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EXPLODED VIEW – ” Exploded View “

Posted: November 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Exploded View came to be after UK-born songwriter and vocalist Berlin-based Annika Henderson played a slew of solo shows in Mexico with a backing band composed of local producers & artists. Their sound ultimately gelled in such a powerful way that it demanded its own creative channel. Annika Henderson, who produced a solo album & EP under the name Anika then after having spent some time teaming up with Geoff Barrow to provide vocals for his post-Portishead project, Beak, now seems to have found the perfect dark, pulsing home for her Nico-esque voiced project. It’s a dark-alley-in-a-foreign-country journey that ultimately rewards listeners with what could be the sleeper album of the year.

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TOLD SLANT – ” Going By “

Posted: November 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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We frequently overlook volumes of impactful music because they seem to blend into to the background of our lives while more talked-about albums come to the forefront. In the same way, we often fail to dissect the smaller moments that make up the majority of our lives. Felix Walworth of Told Slant sits comfortably in spaces between, makes a home among the overlooked. A trip to the deli, a new sweater, the shade of someone’s nail polish, not knowing what to say—“Going By” envelops all the moments and things that comprise the scenery of our lives and extracts emotionally-tangible meaning in a sound that’s as fluidly powerful as crushing lyrics it houses

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VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” Southern Family “

Posted: November 6, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Inspired by tribute albums and comps like White Mansions and Outlaws!, “Southern Family” is a concept album about the small stories of southern families, from guys hanging out at mom’s dinner table to pass the news, to watching grandpa die, to reflections on religion. It’s a stunning album helmed by Dave Cobb, who is the producer du jour in Nashville right now; he’s helmed records from every 21st century outlaw, from Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell to Sturgill Simpson and Shooter Jennings. He busts out the rolodex for Southern Family; he’s got Brandy Clark, Miranda Lambert, Isbell, Jennings, and reclusive outlaw bellwether Jamey Johnson on this thing, and that’s not even half the album. The music Cobb produces gets pegged as country for people who hate country, but this comp is him showing he can straddle both insider Nashville, and outsider Nashville

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KACY & CLAYTON – ” Strange Country “

Posted: November 6, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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It’s not often that album makes you feel like you’ve been transported to a different era, but Kacy & Clayton’s “Strange Country” achieves this effortlessly. As soon as the record begins to hum you’re in outlaw country: dry, red, and heading southwest. This feeling is perfectly encapsulated in songs like its title track as well as the adventurous “The Rio Grande” and “Over the River Charlie.” Hailing from rural Canada, Kacy & Clayton have created a hybrid of British and Appalachian folk. Throughout the record, Kacy’s voice swells with influence and is reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s playful high register. This album deviates from many current alternative country records with its deeply complex guitar arrangements. “If You Ask How I’m Keeping” serves as a small departure from the time period and is beautiful in its subtlety. We feel the heartache that comes with a profound and melancholic realization when she sings: “everything I’m doing has already been done.” This record gives an escape from the harshness of the real world and brings you back to a time that’s almost imaginable

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ANDY SCHAUF – ” The Party “

Posted: November 4, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“The Worst In You” by Andy Shauf from the album ‘The Party,’ available now on Anti (World Excl. Canada) and Arts & Crafts (Canada) Hope everyone is having a decent summer. I’m writing with a few updates and some tour date announcements. My new album The Party came out May 20th on ANTI- / Arts & Crafts, and I’ve been busy touring in Europe and North America with my band ever since.  An understated concept album of sorts, it’s a portrait of a party narrated from several different perspectives. Sonically it’s delicious, with super dry muffled 70s drum sounds, syrupy and well-arranged clarinet & string accompaniments, and Andy’s addictingly strange vocal inflections. The lyrics and their interconnections are a world unto themselves too though, portraying humans quietly obsessed with seeking connection and self-destruction.

We also just announced a fall North American tour which will be our first proper headline tour for the record, and we’re happy to be joined by Scattered Clouds for our Western dates, and Chris Cohen in the East. We’ll also be returning to Europe this October;

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Songs written, performed, arranged and produced by Andy Shauf
Strings performed by Colin Nealis

Recorded by Andy Shauf at Studio One in Regina, Saskatchewan
Mixed by Noah Georgeson at Banner Mountain Studios in
Los Angeles, California

THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES – 4th November 2016

Posted: November 4, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Honeyblood – Babes Never Die

Honeyblood are back in formidable form. The Glasgow two-piece – front-woman Stina Tweeddale and drummer Cat Myers release their second album, the emphatically titled Babes Never Die. The follow-up to their eponymous debut, Honeyblood which arrived in 2014 as a surprise splash, crash-landing into many of the year’s most revered Best of Lists, with near-perfect score reviews from everyone from NME to DIY, and Mojo to Uncut. Ready for The Magic is a remarkable introduction to Honeyblood 2.0. Both one of their most intense and most intensely catchy tracks to date. It’s detuned doom riffage and disco-punk rhythms make space for a tornado of a chorus ode to “the explosive nature of infatuation”. The album was recorded with acclaimed producer James Dring (Jamie T, Gorillaz) during candle-burning sessions at London’s Fish Factory studios. “The title is my own mantra,” Stina says. “I think it’s something I tell myself every day. Indifference is a plague. Giving up and turning a blind eye will be the end of us. Never before has that been more true.

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Bryde  – EP2

Limited to 250 Copies. Taking thrilling dynamic cues from PJ Harvey’s early output, Bryde’s latest single Honey is a hard hitting sonic assault which sees the London artist turn up the electric guitars. It bears the indelible stamp of Bill Ryder- Jones who takes production duties. The outcome is an intensely gratifying salvo of unabashed attitude replete with lyrics that wouldn’t be out of place in a Courtney Barnett song: “you’re like a bad word, I think I misheard”. Since setting out as Bryde, Sarah Howells has proven herself to be one of the most singular vocalists and songwriters in British indie rock. She’s a powerful projectionist with a tonal range that will likely see her drawing a few comparisons to her international axe-wielding peers Angel Olsen, Mitzki and St Vincent.

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Palace – So Long Forever

Palace release their hugely anticipated spacious romantic pop debut album ‘So Long Forever’ on Fiction Records.

The album is a great summary of where Palace are as a band. It’s a culmination of very early songs and new ones. The album takes you on a journey through different emotions and ups and downs. It’s their distinctive blues sound mixed with atmosphere and epic reverb. One of the things the album deals with is loss and how they deal with those difficult situations. Whether you fall apart or it makes you stronger. ‘So Long Forever’ has been produced by Adam Jaffery (Beach Baby, Dev Hynes, Francis Lung) and mixed by Cenzo Townshend (The Maccabees, Florence and the Machine, Wild Beasts). For fans of Jeff Buckley, Come, The Maccabees and Fleet Foxes.

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Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions – Until the Hunter

Rough Trade Exclusive with a bonus CD featuring two extra tracks The Spider and She’s in The Wall. First album of new material in seven years from Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval.

Luckily nothing has changed in the world of Hope Sandoval (the queen of melancholy) – it’s still dreamy, blissful, sensual and like no one else. When the world first heard Mazzy Star in 1990 it was totally original and 26 years later she is still much copied but never bettered.

Standout cuts include Let Me Get There – a laidback duet with Kurt Vile, Treasure which mixes the Velvet Underground and Tindersticks and Liquid Lady which is all breathy vocals and film noir twang. It’s great to have Hope back – it really is.

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Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – A Little Something More From.

Global soul sensations, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats release a new EP. Featuring a combination of new tracks and live favourites, the 8 track collection marks the end of what has been a phenomenal 18 months for the Night Sweats. A sold out show at the 9500 capacity Red Rocks Arena in their hometown of Denver, Colorado. Amongst the upbeat anthems, all marked with Rateliff’s winning combination of soul and classic Americana, is Just To Talk To You, a stripped back, blues gem of a track. Reminiscent of 2010’s solo album In Memory of Loss, the slide guitar and warm, gentle vocal glide around each other, demonstrating Rateliff’s innate ability to make the space left in a song just as vital as the music.

CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND – ” High Castle Rock “

Posted: November 4, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Philadelphia’s Chris Forsyth has long proven himself a skillful and inventive modern guitarist, one whose combination of hard-won chops and dazzling natural ability can easily awe the sort of people who maintain Tumblr pages devoted to photos of pedal boards. It’s always been pretty clear that the guy, to borrow a phrase, knows the literature. But on the new double LP The Rarity of Experience , Forsyth proves himself to be equally as adept a composer and bandleader as he is guitar stylist. Though the album may be loosely divided by a more frenzied and fiery first half and a mellower, more idiosyncratic second act, to view The Rarity Of Experience as merely two sides of a coin would be inaccurate, as Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band, over the course of nine originals and a cover of Richard Thompson’s “The Calvary Cross,” sustains momentum while evoking a wide range of moods.

The Solar Motel Band is Forsyth’s not-so-secret weapon. Much has already been written about the dynamic rhythm section of bassist Peter Kerlin and drummer Steven Urgo, whose sensitive and powerful contributions continue to establish the firm foundation upon which the group creates its unique synergy. Non-touring member and frequent Forsyth collaborator Shawn E. Hansen adds variety and verve to the Solar Motel Band’s guitars/bass/drums format with his expansive and expressive use of Sequential Circuits’ new Prophet 6 synthesizer. And second guitarist Nick Millevoi, the newest member of the group, proves a crucial ingredient and a perfect foil, complimenting Forsyth’s Stratocaster slink with flashy passages of tremolo picking and a distinctly raunchier, more robust tone.

Forsyth knows how good his band is, which is probably why he has chosen to revisit two of his previously released tunes, both originally released on 2012’s Kenzo Deluxe as a solo pieces. The Rarity of Experience’s reimagining of “Boston Street Lullaby” is a clinic in tension and restraint, while “The First Ten Minutes of Cocksucker Blues,” replete with the hand drum patter of percussionist Ryan Sawyer and the spacey tenor sax and trumpet of the New York ecstatic jazz stalwart Daniel Carter,

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Cecil Taylor once observed that “the roots [of a musician] show more in maturity than in youth.” If this is true, “The Rarity Of Experience, Pt. 2” may provide the album’s most revealing glimpse into Forsyth’s teenage playbook, pitting the arachnidian guitar wanderings of The Days Of Wine and Roses against the rhythmic lurch of Remain In Light. Similarly, on the gorgeous “Harmonious Dance,” Forsyth’s bubbly auto-wah, combined with Hansen’s saturated synth twinkle and the rhythm section’s slippery minimalism, flashes back to Tortoise’s jazzy period circa TNT.

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CREAM – ” Disraeli Gears ” Classic Albums Released 2nd November 1967

Posted: November 3, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Disraeli Gears” is the second studio album by the British rock band Cream. It was released in November 1967. The album features the two singles “Strange Brew” and “Sunshine of Your Love”. The album was recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York during May 1967, following the band’s nine shows as part of Murray the K’s “Music in the 5th Dimension” concert series. The sessions were produced by the future Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi  who also co-wrote the tracks “Strange Brew” and “World of Pain” with wife Gail Collins and were engineered by Tom Dowd According to Dowd the recording sessions took only three and a half days.

Disraeli Gears that turned Cream into a “supergroup.” Here they pursue the psychedelic ideals of the era with total abandon (the LP cover art still stands as one of the 1960s’ most striking designs), merging these ideals with their take on the blues and adorning the amalgamation with some superb pop craftsmanship. Of the 11 originals here, four–“Tales of Brave Ulysses”, “SWLABR”, “Strange Brew” and “Sunshine of Your Love”–earned major airplay. This, their excess-free greatest moment, does the Cream legend proud. “Disraeli Gears” features the group veering away, quite heavily, from their blues roots and indulging in more psychedelic sounds. The most blues-like tunes on the album are the remake of “Outside Woman Blues”, the Bruce/Brown composition “Take it Back” which had been inspired by the contemporary media images of American students burning their draft cards which featured harmonica work by Jack Bruce, and the opening track “Strange Brew” which was based on a 12-bar blues song called “Lawdy Mama” and featured Eric Clapton copying an Albert King guitar solo, note for note

The album title started as a joke. Mick Turner one of Cream’s roadies was discussing with drummer, Ginger Baker, how he fancied one of those bikes with’ Disraeli gears’. He meant, of course, derailleur gears, but the band found the mistake hilarious and so the name of one of one of the UK’s premier psychedelic albums was born.

For this Second album it was far different. Chemicals had been imbibed, Clapton had struck up a friendship with Australian artist Martin Sharp who not only provided the lyrics of “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” but also came up with the splendidly baroque cover. Meanwhile Jack Bruce was now working with underground poet, Pete Brown, whose lyrics were equally trippy. “SWLABR” (it stands for ‘She walks like a bearded rainbow’), “Dance The Night Away” and “Sunshine Of Your Love” were perfect encapsulations of the point where the blues got psychedelic and in turn got heavy. “Sunshine…”’s riff is at once iconic and defines the power trio aesthetic that was to prove so popular with the band’s many disciples.

The other creative catalyst was producer Felix Pappalardi. Co-writing both “World Of Pain” he also helped transform the blueswailing “Lawdy Mama” into the slinky “Strange Brew” – a contender for best album opener of all time. Clapton’s guitar had by now been exposed to the effects heavy stylings of Jimi Hendrix and his heavy use of wah-wah gives Disraeli Gears just the right amount of weirdness, making this probably the most experimental album he ever made. The modish inclusion of Ginger Baker’s rendition of “A Mother’s lament” was the edwardiana icing on the cake.

FAITH HEALER – ” Cosmic Troubles “

Posted: November 3, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Instantly, when I first heard this within the first ten seconds, I was like, “Who is this?” I played the first track on repeat three times. When I hear a song I really like, I have to play it over and over again until I get tired of it.  Sometimes you listen to songs from albums more than I listen to albums all through. Anyway, this band are from Edmonton; they’re a Canadian band. Singer Jessica Jalbert has been around in the Canadian music scene for a really long time, she has this gorgeous voice a super angelic voice. Melodic, melancholic, and calming, I was hooked from the first track. The vocals are pleasantly dreamy, and instrumentation is crisp. Beautiful music.This is a home-recorded album that she did with Renny Wilson , I love all the songs, very nice guitars, and her voice is so careful. It’s very good headphone music,

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The WHO – ” Live At Leeds ” 3 LP Set Vinyl Reissue

Posted: November 1, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The forthcoming The Who “Live at Leeds” vinyl reissue will be a three-LP package that features the FULL setlist, as played on the night.  The Who booked two shows, one at the University of Leeds for February. 14th and a second in Hull the next day, and would choose the songs from there. Unfortunately, there were technical problems with the Hull recording — John Entwistle’s bass was inaudible on the first six songs — and they were forced to use just the one concert.

They couldn’t be bothered to trawl through the recordings from the US tour so they decided to record the Leeds and Hull gigs and release the best. The Hull recording was unusable, because the cable connecting the bass guitar to the tape recorder didn’t work. That left Leeds. The three-hour concert took place on Valentine’s day 1970. Students queued for hours to get a ticket and many who failed took to the roof of the building that evening to hear and feel the music.

Townshend joked: “We decided before that we were going to put it out whatever. It was lucky it was good”.

As it turned out the recording was more than good: it was phenomenal and would become one of the most successful live albums of all time.  the tapes caught the Who at their absolute best. The original release clocked in at just under 38 minutes and featured only seven songs. This will be a half-speed mastered 33RPM pressing and unlike the two-CD deluxe edition issued in 2001, this new vinyl release will feature the 33-song set in the order that the songs were performed on the night (Valentine’s Day 1970!)

This is packaged as a six-panel gatefold with three inner bags. SDE ran a deal alert for this last week (now finished), but even the non-deal price of £25 in the UK is pretty good for a triple vinyl, half-speed mastered set that celebrates this landmark live album.

This will be released on 25th November 2016

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