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U2: Songs of Experience

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On December 1, 2017, “Interscope” and “Island” labels released “Songs of Experience”, the fourteenth U2 studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2017, at “Electric Lady Studios” in New York City, “The Garage” in Topanaga, California, “Shangri-La”, “The Woodshed”, ”Waterloo Studios” and “Neptune Valley” in Los Angeles, “Strathmore House” in Killiney, Ireland, “Hanover Quay” and “Windmill Lane Studios” in  Dublin, “Uno Mas Studio” in Brentwood, Tennessee, “The Church Studios” in London, and was produced by Jacknife Lee, Ryan Tedder, Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow, Jolyon Thomas, Brent Kutzle, Paul Epworth, Danger Mouse, and Declan Gaffney. The album was certified Platinum in France by “SNEP”, and Platinum in Italy by “FIMI”.

Personnel:

  • Bono– vocals
  • The Edge– vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Adam Clayton– bass guitar
  • Larry Mullen Jr.– drums, percussion
  • Andy Barlow– additional keyboards, programming, sound design,  engineer, mixing
  • Jacknife Lee – additional guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, engineer, mixing
  • Ryan Tedder– keyboards, additional guitar, programming, backing vocals
  • Brent Kutzle – keyboards, acoustic guitar, programming
  • Davide Rossi– strings
  • Goshua Usov – additional keyboards
  • Paul Epworth– additional keyboards, programming
  • Declan Gaffney – additional keyboards
  • Andrew Taggart– additional keyboards
  • Jolyon Thomas – additional guitar, additional keyboards
  • Brandon Collins – string arrangement
  • Amy Helman – violins
  • Avery Bright – violins
  • Betsy Lamb – viola
  • Paul Nelson – cello
  • Noel Zancanella – additional programming
  • Nate Lotz – additional percussion
  • Steve Wilmot – additional percussion
  • Kendrick Lamar– outro, intro
  • Julian Lennon– backing vocals
  • Haim– backing vocals
  • Lady Gaga– backing vocals
  • Dawn Kenny – additional credit
  • Tyler Spry, Drew Bang, Rich Rich, Matt Wiggins  – engineer
  • Matt Bishop – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Matty Green – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Brandon Bost – engineer, mixing assistance
  • Declan Gaffney –  engineer, additional mixing
  • Christopher Henry – additional engineering, engineer assistant
  • Richard Rainey, Greg Clooney, Doug Sarrett – additional engineering
  • Gosha Usov, Alan Kelly, Aleks Von Korff – engineer assistant
  • Dave “Squirrel” Covell, Barry McCready – engineer assistant
  • Alex Bailey – engineer assistant, mixing assistant,
  • Kelana, Tom Elmhirst – mixing
  • Steve Lillywhite– mixing

Track listing:

All lyrics by Bono, all music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr, except where noted.

  1. Love Is All We Have Left
  2. Lights of Home – Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.,Alana Haim, Danielle Haim, Este Haim, Ariel Rechtshaid
  3. You’re the Best Thing About Me
  4. Get Out of Your Own Way
  5. American Soul
  6. Summer of Love
  7. Red Flag Day
  8. The Showman (Little More Better)
  9. The Little Things That Give You Away
  10. Landlady
  11. The Blackout
  12. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
  13. 13 (There Is a Light)

Nels Cline and Julian Lage: Room

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On November 25, 2014, “Mack Avenue” label released “Room”, album by Nels Cline and Julian Lage. It was recorded in December 2013, and was produced by Nels Cline and Julian Lage.

Personnel:

  • Nels Cline – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Julian Lage– acoustic and electric guitars

Track listing:

All tracks by Nels Cline except where noted.

  1. Abstract 12 – Julian Lage
  2. Racy
  3. The Scent of Light
  4. Whispers from Eve
  5. Blues, Too
  6. Odd End
  7. Amenette
  8. Freesia/The Bond
  9. Waxman – Nels Cline, Julian Lage
  10. Calder – Julian Lage

Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil: Goliath

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On November 18, 2014, “Splint Entertainment” label released “Goliath”, the sixth Steve Taylor studio album, and the first with the group Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil. It was recorded in 2014, at “IHOF Studio”, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Steve Taylor and Danny Seim.

Personnel:

  • Steve Taylor – vocals, one hand piano
  • Jimmy Abegg – guitars, backing vocals
  • Peter Furler – drums, backing vocals
  • John Mark Painter – bass, cello, baritone sax, tenor sax, alto sax, French horn, trumpet and anything else laying around, backing vocals, recording
  • Danny Seim – additional keyboard flourishes, miscellaneous wizardry, overdubs recording
  • Lori Chaffer, Fleming McWilliams – vocal
  • Luke Yang – vibes
  • Stephen Parolini – jenga
  • Brendan Jones – breathalyzer
  • Sam Sacco – zeitgeist
  • Phillip Holmes – turbinado
  • Tim and Val Hudson – vodaphone
  • Steve Kellner – condoleeza
  • Danny Seim – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig– mastering
  • Jimmy Abegg – design
  • Buddy Jackson – insert illustration
  • Frank Ockenfels III – photography
  • Larry & Nancy VanArendonk, Martin Turner, Rick Law, Richard Bickersteth – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Taylor, all music by Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Peter Furler and John Mark Painter.

  1. Only a Ride
  2. Double Negative
  3. Goliath
  4. Moonshot
  5. Rubberneck
  6. The Sympathy Vote
  7. Standing In Line
  8. In Layers
  9. Happy Go Lazy
  10. A Life Preserved
  11. Comedian

Marillion: Fear (Fuck Everyone and Run)

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On September 23, 2016, “Intact” label released “Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R)”, the eighteenth Marillion studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2016, at “The Racket Club” in Buckinghamshire “Real World Box” in Wiltshire, England, and was produced by Michael Hunter.

Personnel:

  • Steve Hogarth– lead vocals, hammered dulcimer, bass xylophone
  • Steve Rothery– guitar, additional fretless bass
  • Pete Trewavas– bass, additional vocals
  • Mark Kelly– keyboards
  • Ian Mosley– drums
  • Eleanor Gilchrist, Geraldine Berreen – violin
  • Teresa Whipple – viola
  • Abigail Trundle – cello
  • Sofi Hogarth, Jennie Rothery – additional vocals
  • Michael Hunter – mixing
  • Simon Ward – artwork, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly and Ian Mosley.

  1. El Dorado
    Long-Shadowed Sun
    II. The Gold
    III. Demolished Lives
    IV. F E A R
    V. The Grandchildren of Apes
  2. Living in FEAR
  3. The Leavers
    Wake Up in Music
    II. The Remainers
    III. Vapour Trails in the Sky
    IV. The Jumble of Days
    V. One Tonight
  4. White Paper
  5. The New Kings
    Fuck Everyone and Run
    II. Russia’s Locked Doors
    III. A Scary Sky
    IV. Why Is Nothing Ever True?
  6. Tomorrow’s New Country

Chris Cornel: Higher Truth

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On September 18, 2015, “UM” label released “Higher Truth”, the fourth and final Chris Cornell studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, and was produced by Brendan O’Brien.

Personnel:

  • Chris Cornell– vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, percussion
  • Brendan O’Brien– guitar, bass, keyboards, hurdy-gurdy, drums, percussion, mixing
  • Patrick Warren – piano
  • Matt Chamberlain– drums
  • Anne Marie Simpson – strings
  • Billy Joe Bowers – engineer, mastering
  • Kyle Stevens, Tom Syrowski – engineer
  • Josh Graham – art direction
  • Suspended in Light – art direction
  • Jeff Lipsky– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chris Cornell.

  1. Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
  2. Dead Wishes
  3. Worried Moon
  4. Before We Disappear
  5. Through the Window
  6. Josephine
  7. Murderer of Blue Skies
  8. Higher Truth
  9. Let Your Eyes Wander
  10. Only These Words
  11. Circling
  12. Our Time in Universe

The Battles: La Di Da Di

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On September 18, 2015, “Warp” label released “La Di Da Di”, the third Battles (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2014, at “Machines with Magnets” in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and was produced by Dave Konopka, John Stanier, Ian Williams, Keith Souza and Seth Manchester.

Personnel:

  • Ian Williams– guitar, keyboards
  • Dave Konopka– bass, guitar, effects, art direction
  • John Stanier– drums
  • Keith Souza, Seth Manchester – mixing
  • Greg Calbi– mastering

Track listing:

All tracks written by Dave Konopka, John Stanier and Ian Williams.

  1. The Yabba
  2. Dot Net
  3. FF Bada
  4. Summer Simmer
  5. Cacio e Pepe
  6. Non-Violence
  7. Dot Com
  8. Tyne Wear
  9. Tricentennial
  10. Megatouch
  11. Flora > Fauna
  12. Luu Le

Catfish: The Balcony

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On September 15, 2014, “Island” label released “The Balcony”, the  debut Catfish and the Bottlemen studio albm. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Jim Abbiss.

Personnel:

  • Van McCann – vocals, guitar
  • Billy Bibby– guitar, backing vocals
  • Benji Blakeway – bass
  • Bob Hall – drums
  • Ian Dowling – engineer, mixing

Track listing:

Lyrics by Van McCann, music by Van McCann, Billy Bibby, Benji Blakeway and Bob Hall.

  1. Homesick
  2. Kathleen
  3. Cocoon
  4. Fallout
  5. Pacifier
  6. Hourglass
  7. Business
  8. 26
  9. Rango
  10. Sidewinder
  11. Tyrants

Stereophonics: Keep The Village Alive

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On September 11, 2015, “Stylus Records” label released “Keep the Village Alive”, the ninth Stereophonics studio album. It was recorded 2011 – 2014, at “ICP Studios” in Brussels, Belgium, “Stylus Studios” in London, and was produced by Kelly Jones and Jim Lowe.

Personnel:

  • Kelly Jones- lead vocals, guitar, piano
  • Adam Zindani- guitar, backing vocals
  • Richard Jones- bass guitar
  • Jamie Morrison– drums
  • Sam Yapp, Javier Weyler– drums
  • Mikey Rowe – Wurly
  • Jim Lowe – additional Hammond, programming
  • Neil Cowley – additional piano
  • Tony Kirkham – additional piano, Hammond
  • Rosie Danvers – cello
  • Helen Hathorn – violin
  • Emma Owens – viola
  • David Arnoldwith Kelly Jones – orchestral arrangements
  • Nicholas Dodd – orchestration

Orchestra

  • John Bradbury – leader
  • Eos Chater, Dorina Markoff, John Bradbury, Johnathan Strange, Oli Langford, Christina Emanuel, Tom Pigott-Smith, Jackie Hartley, Peter Hanson, Ralph De Souza, Johnathan Rees, David Woodcock, Debbie Widdup, Natalia Bonner – violin section
  • Reiad Chibah, Julia Knight, Sue Dench, Nick Barr – viola section
  • Nick Cooper, Chris Worsey, Adrian Bradbury, Frank Schaefer – cello section
  • Pete Smith – tuba
  • Roger Argente – bass trombone
  • Andy Wood – tenor trombone
  • Phillip Eastop, Mike Murray, Corinne Bailey, Martin Owen – French horns
  • Daniel Newell, Jason Evans, Andy Cowley, Amos Miller – B♭ Trumpet
  • Eos Chater – violin
  • Gay-Yee Westerhoff – cello
  • Nick Barr – viola
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Paul Edouard-Laurendeau – studio assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks written by Kelly Jones.

  1. C’est la Vie
  2. White Lies
  3. Sing Little Sister
  4. I Wanna Get Lost With You
  5. Song for the Summer
  6. Fight or Flight
  7. My Hero
  8. Sunny
  9. Into the World
  10. Mr and Mrs Smith

Better Than Ezra: All Together Now

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On September 9, 2014, “The End” label released “All Together Now”, the eighth Better Than Ezra studio album. It was recorded in 2014, at “The Hobby Shop” in Highland Park, CA, and was produced by Tony Hoffer.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Griffin– vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Tom Drummond- bass guitar
  • Michael Jerome-
  • Courtlan Clement – guitar
  • Tony Hoffer – guitar, drums programming, keyboards, engineer, mixing
  • Dave Palmer – piano
  • Jamie Moore – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Sean Hurley – bass
  • Paul Mabury, Travis Aaron McNabb – drums
  • Adam Chance, Shy Carter, Jeremy Lister, Nolan Sipe, Julia Sinclair – backing vocals
  • Christopher Cruz – layout
  • Greg Miles – photography

Track listing:

  1. Crazy Lucky
  2. Gonna Get Better
  3. Undeniable
  4. Insane
  5. Sunflowers
  6. The Great Unknown
  7. Before You
  8. Dollar Sign
  9. One Heart Beating
  10. Diamond In My Pocket
  11. I Fly Away

Rivers: Love, Fear and the Time Machine

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On September 4, 2015, “InsideOut Music” label released “Love, Fear and the Time Machine”, the sixth Riverside album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, at “Serakos Studio” in Warsaw, Poland, and was produced by Magda Srzedniccy, Robert Srzedniccy, Mariusz Duda, Piotr Grudziński, Michał Łapaj and Piotr Kozieradzki.

Personnel:

  • Mariusz Duda– vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, ukulele
  • Piotr Grudziński – guitar
  • Michał Kapaj– keyboards
  • Piotr Kozieradzki– drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Mariusz Duda, except where noted.

  1. Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened By a Hat?)
  2. Under the Pillow
  3. #Addicted
  4. Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire
  5. Saturate Me
  6. Afloa
  7. Discard Your Fear
  8. Towards the Blue Horizon
  9. Time Travellers
  10. Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching)

Day Session – Mariusz Duda, Piotr Grudziński, Michał Kapaj.

  1. Heavenland
  2. Return
  3. Aether
  4. Machines
  5. Promise