CLEVELAND, Ohio -- September begins with a tribute, some returns and some album anniversary celebrations
Album of the Week: “AngelHeadedHipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex” (BMG) is more poignant than the usual tribute album. The all-star 26-song set gives the late Bolan and company its due two months before its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, with U2 and Elton John, Kesha, Todd Rundgren, Perry Farrell, Father John Misty and others tipping their musical hats. It’s also one of the last projects by the late producer Hal Wilner, who passed away April 7 from Covid-19.
Album Title of the Week: Emily Barker, “A Dark Murmuration of Words” (Thirty Tigers);
Did Ya Know?: Jarv Is” is the band launched by Pulp frontman and Britpop icon Jarvis Cocker. The troupe’s debut album, “Beyond the Pale” (Rough Trade) is out Friday, Sept. 4, after being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
New & Noteworthy
Lauren Alaina, “Getting Over Him” (Mercury Nashville); Billy Pilgrim, “In the Time Machine” (Architect Music Collective); Big Sean, “Detroit 2” (GOOD Music/Def Jam); Hayes Carll, “Alone Together Sessions” (Dualtone); Sara Evans, “Copy That” (Born To Fly); Declan McKenna, “Zeros” (Columbia); Billy Ocean, “One World” (Legacy); The Rolling Stones, “Goats Head Soup (Deluxe Edition)” (Polydor/Interscope/UMe)
Also Out
All Them Witches, “Nothing as the Ideal” (New West); Emily Barker, “A Dark Murmuration of Words” (Thirty Tigers); Beechacre, “Beechacre” (Glass Man/Essential Media Group); Afel Bocoum, “Linde” (World Circuit); Bill Callahan, “Gold Record” (Drag City); Carolina Story, “Dandelion” (Black River Americana); Sam Chohfi, “Extraordinary World” (self-released); Cold Years, “Paradise” (Inside Job/eOne); Simon Collins, “Becoming Human” (Frontiers); Melvin Crispell III, “I’ve Got a Testimony” (RCA Inspiration); Deafkids & Petbrick, “DeafBrick” (Neurot); Dirty Projectors, “Super Joao” (Domino); Don’t Sleep, “Turn the Tide” (Mission Two Entertainment); Grand Pavoi, “Men Who Taught Me Chords” (Accidental Popstar); Hardy, “A Rock” (Rising Big Loud); Scott Helman, “Nonsuch Park” (Warner); Hurts, “Faith” (Lento)
Jabbawoki, “Something’s Cookin’” (self-released); Phil Augusta Jackson, “The Redondo Tooe” (DSO As Certified); JARV IS, “Beyond the Pale” (Rough Trade); Jimmy Rip & the Trip, “Muy Crudo” (self-released); Layne’s Calling, “Layne’s Calling” (Pavement Entertainment); LipStitch, “Who’s Left and Who’s Leaving” (Rocket Heart); Jacam Manricks, “Samadhi” (Manricks Music); New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, “Vol. 1” (Stony Plain); Grant-Lee Phillips, “Lightning Show Us Your Stuff” (Yep Rock); Pineapple Thief, “Versions of the Truth” (Kscope); The Puppini Sisters featuring the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, “Dance Dance Dance” (Millionaire); Rising Steel, “Fight Them All” (Frontiers); San Cisco, “Between You and Me” (Nettwerk); Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, “Peradam” (Bella Union)
Spook The Horses, “Empty Body” (Pelagic); Stryper, “Even the Devil Believes” (Frontiers); Tekashi 6ix9ine, “Tattle Tales” (Scumbag/CMG); Throwing Muses, “Sun Racket” (Fire); Tricky, “Fall to Pieces” (False Idols); Tru Thoughts, “Gnawa Electric Remixes” (self-released); William Tyler, “New Vanitas”; U96/Wolfgang Flur, “Transhuman” (Radikal); Yelle, “L’Eure du Verseau” (Recreation Center)
From The Vaults
Fleetwood Mac, “Fleetwood Mac: 1969 to 1974” (Rhino/Warner); Bob James, “Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions” (Resonance); The O’Jays, “Philly Chartbusters: The Best of the O’Jays” (United Souls/Snapper Music); Labi Siffre, “My Song (50th Anniversary Box Set)” (Edsel/Demon Music Group); Various Artists, “Two Tone: The Albums” (Chrysalis)
New Home Video
“The B-52′s: Live at US Festival (September 3, 1982)” (Shout! Factory)