Rival<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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