Taylor Swifts Midnights tops this weeks new music releases list – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A new Taylor Swift album is stiff competition, but that hasnt discouraged many others from releasing new titles this week -- including the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Carly Rae Jepsen, Stone Temple Pilots Robert DeLeo, Tegan and Sara, Simple Minds and more (all subject to change)...

Album of the Week: Taylor Swift does not quit. This weeks Midnights (Republic) is her sixth release of the past three years -- although two of those were re-recordings of previous albums Fearless and Red. Midnights -- which Swift describes as the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life -- is the formal follow-up to 2020s Evermore, again co-produced with Jack Antonoff and features Lana Del Rey on the track Snow on the Beach. Lenny Kravitzs daugther Zoe and Swifts boyfriend Joe Alwyn also co-wrote songs. Better listen right away, cause who knows how quickly the next one will come along.

Album Title of the Week: Ugly Kid Joe, Rad Wings of Destiny (Metalville)

Did Ya Know?: A couple of acts end long waits for new album releases this week. A-has True North (Swinglong Ltd./RCA) is the Norwegian trios first since 2015, while North Carolina rockers Archers of Loaf took 24 years leading up to Reason in Decline (Merge).

New & Noteworthy:

Arctic Monkeys, The Car (Domino)

Babyface, Girls Night Out (Capitol)

Black Veil Brides, The Mourning (Sumerian)

David Broza Sings Leonard Cohen (Broza)

Robert DeLeo, Lessons Learned (self-released)

(G)I-DLE, I Love (CUBE Entertainment)

Robyn Hitchcock, Shufflemania (Tiny Ghost)

Carly Rae Jepsen, The Loneliest Time (604/Schoolboy/Interscope)

The Manhattan Transfer, Fifty (Craft/Concord)

Terre Roche, Kin Ya See That Sun (self-released)

Simple Minds, Direction of the Heart (BMG)

Tegan and Sara, Crybaby (Mom+Pop Music)

Meghan Trainor, Takin It Back (Epic)

Young The Giant, American Bollywood (AWAL/Jungle Youth)

Hot New Singles: Air Traffic Controller, 20; Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Skywriting; The Arcs, Keep on Dreamin; Bronze Avery, Over (And Over); Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, The Drugs featuring Jamie T; The Cynz, Narrow Hips; deadmau5 and Kaskade, Alive featuring The Moth & the Flame; Envy, Seimi; Luke Evans, Come What May featuring Charlotte Church; The Fierce and the Dead, Photogenic Love; Gojira, Our Time is Now; Itzy, Boys Like You; Don Letts, Outta Sync; Lil Yachty, Poland; Awin, In Between; Tommy Marz, Human Kind; Chase Rice, Way Down Yonder; Rival Sons, Nobody Wants to Die; Annika Rose, Bruises; Seven Purple Tigers, Smoke Communique; Shakira, Monotonia featuring Ozuna; Sicard Hollow, Forecast of Life; The 69 Eyes, Gotta Rock; Louis Tomlinson, Out of My System; Raffles Van Excel, Why Oh Why featuring Cee-Lo Green and Fantasia; Tom Walker, The Best is Yet to Come;

Also Out:

Abduction, Black Blood (Candlelight)

Architects, The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit (Epitaph)

Atta Boy, Crab Park (self-released)

Batida, Neon Colonialismo (Crammed Discs)

Bayli, Stories 2 (self-releaed)

Bayside, The Red EP (Hopeless)

Teri Gender Bender, Saturn Sex (Clouds Hill)

Birds In Row, Gris Klein (Red Creek)

Black Ledd, Heavy Metal Fans (Melodic Passion)

Alice Bowman, The Space Between ([Pias])

Brutus, Unison Life (Sargeant House)

Christine and the Queens, Redcar les adorables etoiles (Gold Atlas)

Frankie Cosmos, Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)

Cylo-Sonic, Everything Went Stupid (Big Neck)

Anthony DAmato, At First There Was Nothing (Blue Rose)

Def., abandoned love (CDNZA)

Grant Dermody, Behind the Sun (self-released)

Dry Cleaning, Stumpwork (4AD)

Exhumed, To the Dead (Relapse)

Florence and the Machine, Dance Fever (Live at Madison Square Garden (Polydor)

Kenny Foster, Somewhere in Middle America (self-released)

Fly Magic, Givers & Takers (Berthold Records)

Evgueni Galperine, Theory of Becoming (ECM New Series)

Sara Gazarek, Vanity (self-released)

GOAT, Oh Death (Rocket Recordings)

Grand, Grand (Frontiers)

Nick Hakim, Cometa (ATO)

Jesse Harris, Silver Balloon (Secret Sun Recordings)

John Hoyer & Soul Colossal, Green Light (self-released)

In This Moment, Blood 1983 (BMG)

Inclination, Unaltered Perspective (Pure Noise)

Rebecca Jade, A Shade of Jade (self-released)

Jean-Michel Jarred, Oxymore (Music After Entertainment/Sony)

Jeremiah Johnson, Hi-Fi Drive By (Ruf)

Chez Kane, Powerzone (Frontiers)

Kuri, I Love You, Youre Welcome (Nevado Music)

Ashley Kutcher, Survive My Own Mind (Darkroom/Interscope)

Benjamin Lackner, Last Decade (ECM)

Le Sserafim, Antifragile (Source Music/HYBE)

Lovertown, I Love to Lie (Dirty Hit)

Adam Melchor, Here Goes Nothing (Warner)

Dennis Mitcheltree, Golden Rule (Dengor Music)

Moon Walker, The Attack of Mirrors (self-released)

Kylie Morgan, Songs to Say I Do (EMI Nashville)

My Morning Jacket, MMJ Live Vol. 2: Chicago 2021 and Live From RCA Studio A (Acoustic) (ATO Records)

The New Roses, Sweet Poison (Napalm)

O.R.K., Screamnasium (Kscope)

Marco Pignataro, Chant For Our Planet (Zoho)

N. Flying, Dearest (FNC Entertainment)

Pinkshift, Love Me Forever (Hopeless)

Uji, Timebeing (ZZK)

Rattlesnake Venom Trip, Dead Empire (self-released)

Robohands, Giallo (Bastard Jazz)

Ruby the Hatchet, Fear is a Cruel Master (Magnetic Eye)

Sahg, Born Demon (Drakkar Entertainment)

Michael Sarian, Living at the End of the World (Ears and Eyes)

Sloan, Steady (Yep Rock)

Miriam K. Smith, Momentum (Azica)

The Soft Pink Truth, Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)

Jesse Jo Stark, Doomed (self-released)

Strange Heart, Falling Back Again (self-released)

Stryper, The Final Battle (Frontiers)

Serj Tankian, Perplex Cities (Serjical Strike)

Hagop Tchaparian, Bolts (Text)

Witmer Thomas, The Older I Get the Funnier I Was (Hardly Art)

Titus, Damned If I Do (Soundcloud)

Too Much Joy, All These...Feelings (Propeller Sound Recordings)

Twain, Noon (Keeled Scales)

Various Artists, Its Still About Time (Seeker)

Vitreous Humor, Vitreous Humor (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)

Andrea Von Kampen, A Chance Encounter: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Fantasy)

Wiki & Subjxct 5, Cold Cuts (Wikset Enterprise)

Alex Williams, Waging Peace (Lightning Rod)

Witch Fever, Congregation (Music For Nations)

Nikki Yanofsky, Nikki by Starlight (MNRK)

From The Vaults:

A Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding Head: 13th Anniversary Edition (Mute/BMG)

Christina Aguilera, Stripped (10th Anniversary Edition) (RCA)

Jon Brion, Meaningless (Jealous Butcher)

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