Twostepcub's New Albums Roundup 12/4/22...
Happy Sunday, everybody, it's time for this week's new album round-up,
where I sample my picks of the best of the albums making their debut on Billboard
magazine's sales charts as well as the same across the pond in the
United Kingdom. You can check out yesterday's new singles recap by clicking here.
Billboard 200 debut: #13
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #2
British Album Chart debut: #17
Choice cut: "Don't Tell Me" with Ann Wilson
The neo-heavy metal band is back with their eighth album, with sufficient brooding about, and including a very good song on the pain of divorce featuring Ann Wilson of Heart.
(Click below to see the rest of the post)
Billboard 200 debut: #15
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #3
British Albums Chart debut: #98
Choice cut: "The Ending"
As the critically-acclaimed rap collective calls it quits for now, this is one of two albums as their swan song, and its sweeping scope outdoes their competitors. Also, black queerness rules.
Billboard 200 debut: #27
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #7
British Albums Chart debut: #40
Choice cut: "Jolene"
For the newcomer to this music icon's work, this 23-track collection include most of her best work, from her down-home beginnings to her cosmopolitan period.
Billboard 200 debut: #30
Billboard 200 Current Album Sales debut: #5
British Albums Chart debut: #8
Choice cut: "San Quentin"
I never fully understood the collective disdain for the Canadian bro-rock kings, as there are bands in the era that churned out total douchebags (looking at you, Staind), but like roaches, they can never die, and return with their goofy but effective car jam record.
Billboard 200 debut: #37
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #4
Choice cut: "John Deere Tractor"
This very personal album of covers that has the new generation's voice of bluegrass music collaborating with his father figure, Larry Barber, as they run through fourteen classic, including this one that seems to address his mother.
Billboard 200 debut: #75
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #12
British Albums Chart debut: #1
Choice cut: "Dreamer"
The British pop troubadour delivers his second full-length album with a pathos older than his years. A more serious Lewis Capaldi, if you will.
Billboard 200 debut: #111
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #9
British Albums Chart debut: #27
Choice cut: "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody"
At the crossroads between Rumer and Enya lies this spellbinding work from the Doylestown singer whose voice grabs your attention like nobody else. I can't recommend this enough.
Reset - Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #50
Choice cut: "Edge Of The Edge"
The veteran indie-rock singers from the Animal Collective and Spacemen 3 respectively chop and mix samples of obscure 60's singles that still feel familiar to ground this trippy set.
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #53
British Albums Chart debut: #20
Choice cut: "Aladdin Sane (Moonage Daydream Edit)"
The companion to the documentary of the artist from this year, Moonage Daydream is a sprawling collection of reimagined mixes, rarities and a couple ringers. This one in particular got me.
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #57
Choice cut: "Almost Christmas"
The rock crooner gifts us with a holiday album that doesn't take itself seriously, and that you and your parents can not argue over. Also "Dogs Love Christmas Too".
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #67
Choice cut: "Can't Get Out Of This Mood"
In the aftermath of Joy's two Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album, this stellar set gets its deserved public acclaim that you really need to put on for your next dinner.
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #68
Choice cut: "Please Mr. Please"
This exclusive vinyl release from Target chronicles almost all of the late pop icon's best-known work (no "Twist Of Fate" here) and while it's a vanity buy for the gheys on pink vinyl, you can't deny the quality throughout her long career.
Billboard Current Albums Sales debut: #73
Choice cut: "Balulalow"
New Age sage McKennitt brings in some indigenous Canadian voices in this great addition to the holiday canon. Recorded in December of last year, her voice shines as brightly at 65 as ever.
Comments