Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi – Mars (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Intakt Records
With his extensive artistic biography, Tim Berne is one of the most outstanding figures in American jazz. Rising star Gregg Belisle-Chi, a connoisseur of Berne’s music, has this year released the acclaimed album Koi, featuring interpretations of Tim Berne’s compositions on solo acoustic guitar.
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Thyla – Thyla (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:27 minutes | 453 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Easy Life Records
Brighton trio Thyla release their long-awaiting debut album. Thyla are a band that have regularly found their creative impulse heightened by a sense of heaviness and burden. Their music focusses on a journey that seems to be getting harder rather than easier, often highlighting struggles with how we attach identity and value to ourselves, and the sneaking feeling that the more we learn, the less we know.
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Thumbscrew – Never is Enough (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:45 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Cuneiform Records
Currently one of the most exciting and active groups in boundary-pushing jazz, is the collective trio Thumbscrew, who release their sixth album in seven years with Never Is Enough. Constantly taking the simple, ‘guitar trio’ line-up into new territories, their music is a masterclass of musical interplay and focused forward momentum.
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The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:15 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Folk, Female Vocal
The Whitmore Sisters are real life sisters Eleanor Whitmore (The Mastersons, Steve Earle, Tanya Tucker) and Bonnie Whitmore (Hayes Carll, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock). Sisters Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music’s most accomplished songwriter/instrumentalist/vocalists, are releasing their first album together as The Whitmore Sisters. Titled Ghost Stories, it’s inspired by the loss of family, friends, ex-boyfriends and on the title track people who died by police violence.
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The Weeknd – Dawn FM (Explicit) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:49 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XO – Republic Records
The countdown is on for the Weeknd fans waiting to tune into Dawn FM. To support the release of his newest album, the singer has announced a livestream event called “103.5 Dawn FM,” which is scheduled to air today, January 6th, on the Amazon Music app and its Twitch channel.
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The Weeknd – Dawn FM (Alternate World) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:49 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XO – Republic Records
The Weeknd shares an expanded version of his new album, “Dawn FM” featuring a new remix of “Sacrifice” with Swedish House Mafia.
The Weeknd came through on Friday with the release of his new album, Dawn FM. Serving as a follow-up to After Hours and apparently, the second installment in a trilogy of projects, the singer delivered a body of work that set the bar high for 2022 and the albums that will follow.
Just days after the album’s release and he’s already unloaded two music videos for the project with “Sacrifice” and “Gasoline.” Now, he’s returned with the “alternate world” version of Dawn FM. The album boasts two new remixes, as well as the previously released single, “Moth To A Flame” with Swedish House Mafia. The electronic group also contributes to the “Sacrifice” remix” while Agents Of Time join The Weeknd for the remix of “Take My Breath.”
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The Wallace Brothers – The Wallace Brothers & Patterson Twins (1980/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:50 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jewel Records
Promoted as a duet, the Wallace Brothers were actually a six-man band with cousins John Simon and Ervin Wallace on lead vocals. Another Wallace (no kin to the brothers) brought the six-piece band to Cleveland Warnock’s attention in 1963. Other Wallaces, Cooky and Earnest, also joined; Ervin played the guitar and Earnest the organ.
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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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