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– Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs

It’s rare that a band’s debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here, with ten songs of urgent, passionate guitar pop that elicit warm memories of bands past, from the Go-Betweens’ jangle to the charmingly lo-fi trappings of New Zealand’s Flying Nun label. But don’t mistake Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever for nostalgists: Hope Downs is the sound of a band finding its own collective voice.

Tracklisting:

1.- An Air Conditioned Man
2.- Talking Straight
3.- Play
4.- Mainland
5.- Play
6.- Time in Common
7.- Sister’s Jeans
8.- Bellarine
9.- Cappuccino City
10.- Exclusive Grave
11.- How Long?
12.- The Hammer

Petal: Magic Gone

Despite our best efforts, there are some things we just can’t outrun. Everything catches up to us in the end, no matter what we do to hide from it. It’s a reality that Petal’s Kiley Lotz examines on Magic Gone, the band’s latest full-length album on Run For Cover.

Recorded over the course of a month at Studio 4 in Conshocken, PA, Magic Gone is a bitingly honest look at adulthood, accountability, responsibility, and mental health and the difficulties that go along with each of them. “There comes a moment where all the paranoia, anxiety and pain become too much and you realize the structure you built to survive is no longer is going to serve you,” says Lotz of the three year period that inspired the album. “I had to make some very big life changes to make sure I didn’t die. It was not easy taking that level control over my life after spending many years worrying about upsetting others and being the best and most successful person I could be.”

Tracklist:

1.- Better Than You
2.- Tightrope
3.- I’m Sorry
4.- Comfort
5.- Shy
6.- Magic Gone
7.- Shine
8.- Carve
9.- Something From Me
10.- Stardust

Gene Clark: Gene Clark Sings for You

In addition to the 8 tracks from the Gene Clark Sings For You acetate, recorded in 1967 after he famously left The Byrds, there are an additional 5 previously unknown tracks from a further 1967 acetate given to the band, The Rose Garden, for recording consideration. This new compilation also includes a previously unissued demo rescued from a tape in the collection of John Noreen, member of The Rose Garden. This demo of the song Till Today is Clark running through the song for the band who would cut it on their only album, the 1968 self-titled effort on Atco Records (also being reissued and expanded at the same time as Gene Clark Sings For You).

Released with the full approval and cooperation with both the Estate of Gene Clark and the band, The Rose Garden, Gene Clark Sings For You is produced for release by Grammy-winner, Cheryl Pawelski with restoration and mastering by Grammy-winner, Michael Graves. Liner notes by John Einarson, author of Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life And Legacy Of The Byrds’ Gene Clark (Backbeat Books) and previously unseen photos.

Tracklisting:

1.- ON HER OWN
2.- PAST TENSE
3.- YESTERDAY, AM I RIGHT
4.- PAST MY DOOR
5.- THAT’S ALIRGHT BY ME
6.- ONE WAY ROAD
7.- DOWN ON THE PIER
8.- 7:30 MODE
9.- ON TENTH STREET
10.- UNDERSTAND ME
11.- A LONG TIME
12.- BIG CITY GIRL
13.- DOCTOR DOCTOR
14.- TILL TODAY

Arthur Buck: Arthur Buck

Sometimes, the catalyst for creating great art is simply being in the right place at the right time. For Arthur Buck, the new collaboration between singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and R.E.M.’s PeterBuck, that place was Mexico, and that time was the fall of 2017.

Tracklisting:

1.- I Am The Moment
2.- Are You Electrified?
3.- The Wanderer
4.- Forever Waiting
5.- If You Wake Up In Time
6.- Summertime
7.- American Century
8.- Forever Falling
9.- Before Your Love Is Gone
10.- Wide Awake In November
11.- Can’t Make It Without You

– Tom Waits: Bastards, Bawlers and Brawlers

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