• New Release Round-Up 01-11-19

  
  
  

  

  Old Sea Brigade - Ode To A Friend - Nettwerk Records
  Old Sea Brigade releases his highly anticipated full-length debut Ode To A Friend. While the songs remain rooted in Americana, indie, rock, and ambient soundscapes, they also toss and turn between analog cinematic flourishes and provocative lyricism. At times singer-songwriter, other times indie-rock – no matter the inspiration behind the mélange of styles, Cramer has created a soundscape of the utmost sincerity and beauty. Throughout Ode...Old Sea Brigade tackles one of life’s most complex crises: how to make each day’s fleeting moments amount to something. It's these deeply introspective, meditative songs that make Old Sea Brigade so compelling.
  
   
  
  
  
  

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  Taking Back Sunday - Twenty - Craft Recordings
  Twenty is a career retrospective, celebrating 20 years of Taking Back Sunday. The collection spans all seven of their full-length studio albums: Tell All Your Friends, Where You Want To Be, Louder Now, New Again, Taking Back Sunday, Happiness Is and Tidal Wave. Whether your introduction to the band was singing along to "A Decade Under The Influence" in a sweaty club or hearing "MakeDamnSure" or "Sink Into Me" on the radio, Twenty is a look back at some of the highlights from this genre-defying band. Additionally, fans will be able to hear newly recorded songs, which hint at the direction that Taking Back Sunday are heading in the coming years.
  
  

  

  Ski Mask the Slump God - Stokeley - Republic
  Ski Mask the Slump God releases his debut album Stokeley via Victor Victor / Republic Records. The breakout album includes the fan favorite, "Nuketown" featuring Juice WRLD as well as the underground hits "Foot Fungus" and "Faucet Failure."
  
   
  
  
  
  

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  Tommy Emmanuel / John Knowles - Heart Songs - CGP Sounds
  In music as in love, one + one can add up to not two but a new and greater one. On Heart Songs two of the world's greatest guitarists, Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles, make this clear. Both are masters of their instrument, honored by the iconic Chet Atkins with the rare designation of CGP (Certified Guitar Players). Their early journeys were dissimilar. Emmanuel began his in Australia, grew up on the road with his family's band, settled as a teenager in Sydney and left his rock band to launch a spectacular solo career. Knowles followed a more academic path, eventually earning a PH.D. in physics from Texas Christian University but then electing to pursue his true love of music. Inevitably they would cross paths, become friends and perform on stages and clinics around the world. Their styles are distinctive but for that very reason they mesh seamlessly, with Knowles generally creating sophisticated but compelling foundations over which Emmanuel's guitar soars in astonishing yet always musical flights.
  
  Soilwork - Verkligheten - Nuclear Blast America
  Soilwork has been around, in one form or another, for twenty years now. Some people say that they haven’t made anything worth listening to after “Steelbath Suicide”. Some have only heard “Stabbing The Drama. Some think “The Living Infinite”, the band’s 2013 double disc release, was quite epic. It’s all good. At this point in a band’s career, you can either choose the nostalgia route, playing old albums in their entirety, because that makes an easy package for promoters to sell. Verkligheten, the title of Soilwork’s latest offering, is the Swedish word for reality, the entity that we’re all trying to escape from. Verkligheten is their attempt to try and go somewhere else, to express all those things that are born in between hypnagogic states and frenzies of hyperrealism. SOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. They don’t have to try and tidy things up by using clichés like personal and/or musical differences. It has been hell. They are not young anymore, and their reality these days is the hellhounds on their tails, the ghosts in their subconscious and the coldness of existence that starts eating at the soul the very day that you leave the womb. We can no longer escape the fact that we’re vulnerable to the shortcomings of life itself.
  
  boy pablo - Soy Pablo + Roy Pablo - U OK?
  Norwegian 19 year old indie pop sensation boy pablo releases double EP on 2cd set full of winningly naïve but old soul pop. Disc 1 is the brand new Soy Pablo EP, featuring new single “Feeling Lonely” along with “Losing You” and “Sick Feeling.” Disc 2 is his Roy Pablo EP from 2017, never before released on CD. Tremendous press; Pitchfork, Fader, Pigeons & Planes, i-D. Touring the world this fall with two dates in LA… full US tour in Spring 2019. The EPs are also available on individual Vinyl pressings Soy Pablo EP [Light Blue Vinyl], Roy Pablo EP [White Vinyl].
  

  
  

   

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK	CURRENT SINGLES/EPs
  Born Of Osiris - The Simulation Randy Houser - Magnolia Jacob Banks - Village Gregory Porter - One Night Only (Live At The Royal Albert Hall) [CD/DVD] The Kentucky Headhunters - Live At The Ramblin' Man Fair Nailed To Obscurity - Black Frost & More .....	Meat Puppets - Nine Pins Galactic - Going Straight Crazy (Feat. Princess Shaw) Keuning - The Night Insane Clown Posse - Fury! Royal Trux - White Stuff Swervedriver - Spiked Flower Michael Franti & Spearhead - When The Sun Begins To Shine The Dandy Warhols - Motor City Steel Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave

   

  UPCOMING RELEASES 

  

  Guster - Look Alive - Nettwerk Records
  Guster's latest studio album Look Alive was produced by English musician, composer, and producer Leo Abrahams (Regina Spektor, Brian Eno/David Byrne, Belle and Sebastian, Chromatics). The forthcoming LP maintains the band’s unique charm while charting new sonic and lyric pathways. It will be available on CD, Vinyl, and Indie Exclusive Dandelion Yellow Vinyl.
  
  
  
  
  

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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

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• GRIZFOLK EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW

  

  Listen to alternative band Grizfolk's latest single “Spoonful,” which channels a retro sound to deliver a dark tale of yearning for someone out of reach. And check out their upcoming song [exclusively at this record store], "Heavy Crown," which melds a danceable bass line with jangly pianos to create an upbeat track that is sneakily about the tough subject of fighting for what's right in today's complicated world. See Grizfolk with Andrew McMahon & The Wilderness on tour and listen to their two latest singles now. 

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• Employee Picks For 2018- Top 5 Albums

  Check out what our staff is listening to.  Here's a list of their Top 5 Albums of the year!

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• Fozzy Meet And Greet In-Store Event!

  

  Come Meet Fozzy! The band will be doing an autograph signing at our Golden Valley location. Anyone who purchases the new Fozzy CD or LP "Judas" at any of our locations will be admitted to the autograph line. Your receipt from the purchase is your ticket to the event, so don't lose it! The band will sign your CD or LP and ONE additional item. First come, first served. See you then!

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• Donate To Charity - Win A Beer-Filled Flaming Lips 7"!!

  

  One of the many cool things happening at our Golden Valley location this Record Store Day​ is that we are going to giveaway a super limited edition beer-filled Flaming Lips​ 7" from Dogfish Head​! Only 100 of these were made!

  To receive an entry, make a donation of $5 or more to PRISM Golden Valley, MN​ at our Golden Valley location or at Liquor Barrel Golden Valley​ between 9am-5pm on 4/21. We will announce on our social media at 6pm (do not have to be present to win). Furthermore, our neighbors at New Bohemia​ will have the special Flaming Lips collaboration beer on tap and Liquor Barrel Golden Valley will have bottles for sale as well on Record Store Day!

  PRISM Golden Valley, MN is a nonprofit food shelter in Golden Valley MN. They have been a resource in the area since 1970. Prism programs include: Marketplace Food Shelf, Housing Programs, Children's Programs, and Shop for Change Thrift Shop.

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