Fresh Wax: Andrew Bird, Atlas Sound, Leonard Cohen and more

Pontiak's Sea Voids (which happens to be a limited, 1,000-copy release)

​Our resident vinyl expert Jason Ferguson's take on this week's fresh wax:

This is a bit of an odd week for new vinyl. While the slate is stacked with legitimate new releases like Fuck Buttons' Tarot Sport, the Jack Kerouac-inspired One Fast Move album by Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard, a new super-EP from Pontiak (Sea Voids), Logos by Atlas Sound, and others, there are also quite a few new pieces of wax sliding into stores that are albums that came out on CD and digitally over the past few months. Avett Brothers, Dead Man's Bones, Islands, Rain Machine, and a few others are making their vinyl debuts a week (or few) after folks had already had plenty of time to pick up on other formats. While I've definitely got a bit of "better late than never" feeling about that, I wonder how many hardcore music fans are really gonna wait two or three weeks to pick up a new release just so they can get it on wax?

Anyway, here's this week's lineup of new vinyl. Spin 'em if you got 'em.

New Releases:

Atlas Sound: Logos

Avett Brothers: I and Love and You (180g 2LP)

Kevin Ayers: The Radio Sessions

Andrew Bird: The Swimming Hour

Rosanne Cash: The List

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (180g 2LP)

Dead Man's Bones: Dead Man's Bones

El Perro del Mar: Love Is Not Pop

Failures' Union: In That Way

Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard: One Fast Move (LP + DVD)

Flight of the Conchords: I Told You I Was Freaky

Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport

Islands: Vapours

Michael Jackson: The Remix Suite

Jesu: Opiate Sun

Manassas: Pieces (Rhino 180g 2LP)

Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor

Pontiak: Sea Voids (Thrill Jockey, limited to 1000 copies)

Rain Machine: Rain Machine

Shrinebuilder: Shrinebuilder

Sufjan Stevens: The BQE

Reissues:

Eyehategod: Confederacy of Ruined Lives (limited to 400 hand-numbered black vinyl and 100 hand-numbered tan-black spatter vinyl; triple gatefold)

The Holy Modal Rounders: The Holy Modal Rounders, 2 (Four Men With Beards, 180g)

Humble Pie: Smokin'(Analogue Productions 180g)

Diana Krall: All For You (180g 2LP)

The Small Faces: The Small Faces, From the Beginning (Four Men With Beards, 180g)