The third week of releases in July. I've included info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
3 Pill Morning, Black Tie Love Affair (A2Z)
Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra, Last Odyssey (Ubiquity)
Alberta Cross, Songs Of Patience (ATO)
Animal Kingdom, Looking Away (Mom & Pop Music)
Baroness, Yellow & Green (Relapse)
Belle Histoire, Dreamers (InVogue)
Marc Berger, Ride (Real Records)
Don Bryant, Precious Soul (Fat Possum)
Todd Carey, The Duets (Rock Ridge Music)
Citizen Cope, One Lovely Day (Rainwater Recordings)
Jimmy Cliff, Rebirth (Universal Music Enterprises/Hip-O)
Conveyor, Conveyor (Paper Garden Records)
The Drowning Men, All Of The Unknown (Borstal Beat)
Elton vs. Pnau, Good Morning To The Night (Casablanca)
This 2012 remix project finds the Australian duo reworking Elton John's catalog from between 1970 and 1976, like Balearic-disco opener "Good Morning to the Night," which includes elements of "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" (listen below). ''I gave them free rein on all my master tapes and they have come up with some extraordinary new versions of our songs,'' Elton John explained in a recent interview.
The Farm Inc., The Farm Inc. (Warner Bros.)
The Fixx, Beautiful Friction (Kirtland)
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (Def Jam)
Brad Hammonds, Greene Street (self-release)
Hellyeah, Band Of Brothers (Eleven Seven Music)
The band featuring Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Tom Maxwell (Nothingface), Bobzilla (Damageplan), and Chad Grey and Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne.
A Hero A Fake, The Future Again (Victory)
Icky Blossoms, Icky Blossoms (Saddle Creek)
The self-titled debut album from the Omaha trio was produced by Dave Sitek from TV On The Radio, first single "Babes" lauded by Rolling Stone as a "girl-power dance anthem." Check out the video for the song after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases.
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2012.