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Steve Gunn - Other You (August 27)

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The first Flying Horseman album Wild Eyes, originally released in 2010-ish will be repressed on vinyl for the very first time, as a 2 album golden pressing!! Go get it at:
https://flyinghorseman.bandcamp.com/album/wild-eyes

I sure did :D

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Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia Of The Air (September 17)

Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time (November 12)

Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort To Me (September 10)

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

Pilgrimage of the Soul by MONO

Quote:

Pilgrimage of the Soul is the 11th studio album in the 22-year career of Japanese experimental rock legends, MONO. Recorded and mixed – cautiously, anxiously, yet optimistically – during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020, Pilgrimage of the Soul is aptly named as it not only represents the peaks and valleys where MONO are now as they enter their third decade, but also charts their long, steady journey to this time and place.

Continuing the subtle but profound creative progression in the MONO canon that began with Nowhere Now Here (2019), Pilgrimage of the Soul is the most dynamic MONO album to date (and that’s saying a lot). But where MONO’s foundation was built on the well-established interplay of whisper quiet and devastatingly loud, Pilgrimage of the Soul crafts its magic with mesmerizing new electronic instrumentation and textures, and – perhaps most notably – faster tempos that are clearly influenced by disco and techno. It all galvanizes as the most unexpected MONO album to date – replete with surprises and as awash in splendor as anything this band has ever done.

MONO began in Japan at the end of the 20th Century as a young band equally inspired by the pioneers of moody experimental rock (My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai) and iconic Classical composers (Beethoven, Morricone) who came before them. They have evolved into one of the most inspiring and influential experimental rock bands in their own right. It is only fitting that their evolution has come at the glacial, methodical pace that their patient music demands. MONO is a band who puts serious value in nuance, and offers significant rewards for the wait.

credits
releases September 17, 2021

Bandcamp link for digital pre-order (& 1 track streaming)
Label link for physical pre-order

Hmmm, not sure yet how tempted I am to hear the new Mono, if they are moving into techno disco land. There is already a 69daysofstatic!

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 16: Springtime In New York (1980-1985) (September 17)

Grouper - Shade (October 22)

In the "best/most anticipated singles of 2021" subcategory, Wilco covers Sleater-Kinney, Sleater-Kinney covers Wilco:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/wilco-...de-a-playlist/

Public Service Broadcasting will release their 4th album Bright Magic in September, it's a concept album about Berlin, featuring amongst others Blixa Bargeld on guest vocals. Read the full story about the album on the band's label site PIAS

Wanted
Acid Rooster – Irrlichter
Alexalone - ALEXALONEWORLD
Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Anoice - The Hidden Forest
BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory
Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time
The Body and Big ‡ Brave - Leaving None But Small Birds
Body/Dilloway/Head - Body/Dilloway/Head
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Deerhoof - Actually, You Can
Duran Duran - Future Past
Dust Mountain - Hymns for Wilderness
Maria Faust
Full of Hell - Garden Of Burning Apparition
Grouper - Shade
Steve Gunn - Other You
Haunted Plasma
Hawkwind - Somnia
Howlin Rain - The Dharma Wheel
Aimee Mann - Queens of the Summer Hotel
Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul
Angel Olsen - Aisles
Emma Ruth Rundle
Seafood Walls – XVI
Shy, Low - Snake Behind The Sun
Sulfate - Godzone
Sum Of R - Lahbryce
Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States
VA - I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico
Brandee Younger - Somewhere Different
The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana

Devin Hoff - Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs Of Anne Briggs) (September 24)

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Voices From the Empty Moor seeks to honor the mystery and beauty of Anne Briggs’ music while maintaining its own unique perspective, foregrounding powerful emotion and, hopefully, magical transformation.

Bassist, composer and arranger devin hoff has been intensively studying the music of Anne Briggs for over a decade. Briggs was a leading light of the 1960’s English folk scene, a gifted songwriter and improvisor, as well as an amateur musicologist who revived traditional English, Scottish, and Irish Traveler songs with an unpretentious approach that perhaps presaged the rebellion of punk as much as it honored tradition.

The arrangements here include collaborations with musician friends that share a fascination with mining specific folk forms for universal and timeless truths; singers Julia Holter, Shannon Lay, Sharon Van Etten and Emmett Kelly; oud player Alejandro Farha; saxophonist Howard Wiley and drummer Jim White.

https://devinhoff.bandcamp.com/album...-anne-briggs-2

ETA: download out now - this album is fuckin' awesome!

William Basinski - Music for Abandoned Airports: Tegel (download-only, out now)

Noveller - Aphantasia (download out now, physical September 15)

The Replacements - INSANE 40th anniversary (!) deluxe edition of Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash!