FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, July 8, 2021
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include The Rolling Stones, Powerwolf, L.A. Guns, The Flatlanders, Inhaler, and The Wallflowers. A strong week for Canadian releases includes albums by Charlotte Day Wilson (pictured), Ralph, Meggie Lennon, Lex Leosis, Murray McLauchlan, Royal Canoe, Christina Petrowska Quilico, and Aasiva.

By Kerry Doole
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables include The Rolling Stones, Powerwolf, L.A. Guns, The Flatlanders, Inhaler, and The Wallflowers.
A strong week for Canadian releases includes albums by Charlotte Day Wilson, Ralph, Meggie Lennon, Lex Leosis, Murray McLauchlan, Royal Canoe, The Graham Brown Band, Christina Petrowska Quilico, and Aasiva.
July
7: Ralph- Gradience
7: Sarah Aroeste - Monastir
8: Graham Brown Band - Spirit And Soul
9: Meggie Lennon - Sounds From Your Lips (Mothland)
9: Powerwolf- Call Of The Wild (Napalm Records)
9: Arlo Maverick Soul Merchant EP,
9: Mariah The Scientist - RY RY WORLD (RCA)
9: Orion Walsh - So Many Places To See (Sower Records)
9: Claire Rosinkranz - 6 Of A Billion (UMC)
9: Caitlin GouletInside Thoughts
9: Nathan Lawr - Apocalypse Marshmallow
9: IDK - USEE4YOURSELF (Warner)
9: The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang: Live on Copacabana Beach (UMC)
9: Jahvillani - Dirt to Bentley. (VP Records)
9: Gorstey Lea Street Choir - S/T
9: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis -Volume One (Flyte Tyme Records/BMG)
9: Graduating Life - Grad Life II (Pure Noise Records)
9: Spice Girls - Wannabe Anniversary EP (UMC)
9: Staggered Crossing - S/T 20th anniversary reissue (Warner Music Canada)
9: Inhaler -It Won’t Always Be Like This (UMC)
9: Seán Devlin -AIRPORTS, ANIMALS. (Arts & Crafts)
9: L.A. Guns - Cocked & Loaded Live (Frontiers)
9: Charlotte Day Wilson - Alpha ( Stone Woman Music)
9: Krust -TEOE Remixes #3(Crosstown Rebels)
9: Debbie Bond - Blues Without Borders (Blues Root Productions)
9: James The Prophet -Unimaginable Storms (Sony Music / Rupture)
9: Vince Staples- S/T [Blacksmith/Motown]
9: Ambiente Solstice - Abandoned Peace (Heart Dance Records)
9: Lex Leosis -Terracotta
9: Royal Canoe - Sidelining (Paper Bag Records)
9: Andrew Bryant - A Meaningful Connection
9: The Goon Sax - Mirror II (Matador)
9: Christina Petrowska Quilico- Sound Visionaries (Navona Records)
9: Graduating Life - Grad Life II (Pure Noise Records)
9: Aasiva - NIRIUNNIQ (Aakuluk Music)
9: Wild Earp - Dyin' For Easy Livin'
9: Roger Street Friedman - Come What May
9: Olivia Lunny- S/T (UMC)
9: Koreless - Agor (Young)
9: Murray McLauchlan - Hourglass (True North Records)
9: The Flatlanders - Treasure of Love (Rack'em Records/Thirty Tigers)
9: Kodo - Kodo Together
9: The Wallflowers - Exit Wounds
9: Oxlip - A Kind Of Premonition (Champagne Breakfast)
9: Andre Pettipas & The Giants - No Fools No Fun
12: BLKHRT - M.A.D. (Miserable & Damned)
16: Stephen Fretwell -Busy Guy (Speedy)
16: Barenaked Ladies - Detour de Force
16: Tina Turner - Foreign Affair Deluxe Edition (Warner)
16: Mike Zito - Resurrection
16: BROS –Vol. 2 (Dine Alone Records)
16: Velvet Insane - Rock n' Roll Glitter Suit
16: The Time - S/T - Expanded Edition(Rhino/Warner)
16: Brandon Isaak - Modern Primitive
16: Various Artists - Space Jam: A New Legacy soundtrack, (Republic)
16: Kevin Drew (aka K.D.A.P.) - Influences (Arts & Crafts)
16: New Chance - Real Time (We Are Time)
16: Midland - The Last Resort (Big Machine Records)
16: Laura Nyro- Trees of the Ages: Laura Nyro Live in Japan (Omnivore)
16: Tedeschi Trucks Band - Layla Revisited (Live At LOCKN') - (Fantasy Records)
16: Boy Golden - Church of Better Daze (Six Shooter)
16: Nathaniel Rateliff - Red Rocks 2020 (Stax Records)
16: Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender (Detail Records/BMG)
16: Let Me Downs - Tacoma Is For Lovers'
16: John R. Miller - Depreciated (Rounder Records)
16: Clairo - Sling (Polydor/Republic)
16: Debra-Jean Creelman - Threshold (Modern Laundry Recording Club)
17: Qasim Naqvi - Chronology -vinyl (Erased Tapes)
17: War - Give Me Five: The War Albums (1971-1975)
17: Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller -That’s In Harmony (Resonance Records)
17: Charles Lloyd - Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
17: Various Artists - Roky Erickson tribute -May The Circle Remain Unbroken - (LITA)
17: Ampersounds and Rufus Wainwright - S/T (West End Records/BMG)
21: Carolina East - Soaked in Whisky
23: Darkside - Spiral (2Lp) (Matador)
23: Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
23: Brittany Howard - Jaime Reimagined (ATO)
23: Carrie Underwood - My Savior- Live From The Ryman - Concert DVD (UMC)
23: Various Artists -Bills & Aches & Blues (2LP 4AD 40th Anniversary Compilation) (4AD)
23: 2Pac - Until The End Of Time (UMC)
23: Cassie Dasilva -EP Enough
23: Lee Aaron - Radio On! (Big Sister)
23: The Hobbs Sisters - Turn It Up
23,: Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662 (Alligator)
23: Acid Tongue - Blossom EP
23: Belcirque- La Grande Fête
23: Vaines -Electric Blue (Hopeless Records)
23: LOLAA - La Marea (Arts & Crafts Mexico)
23: Jxst J - How To Pronounce Jxst J
23: Dusted -Dusted III (AWAL)
23: Heavy Water Red Brick City ( Silver Lining Music)
23: Clay Melton -Back to Blue
23: Left Field Messiah - In Praise of Bombast (Riptide)
23: Erika de Casier - Sensational” (Clear vinyl) (4AD)
23: Emily Daniels - Welcome To A Heartache
23: Rodney Crowell -Triage
24: Emby Alexander -Soars Era (Earth Libraries)
28: Sam Mehran - Cold Brew (Weird World)
28: Michael Martinez - Divine Heart
30: The Effens - Eventually (Hidden Pony/LootBag Records)
30: Dee Snider - Leave A Scar (Napalm Records)
30: Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche ’85 and Anomie & Bonhomie (2LP) (Rough Trade)
30: Skirts - Great Big Wild Oak (Double Double Whammy)
30: Babylung -To Live And Die In Surrey
30: Death Valley Girls - Street Venom vinyl (Suicide Squeeze Records)
30: Lump- Animal’ (Partisan/Chrysalis).
30: Nobody's Girl - Folk and Heavenly Pop ( Lucky Hound Music)
30: Sweet Teeth - Acid Rain (Lovely)
30: Alex Rex - Paradise (Neolithic Recordings)
30: Bleachers -Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (RCA Records)
30: Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (UMC)
30: The Great Leap Forward - Revolt Against An Age of Plenty ( A Turntable Friend Records).
30: Lisa Mills - The Triangle (Expanded Edition ( – Melody Place Music)
30: Los Lobos - Native Sons (New West)
30: Tragedy - Disco Balls to the Wall (Napalm Records)
30: Lakes - Start Again (Know Hope Records)
30: NEEDTOBREATHE - Into The Mystery
30: Paper Birch morninghairwater (Reckless Yes)
30: Punk Rock Factory- Masters Of The Uniwurst
30: The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night
30: Leslie Winer - When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It (LITA)
30: The Beach Boys - The Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 box set
30: The Five Hundred - A World On Fire (Long Branch Records)
30: Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars (SA Recordings)
30: Tayls Have You Ever? (I've Always)
30: Paper Birch morninghairwater (Reckless Yes)
30: Prince - Welcome 2 America
August
5: Praises - EP4 (Hand Drawn Dracula)
6: John Moods -So Nice (Arbutus Records)
6: Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of Light (Severn Songs)
6: Camie - troubadour
6: Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray -Leave the Bones
6: FEUERSCHWANZD -ie letzte Schlacht (engl. The Final Battle), -BluRay/DVD/CD (Napalm Records)
6: Bigmcenroe -Brandon
6: summersets -small town sunday
6: Night Ranger - ATBPO (Frontiers Music Srl.)
6: Long Shadows Dawn - Isle Of Wrath
6: Andrea von Kampen - That Spell (Fantasy Records)
6: Joseph Akins - Dream World
6: Tito Jackson - Under Your Spell (Gulf Coast Records and Hillside Global)
6: Wolf Castle -Da Vinci's Inquest (Forward Music Group)
6: Max Richter - Exiles (UMC)
6: Brian Jackson -JID008 (Jazz Is Dead)
6: Circus Of Rock -Come One, Come All
6: Paul Thorn - Never Too Late To Call (Thirty Tigers)
6: Ro Myra - Nowhere, Nebraska
6: Brian May - Back To The Light (reissue) - (UMC)
6: Andrew Rinehart - Have Fun Idiot (sonaBLAST!)
6: Colin Hay: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (Compass)
9: Al Matcott - You Can Be Anyone
11: Cots - Disturbing Body ( Boiled Records )
13: Jungle - Loving In Stereo (AWAL)
13: Josienne Clarke - A Small Unknowable Thing
13: Typhoid Rosie - Queen Of Swords
13: Willie Nile - The Day the Earth Stood Still
13: Elijah Ocean - Born Blue
13: Victory Kid -Discernation (SBÄM Records)
13: Lucinda Chua Antidotes (4AD)
13: Supreme Love Gods - We Are All Together (One Little Independent Records)
13: The Ugly Kings - Strange, Strange Times (Napalm Records)
13: Wednesday- Twin Plagues (Orindal Records)
13: The Cruzados - She's Automatic (Scamco )
13: Pachyman - The Return of Pachyman (ATO Records)
13: F. Scott and the Nighthawks - Hold Onto Your Heart.
13: Jonathan Bauer – Sings and Plays (Slammin' Media)
13: Suzie Ungerleider - My Name is Suzie Ungerleider (MVKA)
13: Explorer Tapes - S/T (Omnivore)
18: Jan Lisiecki -Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon)
20: LTtheMonk - On The Wall (Sonic Unyon Records)
20: Lorkin O'Reilly - Marriage Material (Team Love)
20: Lorde - Solar Power
20: Silver Pools - Chroma (Modern Laundry Recording Club)
20: Badge Epoch - Scroll (Telephone Explosion Records)
20: Shire T - Tomorrow’s People (Dama Dama)
20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)
20: Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet ( New Friends)
20: Anderson East - Maybe We Never Die ( Elektra/Low Country Sound)
20: Shannon & The Clams - Year Of The Spider (Easy Eye Sound)
20: Kirty - We Are All On Fire (Postwar Records)
20: Kool & the Gang - Perfect Union (Ru-Jac Records/Omnivore)
20: Malcolm Holcombe - Tricks of the Trade
20: Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton - Anniversary Deluxe Edition
20: Villagers - Fever Dreams (Domino)
20: Settle Your Scores - retrofit ( Mutant League Records)
20: Mano Le Tough - At The Moment ( Pampa Records)
20: Manny Blu - DEViL
20: Lung -Come Clean Right Now (Sofaburn Records)
20: Black Light Animals- - Playboys of the Western World (Groove King)
20: James McMurtry -The Horses and the Hounds (New West Records)
20: Necronautica - Slain In the Spirit (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)
20: Switchfoot - interrobang (Fantasy Records)
20: Zach Kleisinger -Their Symposium (DevilDuck Records)
20: Occurrence - I Have So Much Love To Give ( Archie & Fox Records)
20: The Road Hammers - Boys Are Back EP (Open Road)
20: Warkings -Revolution (Napalm)
20: Chris Acker - Odd, Ordinary & Otherwise (Gar Hole Records)
20: Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn (Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl)
24: School of X - Dancing Through The Void
24: Container -Creamer EP (Drone)
27: Danko Jones - Power Trio (Sonic Unyon)
27: Wormwood -Arkivet
27: December Rose– Raise Your Voice (Slammin' Media)
27: Mountain Time - Saint Francis, Zookeeper (Spartan Records)
27: Kat Von D - Love Made Me Do It
27: Jason Sharp - The Turning Centre Of A Still World ( Constellation.)
27: Ex Deo - The Thirteen Years Of Nero (Napalm Records)
27: Shawna Caspi - Hurricane Coming
27: Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (UMC)
27: Tim Easton -You Don't Really Know Me (Black Mesa Records)
27: Steve Gunn - Other You (2LP) (Matador )
27: I See Hawks in L.A. -On Our Way
27: The Faux Paws - S/T
27: Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale
September
2: Finny McConnell -The Dark Streets of Love (True North)
3: Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland (Feeltrip Records)
3: Geordie Gordon - The Tower
3: The Picturebooks - The Major Minor Collective
3: The Hawkins - The Aftermath'
3: New Found Glory - Forever And Ever x Infinity...And Beyond! (Hopeless Records)
3: Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall ( BMG.)
3: Laroie - Speed of Life EP
3: SUUNS - The Witness ( Secret City Records)
3: Bad Waitress - No Taste (Royal Mountain Records)
3: David Ferguson - Nashville No More (Fat Possum Records)
3: BOKASSA Molotov Rocktail (Napalm Records)
10: Matthew E. White - K Bay (Domino)
10: GWAR - Scumdogs Live ( Pit Records)
10: The Stranglers - Dark Matters ( Coursegood/ BFD)
10: Anette Olzon - Strong (Frontiers Music Srl)
10: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy the View (Big Scary Monsters)
10: Various Artists - R&B in D.C. 1940-1960 (Bear Family)
10: Matthew Fowler - The Grief We Gave Our Mother (Signature Sounds)
10: Pokey LaFarge- In The Blossom of Their Shade (New West)
10: Ross Adams - Escaping Southern Heat
10: Central Heat Exchange - Directly Down
10: Sarah Davachi -Antiphonals (Late Music)
10: God Damn - Raw Coward' (One Little Independent Records)
10: Metallica -The Black Album -30th anniversary edition ( Blackened Recordings/Warner)
10: Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence (Inside Out Music)
10: Homeshake - Under The weather (Dine Alone)
14: Gordie Tentrees - Mean Old World ( Buckaroo Records)
17: Melissa Etheridge - One Way Out (BMG)
17: Don Broco Amazing Things (Sharptone Records)
17: Karaboudjan - Imago
17: Colin Linden - bLOW ( Highway 20/Thirty Tigers).
17: Written By Wolves - The Collab Project EP
17: José González - Local Valley (Mute)
17: Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator
17: Vika and Linda - The Wait
17: Tommy Castro - A Bluesman Came To Town (Alligator)
17: James Vincent McMorrow Grapefruit Season (Columbia Records)
17: Jordan Rakei -What We Call Life (Ninja Tune )
17: Alien Weaponry- Tangaroa (Napalm Records)
17: Edge Of Paradise - The Unknown(Frontiers Sri)
17: The Felice Brothers - From Dreams To Dust (Yep Roc Records)
17: Sweet Nobody -We’re Trying Our Best (Daydream Records)
17: Rage -Resurrection Day
21: Andrew W.K. - God Is Partying ( Napalm Records )
24: Radiant Baby - Pantomine (Lisbon Lux)
24: Badflower - This Is How The World Ends (Big Machine/John Varvatos Records)
24: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
24: Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms
24: A Pale Horse Named Death - Infernum In Terra (Long Branch Records / SPV)
24: Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic (Play It Again Sam)
24: Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb (Spinefarm)
24: Soja -Beauty In The Silence (ATO Records)
24: Dayseeker - Sleeptalk (Spinefarm)
24: Manu Delago - Environ Me (One Little Independent Records)
24: Randy Travis - Storms of Life (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
30: Arkells – Blink Once (Universal Music Canada)
October
1: Moist - End of the Ocean (Known Accomplice)
1: Shad - TAO (Secret City Records)
1: Lana Love - S/T
1: Sonia Aimy – Reconnect (Slammin' Media)
1: Glok - Pattern Recognition
1: The Colorist Orchestra and Howe Gelb- Not On The Map (Dangerbird Records)
1: Tirzah - Colourgrade
1: Goodbye Honolulu - S/T (Stray Dog)
8: Bardo Pond - Amanita 2LP 25th Anniversary Reissue (Matador)
8: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under (Polydor Records/Universal Music Canada)
8: The Velveteers - Nightmare Daydream ( Easy Eye Sound)
8: LP, CHURCHES (Dine Alone)
8: The Charlatans UK - S/T (Beggars Archive)
8: AVAWAVES -Chrysalis’ (One Little Independent Records)
8: Efterklang - Windflowers (City Slang)
15: Rodrigo Leão - A Estranha Beleza (BMG / Modern Recordings)
15: Eleine - S/T vinyl
22: Duran Duran - Future Past (Tape Modern/BMG)
22: Dean Blunt Black Metal 2 (Rough Trade)
22: Titus Andronicus -The Monitor” (10th Anniversary Reissue) (XL Recordings)
22: Helado Negro -Far In (4AD)
22: The Parrots -Dos (Heavenly Recordings)
22: Bullet For My Valentine - S/T (Spinefarm /Search & Destroy)
22: Amaunet - While I'm Living (Lövely Records)
November
5: T. Buckley -Frame by Frame (Fallen Tree Records)
5: Julia Daigle - Un singe sur l'épaule ( Lisbon Lux)
12: Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Transgressive Records)
19: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (UMC)
December
10: Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (Matador Revisionist History Edition) ( Matador)
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Ed Sheeran Topples Drake's 8-Week Chart Supremacy
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Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album and digital song sales, and on-demand streams for the week and ending Drake’s eight consecutive weeks run at the top of the chart. It is Sheeran’s fourth consecutive album to debut at No. 1.
The remainder of the top five falls one position from last week’s chart, with Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Lil Nas X’s Montero, Doja Cat’s Planet Her and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love sitting at Nos. 2 through 5.
Francophone rapper Enima debuts at No.15 with Resilience, his highest-charted album to date. His previous top peak was #35 with his 2018 release OPN.
Mastodon’s Hushed and Grim debuts at No. 18, the American metal band’s first release since Emperor Of Sand reached No. 4 in March 2017.
The War On Drugs’ I Don’t Live Here Anymore debuts at No. 33, their first release since A Deeper Understanding peaked at No. 8 in 2017.
Thanks to consumption activity around Halloween for the title cut, Michael Jackson’s Thriller bullets 90-26, the album’s highest chart position in the SoundScan era.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch