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Pet Sounds is rightly one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released It has also been written about pored over and analyzed more than most other albums put together In this disarming book Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album on Brian Wilson s pitch...
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Words like inspiring expansive and moving are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós s and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables The album has no title or rather its title is no title just an empty pair of parentheses The...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album And remarkably it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967 In this book Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed s lyrical genius to John Cale...
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The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that made The Stone Roses such a...
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It s the summer of 1979 A 15 year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn A monotone voice it s the singer s announces into dead air in between songs The Talking Heads have a new album it s called Fear of Music...
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Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock amp roll Looking at each...
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Posing more riddles than the average sphinx with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark Song Cycle was anything but passive I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall so the thought of late 60s musicians being interested in their...
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Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand stitched of punk and progressive music Bryan Ferry redesigned it He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances Dadaist punk noise exited a kind of ambient soft soul entered Ferry parted ways with...
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era Sign O the Times shows Prince at his peak Here Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the...
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The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and...
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Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book As the 1970s ended Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career Bitter and desperately unhappy he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life It wasn t working...
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Smile is not merely a great unfinished album but a living work of art that is all at once expansive indeterminate and resolutely pop In the early 1960s The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne California to become emissaries of a post war American dream that fused middle...
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It s October 1977 and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio They re under siege Keith Richards s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band s future and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the...
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Oasis s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes...
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LP pressing reissue of the 2003 collection Anthology serves as a celebration of The Clean a band whose influence extends so far beyond their New Zealand home that even if you have never heard of The Clean before you have surely heard of some of the bands Pavement Yo La...
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Four Calendar Café was the first of two Cocteau Twins albums previously released via Capitol Records in the U S and celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023 It s yet to be formally released on vinyl outside Europe That all changes in January 2024 when 4AD will reissue Four Calendar...
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Augustus Muller Boy Harsher announces the score for the movie My Animal directed by Jacqueline Castel feat Amandla Stenberg The Hunger Games Star Wars and Bobbi Salvör Menuez I love Dick Something In The Air The score marks Muller s debut as feature film composer My Animal premiered at the...
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Belle and Sebastian s beloved third album The Boy With The Arab Strap returns on limited blue vinyl and blue tint cover this autumn to celebrate the LPs 25th anniversary The announcement comes on the heels of a recent creative outpouring from the Scottish group A Bit of Previous 2022...
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Khruangbin present Live At Sydney Opera House Australia The globe trotting genre bending Houston Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the announcement of Live at Sydney Opera House a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions available December 1st on Dead Oceans in...
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By the end of the 1960s Lee Hazlewood s LHI Records had burned piles of cash gone through a half dozen distributors and failed to achieve the kind of chart success Boots had promised Fortunately for Lee there was a land where he was still on the top of the...
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Pimps whores pushers dopers gangsters and bottom of the human chain shit heels Now you re probably thinking I m writing about major record companies and their unscrupulous executives and lawyers You could be right but this time YOU RE WRONG I m describing the characters in my album 13...
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Fiona Apple s debut album Tidal was released in 1996 and has been heralded as a masterpiece of modern music and since its release Fiona Apple has become one of the most iconic female artists of her generation Tracks including Shadowboxer Sleep To Dream and standout Criminal <iframe title= YouTube...
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Fiona Apple s second album When The Pawn was released in 1999 to widespread critical praise and is now widely regarded as a classic and includes tracks Paper Bag Fast As You Can and I Know <iframe title= YouTube video player src= https www youtube com embed fmCu07ovtxM si=IL7vq9oDIV4xR0tU width=...
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Fiona Apple s 2005 album Extraordinary Machine is a unique blend of alternative and pop sounds showcasedfrom the upbeat Not About Love to the gentle Parting Gift ...
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Fiona Apple s fourth studio album originally released in 2012 features Werewolf Hot Knife and opening track Every Single Night ...
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Things Don t Always Go the Way You Plan is the second mixtape by Australian electronic musician Flume released on 8 February 2023 through Future Classic The mixtape follows the release of Palaces in 2022 It includes collaborations with Injury Reserve Isabella Manfredi and Panda Bear The mixtape consists of...
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For his second mixtape release of the year Flume has delved into his archives to unearth an eclectic collection of never released before tracks Following February s Things Don t Always Go The Way You Plan this new tape is called Arrived Anxious Left Bored Similar to his last tape...
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The Oxford based alternative rock band Swervedriver continued to develop themselves by implementing different music into their alternative rock and shoegaze sound Their first album Raise can be categorized as an album with a heavy sound but also some melodic parts Their direct approach of the shoegaze sound can be...
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Originally slated to be a seven inch single to follow up their self titled debut Sonic Youth s Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band s first album a brain bludgeoning completely fried endeavor of dissonance and disarray a perfect soundtrack for running from a chain wielding gang near the...
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The live reunion of Bob Dylan and The Band during 1973 74 yielded one of the decade s most celebrated dynamic and astonishing tours Captured on Before the Flood the results portray the two artists shared chemistry as well as Dylan s instinctive ability to challenge audiences his group and...
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Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band formed in Oxford in 1989 around core members Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge Mezcal Head is their second studio album originally released in 1993 The album includes their most successful single Duel which was awarded NME s Single of the Week The album...
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Soul, Psych, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
ÄòThe Changing Tides Of Dreams Äô refers to the way our lives and selves are constantly transforming learning and growing never fully sculpted or content Written during a time of personal transformation for SHOTLO the project balances unapologetic ethereal textures with a deep sense of nostalgia and longing drawing on...
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Best of 2023, Psych, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, Rock
With this new release under psych funk jazz outfit Penza Penza Panfilov stretches boundaries yet again while remaining melodic accessible and deeply funky This instrumental record is chock full of catchy earworms that effortlessly channel a heavy mix of Stax Motown Blue Note Muscle Shoals and the Brill Building equally...
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The National present their surprise freewheeling all hands on deck 10th studio album Laugh Track If its companion piece First Two Pages of Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together the vibrant exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a...
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The second album of the British psychedelic band released in 1993 shows their sound evolution more heavily accented on guitar rather than keyboards It sounds like the 90s it s more shoegazy and noisy than their early 60s psych influences An underrated album than any 90s music fan must have...
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Originally released in 1990 Lead by British composer Gary Ramon Sun Dial clearly worshipped psychedelic music but rather than trying to copy the sound of the 60s they invented their new sonic genre with clouds of thick basslines fuzzy guitars splashy drumming in an embrace of drifting melodic structures Comes...
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Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic George Clinton revolutionized R amp B during the 70s twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late 60s acid heroes Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa and Sly Stone The Parliament Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the 70s capturing over 40 R...
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Parliament s second album following 1970 s Osmium and their first to be released on Casablanca Records The album was released on July 3 1974 It s title track was Parliament s first chart hit and remains one of the most well known P Funk songs The album also contains...
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Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing The album is full of the up tempo funk that the band would be known for as well as the vocal harmonies of The Parliament s Let Me Be draws on jazz as well as gospel influences Together is a remake of Together in...
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Here s the official reissue of the album originally released on Dallas Pompeii label in April 1969 When he was out on tour with his regular gig the Ike amp Tina Turner Revue Ike found the time to cut this unbelievable instrumental album Whenever he had some spare time he...
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Daylight Moon is Yuzo Iwata s first outing since his debut Drowning In The Sky got the green light in 1999 on the legendary Org label While Yuzo s been living stateside for a couple of decades his roots style and fluidity harken back to the Kichijoji Minor days of...
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10 track album including the singles Hunter Joga Bachelorette Alarm Call amp All Is Full Of Love Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic singer songwriter and musician Björk released in September 1997 In retrospect it s easy to see the way that Homogenic paves the way for later...
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Post is the third studio album by Icelandic singer songwriter and musician Björk released on 13 June 1995 Includes the singles Army Of Me Hyperballad It s Oh So Quiet Isobel amp Possibly Maybe <iframe style= border 0 width 100 height 120px src= https bandcamp com EmbeddedPlayer album=1778353221 size=large bgcol=ffffff...
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Volta is the seventh studio album by Icelandic singer songwriter and musician Björk released in May 2007 Featuring Wanderlust Innocence and Declare Independence <a href= https bjork bandcamp com...
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Medúlla is the fifth studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk It was released on 30 August 2004 in the United Kingdom by One Little Independent Records and in the United States by Elektra Entertainment After the release of her electronic influenced previous album Vespertine 2001 Björk intended to make...
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7 track album Music from the motion picture Dancer In The Dark The album features classical arrangements as well as melodies and beats composed of sounds from mundane objects such as factory machines and trains Since the soundtrack was released before the film some of the song lyrics on the...
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New York City s Blonde Redhead developed a reputation as Sonic Youth imitators because their sound originally depended on the same discordant guitar points and sexless machinelike rhythms But over the course of five albums they ve grown out of that heady shadow Incorporating sinister keyboards conventional melodic guitar lines...
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