The Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not the World (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:36 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Wombats
Remarkably, this is the Wombats’ 20th year together, and thanks to prolific touring and streaming they’ve never been bigger. The British trio have gone viral on TikTok with archive track Greek Tragedy, and are booking shows from 200 to 20,000 capacity to promote this fifth album. Like Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (2018), Fix Yourself, Not the World sticks to the chummy indie playlist pop the band are so good at. Earnest, lovestruck singer Murph (Matthew Murphy) is front and centre of a shiny stew of easily digestible influences. Everything sounds vaguely like something else, without directly plagiarising anyone, although I thought “U2 at the club” more often than I wanted to.
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The Temptations – Temptations 60 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:44 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UME Direct
The Temptations have today announced details of their much-anticipated new album. In honor of their 60th anniversary year and its ongoing celebrations, it will be titled TEMPTATIONS 60 and released by UMe on January 28, 2022.
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Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble & Shea Lolin – Twisted Skyscape (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:19 minutes | 690 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art
This ground-breaking album is the first of its kind – devoted entirely to new music written for the woodwind orchestra. It features outstanding performances by the principal woodwind players of the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Shea Lolin, and includes four world premiere recordings.
Read moreCreeper – Sanguivore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:12 minutes | 529 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Glam Rock, Gothic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Spinefarm
For their third full studio album, Sanguivore, UK five-piece Creeper made a blood pact to give full rein to those things that truly define them; to take a flaming torch to the more dimly lit recesses of frontman Will Gould’s ever-fertile mind. Result: 40-plus minutes of music combining the grandiose and the epic with the punk rock spirit that has been a cornerstone of the Creeper sound since their 2017 debut: a ripped leather jacket wrapped in a plush velvet cloak – a cloak lined in red satin, of course. Drawing inspiration from folklore and myth, the more shadowy side of popular culture, Creeper have staked out a space that is their own; a misty world of gothic imagery and dark romance, of crypts and castle ruins, the unrequited and the undead – a world where love comes at a price and beauty smiles with sharpened teeth. From opening statement ‘Further Than Forever’, a nine-minute, multi-layered tour-de-force sure to put a smile on the face of the late Jim Steinman, through to closer ‘Spook And Mercy’, a late-night tale of ‘little Mercy’ and her ravenous exploits, Sanguivore is a hugely ambitious, loosely conceptual journey through the glorious and the graphic. For fans of: Ghost, Sister Of Mercy, The Damned, HIM.
Read moreCHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe (10 Year Anniversary Special Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:02 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Indie Pop, Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
Fully remastered album with a second LP of previously unreleased tracks and live recordings packaged in a die-cut gatefold jacket.
Bundle includes a bonus 7” clear vinyl featuring two exclusive demos of The Mother We Share and a signed art card.
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