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Killers of the Flower Moon (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
Robbie Robertson
Film Soundtracks - Released October 20, 2023 | Masterworks
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Day of the Doug
Son Volt
Pop - Released June 16, 2023 | Transmit Sound
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Melodrama
Lorde
Alternative & Indie - Released June 16, 2017 | Universal Music New Zealand Limited
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Pitchfork: Best New Music
It’s easy to be popular and commercial. It is less so to be popular, commercial AND brilliant. Yelich-O’Connor, aka Lorde, runs straight into this category reserved to a fortunate few. With Melodrama, the young New Zealander confirms a talent that was already impressive on Pure Heroine, her first album from 2013 released when she was only 16! All the elements of the pop identity are there. Lorde talks about herself, about being a 20 year old woman from the suburbs, about her dreams, solitude and ennui, about the transition to adulthood, about love of course, and also about disillusionment. In short, no pop cliché is missing. Lorde works wonders with the raw material accessible to all. Without trying to make the genre appear more complex, and staying firmly rooted in it, she establishes her singularity, her style, her name. “Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies. Well, Melodrama is about what comes next... The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new world.” With this second album, she highlights even more the quality of her writing, and of her voice too. Musically, there is no lurid effect because everything is done to magnify the song, and nothing but the song. In a way, the mastery radiating from Melodrama puts her closer to Madonna, Elton John or Kate Bush than to Katy Perry or Miley Cyrus. And in her post teenager coating, she almost offers the ingenuousness of a rather mature soul singer… In short, such an understanding of the pop dialect at only 20 is rather astounding… © CM/Qobuz
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Gong
Rock - Released March 23, 2015 | Charly
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Call of the Wild
Powerwolf
Metal - Released July 16, 2021 | Napalm Records
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The number of metal bands formed after the turn of the century that have managed to become real headliners can be counted on one's fingers. Powerwolf is one of them. Call of the Wild is their tenth album: the group was formed in 2004 and has been releasing records like clockwork ever since. The band has stuck, limpet-like, to its chosen style (power metal) from the outset. But over the years it has added various spices to its unchanged basic recipe in order to avoid the "photocopier" effect that plagues this rather formalised genre. The increasingly grandiloquent Powerwolf serves up a collection of hymns with some larger than life choruses. Increasingly focused on arrangements worthy of a big-screen film soundtrack, the quintet's music gives pride of place to Falk Maria Schlegel's flamboyant keyboard performances, which are better for creating a cinematic atmosphere than those of many competitors, who often struggle to recreate the majesty of a symphony orchestra with two Casios and a Roland. With Call of the Wild, Powerwolf could even appeal to fans of musicals: their music is always melodic and accessible to a wide audience, and Attila Dorn's vocals remind one of the powerful and spirited performances for which Demis Roussos became famous. The reference to Roussos might raise eyebrows at first glance, but it is actually much more accurate than you might think. Unsurprisingly, the band have announced that they are planning a very major stage production for their coming tour. It makes sense: it's hard to imagine such a forceful musical explosion being performed without a visual counterpart to match. Bursting with out-of-the-box hits (Beast of Gévaudan, Dancing with the Dead, or the lighter Undress to Confess), Call of the Wild is a very smart move by the Saarbrücken band: it's accessible for a lot of people but as power metal, it is still eminently credible and expertly written so as not to alienate purists. Great work. © Charlélie Arnaud/Qobuz
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Red Rose Speedway
Paul McCartney & Wings
Rock - Released December 7, 2018 | Paul McCartney Catalog
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Both the public and the press are still getting over Wild Life, the first album that Paul McCartney released with his new group Wings in December 1971. The record was roasted for being very inconsistent... Two years later, Macca released Red Rose Speedway, a piece of work that was considerably more impressive and outgoing to the point that it took him back to the top of the charts, mainly thanks to the single My Love. Like on Wild Life, the singer/bassist is accompanied here by his wife Linda on keyboard, ex Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell. The group is also joined by Henry McCullough, the ex Spooky Tooth guitarist. Even if certain critics still reproached Paul McCartney for the album being too lightweight, not engaged enough and above all well below the standard of his past compositions, we should appreciate the finesse of some of these melodies and Macca's ability to write catchy choruses. Once again, the eclecticism of the repertoire is sometimes confusing, making it difficult to consider Red Rose Speedway as a real artistic entity. However, some of these compositions are really touching like Little Lamb Dragonfly and Single Pigeon. This remastered deluxe edition, which includes a number of bonus tracks, is an opportunity to rediscover an extra piece of the big Paul McCartney puzzle. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Being There (Deluxe Edition)
Wilco
Rock - Released October 29, 1996 | Rhino - Warner Records
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After a magical first work of fairly rough alternative country (A.M.) that was conceived at the time of the turbulent separation of his group Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy took his time to release a second album with Wilco. Already, the work was ambitious as it was a double album. Blending all their musical similarities, this was an album that from the moment it was released in October 1996 led quite a few journalists to write that Tweedy had signed his own Exile On Main Street. Much like the Rolling Stones’ masterpiece, eclecticism is the crucial ingredient to this mix of basic rock’n’roll, bluegrass, country rock, psychedelia, folk and soul. With loose guitars, pedal steel, brass and unlimited instrumentals, Wilco weaves here an impressive web between the Rolling Stones from their golden age, The Replacements, The Beatles and Big Star from the album Third. Alternating between ballads and electronic soundstorms, Tweedy demonstrates above all else that with a timeless and classical base, he is taking the lead with his grandiose songs and the stunning architecture of his compositions… This remastered Deluxe Edition offers, as well as the original album, fifteen unpublished bonus tracks notably including alternative versions of I Got You and Say You Miss Me alongside a live recording from 12th November 1996 in Troubadour, Los Angeles and a session for the radio station Santa Monica KCRW taken the next day. © MZ/Qobuz
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MASSIVE ADDICTIVE
Amaranthe
Metal - Released October 20, 2014 | Spinefarm FI
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Freedom Legacy
Queen Omega
Reggae - Released March 24, 2023 | Baco Records
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Blow Up Your Video
AC/DC
Metal - Released January 18, 1988 | Columbia
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World Wide Live
Scorpions
Rock - Released June 1, 1985 | BMG Rights Management GmbH
This live album, originally released as a double-record set, succeeds in capturing the raw power and high energy that the group can actually attain in performance. Although a few songs were lost in the move from record to compact disc, the band's greatest hits are retained from their '84-'85 tour, from ballads such as "Holiday" to rock anthems like "Blackout." The album is never tedious, and all of the fourteen songs on the recording are captured with excellent authenticity. World Wide Live is by far the Scorpions' best live release, and is a must for fans of their music.© Barry Weber /TiVo
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BTS
K-Pop - Released June 10, 2022 | BIGHIT MUSIC
BTS has such an immense economic impact on Korea, that when they decided to take a break on the 14th of June 2022, the Seoul stock exchange got sucked into a downwards spiral. A few days before their announcement, they released their current anthology album (which includes the unreleased single Yet to Come). With a sound that lies somewhere between soul and hip-hop, this track anticipated the group’s (temporary?) separation by providing a comprehensive overview of their nine-year-long career. However, this anthology gives the impression the group are still keeping a keen eye on their future, even though this now seems quite uncertain. The first CD within this anthology focuses on the band's previous singles, from I Need U and Blood Sweat and Tears (both of which give a delicate portrayal of the anxieties related to growing up), to DNA (which is all about love at first sight) and Life Goes On (which BTS released to cheer up their fans during the Covid pandemic). The second CD focuses on lesser-known songs that really showcase the talents of each member of the group. The third CD features a previously unreleased track, For Youth, which is the South Korean boy band's final declaration of love to their many fans. ©Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
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Things Fall Apart
The Roots
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released February 23, 1999 | Geffen
One of the cornerstone albums of alternative rap's second wave, Things Fall Apart was the point where the Roots' tremendous potential finally coalesced into a structured album that maintained its focus from top to bottom. If the group sacrifices a little of the unpredictability of its jam sessions, the resulting consistency more than makes up for it, since the record flows from track to track so effortlessly. Taking its title from the Chinua Achebe novel credited with revitalizing African fiction, Things Fall Apart announces its ambition right upfront, and reinforces it in the opening sound collage. Dialogue sampled from Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues implies a comparison to abstract modern jazz that lost its audience, and there's another quote about hip-hop records being treated as disposable, that they aren't maximized as product or as art. That's the framework in which the album operates, and while there's a definite unity counteracting the second observation, the artistic ambition actually helped gain the Roots a whole new audience ("coffeehouse chicks and white dudes," as Common puts it in the liner notes). The backing tracks are jazzy and reflective, filled with subtly unpredictable instrumental lines, and the band also shows a strong affinity for the neo-soul movement, which they actually had a hand in kick-starting via their supporting work on Erykah Badu's Baduizm. Badu returns the favor by guesting on the album's breakthrough single, "You Got Me," an involved love story that also features a rap from Eve, co-writing from Jill Scott, and an unexpected drum'n'bass breakbeat in the outro. Other notables include Mos Def on the playful old-school rhymefest "Double Trouble," Slum Village superproducer Jay Dee on "Dynamite!," and Philly native DJ Jazzy Jeff on "The Next Movement." But the real stars are Black Thought and Malik B, who drop such consistently nimble rhymes throughout the record that picking highlights is extremely difficult. Along with works by Lauryn Hill, Common, and Black Star, Things Fall Apart is essential listening for anyone interested in the new breed of mainstream conscious rap.© Steve Huey /TiVo
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This Is Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite
Pop/Rock - Released March 29, 1985 | Columbia
Elbowed out of the Clash, Mick Jones responded forcefully with Big Audio Dynamite, a modernist audio-terrorist outfit whose 1985 debut, This Is Big Audio Dynamite, seemed all the more futuristic when compared to Joe Strummer’s reductionist retro rejiggering of the Clash on Cut the Crap. Strummer may have been intent on shedding every experimental element of the Clash’s prime, but Jones, in collaboration with longtime friend filmmaker Don Letts, picked up where Sandinista! left off, anchoring BAD in dance and rap, building the group’s debut on layers of samples and drum machines. As is often the case, what was once forward-looking seems inextricably tied to its time in retrospect and the clanking electro rhythms, Sergio Leone samples, chicken-scratch guitars, bleating synths, and six-minute songs of This Is Big Audio Dynamite evoke 1985 in a way few other records do. Nevertheless, BAD’s boldness remains impressive, even visionary, pointing toward the cut-n-paste masterpieces of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and since Jones did not abandon his innate gift for hooks -- if anything, he found ways to create rhythmic hooks as well as melodic ones -- it’s quite accessible for an album that is, at its core, avant-rock. [Legacy’s 2010 double-disc expansion of This Is Big Audio Dynamite remasters the original eight-track LP and adds a second 12-track CD. Befitting BAD’s futuristic dance bent, almost all of these are 12" remixes of the album’s singles -- “Medicine Show,” “E=MC2,” and “The Bottom Line” -- including no less than four previously unreleased mixes -- and there’s also the outtake “Electric Vandal,” plus the B-sides “Albert Einstein Meets the Human Beatbox” and “This is Big Audio Dynamite,” with every last one of these 12 songs extending the modernist sampledelia of the album proper.]© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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MASSIVE ADDICTIVE
Amaranthe
Metal - Released October 17, 2014 | Spinefarm FI
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The third studio long-player from the Scandinavian melodic death/electro-power metal unit, the Spinefarm Records-issued Massive Addictive finds the group parting ways with chief growler Andreas Solveström and bringing in Henrik Englund to take over the more abrasive side of the vocal spectrum (co-founder Jake E. and ethereal crooner Elize Ryd continue to operate the clean side of things). Comprising 12 new tracks, including "Dynamite," "An Ordinary Abnormality," "Digital World," "Drop Dead Cynical," and the blistering title track, Massive Addictive was recorded in Denmark with Volbeat and Epica producer Jacob Hansen.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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The History of Heresy II (2009 - 2012)
Powerwolf
Metal - Released October 27, 2014 | Metal Blade Records
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