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Shida Shahabi – Living Circle (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 1, 2023 · Comments off

Stockholm-based composer Shida Shahabi returns with her sophomore album, ‘Living Circle’ – a wonderfully rich and accomplished new work that resonates with a powerful depth and viscerality. Where the warm, homespun piano of her 2018 debut, ‘Homes’, drew widespread praise and announced her arrival as a bold new voice, ‘Living Circle’ sees the artist pushing forwards into deeper, more expansive sonic realms. With tracks stretching longer and slower, and her piano lines less ornate and dominant, ‘Living Circle’ is a heavyweight album and a must-hear for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Sarah Davachi, Max Richter, Labradford, etc. Released via FatCat’s 130701 imprint on June 23rd on vinyl, CD and digital formats, it is preceded by a live show supporting A Winged Victory For The Sullen at London’s Barbican Centre on May 13th.

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Narrow Head – 12th House Rock (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 13, 2023 · Comments off

Narrow Head’s highly anticipated new LP 12th House Rock on Holy Roar. The Houston-based band’s latest entry is the distillation of the greatest moments in 90’s alternative and hard rock with a fresh set of ears, thirteen tracks of their signature brand of bludgeoning lullabies bursting at the seams with creative ideas, new directions and yes, massive, monolithic riffs. In between the sparkle and smash, open-hearted and emotionally naked songwriting showcases a core piece of the band’s identity showcasing 12th House Rock as one of the best releases of 2020.

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My Bloody Valentine – loveless (1991/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 11, 2023 · Comments off

loveless is widely considered a flawless whole and rightly regarded as a masterpiece; a 1990s equivalent to Pet Sounds, In A Silent Way or Innervisions, a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of. It is a record best experienced as a whole, in one sitting – a listening experience like no other and unmatchable in its sonic brevity.

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Marissa Nadler – The Path of the Clouds (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2023 · Comments off

The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadler’s ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy and moving freely between past and present, these 11 deeply personal, self-produced songs find Nadler exploring new landscapes, both sonic and emotional.

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Molly Burch – Romantic Images (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 5, 2023 · Comments off

“I wanna try harder / To love myself like I would another,” Molly Burch sings on her captivating new album, Romantic Images. It’s a notion that lies at the very heart of the record, a guiding light to which Burch returns throughout the collection as she sheds the anxiety and insecurity of her twenties and embarks upon a bold new chapter marked by a radical embrace of herself and her womanhood.

“I wrote most of these songs in the months leading up to my 30th birthday,” Burch explains, “so I was doing a lot of reflecting on growth and change. Sometimes it’s only in hindsight that you can realize how far you’ve actually come.”

Indeed, Romantic Images marks a distinct evolution for Burch, both emotionally and sonically. Recorded in Denver with Tennis’ Alaina Moore and Pat Riley producing, the collection celebrates the timeless delights of a well-crafted pop song, flirting with Blondie, Madonna, and even Mariah Carey as it forges a joyful soundtrack to liberation and self-discovery. Burch deliberately worked with more women collaborators than ever before on the album, and the results are transcendent, reveling in the passion and the power of the divine feminine. Written with the live show in mind, the collection prioritizes ecstasy and escape, and it’s easy to hear Burch’s commitment to collective catharsis in her lifted, airy delivery, which manages to exude both thoughtful introspection and carefree abandon all at once. The shadow still lurks on the album, to be sure, but the light ultimately wins, as it always does when we’re brave enough let it in, and the result is an intoxicating collection all about coming into our truest selves, an honest, uplifting testament to the comfort and strength that comes with learning to look in the mirror and love the face staring back.

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Los Bitchos – Let The Festivities Begin! (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 15, 2023 · Comments off

Los Bitchos - Let The Festivities Begin! (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Panthers prowling through a desert. Cowgirls swaggering into a saloon and kicking up dust. Riding shotgun with a Tarantino heroine. Having the fiesta of your lives under a giant piñata with all your friends. Los Bitchos’ hallucinatory surf-exotica is as evocative as it is playful: the London-based pan-continental group could well be your new favourite party band with their instrumental voyages that are the soundtrack to setting alight to a row of flaming sambucas and losing yourself to the night. They’ve got a bun-tight knack for a groove – and they’ve got the best fringes in rock’n’roll too.
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Tanukichan – GIZMO (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 1, 2023 · Comments off

When the pandemic hit, Hannah van Loon adopted a dog named Gizmo, who became a much-needed companion while the Bay Area musician wrote her second album as Tanukichan. Aptly named after her new four-legged friend, GIZMO is an exercise in release, whether from situational hindrances — a forced lockdown, for one — or from self-imposed hedonistic coping mechanisms. “A theme I always had floating around was escape,” van Loon explains of her follow-up to 2018’s Sundays. “Escaping from myself, my problems, sadness and cycles.”

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Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 22, 2023 · Comments off

Julianna Barwick is a composer, vocalist and producer who makes deep, reflective compositions out of the human voice. Over the past decade and a half, she’s honed an intuitive approach to music, built on improvisation and a close affinity to a couple of trusted items of gear. She spins engrossing, expansive universes out of a single idea. Her fourth album, Healing Is A Miracle, on Ninja Tune, marks another distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice. Built out from the same instinctive, improvisational approach as those which preceded it, she also draws on the input of three collaborators she’s nurtured long friendships with: Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Nosaj Thing and Mary Lattimore, gently nudging out at the edges of Barwick’s organically-evolved sound.

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Jónsi – Shiver (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 18, 2023 · Comments off

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Shiver is the exciting and boundary pushing second record from LA-based Icelandic musician Jónsi, co-produced by A. G. Cook (PC Music, Charlie XCX) and comes a decade after his debut, Go, was released.

The new album features tracks with Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and pop icon Robyn. It will be released on 2nd October 2020 and was recorded in Berlin, Reykjavik, London and Helsinki.
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Jay-Jay Johanson – Kings Cross (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 12, 2023 · Comments off

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A NEW TIMELESS CLASSIC BY THE SWEDISH CROONER – FEAT. JEANNE ADDED & ROBIN GUTHRIE.Kings Cross is the new album of Swedish crooner Jay-Jay Johanson, featuring Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins)and a duet with Jeanne Added. The opening track “NotTime Yet” sets the mood right away: a cinematic triphop that has been Jay-Jay Johanson’s blueprint sincethe mid-90s. The first single < Heard SomebodyWhistle" is a high tempo driven big beats jazz bangerwith an unforgettable whistling hook. Again Jay-Jaymanages to capture us with his melancholicoutstanding voice, singing haunting melodies, dressedup in mysterious sounds and experimental drum beats.
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Paramore – This Is Why (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 20, 2023 · Comments off

On Paramore’s first album in five years, singer Hayley Williams is worn out by the world—but weariness has never sounded more appealing. Opener “This Is Why” serves up disco-diva vocals and liquid-gold Chic-style bass for a tune about paranoia (“This is why I don’t leave the house/ You said the coast is clear/ But you won’t catch me out”) and the encroaching dangers of social media. “If you have an opinion/ maybe you should shove it … might be best to keep it to yourself,” sings Williams, who stepped away from Instagram a while back with the intention of “looking up and out, rather than down.” The suck of screen time—and how modern-day doom scrolling both brings us together as a community but also causes dissociation—is also the theme of “The News:” “So far from the faultline … I’m safe inside/ But I worry and I give money/ And I feel useless behind this computer,” she sings, while the percussion skitters. Deliciously, it would’ve fit right in on the band’s 2007 classic Riot! But they’ve learned a lot since that album, including how a velvet hammer is just as effective as nonstop thunderous bludgeoning. Songs like “Figure 8” and angular “You First” (featuring the great line “I’m both the killer and the final girl”) mix emo hallmarks and more subtle, even lush dynamics. “Running Out of Time”—with its lament of there never being enough time to do everything you want or feel obligated to do—finds Williams trying on silky, Lisa Stansfield-style vocals on the verses and pure agitation elsewhere, against funky guitar and drum splashes. She also gets playfully experimental with “C’est Comme Ça,” a punky track that finds the singer trying on an affect that is a little bit goth and a little bit Rockwell á la “Somebody’s Watching Me:” “In a single year, I’ve aged one hundred/ My social life, a chiropractic appointment/ Sit still long enough to listen to yourself/ Or maybe just long enough for you to atrophy to hell.” (That said, the singer has admitted that “I’m trying to get un-addicted to a survival narrative.”) There’s a floaty ballad (“Liar”), tense post-punk guitars contrasted with disco-ball dreaminess (“Big Man, Little Dignity”) and a plush Cocteau Twins moment (“Crave”). Uneasy listening at its best. – Shelly Ridenour

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His Name Is Alive – A Silver Thread (Home Recordings 1979 – 1990) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 11, 2023 · Comments off

4 disc, 60 track anthology compiling early work by Warren Defever aka His Name Is Alive, prior to signing to 4AD. This set compiles 3 volumes previously released on vinyl, alongside a bonus disc.

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Girlpool – Powerplant (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 18, 2023 · Comments off

Life has been a whirl for Girlpool since the release of their acclaimed 2015 debut Before the World Was Big. Shortly before the record came out, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker relocated from their hometown of Los Angeles all the way across the country to Philadelphia, where they quickly became embedded in the local D.I.Y. scene. Girlpool made their mark with a spare, simple sound — two guitars and two voices, with absolutely nothing else accompanying them. It was an original, intimate sound, and it made the two sound like they were united against the rest of the world. But on their new album, Powerplant, they’re trying something else. They’re playing with a full band. Over 10 days in August 2016, Girlpool holed up at Los Angeles’ comp-ny studios to record and mix Powerplant with Drew Fischer. For the first time, Harmony and Cleo were joined by a third performer, drummer Miles Wintner, a friend who easily meshed with the tightknit duo. The 12 tracks that compose Powerplant grow and burn with greater fire than the duo have possessed heretofore. Both bandmates were heavily inspired by Elliott Smith, the Cranberries, the Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Arthur Russell, and Graham Nash; the influence of each appear in the record’s deliberate and intricate guitar work (“Fast Dust,” “She Goes By”) as well as its embrace of dissonant noise (“Corner Store,” “Soup”). Perhaps what really makes Powerplant a home run is that Girlpool understand exactly how to use their incisive lyrics, soft textures, hushed harmonies, and soaring hooks for maximum emotional impact. In these moments, when Harmony and Cleo’s voices join together to deliver transcendent transmissions straight from their hearts, Girlpool become a league of their own.

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Fionn Regan – The Meetings Of The Waters (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 2, 2023 · Comments off

Fionn Regan is an Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Bray, Regan came to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, The End of History in 2006. “The Meetings Of The Waters” is his fifth full-length release, co-produced with Philip Tennant and Dave Granshaw.

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Fiona Mackenzie – Elevate (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 1, 2023 · Comments off

The captivating debut solo album by Scottish singer/songwriter Fiona MacKenzie. These are songs with a distinct, northern European character. Her writing and singing technique are affected by a spectrum of influences spanning Hungarian folk music, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins and Bjork, as well as the Scottish and Gaelic traditions.

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