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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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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? |
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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. |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Songfest (with works by Gershwin & Copland) Wolf Trap Opera, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Judd [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] An American in Paris is one of Gershwin's most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin's original orchestration. |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Young Fathers
White Men are Black Men Too (LP) [ Big Dada / LP - released 10/Apr/2015 ] |
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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... |
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Yves Tumor
Heaven To A Tortured Mind [ Warp / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Just over eighteen months on from the critically acclaimed Safe in the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor pushes visceral sonic boundaries with his new album Heaven to a Tortured Mind. In a sense, Heaven to a Tortured Mind occupies the anthemic soundworld... |
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Yves Tumor
Safe in the Hands of Love [ Warp / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Yves Tumor shows the world that it's Safe in the Hands of Love with his debut album for Warp. Released with no fanfare or prior warning, following astonishing singles Noid, Licking an Orchid and Lifetime. Whereas each of these showed a different... |