Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound (Columbia)

Gold-Diggers Sound is the new album from Leon Bridges. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles, California studio of the same name. The album celebrates Leon's immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived and worked over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the soon-to-be legendary complex. Beautiful foil sleeve with two different cover photos to choose from on the LP.

Darkside - Spiral (Matador)

In the summer of 2018, Darkside's Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar rented a small house on Lenni-Lenape territory, present-day Flemington NJ, where the group spent a week, making a song a day. While it would take another year and a half to complete their second album, six songs from the band's new record Spiral were written and recorded during this initial session. "From the beginning, Darkside has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn't wait to jam together again,' says Jaar. "We do things in this band that we would never do on our own. Darkside is the third being in the room that just kind of occurs when we make music together."

Erika de Casier - Sensational (4AD)

Sensational expands the universe of de Casier's self-released debut album Essentials. Where Essentials dealt more with the infatuation stages of love, Sensational has more of an attitude, aiming to dismantle the stereotype of single women looking for love, tackling relationship dramas and the toxicity of dating. It was a chance to rewrite scenarios in ways that empowered her, fantasizing about what could've been. Sensational was co-produced by Erika and is a breath of fresh air to anyone with a passion for music in all its genres, as much influenced by Aaliyah and Janet Jackson as house, garage and techno. With hushed, pillow-soft vocals and production that references turn-of-the-millenium sounds, de Casier's sound surveys the past while looking to the future.

VA - Paul McCartney III: Imagined (Capitol)

Hailed upon its release last year as "vital and comfortable taking new chances" (Rolling Stone), Paul McCartney's McCartney III is moving into the future with McCartney III Imagined. Curated by Paul, it features an A-list assortment of folks reimagining their favorite McCartney III moments. The result is a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation that serves as an extension of the original album while standing on its own in his discography. Includes tracks from Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, Khruangbin, St Vincent, Blood Orange, Josh Homme, Damon Albarn and more.

Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying (Single Lock)

Recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis (the home studio of Al Green and Hi Records in the 60s & 70s), this album is the ultimate statement of purpose for an artist who has proudly carried the mantle of Mississippi Hill Country blues around the world. Burnside delivers his bruised but unfettered truth over blistering guitar and deep pocket drums— a sound birthed in his soul but developed and perfected on the road. Produced by second-generation Memphis soul trailblazer Boo Mitchell ("Uptown Funk") and featuring guest appearances from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) and Zac Cockrell (Brittany Howard), I Be Trying takes the sound that Burnside learned from his grandfather, RL Burnside, and reinterprets it into a modern, bold sound that expands the sonic landscape while respecting and honoring its roots.

John Prine - Live At The Other End, December 1975 (Atlantic)

Still a couple copies left over from RSD- 2CD or 4LP! In December 1975, Grammy award-winning songwriter John Prine played 3 nights at The Other End (previously and now known as The Bitter End) in Greenwich Village, NYC. The acoustic performances featured some of his best-known songs such as "Angel From Montgomery" and "Hello In There", from his first four studio albums: John Prine (1971), Diamonds In The Rough (1972), Sweet Revenge (1973) and Common Sense (1975).

Also New This Week

Anika - Change (Sacred Bones)
Natik Awayez - Manbarani (Sublime Frequencies)
Pierre Barouh - Le Pollen (WRWTFWW)
Big Boy Pete - The Cosmic Genius of (Monotone)
Jackson Browne - Downhill From Everywhere (Inside)
Molly Burch - Romantic Images (Captured Tracks)
Rodney Crowell - Triage (RC1)
Descendents - 9th & Walnut (Epitaph)
Andre Ethier - Further Up Island (Telephone Explosion)
Bill Evans - Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Companion (Warner)
Goldie - Timeless (DLX 25th Anniversary) (London)
Gun Club - Fire of Love DLX (Blixa)
Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller - In Harmony (Resonance)
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Woman a Man Walked By LP (Island)
Lacuna Coil - Live From The Apocalypse (Century Media)
Mega Bog - Life, and Another (Paradise of Bachelors)
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge DLX (Sub Pop)
Orgone - Moonshadows (3 Palm)
William Parker - Mayan Space Station / Painters Winter (Aum)
Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers (Bella Union)
Richard Pryor - Live At The Comedy Store, 1973 (Omnivore)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Flying Fish Ambience (Hospital)
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 7" (Craft)
VA - Bills & Aches & Blues (4AD)
VA - Electric Jesus OST (Joyful Noise)