Release Day Picks: March 18th New Releases

By Team JamBase Mar 18, 2016 • 9:15 am PDT

March 18 Release Day Picks Albums

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 Iggy Pop, Steve Kimock, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies and a various artists compilation produced by Dave Cobb. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin.

Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

Post-Pop-Depression

The Scoop: With the passing of both Lou Reed and David Bowie, Iggy Pop has now inherited the mantle of the elder statesman of bad-ass cool. The 68-year-old singer, who has never met a shirt that he actually enjoyed wearing, has teamed up with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme for his latest solo release – Post Pop Depression. The nine-track effort. which is rumored to be Iggy’s last, finds him confidently crooning over Homme’s signature slinking stoner dessert-rock sounds. If there’s truth to the rumors, Pop and Homme have managed to create one of the better late-career albums. Check out this live performance of the album’s lead single Gardenia….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngIWkQVPgU

Label: Loma Vista

Producer: Iggy Pop, Josh Homme

Number Of Tracks: 9

Running Time: 41:36

Guest Musicians: Josh Homme (QOSTA), Dean Fertita (QOTSA), Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys)

Tracklist:

  1. Break Into Your Heart
  2. Gardenia
  3. American Valhalla
  4. In the Lobby
  5. Sunday
  6. Vulture
  7. German Days
  8. Chocolate Drops
  9. Paraguay

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Steve Kimock – Last Danger Of Frost

Last Danger Of Frost Cover

The Scoop: Steve Kimock plays every single note of every instrument on his deeply personal new solo release, Last Danger of Frost . This is Kimock at his most experimental: forgoing his usual role as guitar hero in the improvisational setting in favor of going the road alone and experimenting with different soundscapes and tonalities. Throughout the course of the album, he maneuvers between feedback, analog synthesizers (such as the Moog Werkstatt and Taurus), resonator and steel guitars, a 12 string guitar, oddball tunings, ambient sounds, and his micro-tonality studies. I’m guessing this record is not for the faint of heart, but rather a deeply exploratory work of artful composition. Have a look into the process via Steve Kimock’s Pledge Music page below:

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/stevekimock

Label: Self-Released

Producer: Steve Kimock with Co-Producer/Engineer Todd Schied

Number Of Tracks: 11

Running Time: 42:14

Guest Musicians: None

Tracklist:

  1. Music Tells a Story, Pt. 1 (The Old Man)
  2. Music Tells a Story, Pt. 2 (Twelve Is Good)
  3. Music Tells a Story, Pt. 3 (Big Sky)
  4. Music Tells a Story, Pt. 4 (Please Be Seated)
  5. Invariant
  6. Surely This Day
  7. Surely This Day Reprise
  8. Tongue N’ Groove
  9. The Artist Dies and Goes to Hell
  10. Last Danger of Frost
  11. My Favorite Number

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    American Babies – An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark

    An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark Cover

    The Scoop: Tom Hamilton shows off his versatility on American Babies’ fourth studio album, An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark. Hamilton’s latest LP is said to combine his many influences ranging from David Bowie to Pink Floyd to War On Drugs to My Morning Jacket to Bruce Springsteen. American Babies dive into deep subject matter including mental illness, spurred by the suicide of comedian Robin Williams which hit Tom particularly hard. Watch a trailer for ,An Epic Battle Between Light And Dark:

    Label: Royal Potato Family

    Producer: Tom Hamilton/Pete Tramo

    Number Of Tracks: 8

    Running Time: 39:11

    Guest Musicians: N/A

    Tracklist:

    1. Synth Driver
    2. Oh Darling, My Darling
    3. Alone In The House
    4. What Does It Mean To Be
    5. Fever Dreams
    6. Not In A Million Years
    7. Bring It In Close
    8. An Epic Battle Between Light & Dark

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    Various Artists – Southern Family

    Southern Family Cover

    The Scoop: Producer Dave Cobb helmed the Southern Family album, inspired to develop the project by the similarly created Glyn Johns-produced White Mansions Civil War concept compilation album that included recordings by Eric Clapton and Waylon Jennings. Cobb recruited Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell, two of the musicians with whom he recently shared Grammy Award wins, among many other artists to write an album of new original songs “about their mothers, grandparents, kids, siblings … detailed stories about how they grew up and their families and the things that make them who they are.” Rich Robinson, Miranda Lambert, Morgane Stapleton, Chris Stapleton, John Paul White, Jamey Johnson Holly Williams, Brent Cobb, Brandy Clark, Shooter Jennings and Anderson East also contributed recordings for the album. Here’s Zac Brown’s contribution, “Grandma’s Garden”:

    Label: Low Country Sound/Elektra Records

    Producer: Dave Cobb

    Number Of Tracks: 12

    Running Time: 51:01

    Guest Musicians: Jason Isbell, Rich Robinson, Zac Brown, Miranda Lambert, Morgane Stapleton, Chris Stapleton, John Paul White, Jamey Johnson, Holly Williams, Brent Cobb, Brandy Clark, Shooter Jennings and Anderson East

    Tracklist:

    1. John Paul White “Simple Song”
    2. Jason Isbell “God Is A Working Man”
    3. Brent Cobb “Down Home”
    4. Miranda Lambert “Sweet By and By”
    5. Morgane Stapleton with Chris Stapleton “You Are My Sunshine”
    6. Zac Brown “Grandma’s Garden”
    7. Jamey Johnson “Mama’s Table”
    8. Anderson East “Learning”
    9. Holly Williams “Settle Down”
    10. Brandy Clark “I Cried”
    11. Shooter Jennings “Can You Come Over?”
    12. Rich Robinson (featuring The Settles Connection) “The Way Home”

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    Compiled by Ryan Dembinsky, Jeffrey Greenblatt, Andy Kahn and Scott Bernstein

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