Out This Week 4/22

Eels (aka Mark Oliver Everett) releases his eleventh album, The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett, on his own E Works label. KEXP's Music Director Don Yates calls it "a solid set of sedate folk-pop with gentle guitars, restrained strings and brass, mostly glacial tempos and reflective, often-morose lyrics." British band Fear of Men launch their debut full-length, Loom, "a promising set of dark dream-pop with an atmospheric sound juxtaposing catchy pop melodies with bleak lyrics of loneliness, boredom and anxiety." The new Neil Young album, recorded at famed Third Man Records, is currently only available on vinyl, and features covers of classics by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Gordon Lightfoot, Bert Jansch, and more.There are quite a few compilations of note this week, including Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina, the tribute album to the man who recorded under the names Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. The Lefse Records compilation The Space Project has landed, a collection of new music created using actual sounds from space. The soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is intriguing -- composed by Hans Zimmer, the songs are performed by "The Magnificent Six" which includes the likes of legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Pharrell, along with Michael Einziger (Incubus), Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski and Steve Mazzaro.

In reissues, Cabaret Voltaire make their 1985 four-song EP, Drinking Gasoline, available on CD for the very first time, packaged with a DVD of the rare video compilation, Gasoline in Your Eye. Detroit trio Death release the third volume in their archival collection, aptly titled III, which includes previously unreleased tracks recorded during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1992.

And, then there's DCOnstructed, which is apparently EDM remixes of songs from Disney films.