Direct Current’s Up Coming Album releases
DC Pick
February 10
Alex Burey – Inside World EP
Anomie (Rachel Browne of Field Mouse) – S/T (EP)
Clemency – You’ve Got the Fire EP
Dara Sisterhen – Boom EP
Del Bel – S/T
Duke Garwood – Heavy Love
Elliot Maginot – Young/Old/Everything.In.Between
Ethan Jano – I’ll Be Fine
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Fortunate Ones – The Bliss
Foy Vance – Live at Bangor Abbey
Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds
Idlewild – Everything Ever Written
Jayson Belt – Poor Penmanship
JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll
Jeff Austin – The Simple Truth
Jesse Harris & Star Rover – No Wrong No Right
Johan Agebjörn (Sally Shapiro) – Notes
Kodaline – Coming Up For Air
Martin Sexton – Mixtape of the Open Road
Michelle Chamuel (The Voice) – Face The Fire
The Unthanks – Mount the Air
Paperhaus – S/T
Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn
Robert Earl Keen – Happy Prisoner
Rumer – Into Colour (U.S.)
Sam King – All I Need (2/13)
Screen Door Porch – Modern Settler
The Districts – A Flourish and A Spoil
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers
William Ryan Fritch – Revisionist
February 17
A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixation
A Seated Craft – Of Birds
Chelan – Equal Under Pressure
Colin Hay – Next Year People
Elle King – Love Stuff
Estelle – True Romance
Ibeyi – S/T
Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
José González – Vestiges & Claws
Juliana Hatfield Three – Whatever, My Love
Kristin Andreassen – Gondolier
Laura Groves – Committed Language
Letts (Christian Letts) – Hold Fast (Prod. Marcus Mumford)
Lyal Strickland – Balanced On Barb Wire
Marika Hackman – We Slept At Last
Martin Callingham (Joyce the Librarian) – Tonight We All Swim Free
Phosphorescent – Live at The Music Hall
Pops Staples – Don’t Lose This
Rathborne – Soft (UK)
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane
Snowghosts – A Wrecking
Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
Texas – 25 (Newly reworked tracks w/ Truth & Soul in NYC + four new songs)
The Amazing – Picture You
The Bird and The Bear – Build A Fire
The Dupont Brothers – Heavy As Lead
The Mavericks – Mono
Twin River – Should The Light Go Out
Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned
February 24
Artisan Loyalist – Lonely Ghost
Astral Swans – All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson
Champs – Vamala
Daniel Knox – S/T
Diamond Rugs – Cosmetics
Elana James (Hot Club of Cowtown) – Black Beauty
Elvis Perkins – I Aubade
Gang of Four – What Happens Next
Girls, Guns and Glory – Tribute to Hank Williams Live
Groeni – Hewn (EP)
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders – Playmates (U.S.)
James McMurtry – Complicated Game
JJ Grey & Mofro – Ol’ Glory
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – Tomorrow Will Follow Today
Kristin Diable – Create Your Own Mythology
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (Expanded)
Mat Kearney – Just Kids
Maybeshewill – Fair Youth (U.S.)
Melanie De Biasio – No Deal Remixed
MisterWives – Our Own House
Quiet Company – Transgressor
Rachel Sermanni – Tied To The Moon
Sea Change – Breakage
Tall Tales & Silver Lining – Tightropes
The Elwins – Play For Keeps
Via Tania – Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra
Wind In Sails – Turning Light
March 3
Ambrosia Parsley – Weeping Cherry
Amy Speace – That Kind of Girl
Andrew Combs – All These Dreams
Brandi Carlile – The Firewatcher’s Daughter
Dorthia Cottrell – S/T
Echo Lake – Era
Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show) – S/T
John Helix – Chronically Happy (3/6)
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper – After
Lady Lazarus – Miracles
Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
Of Montreal – Aureate Gloom
River City Extension – Deliverance
Ryan Culwell – Flatlands
Sandra Kolstad – Zero Gravity State Of Mind
Sasha Siem – Most of the Boys
Selah Sue – Reason
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) – Hand. Cannot. Erase
The Slow Show – White Water
To Kill A King – S/T
Tom Brosseau – Perfect Abandon
March 10
Danielle Nicole – Wolf Den
Fences – Lesser Oceans
Joe Pug – Windfall
Lieutenant – If I Kill This Thing…
Madonna – Rebel Heart
Mark Knopfler – Tracker
Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood
Rebecca Ferguson – Lay Sings The Blues (UK)
River City Extension – Deliverance
Snowapple – Illusion
Taylor Berrett – Great Falls
Will Butler (Arcade Fire) – Policy
March 17
Allison Moorer – Down to Believing
Glen Hansard – It Was Triumph We Once Proposed…Songs of Jason Molina (EP) (3/17)
Inventions – Maze of Woods
Liz Longley – S/T
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – …Sing Elliott Smith
Tobias Jesso, Jr. – Goon
March 24
Angelique Kidjo – Sings
Chilly Gonzales – Chambers
Gabrielle Papillon – Tempest of Old
Hudson Taylor – Singing For Strangers (U.S.)
James Bay – Chaos & The Calm
Laura Marling – Short Movie
Nellie McKay – My Weekly Reader
Portico (ex-Portico Quartet) – Living Fields
Rah Rah – Vessels
Striking Matches – Nothing But the Silence
The Go! Team – The Scene Between Us\
Tommy Wallach – We All Looked Up
Various – A Musicares Tribute to Paul McCartney (2012) (DVD)
Vetiver – Complete Strangers
March 31
Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
Hannah Cohen – Pleasure Boy
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem – Violets Are Blue
Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts – Blaster
April 7
Alison Wonderland – Run (U.S.; 3/20 AUS)
Callaghan – A History of Now
Delta Rae – After It All
Josh Rouse – The Embers of Time
Marina and the Diamonds – Froot
Matt & Kim – New Glow
The Waterboys – Modern Blues (U.S.)
The Wombats – Glitterbug
Waxahatchie (Katie Crutchfield) – Ivy Tripp
Comment: Because Direct Current’s taste is so different than mine (yes, I know, but one thing at a time) their list of new releases works as a litmus taste, I scan the list and check and check and check and more than three quarters of the time I check out. So let’s move merrily along: The Wombats, Laura Marling, Nellie McKay, Estelle, Juliana Hatfield Three, Martin Sexton, Texax… maybe I am being a little difficult but those are the ones that catchy my eyes on this list.
