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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |