The last sprinkling of new music releases for May. 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 …
2:54, 2:54 (Fat Possum)
12 Stones, Beneath The Scars (Executive Music Group)
The Beatles, Yellow Submarine (EMI)
The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Triage Motion Picture Services and Eque Inc., and because of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digi clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements. This was all done by hand, frame by frame. Bonus features for the Yellow Submarine DVD and Blu-ray include a short making-of doc, Mod Odyssey, along with the film’s original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by producer John Coates and art director Heinz Edelmann, several brief interview clips with others involved with the film, storyboard sequences, 29 original pencil drawings and 30 behind-the-scenes photos. A copy of the soundtrack will be re-released the same day.
David Benoit, Conversation (Heads Up)
Big Science, Difficulty (self-release)
Wade Bowen, The Given (Sony Nashville)
Broken Water, Tempest (Hardly Art)
Cadence Weapon, Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class)
Rollie Pemberton is the artist behind Cadence Weapon, a rapper, former Pitchfork writer and poet laureate of Edmonton. This is his third album. Video for the single “Conditioning” below was directed by Tim Kelly…
Cafeteria Dance Fever, Danceology (Hovercraft)
Caramelo, Ride (self-release)
Crystal Bowersox, Once Upon A Time… EP (self-release)
The Dig, Midnight Flowers (Buffalo Jump Records)
Dala, Best Day (Compass)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Here (Community Music / Vagrant Records)
The indie neo-psych rock band's self-produced sophomore LP and follow-up to 2009's Up From Below. Listen to first single "That's What's Up" after the jump along and check out the rest of this week's new releases.
This article appears in May 24-30, 2012.
