DROPKICK MURPHYS – SIGNED AND SEALED IN BLOODMit Signed And Sealed In Blood veröffentlichen die Dropkick Murphys ihr achtes Studioalbum. Nach dem Konzept-Album Going Out In Style findet das Bostoner Septett wieder zu alten Wurzeln zurück – die Musik ist laut, catchy, macht einfach Spaß und wird möglicherweise den ein oder anderen Lautsprecher ruinieren.
Auch auf diesem Album arbeiteten die Dropkick Murphys mit Produzent Ted Hutt (Gaslicht Anthem) zusammen, aufgenommen wurde es in ihrer Heimatstadt Boston in den Q Division Studios, für das Mixen zeigte sich Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes) verantwortlich.
RELEASE: 11. Januar 2013 / GENRE: Rock### ### ###
GARY ALLAN – SET YOU FREEGary Allan’s new album Set You Free is a perfectly named, well-conceived album that embodies his own evolution toward personal, creative freedom. The album, sequenced with a storyline in which a man breaks the restraints of a failed relationship and conquers the loneliness of its aftermath, is the result of Allan’s own journey as a man and as an artist.
He took a number of new steps during the recording process by mixing up the production team, playing lead guitar on a number of tracks, writing more of his own material and using a handful of new co-writers. As a result, he came up with the most optimistic album of his career, one that acknowledges the hurdles of the past and the ways in which they ve helped to shape his current sense of renewal.
Gary Allan has sold over 6 million albums and has more than ten Top 10 singles to his credit. Allan s latest release, Set You Free, features Gary as a co-producer with longtime collaborator Mark Wright and Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Little Big Town). Includes the hit single Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain).
RELEASE: 29. Januar 2013 / GENRE: Country### ### ###
NAKED LUNCH – ALL IS FEVERNaked Lunch zählen zweifellos zu den wenigen österreichischen Bands, die auch über ihre Landes- und Genregrenzen hinaus von Bedeutung sind. Mit Arbeiten wie etwa dem Soundtrack zu “Universalove” (2009) von Thomas Woschitz und dem Beitrag zur Theateradaption von Kafkas “Amerika” (2011) kam die 1991 in Klagenfurt gegründete Band endgültig in der Hochkultur an – ohne ihren ästhetischen Widerstandsgeist aufzugeben. “All Is Fever” ist das denkbar beste Album, das Naked Lunch an diesem Punkt ihrer Geschichte machen konnten. Mit Verbündeten wie Olaf Opal und Gustav schöpfen Naked Lunch bei “All Is Fever” aus dem Vollen, denken über Grenzen oder Definitionen von Indie-Musik, europäischem Kunstlied, Ballade, Pop, gebrochenen humanistischen Hymnen und elektronisch unterlegtem Todessoul nicht einmal mehr nach.
Musik, die sich traut, schön zu sein, wichtig zu sein, groß, mutig, klug. Weltverlierend und weltumarmend, in ein und demselben Moment. Kein Aber, kein smartes Relativieren, keine erbärmliche Ironie. “Keep it hooray”.
RELEASE: 1. Februar 2013 / GENRE: Rock/Pop### ### ###
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS: PUSH THE SKY AWAYNick Cave & the Bad Seeds release their fifteenth studio album PUSH THE SKY AWAY on 18 February 2013
“Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat.” Nick Cave
At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick’s songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album’s mysterious and ambiguous cover.
The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artefact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries “whether they’re true or not”. These songs convey how on the internet profoundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what’s genuinely important.
RELEASE: 15. Februar 2013 / GENRE: ROCK/POP