Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
David Byrne
RELEASE: American Utopia
BACKSTORY: After collaborations with Brian Eno and St. Vincent, the former Talking Heads frontman this week releases his first solo album in 14 years, a 10-song collection preceded by first single “Everybody’s Coming to My House.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
Erasure
RELEASE: World Beyond
BACKSTORY: The synthpop duo this week releases a “post-classical rework” of their most recent album World Be Gone, a new re-recording of the 2017 collection in collaboration with the Brussels-based Echo Collective.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
Ministry
RELEASE: AmeriKKKant
BACKSTORY: Al Jourgensen and Co. are back this week with their latest collection of industrial-metal tracks, including the songs “Antifa,” “Wargasm,” “Victims of a Clown,” “I Know Words,” “Twilight Zone” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Breeders, Buffalo Tom, Pet Shop Boys, Art of Noise and more
- This week’s new releases: David Bowie and Felt reissues, plus Altered Images box set
- This week’s new releases: Ride’s new EP, Superchunk’s ‘What a Time to Be Alive’
- This week’s new releases: ‘The Sound of Liverpool 1976-1988’ box set, Ramones vinyl