new album and dvd releases this week:
14/05 - 20/05
The Cult - Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl)
One of the finest British rock acts to have enjoyed worldwide success over the last few decades, The Cult has wrapped up recording Choice of Weapon, the group's first studio album in five years. Released on 21st May 2012 on their new UK label Cooking Vinyl, its 10 tracks reveal the band at its rawest and most visceral, encapsulating cinematic visions and themes of love, revolt, and redemption.
Fans received an early taster of the album on Tuesday 31st January when the track Lucifer became available as a free download through the band's website. Details are being confirmed for a worldwide tour and will be announced soon. Choice of Weapon is the follow up to the critically-acclaimed 2007 release Born Into This that Mojo magazine called a "Wholehearted, utopian and irrefutably exciting record."
SOURCE: Amazon
Gaz Coombes - Here Comes The Bombs (Hot Fruit)
Former Sugergrass frontman Gaz Coombes releases Presents… Here Come the Bombs, his debut solo album. As fans would expect, the record is packed with the kind of catchy pop hooks that made Coombes so popular in the mid-90s, while he is also in experimental mood, often venturing into moodier territory.
SOURCE: HMV
Tom Jones - Spirit In The Room (Universal / Island)
Spirit in the Room is pop legend Tom Jones' follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed collection of songs that was Praise and Blame, which saw Jones mark a return to his roots with work drawn from the American spiritual repertoire. Tracks featured on Spirit In The Room, include an interpretation of Tom Waits' Bad As Me, a rendition of Odetta's Hit Or Miss, the front porch blues of Vera Hall Ward’s Travelling Shoes and a reading of the other-worldly Charlie Darwin by Low Anthem.
The album once again brings together Ethan Johns (Brit Award Producer of the Year 2011) and Jones for intimate performances with a select group of musicians: multi instrumentalist Johns, Richard Causon on vintage keyboards, piano, guitars (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon and Rufus Wainwright), Warpaint's Stella Wazgawa on drums, and Ian Jennings and Sam Dixon on bass. Recorded at Bath’s Real World studios, Spirit In The Room also includes gems from a diverse choice of writers: Linda & Richard Thompson, Leonard Cohen and Paul McCartney amongst others.
SOURCE: Amazon
Other Releases Out This Week:
- Joe Bonamassa - Driving Towards The Daylight [CD Digibook]
- Saint Etienne - Words and Music
- The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap [7" Single]
- Paul McCartney - Ram [Deluxe Edition]
- Sandy Denny - Sandy [Deluxe Edition]