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Today would have been Gil Scott-Heron's 65th birthday, and XL have announced their plans to release a posthumous Heron album, Nothing New. During the sessions for 2008's I'm New Here, Scott-Heron accompanied himself on piano on a number of stripped down versions of his old songs. Six months after his death in 2011, producer Richard Russell revisited those recordings and compiled them into Nothing New*.* It'll be available on limited edition 12" vinyl, and will be released on April 19 for Record Store Day. - Pitchfork