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Lake Street Dive: Free Yourself Up

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May 4, 2018, “Nonesuch” label released “Free Yourself Up”, the sixth Lake Street Dive studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Goosehead Palace Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Dan Knobler, Rachel Price, Mike Olson, Akie Bermis, Bridget Kearney and Mike Calabrese.

Personnel:

  • Rachael Price – lead vocals
  • Mike “McDuck” Olson – guitar, trumpet
  • Akie Bermiss – vocals, keyboards
  • Bridget Kearney – vocals, bass
  • Mike Calabrese – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Jamie Dick – additional drums
  • Dan Knobler – engineer
  • Joe Visciano – mixing
  • Randy Merrilln – mastering
  • Ben Tousley – art direction, design
  • Shervin Lainezh – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bridget Kearney, except where noted.

  1. Baby, Don’t Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts
  2. Good Kisser
  3. Shame, Shame, Shame
  4. I Can Change – Bridget Kearney, Rachel Price
  5. Dude – Mike Olson, Bridget Kearney
  6. Red Light Kisses – Michael Calabrese, Mike Olson
  7. Doesn’t Even Matter Now – Michael Calabrese, Mike Olson
  8. You Are Free – Michael Calabrese, Mike Olson
  9. Musta Been Something
  10.  Hang on – Bridget Kearney, Mike Olson

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song

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On March 4, 2022, “Nonesuch” label released “Ghost Song”, the sixth Cécile McLorin Salvant studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “The Bunker Studio”, “St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church” in New York, and was produced by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner and Paul Sikivie. In April 2022, it was chosen as “Album of the Month” for both performance and sonics by “Stereophile”.

Personnel:

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant – vocal, piano, creative director, illustration
  • Marvin Sewell – guitar
  • James Chirillo – banjo
  • Aaron Diehl – piano, organ
  • Sullivan Fortner – vocal, piano
  • Burniss Travis – bass
  • Paul Sikivie – bass, electric bass, synthesizer
  • Kyle Poole – drums
  • Keita Ogawa – percussion
  • Alexa Tarantino – flute
  • Daniel Swenberg – flute, theorbo
  • Iris McLorin Picot – vocal
  • Violette McLorin Picot – vocal
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus – choir
  • Todd Whitelock – recording, mixing, associate producer
  • Patrick Dillett – recording
  • Chris Muth – mastering
  • Ben Tousley – art direction, design
  • Shawn Michael Jones – photography
  • Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
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All tracks by Cécile McLorin Salvant, except where noted.

  1. Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
  2. Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Herbert Stothart
  3. Ghost Song
  4. Obligation
  5. Until – Gordon Sumner
  6. I Lost My Mind
  7. Moon Song
  8. Trail Mix
  9. The World is Mean – Kurt Weil, Berthold Brecht, Marc Blitzstein
  10. Dead Poplar
  11. Thunderclouds
  12. Unquiet Grave – traditional, arranged by Cécile McLorin Salvant

Fleet Foxes: Shore

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On September 22, 2020, “Anti” label released “Shore”, the fourth Fleet Foxes studio album. It was recorded September 2019 – September 2020, at “The Long Pond” in Columbia County, New York, “Studios St. Germain” in Paris, “Vox Recording” in Los Angeles, “The Diamond Mine” in Long Island City, Queens, “Electric Lady Studios” in Greenwich Village, New York, and was produced by Robin Pecknold.

Personnel:

  • Robin Pecknold – vocals, instrumental performance, arrangements
  • Uwade Akhere – vocals
  • Daniel Rossen – acoustic and electric guitar, piano
  • Michael Bloch – classical guitar
  • Marta Sofia Honer – violin, viola
  • The Westerlies
  • Riley Mulherkar – trumpet
  • Chloe Rowlands – trumpet
  • Andy Clausen – trombone
  • Willem de Koch – trombone
  • Joshua Jaeger – drum kit, percussion
  • Christopher Bear – drum kit, percussion
  • Homer Steinweiss – drum kit
  • Meara O’Reilly – vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Tim Bernardes – vocals
  • Kevin Morby – backing vocals
  • Georgiana Leithauser – backing vocals
  • Frederika Leithauser – backing vocals
  • Juliet Butters – backing vocals
  • Faye Butters – backing vocals
  • Beatriz Artola – spoken dialog, engineer, recording, mixing
  • Jon Low – additional engineering
  • Bastien Lozier – additional engineering
  • Michael Harris – additional engineering
  • Chris Cerullo – additional engineering
  • Paul Spring – additional engineering
  • Jens Jungkurth – additional engineering
  • Lauren Marquez – additional engineering
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Ben Tousley – layout, design
  • Robin Pecknold – layout, design
  • Dino Matt – drawings
  • Hiroshi Hamaya – cover photographs
  • Kersti Jan Werdal – gatefold photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Robin Pecknold, except where noted.

  1. Wading in Waist-High Water
  2. Sunblind
  3. Can I Believe You
  4. Jara
  5. Featherweight
  6. A Long Way Past the Past
  7. For a Week or Two
  8. Maestranza
  9. Young Man’s Game
  10. I’m Not My Season
  11. Quiet Air / Gioia
  12. Going-to-the-Sun Road – Robin Oecknold, Tim Bernardes
  13. Thymia
  14. Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman
  15. Shore

Grizzly Bear: Yellow House

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On September 5, 2006, “Warp Records” label released “Yellow House”, the second Grizzly Bear studio album. It was recorded in July 2005, and was produced by Chris Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Christopher Bear– vocals, drums, xylophone, lap steel, glockenspiel
  • Edward Droste– vocals, keyboard, autoharp, guitar
  • Daniel Rossen– vocals, guitars, banjo, piano, autoharp
  • Chris Taylor– clarinet, flute, saxophone, vocals, keyboard, bass, electronics and treatments, recording, mixing
  • Lucas Crane – tapes
  • Owen Pallett- strings, string arrangements
  • John Marshman – strings
  • Chris Coady – mixing
  • Ben Tousley- design
  • Patryce Bak– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Christopher Bear, Edward Droste, Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor, except where noted.

  1. Easier
  2. Lullabye
  3. Knife
  4. Central and Remote
  5. Little Brother – lyrics by Fred Nicolaus
  6. Plans
  7. Marta – co-written by Marta Forbes
  8. On a Neck, On a Spit
  9. Reprise
  10. Colorado

Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up

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On June 16, 2017, “Nonesuch” label released “Crack-Up”, the third Fleet Foxes album. It was recorded July 2016 – January 2017, at “Electric Lady”, “Sear Sound”,  “Rare Book Room”, “The Void” in New York, “The Unknown” in Anacortes, and “Avast Recording Company” in Seattle, and was produced by Robin Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset.

Personnel:

  • Robin Pecknold– vocals, classical guitar, dreadnought, electric guitar, string electric, Fender bass, piano, synthesizer, Baldwin electric harpsichord, prepared autoharp , marimba, Moog Minitaur, Hammond organ, mellotron, train loop, water loop, Korg drum machine, percussion, varispeed, footsteps, door, Memory Man Deluxe
  • Casey Wescott – piano, chromatic bells, qraqebs, kettledrum, programming, koto, harpsichord , Blue Noise synth, SuperColliderbirdsong
  • Morgan Henderson– cello, qraqebs, double bass, pitched bass clarinet, pitched flute, pitched clarinet , alto flute
  • Skyler Skjelset – vocals, electric guitar, Fender bass, piano, synthesizer, pencil on paper, cicada loop, glass harmonica, bowed cymbal, shamisen, percussion, programming, fole, Korg drum machine, amplifier noise, footsteps, Moog Minitaur, water harp
  • Christian Wargo– vocals, bass, drum kit
  • Hannah Epperson – violin
  • Matthew Barrick, Christopher Icasiano, Neal Morgan– drum kit, percussion
  • Brian McPherson – spoken word
  • The Westerlies – horns
  • Zubin Hensler, Riley Mulherkar – trumpet
  • Andy Clausen – arrangement, trombone
  • Willem de Koch – trombone
  • Russel Durham – first violin
  • Jeremy Kittel – second violin
  • Nicholas Cords – viola
  • Dave Eggar– cello
  • Chris Allen, Grant Valentine, Owen Mulholland, Gabe Wax, Casey Wescott, Adam Burd, Gosha Usov, Beatriz Artola – engineer
  • Gabriel Gall – arrangements
  • Phil Ek– mixing
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Ben Tousley, Robin Pecknold – design, layout
  • Shawn Brackbill – band portrait
  • Sean Pecknold, Adi Goodrich – paintings
  • Hiroshi Hamaya– front and back cover, interior photos

Track listing:

All tracks by Robin Pecknold, except where noted.

  1. I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar – Gabriel Gall
  2. Cassius
  3. – Naiads, Cassadies
  4. Kept Woman
  5. Third of May / Ōdaigahara
  6. If You Need to, Keep Time on Me
  7. Mearcstapa
  8. On Another Ocean (January / June)
  9. Fool’s Errand
  10. I Should See Memphis – Gabriel Gall
  11. Crack-Up