Albums in Stores – Aug. 12th, 2022

Holy shit, that Norma Jean record…so good on first listen through, wow…love the chaos of the tracks.. can’t wait for repeated listens

 

This new Norma Jean album is their absolute best

 

Rat Tally!

 

this is good

 

Take It To Heart’s new EP also dropped today! (RIYL hardcore a la have heart)

 

Sylvan Esso & Norma Jean. Also gonna pick up that Beastie Boys Check Your Head 30th anniversary vinyl and spin that!

 

Royal Coda "To Only a Few At First"
Norma Jean "Deathrattle Sing For Me"
Pale Waves "Unwanted"
Heart of Gold "Beautiful Dangerous"

The new Boundaries track is great! (RIYL: metalcore that sounds like 2005)

 

ALBUMS & EPS:
A-Z - 'A-Z'
Acid Blade - 'Power Dive'
All The Damn Vampires - 'Synth City'
Arch Enemy - 'Deceivers'
Aronius - 'Irkalla'
Ascent Of Autumn - 'Awakened'
Boris - 'Heavy Rocks (2022)'
Carrion Vael - 'Abhorrent Obsessions'
Court Order - 'Kingdom Gone'
Danny Elfman - 'Bigger. Messier.'
DREGG - 'The DREGGmusic Mixtape'
Earthgazer - 'Terroremix'
Faye - 'You're Better'
Frontier Season - 'Hopeless Confessions'
Fugitive - 'Maniac'
GEL / Cold Brats - 'Shock Therapy (Split)'
Goo Goo Dolls - 'Chaos In Bloom'
Grimmwood - 'Inheritance'
The Halo Effect - 'Days Of The Lost'
Heart Of Gold - 'Beautiful Dangerous'
Hell Fire - 'Reckoning'
Hollywood Undead - 'Hotel Kalifornia'
Idle Discourse - 'Volume One'
Immunity - 'Breathe'
In Disarray - 'Trauma'
Kyle Ekstrom - 'Florescence'
Last Sight - 'No Matter What'
Life's Question - 'World Full Of...'
Locrian - 'Ghost Frontiers'
Locrian - 'New Catastrophism'
Marlene Mendoza - 'Insanity'
Milkblood - 'Dream Slow'
No Faith In Fortune - 'Dysthymia'
No Relief - 'Ritual Oppressor'
Norma Jean - 'Deathrattle For Me'
Of Virtue - 'Sinner'
Pale Ache - 'Mourning As a Metaphor'
Pale Waves - 'Unwanted'
Papa Roach - 'Ego Trip Chronicles: Self-Aware'
Rat Tally - 'In My Car'
Ripped Away - 'Permanent Pain'
Royal Coda - 'To Only A Few At First'
Serration / A Mourning Star - 'Promo 2022'
Seventh Storm - 'Maledictus'
SHIIVA - 'Cyclone'
Sink In - 'Welcome To Phantomland'
Take It To Heart - 'Hymns For The Hopeless'
Thelma Plum - 'Meanjin'
Tony Molina - 'In The Fade'
Unprocessed - 'Gold'
WAAX - 'At Least I'm Free'
Westhand - 'Bitterblossom'
Wolfbrigade - 'Anti-Tank Dogs'
Zabbeth - 'Zabbeth'

You can also check out my full release schedule spreadsheet for things you may have missed throughout the year or to look at what's yet to come.

SINGLES:
156/Silence
A Place For Owls
A Wake In Providence
Alvvays
Amarionette
The Antichrist Imperium
Anti-Flag (feat. Tim McIlrath & Brian Baker)
As Paradise Falls
Asylums
Avantasia
Aviana (feat. Marcus Vik)
Bayside
Beauty School
Becko
Berried Alive
Braids
Breezy Supreme
Blodhemn
Bloodbath (feat. Luc Lemay)
Boundaries
Broken Bells
Call (feat. Daryl Palumbo) [stream]
Catholic Guilt
Chelsea Grin
Constructing Infinity
Crippled Black Phoenix
daine
Dead Eyed Creek (Satyricon, ex-Triptykon)
Delain
Design The Void
Designer Disguise
Despite Exile
Dimmu Borgir
Downsides
Eat Your Heart Out
Eaten By Shark
Enter Shikari (feat. Wargasm)
Epica
Exmortus
fallfiftyfeet
fats’e (feat. splashgvng)
Fit For A King
FLOYA
Frostbitt
God Alone
Hallie
Havens (Two songs)
Hexed
Hills Have Eyes
Hive
Honest Crooks
I, The Machine
Icon For Hire
Jamie Lenman
The John Candy
Kate Nash
Kid Bookie
Kramies
The Last Martyr
Laurence Jones
Lionsmane
Maggie Lindemann
Megadeth
Miss May I
Mortality Rate (Two songs)
Muttering
My City, My Secret
Nasty Nesto & The Sadbois
Negative Zero
Neverland In Ashes
The New Roses
New Years Day
NOTD (feat. Kiiara)
Nothing More
Notions
Novacub
Oliver Francis
Otherwise
Our Last Night (Two covers)
Out Of Nowhere
Phobophilic
Pijn
PinkPantheress
plxntkid (feat. Joshua Roberts)
Point North
Poly-Math
Razor
Regulate
Reliqa (feat. Sean Harmanis)
Revocation (feat. Trevor Strnad & George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher)
Rival Schools (Acoustic)
Royal Coda
Royals
runnner
Russian Circles
Shannen Moser
Sheer Cerebral Power
shinigami
Single Wound
Slaughter To Prevail
Sleeping With Sirens (Two songs)
Snow Coats
Sodom
Sonata Arctica
SpiritWorld (feat. Dwid Hellion & Thomas Pridgen)
Spkezy
The Subways
Sylosis
Telle (The Word Alive) (feat. Rory Rodriguez)
Transviolet
Trash Boat (feat. Kamiyada+) (Remix)
Trial (Swe)
Uni/Vs
Until I Wake
VELVETEARS
Venom Prison (Stampin' Ground cover)
Wednesday 13
Weeping Wound
Wraith
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yumi And The Weather

As ever, all of the above singles have been shoved into my weekly update #NewMusicFriday playlist (below).

You can subscribe to my newsletter to get it emailed to you weekly along with the new album/EP releases of that week.

 

Norma Jean for me. Can't wait.

 

I’ll have to check out this Norma Jean record everyone is talking about! Here’s what I got today.

Albums & EP’s:
Sink In
AM0RA EP
Royal Coda
DREGG
Keep Flying EP

Singles:
Strawberry Girls
Have Mercy
Northvale with The Home Team
Good Terms (acoustic)
156/Silence
Misplaced
Bayside
Berried Alive
Homesafe
Beach Weather
Sleeping with Sirens
Two and a Half Girl
Point North
Trophy Girls with Hit the Lights
Eat Your Heart Out
Fluorescents
Amarionette
Sincerely
Anti-Flag with Tim McIlrath
Setbacks
Black It Out with All Systems Go
NOVACUB
Regulate
The Higher
Val Astaire
Press Club
Sweep Echo

 

I will forever find the direction Danny Elfman took incredibly fascinating. Same guy who did Tim Burton soundtracks is putting out alternative electronic instrumental albums haha.

 

You had me at "Have Heart"

 

Messing - Couldn't Be Better
A band called Messing released an album titled Couldn't Be Better. It reminds me a ton of the indie rock aspects of Say Anything's early stuff. Pretty fun, catchy music!

 

And before the soundtracks he was the lead singer and main songwriter for Oingo Boingo.

 

Had no idea. What a band name haha.

 

They came out of a musical theatre group called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.

Definitely check them out, hugely influential band combining elements of jazz, new wave, punk, ska, and later turning toward a more alt-rock sound. Bands like Mr. Bungle, Primus, RHCP, Incubus, 311, No Doubt were all influenced by them.

 

Steve Moakler - Make a Little Room

 

If you haven't watched any of the videos from Big Mess, I highly recommend doing that to get an even further look into his weird genius brain

 

Maybe I'm just an old man, but I'm kind of excited by the new Goo Goo Dolls album that was produced by John Rzeznik. Trying to put some thoughts down for a review of this one soon.

 

Danger Mouse + Black Thought.

 

Singles

The Summer Set
Enter Shikari ft Wargasm
Homesafe
Berried Alive
Val Astaire
Trophy Girls (Omar from Hit The Lights)
fallfiftyfeet
Bayside
Anti-Flag ft Tim McIlrath & Brian Baker
Have Mercy

Albums
Keep Flying EP
Take It To Heart EP
Norma Jean
Royal Coda
Messing
The Goo Goo Dolls
Pale Waves

I probably wouldn't have checked out Take It To Heart, Messing, or The Goo Goo Dolls if people hadn't mentioned them specifically in comments hyping them up today, so thank you all

 

Goo Goo Dolls, Thelma Plum, Pale Waves

 

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
OSEES - A Foul Form
Megan Thee Stallion - Traumazine
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing For Me
Pale Waves - Unwanted
Tony Molina - In The Fade

Singles:

Pixies, Rival Schools, The Black Angels, High Vis, Orbits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Regulate (hardcore), Broken Bells, Anti Flag, Santigold, Little Dragon, Alvvays, No Age, The Murlocs, Ari Lennox, Beyoncé w/ The Isley Brothers, Death Cab For Cutie, Surf Curse, Vundabar

 

Really enjoying the new Goo Goo Dolls. If you like or tolerate their late-career output I recommend. If you’re looking for another Superstar Car Wash or even another Let Love In you might hate it.