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New Music Releases For December 18 2015

by Gavin Ryan on December 18, 2015

in New Music,News,Noise Pro

Jess & Matt (XF), Pnatera box-set, Baroness and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight soundtrack lead the pre-Christmas new releases.

New Releases for week commencing Friday 18th of December, 2015 (unless otherwise noted below)

Albums
SONY Distribution:
Royalty (Edit or Explicit) – Chris Brown (DL/CD/Deluxe)
Tell Me I’m Pretty – Cage the Elephant (DL/CD)
Jess & Matt – Jess & Matt (DL/CD)
Screamadelica (Bookset) – Primal Scream (CD)
Kongos – Kongos (DL)
Angels & Ghosts – Dave Gahan & Soulsavers (Vinyl)
The 1975 – The 1975 (Vinyl)
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (25th Ann.Ed.) – A Tribe Called Quest (Vinyl)
A New World Record – Electric Light Orchestra (Vinyl)
El Dorado – Electric Light Orchestra (Vinyl)
Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra (Vinyl)

WARNER Distribution:
The Complete Studio Albums 1990-2000 – Pantera (Rhino) (5CD Box/5xVinyl Box)
Threat to Survival – Shinedown (Vinyl)
Dark Sky Island – Enya (Vinyl)
Classic Linda: Just One Look – Linda Ronstadt (3xVinyl)
Heady Nuggs: 20 Years after Clouds taste Metallic 1994-1997 – The Flaming Lips (5xVinyl)
Through the Cracks – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (DL)
Nobody’s Children – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (DL)

UNIVERSAL Distribution:
Purple – Baroness (Cooking Vinyl) (DL/CD/Vinyl)
Elements – Ludovico Einaudi (Decca) (Vinyl)
Wilder Mind – Mumford & Sons (Dew Process) (Vinyl)
The Complete Pop Albums – Andrea Bocelli (DL)
High Valley – High Valley (DL)
En Route – Tourist LeMC (DL)
In Schwarz – KraftKlub (VL)

MGM Distribution:
Nothing until next year.

INERTIA:
Nothing until next year.

COMPILATIONS:
30th Century Records Volume 1 – Various (Sony) (DL/CD/Vinyl)
Big Bash 20/20 2015-2016 – Various (Columbia/Sony) (DL/CD)
The Letters – Soundtrack by Ciaran Hope (Sony) (DL)
Concussion – Soundtrack by James Newton Howard (Sony) (DL)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Soundtrack by John Williams (Disney/UMA) (DL/CD)
Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight – Soundtrack (Decca/UMA) (DL/CD)
Best from the West – Modern Sounds from California Volume 2 – Various (Universal) (DL)

All tracks/singles below are Downloads (DL) unless otherwise stated:

December 18th:
Until You Were Gone (Remixes) – The Chainsmokers & Tritonal feat Emily (Sony)
Popvilla Sessions – Band of Eli (Sony)
Walk with Me (Remixes) – Cosmo’s Midnight feat Kucka (Sony)
For You (YouNotUs Mixes) – Marcus Layton feat Tin Sparrow (Sony)
Gone Missing (Remixes, Part 2) – Shift K3y feat BB Diamond (Sony)
No More Promises (EP) – Deorro (Sony)
Wrong (EP) – Max (Sony)
Free.K (Remixes) – Pitbull (Sony)
The Girl is Mine (Crookers Remix) – 99 Souls feat Destiny’s Child & Brandy (Sony)
Crush (Felon Remix) – Campsite Dream (Sony)
Lazarus – David Bowie (Sony)
Step Down – Elliphant (Sony)
Amazing (Cahill Club Mix) – Foxes (Sony)
This is War – Ignite (Sony)
Better Place – Rachel Platten (Sony)
Bad Like Yuh – Samantha J. (Sony)
Desert Soul – Yanni (Sony)
We Don’t Stop (Remixes) – Kaskade (Warner)
Hands Up – Daye Jack feat Killer Mike (Warner)
Still Going: The Gone Remixes – JR JR (Warner)
Ghost – With You feat Vince Staples (Warner)
One Call Away (Remix) – Charlie Puth feat Tyga (Warner)
Pick it Up – Paul Weller (Warner)
I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Kaya Stewart (Warner)
Spotify Sessions (EP) – Meg Myers (Warner)
Elevate – East & Young (Warner)
On My Grind – Tunji Ige (Warner)
You Should Be Here – Cole Swindell (Warner) (VS only)
Petite fille – Black Kent (Universal) (+VS)
Steine – Bosse (Universal)
When You Go – Celtic Woman (Universal)
Alive – Sasha (Universal)
Strange Feeling – The Dunwells (Universal)
Spotify Sessions (EP) – Halsey (Astralwerks/UMA)
Those Days are Gone – Hank Williams Jr. (Big Machine/UMA)
In the River – Jesus Culture (Capitol/UMA)
Micky Macali – Sego (Dine Alone/UMA)
Wicket Youth – Sego (Dine Alone/UMA)
Summer Series – Masketta Fall (Island Australia/UMA)
Disappear – Holmeless John (M.O.S./UMA)
Pressure – KJ-Trick feat Alexander Wakim (M.O.S./UMA)
Wide Open – The Chemical Brothers (Virgin UK/UMA)
Higher – Hilltop Hoods feat James Chatburn (Golden Era/UMA) (VS only)
Only One – Sarah Blasko (EMI Australia/UMA) (VS only)
Youth – Troye Sivan (EMI Australia/UMA) (VS only)
La La Means I Love You – Sitti (Universal) (VS only)
I’ll Keep Waving – W. Darling (Universal) (VS only)
I Took a Pill in Ibiza – Mike Posner (Universal) (RT only)
Crocodile Python – Rick Ross (Universal) (RT only)

December 19th:
Simple Song – John Paul White (Warner)
Already in Love – Tank feat Shawn Stockman (Warner)

Legend:
DL = Download
CD = Compact Disc
CDS = CD Singles
2CD = Double CD
Deluxe = Deluxe edition of CD
Vinyl = Vinyl edition
VS = Video Single
VL = Video Longform
RT = Ringtone
DVD = DVD disc
BR = Blu-Ray disc
7”/12” = Vinyl single
Cass = Cassette

Compiled by Gavin Ryan
With information supplied by Universal, Warner Brothers, Sony, Shock, MGM/Green/Planet and Inertia.

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