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Bonobo
Fragments (Indie Exclusive Red LP) [ Ninja Tune / 2 LP - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Bonobo's rise has been stealthy but unstoppable, and Simon Green, the man behind it all, is now one of the biggest names in dance music, and his 2017 album Migration was his biggest yet - reaching number-one on the Billboard Top Electronic Albums... |
Brad Mehldau
Finding Gabriel [ Nonesuch / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Finding Gabriel comprises nine thematically related songs by Mehldau and features performances by him on piano, synthesizers, percussion, and Fender Rhodes, as well as vocals. Guest musicians include Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling,... |
Brian Eno
The Ship (LP) [ Warp Records / LP - released 29/Apr/2016 ] "Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we're permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realise we have to come down again... we know that we have... |
Broadcast
Tender Buttons (LP) [ Warp Records / LP ] Broadcast's recent records have often seemed too cluttered with effects and affectation - perhaps unsurprising, given their love of library music and other esoterica. On Tender Buttons, though, the band, now slimmed to a duo of singer Trish Keenan... |
Broadcast
The Noise Made By People (LP) [ Warp Records / LP - released 9/Mar/2015 ] A look at the music history book tells us a lot of things. One of these is that nearly everything from the past eventually comes back, and with a vengeance. While this undeniable truth is responsible for a lot of distinctly horrible things (house... |
Cat Power
Wanderer [ Domino CD / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Wanderer is Cat Power's 10th album and her first since Sun was released in 2012. The record was made in Miami and Los Angeles and sees Chan Marshall position herself alongside folk and blues artists. "The course my life has taken in this journey -... |
Cate Le Bon
Reward (LP) [ Mexican Summer / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon's fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. "There's a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the... |
Charli XCX
Charli [ East West / Warner / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pop futurist Charli XCX returns with her third studio album. Charli is a collection of 15 songs and features the hit singles "1999" (Ft. Troye Sivan) and "Blame It On Your Love" (Ft. Lizzo). |
Charli XCX
Charli (LP) [ East West / Warner / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Pop futurist Charli XCX returns with her third studio album. Charli is a collection of 15 songs and features the hit singles "1999" (Ft. Troye Sivan) and "Blame It On Your Love" (Ft. Lizzo). |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Goes Wild Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Valer Sabadus (counter-tenor) & Nuria Rial (soprano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "Christina Pluhar has great taste. She brings great musicians together with great music. And of course, if you've liked their past collections, you're likely to find something very appetizing in this release as well." (AudAud) |
Christine & The Queens
La Vita Nuova (12") [ Because / LP - released 29/May/2020 ] The electricity that French popstar Héloïse Letissier (aka Christine and the Queens) generates is unmatched. Over delectable pop beats, her dreamy voice dips in and out of French and English and creates a purely magical state of electropop that we... |
Clementine Valentine
The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor (Black Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Aug/2023 ] The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and... |
Clementine Valentine
The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor [ Flying Nun / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and... |
Clementine Valentine
The Coin That Broke The Fountain Floor (Transparent Red Vinyl LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 25/Aug/2023 ] The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, formerly known as Purple Pilgrims. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and... |
Alice Coltrane
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (LP) [ Luaka Bop / 2 LP - released 5/May/2017 ] Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death.... |
CW Stoneking
Jungle Blues [ King Hokum / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] "....One afternoon, back in Port of Spain, Trinidad, I met four scientists in a bar, they were on their way to West Africa to study a type of parasitic worm which attacks the eyeballs of human beings and turns them into blind men. At the time I was... |
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VIVALDI / RICHTER
Vivaldi Recomposed: The Four Seasons (Recomposed by Max Richter) [plus bonus concert DVD] Daniel Hope (violin) Max Richter (moog) Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD/DVD - released 6/May/2014 ] Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote the four violin concertos known as Le quattro stagioni - "The Four Seasons." Today The Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. Max Richter, the award-winning British... |
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights
Bobbie's A Girl [ Merge / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] David Kilgour's 11th solo album, Bobbie's a girl is a quieter affair than fans may associate with the pioneer of New Zealand indie rock. "I tended to shy away from too much guitar playing for a point of difference and to mix things up for myself a... |
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights
Bobbie's A Girl (LP) [ Merge / LP - released 20/Sep/2019 ] David Kilgour's 11th solo album, Bobbie's a girl is a quieter affair than fans may associate with the pioneer of New Zealand indie rock. "I tended to shy away from too much guitar playing for a point of difference and to mix things up for myself a... |
Dope Lemon
Smooth Big Cat [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] A mystical creature of leisure, the Smooth Big Cat likes to stay up late drinking whiskey with his rascally mates listening to records. He doesn't have stakes in the troubles of the world, and his life is guided by the mood of the breeze & what's... |
