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Tom Petty
Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)
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| Finding Wildflowers features 16 studio recordings of alternate takes, long cuts and jam versions of Wildflowers songs as Tom, band members and co-producer Rick Rubin worked to finalize the album in 1994. The release offers fans further deep access into the writing and recording of Wildflowers, as well as realizing the full vision of the project as Tom had always intended. |
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girl in red
if i could make it go quiet
World in Red / AWAL |
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| This is an album brimming with the things we wish we could say to others, but tell ourselves instead. The music follows suit, whether it's on "Serotonin," a huge pop anthem that speaks to Ulven's struggles with mental health, or flexing her instrumental chops with album closer "it would feel like this." Betrayal, lust, longing, pulling herself out of a depressive spell -- nothing is off-limits on if i could make it go quiet. |
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Julia Stone
Sixty Summers
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| Shaped profoundly by Stone's key collaborators: Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, and St. Vincent, Sixty Summers finds Stone claiming every part of herself: fire, fury, love, lust, longing. Touching on reference points as disparate as the avant-funk of Talking Heads, the romantic 2am musings of Serge Gainsbourg, and the sleek, ecstatic synth work of Lorde's Melodrama, Sixty Summers is an album you can dance to and one you can lose yourself in completely. |
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Rhiannon Giddens
They're Calling Me Home
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| Exploring the emotions brought up by last year, Giddens and collaborator Francesco Turrisi decamped to Hellfire, a small studio on a working farm outside of Dublin, to record over six days. The result is They're Calling Me Home, a twelve-track album that speaks of the longing for the comfort of home as well as the metaphorical "call home" of death, which has been a tragic reality for so many during the COVID-19 crisis. |
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Julia Michaels
Not In Chronological Order
Republic |
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| Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter Julia Michaels is set to release her highly anticipated full-length debut, Not In Chronological Order. The 10-track album is executive produced by Monsters & Strangerz, with two songs co-written with JP Saxe. Each track takes listeners through a storytelling journey of events in Julia's life and explores themes of being happy and most importantly: love. |
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Tony Joe White
Smoke From the Chimney
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| This posthumous album brings to life previously unknown home recordings of the legendary Louisiana swamp rock pioneer. Starting with the album's genesis as an unforeseen trove of demos to the hands of producer Dan Auerbach and legendary session musicians, Smoke from the Chimney captures White's signature style in its purest form, serving as a living testimony to one of the most gifted lyricists and storytellers music has ever known. |
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Sons of Kemet
Black To The Future
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| Led by celebrated saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Shabaka Hutchings, U.K.-based modern jazz supergroup Sons of Kemet returns with the follow up to 2018's breakout release Your Queen Is A Reptile. This release finds the quartet at their most dynamic – showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and compositions, coupled with fierce, driving material that will be familiar to initiated fans. |
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Nancy Wilson
You and Me
Carry On Music |
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| With her band Heart, Nancy Wilson has recorded 16 albums and sold over 35 million albums worldwide. Within that history-making career, You and Me represents something special, as it is Wilson's very first solo studio album. Like all the legendary music she's created with Heart, You and Me is an emotional, intimate conversation between a musician and an audience. |
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Marianne Faithfull
She Walks In Beauty
BMG |
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| It's one of the most distinctive albums of Marianne Faithfull's extraordinary life and career - a unique album of poetry and music featuring Faithfull, set to the music of Warren Ellis, and featuring Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Ségal. Together with musical friends and family, She Walks in Beauty fulfils Faithfull's long-held ambition to record an album of poetry with music. |
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Tom Jones
Surrounded By Time
BMG |
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| New album from the legendary Welsh vocalist. Co-produced by Ethan Johns and Mark Woodward, Surrounded By Time marks out new territory with a sonic landscape of outstanding musicianship and a vocal delivery that re-imagines a diverse set of songs of personal importance that have impacted the artist throughout a long, unpredictable but undeniably impressive career. |
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Ziggy Alberts
Searching For Freedom
Alberts & Co. Music PTY, LTD |
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| Searching for Freedom is the fifth studio album from the Australian singer-songwriter, free-surfer, and environmentalist Ziggy Alberts. This release follows his acoustic EP Truly Acoustic, ("the perfect blend of relaxing, soulful guitar and wistful lyrics" - Culture Collide), and collaborative EP with Sydney rap duo, Horrorshow, I Won't Give You Up. |
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Manchester Orchestra
The Million Masks of God
Loma Vista |
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| With Masks, the band pushed themselves to break beyond the scope and limits of every previous album, and focused on creating a tightly-woven, cinematic record intended to be an immersive experience, listened to in sequence and in a single sitting. The result is their most powerful and sonically impressive release of their career: an album as epic and ripping sonically as it is conceptually heady, which unfurls into an ever-expanding and lush world of instrumentation. |
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St. Vincent
Daddy's Home
Loma Vista |
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| "It's stories of being down and out in downtown NYC. Last night's heels on the morning train. Glamour that's been up for three days straight," says Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent). "The album was inspired by the classic records of the 70's. Stevie, Sly, Stones, Steely Dan, Chords, Groove. The days when sophisticated harmony and rhythm didn't sound heady - they just sounded and felt good. Lots of guitar. But warm sounds, not distortion and chaos. Hopefully a turn nobody will see coming" |
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The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) is a national level organization comprised of the best independent record stores in America. CIMS was founded in 1995 with the goal of uniting like minded independent store owners, giving them a more powerful voice in the music industry. The stores that make up CIMS are all very different, but we share the same desires – to be the heart of our communities, to super-serve our customers, to support and develop artists, and to share our love of music.
For more information about CIMS and the stores in our organization, please visit cimsmusic.com or find us through social media with the #cimsmusic hashtag. And please remember to always shop local by supporting your neighborhood record store.
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