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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 -... |
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The Chills
Snow Bound [ Fire Records / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] The latest postcard from The Chills' epic journey is an album about "consolidation, re-grouping, acceptance and mortality," claims the chief Chill. "Hopefully a kind of Carole King 'Tapestry' for ageing punks." Wow! Are rock bands allowed to grow... |
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Christine and the Queens
Chris [ Caroline / 2 CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] Christine and the Queens, the synth-pop project of French musician Héloïse Letissier, is back with a new album. |
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Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex [ Partisan Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Debut, self-titled album from Brooklyn, NY-based ambient pop group Cigarettes After Sex. Led by vocalist / songwriter Greg Gonzalez, the band was inspired by the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Mazzy Star & the... |
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Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit [ Milk! Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Recorded in the autumn of 2014 in an intense 10 day session at Head Gap studios in Melbourne, the album finally brings Barnett's pithily acute and stingingly incisive vision into stark, unflinching focus, her wit sharpened to a knife edge, her... |
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David Byrne
American Utopia [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] American Utopia is David Byrne's first solo release since 'Grown Backwards' in 2004. The new album started with longtime collaborator Brian Eno, and later David was joined by producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, King Krule, Sampha,... |
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Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders
Word Gets Around [ Rough Diamond / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders met in a church. They were sound checking for the Churches Tour with Marlon Williams and Tami Neilson. Barry playing old gospel songs and Delaney chugging out his signature blues trance thump. The connection was... |
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Don McGlashan
Bright November Morning [ Doncorp / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Bright November Morning is Don McGlashan's first album since the renowned Lucky Stars was released in 2015. Recorded in Auckland, Lyttelton and Vancouver with the formidably talented The Others: Shayne P Carter (Dimmer, Straitjacket Fits) on... |
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Eb & Sparrow
Sun / Son [ Deadbeat Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2015 ] With an edge that harks back to old time jazz and blues singers', Ebony Lamb of Eb & Sparrow has led her band of talented men on a musical journey that began in 2010. They've traversed a pathway that has led them onto stages with an astonishing... |
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Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up [ Nonesuch / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Crack-Up comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band's 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler... |
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Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
Landfall [ Nonesuch / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet's Landfall, inspired by her experience of Hurricane Sandy, is the first collaboration between the iconic storyteller/musician and the groundbreaking string quartet, who perform together on the recording. |
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Leon Bridges
Coming Home [ Sony / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] Leon Bridges is a singer out of time. This debut album eschews current pop trends in favour of a vintage, pre-1960s soul sound and Bridges certainly has the vocal talent to make it work. You'll no doubt already be familiar with the Texan's track... |
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Marlon Williams
Marlon Williams [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 24/Apr/2015 ] Marlon Williams was set on a musical path early by his parents. "My dad's definitely taught me a lot about music in all it's various forms; so has Mum. I sang a lot as a kid on the... |
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Mel Parsons
Drylands [ Cape Road Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Equal parts lush and dark, 'Drylands' is Mel Parsons' stunning 3rd full length album, and was recorded at Lee Prebble's Surgery studio (The Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), Wellington, in late 2014. Co-produced by Parsons and Irish-Kiwi Gerry... |
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Michael Kiwanuka
Kiwanuka [ Universal Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Recorded in New York, LA and London, KIWANUKA reflects his "ear for musical adventure". Given the amount of critical and commercial praise that showered his last record, the last two years have found the singer-songwriter questioning his own ability... |
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Neil & Liam Finn
Lightsleeper [ CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Neil Finn - he of Crowded House fame and the newest member of Fleetwood Mac - needs no introduction. After Liam Finn moved to London with his band Betchadupa, they split and he began a solo career, attracting worldwide acclaim with the I'll Be... |
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Norah Jones
Begin Again [ Blue Note / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Begin Again is a collection of singles that gathers seven eclectic songs that Norah Jones recorded over the past year with collaborators including Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett. |
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Paul Simon
Stranger To Stranger [ Concord / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Full of thrilling, imaginative textures, Stranger to Stranger conjures a vivid and vital new context to Simon's well-established virtuosity as a singer and songwriter. The record - his first since 2011's acclaimed So Beautiful or So What - ushers the... |
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Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
There Is No Other [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] Produced by Joe Henry and tracked over an intensely productive five-day period in Dublin, Ireland, There Is No Other is at once a condemnation of "othering" and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience. Tracing the... |
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Sampha
Process [ Young Turks / CD - released 3/Feb/2017 ] Since the release of his debut 'Sundanza' EP in 2010 and 2013's 'Dual' EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK's most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old, he has lent his vocal, production and... |