2021 Albums

To be fair, Friday was taken.

Lorde Ep
Te Ao Mārama

Lorde has dropped a surprise EP of five tracks from her Solar Power album, re-recorded in the indigenous Māori language.

Chart battles are a thing to behold in the UK… A bunch of Manic Street Preachers fans are peeved and battling Steps fans on twitter, because Steps topped them this week for first week sales..

which is how i found out about a new Stranglers record "Dark Matters" that came in third on the charts… gave it a listen and it's worth of a repeat or two

all is well with the world as the Manics in the end topped the charts… although quite frankly my money is on the fact the Steps album is more fun to listen to…

kosmo wrote:
all is well with the world as the Manics in the end topped the charts… although quite frankly my money is on the fact the Steps album is more fun to listen to…

While I adore their early stuff, MSP lost me somewhere around 2003. I can't imagine sitting down and listening to new material by them in 2021.

Agreed. It was great to finally see them and the Holy Bible is one of the best albums ever made. But they’re done.

NRBQ - Dragnet
Omnivore Records
Friday November  12th

Aeon Station - Observatory
SubPop Records
Friday December 10th

https://aeonstation.bandcamp.com/

Long piece in the Times about this… but this is from Kevin Whalen of The Wrens… he decided after waiting years for the other chief songwriter in the Wrens to finish something he decided was time to just record and release what he had written on his own


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/arts/music/the-wrens-aeon-station.html

and yes paywalled…

Idles - Crawler - Nov 12th

not sure if this one was mentioned or not

Curtis Harding
If Words Were Flowers
Anti
November 5th a Friday and the most joyous day of the week for new releases

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Barn
12-10-21

Adele
30
Columbia
Friday November 19th.. No straying from the tried and true Friday release date

kosmo wrote:
No straying from the tried and true Friday release date

Not sure when American labels conformed to the international Friday release day. It had been Tuesday for a long time, and Monday before that. I think the change to Tuesday was so that most stores had a better chance of having new stuff in stock. Friday's actually terrible for a lot of chains because if they sold out on Friday, they usually couldn't get more until Monday.

Of course, this is practically moot now because of streaming….

yeah, I never knew about this until I met hutch, er Starsky.
but Tuesday's he was always like "I'm heading to the record store"
I had no idea there was a day of the week things got released

It was Monday when I was growing up.  I remember making many a trip to Hollywood on a Sunday night for the midnight (Monday) release of albums.

Starsky wrote:
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Barn
12-10-21

Wolftrap Barn?

I would have thought Anthem.

Barn'd.

Rob Thomas Xmas album
10/22
Friday

What, "Smooth Christmas"?

It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
Guided by Voices
day of the Otto bar show (10/22)

34th lp!, second in 2021

Dance Of Gurus