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ASTROWORLD
Travis Scott
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released August 3, 2018 | Cactus Jack - Epic
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Travis Scott’s third studio album was expected to be his crowning work. After a complete dominance over the rap world and global hits like Pick Up The Phone, Goosebumps and Antidote, the rapper from Houston had a singular ambition for this ASTROWORLD, an album that was postponed several times. A choral manifesto whose result is up to the phenomenon. The album is a logical series of spurious and harrowing collages. Travis here rather poses as a curator or an art director than a total artist. He easily blends samples to concoct his own formula, an unstoppable musical behemoth. Uncredited guests are treated like samples in this massive explosive cocktail, despite the fact that they are some of the biggest names in the business, among whom Drake, 21Savage, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Stevie Wonder. This complete levelling of sources and tributes turn ASTROWORLD into a completely polymorphic work, both a mainstream blockbuster and a modern artsy piece. Already a few months old, his hit song BUTTERFLY EFFECT fully blends in, as if the album absorbed all the energies to spit out a single colour. Other tracks like SICKO MOB or NOBYSTANDERS sound like hit songs in the making, despite their complex structure. At the crossroads of sometimes diverging paths, Travis Scott creates a unique balance that could please both the mainstream public and music lovers keen on obscure references. Merrily switching from DJ Screw to the Kardashians, ASTROWORLD is the soundtrack of our times, an impeccable musical maze, vain at times, but in which listeners can delightfully lose themselves. And yet, Travis’ identity is yet to be uncovered within the plethora of strings and borrowed sounds. ASTROWORLD is a great sci-fi flick in which the replicant becomes the norm, the new musical human. © Aurélien Chapuis/Qobuz
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Carolyn's Boy
Darius Rucker
Country - Released October 6, 2023 | Capitol Records Nashville
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During the six years that separate Carolyn's Boy from its predecessor When Was the Last Time, Darius Rucker reunited with his old mates in Hootie & the Blowfish, a decision that seemed to have absolutely no effect on the form or content of this 2023 album. Rucker picks up precisely where he left off with When Was the Last Time, never acknowledging COVID-era turmoil or any musical trend: he's simply resumed making resolutely relaxed music. "Beers and Sunshine," a number one Billboard Country Airplay hit from back in 2020, serves as the record's touchstone. Sunny, cheerful, and just clever enough not to be dull, "Beers and Sunshine" has many companions on Carolyn's Boy, including "Same Beer Different Problem," which has just enough recognizable drinking song tropes to be comforting, and just enough twists to sound fresh. The same could be said about a nostalgic ode to lovers lost ("Sara," which was co-written by Ed Sheeran), family, and home, all familiar topics for Rucker and delivered in a familiar fashion, but the singer/songwriter and his collaborators -- primarily longtime associate Ross Copperman, but there is a bevy of co-writers here, along with the vocal group Chapel Hart on "Ol' Church Hymn" -- are sharp craftsmen, managing to make Carolyn's Boy into a satisfying piece of polished professional country-pop.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Stargazing for Beginners
Pale Seas
Alternative & Indie - Released October 6, 2017 | Abbey Records
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England possesses a unique capacity to reinvent the wheel of rock’n’roll. Although it seems to have been said time and time again, the country regularly gives birth to young groups that come to add their unique stone to an already solidly constructed building. And even if the influences may seem obvious from the outset, each personal touch elbows its way through to the front. Pale Seas belongs to this breed of musicians - the type whose music bursts on the palate from the very first taste. By the sea in Southhampton, the singer Jacob Scott, guitarist Graham Poole, bassist Mathew Bishop and drummer Andrew Richardson drew from the early albums from the likes of Radiohead and Suede in order to establish their own rock’n’roll rulebook. But even though this distinct taste for the English rock of the 90s jumps to mind throughout Stargazing For Beginners, this British foursome manages to draw up a guitar landscape, making their first album truly original. Largely recorded at night in an old Abbey, here’s a Qobuzism disc that teases the animal instincts of guitar band fans. A true revelation. © CM/Qobuz
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Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones (Deluxe)
The Neighbourhood
Alternative & Indie - Released November 2, 2018 | Columbia
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Alisha
Alisha
Pop - Released January 1, 1985 | Vanguard Records
Madonna's popularity inspired numerous clones in the '80s -- most of whom lacked even a fraction of her talent. But one Material Girl disciple who gave listeners some decent club hits and dance-pop numbers was the New York teenager Alisha, who doesn't have a great voice by any means, but projects enough spirit and energy to make this self-titled debut work. While she doesn't do anything significant or noteworthy with Kirsty MacColl's "One Little Lie," Alisha definitely has enjoyable and infectious dancefloor hits in "All Night Passion," "Baby Talk," and "Too Turned On" -- all of which are full of the type of high-tech effects that were so prevalent in '80s R&B and dance music. To be sure, Alisha isn't the type of artist one associates with Vanguard Records -- a label that's perhaps best known for recording Joan Baez and other folk legends. The word "legend" hardly applies to Alisha, though this CD definitely has its moments© Alex Henderson /TiVo
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Music for Science and Stargazing
Dave Luxton
Ambient - Released January 5, 2016 | Wayfarer Records
Supernova (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Keaton Henson
Film Soundtracks - Released January 29, 2021 | Lakeshore Records
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Stargazing
Various Artists
Pop - Released September 11, 2020 | UME - Global Clearing House
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