Release Day Picks: January 13th New Album Highlights

Each week Release Day Picks profiles new LPs and EPs Team JamBase will be checking out on release day Friday. This week we highlight new albums by The Infamous Stringdusters, The Flaming Lips, The Wood Brothers and Club d’Elf. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin.

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The Infamous Stringdusters – Laws Of Gravity

The Scoop: Last year, jamgrass act The Infamous Stringdusters recruited a bevy of female vocalists to guest with the group on their studio album Ladies & Gentlemen. Today, the band has returned to its roots with a new collection of original material dubbed Laws Of Gravity. The Stringdusters tapped Billy Hume to co-produce the collection of 13 songs, which was recorded in Nashville last year. Laws Of Gravity is said to showcase the members of the band as singers, writers and players. Watch The Stringdusters record the single “Gravity”:

Label: Compass Records Group

Producer: Billy Hume & Infamous Stringdusters

Number Of Tracks: 13

Running Time: 54:04

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

1. Freedom
2. Gravity
3. A Hard Life Makes A Good Song
4. Vertigo
5. Maxwell
6. Black Elk
7. This Ol’ Building
8. Soul Searching
9. 1901: A Canyon Odyssey
10. Sirens
11. Back Home
12. Let Me Know
13. I Run To You

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The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody

The Scoop: Produced by The Flaming Lips and their longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann, Oczy Mlody is the proper follow-up the Oklhamoa City-based group’s last studio album of new material, 2013’s The Terror. In 2015 frontman Wayne Coyne and The Lips backed Miley Cyrus on her Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz LP and in 2014 they issued the collaborative, guest-filled covers album With a Little Help from My Fwends that re-created The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cyrus can be heard on the closing track “We A Famly,” watch a lyric video for it here:

Label: Warner Bros. Records

Producer: Dave Fridmann

Number Of Tracks: 12

Running Time: 55:05

Guest Musicians: Miley Cyrus

Tracklist:

1. Oczy Mlody
2. How??
3. There Should Be Unicorns
4. Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)
5. Nigdy Nie (Never No)
6. Galaxy I Sink
7. One Night While Hunting For Faeries And Witches And Wizards To Kill
8. Do Glowy
9. Listening To The Frogs With Demon Eyes
10. The Castle
11. Almost Home (Blisko Domu)
12. We A Famly (Featuring Miley Cyrus)

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The Wood Brothers – Live At The Barn

The Scoop: Siblings Chris Wood (bass) and Oliver Wood (guitar) along with Jano Rix (drums) held a live concert at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York last August 19. The performance at The Barn was The Wood Brothers’ first appearance at the venue following the death of its founder, The Band drummer Levon Helm. The career-spanning show featured eight The Wood Brothers originals as well as a cover of “Ophelia” by The Band. “It’s so intimate and casual that it feels less like a concert and more like a living room jam,” Oliver Wood said about playing The Barn. “The spirit in there is strong, from the history and the intent that Levon had when he built the place to all the great music and musicians that have played there.” Check out “Ophelia” which Rolling Stone recently premeired:

Label: Self-Released

Producer: The Wood Brothers

Number Of Tracks: 9

Tracklist:

1. Mary Anna
2. I Got Loaded
3. Tried And Tempted
4. Trouble In Mind
5. Who The Devil
6. Wastin’ My Mind
7. Postcards From Hell
8. Honey Jar
9. Ophelia

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Club d’Elf – Live At Club Helsinki

The Scoop: Boston dub-jazz outfit Club d’Elf has been regularly performing at Club Helsinki in Hudson, New York since 2001. Today, the band has issued a 2-disc live set recorded at the club simply titled Live At Club Helsinki. Core members Mike Rivard and Dean Johnston are joined by a band that includes keyboardist John Medeski, turntablist Mister Rourke, oud player/percussionist Brahim Fribgane and guitarist Duke Levine on the collection of 12 tracks. Club d’Elf work through material spanning multiple genres on the double album with an emphasis on Moroccan music. Watch the trippy video for the live album’s opening track, “Mogador”:

Label: Face Pelt Records

Number Of Tracks: 12

Personel: Mike Rivard, Dean Johnston, John Medeski, Brahim Fribgane, Mister Rourke, Duke Levine, Thomas Workman

Tracklist:

1. Mogador
2. Africa
3. The Booloolu
4. Hegaz
5. Secret Atom
6. Berber Song
7. Al-Hadra
8. Zeed Al Maal
9. Power Plant
10. Salvia
11. Green Screen
12. Sidi Rabi

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Compiled by Andy Kahn and Scott Bernstein.