New Albums 2022

New Albums in 2022 – ‘FLICKER’ By ANDY BELL

Posted on by JL

13 January 2022

Artist: ANDY BELL
British singer/guitarist/bassist who played with
Ride and Oasis, Rid again, and solo in between.

New album: FLICKER – a double one
Out: 11 February 2022 – order info here

Andy Bell: “When I think about Flicker, I see it as closure. Most literally, on a
half-finished project from over six years ago, but also on a much bigger timescale.
Some of these songs date back to the ’90s and the cognitive dissonance of writing
brand new lyrics over songs that are 20-plus years old makes it feel like it is,
almost literally, me exchanging ideas with my younger self.”

Lead single: SOMETHING LIKE LOVE

“‘Something Like Love’ is that flame that makes a person who they are.
I wanted to find that in myself, so I went back to the teenage me, a technique
I learned in therapy and have been doing ever since — and got some advice
on how to live and be happy in the 2020” says Bell.

Enjoy here…

ANDY BELL: Facebook

Albums 2022 – London Melancholics PALACE With Their Third One

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10 January 2022

Band: PALACE
Who: Outfit from London. The band mix a heartfelt
tone with rock notes and lots of melancholia

Active: Since 2015 / Two studio albums
(So Long Forever and Life After) and
several EPs

New album: SHOALS – 3rd LP
Out: 21 January 2022 via Fiction Records

Press info: “Shoals is a profound and pensive album, boldly exploring some of life’s greatest questions over its 12 mesmerising tracks. the album deftly explores three main existential dilemmas against a broader backdrop of wonder at the vastness and power of the ocean. Shoals is broadly a record about living with and processing fear. the album’s title is inspired by the seemingly unpredictable behaviour of shoals of fish, shifting rapidly in much the same way as our fears and anxieties of the world around us.”

Singles: Shame On You / Fade / When The Sky Becomes Sea

– SHAME ON YOU –

– FADE –

– WHERE SHE BECOMES SEA –

PALACE: Facebook

Order info here

Coming In 2022 … New Album By FATHER JOHN MISTY – Hear Lead Single ‘FUNNY GIRL’

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7 January 2022

Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Who: Singer-songwriter (real name: Joshua Michael Tillman)
from Rockville, Maryland, U.S.

New album: CHLOË AND THE NEXT 20TH CENTURY – his fifth LP
Release: 8 April 2022 via Sub Pop

“‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ was written and recorded August through
December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees
Tillman and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their
longtime collaboration.”

Lead Single: Funny Girl

A romantic ballad – think 50s crooners Frank Sinatra,
Bing Crosby, Dean Martin – for candlelight dinners…

FATHER JOHN MISTY: Facebook

New Albums In 2022 – Double One From JOHNNY MARR Comes Next Month

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4 January 2022

Artist: JOHNNY MARR
Who: The former musical director
of indie icons The Smiths
Solo albums: 4 (including the new one)

New album: FEVER DREAMS PTS 1-4
A double one. More info here.
Release: 25 February 2022

Marr:“There’s a set of influences and a very broad sound that I’ve been
developing – really since getting out of The Smiths until now, and I hear
it in this record. There are so many strands of music in it. We didn’t do
that consciously, but I think I’ve got a vocabulary of sound. And I feel
very satisfied that I’ve been able to harness it.”

Marr already shared 8 songs via 2 EPs…

– FEVER DREAMS PT. 1 –

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– FEVER DREAMS PT. 2 –

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JOHNNY MARR: Facebook

Coming In 2022 – Texan Rockers SPOON With 10th LP ‘LUCIFER ON THE SOFA’

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2 January 2022

Band: SPOON
Who: Indie rockers from Austin, Texas with
frontman Britt Daniel as the driving force.
Active: Since 1996 / 10 studio LPs


(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

New album: LUCIFER ON THE SOFA – 10th LP
Release: 11 February 2022 via Matador

Daniel says: “The album is the sound of classic rock
as written by a guy who never did get Eric Clapton“.

Lead single: The Hardest Cut

SPOON: Facebook

Coming In 2022 – Debut By Hype Of The Year WET LEG

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29 December 2021

Band: WET LEG
Who: Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
from England’s Isle Of Wight.

Rhian Teasdale: “Wet Leg is sad music for party people, and party music
for sad people. It is cathartic and joyful and punk and scuzzy and above all,
it’s fun. Wet Leg was originally just supposed to be funny. As a woman, there’s
so much put on you, in that your only value is how pretty or cool you look. But
we want to be goofy and a little bit rude. We want to write songs that people
can dance to. And we want to people to have a good time, even if that might
not possible all of the time.”

New album: WET LEG – self-titled debut LP
Out: 8 April 2022 – order info here

Turn Up The Volume: I just can’t resist their amplified twist and turn
pop liveliness, their hilarious deadpan stories, and their drop-dead-cool
attitude.

Singles: Too Late Now / Oh No / Wet Dream / Chaise Longue

– CHAISE LONGUE –
(More than 2 million views on YouTube)

– OH NO –

– WET DREAM –

– TOO LATE NOW –

All 4 singles on Spotify…

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WET LEG: Facebook – Tour Dates

Coming In 2022 – Art Pop Duo LET’S EAT GRANDMA With Their 3rd LP

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New longplayers coming next year

27 December 2021

Band: LET’S EAT GRANDMA
Who: British art pop duo featuring childhood
friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth
Active: 2013-present / 3 studio LPs (new one included)

New album: TWO RIBBONS
Out: 8 April 2022
Order info: here

Info: “Two Ribbons can be heard as a series of letters between the two of them,
taking the place of conversations as they try to make sense of the rift in their
relationships. It’s a cathartic blood-letting and a devastating realisation about
the fickleness of life. Though it is still very much a Let’s Eat Grandma album, for
the first time there are Rosa’s songs and Jenny’s songs.”

Title track…

LET’S EAT GRANDMA: Instagram

Coming In 2022 – Sixth Album By BAND OF HORSES

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24 December 2021

Band: BAND OF HORSES
Who: Passionate Americana rockers from Seattle, WA
Active: Since 2004 / 6 studio LPs (including new one)

New album: THINGS ARE GREAT
Out: 4 March 2022 – more info here

Press info: “Band of Horses’ sixth studio album and first record in more
than five years. Sonically, the album is a return to their earlier work and
the kind of raw ethos that lies at the heart of Band of Horses. Emotionally
intense, both on a personal and elemental level, on Things Are Great we find
band founder Ben Bridwell more autobiographical than he’s ever been on
record detailing the nebulous frustrations and quiet indignities of relationship
changes and what a person will do to make things right.”

Singles: In Need Of Repair / Crutch

– IN NEED OF REPAIR –

– CRUTCH –

BAND OF HORSES: Facebook

Coming in 2022 – First SOFT CELL Album In Over 20 Years

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22 December 2021

Band: SOFT CELL (Leeds, UK)
Who: Vocalist Marc Almond
and instrumentalist David Ball

Active: 1978–1984, 2001–2003, 2018–present
Five studio albums, including the new one

New album: *HAPPINESS NOT INCLUDED
Out: Spring 2022


(photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Marc Almond: “In this album I wanted to look at us as a society: a place
where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality
and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness
and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others. But
in the album there is also a belief that there is a utopia if we can peel back
the layers and understand what really matters.”

Singles: Heart Like Chernobyl / Bruises On All My Illusions

– HEART LIKE CHERNOBYL –

– BRUISES ON ALL MY ILLUSIONS –

SOFT CELL: Facebook

Coming In 2022 – 5th LP By Vehement Philly Rockers THE DISTRICTS

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22 December 2021

Band: THE DISTRICTS
Who: Indie rockers from Philadelphia, PA
Active: 2009-present / 5 LPs (including new one)


(Pic by Turn Up The Volume)

New album: GREAT AMERICAN PAINTING
Out: 4 February 2022
Order info: here

Info: “The Districts return with their biggest, boldest and most naturally pop album.
It’s upbeat and has a real XTC mid period edge. It’s a bundle of fun and a real surprise.
This record is a new era. The desire to create something larger than yourself, that will
infiltrate people’s hearts like well oiled machines, to paint pictures that will shake them and create a resounding push forward towards something more. In our pandemic isolation, what we wanted was to play a loud collage of music, unconfined by preconceived notions of what it should be, and to transcend ourselves in a room full of breathing, screaming, vibrating human beings – to let the darkness out in a cathartic squeal of noise, eclipsing it with light. We wanted to feel it all at once with you and to escape this fucked up world and find our way into a better one together.

Singles/clips: Do It Over / I Want To Feel It All

– I WANT TO FEEL IT ALL –

– DO IT OVER –

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This is the astounding song (from 2015 album A Flourish And A Spoil)
that made me fall in love with this vehement band…

THE DISTRICTS: Facebook