In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for four recently announced albums and EPs.
The Waterboys – Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
Credit: Paul Mac Manus
The Waterboys will release new album Life, Death and Dennis Hopper on April 4 through Sun Records.
The album focuses on the life of the actor Dennis Hopper.
“The arc of his life was the story of our times,” says band leader Mike Scott.
“He was at the big bang of youth culture in Rebel Without A Cause with James Dean; and the beginnings of Pop Art with the young Andy Warhol.
“He was part of the counter-culture, hippie, civil rights and psychedelic scenes of the ’60s. In the ’70s and ’80s he went on a wild 10-year rip, almost died, came back, got straight and became a five-movies-a-year character actor without losing the sparkle in his eye or the sense of danger or unpredictability that always gathered around him.
“It begins in his childhood, ends the morning after his death, and I get to say a whole lot along the way, not just about Dennis, but about the whole strange adventure of being a human soul on planet earth,”
Tracklist:
Kansas (featuring Steve Earle)
Hollywood’55
Live In The Moment, Baby
Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights
Andy (A Guy Like You)
The Tourist (featuring Barny Fletcher)
Freaks On Wheels
Blues For Terry Southern
Memories Of Monterey
Riding Down To Mardi Gras
Hopper’s On Top (Genius)
Transcendental Peruvian Blues
Michelle (Always Stay)
Freakout At The Mud Palace
Daria
Ten Years Gone (featuring Bruce Springsteen)
Letter From An Unknown Girlfriend (featuring Fiona Apple)
Rock Bottom
I Don’t Know How I Made It (featuring Taylor Goldsmith)
Frank (Let’s Fu*k)
Katherine (featuring Anana Kaye)
Everybody Loves Dennis Hopper
Golf, They Say
Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing Of Hopper
Aftermath
Amplifier – Gargantuan
Amplifier will release new album Gargantuan on April 4 through Rockosmos Records.
The album is a return to their roots, with raw, electric energy and was recorded in a Sussex smithy.
“In good conscience, I could hardly go there and fire up a Marshall stack at 2 am,” says Sel Balamir.
“Matt plays louder and harder than anyone else I know, so we irresistibly ended up going down the route of pure electricity.”
Tracklist:
The Lumineers – Automatic
Asshole
Strings
Automatic
You’re All I’ve Got
Plasticine
Ativan
Keys On The Table
Better Day
Sunflowers
So Long
Love Is Noise – To Live in a Different Way
Credit: Zak Pinchin
Devotion
Evelyn
It hurts to know you’re there
Sunshine
Anemoia
Mist
Ascending
