NEW ALBUMS 2022
…JACK WHITE (below) releases two albums next year – Fear Of The Dawn in April and in July, Entering Heaven Alive. “I’m listening to a lot of Japanese music that’s the soundtrack to anime,” Jack told MOJO. “I’ve been inspired by it lately. It’s nice because I don’t really care what the words are and I focus on the melody and the rhythm” … heavy hints and new songs registered with ASCAP (including Fade To Black and End Of The Line) suggest there will be a new, and possibly final, album from KENDRICK LAMAR in
’22 …next year the THE ROLLING STONES (right) are expected to release an album utilising recordings made with late drummer Charlie Watts. “Songs are there,” Keith Richards told AppleMusic in
October. “It’s a fascinating job and you can’t retire” …having announced dates in Turkey and eastern Europe, speculation is rife that ARCTIC MONKEYS will release a new album in ’22. Matt Helders told BBC 5 Live, “it’ll be next year… [the albums] always kind of pick up where the other one left off, in a way”…JOHN FOGERTY missed his deadline to release a new album in 2021, but continues to work on new material …LIAM GALLAGHER’s C’mon You Know arrives in May: one of its singles will be entitled I Wish I Had More Power, ostensibly about brother Noel …after July’s cassette-only double-A side Bug Eggs/Tony Speaks!, hopes are high for more DRY CLEANING …similarly, FONTAINES D.C. have tantalised with
a new song, I Love You …MICHAEL STIPE is finishing off his first solo LP … DEXYS are working on a new LP. “It’s not like a story,” says Kevin Rowland,
“but there is a unifying thing holding it together… there’s a couple [of songs] that are pretty much finished and demoed to a really high standard” …Kevin Shields insists there will be a new MY BLOODY VALENTINE album, telling Australian radio station Double J, “it’s going to be one 40-minute album, two or three EPs and a double album… the first one will be quite warm and more song-based, the second one will be much more expansive” …ANNA CALVI continues to work on the follow-up to 2018’s Hunter. She told Gay Times, “It’s always a bit of a headfuck to make an album… [the new record] feels more introspective” …ZZ TOP will complete recordings begun with late bassist and singer Dusty Hill, who left us in July. “We’ve got a couple of things that’ll make sense,” Billy F Gibbons told Variety …Matt Johnson’s working on the first all-new THE THE song album since 2000’s NakedSelf. “I’ve got a lot of lyrics and music written, now it’s a case of putting it all together… I’m further down the line than people would imagine” …SUEDE continue to work on a new record. They requested fans download voice recordings singing along to lines including “steal my blue sky” and “shut up and hit that metal” to a special Suede dropbox …and finally, BIG BOI from Outkast says he’s got a duet with KATE BUSH ready to put out when the time is right…