Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
ARTIST : The dB’s
RELEASE: Falling Off the Sky
BACKSTORY: The jangle-pop heroes this week release their first album in 25 years and first to feature the band’s original lineup — Peter Holsapple, Gene Holder, Will Rigby and Chris Stamey — in 30 years. The 12-song record is produced by the band with assistance from Scott Litt and Mitch Easter.
BUY: Amazon.com (CD, digital, vinyl)
ARTIST : Bodeans
RELEASE: American Made
BACKSTORY: The veteran Americana act returns this week with its second new album in less than a year, a 12-track collection that includes a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” plus 11 originals, including “All Around the World,” “Jay Leno,” “American” and “Everything You Wanted” (stream the full album here).
BUY: Amazon.com (CD, digital)
ARTIST : Men Without Hats
RELEASE: Love in the Age of War
BACKSTORY: The reactivated Canadian New Wave stars release their first album in nine years in the U.S. this week digitally (the CD arrives next week). Frontman Ivan Doroschuk produced the album with former Skinny Puppy member Dave “Rave” Ogilvie, and it includes the first single “Head Above Water,” which you can stream here.
BUY: Amazon.com (Digital)
ARTIST : Skinny Puppy
RELEASE: Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas
BACKSTORY: The electro-industrial legends this week release a new 10-track live album recorded in Warsaw, Poland; Bratislava, Slovakia; Hildesheim, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary, that captures the band — still centered around Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key — recorded straight from the soundboard (stream “Dogshit” here).
BUY: Amazon.com (CD, digital)
ARTIST : Sugar
RELEASE: File Under: Easy Listening
BACKSTORY: Demon Music Group this week, in the U.K., releases the third of three reissues coming from Bob Mould’s acclaimed post-Hüsker Dü trio, a CD/DVD expanded edition of the band’s second studio album. In the U.S., the Sugar reissues come in July with less bonus material (see tracklist here).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk (CD/DVD)
