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Marinero
Hella Love
Hardly Art |
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| Pulling sonic influences from classic Latin American groups and international composers from the 60's & 70's: Los Terricolas, Ennio Morricone, Esquivel, Carole King and, Serge Gainsbourg Hella Love fuses classical arrangements with a variety of different genres, evoking a sonic nostalgia blended with other contemporary artists like Chicano Batman, Connan Mockasin, and Chris Cohen. The deeper you go the harder it hits. |
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Robert Finley
Sharecropper's Son
Easy Eye |
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| Sharecropper's Son is the career-defining new album from Robert Finley, "the greatest living soul singer" who found overnight success after 67 years of hard work. Following Finley's semi-finalist appearance on America's Got Talent, he returned to the studio to follow-up his critically acclaimed record, Goin' Platinum! The resulting Dan Auerbach produced album is a soulful masterpiece, rooted in the vintage sounds of southern harmony, rhythm and blues. |
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Crowded House
Dreamers Are Waiting
BMG |
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| The legendary New Zealand group, including founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, release their first new album in over a decade. "I've always been afraid of just repeating the same formulas, and somehow this feels like a fresh and authentic way to re-approach Crowded House today with an awareness of all our history and where, how and why it began in the first place," said Finn in a statement. "The original band mentality and philosophy is still in there." |
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Liz Phair
Soberish
PIAS |
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| Over a decade since her last record was released, Liz Phair now returns with another bagful of fireworks already fizzing to be let off in the shape of new album Soberish. Liz maintains the sass that propelled her to become such a critical darling, and that innate ear for melody and razor sharp way with words." Hey Lou" is the record's opening gambit, a mischievous ode to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, and Liz's jaunty lament back into our ears. Welcome back Miss Phair, we've missed you. |
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Chris Thile
Laysongs
NON |
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| Laysongs is Thile's first truly solo album: just his voice and mandolin on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Thile realized—and illustrates in these songs—that his greatest spiritual sustenance comes from communion with others. "I was more than ever before craving that thing—singing with people, making music with people, but particularly that very selfless kind of music making that happens in church." |
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Craig Cardiff
All This Time Running
True North Records |
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| With a voice described as "warm, scratched, sad and sleepy," Cardiff sings songs that expose the human condition, putting a magnifying glass to our clumsier and less proud moments. He can turn any setting into an intimate affair, infusing his music and lyrics with an uncompromising humanism. This 17-track album includes bonus tracks of some of his best-loved songs including "Dirty Old Town" that was included in the hit TV show "This Is Us". |
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Sara Bareilles
Amidst the Chaos: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
Epic |
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| Recorded in November 2019 during Bareilles' 28-city Amidst the Chaos tour. Guests on the album include T Bone Burnett, Emily King and The Milk Carton Kids. "I played hundreds of shows all over Los Angeles for years, starting with open mics and tiny clubs. As I evolved as an artist, I always wondered if I would ever earn my place onto the Hollywood Bowl marquee. When it finally happened, it was an extraordinary honor and one I knew I would want to remember forever." |
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Gary Numan
The Intruder
BMG |
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| Intruder is the 21st solo album from the iconic and influential Gary Numan. With a career that has spanned nearly four decades, his approach to electronic music remains an inspiration to artists across genres and eras, from stadium goliaths such as Depeche Mode, Prince and Nine Inch Nails to alternative heroes such as Beck, Damon Albarn and Marilyn Manson. Even Kanye West owes him a debt, and David Bowie once credited him with "writing two of the finest songs" in British music. |
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Allison Russell
Outside Child
Fantasy |
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| Born and raised in Montreal, Allison Russell imbues her music with the colors of her city – the light, the landscape, the language – but also the trauma that she suffered there. It is a heartbreaking reflection on a childhood no one should have to endure, and at the same time a powerful reclamation – asserted from a place of healing, of motherhood, of partnership – and from a new home made in Nashville. |
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k.d. lang
Makeover
NON |
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| In celebration of Pride Month, Nonesuch Records releases k.d. lang's makeover, a new collection of classic dance remixes of some of her best-loved songs. The album brings these remixes, made between 1992 and 2000, together for the first time, and includes "Sexuality," "Miss Chatelaine," "Theme from the Valley of the Dolls," "Summerfling," and the #1 dance chart hits "Lifted By Love" and "If I Were You." |
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Wolf Alice
Blue Weekend
RCA |
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| Blue Weekend, the highly anticipated third album from one of Britain's most revered bands, is the follow-up to the band's 2017 Mercury Prize-winning album Visions of a Life. Personal storytelling is at the core of an album that sees Wolf Alice embrace a newfound boldness and vulnerability in equal measure. Produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Björk, Brian Eno, Florence + The Machine). |
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Lukas Nelson
A Few Stars Apart
Fantasy |
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| A Few Stars Apart was recorded over three immersive weeks and the upshot is unmistakable: a sound that's considered, spacious, and beautifully lush. With Dave Cobb's masterful production, every note is in service of the song. A testament to finding a human connection: between close family and friends as well as one's own heart. These 11 songs reveal what it means to come home again, to be still, and to find community and yourself. |
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Night Beats
Outlaw R&B
Cooking Vinyl |
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| Outlaw R&B is the fifth full-length album by the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell. Made during the height of the California wildfires (where Danny now resides), rioting in the streets and a nation in lockdown, Outlaw R&B deals in a psychedelic and R&B-infused garage-rock sound that's "bathed in post-apocalyptic bliss". With four albums now behind them, Night Beats have garnered a reputation as one of the finest purveyors of contemporary rock'n'roll hedonism around. |
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