The 4 Of Us

Introspection comes with beautiful harmonies on Wye Oak’s album : ‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.’ ‘…The Deeper It Goes’

Wye Oak's 'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs' is duo Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack's sixth album released on April 6, 2018 by Merge

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There is a Randy Newman feel in the new Eels’ Mark ‘E’ Everett’s ‘The Deconstruction’ album that comes after four years of reconstruction. Second thought?

Eels' 'The Deconstruction' is their twelfth studio album (after a four-year hiatus), co-produced by leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E and Mickey Petralia and released on April 6, 2018 by...

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Bettye LaVette covers Dylan. ‘Times were a-changin’,’ now ‘Things Have Changed’ So what’s next?

Bettye LaVette' 'Things Have Changed' is her tenth studio album featuring twelve covers of Bob Dylan songs, produced by Steve Jordan, with Keith Richards on one song and released on...

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Parlophone publish ‘Gorillaz’ by virtual band Gorillaz, fully written by Damon Albarn (2001)

'Gorillaz' is the virtual band's eponymous debut studio album produced by Tom Girling, Jason Cox & Dan the Automator and released on March 26 , 2001 by Parlophone / Virgin.Track...

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Toni Braxton’s ‘Sex & Cigarettes’ is your smell after cheating. So! stop smoking & unclog her heart. One more album about quitting

Toni Braxton' s 'Sex & Cigarettes' is her eighth studio album (and her first with some explicit words) produced mostly with Paul Boutin and released on March 23, 2018 by...

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‘As tears go bye’ The Weeknd has called his new album ‘My Dear Melancholy.’ ‘Spleentiful’

The Weeknd' s 'My Dear Melancholy' is his fourth (six-songs) album co-produced with Frank Dukes and released on March 30, 2018 by XO / Republic Records

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In ‘Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt,’ Moby puts a large dose of electro-sound effects in his pessimism. Make it dark!

Moby' s 'Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt' is his fifteenth and self-produced studio album released on March 2, 2018 by Little Idiot / Mute.

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Joan Baez says ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ is her last album before retiring

Joan Baez' s 'Whistle Down the Wind' is her twenty fifth studio album featuring ten covers, produced by Joe Henry and released on March 2, 2018 by Proper

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Kim Deal & The Breeders got ‘All Nerve’ back together while you were ‘waiting in the car’

The Breeders' 'All Nerve' is their fifth studio album (their first in 11 years) featuring Courtney Barnett on one song and released on March 2, 2018 by 4AD

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Meshell Ndegeocello redecorates eleven 80s/90s hits and makes them her new comfort zone.

Meshell Ndegeocello' s 'Ventriloquism' is her twelth studio album (her first in four years) featuring eleven covers of 80s and 90s hits, co-produced with Jebin Bruni and released on March...

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Engineer Eddie Kramer picked up bits of stuff recorded by Jimi, glued them together and it (more or less) works. Demoes from beyond!

Jimi Hendrix' s 'Both Sides of the Sky' is this third posthumous (and a double) album engineered by Eddie Kramer and released on March 9, 2018 by Sony Legacy

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Brad Mehldau takes on good old Sebastian and add his own ‘After Bach’ compositions. ‘Touch of Classic’

Brad Mehldau' s 'After Bach' is a live album including four Bach preludes and one fugue, plus seven of Mehldau's compositions and released on March 9, 2018 by Nonesuch

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‘American Utopia’ is David Byrne talking (tongue in cheek) as he heads (towards a bright future). Hello Happy Taxpayers!

David Byrne' s 'American Utopia' is his seventh (his first in 14 years) studio album co-produced with Brian Eno & Rodaidh McDonald and released on March 9, 2018 by Todo...

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‘Landfall’ by Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet is about loss, chaos and Hurricane Sandy in that (dis)order

'Landfall' by Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet is a collaborative album about Anderson's experience with Hurricane Sandy, mixing music, spoken words & electronics and released on February 16, 2018 by...

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In ‘Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)’ Will Toledo & Car Seat Headrest deliver an ‘encore’

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Respect Yourself

Starting and ending with 'Respect Yourself' made famous by The Staple Singers, we made a playlist powered by Hittin'Around. It has Joe Tex, The Staple Singers, The Monkees, Bob Marley...

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‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’ is a playlist for these probing times.

Starting and ending with 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' made famous by The Animals, we made a playlist powered by Hittin'Around. It has Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Joe Mcdonald, Rod...

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‘The Art of Making It’ is our post-Valentine Day playlist

From 'Let's Make More Love' to 'Feel Like Makin Love', we have mixed 17 tunes around the theme of 'Making Love'. It has Big Bill Broonzy, Jo Stafford, Joe Tex,...

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Rapper from Dublin, Rejjie Snow mixes all kinds of influences around one theme : ‘Love’ (explicit)

Rejjie Snow's 'Dear Annie' is his first studio album featuring Dana Williams, Anna Of The North, Kaytranada among other guests and released on February 16, 2018by 300 Entertainment

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In her seventh album, Alela Diane sings about motherhood

Alela Diane' s 'Cusp' is her seventh studio album produced by Peter M. Murray, featuring Ryan Francesconi, Rob Burger, Peter & Heather Woods Broderick among others and self released on...

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