Hercules & Love Affair
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The Soul Album is the fourth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, released in 1966. shows him moving from strength to strength in a string of high-energy, sweaty soul performances, interspersing his own songs with work by Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Roy Head ("Treat Her Right"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes a Mistake"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing") and recasting them in his own style, so that they're not "covers" so much as reinterpretations.
One of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian heritage and a distinctive sound with advanced jazz settings.
bonus track feat Sisters of the Eternal Son. A few years after the release of Maraqopa, the duo of Swift and Jurado return with the sublime and even further out Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, a twisting set of songs that hides intricate production techniques in Jurado's increasingly layered and complex compositions.
Shura is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. Shura's music has been described as "infectious but melancholy electropop"as well as "slow-burning synth-pop" but has said that pop music "didn't represent" her. The singer has said that "missed opportunity, regret, nostalgia" are some of the main themes in her work.
There's been a lot of mystery surrounding this project but is has recently been revealed that Dominique Dumont is a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, who have also been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied†(sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together on the album Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.
When this album was released in 2008, it won the Roots World Music Critics Award both for Best Compilation and for Best Package. NPR's All Things Considered, went further, naming it the best album of the year in any musical genre, never mind that the contents had been recorded in Kinshasa, Congo, three, four and five decades earlier. The accolades kept coming. Both Mojo and Blender awarded the album 5 stars, Inside Music graded it A+ and Pitchfork gave it an 8.8. The New York Times reported that 'Thorough liner notes help Western listeners understand the implications of Franco's lyrics, while the grooves communicate immediately.' The Washington Post clarified that point: 'Two and half hours of irrepressible grooves.'
The Seattle duo were together from 2008-2016 when they called it quits to work on independent endeavors. Together, they released two albums for Sub Pop: 2012’s awE naturalE and 2015’s EarthEE. Members Irons and Harris-White were also featured prominently on Shabazz Palaces’ 2011 album Black Up.
Overload is Georgia Anne Muldrow's 16th album, and first for the Brainfeeder label, after a two-year break that, given Muldrow's abundant previous output, seemed like an eternity. "Canadian Hillbilly" is a romantic respite on the album, where cosmic synths bathe in an intimate aura, as Muldrow pledges lifetime trust and devotion.
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Light In The Attic Records, label friends and family cover tunes reissued over the past decade with a series of 7 inch releases. For this particular release: the A side features Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti & Dâm-Funk’s exalted cover of Donnie & Joe Emerson’s ode to youthful romance, “Babyâ€, with the original from 1979 found on the flip-side.
Billie Eilish struck a melancholy note on the second single off her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Released in October 2018, “When the Party’s Over†peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has become a staple of the young singer’s live set.
HNNY ("honey") is the stage name of Swedish ambient and house music producer and DJ, Johan Cederberg. He has released several singles and EPs through the Swedish record label Local Talk, and now releases material on his own label, Puss... His production style often incorporates the vocal sampling of American R&B songs, among other forms of esoteric sampling.
from the legendary Somali pop-funk group's tape, made in Mogadishu in 1989.
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