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Sunday, June 11, 2017

New Music Album Releases: June 9, 2017

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The week of June 9, 2017 features new music album releases from Katy Perry, Lady Antebellum, Chuck Berry, Phoenix, Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie, Christina Grimmie, Paul Simon, Glen Campbell, Lynn Castle, Gov't Mule, London Grammer, Rancid and many more.

Find out more about all the new music album releases after the jump.





WITNESS (Katy Perry)

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Artist:
Katy Perry

Genre:
Pop

Total Length:
57:28

Label:
Capitol Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes


Product Description: 2017 album from US superstar featuring 'Chained To The Rhythm' & 'Bon Appetit'. Nicki Minaj guests.


TRACK LIST:

1. Witness [Explicit] (4:10)

2. Hey Hey Hey [Explicit] (3:34)

3. Roulette (3:18)

4. Swish Swish [feat. Nicki Minaj] [Explicit] (4:02)

5. Déjà Vu (3:17)

6. Power [Explicit] (3:46)

7. Mind Maze (4:08)

8. Miss You More (3:54)

9. Chained To The Rhythm [feat. Skip Marley] (3:57)

10. Tsunami (3:23)

11. Bon Appétit [feat. Migos] (3:47)

12. Bigger Than Me (4:00)

13. Save As Draft [Explicit] (3:48)

14. Pendulum (4:00)

15. Into Me You See [Explicit] (4:24)




HEART BREAK (Lady Antebellum)

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Artist:
Lady Antebellum

Genre:
Country

Total Length:
43:44

Label:
Capitol Records Nashville

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: rial Reviews With a new sense of history and possibilities, Lady Antebellum reveals the cover art and track listing behind their sixth studio album HEART BREAK (Capitol Records Nashville), out June 9th. Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott had a new mission setting aside time to put themselves in new surroundings, and concentrate on writing and exploring musical endeavors with no distractions. They rented a house in Florida, living and working under the same roof, and when the creative process proved successful, the trio set up a second retreat in southern California.

When we started working on this record, the goal was to give ourselves some space from the day to day, said Scott. Surrounding ourselves in a new environment with sunny beaches and warm weather really helped free our minds to focus solely on our art. We took some of our favorite writers and other writers we hadn t worked with before to a new inspiring backdrop, where we were able to just write and soak up the journey. And it was on our first trip in Florida when we wrote Heart Break that we felt it all click.

Alongside producer busbee, their desire to shake things was made evident by their current Top 20 single You Look Good, complete with a funky horn arrangement. Elsewhere, HEART BREAK ranges from the sweet melancholy of Somebody Else s Heart to the dramatic, surging ballad Hurt, which is a powerful vehicle for Scott s voice as she soars over a spare rhythm section and classic string arrangement. With the clever extended metaphor of its lyrics and percolating groove, Army has a feel that s a throwback to 70s pop, while the bright, breezy lift-off of Think About You, with an R&B-style guitar bouncing off of a banjo lick, is entirely of the moment.

Being together every day, living in a house together, that was the special ingredient this time, continued Haywood, And then in the studio, busbee added a whole new layer. He s such an integral part of this new chapter for us.

The trio had a hand in writing eleven songs on HEART BREAK, resulting in their most intimate and heartfelt work to date. As Lady A gears up to get back on the road, the group is excited to add this new range of sounds and colors into a set already packed with a familiar arsenal of hits.

This record is really our story, adds Kelley. They have a universal feel to them, but there s a lot of our personal stories here.


TRACK LIST:

1. Heart Break (3:08)

2. You Look Good (3:01)

3. Somebody Else's Heart (3:31)

4. This City (3:04)

5. Hurt (3:46)

6. Army (3:17)

7. Good Time To Be Alive (3:11)

8. Think About You (3:09)

9. Big Love In A Small Town (3:46)

10. The Stars (3:22)

11. Teenage Heart (3:40)

12. Home (2:57)

13. Famous (3:52)




CHUCK (Chuck Berry)

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Artist:
Chuck Berry

Genre:
Rock

Total Length:
34:51

Label:
Dualtone Music

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Chuck Berry, the father of rock & roll, is releasing his first album in nearly 40 years, which is comprised mostly of new, original songs written, recorded and produced by the legend himself. 'CHUCK' was recorded in various studios around St. Louis and features Berry's longtime hometown backing group - including his children Charles Berry Jr. (guitar) and Ingrid Berry (harmonica), plus Jimmy Marsala (Berry's bassist of forty years), Robert Lohr (piano), and Keith Robinson (drums) - which has supported him for over two decades on over two hundred residency shows at the famed Blueberry Hill club. "This record is dedicated to my beloved Toddy," said Berry, referring to his wife of 68 years, Themetta Berry. "My darlin' I'm growing old! I've worked on this record for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!"


TRACK LIST:

1. Wonderful Woman (5:19)

2. Big Boys (3:05)

3. You Go To My Head (3:21)

4. 3/4 Time (Enchiladas) (3:47)

5. Darlin' (3:20)

6. Lady B. Goode (2:55)

7. She Still Loves You (3:00)

8. Jamaica Moon (3:50)

9. Dutchman (3:47)

10. Eyes Of Man (2:27)




TI AMO (Phoenix)

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Artist:
Phoenix

Genre:
36:35

Total Length:
Alternative Rock

Label:
Glassnote Entertainment Group

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Ti Amo is Phoenix s first album since 2013 s critically lauded Bankrupt!. Produced by the band and recorded at La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris) with the help of long time collaborator Pierrick Devin, Ti Amo is - in the band s own words an album about simple pure emotions: love, desire, lust and innocence, it s also a record about our European, Latin roots, a fantasized version of Italy: a lost paradise made of eternal Roman summers (hyper-light, hyper-clarity, pistachio gelato), juke-boxes on the beach, Monica Vitti and Marcello Mastroiani, fearless desire and Antique marble statues.


TRACK LIST:

1. J-Boy (4:08)

2. Ti Amo (3:25)

3. Tuttifrutti (3:52)

4. Fior Di Latte (4:03)

5. Lovelife (2:30)

6. Goodbye Soleil (3:55)

7. Fleur de Lys (3:43)

8. Role Model (4:33)

9. Via Veneto (2:41)

10. Telefono (3:45)




LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM CHRISTINE MCVIE (Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie)

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Artist:
Lindsey Buckingham,
Christine McVie

Genre:
Rock

Total Length:
39:34

Label:
Atlantic Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Longtime members of Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have joined together to record their first-ever album as a duo. Simply titled LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINE McVIE, the 10-song album will be released by Atlantic Records this summer, followed by a run of special U.S. concerts.


TRACK LIST:

1. Sleeping Around the Corner (3:47)

2. Feel About You (3:27)

3. In My World (4:24)

4. Red Sun (3:15)

5. Love Is Here to Stay (4:25)

6. Too Far Gone (3:20)

7. Lay Down for Free (3:56)

8. Game of Pretend (4:34)

9. On With the Show (3:46)

10. Carnival Begin (4:40)




ALL IS VANITY (Christina Grimmie)

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Artist:
Christina Grimmie

Genre:
Pop

Total Length:
35:03

Label:
Christina Grimmie

Purchasing Links:
MP3, iTunes

TRACK LIST:

1. Sublime (3:18)

2. Steady Love (3:51)

3. Invisible (3:33)

4. Crowded Room (4:29)

5. Everybody Lies (3:22)

6. Pressure (3:28)

7. Maybe I (3:15)

8. Echo (3:29)

9. I Only Miss You When I Breathe (3:04)

10. The Game (3:14)




CONCERT IN HYDE PARK (Paul Simon)

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Artist:
Paul Simon

Genre:
Pop

Total Length:
1:58:46

Label:
Legacy Recordings

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes


Product Description: 'The Concert in Hyde Park' chronicles the legendary artist's historic concert at the 2012 Hard Rock Calling Festival in London with an epic career-spanning set including Simon s most enduring hits ("Kodachrome," "Graceland," "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard," "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"), fan favorites, and two Simon & Garfunkel classics. The concert features a reunion with the original Graceland musicians on the Grammy-winning album's 25th anniversary, including Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, as well as a surprise appearance from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, performing his original songs "The Harder They Come" and "Many Rivers to Cross", and a duet with Cliff and Simon on "Vietnam" and "Mother and Child Reunion."


TRACK LIST:

Disc: 1

1. Kodachrome

2. Gone at Last

3. Dazzling Blue

4. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

5. Vietnam - Paul Simon with Jimmy Cliff

6. Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon with Jimmy Cliff

7. That Was Your Mother

8. Hearts and Bones / Mystery Train / Wheels

9. Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard

10. Slip Slidin' Away

11. The Obvious Child


Disc: 2

1. Introduction

2. Homeless - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

3. Paul Introduces Graceland Band

4. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

5. I Know What I Know - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

6. The Boy in the Bubble

7. Crazy Love, Vol. II

8. Gumboots

9. Under African Skies - Paul Simon with Thandiswa Mazwai

10. Graceland

11. You Can Call Me Al

12. The Sound of Silence

13. The Boxer - Paul Simon with Jerry Douglas

14. Late in the Evening

15. Paul Introduces Band & Thank You

16. Still Crazy After All These Years


Disc: 3

1. Kodachrome & Gone At Last

2. Dazzling Blue

3. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

4. The Harder They Come - Paul Simon with Jimmy Cliff

5. Many Rivers to Cross - Paul Simon with Jimmy Cliff

6. Vietnam & Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon with Jimmy Cliff

7. That Was Your Mother

8. Hearts and Bones / Mystery Train / Wheels

9. Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard

10. Slip Slidin' Away

11. The Obvious Child

12. Homeless - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

13. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

14. I Know What I Know - Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

15. The Boy in the Bubble

16. Crazy Love, Vol. II

17. Gumboots

18. Under African Skies - Paul Simon with Thandiswa Mazwai

19. Graceland

20. You Can Call Me Al

21. The Sound of Silence

22. The Boxer - Paul Simon with Jerry Douglas

23. Late in the Evening

24. Still Crazy After All These Years

25. Applause Out / Credits




ADIOS (Glen Campbell)

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Artist:
Glen Campbell

Genre:
Country

Total Length:
37:14

Label:
UME Direct

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Glen Campbell's final studio album Adiós was recorded at Station West in Nashville following Glen's 'Goodbye Tour.' Produced by Glen's longtime banjo player and friend Carl Jackson, the album features Glen singing four Jimmy Webb songs that Glen never recorded but always loved, including the title track. Adios features songs written by Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Dickey Lee, Jerry Reed, Fred Neil, and includes a duet with Willie Nelson - 'Funny How Time Slips Away' - and special guest Vince Gill on harmony vocals in 'Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me)'. The album is a true family affair as Glen's daughter Ashley and sons Cal and Shannon, all perform on the record.


TRACK LIST:

1. Everybody's Talkin' (2:56)

2. Just Like Always (3:48)

3. Funny How Time Slips Away (3:32)

4. Arkansas Farmboy (3:31)

5. Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me) (Intro) (0:45)

6. Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me) (2:44)

7. It Won't Bring Her Back (3:31)

8. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2:34)

9. She Thinks I Still Care (3:56)

10. Postcard From Paris (4:33)

11. A Thing Called Love (2:19)

12. Adiós (3:05)




ROSE COLORED CORNER (Lynn Castle)

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Artist:
Lynn Castle

Genre:
Pop

Total Length:
29:05

Label:
Light In The Attic

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: 2017 archive collection. Though most of the world may not know the songs of Lynn Castle, she is an artist whose work stretches across seven decades. She has created a diverse and vast (albeit mostly unreleased) discography of pop, folk, country, gothic, rock, punk, blues, and children's songs. Light In The Attic Records is very excited to continue it's Lee Hazlewood Archive Series with Rose Colored Corner, a collection of intimate recordings Lynn Castle made with Jack Nitzsche in 1966 and her complete recorded output with Lee Hazlewood on LHI Records. For the first time ever Lynn is sharing recordings from her personal archive and telling her story. In the 1960s Lynn became the first lady barber in LA just as long hair on men became hip. By day she was styling The Monkees, Boyce and Hart, Del Shannon, Sonny & Cher, the Byrds and countless others... by night she was writing songs. Despite lacking the desire to self-promote and a crippling insecurity that made it hard to sing in front of anyone, her songs managed to bend the ears of such industry heavyweights as Phil Spector, Jack Nitzsche and Lee Hazlewood. Her sole 1967 45 "The Lady Barber" b/w "Rose Colored Corner," released on Lee Hazlewood Industries is a slice of psychedelic pop heaven. A full length album was never completed, but her sparse demos with Jack Nitzsche give the listener a peek of what one might have sounded like. If you are familiar with Nitzsche's mid-'60s work with Tim Buckley, Bob Lind, and Buffalo Springfield... you can squint your ears and imagine her songs bejeweled with lush strings, finger cymbals, and delicate harpsichord. Instead, the songs remained unheard until now. Just because her songs weren't recognized at the time doesn't diminish their magic. This music is meant to be found and heard. Though commercial success may remain elusive, sometimes strange premonitions are realized... "When I was young, making music in the '60s, I had this strange thought that one day I would be this old woman, and young people would come find me and tell me that my music meant something to them." - Lynn Castle.


TRACK LIST:

1. The Forest (2:15)

2. I'm Getting Tired (1:53)

3. New York (1:47)

4. What in the World Would I Do (2:20)

5. She Thinks She Feels (3:07)

6. Rose Colored Corner (2:22)

7. Lonesome Look-Out (3:08)

8. The Stranger (2:18)

9. The Puppet (1:59)

10. Who Knows (3:05)

11. The Lady Barber with Last Friday's Fire (2:13)

12. Rose Colored Corner with Last Friday's Fire (2:38)




REVOLUTION COME... REVOLUTION GO (Gov't Mule)

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Artist:
Gov't Mule

Genre:
Rock

Total Length:
77:07

Label:
Fantasy Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Gov't Mule has showcased its virtuosity, intelligence and breadth over the course of 15 studio and live albums, millions of album and track sales and thousands of performances. The flexible interplay amongst front man Warren Haynes, drummer Matt Abts, keyboardist Danny Louis and bassist Jorgen Carlsson makes them a true living, breathing ensemble. 20 years strong, Gov't Mule's vast reservoir of songs has become a human encyclopedia of great American music while adding to that cannon with their signature sound.

Revolution Come, Revolution Go is the latest release and Fantasy Records debut from the band fronted by one of music's most treasured storytellers and most formidable guitarists and vocalists in the modern era.


TRACK LIST:

Disc: 1

1. Stone Cold Rage

2. Drawn That Way

3. Pressure Under Fire

4. The Man I Want To Be

5. Traveling Tune

6. Thorns Of Life

7. Dreams & Songs

8. Sarah, Surrender

9. Revolution Come, Revolution Go

10. Burning Point featuring Jimmie Vaughan

11. Easy Times

12. Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground


Disc: 2

1. What Fresh Hell

2. Click - Track

3. Outside Myself

4. Revolution Come, Revolution Go (Alternate Version)

5. The Man I Want To Be (Live In Studio Version)

6. Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground (Live In Studio Version)




YOU DON'T OWN ME ANYMORE (The Secret Sisters)

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Artist:
The Secret Sisters

Genre:
Folk, Singer, Songwriter

Total Length:
44:00

Label:
New West Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: These songs came to be a record accidentally and unintentionally. They were written sporadically over a tumultuous two years riddled with more valleys than mountaintops. We considered it a victory when we could actually make ourselves get together to write, even if we struggled to produce anything of any quality. Creativity was tough amidst half-hearted business relationships, being dropped from our label, inconsistent touring, and filing personal bankruptcy. It took a toll on everything: our confidence, our outlook, our health, our happiness. In late 2015, our friend Brandi Carlile invited us to Seattle to play a couple of shows in her hometown. It was there that we explained all that had transpired with our career, how we were barely staying afloat. It was also there that she told us she would be producing our next record. Once we saw that this fantasy could actually become a reality, the frantic search for enough songs to make an album began. To our surprise, we had many things to say, and though some were difficult to write and slow to reveal themselves, we pushed onward. The songs here carry a common thread of what remained when we felt like we’d lost everything. It was in the hardest times that we saw the core of where our music and our souls originate. We still had our homes, our family, our friends, and our fans. This is not a record about rising from the ashes. Rather, it is a deep look into ourselves in an attempt to put out the flames. These songs are our catharsis; an effort to forgive, an effort to heal, an effort to look back into the darkness with newfound light and undeterred fearlessness, an effort to redeem ourselves. The damage was done, but our hearts remained; this is the product of that damage, for worse and for better. - Laura & Lydia (2017)


TRACK LIST:

1. Tennessee River Runs Low (3:41)

2. Mississippi (4:23)

3. Carry Me (4:05)

4. King Cotton (3:12)

5. Kathy's Song (3:43)

6. He's Fine (3:43)

7. To All the Girls Who Cry (4:22)

8. Little Again (4:03)

9. You Don't Own Me Anymore (3:51)

10. The Damage (3:26)

11. 'Til It's Over (2:56)

12. Flee as a Bird (2:35)




TRUTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING (London Grammar)

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Artist:
London Grammar

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
79:13

Label:
Ministry of Sound Recordings

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

TRACK LIST:

1. Rooting For You (4:29)

2. Big Picture (4:41)

3. Wild Eyed (4:28)

4. Oh Woman Oh Man (4:37)

5. Hell to the Liars (6:04)

6. Everyone Else (4:05)

7. Non Believer (4:17)

8. Bones of Ribbon (4:34)

9. Who Am I (4:22)

10. Leave the War With Me (5:04)

11. Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (5:07)

12. What a Day (4:54)

13. Different Breeds (3:29)

14. Control (3:05)

15. Trials (Demo) (3:42)

16. May the Best (Church Mix) (4:09)

17. Rooting For You (Demo) (4:13)

18. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (3:53)




IN A MOOD (Slow Dancer)

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Artist:
Slow Dancer

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
37:08

Label:
ATO Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Simon Okely is lost in time. Or at least, his songs sound that way: warm, near-whispered indie-rock love letters to the 60s and 70s rhythm and blues records his parents would play on family car rides down Australia's winding west coast, heavy on nostalgia and even heavier on imagination. With his new album, In A Mood, Okely is aiming even higher on his new material, featuring a 'more expansive, more ambitious' sound that's 'less about the stories we tell ourselves when in love and more about the moods that can come creeping over a relationship' at any time. 'It's a little more tasteful, involving new instruments, like drum machines and strings,' says the 31-year-old, whose lush tales of new romance, awkward courting and 'scraggly, mangy love that's fading and waning' have been striking a chord with fans of Mac DeMarco, Tobias Jesso Jr, Connan Mockasin and more.


TRACK LIST:

1. In The Water (3:15)

2. Bitter (3:47)

3. Don't Believe (3:49)

4. I Would (4:25)

5. I'm Done Waiting (3:14)

6. It Goes On (3:30)

7. Heaven Knows (3:57)

8. I Was Often (2:38)

9. In A Mood (4:03)

10. I've Been Thinking (4:30)




TROUBLE MAKER (Rancid)

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Artist:
Rancid

Genre:
Rock

Total Length:
36:26

Label:
Epitaph

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Rancid as a band have always been imbued with a sense of place: the blue collar neighborhoods where they grew up in Berkley, California, their place as individuals within their band, their band as part of a movement and their evolving sense of place in relation to the world at large. This year Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Matt Freeman (bass, vocals), Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar), and Branden Steineckert (drums) return with their ninth studio album…Trouble Maker. Born in the midst of the post-Reagan economic downturn in the San Francisco Bay Area, the East Bay region specifically, Rancid came to light as Armstrong and Freeman were moving forward after the first band they founded, Operation Ivy, reached a friendly demise. As Rancid, the band took up the torch of social commentary and the examination of the local scene and instantly inflamed the newly revived punk community, setting the stage for what was to come. After having seen the American dream dwindle and fade within their country, community and homes, Rancid put their description of its aftermath into their songs. Each album served as a layer cementing Rancid’s natural place in punk. Their lyrical themes established their identity in the punk rock world while musically they incorporated horns, rockabilly bass lines, reggae rhythms, rasp, and distortion. Balancing their personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude, Rancid gave their listeners a community. Over the past 2 decades, Rancid has shown awareness of their changing environment and have established their place in it, all while never losing sight of themselves as individuals or as a band.


TRACK LIST:

1. Track Fast

2. Ghost of a Chance

3. Telegraph Avenue

4. An Intimate Close Up Of A Street Punk Trouble Maker

5. Where I'm Going

6. Buddy

7. Farewell Lola Blue

8. All American Neighborhood

9. Bovver Rock and Roll

10. Make It Out Alive

11. Molly Make Up Your Mind

12. I Got Them Blues Again

13. Beauty of the Pool Hall

14. Say Goodbye to Our Heroes

15. I Kept a Promise

16. Cold Cold Blood

17. This is Not the End

18. We Arrived Right On Time

19. Go On Rise Up




PLANETARIUM (Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister)

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Artist:
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Length:
75:59

Label:
4AD

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes


Product Description: Planetarium is a concept album that occasionally gives way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward. In spite of all the experimentation in sound and style, Sufjan’s vocals provide a clear and coherent center of gravity. The album includes some of his most diverse vocal performances to date (from soft hush to guttural scream), and whether he’s singing through effects pedals, vocoders, auto-tune or not, his voice delivers an ambitious flight map through the cosmos. Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble has assembled an expansive song cycle that explores the Sun, the Moon, the planets and other celestial bodies of our solar system (and beyond) through soundscape, song, science and myth. The result of this creative alliance is a musical and aesthetic journey as far-reaching as its subject: from lush piano ballads to prog-rock political anthems, curious electronic back-beats to classical cadenzas, the vast musical styles seek to explore the diversity and mystery of our cosmos. The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space, but the interior space of human consciousness and how it engages.


TRACK LIST:

1. Neptune (3:04)

2. Jupiter (7:10)

3. Halley's Comet (0:30)

4. Venus (4:42)

5. Uranus (6:51)

6. Mars (7:08)

7. Black Energy (5:25)

8. Sun (3:59)

9. Tides (0:58)

10. Moon (3:42)

11. Pluto (4:23)

12. Kuiper Belt (2:04)

13. Black Hole (0:33)

14. Saturn (3:51)

15. In The Beginning (1:17)

16. Earth (15:10)

17. Mercury (5:12)




SAGE AND STONE - EP (Avriel & the Sequoias)

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Artist:
Avriel & the Sequoias

Genre:
Pop, Singer, Songwriter

Total Length:
21:57

Label:
Avi Kaplan Music

Purchasing Links:
MP3, iTunes

TRACK LIST:

1. Fields and Pier (4:20)

2. Quarter Past Four (4:30)

3. Sage and Stone (5:23)

4. Song For The Seeker (4:16)

5. Sweet Adeline (3:28)




MONTEVERDI: THE OTHER VESPERS (I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth & The 24)

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Artist:
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
and The 24

Genre:
Classical

Total Length:
1:20:11

Label:
Decca/London

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes


Product Description: Celebrating Monteverdi's 450th anniversary and I Fagiolini's 30th anniversary, The Other Vespers focuses on sacred works from the end of the composer's life, including the celebrated Beatus vir, pairing them with the music of his contemporaries, such as Palestrina, Gabrieli and Frescobaldi. Director and Monteverdi specialist Robert Hollingworth treats the album as an authentic vespers setting with antiphons, collects and other short excerpts between each work.


TRACK LIST:

1. Viadana: Deus in adiutorium meum (1:43)

2. Anonymous: Antiphon I (0:20)

3. Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus SV264 (7:57)

4. Palestrina: Ave verum corpus (5:45)

5. Anonymous: Antiphon II (0:29)

6. Monteverdi: Confitebor tibi, Domine, SV266 (6:18)

7. Donati: Dulcis amor Iesu (4:22)

8. Anonymous: Antiphon III (0:21)

9. Monteverdi: Beatus Vir, SV268 (8:29)

10. Anonymous: Antiphon III (Reprise) (0:21)

11. Anonymous: Antiphon IV (0:18)

12. Monteverdi: Laudate pueri, SV270 (7:08)

13. Castello: Sonata in D Minor (4:56)

14. Anonymous: Antiphon V (0:26)

15. Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum, SV272a (4:14)

16. Frescobaldi: Toccata in G (4:00)

17. Anonymous: Chapter - Plainchant (0:24)

18. Monteverdi: Ut queant laxis, SV279a (2:42)

19. Anonymous: Magnificat Antiphon (0:56)

20. Gabrieli: Magnificat a 14 (7:23)

21. Usper: Sonata a 8 (4:31)

22. Anonymous: Benedicamus Domino - Plainchant (1:42)

23. Monteverdi: Salve, O Regina, SV326 (5:26)








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