07/03/2010: "When I see it coming, I run the other way."
...text to follow soon.
-Want to check out my faves for the year, so far?
-Here is the (possibly) definitive, general roundup of my top recommendations from '09.
-If you'd like any personal recommendations, feel free to email me at Marbecks.
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Me'shell Ndegeocello :- Devil's Halo |
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[ Mercer Street / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 8 March, 2010
Me'shell Ndegeocello's eighth solo release, 'Devil's Halo' harkens back to the way records used to be made: no click; a live band energy; and phenomenal musicianship... |
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Pat Metheny :- Orchestrion |
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[ Nonesuch Records / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 25 January, 2010
"This project represents a conceptual direction that merges an idea from the late 19th & early 20th centuries with the technologies of today to create a new, open-ended platform for musical composition, improvisation & performance. |
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Jimi Hendrix :- Valleys of Neptune |
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[ Legacy Records / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 8 March, 2010
'Valleys of Neptune' is a newly curated album of 12 fully realised studio recordings by Jimi Hendrix. This collector's item contains songs never commercially available on a Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest guitarist of all time"... |
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Wave Machines :- Wave if You're Really There |
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[ Shock Records / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 22 February, 2010
A mercurial Merseyside four piece, Wave Machines create instinctive art-pop; rhythms built of melodic ticks & bleeps, polka dots of sound drawn together beneath singer, Tim Bruzon's falsetto vocal. |
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Hot Chip :- One Life Stand |
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[ EMI Music / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010 With 'One Life Stand', Hot Chip have created another widescreen pop masterpiece. A track that seeps through to your soul while defiantly striking a pose on the dance floor called now. Indeed, Hot Chip have an uncanny knack of creating great singles, from the bruising 'Over and Over' and the dizzying 'Boy From School' to 2008's ubiquitous smash 'Ready for the... |
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Gorillaz :- Plastic Beach |
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[ EMI Music / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 8 March, 2010 Gorillaz are back. 'Plastic Beach' represents their most ambitious & groundbreaking album to date. It features a roster of contributors so diverse it numbers not just Lou Reed; Snoop Dogg; Mark E Smith; De La Soul; Mos Def; and Bobby Womack, but also The National Orchestra of Arabic Music; and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a Chicago-based nine-piece jazz / hip-hop... |
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