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Belle And Sebastian: A Bit Of Previous

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On May 6, 2022, “Matador” label released “A Bit of Previous”, the eleventh Belle and Sebastian album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, at “Banchory Studio” and Gorbals Studio” in Glasgow, Scotland, “Abbey Road” in London, and was produced by Kevin Burleigh, Matt Wiggins, Brian McNeill, Stuart Murdoch, Steve Jackson, Chris Geddes, Sarah Martin, Bobby Kildea, Dave McGowan and Richard Colburn.

Personnel:

  • Stuart Murdoch – lead vocal, guitar
  • Steve Jackson – vocal, guitar
  • Chris Geddes – keyboards
  • Sarah Martin – vocal, violin
  • Bobby Kildea – bass, guitar
  • Dave McGowan – bass, keyboards, guitar
  • Richard Colburn – drums
  • Brian McNeill – synth, mixing
  • Shawn Everett – synth, mixing
  • Paul Towndrow – tenor and baritone saxophone
  • Ryan Quigley – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Michael Owers – trombone, bass trombone
  • Alessandra Lupo – spoken word
  • Anjolee Williams – backing vocals
  • Olivia Walker – backing vocals
  • Patience Henderson-McCrary – backing vocals
  • Charles Henderson-McCrary – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Leon McCrary – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Ryan Quigley – brass arrangements
  • Sarah Martin – brass arrangements
  • Matt Wiggins – mixing
  • Tony Doogan – mixing
  • Frank Arkwright – mastering
  • D8 (3) – design
  • Emma Durnan – design
  • Anna Miles – artwork
  • Cass Kildea – artwork
  • Chris Geddes – artwork
  • Titana Muthui – artwork
  • Yvonne Kincaid – artwork
  • Marisa Privitera Murdoch – photography
  • Stuart Murdoch – photography
  • Denise Coombes – costume design
  • Anna Miles – cover stars
  • Cass Kidea – cover stars
  • Clowie Magusloy – cover stars
  • Kyle Lonsdale Jackson – cover stars
  • Saif Ali – cover stars
  • Syd Childs – cover stars
  • Tess Macdonald – cover stars
  • Titana Muthui – cover stars
  • Winona Childs – cover stars
  • Yvonne Kincaid – cover stars
  • Shawn Everett – additional production

Track listing:

All tracks by Stuart Murdoch, Steve Jackson, Chris Geddes,

Sarah Martin, Bobby Kildea, Dave McGowan and Richard Colburn.

  1. Young and Stupid
  2. If They’re Shooting at You
  3. Talk to Me Talk to Me
  4. Reclaim the Night
  5. Do It for Your Country
  6. Prophets On Hold
  7. Unnecessary Drama
  8. Come On Home
  9. A World Without You
  10. Deathbed of My Dreams
  11. Sea of Sorrow
  12. Working Boy in New York City

The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony

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On May 5, 2023, “Captured Tracks” label released “Everything Harmony”, the fourth Lemon Twigs (The) album. It was recorded January – October 2021, at “The Music Building” in Manhattan, “Hyde Street” in San Francisco, “The Lemon Twigs Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Brian D’Addario and Michael D’Addario.

Personnel:

  • Brian D’Addario – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, organ, ARP Quartet, ARP Solina, vibraphone, mandolin, drums, string and horn arrangements, mixing
  • Michael D’Addario – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, drums, percussion, horn arrangements, engineer, mixing, art direction
  • Kevin Basko – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Daryl Johns – upright and electric bass
  • Andres Valbuena – drums
  • Cameron Carrella – euphonium
  • Alicia Mastromonaco – French horn

The Friction Quartet

  • Otis Harriel – violin
  • Yuri Kye – violin
  • Rachyl Martinez – viola
  • Doug Machiz – cello
  • Rias Reed – engineer
  • Sam Fickinger – engineer assistant
  • Paul D. Millar – mastering
  • Eva Chambers – art direction, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Brian D’Addario and Michael D’Addario.

  1. When Winter Comes Around
  2. In My Head
  3. Corner of My Eye
  4. Any Time of Day
  5. What You Were Doing
  6. I Don’t Belong to Me
  7. Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life
  8. What Happens to a Heart
  9. Still It’s Not Enough
  10. Born to Be Lonely
  11. Ghost Run Free
  12. Everything Harmony
  13. New to Me

Warren Ellis And Marianne Faithful: She Walks In Beauty

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On April 30, 2021, “BMG” and “Panta Rei” labels released “She Walks in Beauty”, album by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull. It was recorded in 2020, at “Poptones” in Paris, “The Retreat” in Brighton, and was produced by Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Warren Ellis – synthesizer, freeze violin, violin, sampler loops, synthesizer, bells, choir vocal, celesta, effects, Boomerang strings samples, alto flute, hyena cello, piano, choral loop, sampler loop treatments, future strings, bass flute, strings, effects loops, engineer
  • Nick Cave – piano, vibraphone 
  • Brian Eno – clarinet, synthesizer, effects, arrangements, engineer
  • Augustin Viard – Ondes Martenot 
  • Head – effects, arrangements, piano engineering, mixing 
  • Vincent Ségal – cello
  • Ben Thackeray – piano engineering
  • Jean-Charles Versari – cello engineering
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Colin Self – artwork
  • Yann Orhan – design
  • Rosie Matheson – photography
  • François Ravard – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
  2. The Bridge of Sighs – Thomas Hood
  3. La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats
  4. Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
  5. To Autumn – John Keats
  6. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  7. The Prelude: Book One Introduction – William Wordsworth
  8. Surprised by Joy – William Wordsworth
  9. To the Moon – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  10. So We’ll Go No More a Roving – Lord Byron
  11. The Lady of Shalott – Alfred Tennyson

Everything But The Girl: Fuse

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On April 21, 2023, “Buzzin’ Fly” and “Virgin” labels released “Fuse”, the eleventh Everything but the Girl studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Riverside Studios” in Bath, and was produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn.

Personnel:

  • Tracey Thorn – lead and backing vocals, arrangements, recording
  • Ben Watt – electric guitar, piano, drums, backing vocals, programming, arrangements, engineer
  • Ewan Pearson – programming
  • Bruno Ellingham – programming, engineer, mixing
  • Miles Showell – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, except where noted.

  1. Mothing Left to Lose
  2. Run a Red Light – lyrics by Ben Watt
  3. Caution to the Wind
  4. When You Mess Up
  5. Time and Time Again
  6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
  7. Lost
  8. Forever
  9. Interior Space
  10. Karaoke

Metallica: 72 Seasons

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On April 14, 2023, “Blackened” label released “72 Seasons”, the eleventh Metallica studio album. It was recorded March 2021 – November 2022, at Metallica’s HQ in San Rafael, California, and was produced by Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

Personnel:

  • James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Kirk Hammett – lead guitar
  • Robert Trujillo – bass, backing vocals
  • Lars Ulrich – drums
  • Greg Fidelman – recording, mixing
  • Sara Lyn Killion – engineer
  • Jim Monti – engineer
  • Jason Gossman – additional engineering, digital editing
  • Kent Matcke – engineer assistant
  • Dan Monti – digital editing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • David Turner – cover art
  • Lee Jeffries – band portrait photography

Track listing:

All tracks by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, except where noted.

  1. 72 Seasons – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett
  2. Shadows Follow
  3. Screaming Suicide – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo
  4. Sleepwalk My Life Away – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Tobert Trujillo
  5. You Must Burn – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Tobert Trujillo
  6. Lux Æterna
  7. Crown of Barbed Wire – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett
  8. Chasing Light – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett
  9. If Darkness Had a Son – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett
  10. Too Far Gone? – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
  11. Room of Mirrors
  12. Inamorata

Mudhoney: Plastic Eternity

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On April 7, 2023, “Sub Pop” label released “Plastic Eternity”, the eleventh Mudhoney studio album. It was recorded in November 2021, at “Crackle & Pop” in Seattle, Washington, and was produced by Johnny Sangster.

Personnel:

  • Mark Arm – vocals, guitar
  • Steve Turner – vocals, guitar
  • Guy Maddison – bass guitar, synthesizer
  • Dan Peters – vocals, drums, percussion, guitar
  • Johnny Sangster – organ, guitar, backing vocals, recording, mixing
  • Bob Weston – mastering
  • Jeff Kleinsmith – art direction, design
  • Nicholas Law – cover illustration
  • Emily Rieman – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mark Arm, Guy Maddison, Dan Peters, and Steve Turner, except where noted.

  1. Souvenir of My Trip
  2. Almost Everything – Mark Arm, Guy Maddison, Dan Peters, Johnny Sangster, Steve Turner
  3. Cascades of Crap
  4. Flush the Fascists
  5. Move Under
  6. Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell
  7. Here Comes the Flood
  8. Human Stock Capital
  9. Tom Herman’s Hermits
  10. One or Two – Mark Arm, Guy Maddison, Dan Peters, Johnny Sangster, Steve Turner
  11. Cry Me an Atmospheric River – Mark Arm, Guy Maddison, Dan Peters, Johnny Sangster, Steve Turner
  12. Plasticity
  13. Little Dogs

Lost Girls: Menneskekollektivet

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On March 26, 2021, “Smalltown Supersound” label released “Menneskekollektivet”, the debut Lost Girls studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Øra Studios” Trondheim, Norway, and was produced by Kyrre Laastad, Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden.

Personnel:

  • Jenny Hval – vocal, guitar
  • Håvard Volden – guitars, various instruments
  • Kyrre Laastad – recording, mixing
  • Mike Grinser – mastering
  • Jacob Grönbech Jensen – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Jenny Hval except where noted, all music by Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden.

  1. Menneskekollektivet
  2. Losing Something – lyrics by Racter (with citation from The Policeman’s Beard)
  3. Carried By Invisible Bodies
  4. Love, Lovers
  5. Real Life



Veronica Swift: This Bitter Earth

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On March 19, 2021, “Mack Avenue” label released “This Bitter Earth”, the fifth Veronica Swift album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Sear Sound” in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Veronica Swift – lead vocals
  • Emmet Cohen – piano
  • Yasushi Nakamura – bass
  • Bryan Carter – drums

Track listing:

  1. This Bitter Earth – Clyde Otis
  2. How Lovely to Be a Woman – lyrics by Lee Adams, music by Charles Strouse
  3. You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers
  4. Getting to Know You – lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers
  5. The Man I Love – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  6. You’re the Dangerous Type – Bob Dorough
  7. Trust In Me – Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
  8. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) – lyrics by Gerry Goffin, music by Carole King
  9. As Long as He Needs Me – Lionel Bart
  10. Everybody Has the Right To Be Wrong – lyric by Sammy Cahn, music by Jimmy Van Heusen
  11. Prisoner of Love – lyrics by Leo Robin, music by Clarence Gaskill, Russ Columbo
  12. The Sports Page – Dave Frishberg
  13. Sing – Amanda Palmer

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You’re Dead

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On March 19, 2021, “Rune Grammofon” label released “Ding Dong. You’re Dead”, the seventh Hedvig Mollestad Trio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Amper Tone Studio” in Bjølsen, Norway, and was produced by Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, Ellen Brekken and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad.

Personnel:

  • Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen – guitar
  • Ellen Brekken – bass
  • Ivar Loe Bjørnstad – drums
  • Bård Ingebrigtsen – recording, mixing
  • Helge Sten – mastering
  • Kim Hiorthøy – design
  • Rune Kristoffersen – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Leo Flash’ Return to The Underworld – Ellen Brekken
  2. All Flights Cancelled – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
  3. Ding Dong. You’re Dead – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
  4. Gimbal – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
  5. Magic Moshroom – Ellen Brekken
  6. The Art of Being Jon Balkovitc – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
  7. Four Candles – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen

Lake Street Dive: Obviously

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On March 12, 2021, “Nonesuch” label released “Obviously”, the seventh Lake Street Dive studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Mike Elizondo.

Personnel:

  • Rachael Price – lead vocals
  • Mike “McDuck” Olson – guitar, mandolin, strings, trumpet
  • Akie Bermiss – vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, backing vocals
  • Bridget Kearney – vocals and backing vocals, bass, synthesizer
  • Michael Calabrese – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Alan Umstead – violin
  • Catherine Umstead – violin
  • Jung-Min Shin – violin
  • Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
  • Bruce Christensen – viola
  • Anthony Lamarchina – cello
  • Kristin Andreassen – backing vocals
  • Lawson White – engineer
  • Zach Stokes – engineer assistant
  • Adam Hawkins – mixing
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering
  • Dewey Saunders – artwork
  • Shervin Lainez – photography
  • Leo Krauss – prints

Track listing:

  1. Hypotheticals – Bridget Kearney
  2. Hush Money – Mike Calabrese, Mike Olson
  3. Same Old News – Akie Bermiss, Mike Olson
  4. Being a Woman – Bridget Kearney
  5. Making Do – Mike Calabrese, Bridget Kearney
  6. Nobody’s Stopping You Now – Bridget Kearney, Rachel Price
  7. Know That I Know – Akie Bermiss, Mike Olson
  8. Lackluster Love – Akie Bermiss, Rachel Price
  9. Anymore – Akie Bermiss
  10. Feels Like the Last Time – Akie Bermiss, Bridget Kearney
  11. Sarah – Akie Bermiss, Mike Calabrese