Release Day Picks: September 16th 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 TAUK, Dawes and Led Zeppelin. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin.

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TAUK – Sir Nebula

The Scoop: Instrumental quartet TAUK aim for “a more ambient-electro sound” on their just-released third studio album, Sir Nebula. Once again the band has teamed up with producer Robert Carranza whose past projects include work with Mars Volta, Los Lobos and Jack Johnson. TAUK mixes road-tested tunes with originals yet to be played live over the course of the 12-track effort to provide fans with fresh sounds. Unlike past LPs, TAUK recorded Sir Nebula in one concentrated period of time instead of spacing out sessions when they could find time between tours. Watch the video for “Horizon”:

Label: 1320 Records

Producer: Robert Carranza

Number Of Tracks: 12

Running Time: 69:45

Tracklist:

1. Horizon
2. Informant
3. Time’s Up
4. Program Select
5. Rainwalk
6. Waver
7. Resolve
8. Darkwing
9. Where You Are
10. Shenanigans
11. Flashback
12. Sunshine Harry

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Dawes – We’re All Gonna Die

The Scoop: It seems almost too easy to take Dawes for granted. They’ve seemingly been a reliable constant like a well-worn pair of jeans since releasing their instant-classic debut, North Hills, back in 2009. The L.A.-based act have toured relentlessly and have earned the reputation as the go-to backing band for like the likes of Jackson Brown, Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello for full-on tours and one-off performances. For their fifth studio-album, We’re All Gonna Die, the band has taken a cue from a number of their contemporaries – Jim James, Alabama Shakes and Lucius, whom all appear on the album – mixing slinky noir-funk sounds with their ever-evolving take on breezy 1970s So-Cal country rock. At the center of it all is Taylor Goldsmith’s songwriting with mixes soul-barring confessionals with sly Warren Zevon-inspired observations on life. Check out the video for the album’s lead single “When The Tequila Runs Out”:

Label: HUB Records

Producer: Blake Mills

Number Of Tracks: 10

Running Time: 46:17

Guest Musicians: Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Britney Howard (Alabama Shakes), Holly Laessig & Jess Wolfe (Lucius), Mandy Moore

Tracklist:

1. One Of Us
2. We’re All Gonna Die
3. Roll With The Punches
4. Picture of a Man
5. Less Than Five Miles Away
6. Roll Tide
7. When The Tequila Runs Out
8. For No Good Reason
9. Quitter
10. As If By Design

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Led Zeppelin – The Complete BBC Sessions

The Scoop: Guitarist Jimmy Page oversaw the remastering of the new comprehensive Led Zeppelin box set featuring the legendary band’s appearances on the BBC. The new 3-CD/5-LP set expands on the 1997 collection of performances for the British media outlet and includes a recently unearthed recording of the non-album cut “Sunshine Woman” which was one of three songs remastered from a “lost” session in London on March 16, 1969. Here’s a new video for one of the versions of “What Is And What Should Never Be” included in the set:

Label: Rhino Records

Producer: Jimmy Page

Number Of Tracks: 33

Guest Musicians: N/A

Tracklist:

Compact Disc 1

1. You Shook Me (23/3/69 Top Gear)
2. I Can’t Quit You Baby (23/3/69 Top Gear)
3. Communication Breakdown (22/6/69 Pop Sundae)
4. Dazed And Confused (23/3/69 Top Gear)
5. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (22/6/69 Pop Sundae)
6. What Is And What Should Never Be (29/6/69 Top Gear)
7. Communication Breakdown (29/6/69 Top Gear)
8. Travelling Riverside Blues (29/6/69 Top Gear)
9. Whole Lotta Love (29/6/69 Top Gear)
10. Somethin’ Else (22/6/69 Pop Sundae)
11. Communication Breakdown (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)
12. I Can’t Quit You Baby (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)
13. You Shook Me (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)
14. How Many More Times (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)

Compact Disc 2

1. Immigrant Song (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
2. Heartbreaker (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
3. Since I’ve Been Loving You (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
4. Black Dog (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
5. Dazed And Confused (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
6. Stairway To Heaven (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
7. Going To California (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
8. That’s The Way (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
9. Whole Lotta Love (Medley) [1/4/71 Paris Theatre]
10. Thank You (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)

Compact Disc 3

1. Communication Breakdown (23/3/69 Top Gear)
2. What Is And What Should Never Be (22/6/69 Pop Sundae)
3. Dazed And Confused (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)
4. White Summer (10/8/69 Playhouse Theatre)
5. What Is And What Should Never Be (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
6. Communication Breakdown (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)
7. I Can’t Quit You Baby (14/4/69 Rhythm & Blues Session)
8. You Shook Me (14/4/69 Rhythm & Blues Session)
9. Sunshine Woman (14/4/69 Rhythm & Blues Session)

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Compiled by Jeffrey Greenblatt, Andy Kahn and Scott Bernstein.