Semper Femina is the sixth album from Laura Marling, set for a March 10 release via More Alarming/Kobalt … After a 19-year hiatus, the Jesus And Mary Chain will finally return on March 24 with Damage And Joy on ADA/Warner Music … Thievery Corporation has announced the February 10 release of The Temple Of I & I on ESL Music … Joyful Noise will issue WHY?’s sixth album, Moh Lhean, on March 3 … On February 10, Old Crow Medicine Show will release Best Of, featuring 12 fan favorites as well as two previously unreleased tracks, via Nettwerk … Occult Architecture Vol. 1 is the latest record from Moon Duo, due out from Sacret Bones on February 3 … The new album from Six Organs Of Admittance, Burning The Threshold, will be available on February 24 from Drag City … Hurray For The Riff Raff concept album The Navigator is set for a March 10 release on ATO … UMe has announced the January 13 release of Rick Wakeman’s new solo album, Piano Portraits … January 27 will see the issuing of Charlie Cunningham’s debut full-length, Lines, on Dumont Dumont … Hot Coffey In The D: Burnin’ At Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge is a previously unreleased 1968 live recording from Dennis Coffey, and it will see the light of day on January 13 on Resonance … The long-awaited third album from Run The Jewels, RTJ3, is due out January 13 … The Godfathers will issue their new album, A Big Bad Beautiful Noise, on Metropolis on February 10 … Dead Oceans will release Hard Love, the new Strand Of Oaks album, on February 17 … On February 17, the new Otis Taylor record, Fantasizing About Being Black, will be out from the Trance Blues Festival label … All The Way, Justin Hayward’s new solo album, released in October, has been released as an expanded two-CD digital set with 15 additional songs via Eagle Rock … The 1970 sophomore release from Chicago, Chicago II, has been remastered and remixed by musician and producer Steven Wilson. It will be available from Rhino on January 27 … KWahtro, Keller Williams’ new group, will release debut album Sync on January 20. Also on January 20, Williams will release a solo acoustic LP, Raw … After 16 years, Robert Pollard’s Circus Devils will say farewell with two releases on February 24: their 14th album, Laughs Last, and a best-of, double LP, Laughs Best: The Kids Eat It Up … Capitol is celebrating 75 years with A Capitol Christmas, featuring 24 holiday tracks from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and many more.
—Emily Costantino