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Allah-Las
LAHS
Mexican Summer
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| Lahs – the new Allah-Las – album takes advantage of the indie-yacht-rock trade winds to create a virtual vacation of a concept record. But rather than coast on thin and breezy guitars, they've conjured some real atmosphere via thicc psychedelic keyboards, funky grooves, George Harrison slides, and lyrics in a second language (Portuguese lessons paid off). It's 5:00 somewhere… |
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Rachael & Vilray
Rachael & Vilray
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| Rachael & Vilray – the debut album by Lake Street Dive singer-songwriter Rachael Price and the composer, singer, and guitarist known as Vilray. The 12-song set features ten originals by Vilray, along with two covers from the era that inspired him: Cuban composer Pedro Junco Jr.'s 1943 "Nosotros" and "I Love the Way You're Breaking My Heart," first popularized by Peggy Lee. Simple, powerful, and mesmerizing. |
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Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks
¡Spangled!
NONESUCH
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| ¡Spangled! is a collaboration between Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and American musician, songwriter, arranger, producer, and iconoclast Van Dyke Parks. The ten-song set celebrates the migration of song across the Americas and spans more than a century, including a bolero from Panama, a bossa nova from Brazil, and an elegiac ballad from the Southwest United States. The snark is plentiful and joyous. Jackson Browne and Ry Cooder guest. |
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Vagabon
Vagabon
NONESUCH
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| Vagabon's sophomore album, All The Women In Me follows-up her breakout debut, Infinite Worlds, and is an artistic leap for Lætitia Tamko, who wrote and produced the entire album. All The Grounded by Tamko's expressive voice and knack for unique melodies, Women In Me is not easily defined – never lingering too long on one particular sensibility. "Full Moon in Gemini" and "Water Me Down" are transcendent. |
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Foals
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2)
WARNER
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| Foals return with two new albums: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 and Part 2. Eager to break traditional pop song structure, the 20 tracks defy expectation. There are exploratory, progressive-tinged tracks which occasionally break the 10-minute mark alongside atmospheric segues. "They're two halves of the same locket," frontman Yannis Philippakis explains. "They can be listened to and appreciated individually, but fundamentally, they are companion pieces." |
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White Reaper
You Deserve Love
NEK
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| Nurturing arena-sized ambitions, Louisville's White Reaper remind us that "fun as hell" is a primary purpose of music. Equal parts glam and grit, You Deserve Love finds the band expanding on the songcraft laid down on 2017's The World's Best American Band. This is a smart, sharply-written collection of songs dealing in doubt, dislocation, and elusive (and often complicated) love. Like we said: fun as hell! |
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TURNOVER
ALTOGETHER
SECRETLY
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| Opening with a lo-fi, jazzy intro that quickly gives way to the driving drums and delay-drenched guitar of "Still In Motion," Altogether warmly welcome's you to the album's slinky, lullified, and fully-flanged groovescapes. Lyrically, Altogether meditates on change – on quieting your mind and appreciating the scarcity of a moment. Easier said than done, sure, but you may be too busy dancing to notice. |
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Swans
Leaving Meaning
Young God
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| Leaving Meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line-up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010-2017," says mastermind Michael Gira. "Swans is now comprised of a revolving cast of musicians… chosen according to what I intuit best suits the atmosphere." Among those guests are Australian jazz weirdos, The Necks, and Jeremy and Heather of the band a Hawk and a Hacksaw. |
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Lakou Mizik
Haitianola
Cumbancha Records
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| Lakou Mizik came together in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake. Today, with their positive messages and roots revival music, Lakou Mizik has gained an international following. Lakou Mizik's new album, HatiaNola, features a host of New Orleans' finest musicians, including Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cyril Neville, Soul Rebels, Tank & The Bangas, Anders Osborne, and Régine Chassagne & Win Butler of Arcade Fire. |
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Elbow
Giants Of All Sizes
Verve
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| Singer Guy Garvey describes Elbow's new album, Giants of All Sizes, as "an angry, old blue lament which finds its salvation in family, friends, the band and new life." Lyrically, Giants takes in moments of deep personal loss while reflecting its times by confronting head-on the specters of injustice and division across the world. It is a record that could only have been made in the 21st Century. |
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Andrea Bocelli
Si Forever
Verve
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| Golden Globe-winning operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli will release Si Forever: The Diamond Edition – an expanded edition of his best-selling album, Si, featuring brand new duets with Ellie Goulding and TV's Jennifer Garner. These two new duets add to an already star-studded line-up featuring Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Josh Groban and Andrea's son Matteo Bocelli on 'Fall on Me' – a poignant song reflecting the bond between parent and child. |
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Idina Menzel
Christmas: A Season Of Love
Verve
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| Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel (AKA "Elsa") has a career that traverses stage, film, television, and music and just in time for the holidays she releases an album of traditional and brand-new songs featuring Ariana Grande ("A Hand for Mrs. Claus"), Billy Porter ("I Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), Josh Gad ("We Wish You the Merriest") and her husband, Aaron Lohr ("I'll Be Home for Christmas"). |
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Harry Connick Jr.
True Love: A Celebration Of Cole Porter
Verve
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| Comprised exclusively of Cole Porter compositions, True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter highlights Harry Connick, Jr.'s many musical talents, as he breathes new life into popular songs from The Great American Songbook, including "Anything Goes" and "You Do Something To Me." Says Connick: "This is the first time I've taken a deep dive into another artist's repertoire. He takes risks as a composer that I find appealing." |
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Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
Verve
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| With his long-time band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra in tow, Jeff Goldblum's enticingly-titled second album, I Shouldn't Be Telling You, finds the multi-talented artist bringing his on-screen charisma, eccentricities, and totally unique style to the piano once again. Joining Goldbloom – who also sings – is an impressive array of duet partners, including Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Inara George, and Anna Calvi. |
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Jon Batiste
Chronology Of A Dream:
Live At The Village Vanguard
Verve
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| Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard was recorded live at the historic Village Vanguard in NYC in the fall of 2018 during Jon Batiste's residency. A companion piece to this summer's Anatomy of Angels: Live at the Village Vanguard, Chronology of a Dream includes more of the raucous, full band material Batiste – and his hometown New Orleans – are often associated with. |
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Nils Frahm
All Encores
Erased Tapes
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| The follow-up to Nils Frahm's 2018 album, All Melody, All Encores is a full-length release encompassing the three previous Encores EPs. Encores 1 focused on an acoustic pallet of sounds with solo piano and harmonium at the core, Encores 2 explored more ambient landscapes, and Encores 3 expands on the percussive and electronic elements in his work. All Encores is testament to Frahm's exceptional ability to craft his art on stage. |
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Guerilla Toss
What Would The Odd Do?
NNA Tapes
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| What Would The Odd Do? is an exploration of new territories and an expansion on their recipe for twisted, addictive rock & roll mania: fried funk, damaged dance, and cosmic cacophony. Fans of 70's prog, King Crimson, Todd Rundgren, as well as modern torchbearers like Sheer Mag and Deerhoof will love Guerilla Toss' uniquely familiar world of wonder and excitement. |
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Half Moon Run
A Blemish In The Great Light
Glassnote Records
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| The word most often used when describing Montreal's Half Moon Run is "complex." Whether they're billed as dreamy alt-pop, bucolic alt-folk, or psychedelic indie rock, the band has built its name on cerebral, acrobatic arrangements that lilt prettily before turning feral. And if the band's new album, A Blemish In The Great Light, doesn't convince you of its brilliance, then perhaps an audiologist will help. |
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Rex Orange County
Pony
RCA Records
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| Pony – the highly-anticipated follow up to 2017's Apricot Princess – is both simple and smart: five songs laying open the troubles that beset Rex Orange County over the last year or so, then five tracks teeing up how he turned things round. Or, as he puts it: "The first half to me is the angry, reflective thing. And the second half is: now I've gotten over it." |
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Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders
Get The Money
RCA |
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| Get The Money – the new album from Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders – finds the Foo Fighters' drummer and pals accompanied by ridiculous all-star supporting cast, including Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Roger Taylor, Joe Walsh, Duff McKagan, Nancy Wilson, Chrissie Hynde, Perry Farrell, and LeAnn Rimes. This is a staggering, epic sprawl of an album that swerves from classic rock to prog and glam and all points between. |
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Desert Sessions
Vols. 11 & 12
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| Spanning twelve volumes over the course of two decades, Desert Sessions has featured some of music's most cherished icons stepping out of their comfort zones and collaborating with one another to create some of the most exciting music of their careers. Now, nearly sixteen years since it was initiated by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and friends as a casual writing retreat at Joshua Tree's Rancho de la Luna studio, the longest-running mix tape in existence – Desert Sessions – returns with Vols. 11 & 12, and features contributions from Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Les Claypool (Primus), Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), Mike Kerr (Royal Blood), Carla Azar (Autolux, Jack White), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), among many others. |
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FKA Twigs
Magdeline
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| Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and surgery, Magdalene is the sound of FKA Twigs reconfiguring – emotionally and physically. "I never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing," she explains. "I never thought that my body could stop working to the point that I couldn't express myself physically in the ways that I have always loved and found so much solace... But the process of making this album has allowed me for the first time, and in the most real way, to find compassion when I have been at my most ungraceful, confused and fractured." Magdalene, as a result, is aggressively sensual and psychedelic – sometimes claustrophobic… Other times intimate. And, in the case of "cellophane," both. A brilliant follow-up. |
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Hootie and the Blowfish
Imperfect Circle
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| Imperfect Circle is the latest milestone in a remarkable career that has seen Hootie & The Blowfish sell over 25 million records worldwide, thanks in no small part to the tenth biggest selling album of all-time, Cracked Rear View. Produced by singer-songwriter Darius Rucker's longtime collaborator Frank Rogers and Jeff Trott, Imperfect Circle also features new co-writes with superstar singer/songwriters Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton. Rucker's eye for detail and knack for hooks – something that certainly helped his post-peak-Hootie country music career – is as sharp as ever. It has a poppier sheen, but everything else you loved about Hootie is intact. You can even noodle dance to it! And you can bet that R.E.M. reference is deliberate. |
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For more information about CIMS and the stores in our organization, please visit cimsmusic.com or find us through social media with the #cimsmusic hashtag. And please remember to always shop local by supporting your neighborhood record store.
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