The last wave of music releases for October. 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.
Angra, Best Reached Horizons (Steamhammer/SPV)
Andrew Bird, Hands of Glory (Mom + Pop)
The whistling troubadour — who stopped here earlier this month — issues his second album in 2012, an eight-song “musical companion” to Break It Yourself recorded live with a small band around a single microphone placed in a barn, and made up of of old country cover tunes and re-arrangements of tracks from the aforementioned album. Listen to the spellbinding “Three White Horses” below.
Black Country Communion, Afterglow (J&R Adventures)
The classic rock n’ roll revivalist supergroup features bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), guitarist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Jason Bonham (son of the late John), and keys player Derek Sherinian (Alice Cooper, Dream Theater); this is their third studio album.
Paul Buchanan, Mid Air (Essential Music)
Chad Valley, Young Hunger (Cascine)
Cody ChesnuTT, Landing On A Hundred (Vibration Vineyard)
The ’60s soul revivalist presents his sophomore LP, recorded in both Cologne, Germany and Al Green’s old studio in Memphis, Tenn., and funded via a successful Kickstarter.com campaign that raised him more than $22k. Check out “Everybody’s Brother” below, a performance of a track off the album he presented as part of the campaign.
The Coup, Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
Cradle Of Filth, The Manticore And Other Horrors (Nuclear Blast America)
Delerium, Music Box Opera (Nettwerk)
Egyptian Project, Ya Amar (Six Degrees)
Early Graves, Red Horse (No Sleep)
Flyleaf, New Horizons (A&M/Octone)
Nick Gill, Waves Are Only Water (Rock Ridge Music)
Macy Gray, Talking Book (429 Records)
Cee-Lo Green, Cee Lo’s Magic Moment (Elektra)
The Buddha-like hip-pop artist tries his hand at a soulful holiday-themed album — “All I Need Is Love” mashed up with “Mah Nah Me Nah” and featuring the Muppets, “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch” with Straight No Chaser, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” with Christina Aguilera, and many more. Listen to “All I Need Is Love” after the jump and check out the rest of this week’s new releases…
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2012.
