Tim McGraw – Standing Room Only (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:57 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Machine Records, LLC
Tim McGraw releases his highly-anticipated new album “Standing Room Only”.
“Standing Room Only” features 13 brand new tracks and was produced by McGraw and longtime producer Byron Gallimore. Among the writers contributing to the new album are Craig Wiseman, Jaren Johnston, Lori McKenna, Chase McGill and Kameron Marlowe.
“As an artist, I always want to dig deeper and get better every time I make a new record – it’s a big part of what drives me, and I really believe this is one of the best projects we’ve made. I’ve been working on this album since 2020, and this collection of songs are some of the most emotional, thought-provoking, and life-affirming music I’ve ever recorded,” McGraw stated via a press release.
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Third Coast Percussion – Between Breaths (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:55 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cedille Records
Grammy Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) presents Between Breaths, an album of world premieres of works by four contemporary composers, plus a new work by the quartet itself.
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Thierry Lang – Walk With Me (Heritage Project Vol. 2) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music GmbH
The Swiss pianist and composer, Thierry Lang, was born on the 16th December 1956 in the small town of Romont in the canton of Fribourg. He started learning piano at the age of 5 and by 7 years old had decided to make piano his career. He excelled in classical piano studies until the age of 21 while at the same time developing a passion for jazz. As a fifteen year old, he first heard the pianist Bill Evans who would influence his thinking for many years to come. Inspired by this music, Thierry Lang found the perfect link between classical and piano jazz which rapidly became the characteristic of his own musical expression. As a talented composer with a great sense of melody, he rapidly established himself as a master in this domain. In 1986, he gave concerts with various jazz groups in Switzerland playing alongside numerous local and foreign musicians from different musical backgrounds. He gained further experience as a professional through accompanying musicians of diverse styles including Blues, BeBop and Mainstream. In 1987, he created his first trio through which he was able to share his brilliant technique and strong sense of melody with a wider public, who began to recognize the characteristic features of his musical signature. In 1988, his trio, already famous at a national level, was invited to accompany the world famous harmonica player Toots Thielemans.
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The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, David Newsholme, Sam Corkin – Palimpsest: New Works From Old For Saxophone and Choir (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
This album marks the culmination of a landmark project to re-imagine new works from old for saxophone, choir and organ. Celebrated saxophonist Sam Corkin is joined by Canterbury Cathedral Choir to bring a fresh perspective to some well-loved repertoire, recorded within the iconic surroundings of Canterbury Cathedral. Featuring fifteen specially commissioned works by leading composers including Gabriel Jackson, Errollyn Wallen and Roderick Williams.
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The View – Exorcism of Youth (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:27 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited
EXORCISM OF YOUTH’ TO BE RELEASED ON JUNE 9TH . THE RESURGENT BAND’S FIRST NEW RECORD IN EIGHT YEARS. FEATURING THE NEW SINGLE ‘FEELS LIKE’ . When The View reconvened last year after five years apart, the three old-friends realised just how much they have missed… well, everything about being in a band: the rush of seeing an audience react to their performances, the camaraderie of being together, a simple jam idea evolving into a fully-fledged song. A run of comeback gigs at Glasgow’s O2 Academy saw all 10,000 tickets sold in advance, the fan reaction was overwhelming and they were even joined on-stage by an old friend in the shape of ‘Line of Duty’ actor Martin Compston. After all that, how could you resist wanting more? Especially as their rehearsals for the shows saw the band conjure up a wealth of new song ideas just like they did back when they first started out. And so The View today announce that ‘Exorcism of Youth’ – their first album since 2015 – will be released on June 9th via Cooking Vinyl. Frontman Kyle Falconer says, “Working with Youth on our third album ‘Bread and Circuses’ was one of the best experiences of my career so we jumped at the chance to revisit the opportunity with him in Spain. To be able to go into the studio again as a band with added experience was just magical.” Kyle and bandmates Kieran Webster (bass/vocals) and Pete Reilly (guitar) departed their homes in Scotland to record the record in the inspiring surroundings of Granada, Spain, with the assistance of a top tier producer in the shape of the Grammy Award winner Youth (The Verve, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Charlatans). They returned with ‘Exorcism of Youth’ in the bag, a record which combines the raucous energy of The View’s early work with some poignant slowburners drawn from personal experience, and Kyle’s gift for lyricism which is equal parts observational, witty and insightful. The View launch the album by sharing its lead single ‘Feels Like’. The band’s fiery energy ignites the song in a blaze of melody before hitting the kind of instantly irresistible hook with which they’ve made their name. It’s a track perfectly built for upcoming shows too, with its breakdown sure to be an immensely atmospheric moment when they hit summer festivals. Kyle adds, “This one felt anthemic from the get go. Even though under the surface it’s about somewhere everyone’s been in their life before: regret of losing someone amazing due to your inner demons and seeing them moving on with their life, when you’re stuck in a ‘nightmare not a dream.’ When I first sat down to write it I had Holden Caulfield from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in mind. It’s playing out in his mind and it’s his own paranoia destroying him from the inside out when in reality she’s the perfect woman.”
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The Vaqueros – 80 Foot Wave (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:21 minutes | 432 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sundazed Music – Modern Harmonic
A tidal wave of minny-beat surf and garage from all incarnations of the carnivorous vaqueros. Like Twin City Neapolitan ice cream, surf instros, Linda Anderson’s vocal surf rock interludes and John Grizzard’s and John Grizzard’s grizzly garage songs three glorious flavours in one package!
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The Soul Movers – Dumb Luck (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:59 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Soul, Blues, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cheersquad
Fearsomely funky, grippingly groovy, and radiantly retro, The Soul Movers – the lovechild of powerhouse vocalist, Lizzie Mack, and OG-Red-Wiggle, Murray Cook – are all the above, as is the groovy soul, powerful pop, and rockin’ country bump in “Dumb Luck”, their fourth album in over ten years, out on Cheersquad Records & Tapes.
To put the bling on ‘Dumb Luck’, the ‘Movers returned to many of the mind-blowingly original, hit-making studios they worked in to create 2019’s ‘Bona Fide’ album.
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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Sirens’ Song (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:59 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro
What would singing be without words? When you combine wonderful poetry with exquisite music, the result is magical. In a rare break from the sacred collections they are famed for, this album from The Sixteen features a whole programme of secular music devoted to English partsongs. From Stanford’s cycle of Eight Partsongs based on the sparing yet infectious poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to Bridges’ lyrically descriptive writing in Finzi’s Seven Poems of Robert Bridges and Imogen Holst’s idyllic Six Part-Songs Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow using verses by John Keats, each setting captures the mood of the poem brilliantly.
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The Shy Boys – Perceptions of California (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:49 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Jazz
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They celebrate a sound that makes your blood boil in your veins, your feet start to bob as if by magic and don’t want to stand still – this is how Jazzpodium magazine describes the unmistakable sound of this formation. And indeed, the “shy boys”, who on closer inspection turn out to be rather seasoned men, move seemingly effortlessly, casually and stylistically confidently through Latin, Caribbean and swinging rhythms, through jazzy elegant melodies and relaxed to daring improvisations.
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The Satyrs – Don’t Be Surprised (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:10 minutes | 144 MB | Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sundazed Music – Modern Harmonic
Unfiltered North Carolina ‘60s garage rock from Asheville teen stompers The Satyrs! This LP features previously unissued tracks and their lone 1965 single – all bookended by two savage versions of the title track!
The contents of this “lost” tape have since been restored and are included on this LP along with the Satyrs’ 1965 originals. Two versions of “Don’t Be Surprised,” the Mark V and the Wal-Mor version, bookend this artifact of true North Carolina garage.
In their brief, explosive appearance on the garage rock scene, the Satyrs provide a look into Southern ‘60s rock and the rippling effects of rock ‘n’ roll in mid-century America. Tenacious in their desire to be a part of the rock ‘n’ roll revolution, the Satyrs successfully captured the essence of a ’60s teenager’s ephemeral desire to step into limelight, even for a brief moment.
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Kath Bloom – Finally (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chapter Music
First released in 2005, Finally was seminal folk cult figure Kath Bloom’s return to active musical duty, her first officially released album since 1984.
The daughter of world famous oboist Robert Bloom, Kath grew up in New Haven, CT, where she started playing guitar among the headstones of her local cemetery as a teenager. She met avant-garde guitarist Loren Maz- zacane Connors in 1976 and together they recorded six limited edition albums of fragile folk and blues melodies, ending with final album Moon- light in 1984. Chapter Music has re-released four of these albums – Sing The Children Over, Sand In My Shoe, Restless Faithful Desperate and Moonlight – as a pair of two disc sets.
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The Paper Kites – At the Roadhouse (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:28 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nettwerk Music Group
It will take a little longer. The anticipation is great. On 1 September, The Paper Kites will release their new album “At The Roadhouse”. Of course, this will not be a normal album, it didn’t just happen.
Last summer, the band spent a month nestled in an old house in the small Australian town of Campbells Creek. Singer Sam Bentley: “In the days of the Victorian gold rush it was a gold mining supplies shop, then I think it was a hotel – I’m told there was a big fire there in 1876 that almost destroyed the whole building, but it survived and is still standing today. It’s a beautiful, dramatic old building on the side of the road. I think we all felt that it was and could be something special.”
People invited friends and other musicians, worked on new music and also played unannounced free concerts. Bentley: “I remember word spreading around town that something was happening there, but no one really knew what it was. When we first opened the doors, we knew there was a good chance we could have played to five people – and we didn’t care. By the end of the month it was so full we kept having to turn people away.”
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Karin Fernandes – Perfume: Chiquinha Gonzaga Waltzes, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:43:44 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Azul Music
Through a personal project and a crowdfunding campaign, pianist Karin Fernandes will record a digital album called Perfume-valsas De Chiquinha Gonzaga, which will include 41 waltzes by the composer.
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The Midnight – Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:57 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Counter Records
The Midnight have announced their first live album Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live out 1th September on Counter Records. The album will be available digitally as well as limited edition LP and Cassette.
All tracks are taken from their sold-out 2022 US tour in support of their latest studio album Heroes and includes fan favourites like “Sunset”, “Days of Thunder” and “Deep Blue” that displayed “flashy, irresistible melodies and unashamedly shiny productions with mature philosophical lyrical content” (Juno Daily).
The announcement also comes with a special ‘band on the run’ style music video of footage from the fall tour set over Heroes standout track “Heroes”.
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José Navarro-Silberstein – Vibrant Rhythms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
Rhythm is at the heart of the new CD of piano music released on the GENUIN label by José Navarro-Silberstein. The winner of numerous competitions (including the Anton Rubinstein Piano Competition in Germany, the Claudio Arrau Competition in Chile, and the Tbilisi International Piano Competition) combines Schumann’s “Davidsbündler dances” with South American piano works by Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, and Sandi. Dance has played an essential role in all civilizations and is an integral part of everyday life in a wide variety of cultures. Navarro-Silberstein offers a veritable palette of diverse musical dance forms, ranging from stylized folk music to sublimated art music, all in accomplished, beautifully sonorous interpretations.
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