New Releases for December 8, 2023

SYLVAN ESSO NO RULES SANDY - LOMA VISTA LP

Out of all their collaborations, it's maybe too romantic to say that Sylvan Esso is the most essential — but it's uniquely thrilling to witness the way Meath and Sanborn see each other in every song. You don't have to know yourself to know another, but there's alchemy and an open doorway if you do, and No Rules Sandy hints at the payoff of walking through it together. There's something captivating about watching two people perform a trust fall again and again and again; listening to their music is like closing your eyes and tipping backwards yourself. - NPR


NEIL YOUNG BEFORE AND AFTER - REPRISE CD/LP

Perhaps the transition from the mid-’70s outtake “Homefires” (“Gotta keep the home fires burning”) to the Buffalo Springfield classic “Burned” (“Been burned, and with both feet on the ground!”) is a little on the nose. And “Mother Earth” feels like a mandatory commitment to fill Young’s quota of at least one eco-themed song per album. But these quirks aren’t to the album’s detriment. In much the same way as Young’s 2012 autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, felt truer for having been written out of order, intuitively as the memories occurred to him, Before and After’s idiosyncratic nature only makes it that much more appealing. - SLANT





FIONA APPLE EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE LP

FIONA APPLE THE IDLER WHEEL IS WISER… LP

FIONA APPLE TIDAL LP

FIONA APPLE WHEN THE PAWN… LP

ARIZONA ARIZONA LP

BELPHEGOR BONDAGE GOAT ZOMBIE LP

BELPHEGOR TOTENRITUAL LP

BIG THIEF MASTERPIECE LP

BOYGENIUS BOYGENIUS LP

BRING ME THE HORIZON SEMPITERNAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY LP

JOANNA BROUK SOUNDS OF THE SEA LP

APOLLO BROWN & PLANET ASIA SARDINES LP

C-CLAMP DREAM BACKWARDS LP

CANDLEMASS ANCIENT DREAMS LP

CANNIBAL CORPSE VIOLENCE UNIMAGINED LP

CAR SEAT HEADREST FACES FROM THE MASQUERADE LP

CARPOOL EROTIC NIGHTMARE SUMMER LP

CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK PARDON MY FRENCH (10TH ANNIVERSARY) LP

COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA BASIE SWINGS THE BLUES LP

CRUCIAMENTUM OBSIDIAN REFRACTIONS CD/LP

JAMIE CULLUM TWENTYSOMETHING LP

CYMANDE SECOND TIME ROUND LP

AISHA DEVI DEATH IS HOME LP

DIMMU BORGIR INSPIRATIO PROFANUS LP

DJ RASHAD DOUBLE CUP LP

DREAM UNENDING & WORM STARPATH CD/LP

FAITH HEALER HAND THAT FITS THE GLOVE LP

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD BIG BIG LOVE LP

AARON FRAZER BRING YOU A RING / YOU DONT WANNA BE MY BABY 7”

FRNKIERO & THE CELLABRATION STOMACHACHES LP

VAROUS ARTISTS FROZEN: THE SONGS LP

FULL OF HELL GARDEN OF BURNING LP

GHOST IF YOU HAVE GHOST LP

GHOST MELIORA/POPESTAR LP

GOOSE LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL LP

GRIEVES THE COLLECTIONS OF MR. NICE GUY LP

GUIDED BY VOICES NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP LP

PETER GUTTERIDGE PURE LP

HIROMI SONICWONDERLAND LP

HUM YOU'D PREFER AN ASTRONAUT LP

IN FLAMES REROUTE TO REMAIN LP

IN FLAMES SENSE OF PURPOSE LP

N FLAMES SOUNDS OF A PLAYGROUND FADING LP

IN THIS MOMENT GODMODE LP

MELVIN JACKSON FUNKY SKULL LP

JOY DIVISION LEIGH ROCK FESTIVAL LP

THE KILLERS REBEL DIAMONDS CD/LP

LOW CHRISTMAS LP

JUNIOR MANCE JUNIOR LP

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA MILLION MASKS OF GOD LP

JACKIE MITTOO & THE SOUL BROTHERS LAST TRAIN TO SKAVILLE LP

MORTUARY DRAPE BLACK MIRROR LP

AUGUSTUS MULLER MY ANIMAL (ORIGINAL SCORE) LP

MICHAEL NAU ACCOMPANY LP

NICO MARBLE INDEX LP

OS MUTANTES EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE LP

PALE JAY MY DIRTY DESIRE LP

CHARLIE PARKER NOW'S THE TIME LP

DOLLY PARTON EARLY DOLLY LP

PHISH FARMHOUSE LP

RED RED MEAT BUNNY GETS PAID LP

ROBBIE ROBERTSON KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON CD

ROTTING CHRIST THY MIGHTY CONTRACT LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS SOUL JAZZ RECORDS PRESENTS STUDIO ONE ROOTS 2 LP

SYLVAN ESSO NO RULES SANDY LP

THROBBING GRISTLE MUTANT TG CD

IKE & TINA TURNER BEST OF LP

ULVER VARGNATT LP

JOSHUA VAN TASSEL RECENTLY BEAUTIFUL LP

YANCEY BOYS SUNSET BLVD LP

NEIL YOUNG BEFORE AND AFTER CD/LP

JOHN ZORN PARRHESIASTES CD