{"id":3139,"date":"2023-06-16T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:48:34","slug":"new-releases-23jun2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-23jun2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 23 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of this week\u2019s sizzlers comes from Joni Mitchell<\/strong>, who stunned the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer when she gave a surprise performance \u2013 her first in 20 years \u2013 delivering a heartfelt set filled with some of her greatest songs. Mitchell\u2019s triumphant return to the stage on 24 July 2022 is now featured on a new live album, At Newport<\/em><\/strong>, which has been produced with close collaborator Brandi Carlile. Mitchell delighted the audience, blending her voice with the other singers on stage on classics like \u2018Big Yellow Taxi\u2019, \u2018A Case Of You\u2019, and \u2018Both Sides Now\u2019. For good measure, she even flashed her guitar prowess, playing a solo instrumental version of \u2018Just Like This Train\u2019.<\/p>\n

12<\/em><\/strong> is an intimate collection of twelve compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/strong>, selected from the musical sketches he recorded like a sound diary during his recent two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. Each numbered title refers to its recording date. About the album, Sakamoto says: \u201c\u2026after I finally \u2018came home\u2019 to my new temporary housing after a big operation, I found myself reaching for the synthesizer. I had no intention of composing something; I just wanted to be showered in sound. I\u2019ll probably continue to keep this kind of \u2018diary.\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The 19-track Melodies on Hiatus<\/em><\/strong> was crafted in a most experimental style: Albert Hammond Jr<\/strong> and his writing partner, the Canadian songwriter and poet Simon Wilcox, never met in person during the process. They had lengthy conversations via the telephone; Simon would jot down notes from Albert\u2019s stream of consciousness and draft the lyrics on her typewriter and drop them into his letterbox. Albert then wove these lyrics into the melodies he had already crafted. The songwriting process became a long distant \u201canonymous love affair of ideas and lyrics\u201d. The album covers themes of childhood, surviving adolescence, adulthood, vulnerability, fame, relationship with self and others, and is Albert\u2019s \u201cdeconstructed broken-down ego reaction\u201d to his previous album, 2018\u2019s Francis Trouble<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wye Oak<\/strong> is Jenn Wasner (of Bon Iver, Flock of Dimes) and Andy Stack (of Helado Negro, Joyero). The duo\u2019s musical partnership bloomed in the uncertainty of this four-year period, whenever they felt that Wye Oak had something to say. They shifted to quickly writing, recording, and releasing digital EPs and singles. To Stack, there is a thread running through what is seemingly chaos, \u201cfinding cheer in the doom of the world\u201d. Every Day Like the Last<\/em> does just that, reminding the listener of the new heights Wye Oak have reached since 2018\u2019s The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs<\/em>, while gazing into the unknown of what\u2019s ahead. The title of this collection acknowledges that duality, posing it like a question: is it \u201cevery day like the day before it\u201d or \u201cevery day like the last day on Earth\u201d?<\/p>\n

Swans<\/strong>\u2019 16th studio album, The Beggar<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em> was written and produced by founding member Michael Gira with contributions from recent and former Swans members, members of Angels of Light, and guest Swan Ben Frost. The album emerged from the 2020 lockdown, as Gira explains: \u201cAfter numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album, leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation, I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from black and white to colour. Now I\u2019m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite colour is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is Lloyd Cole<\/strong>\u2019s latest work, On Pain<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 his thirteenth solo album, following 2019\u2019s critically acclaimed Guesswork<\/em>. The new album consists mainly of electronic sounds. Once Cole had formulated a sonic picture of the record he wanted to make, the arrival of each new song gradually brought that picture into focus. His distinctive voice and sophisticated lyricism invite the listener into the mindset of someone who has reached old age and is coming to terms with this. At times, the experience of listening to On Pain<\/em> is akin to sitting in a sleek, state-of-the-art departure lounge, unsure of quite where you\u2019re waiting to go.<\/p>\n

\"Lloyd<\/a>\"Joni<\/a>\"Ryuichi<\/a>\"Albert<\/a>\"Wye<\/a>\"Swans<\/a><\/div>\n

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