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Miho Hazama – m_unit: Beyond Orbits (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:47 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Beyond Orbits is the new album from composer and conductor Miho Hazama – a vibrant new album celebrating the 10 year anniversary of her ensemble M-Unit. Beyond Orbits is testament to Miho’s boundless creativity and artistic vision and to the remarkable growth of her career in Japan, Europe and the US in recent years. Beyond Orbits is an album born out of the challenges of the past few years.
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Michael A. Muller – Lower River (2019/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:14 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The debut solo release from the co-founder of Balmorhea. Lower River explores the place where time, space, and self are occluded. Lower River is a sonic venture into other worlds; a study of what it means to deeply listen versus to merely hear. “A sonorous tapestry that you’ll want to wrap yourself up in.” – Elizabeth Arker, BBC
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The Jazz Kings – Out of Nowhere (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:29 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Jazz Kings
The Jazz Kings was established in 2017 and has now become one of the most sought after jazz bands on the Gold Coast and beyond. The band is made up of well known established musicians with Nicole Parker-Brown as our main vocalist.
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Meltt – Eternal Embers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:01 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dreampop, Neo-psychedelia
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nettwerk Music Group
Life cycles through birth, death, and rebirth. Flames reduce objects to dust only for the wind to sweep them into the ether in another eternal form altogether. Meltt’s music resembles this natural sequence. The hum of distorted guitars dissolves into bright melodies carried by shimmering synths and soaring vocals. The Vancouver based band—Chris Smith [lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys], Jamie Turner [drums, percussion], James Porter [guitar, keys, bass, vocals], and Ian Winkler [bass, keys, guitar]—enable rock, alternative, and psychedelia to coexist in one creative ecosystem held together by airtight instrumentation and deft songcraft. All of these elements blaze brightly on the group’s second full-length offering, Eternal Embers.
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Matteo Bocelli – Matteo (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:36 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records (US1A)
Five years after his first single release – ‘Fall on Me’ with Andrea Bocelli – and two years after he stepped into the spotlight with his own first single ‘Solo,’ Matteo Bocelli’s debut album ‘Matteo’, released on September 22, 2023. The 12-track album showcases a mix of songs in English and Italian, with writing and production contributions from Ed and Matthew Sheeran, Jesse Shatkin (Miley Cyrus, Sia, Kelly Clarkson) and Stuart Crichton (Kesha, Backstreet Boys).
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Mae Muller – Sorry I’m Late… Again (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:31 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records UK – EMI
“On Sorry I’m Late, Mae Muller shows that it takes time to perfect and craft a great pop album and that’s what she has done here. Every track could be, and probably should be, a single.”
– Clash
English singer and songwriter Mae Muller releases her debut studio album Sorry I’m Late via Universal Music and Capitol Records. The album was preceded by five singles: “Better Days” (with Neiked and Polo G), “I Just Came to Dance”, “I Wrote a Song”, “Me, Myself & I”, and “MTJL”.
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Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:59 minutes | 674 MB | Genre: Alt. Country, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bloodshot Records
In growing beyond roots rock and the alt country world, onetime cowpunk Lydia Loveless has found themself. Hard-earned knowledge can make for fertile songwriting material and here, emotional restlessness, self-sabotage and a passionate struggle to get through daily life are inspirations. Loveless has had troubles and desperate as things have been, they want you to know they’re learning. That explosive mix is couched in a more mainstream rock sound, not the twang which the singer/songwriter/guitarist came up in (but largely left behind on their last album, 2020’s Daughter). Flavored with punk overtones, Loveless’s vocals burn with a Springsteenian straight-from-the-heart immediacy. Despite the musical migration, Loveless has retained a country songwriter’s sense of storytelling. They admit, “I wanna get in his head,” in full tilt rocker “Poor Boy” but a wiser course is chosen instead: “I need to clean up my mess and leave the poor boy alone.” “Sex and Money” may be the finest guitar pop tune Loveless has ever written, and the choruses are not played for humor—”All I think about is sex and money/ I don’t care how I get there I just want to be somebody/ All I think about is sex and money/ I don’t care how you get here I just want to be with you honey.” Elsewhere, the volume is dialed down and the rhythms are slowed, particularly in the closing ballad “Summerlong.” Set to piano and violins, Loveless explores a quieter, more considered side of this new maturity: “I’ve already decided that I’ll be alright/ I’m gonna fight with all my might to be kind tonight/ But it’s been so long since I felt alive/ That it feels wrong/ I thought about you all summerlong.” Musically, there’s sturdy backing from the core band of guitarist Todd May, bassist Mark Connor and drummer George Hondroulis throughout. Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again was recorded outside Nashville by co-producer Sean Sullivan, who accurately captures the rising and falling dynamics of Loveless’s moody songwriting. This pointedly titled collection simultaneously values emotional honesty while embracing a more inclusive portrait of Loveless’s goals and growth as a songwriter.
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LP – Love Lines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:17 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
LP, one of the most important figures in the interactive pop-rock scene, is back with its new album “Love Lines”. After its breakthrough with the single “Lost On You”, LP has recorded over 3 billion streams on streaming platforms. The artist makes an impressive return with this new album, which is carried by “Golden”, a strong single. With its pop-folk melodies, “Love Lines” is the album of the fall that you can’t avoid.
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Loraine James – Gentle Confrontation (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:44 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperdub
Loraine James lets her influences run wild on her third Hyperdub volume, sampling DNTEL, Telefon Tel Aviv and Lusine on tracks that dig into her emotional core. Featuring guest appearances from Marina Herlop, keiyaA, Corey Mastrangelo, Eden Samara, George Riley and Contour.
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Laurence Oldak – Chopin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:22 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Klarthe Records
What better introduction to a new Chopin programme than the Barcarolle op. 60? A pure masterpiece! Debussy recommended its study to his pupil Catherine de Romilly: “You will work on it until you play it well, and for years if necessary!” Written in the summer of 1846, in parallel with the Polonaise-Fantasy op. 61, the work brings together all the subtleties and the most refined colours of Chopin’s universe. After a short, questioning introduction on the dominant, the left hand begins a calm, swinging accompaniment that introduces the shimmering theme in thirds and sixths, which is most bewitching! The utmost flexibility is obviously required here, and it is not until the bridge in A major that the tempo slowly comes to life. But suddenly, a trill on the dominant suspends the flow and, after a succession of breathless, melancholy chords, lands for two bars on an extraordinary iridescence in C# major, like a miracle! Then, after a brief modulation, the theme returns with even more joy, leading to a fiery, shimmering coda that concludes this astonishing piece with radiant luminosity.
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Lauren Daigle – Behold: The Complete Set (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz, Christmas, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centricity Music
Billboard Christian Albums – #1 (2016). Behold: A Christmas Collection is the second studio album by American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle. The collection features Daigle’s renditions of Christmas classics including “Jingle Bells”, “White Christmas”, “Silent Night”, and many more!
Behold plays like an audio time capsule built of saxes, trombones and other horns (even tubas!), upright bass, brushes on drums, mellow sounding hollow body guitars, and vocals that are rich and distinctive but still somehow laid-back in their feel. Whereas Lauren Daigle’s debut album was energy-laced, radie-ready pop, her Christmas project seems in some ways to be a confident re-imagining of her own versatile vocal gifts, showcased in a more mature and subdued, but also more eloquent, context.
This Super Deluxe “Complete Set” includes the 3 original bonus tracks included on the Deluxe Edition, with 2 additional songs, bringing the album to 15 tracks total!
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Laurel Halo – Atlas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:50 minutes | 431 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AWE
Currently based in Los Angeles, Laurel Halo has spent over a decade stepping into different towns and cities for a moment or more, to the point where everywhere almost became nowhere. Atlas, the debut release on her new imprint Awe, is an attempt to put that feeling to music. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a potent set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and detuned, hallucinatory textures. The music functions as a series of maps, for places real and imaginary, and for expressing the unsaid.
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Kylie Minogue – Tension (Deluxe) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:15 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Queen Kylie Minogue’s 2020 album, the bluntly titled Disco, was brilliantly lit by the glow of the disco ball. This time around, she’s bringing an electro-pop strobe to the dance floor —and, at 55, proving age really doesn’t mean anything. While Madonna has been spinning fruitlessly in search of reinvention, Minogue just keeps nailing trends and staying refreshingly relevant. “Padam Padam”—the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeat—lives in a metallic echo chamber, carefully curated by producer Lostboy and decorated with an infectious snake-charmer chorus. “I’ll be in your head all weekend,” Minogue sings prophetically. “Tension” goes deep with ’90s house keyboards and beats, and a robotic effect for Mingoue’s sexy come-on, directing exactly how she wants to be handled by a lover—”Oh, my god/ Touch me right there/ Almost there/ touch me right there”—while also also making it clear she is completely in control: “I’m a star babe-babe-babe/ Do this all day-day-day/ Cool like sorbet-bet-bet.” She works all her vocal tricks on tropical-vibe “One More Time”: cooing, showing powerhouse strength, effortlessly hitting the high notes, sassing and whooping and sweating it. (Even though it’s not a direct tribute, you can’t help but be reminded by Daft Punk’s monster hit of the same name.) “Green Light” is cool-breeze cafe pop with smooooooth jazz sax. “Things We Do for Love” delivers an energetic burst of euphoria with a shiny soap bubble of a bridge. “You Still Get Me High” fronts like a prom ballad before erupting into an emo-beat thriller, with wailing sax upping the adrenaline; it’s like Kylie x Bleachers, and it’s fun. “Hands” finds Minogue casually rapping and delighting in ’90s girl-group R&B. “Vegas High” captures that city’s cut-loose party vibe and is obviously a tie-in for her residency at the Venetian, which begins November 2023. But she makes up for that bit of cheesiness with “10 Out of 10,” a goofy, giddy lark of a collaboration with Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens that delivers a Pet Shop Boys-style droll chorus: “Body, 10/ Touch, 10 / Energy, 10.” Kylie: 10.
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Kiefer – It’s Ok, B U (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:19 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Electronic, Beats, Nu Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stones Throw Records
It’s Ok, B U sees Kiefer go back to his roots, playing keys and making beats. Track titles reflect his journey to self-acceptance. Kiefer says, “I wanted to ‘allow myself’ to go crazy and express myself in the biggest, loudest way possible.”
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Kid Francescoli – Sunset Blue (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:54 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Pop, Indie Pop, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alter K
KID FRANCESCOLI, leader of the French Riviera Touch is back with the stellar album SUNSET BLUE. After a first sold-out world tour (over 200 concerts in Europe, USA, Asia…), and successful hits such as Nopalitos, Blow Up or Moon (now certified diamond, with more than 200 millions streams), the Marseille-based producer, crooner and multi-instrumentalist, Mathieu Hocine, is eager to share his most accomplished LP ever. This fine collection of soulful songs honor his Mediterranean roots, with elegant and pop melodies. His most recent success and the creation of his first original soundtrack with AZURO, installed him as one of the best French songwriters of his generation, with a unique signature sound. With his new musical gem, Mathieu Hocine unveils 11 elegant tunes of his finest craft: sunbathed French Touch (Run Run, 1986), romantic chillwave (Corsica), uplifting synthpop (You Are Everywhere, Like Magic), electronic-soul (Casino Soul), cinematic disco (Solaris), cosmic R&B (Sweet and Sour, Take Time), … Everything is in this record. For the first time ever, Kid Francescoli paid tribute to his mixed origins with his collaboration with world-renowned lute and mandolin player Hakim Hamadouche (Rachid Taha, Patti Smith, Brian Eno, Tricky…), whom added Algerian patterns to the introspectives songs Drift in Blue and The Morning After. Created in the midst of the world tour, SUNSET BLUE is a direct result of the lives’ energy and fans’ joyful vibes: going back in the studio after smiling, singing and dancing with people all around the world inevitably gave Kid Francescoli the desire to retranscribe this ecstatic feeling in music. This album is a sensitive experience, from sunrise to sunset, from first track to last one. It’s an exploration of an everlasting summer, reaching its climax in the very final seconds of the track Corsica, making us want to press play and dive into this jewel all over again. A beautiful cosmic trip, whether you like to stay in bed cocooning, to travel far, far away or to dance ‘till dawn, to catch the first rays of light.
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