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Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Ali (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed "the African John Lee Hooker," one could hear strong connections between the two; both employed a bluesy style of play with gritty textures that elicit calm... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Piano Works (2LP) Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) / Siggi String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 31/Jul/2002 ] "Ólafsson's interpretations inhabit a unique, distinct and extraordinary world all their own...[he] possesses that rare gift of illuminating a familiar work in unexpected ways, revealing hidden depths and drawing out its best qualities." Gramophone |
Wajatta
Don't Let Get You Down (Double LP) [ Brainfeeder / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Wajatta (pronounced wa-HA-ta) - the musical duo of Reggie Watts and John Tejada - return with their second album, Don't Let Get You Down, on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder. Coming from different worlds, but sharing a passion for the rich history of... |
The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding (LP) [ Atlantic / 2 LP - released 25/Aug/2017 ] This is the band's first album since 2014's universally acclaimed 'Lost In The Dream'. For much of the three and a half year period since the release of 'Lost In The Dream', The War On Drugs' frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his... |
Westerman
Your Hero Is Not Dead [ Pias / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Your Hero Is Not Dead is full of supremely crafted songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas. It is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within ourselves. Recorded... |
Westerman
Your Hero Is Not Dead (Limited Edition LP) [ Pias / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Limited Edition white vinyl. Your Hero Is Not Dead is full of supremely crafted songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas. It is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within... |
Weyes Blood
Front Row Seat To Earth [ Mexican Summer / CD - released 6/Nov/2016 ] Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, & outer space electronics. Propulsive, spare drums carry us across the album's course. There is a faded... |
Weyes Blood
Front Row Seat To Earth (LP) [ Mexican Summer / LP - released 5/Nov/2016 ] Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, & outer space electronics. Propulsive, spare drums carry us across the album's course. There is a faded... |
Weyes Blood
Titanic Rising [ Sub Pop / CD - released 5/Apr/2019 ] "Titanic Rising is a revelation. These opulent, sculptural songs have sacrificed none of Mering's idiosyncrasy, or ability to unnerve." - Mojo |
Whitney
Light Upon The Lake [ Secretly Canadian / Cassette - released 3/Jun/2016 ] To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement.Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra),the band itself is something... |
Whitney
Light Upon The Lake (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 3/Jun/2016 ] To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement.Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra),the band itself is something... |
William Onyeabor
World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor? [ Luakka Bop / CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Little is known about William Onyeabor and that's the way he likes it. Who IS William Onyeabor and how did he come to make such amazing African electronic music? |
Willis Earl Beal
Acousmatic Sorcery [ XL Recordings / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] The debut album from the 28-year-old Chicago based bluesman, 'Acousmatic Sorcery' consists of lo-fi demos recorded while Beal was homeless in Albuquerque. |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cool It Down [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like "Maps" or "Zero" or the latest... |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cool It Down (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like "Maps" or "Zero" or the latest... |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World (Limited Blue Vinyl LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
Young Fathers
Cocoa Sugar [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "We've just finished a new album, and it's about fucking time", Young Fathers declared late last year. Now the Mercury Prize winners have confirmed their third album; something typically unique and exhilarating, but leaner, more muscular and... |
Young Fathers
White Men are Black Men Too [ Big Dada / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] When the sci-fi 20's 'Urban' might as well be the atomic 50's 'Race', when R&B has no blues and hiphop is a boom bip with a shorty, it's off to the street corner we go… where does a group like Young Fathers, who 'picknmix from the popular music... |
Young Fathers
White Men are Black Men Too (LP) [ Big Dada / LP - released 10/Apr/2015 ] |
Yussef Kamaal
Black Focus [ Brownswood Recordings CD / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Yussef Kamaal are shaped by the sound of London. Growing up in the capital, they frame jazz within the bass-saturated, pirate radio broadcasts of the UK capital. The pair, made up of Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams (aka Henry Wu), have had little in... |
