Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
SEVEN IN SEVEN
Welcome to Seven in Seven, where each week we typically take a look at shows coming to the region over the next week. And while venue doors are slowly opening again, due to the current pandemic they aren’t quite there yet. That doesn’t mean the music stops, and new releases are coming out weekly from artists you know and love and some waiting to be discovered. Each week we’ll be looking at some of the best hitting shelves and streaming services and a can’tmiss show in the region.
Whether your musical tastes are rock and roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singer-songwriter or indie, there’ll always be something to check out. Here’s what’s on the docket for the week of Oct. 29:
Show of the week Quicksand — The Theatre of Living Arts — Oct. 31
There’s nothing scarier this Halloween than missing out on post-hardcore masters Quicksand closing out the initial leg of their tour in support of their latest album, “Distant Populations.” There’s actually a local connection for the NYC outfit, as the new LP was recorded at Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken. Expect songs from it along with classics like “Omission,” “Fazer” and a killer cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “Don’t Ask Why.”
New releases 1 Jerry Cantrell — “Brighten” SOUNDCHECK
• Quicksand: “Illuminant”
• Jerry Cantrell: “Atone”
• Richard Ashcroft: “This Thing Called Life”
• Of Monsters and Men: “Phantom”
• Pink Floyd: “On the Turning Away”
• Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”
• Pelt: “Diglossia” basically robbed of it when it came out in 1997 while he was fronting the Verve. Elsewhere, “This Thing Called Life” is a totally reworked version of a song that strips away the original punchy, hip-hop flavored beats and funk guitar embellishments, replacing them with an organic, fullband sound.
Beyond the instantly identifiable riffs and equally recognizable vocals, Jerry Cantrell will always be known as a songwriter, first and foremost. The songs that comprise his influential catalog as co-founder, vocalist and lead guitarist of Alice in Chains and as a solo artist resound across culture. His third full-length solo effort, “Brighten,” continues that trend masterfully. Cantrell moves seamlessly between heavy and light, acoustic and piano flourishes adding even more depth to an already richly Marking an important textured sonic palette. milestone, multiplatinum
Icelandic collective Of 2 Monsters and Men deliver the 10th anniversary edition “Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1” features new and strippedback versions of some of Richard Ashcroft’s classic songs, including the iconic “Bittersweet Symphony.” In fact, it was the acoustic version that was the catalyst that led to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards returning the songwriting credit after the singer-songwriter was
Richard Ashcroft — “Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1” 3 Of Monsters and Men — “My Head Is an Animal (10th Anniversary Edition)”
of “My Head Is an Animal,” celebrating a decade since the arrival of their platinumcertified debut. What makes this unique is the group is releasing a version of the album as it was when it was released in Iceland in 2011. This version has a total of four tracks that were not on the 2012 U.S. release, including two never-beforereleased songs in “Phantom” and “Sugar in a Bowl.” The anniversary album will also be accompanied by commemorative merchandise and a limited-edition vinyl as a special thank you for fans.
4 Pink Floyd — “A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Remixed and Updated”
Remixed and updated from the original 1987master tapes for “The Later Years,” Pink Floyd’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” will be available on vinyl, CD, DVD, Blu-ray and digitally with Stereo and 5.1mixes. The release of “The Later Years” project in 2019 gave an opportunity for a fresh overview of the LP and returns some of Richard Wright’s original keyboard takes alongside re-recorded new drum tracks with Nick Mason. Producers David Gilmour and Bob Ezrin have restored a better creative balance between the three band members.
5 Johnny Cash — “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968”
Recorded by innovative sound wizard Owsley “Bear”
Stanley, the entirety of a historic concert by Johnny Cash is available for the first time as “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968.” Considered a sonic pioneer and unconventional genius, Stanley’s mix captures Cash’s unadorned voice entirely on the right channel and the Tennessee Three all on the left, setting the listener right between Johnny and his band as if they were center stage at the Carousel. 6 Pelt — “Reticence Resistance” For almost 30years and over the course of countless releases, the American band Pelt has traversed nonidiomatic improv, Easterntinged psychoacoustic drones and — in its earliest incarnation — noisy post rock. “Reticence Resistance” was recorded live at London’s Café Oto over two nights in February 2017. The capacious, inviting sound of the performances was captured without effects, using only microphones on the acoustic instruments.