Recs with Merritt flips through the finest new vinyl releases for July 2024, including Butasaku, Glass Animals, and more
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Records with Merritt is Marion Merritt’s vinyl store in Westport [1614 Westport Rd] with partner Ann Stewart. As a staple in our community for nearly a decade, we’ve partnered with Merritt for a monthly column, where the tastemaker shares her picks for the best wax releases to look forward to grabbing, divided by release date.
Here’s Marion Merritt’s rundown of the most exciting offerings in July 2024.
July 5, 2024
Butasaku, the Tokyo based duo consisting of singer-songwriter butaji and producer Yusaku Arai’s album Forms is a fusion of hip-hop, house, techno, experimental, folk, and pop—now available on vinyl for the first time. Forms is scheduled to be released July 5, 2024 via Jet Set.
Other albums of note for the week:
Kokoko Butu
Rockats Start Over Again
Assemblage Album
The Osborne Brothers From Rocky Top To Muddy Bottom
Clutch Slow Hole To China
Swim Surreal In The Half Light
Big Sugar 500 Pounds
Lovejoy…And It’s Love
Count Basie 88 Basie Street
Alva Noto HYbr:ID lll
The Flower Travellin’ Band Satori
Pia Fraus Eventing Colours
Soakubeats Never Pay 4 Music
Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound
Nicola Conte Umoja (Joaquin Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm Music And Cosmic Arts Remixes)
Mathias Heise Quintet Mouth Games
Fastball Sonic Ranch
Akira Miyazawa Noyuri
Afla Sackey Destination
July 12, 2024
Fiercely independent artist, actor, John Sturgill Simpson’s—also known as Johnny Blue Skies—highly anticipated debut release, Passage Du Desir, is an album of unreleased songs that were partly written in Paris, recorded at the historic Abbey Road Studios and in Nashville. Passage Du Desir is scheduled to be released July 12, 2024 via High Top Mountain Records.
Other albums of note for the week:
Cigarettes After Sex X’s
Clairo Charm
Ani DiFranco Unprecedented Shit
Brian Eno Eno (Original Soundtrack)
Julia Holter Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Thom Yorke Confidenza (Original Soundtrack)
John Lennon Mind Games (The Ultimate Mixes)
The Dip Love Direction
Phish Evolve
Billy Strings Billy Strings Live Vol 1
OneRepublic Artificial Paradise
Remi Wolf Big Ideas
Bette Smith Goodthing
Cassandra Jenkins My Light, My Destroyer
Shelby Lynne I Am Shelby Lynne (25th Anniversary Edition)
Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band
Down by Law Crazy Days
Various Artists John Gomez and Nick the Record Present Tangent
Travis L.A. Times
Various Artists Eccentric Soul: The Cuca Label
Melissa Etheridge I’m Not Broken (Live From The Topeka Correctional Facility)
Odesza The Last Goodbye Tour Live
Tom Verlaine Around
Michael Hurley Blue Hills
Weldon Irvine Young, Gifted and Broke
July 19, 2024
Glass Animals’ first album in four years, I Love You So F***ing Much, is the follow up to their 2020 huge, global hit album Dreamland. Frontman Dave Bayley explained that every time we say, “I love you so fucking much,” the meaning changes. He says, “Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes. It is so complex, and so powerful that even witnessing the tiniest instance of it can change your life forever.” I Love You So F***ing Much is scheduled to be released July 19, 2024 via Republic Records.
Other albums of note for the week:
Vince Staples Dark Times
Dr. Dog Dr. Dog
Los Campesinos All Hell
Chrome Another World
Bizhiki Unbound
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Fred Chapellier Live in Paris
Parlor Greens In Green We Dream
Mates of State Re-arrange Us
Maia Barouh Aida
Adrienne Pauly Et Comment Tu Trouves Que Je Me Trouve?
Josie Cotton Everything Is Oh Yeah
Ever-Lovin’Jug Band Move That Thing
Pete Rock Petestrumentals 2
Balthvs Cause & Effect
Yasuhiro Usui Undulation
Various Artists From Punk To Ultra: The Plurex Story
July 26, 2024
Strut Records is releasing the first official remastered, reissue of Lafayette Afro-Rock Band’s elusive Funk/Afro album, Malik, originally released in 1974. Malik includes tracks sampled by Public Enemy, Jay-Z, N2Deep and more. What a way to dance your Summer away. Malik is scheduled to be released July 26, 2024 via Strut Records.
Other albums of note for the week:
Future & Metro Broomin
The Talking Heads Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
Various Artists Everyone’s Getting Involved Stop Making Sense Tribute Album
Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine Audacity Of Hype
Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD Slow Burn
Red Clay Strays Made By These Moments
Morrissey Beethoven Was Deaf (Live) [2024 Remaster]
Blur Live At Wembley Stadium
Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades
Pat Metheny MoonDial
Rain Parade Last Stop On The Underground
The Ghost Rite Here, Rite Now (Original Soundtrack)
Beastie Boys Ill Communication 30th Anniversary
Shop Assistants Will Anything Happen
American Aquarium The Fear Of Standing Still
Hans Zimmer Dune: Part Two (Original Soundtrack)
Tigirlily Gold Blonde
Empire of the Sun Ask That God
Various Artists Deadpool & Wolverine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Carter Burwell Drive Aways Dolls (Original Soundtrack)
Humanist On The Edge of a Lost and Lonely World
