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Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love [ Caroline / Universal Music / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams' second album, marks his exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in... |
Matthew E. White
Fresh Blood [ Domino / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] The follow up to his celebrated 2012 debut, Big Inner, American soul musician Matthew E. White presents his second album - Fresh Blood. Lead by the triumphant single 'Rock & Roll Is Cold', Fresh Blood was produced by White and Spacebomb partner... |
The Mauskovic Dance Band
The Mauskovic Dance Band (LP) [ Soundway Records / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Soundway Records presents the eponymous debut LP from in-demand Amsterdam five piece The Mauskovic Dance Band - fusing no-wave dance punk, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and space disco in a "controlled explosion" (The Quietus). Entirely self-produced,... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: From Sleep Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 18/Sep/2015 ] "Sleep is functional music, furniture music, a soundtrack for relaxing and sleeping, and as such it's successful. It's not "classical" music, and shouldn't be judged as such. It does what it claims, and it's enjoyable." (Musicweb) |
Melody Gardot
Sunset In The Blue [ Universal Music / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] The story of Grammy Award nominated vocalist, guitarist and pianist Melody Gardot is remarkable: she's persevered against abject adversity throughout her life and is blessed with a beautiful alto voice and grand insight as a songwriter. |
Melody Gardot
Sunset In The Blue (LP) [ Universal Music / 2 LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The story of Grammy Award nominated vocalist, guitarist and pianist Melody Gardot is remarkable; she's persevered against abject adversity throughout her life and is blessed with a beautiful alto voice and grand insight as a songwriter. In April of... |
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... |
Mick Harvey
Waves Of Anzac / The Journey (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 29/May/2020 ] The album features two recent soundtracks to powerful subject matters recorded by Mick Harvey. The first, 'Waves of Anzac', looks at Sam Neill's personal family history interwoven with the history of the First World War and the ANZACs through to the... |
Miho Wada
Bumpy Road [ CD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] Entirely in synch with MJO's fun-loving energy and humour, this album was written while touring with Miho's baby bump, and recorded during the lead up to the baby's arrival. The ultimate tour diary to motherhood, Bumpy Road introduces the fresh... |
Minor Victories
Minor Victories [ Liberation Music / Play It Again Sam / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Minor Victories is the group formed by Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Justin Lockey of Editors, and James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club. The freedom, the immediacy, the swapping of ideas and incredibly, the fact that all... |
Mirel Wagner
When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day (LP) [ Sub Pop Records LP / LP - released 22/Aug/2014 ] AND SO THE ENIGMATIC Mirel Wagner steps like a revenant back into our lives. Her self-titled debut two years ago set the tone, ghostly and erotic Delta blues from the then 23-year-old Ethiopian Finn. Wagner's hypnotic sound depends on an intricate... |
Moses Sumney
græ (Limited Edition LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Black, white and grey vinyl. Moses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty: technicolour videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into Fashion Week from a small town in North Carolina; seemingly infinite collaborators,... |
Mount Kimbie
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth [ Warp Records / CD - released 24/May/2013 ] Since 2009, Dominic Maker and his partner in Mount Kimbie, Kai Campos, have played a central role in forging a new form for electronic music. Their influence stretches far beyond the corner of the dance music underground that birthed them. They have |
Mount Kimbie
Love What Survives [ Warp Records / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] "Love What Survives" is the long awaited third studio album from Mount Kimbie. It's the most confident statement of intent from the boundary-pushing duo yet, and an embodiment of their career-long musical progression. The album is the product of... |
The Murlocs
Old Locomotive [ Flightless Records CD / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Old Locomotive is 13 tracks of blistering rock n roll - full of vintage hooks, twists and grooves and mind-melting guitar and harmonica licks. The album was produced by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie. Singer and lyricist... |
My Morning Jacket
The Waterfall II [ ATO / CD - released 9/Apr/2020 ] Back in 2014, the members of My Morning Jacket spent time up in Stinson Beach, a tiny Northern California town set right on the ocean and near the majestic Muir Woods. Massively inspired by their idyllic surroundings, the Kentucky-bred five-piece... |
Nadia Reid
Out Of My Province (LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Out of My Province showcases Nadia's sharpest songwriting to date, atmospheric arrangements replete with strings and Rhodes, and of course that immense voice, alternately soothing and riveting. |
Nadia Reid
Preservation [ Slowtime / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Nadia Reid's 'Preservation' is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Schumann (C) & Mendelssohn (Fanny): Piano Trios & String Quartet The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] A release which celebrates the talents and importance of the 'other' Mendelssohn and Schumann, who emerge from the shadows of their illustrious family names in a blaze of triumphant chamber music. |
New Gum Sarn
New Gold Mountain [ Spunk / CD ] New Gold Mountain has just as much to do with the countryside around Puhoi in New Zealand than Auckland, where the band New Gum Sarn formed. "The (debut) album was recorded where I grew up in a valley in the countryside," says singer/guitarist... |
