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The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
Roger Waters
Rock - Released October 6, 2023 | SGB Music Limited
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When Pink Floyd bassist-turned-solo artist Roger Waters announced plans to re-imagine the band's iconic Dark Side Of The Moon, puzzled looks rightly ensued. He even said to Variety, "We all thought I was mad but the more we considered it, the more we thought 'isn't that the whole point?'" Waters, who wrote much of Dark Side and is no stranger to controversy, has offered that Redux's relation to the original is, "Not to supersede it or to replace it, but to remember it, and as an adjunct to it, and to progress the work of the original concept of the original record and all those original songs." Opener "Speak to Me" now features spoken text that is actually the lyrics from "Free Four," which appears on Pink Floyd's 1972 album Obscured By Clouds: "The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime/ You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room and talk to yourself as you die/ For life is a short, warm moment and death is a long, cold rest." "On The Run" is prefaced with "Today, I awoke from a dream/ It was a revelation, almost Patmosian, whatever that means/ But that's evidently another story/ It began with some standard bullshit fight with evil/ In this case, an apparently all-powerful hooded and cloaked figure," which was something Waters wrote down after waking up from a dream in July, 2021. A number of talented musicians join Waters, among them: Gus Seyffert on bass, guitar, backing vocals; Joey Waronker on drums; Jonathan Wilson on guitars and synth. In the case of the original single "Money," once an indictment of capitalism, Waters slows the pace, adds cello accents and a menacing piano part, and switches into a whispery Tom Waits-Leonard Cohen conspiratorial growl. The new lyrics are about a heavyweight boxing match, the devil, and a Faustian deal. One of rock's enduring masterpieces has now become the backdrop for a spoken word piece where Waters imparts the perspective he's gained since the album's original release in 1973. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
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The Mandrake Project
Bruce Dickinson
Metal - Released March 1, 2024 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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The seventh solo studio album from the iconic Iron Maiden vocalist is his first in nearly 20 years, following 2005's Tyranny of Souls. The album was co-written and produced by Roy Z (Judas Priest, Sepultura), who also contributes guitars and bass, and Puddle of Mudd's Dave Moreno plays drums. Dickinson continues his fascination with classic literature, ancient cultures, myths, and legends, with an overarching fantasy concept which is also the basis for an accompanying comic book series.© John D. Buchanan /TiVo
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Mamouna
Bryan Ferry
Pop - Released September 20, 1994 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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Sufficiently recharged via Taxi, Ferry got down to business and the following year released Mamouna, notable among other things for being his first recordings with the help of Brian Eno since the latter split from Roxy Music back in 1973. Rather than playing the wild card as he so often did, though, Eno concentrates on (to use his own descriptions in the credits) "swoop treatment" and "sonic awareness." Slightly more to the fore are Ferry's usual range of excellent musicians and pros. Steve Ferrone once again handles drums as he did on Taxi, while Richard Norris also reappears on loops and programming; other familiar faces include Nile Rodgers, Robin Trower (the album's co-producer), and Carleen Anderson. One of the most intriguing guest appearances comes at the very start -- "Don't Want to Know" has no less than five guitarists, including none other than Roxy's own Phil Manzanera. Whereas his '80s work seemed to fit the times just so, with his own general spin on things providing true individuality as a result, on Mamouna Ferry seems slightly stuck in place. Compared to the variety of Bete Noire, Mamouna almost seems a revamp of Boys and Girls. Combine that with some of Ferry's least compelling songs in a while, and Mamouna is something of a middling affair, almost too tasteful for its own good (and considering who this is, that's saying something). There are some songs of note -- "The 39 Steps" has a slightly menacing vibe to it, appropriate given the cinematic reference of the title, while the Ferry/Eno collaboration "Wildcat Days" displays some of Eno's old synth-melting flash. Overall, though, Mamouna is pleasant without being involving.© Ned Raggett /TiVo
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The Journey, Pt. 2
The Kinks
Rock - Released November 17, 2023 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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New Gold Dream
Simple Minds
Rock - Released October 27, 2023 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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Following the 40th anniversary of Simple Minds' New Gold Dream in 2022, the group headed to the 12th century Paisley Abbey to pay tribute to the record. The one-off recording captures the band performing the album in full.© Rich Wilson /TiVo
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The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks
Rock - Released October 26, 2018 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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Ray Davies' sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions. As the opening title song says, the Kinks -- meaning Ray himself, in this case -- were for preserving "draught beer and virginity," and throughout the rest of the album, he creates a series of stories, sketches, and characters about a picturesque England that never really was. It's a lovely, gentle album, evoking a small British country town, and drawing the listener into its lazy rhythms and sensibilities. Although there is an undercurrent of regret running throughout the album, Davies' fondness for the past is warm, making the album feel like a sweet, hazy dream. And considering the subdued performances and the detailed instrumentations, it's not surprising that the record feels more like a Ray Davies solo project than a Kinks album. The bluesy shuffle of "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" is the closest the album comes to rock & roll, and Dave Davies' cameo on the menacing "Wicked Annabella" comes as surprise, since the album is so calm. But calm doesn't mean tame or bland -- there are endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation on The Village Green Preservation Society, and its defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Pop - Released June 2, 2023 | Cooking Vinyl Limited
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Solar Power
Lorde
Alternative & Indie - Released June 10, 2021 | Universal Music New Zealand Limited
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As a title, Solar Power nods at Lorde's environmental concerns yet also neatly sums up the vibe of her third album. Leaving the sullen introspection of her teens behind, Lorde now basks in the sun, soaking up the rays and exuding good vibes. This doesn't mean Solar Power is an album riddled with uptempo bops and hooks, however. Lorde keeps things subdued and stoned, stretching out her tunes and burying her vocals underneath approximations of folk and chill-out pop. Every so often, songs threaten to emerge from the haze -- a lyric catches hold, melodies start to gain shape -- then they drift back into the mist where they swirl until they dissipate. Such formlessness feels deliberate; it's as if Lorde is consciously avoiding the path that would lead to a satisfying conclusion because she's more interested in the journey than the destination. Wandering can generate its own rewards provided you're in the mood to get lost. That sentiment applies to Solar Power. If you're riding and vibing with Lorde, this bright shapelessness is superb mood music. If you're not riding her wave, Solar Power can seem elusive, even cloying, as it circles and sways with a smile.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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In the End
The Cranberries
Alternative & Indie - Released April 26, 2019 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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The story of this album’s genesis is both a sad and beautiful one. Sad because it is the band’s 8th and final album (in their initial line-up at least), but beautiful because we get the pleasure of hearing the voice of Dolores O'Riordan once more, who died suddenly on 15th January 2018. It’s thanks to demos recorded a few weeks before her passing that this musical resurrection has been possible: Noel Hogan, The Cranberries’ guitarist, had started working on the tracks in May 2017 while on tour, before recording eleven demos with the singer a few months later. It’s with the support of the O’Riordan family that the bandmembers came back together once more to complete the songs.Strangely, the titles and lyrics are often about loss and endings in these songs that pack significant emotional impact, not only because of the tragedy that surrounds them, but also because the melodies and arrangements are often intrinsically melancholic. The strings that surround the finale of a piece like Lost, or the litanic piano of Catch Me If You Can, only reinforce the chills that flow through the listener when listening to In the End. But as they have often demonstrated over the past three decades, this Irish band never loses sight of a certain hope and energy; the lyrical melodies of Got It (with its overwhelming bass), and Summer Song are here to prove it. The ballads Illusion and In the End have a kind of twilight quality, but of the softest and most benevolent sunset there is. With this album recorded in London by producer Stephen Street (having already been at the helm of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? in 1993 and No Need to Argue in 1994), The Cranberries bow out with elegance and modesty. © Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
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Call Off the Search
Katie Melua
Pop - Released November 3, 2003 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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English listeners went mad for Katie Melua with the release of her debut album in late 2003. Issued domestically in June 2004, Call Off the Search posits the lovely Melua pristinely in between pop, adult contemporary, and traditional American musical forms, with savvy marketing handling the finishing touches. (Think Norah Jones.) It's a comfortable, lightly melodic affair that drinks red wine safely in the middle of the road. Raised in Soviet Georgia and the United Kingdom, Melua has a beguiling accent that colors the ends of her phrases, adding character to her velvety, if occasionally only satisfactory singing voice. She has a nice time with the understated R&B sashay of John Mayall's "Crawling Up a Hill," as well as Mike Batt's "My Aphrodisiac Is You," which is spiced up with barrelhouse piano, muted trumpet, and sly references to opium and the Kama Sutra. The singer's own "Belfast (Penguins and Cats)" opens nicely with a few measures of solo acoustic guitar before it's joined by the orchestral maneuvers that sweep through the majority of Call Off the Search's after-dark cabaret. (Melua also penned a dedication to Eva Cassidy, who she's been compared to vocally.) While the instrumentation is never overbearing, a stoic version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" and a couple of late-album pop vocal entries do dawdle a bit in the soft-focus halo that hovers over Search's more easygoing stretches. These selections are perfectly capable, yet pretty obvious, as if the decision was made to sprinkle Melua's debut equally with safety and variety, in case a particular style didn't stick. Still, despite a few detours down easy street, Call Off the Search is a promising debut, and comfortable like the first drink of the evening.© Johnny Loftus /TiVo
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Modern Lore
Julian Lage
Jazz - Released February 2, 2018 | Mack Avenue Records
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For his first album on the label Mack Avenue Records, released in 2016, Julian Lage and his trio – made up of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen – tackled older, sometimes forgotten partitions by Willard Robison, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden, Bix Beiderbecke and Spike Hughes, and incorporated original works, paying tribute to one of his many obsessions: Keith Jarrett’s American quartet. But the real shock value of this album is of course to hear Lage exclusively on the electric guitar, as opposed to the acoustic guitar, on which he had excelled so far… Two years later, still with Colley and Wollesen, he doubled down on this electric path and continued to blend jazz, blues, country and rock’n’roll. And because Julian Lage knows his classics like the back of his guitar pick, filiations keep on coming. From Bill Frisell’s current, we take a sharp turn to Pat Metheny’s branch, before going for a more streamlined path, à la Jim Hall, who in fact worked with Colley and Wollesen. But of course Lage’s Fender Telecaster isn’t the weapon of a copyist, as virtuosic as he may be. Now 30 years old, the former Californian child prodigy has not only sorted out his personal culture, but also imposed his own style thanks to an ever more mastered writing. And the compositions on his Modern Lore are among some of his more mature works. This fifth album is the result of an ever-growing complicity with his rhythm section. © MD/Qobuz
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Classic
Bryan Adams
Rock - Released April 1, 2022 | Badams Music Limited
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Theatre of the Absurd presents C'est La Vie
Madness
Pop - Released September 28, 2023 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie is the 13th album from British pop outfit Madness and follows 2016's Can't Touch Us Now. Recorded at the beginning of 2023, the album brings the band's brand of nuttiness to a melting pot of ska-inflected pop songs.© Rich Wilson /TiVo
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Where The Wild Things Grow
Starsailor
Rock - Released March 22, 2024 | Townsend Music Limited - Starsailor
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Some rock bands burst onto the scene and break-up quickly, or simply fade into obscurity. Others, like England's Starsailor, quietly forge ahead and get better with age. Such is the overwhelming feeling conjured by their sixth album, 2024's majestic and emotional Where the Wild Things Grow. Emerging to critical acclaim with 2001's Love Is Here, Starsailor rode in on the second wave of Brit-pop bands that also included Snow Patrol, Keane, and most famously Coldplay. However, their sound was always more classicist in tone, a ringing, symphonic guitar rock style that fell somewhere between Teenage Fanclub and Oasis. Despite top 20 U.K. hits like 2001's "Fever" and 2003's "Silence is Easy," they never fully matched the wider mainstream success of their contemporaries. Working with Embrace guitarist and producer Richard McNamara, the band's unofficial fifth member since 2017's All This Life, Starsailor have crafted an album that further embraces that aforementioned symphonic rock style. Once again at the center of the band's sound is lead-singer/guitarist James Walsh whose yearning croon has only gathered more texture and gravitas over the years. Cuts like the opening "Into the Wild" and "Dead on the Money" are sonically invigorating anthems that marry cutting, post-punk-esque guitars with Walsh's deeply emotive lyrical punch. Yet, there are softer, more introspective moments here, as on the twangy, acoustic ballad "After the Rain," and the soulful, falsetto-tinged "Enough." There's a sense on Where the Wild Things Grow that Walsh and Starsailor are grappling with getting older and coming to the realization that quiet contemplation is perhaps more fulfilling than the ego-driven bark of one's rock and roll youth. It's a zen vibe they evoke on the atmospheric, piano-accented title-track where Walsh sings, "The solace of sleep is coming on slow/Our silence creates a sweet afterglow." It's that warm afterglow that Starsailor conjures throughout Where the Wild Things Grow.© Matt Collar /TiVo
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Melodrama
Lorde
Alternative & Indie - Released June 16, 2017 | Universal Music New Zealand Limited
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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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Anthology
Charlie Watts
Jazz - Released June 30, 2023 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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Into The Fire
Bryan Adams
Rock - Released December 8, 2023 | Badams Music Limited
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No Tourists
The Prodigy
Electronic - Released November 2, 2018 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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"Change? Never. You can evolve, add things, but why would you want to change? What’s the point?" Liam Howlett, the brains behind The Prodigy, was very clear in 2015 upon the release of The Day is My Enemy, the last album from the British group who created a fierce mix of techno, jungle, punk and hip-hop know as big beat at the start of the 90s. This new album confirms that the trio still don’t plan on straying from their path, the path of making infernal noise with the objective of blowing up the stage.Mutant synth gimmicks, motor engine-like noise, brutal bass-lines, punchy intros, thrashing guitars: like all Prodigy albums No Tourists is like running through a blitz. Partly put together in hotel rooms, the album also includes a collaboration with New Jersey punk-rap duo Ho99o9 on the track Fight Fire with Fire, a riot rallying call on which Howlett dives deep into the hardcore. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz
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Black / Red
Feeder
Rock - Released April 5, 2024 | Townsend Music Limited - Big Teeth Music
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The 12th studio effort from the Welsh rock survivors -- a double-disc -- follows 2022's Torpedo and completes a trilogy begun with that 2022 album. Co-produced, recorded, and mixed once again by Tim Roe (Coldplay, Bryan Ferry, Prince), it is deliberately presented on two discs as "a musical production with an interval." At times reminiscent of latter-day Bush, it features another dose of the duo's trademark blend of heaviness, melody, and epic scope.© TiVo
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