The final round of new releases for July. 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.
Alela Diane, About Farewell (Rusted Blue)
Folks songstress Alela Diane presents her new record issued on her own label, which deals most directly with her recent divorce while looking back at her entire last decade of relationships, and is delivered in a stripped-down format built around her voice and simple guitar arrangements. Video for the title track below.
AlunaGeorge, Body Music (Vagrant)
Backstreet Boys, In A World Like This (K-BAHN/BMG)
Chimaira, Crown of Phantoms (eOne)
Earl Sweatshirt, Doris (Columbia)
Obi Fernandez, Confessions, Waves and the Garden State Obi Fernandez (Paper + Plastick)
Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1 (Prospect Park/Universal)
Fortune Howl, Earthbound (Relief In Abstract)
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin, Bakersfield (MCA Nashville)
Buddy Guy, Rhythm & Blues (RCA)
Heaven, Telepathic Love (Goodnight Records)
Joan of Arc, Testimonium Songs (Polyvinyl)
Russell Howard, City Heart + (Rock Ridge Music)
Ethan Johns, If Not Now Then When? (Three Crows Records)
The U.S. release of the full-length debut album by Johns, a British producer, engineer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who's worked with the likes of Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, Tom Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Crowded House, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, among others. Music video for "Don't Reach Too Far" after the jump along with the rest of this week's releases…
This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2013.