Fuse
Everything But The Girl
Pop - Released April 21, 2023 | Buzzin' Fly Records, under exclusive licence to Virgin Music Group
Javelin
Sufjan Stevens
Alternative & Indie - Released October 6, 2023 | Asthmatic Kitty
The Age of Pleasure
Janelle Monáe
R&B - Released June 9, 2023 | Bad Boy Records
Red (Taylor's Version)
Taylor Swift
Pop - Released November 12, 2021 | Taylor Swift
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Alternative & Indie - Released June 7, 1999 | Warner Records
Accentuate The Positive
Van Morrison
Rock - Released November 3, 2023 | Exile Productions Ltd.
Moving Pictures
Rush
Rock - Released February 7, 1981 | Mercury Records
Tourist (Remastered Hi-Res Version)
St Germain
Electronic - Released May 30, 2000 | Parlophone (France)
Bone Machine
Tom Waits
Rock - Released August 1, 1992 | Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
Paint The Town Red
Doja Cat
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released August 3, 2023 | Kemosabe Records - RCA Records
Always On My Mind
Rebekka Bakken
Jazz - Released April 28, 2023 | Masterworks - Sony Music
Unlimited Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Alternative & Indie - Released April 1, 2022 | Warner Records
The Joshua Tree
U2
Rock - Released March 9, 1987 | Universal-Island Records Ltd.
Time
Simply Red
Pop - Released May 26, 2023 | Rhino
All Around Man – Live In London
Rory Gallagher
Blues - Released June 2, 2023 | UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Alternative & Indie - Released September 24, 1991 | Warner Records
Citizen of Glass
Agnes Obel
Alternative & Indie - Released October 21, 2016 | Play It Again Sam
Black Rainbows
Corinne Bailey Rae
R&B - Released September 15, 2023 | Black Rainbows Music
Corinne Bailey Rae's fourth album draws deep inspiration from the archives of Stony Island Arts Bank, a gallery and community center on Chicago's South Side that houses art and artifacts regarding the Black experience in America—everything from the vinyl collection of legendary house music DJ Frankie Knuckles to "negrobilia" used to perpetuate offensive stereotypes. Among the objects she gravitated toward was the writing of Harriet Jacobs, whose 1861 autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, recalled a harrowing existence: Born into slavery in North Carolina, she escaped her owner's sexual abuse by pretending to run away and instead hiding for seven years in a crawl space in her free grandmother's house that was so small she couldn't stand up but which allowed her to occasionally watch her children and sew by the light from a tiny borehole. "I stitchеd myself into your heart/ I thread my needlе by sister North Star/ And I missed your quiet hands/ Their tiny weight," Bailey Rae sings on the lush, gorgeous "Peach Velvet Sky." She's accompanied only by piano, alternating between twinkling hope and the ominous allusion of heavy left-hand notes. "New York Transit Queen" is a thrilling surprise—the title chanted over handclaps before punk frenzy hits like a 5 train barreling into the station at full speed. It's a story of beauty and fierceness and triumph, gleaned from a photo of 1950s Miss New York Transit pageant winner Audrey Smaltz, who grew up to be a contributing editor at Vogue and manage fashion shows for big-name designers. "Erasure," meanwhile, is an aggressive garage-rock nugget, a fuzzed out Bailey Rae hollering, "They Typex'ed all the Black kids out of the picture/ So when they pictured that scene, they wouldn't be seen/ Baby girl in the front row, with the cornrows/ Smiling at the band/ They made a cartoon of you." It's about as far as you can imagine from the easy-listening charm of "Put Your Records On," and it's invigorating. She plays with psychedelic soul on sensual "Earthlines," which channels something adventurous but also a little dangerous, robotically promising over wild bloops and bleeps, "Don't you know, Earthlings/ You can start again." On "A Spell, A Prayer," Bailey Rae's caramel voice travels from a soft, soothing coo to a sort of banshee wail, the song's initial plainspoke rhythm matching her on its quest to a wilder place of jazz skronk and rock noise. Cantering "Red Horse" is Big Sky-expansive, and "He Will Follow You With His Eyes" summons an island breeze as Bailey Rae sings of "the promise of the potion that I buy … My black hair kinking/ My black skin gleaming." And the title track is joyous, glimmering and energetic with sax blare, like some soul sunbeam. © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz
Queen of the Murder Scene
The Warning
Rock - Released November 25, 2018 | Nada Mas Records