Each week Release Day Picks profiles new LPs and EPs Team JamBase will be checking out on release day Friday. This week we highlight new albums by Tenacious D, Hiss Golden Messenger and Bob Dylan. Read on for more insight into the records we have all queued up to spin.
Tenacious D – Post-Apocalypto
The Scoop: Comedy-rock duo Tenacious D return with their first album in six years with Post-Apocalypto. Jack Black and Kyle Gass tapped John Spiker to produce the long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Rize Of The Fenix. The 21-track release, which features Dave Grohl on drums, is a concept record that “finds Tenacious D thrust into a world of complete and utter destruction following the drop of an atomic bomb” with the duo tasked with saving the world.
Hiss Golden Messenger – Devotion: Songs About Rivers And Spirits And Children
The Scoop: M.C. Taylor rounded up a handful of his early Hiss Golden Messenger albums for the new box set, Devotion: Songs About Rivers And Spirits And Children. The four-disc collection features remastered versions of Bad Debt, Poor Man and Haw. The set also contains Virgo Fool an exclusive rarities compilation. Each reissue features newly penned liner notes by Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker), with John Mulvey (Uncut, MOJO) providing the essay for Virgo Fool.
Bob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks
The Scoop: The latest edition of Bob Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series chronicles the legendary singer-songwriter’s recording sessions in New York City and Minneapolis for his seminal 1975 album Blood On The Tracks. More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 features 88 tracks of predominantly unreleased material that are considered the “Holy Grail” by some Dylan fans. The six-disc deluxe edition features outtakes, false starts and studio banter giving the ultimate peek behind the curtain on what many consider to be Dylan’s best album.
Compiled by Jeffrey Greenblatt and Andy Kahn.
