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Take Me Back To Eden

Sleep Token

Metal - Released May 19, 2023 | Spinefarm

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Resonance

Boris Blank

Electronic - Released February 16, 2024 | Boris Blank | IAN Records

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Use Your Illusion I

Guns N' Roses

Hard Rock - Released September 1, 1991 | Guns N Roses P&D

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The "difficult second album" is one of the perennial rock & roll clichés, but few second albums ever were as difficult as Use Your Illusion. Not really conceived as a double album but impossible to separate as individual works, Use Your Illusion is a shining example of a suddenly successful band getting it all wrong and letting its ambitions run wild. Taking nearly three years to complete, the recording of the album was clearly difficult, and tensions between Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Axl Rose are evident from the start. The two guitarists, particularly Stradlin, are trying to keep the group closer to its hard rock roots, but Rose has pretensions of being Queen and Elton John, which is particularly odd for a notoriously homophobic Midwestern boy. Conceivably, the two aspirations could have been divided between the two records, but instead they are just thrown into the blender -- it's just a coincidence that Use Your Illusion I is a harder-rocking record than II. Stradlin has a stronger presence on I, contributing three of the best songs -- "Dust n' Bones," "You Ain't the First," and "Double Talkin' Jive" -- which help keep the album in Stonesy Aerosmith territory. On the whole, the album is stronger than II, even though there's a fair amount of filler, including a dippy psychedelic collaboration with Alice Cooper and a song that takes its title from the Osmonds' biggest hit. But it also has two ambitious set pieces, "November Rain" and "Coma," which find Rose fulfilling his ambitions, as well as the ferocious, metallic "Perfect Crime" and the original version of the power ballad "Don't Cry." Still, it can be a chore to find the highlights on the record amid the overblown production and endless amounts of filler.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Esja

Hania Rani

Classical - Released April 5, 2019 | Gondwana Records

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Hunter

Anna Calvi

Alternative & Indie - Released August 31, 2018 | Domino Recording Co

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Anna Calvi can trumpet that the shy and sick child has become a sexual lioness; the score of her third album is in no way radical in its form. Still, her transformation is rather powerful as she described on social media when she came out as queer.In 2011, she released a stunning first eponymous album, where she revealed herself as much more than yet another PJ Harvey… Gifted with a mysterious organ a-la Siouxsie, armed with a 50s-sounding guitar in the vein of Duane Eddy and productions worthy of improbable Morricone/Badalamenti soundtracks, the British artist released One Breath two years later, an astounding second album, slightly evolving her singular art. Calvi leaned on dreamlike curves bordering on gothic, but also dared explore dirty and powerful sounds. With complete mastery over the writing, interpretation, arrangements and singing, she reasserted how much of a well-rounded artist she was. Something she does once again with Hunter and its very symbolic title. Supported by Nick Launay for the production (Nick Cave), Adrian Utley from Portishead on the keyboards and the Bad Seeds’ Martyn Casey on the bass, she strings together ten stunning tracks and reaches sublime heights by refining them to the extreme like on her ghostly ballad Away. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

Rock - Released March 22, 1965 | Columbia

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With Another Side of Bob Dylan, Dylan had begun pushing past folk, and with Bringing It All Back Home, he exploded the boundaries, producing an album of boundless imagination and skill. And it's not just that he went electric, either, rocking hard on "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Maggie's Farm," and "Outlaw Blues"; it's that he's exploding with imagination throughout the record. After all, the music on its second side -- the nominal folk songs -- derive from the same vantage point as the rockers, leaving traditional folk concerns behind and delving deep into the personal. And this isn't just introspection, either, since the surreal paranoia on "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and the whimsical poetry of "Mr. Tambourine Man" are individual, yet not personal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, really, as he writes uncommonly beautiful love songs ("She Belongs to Me," "Love Minus Zero/No Limit") that sit alongside uncommonly funny fantasias ("On the Road Again," "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). This is the point where Dylan eclipses any conventional sense of folk and rewrites the rules of rock, making it safe for personal expression and poetry, not only making words mean as much as the music, but making the music an extension of the words. A truly remarkable album.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Thomas Bangalter: Mythologies

Thomas Bangalter

Classical - Released April 7, 2023 | Warner Classics

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When an artist from the pop world attempts classical concert music, what makes it work sometimes and sometimes not? Composers like Danny Elfman have written enduring and even beloved music, while the classical pieces of as talented a composer as Billy Joel is hardly heard. There seem to be several factors. First is that there should be some connection between the artist's pop language and the new classical style. Here, Thomas Bangalter, one-half of the French electronica duo Daft Punk, succeeds notably. The repetition and the textural shades of Bangalter's electronic music are still here, but he stretches them somewhat in new expressive directions. His Mythologies are short portraits of mythological figures, and one might do pretty well if forced to guess their identities; sample "Aphrodite" or "Icare" ("Icarus"). Second, the music should not be simply an orchestral setting of the composer's earlier music. These are not electronica portraits played by strings but fresh musical conceptions that use Bangalter's earlier music as one influence. Finally, these composers do best when they know their limitations, and here again, Bangalter succeeds. If his Mythologies are limited in terms of orchestration, they nevertheless remain both clear and distinctive. With straightforward readings from the Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra under Romain Dumas, this is highly listenable stuff and one of the stronger entries in the pop-to-classical crossover canon; it made classical best-seller lists in the spring of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

Rock - Released September 1, 1988 | Parlophone UK

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Is this really the same Talk Talk who had topped the charts four years earlier with their hit Such a Shame? With Spirit of Eden, Mark Hollis’ band made a complete U-turn, leaving their oh-so-eighties synthesizers in the cellar this time round. Released in September 1988, this fourth album zig-zags between chamber pop and atmospheric jazz. Hollis' singing is accompanied by ethereal bass lines, slow-motion guitars and muffled drums. He abandons Bryan Ferry's dandyism for a more evocative tone, now sounding more like David Sylvian on Brilliant Trees… or maybe Brian Eno on Music For Airports. With this album, Talk Talk invented a kind of elegant post-rock that was mingled with classy new age. And to reach new heights of melancholy, the Englishman rolled out the oboes, harmoniums, violins, bassoons, cor anglais, dobros, the list goes on… A musical experience like no other. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Dark Before Dawn

Breaking Benjamin

Rock - Released June 23, 2015 | Hollywood Records

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The fifth studio long-player and first outing from Breaking Benjamin to rely on the talents of a more or less completely new lineup (founder, frontman, and namesake Benjamin Burnley remains at the wheel), Dark Before Dawn offers up little in the way of innovation. That said, as thick, smartly produced, largely inoffensive blasts of generic hard rock go, you could do a lot worse, and longtime fans will appreciate the fact that Burnley and his new shipmates (drummer Shaun Foist [Picture Me Broken], bassist Aaron Bruch, former Red guitarist Jasen Rauch, and ex-Adelitas Way guitarist Keith Wallen) stay true to the band's unwavering allegiance to all things late-'90s/early-2000s post-grunge/hard rock. In the six years since 2009's Dear Agony, Burnley has endured issues of both the legal and health varieties, and much of the 12-track set is spent attempting to process that period of personal upheaval, with standout cuts like the slow-burn single "Failure," the anthemic "Defeated," and the soaring "Close to Heaven" and "Angels Fall" leading the charge. Subtlety has never been Breaking Benjamin's strong suit (the album is bookended by a pair of perfunctory mood pieces titled "Dark" and "Dawn"), but what they lack in nuance they more than make up for in sheer melodic power. Somewhere between Burnley's powerhouse voice and the triple guitar-induced wall of sonic discord in which that pained throat wails, must lie some sort of catharsis, both for the listener and the band, but it's hard to conceal the fact that most of these songs are nearly interchangeable with the band's older material.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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Mirror's Edge (Original Videogame Score)

Solar Fields

Film Soundtracks - Released May 19, 2009 | EA Music

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Rage In Eden [Deluxe Edition]

Ultravox

Punk / New Wave - Released September 11, 1981 | Chrysalis Records

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Femmes Fatales

Exit Eden

Metal - Released January 12, 2024 | Napalm Records

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EDEN BEACH CLUB

Laurent Bardainne

Contemporary Jazz - Released March 29, 2024 | Heavenly Sweetness

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Immortalys

Iván Torrent

Film Soundtracks - Released January 9, 2018 | Ivan Torrent

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Hunted

Anna Calvi

Alternative & Indie - Released March 6, 2020 | Domino Recording Co

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Anna Calvi loved her third album so much, 2018’s Hunter, that she’s come back to it to deconstruct and build it back up again. And for four out of the seven of the revisited songs, the British singer shares the mic: with Charlotte Gainsbourg (Eden), Courtney Barnett (Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy), Julia Holter (Swimming Pool) and band Idles (Wish). The exercise is all the more interesting as she hides her usual panache in order to refine her songs to the extreme and play more on the textures of her voice (and those of her featured guests). She tones down her penchant for the gothic in favour of the sensuality, or even the sexuality of her art. This is evidenced with the powerful duet with Gainsbourg, or the whispered Away, which was already stripped back on Hunter. In thirty short minutes, Calvi certainly confirms that she is a singularly captivating artist. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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No More Hollywood Endings

Battle Beast

Miscellaneous - Released March 22, 2019 | Nuclear Blast

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No More Hollywood Endings is the fifth studio album from Finnish metallers Battle Beast and follows 2017's Bringer of Pain. Produced and mixed by keyboardist Janne Björkroth, the album sees the group deliver a no-holds-barred mix of symphonic metal, powerful rock ballads, and elements of Euro-dance. © Rich Wilson /TiVo
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With Orchestra

Hooverphonic

Pop/Rock - Released March 9, 2012 | Columbia

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PORTALS

TesseracT

Metal - Released August 27, 2021 | Kscope

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Forbidden Fruit -1st piece-

East Of Eden

Rock - Released December 20, 2023 | JPU Records Ltd.

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Gates of Twilight

Wings of Steel

Metal - Released May 19, 2023 | Wings of Steel