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Isaac Hayes
Hot Buttered Soul [ Stax / CD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] Released at the tail end of the '60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the early '70s, simultaneously establishing Issac Hayes and The Bar-Kays as major forces within black music. Hot Buttered Soul remains an... |
Jamie xx
In Colour [ Young Turks / CD - released 29/May/2015 ] The release of In Colour comes on the back of an incredible six year creative period for Jamie xx, which has seen him alternate effortlessly between his role as founding member and producer of The xx, and creator of more electronic and club... |
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
The Nashville Sound [ Southeastern Records / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "Isbell named the album for a lush, sweetened approach to record-making that was meant to help country music compete in the popular landscape of the early rock 'n' roll era, a production style famously associated with RCA Studio A. His take on the... |
Jayda G
Significant Changes [ Ninja Tunes / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] After building excitement for the past few years with a seemingly endless run of great EPs, Berlin-based Canadian producer Jayda G now comes through with her debut album, Significant Changes on Ninja Tune. Significant Changes is anchored with the... |
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox [ Ndeya / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox (LP) [ Ndeya / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
Jonathan Bree
After The Curtains Close [ Lil Chief / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 'After The Curtains Close' sees Jonathan Bree's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns into the experimental and sometimes kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains... |
Jonathan Bree
After The Curtains Close (Limited Red LP) [ Lil Chief / LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] 'After The Curtains Close' sees Jonathan Bree's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns into the experimental and sometimes kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains... |
Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider
Sun On Sand [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Sun On Sand comprises eight compositions from a suite by composer Patrick Zimmerli. Each piece in the suite, which premiered at London's Wigmore Hall in 2014, represents a different expression of light. Bassist Scott Colley and drummer Satoshi... |
Kamaal Williams
The Return [ Black Focus Records / CD - released 8/Jun/2018 ] Holding the torch for a new generation of jazz musicians, a light that has been passed across the seas by Thundercat and Kamasi Washington, Kamaal Williams debuts his new label Black Focus with his highly anticipated album The Return. Known for his... |
Kamasi Washington
The Epic (3CD) [ Brainfeeder / 3 CD - released 12/Jun/2015 ] Kamasi Washington's The Epic is unlike anything jazz has seen, and not just because it emanates from the boundary-defying Brainfeeder, which isn't so much a label in the traditional sense as it is an unfurling experiment conducted by the underground... |
Kamasi Washington
Heaven & Earth [ Young Turks / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2018 ] The follow up to Kamasi Washington's debut The Epic, Heaven & Earth is comprised of two halves, which find him confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington's world building ideas, the new album explores... |
Karen Dalton
In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition) [ Light In The Attic / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The late Karen Dalton sang the blues and played the 12-string Gibson guitar and a long neck banjo. This is a re-issue of her second album 'In My Own Time' - which was originally released in 1971. |
Katie Melua
Album No.8 (Deluxe) [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] One of the UK's best-selling female recording artists of all time, Katie Melua returns with 'Album No. 8'. A gloriously cinematic exploration of love, with lyrics written by Katie Melua and production by Leo Abrahams, Album No. 8 is a true... |
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN. (Double LP) [ Interscope / 2 LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] "DAMN. is a widescreen masterpiece of rap, full of expensive beats, furious rhymes, and peerless storytelling about Kendrick's destiny in America. Life is one funny motherfucker, it's true. "DUCKWORTH.," the last song on Kendrick Lamar's fourth... |
Kevin Morby
City Music (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 16/Jun/2017 ] City Music is also the new album by Kevin Morby. Full of listless wanderlust, it's a collection inspired by and devoted to the metropolitan experience across America and beyond by a songwriter cast from his own mould. As he puts it: "It is a... |
Kevin Morby
This Is A Photograph [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] This Is A Photograph, Morby's 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to align his finest songs, his best vocal performances, his... |
Kevin Morby
This Is A Photograph (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] This Is A Photograph, Morby's 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to align his finest songs, his best vocal performances, his... |
Khruangbin
Con Todo El Mundo (LP) [ Night Time Stories / LP - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald "DJ" Johnson on drums; globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin present their second album 'Con Todo El Mundo', set for release on 26th January 2018. Whereas their 2015 debut album 'The... |
Khruangbin
Mordechai [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it's finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals... |
