Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis. This week’s features the soundtrack to the much anticipated Metallica film, the debut album from Palms, a new musical direction from The Field, and more!
Metallica
Metallica Through The Never
The soundtrack companion to the forthcoming groundbreaking 3D feature film, Metallica Through The Never has just been announced for release.
The two disc CD set highlights last year’s career spanning sets at Rexall Place in Edmonton and Rogers Arena in Vancouver, where the band filmed all performance footage featured in the film.
Along with th CD and digital release, there will also be a vinyl edition of the soundtrack album available in both 33 1/3RPM and special limited numbered 45RPM versions later in the spring.
Metallica Through The Years is out September 20th through Blackened Recordings/Universal Music.
Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. THE ECSTASY OF GOLD (LIVE)
2. CREEPING DEATH (LIVE)
3. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (LIVE)
4. FUEL (LIVE)
5. RIDE THE LIGHTNING (LIVE)
6. ONE (LIVE)
7. THE MEMORY REMAINS (LIVE)
8. WHEREVER I MAY ROAM (LIVE)
9. CYANIDE (LIVE)
10. …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (LIVE)
Disc 2
1. MASTER OF PUPPETS (LIVE)
2. BATTERY (LIVE)
3. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS (LIVE)
4. ENTER SANDMAN (LIVE)
5. HIT THE LIGHTS (LIVE)
6. ORION (LIVE)
The Field
Cupid’s Head
Swedish electronic experimentalist Axel Willner, will be releasing the follow up to 2011’s Looping State Of Mind later this year, it has been announced.
As Spin reports, “the upcoming album marks a “darker” turn for producer Axel Willner, who for the first time recorded “using only hardware, no computers.””
As the fourth long player release for the producer/musician, it is said Cupid’s Head will be a minimalistic effort.
Wilder adds “Cupid’s Head is about visions of the future, tiny actions and their consequences, about sentimentality and most certainly… about life.”
Cupid’s Head is out September 30th through Kompact.
Tracklisting:
01 They Won’t See Me
02 Black Sea
03 Cupid’s Head
04 A Guided Tour
05 No. No…
06 20 Seconds Of Affection
Palms
Step Brothers
Al Grigg (vocals, guitars, writing of songs) and Tom Wallace (drums, vocals) formed Palms after retiring their previous collective, Red Riders. They started recording what was to become Step Brothers with Owen Penglis (Straight Arrows, Royal Headache) in his kitchen for the price of a kebab.
Now, with the addition of a few more players, the band describe their first LP as “a collection of short, mostly loud songs written in one bedroom, recorded in another, about wanting someone else to let you into their bedroom.”
After supporting the likes of Children Collide, Bad Dreems, Mining Boom,Surfer Blood, King Kahn, DZ Deathrays, the band are hitting the road later this yer with Cloud Control no doubt treating fans to material from Step Brothers.
Step Brothers is out August 30th through Shock.
Tracklisting:
01. In The Morning
02. Love
03. Don’t be Ashamed
04. This Last Year
05. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
06. In My Heart
07. You Were Mine
08. Summer Is Done With Us
09. Yours Mine
10. End Of Forever
11. Far GoneTracklisting:
Panic! At The Disco
Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die
Produced by Butch Walker (Fall Out Boy, Weezer), the bands fourth LP sees the band paying homage to their Las Vegas roots via a glittery sonic approach inspired by their ever-increasing collection of vintage and modern synthesizers.
While jam-packed with high-energy songs, the album also features Brendan Urie’s most open and introspective songwriting to date.
Simultaneously celebratory and cathartic, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! is Panic! At The Disco at their distinctive best – personal, potent, and utterly irresistible.
Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die is out October 4th through Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Dr Dog
B-Room
Showcasing some of their most mature, streamlined and soulful writing to date, B-Room is the culmination of a complete overhaul of Dr Dog’s writing and recording process, which finds them in a new self-built studio, writing songs live in rehearsal, and using the rock solid groove of the band, honed through workmanlike touring, as a powerful compositional tool.
It may be obvious as the first track opens with the Gamble and Huff inspired, “The Truth.” But as the album progresses the music continues to take on a soulfulness that is vibrant in its simplicity.
As McMicken put it, “The hallmark of soul music for me is that the arrangements are simple rather than virtuosic, and that the sound creates a feeling that is intuitive rather than intellectual.” To listen to the “The Truth” go here
B-Room is out October 4th through Anti
Tracklisting:
The Truth
Broken Heart
Minding the Usher
Distant Light
Phenomenon
Too Weak to Ramble
Long Way Down
Cuckoo
Twilight
Rock & Roll
Love
Nellie
The Naked And Famous
In Rolling Waves
In Rolling Waves follows the band’s widely lauded debut Passive Me, Aggressive You (2011).
In 2012, after two years of almost constant touring, the New Zealand five-piece set up home in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles to begin work on the twelve track album.
Produced by singer Thom Powers and keyboardist Aaron Short, In Rolling Waves also credits Justin Meldal-Johnsen (M83, Beck and NIN) with co-production on two tracks. Alan Moulder mixed In Rolling Waves at his Assault and Battery Studio in London.
In Rolling Waves is out September 13th through Is;and Record Australia
Tracklisting:
A Stillness
Hearts Like Ours
Waltz
Rolling Waves
The Mess
Grow Old
Golden Girl
I Kill Giants
What We Want
We Are Leaving
To Move With Purpose
A Small Reunion
