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Dope Lemon – Kimosabè (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:17 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.
With his solo project Dope Lemon, songwriter Angus Stone is slowly but surely breaking free from the shadow of his successful duo with sister Julia Stone. At the latest since his 2022 album “Rose Pink Cadillac” reached number 1 in the Australian charts and won the AIR Award for “Best Independent Blues And Roots Album”. In Australia, too, Dope Lemon reached number 27, which is the best chart position for him in this country so far.
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Don Cherry – Dollar and Okay’s Tune (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:32 minutes | 341 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charly Digital
Recorded at the iconic ORTF studios (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française)for the Sound and Vision program in Paris in 1971, this remarkable LP features one of the paramount Jazz figures of all time, Don Cherry, interpreting Turkish rhythms.
This release serves as the sequel to Okay Temiz’s magnum opus, ‘Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982’ LP, released worldwide by Caz Plak in 2022, and is the second chapter of Caz Plak’s ‘Turkish Jazz Trilogy’.
“Don Cherry Trio – The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971” LP is particularly significant as it predates Don Cherry’s groundbreaking “Organic Music Society” album from 1973, in which Okay Temiz also performed.
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Dominique Fils-Aimé – Our Roots Run Deep (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:36 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ensoul Records
There is a cinematic quality to “Our Roots Run Deep”. Dominique Fils-Aimé frames her latest album with a loose, dreamlike narrative structure that tells a story of growth. The first track sets the stage with the phrase: “our roots run deep underground”. Along the way, there are a myriad of human challenges and forms of interference. An underlying life force presses on. The final track closes with the lyric: “let me climb all the way to the sun”.
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Doja Cat – Scarlet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:02 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kemosabe Records – RCA Records
Scarlet is the fourth studio album by American rapper and singer Doja Cat. It was released on September 22, 2023, via Kemosabe and RCA Records. Disillusioned with pop music and dissatisfied with music critics questioning her status as a rapper, Doja Cat felt inspired to create a “masculine” follow-up to her third studio album, Planet Her (2021). Musically, the record marks a departure from the pop-driven sounds of its predecessor, being predominantly centered around the genres of hip hop and R&B.
Scarlet yielded two singles. Its lead single, “Paint the Town Red”, became a massive commercial success, and marked Doja Cat’s first solo number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100, the UK Singles Chart, the Billboard Global 200, and several other national charts worldwide. It was followed by “Agora Hills” in September 2023. Promotional singles for the album include “Attention”,[2] “Demons”[3] and “Balut”, which were released in June, August, and September, respectively. To support the album, Doja Cat will embark on The Scarlet Tour in October 2023, her first arena tour as a headliner.
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Devendra Banhart – Flying Wig (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mexican Summer
After a pair of triumphs in 2019’s breezy, wonderful Ma and 2021’s ambient pandemic record Refuge, Devendra Banhart indulged himself in desolation. With help from producer Cate Le Bon (Wilco, Deerhunter), Flying Wig embodies Banhart’s recent declaration of, “My whole life has been filled with sadness. Everything I do in life is to help cope with that sadness.” Oddly enough Banhart has always been best on happier musical avenues like dream pop, psychedelic folksiness and bossa nova lite . And despite his determination to be downbeat on a record he recorded while wearing “an Issey Miyake dress the color of the spring sky—a gift from Le Bon’s own wardrobe—and his grandmother’s pearls,” his melodic-ness comes out in “Fireflies.” Floating along on his soft vocals and a mesmeric synth bed, Banhart eventually concludes, “When I said I wouldn’t need it/ That’s when I knew that I would need it.” Slow, methodic arrangements dampen the mood overall; the material is not as strong on either stylistically different previous album. “Charger” is almost hymn-like in its sluggish tempo. The title track, which ends with the image of Banhart dancing naked without a head, is also built on his characteristically quiet vocals and Le Bon’s synths. Fortunately, there is some lyrical muscle beneath the gauzy musical accompaniment: “Certainty’s a number/ I’m starting to doubt/ Loving you/ Is all I’m certain about/ And if I have failed to live by promises made/ I give myself till nothing remains.” The hypnotic “Twin” is a much-needed change of pace, with a focused melody and lots more going on instrumentally, highlighted by a jagged, razor-sharp guitar solo. Despite the overall glum tone and Banhart’s inclination towards sadness, glimmers of meaning do break through in the song when he repeats, “And yet this precious thing/ At the heart of everything you’ve wanted.” Flying Wig finds the multi-talented Banhart haunted to distraction in a quest to seek comfort in gloom. – Robert Baird
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Delta Piano Trio – Milking Darkness (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
If you mix every colour of paint together, you end up with black. Similarly, the darkness in the music of Lera Auberbach (b. 1973) consists of every imaginable shade of colour, from pitch darkness to dazzling light. The composer thus captures the mercuriality of life and the human psyche. Her music sometimes also depicts a dance with the inescapable: the struggle against Fate, the inexorable passing of time, an unattainable dream – but always with black humour and a dark though starlit sky. ‘Many composers create something “beautiful”, outside human reality,’ according to the Delta Piano Trio, who worked hard with Auberbach in preparing for this album. ‘Instead, Lera’s music is raw as well as human. She never eases up on what she wants to express, which would rob the music of all its fervour.’
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Code Orange – The Above (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:42 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Alternative Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Grape Music Inc.
The Above is the fifth studio album by American hardcore punk band Code Orange, released on September 29, 2023, through Blue Grape Music. It is their first album to be entirely self-produced and their first with the label Blue Grape Music. It was preceded by three singles: “Grooming My Replacement / The Game”, “Take Shape”, and “Mirror”.
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Christopher Tignor – The Art of Surrender (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:48 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: Classical, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
The Art of Surrender marks a return to life, sown from primal impulses and hard-won emotional truths. Unrestrained melodic rapture soars above a relentless kick drum, speaking a need to move, to dance, to love. The music is as ambitious as its origins are personal. Tignor plays with scale, crafting multi-movement epics alongside one-minute miniatures. The smallest, most fragile violin gestures, where the finger barely touches the string to extract natural harmonics exist side by side with angular, exotic melodies, asymmetric rhythms, and rapid-fire string crossings. On this LP, Tignor digs even more deeply into the violin and its technicolor reimaginings under his electroacoustic treatments.
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Cherry Glazerr – I Don’t Want You Anymore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:24 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
Having started at 15, Cherry Glazerr frontwoman and anchor Clementine Creevy—now 26—has tried on a few (always heavy) styles as she has grown and evolved. Gone is the delicious howl of 2017’s “I Told You I’d Be with the Guys” and the nasty shoegaze of 2019’s “Wasted Nun.” For her fourth album, with producer Yves Rothman (Blondshell, Yves Tumor) applying his gritty take on slickness, Creevy has made a twisted dance record. But this is not the shiny disco of Dua Lipa; it’s the fuel of a dark, slightly dangerous underground club at 3 a.m. At first it’s a little unnerving to hear Creevy’s breathy upper register mixed against full-on disco chic—funk rhythms and winking synths—on songs like “Bad Habit” or the goth-ish dance-floor elixir that is “Wild Times,” grooving Depeche Mode-style synth. But it works. Creevy has called “Soft Like a Flower” her “Evanescence moment,” and she really lets loose, both in what she says and how she says it. “Gave up my tricks/ I’ll be your dog…” she wails along with her guitar. “My head out your car/ Cuz I like you killing me. “It’s a real ‘losing your fucking shit’ kind of vibe … Completely exposed,” she has said. “It’s also a little bit about loving the anguish and toxicity that comes with being ruined by another person. Letting go and submitting to them but then catching yourself becoming too much like them.” Indeed, the album explores relationship struggles from all sides, turning over rocks and looking under blankets and, most of all, probing herself. “I’m so embarrassed all the time/ Wish I could meet you with my eyes/ Ah-ha, wish I was ready for you,” Creevy sings on “Ready For You,” her voice like a swath of gauze being stretched to the breaking point, until the song explodes open, bottom heavy and thumping, working itself up into a tumultuous storm. The rhythm—bass by Sami Perez, drums by Tabor Allen—is so important here: brewing a dark, low cloud for “Addicted to Your Love” and a monstrous, big foot stomp on “I Don’t Want You Anymore.” “Touched You With My Chaos” is absolute grunge thunder, complete with drama-pitch strings. And “Sugar” sounds like a youthful descendent of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” Creevy wallowing in her … dependence? Co-dependence? Addiction? Worship? “You make me wanna crawl away/ I’m so ashamed I’m not this way … Break my heart, I don’t care/ Fortune told me that no one’s there/ I’m buried deep in your mess.” – Shelly Ridenour
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Causa Sui – Loppen 2021 (Live at Loppen, Copenhagen, 2021) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:08 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © El Paraiso
Double LP set capturing some of Causa Sui’s heaviest, most psychedelic tunes recorded live at Loppen – a legendary Copenhagen venue, located in the famous – and infamous – Freetown Christiania commune. This is the sound of Causa Sui at their home turf, stretching out and exploring eight epic fan-favourites from their entire catalogue in front of a small crowd of 400 people in a packed sold-out venue. The show was recorded the first week that Covid restrictions were lifted on venues in Denmark, which called for an especially buzzing night, even for a band that has exclusively played no more than a handful of shows each year since their 2005 debut.
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Casey Neill & The Norway Rats – Sending Up Flares (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:05 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fluff and Gravy
Casey Neill & The Norway Rats are a crack gang of musicians from Portland Oregon. Their sound combines high energy diesel fueled rave-ups and haunting ballads. Neill’s weather beaten narratives celebrate miscreants, and explore the hidden corners of the American landscape.
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Carrie Underwood – Denim & Rhinestones (Deluxe Edition) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:18 minutes | 765 MB | Genre: Country Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Nashville
This new Deluxe Edition features the original 12 tracks including the hit singles “Ghost Story” and “Hate My Heart,” plus 6 additional songs including “Take Me Out” and her latest single “Out Of That Truck.” Carrie is a true multiformat, multimedia superstar, spanning achievements in music, TV, film, and as a New York Times bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. She has sold more than 85 million records worldwide and recorded 28 #1 singles (14 of which she co-wrote).
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Carly Paoli – The Movie Collection (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:51 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Lounge, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abiah Ltd
Carly Paoli, the British/Italian songbird, renowned for her enchanting vocal performances that traverse opera, classical and crossover genres, celebrates the music of the movies for her new album release Carly Paoli – The Movie Collection. The Movie Collection is produced by Nigel Wright, the eminent producer who has worked with the likes of Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Take That, Michael Ball and Andrew Lloyd Weber to name a few. The album features thirteen treasured songs, chosen by Carly from some of her favourite movies plus one bonus song from the world of musical theatre. The powerful selection of songs, ranging from familiar old favourites to contemporary numbers, all set to new and exciting arrangements, showcase Carly’s exceptional versatility as a singer with her signature blend of passion and poise making the album an unforgettable listening experience.
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Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:19 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metal Blade Records
Since 1988, Cannibal Corpse have been at the forefront of death metal, shaping and defining the genre, creating a seminal, incomparable body of work over the following decades. In 2021 they raised the stakes again with their 15th album, Violence Unimagined, growing ever more complex and intense, and in 2023 they return with its successor, the equally monstrous Chaos Horrific, starting a new chapter in their legacy. Written shortly after the conclusion of the Violence Unimagined sessions (due to the pandemic keeping them off tour), echoes of that album exist in Chaos Horrific, but this is a whole new beast of its own. “To me this album feels sort of like a continuation of Violence Unimagined. The style is quite similar, but individually none of the songs on Chaos Horrific sound like songs on Violence Unimagined,” says bassist Alex Webster. “It’s a full-on death metal album, Cannibal Corpse style.”
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Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra – Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:46 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions Analekta Inc.
Romance and Counterpoint is the latest instalment in Alexander Shelley’s multi-year and multi-disc exploration of the music – and, through the music, the lives – of Clara, Robert, and Johannes. Their creative output reflects not only their individual brilliance and characters, but also the role of the creative artist in their time and across the centuries. Pianists Angela Hewitt and Stewart Goodyear, and violinist Yosuke Kawasaki, join Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra in this concluding homage.
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