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Had it not gone under my radar, this latest album from Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena likely would have been my favorite jazz release of 2017.
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Last month in his annual holiday letter, Mark Kozelek announced not one, but TWO new Sun Kil Moon albums that were in their final stages and would be released in 2018. The first of these is titled simply after the man himself and comes May 11 through Mark’s Caldo
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No Better No Worse (Vol 1) by Graham Lambkin Just a month following the sad but deliberate closure of Graham Lambkin’s Kye record label, the sound and visual artist has embraced digital distribution by joining Bandcamp. His five, long out of print solo albums are now on the platform,
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Though a few missteps keep Ruins from being First Aid Kit’s best album, it’s still packed with well-written, well-performed, and well-produced folk pop songs.
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Mount Eerie has shared the lengthy lead single from his forthcoming album, Now Only. “Distortion” lives up to its title right out of the gate and suggests that this will perhaps be the Ocean Roar to A Crow Looked at Me‘s Clear Moon. The songwriting is also sounding more
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Chris Stapleton drops a second album of quality contemporary country in 2017.
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Chicago jazz drummer Makaya McCraven reassembles a series of lo-fi live recordings into a batch of exciting, dynamic nu jazz beats.
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British singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine brings more bells and whistles on his sophomore album I Tell a Fly, but it’s unfortunately a case of more being less.
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Mark Kozelek is currently on tour promoting his slew of 2017 releases, and he has made quite an interesting choice in backing band with the Magik*Magik Orchestra. It’s really impressive how well the group has adapted much of this new material into chamber arrangements. Thankfully, last month’s
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King Krule returns with a series of vague, moody musical sketches
