DC November 22 New Release Recap

Conventional wisdom would hold that this week's most notable releases come from Lady Gaga, Nickelback, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Daughtry and Mary J. Blige. We, of course, beg to differ. We offer for your perusal new music from Kate Bush, the expansive/expensive Rolling Stones Some Girls extravaganza box and new music from Brit songstress Kate Walsh. There's also the psych/folk meets post/rock music of Louisville's King's Daughters and Sons, and the adult-leaning alt/pop of the U.K.'s Olivia Broadfield, Charlene Soraia and Elena Tonra (Daughter). Check out the features, link to hear music and take a gander at our more complete list below...

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (November 21, ANTI-) - Eagerly anticipated new studio album from the iconic and trendsetting Brit art-pop songstress is her first collection of new songs since 2005's Aerial...new project came out of her studio work on this past May's Director's Cut where she revisited and reworked songs from her Sensual World and Red Shoes...guests including Elton John ("Snowed in at Wheeler Street"), veteran guitarist (and Bush sideman) Andy Fairweather Low ("Wild Man"), British actor/comedian/writer Stephen Fry (the title track) and on vocals, Bush's 12-year-old son Albert "Bertie" McIntosh ("Snowflake")...more DC

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Deluxe/Super Deluxe Editions, Universal) - In 1978, surrounded by the raucous punk movement, rising disco scene, funked out R+B and the last wobbley hi-heeled stagger of glam rock, the "worlds greatest rock band" released an album of self-renewal that is regarded as one of their most successful -- critically and commercially -- and is now ranked as the best-selling disc of the band's fifty (!) year career...The album spawned the #1 hit and dance club fave "Miss You" along with Stones classics "Shattered", "Beast of Burden" and "Respectable"...more DC

Kate Walsh - The Real Thing (UK) - Stripped down, live-in-the-studio acoustic album is, says the D.I.Y. Brit songbird, "the simplest and truest form" for her new songs, each delivered one per month this past year in a video leading up to the full album street date this week...her fourth album of original songs follows up last year's Peppermint Radio collection of cover songs...Walsh's "straight from my heart" performances are mostly whisper-soft confessional musings spun like fine gossamer...more DC

King's Daughters and Sons - If Then Not When (November 22, Chemikal Underground) - Landing somewhere near the blurry nexus of pastoral folk/rock, capacious, riff-heavy post/rock and moody, atmospheric chamber/folk, the Louisville-based amalgam of various members of local bands merged their talents for this mostly somber, darkly dramatic collectiion... Atmospheric, expansive epics that belie their prodigious heft with a down-to-earth attitude and stark, gimmick-free production...more DC

Charlene Soraia - Moonchild (UK) - 23-year-old London singer/songwriter (and startlingly good guitarist) has created quite a buzz with her haunting "Wherever You Will Go", a cover of a song by The Calling that's being used in a Twinings Tea commercial in the U.K...a Top 5 single, the track sets the stage for a formidable debut album of jazzy folk/pop with a depth and scope only hinted at in "Wherever"...the daughter of hippie parents, Soraia describes her music as two sides of the same artsy, progressive coin: the "folky idyllic side" and, on the flip, the "cosmic night time side"...more DC

Daughter - The Wild Youth EP (UK) - Brit neo-folkie and alt-pop experimentalist Elena Tonra carves out her space somewhere between the moody soundscapes of Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan and the modern acoustic storytelling of Laura Marling on this new dreamy and intense four-track EP...working with collaborator and  guitarist Igor Haefeli, Tonra follows up and expands upon her spring debut EP His Young Heart..."Eno meets Enya" quips The Guardian U.K...more DC

More November 22 Releases:

Adam Lambert - Beg for Mercy
Chris Cornell - Songbook
Daughtry - Break the Spell
Dillon - This Silence Kills
Emmy the Great/Tim Wheeler - This is Xmas (11/22)
Lady Gaga - Born This Way/Remix
Mary J. Blige - My Life II/The Journey Continues Act 1
Nickelback - Here and Now
Peter Broderick - Music For Confluence
Rihanna - Talk That Talk
Rush - Sector 1, 2, 3 (CD/DVD Box Sets)
Saint Saviour - Suuki (EP (UK)
Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour (CD/DVD)
The Antlers - (together EP)
Wooden Wand/Briarwood Virgins - Briarwood