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Brent Cobb
Providence Canyon
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| Named after a gully in Georgia that Brent Cobb often visited as a teenager, Providence Canyon is an evocative, electrified album about a life lived on the run, songs about returning home, and songs about getting the hell out of dodge… So ever what you need. Naturally, it was produced by the ubiquitous king of Nashville audio, the Dave Cobb. |
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Family Of The Year
Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime
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| Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime represents a turning point for L.A.-based indie rockers Family of the Year as the last few years have proved to be simultaneously maddening, marvelous, and ultimately majestic. However, the turmoil led to a breakthrough for the band. Reinvigorated and re-inspired, they rebuilt their friendships and finished writing and recording with a new creative clarity that takes their songwriting deeper than ever before. |
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Jennifer Warnes
Another Time, Another Place
BMG |
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| Jennifer Warnes new album, Another Time, Another Place, reunites her with Leonard Cohen’s longtime musical director Roscoe Beck – the same partnership that made her landmark 1987 album Famous Blue Raincoat. Featuring songs by Eddie Vedder, Mark Knopfler, John Legend, Warren Hayes, and more, Warnes voice is as beautiful as ever – and this album another open-hearted masterpiece. |
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Colin Macleod
Bloodlines
BMG |
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| Colin Macleod’s solo debut, Bloodlines, brims with the intensity of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The influences are the same: Wide open spaces, hard labor, and a love for his community. Despite his indie rock past, Bloodlines is folk music, according to producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings Of Leon) – but not as you’ve heard it before. |
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Joan Armatrading
Not Too Far Away
BMG |
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| On her new studio album Not Too Far Away, award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joan Armatrading presents ten new tracks that take the deeply personal and make it universal. It is Joan at her very best: A “Love Album” of charming intensity that gets better on every listen. For fans of Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Ian, Suzanne Vega and Joni Mitchell. |
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
Apart
Capitol |
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| The Apart EP marks the duo of Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's first collaboration since their 2009 album, Break Up. Ushered in by the shimmering lead single "Bad Dreams," the EP features four brand new recordings and a new version of "Tomorrow," a song that originally appeared on Yorn's last album, 2016's Arranging Time. |
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Jean-Michel Blais
Dans Ma Main
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| Dans Ma Main, the sophomore release by pianist and composer Jean-Michel Blais, is an expansive album of post-classical piano with strands of electronic detail. Weaving expressive piano with austere synths, tethering techno, industrial, ambient, and new age music to Blais' solo piano essence, Dans Ma Main is a unique environment where the piano's intimacy can be subtly disrupted at any time. |
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Lykke Li
So Sad So Sexy
RCA Records |
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| Following the release of her new singles, "Deep End" and "Hard Rain" Swedish-born, Los Angeles based vocalist, producer, and songwriter Lykke Li is back with her long-awaited new album, So Sad, So Sexy. So Sad, So Sexy is Lykke Li's fourth full-length album overall, and the follow-up to 2014's critically-acclaimed I Never Learn. |
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Ghost B.C.
Prequelle
Loma Vista |
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| Grammy Award-winning rock band Ghost B.C. return with their highly-anticipated fourth sacred psalm, Prequelle. Where previous efforts have dealt with broad themes like impending doom (Opus Eponymous – 2010), the antichrist and the Inquisition (Infesstimum – 2013), humanism and avarice (Meliora – 2015), Prequelle has a good chuckle over “The Plague,” “The Apocalypse,” and, naturally, “The Dark Ages.” It's a snapshot of the world in which we live in on a daily basis, brought to life through an emotive, enlightening, and riveting body of songs, not to mention a healthy amount of grease paint. In an interesting twist in the Ghost B.C. saga, Cardinal Copia takes over vocal duties here, introduced by the epic lead single "Rats." |
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CHVRCHES
Love Is Dead
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| If there's a theme in Scottish synth pop group Chvrches' world as they release their third record, Love Is Dead, it's willful, determined openness – both ideologically and in terms of actual creative process. For the first time ever, Chvrches opened their proverbial doors to outside influence. Not only did The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart serve as the band's de facto mentor, but Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia) wound up co-producing eight of the record's twelve tracks. "I got to pull out all of the things I don't have a chance to normally use." This conscious move towards openness in the creative process reflects a bigger, deeper existential theme, but the true prize is this a pure distillation of Chvrches' signature pretty gloom. |
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Arctic Monkeys
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Domino |
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| Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is the highly anticipated new album from the lads in Arctic Monkeys. Their first release since 2013's massively successful AM finds the band intent on exploring new musical terrain – and, this time around, that new terrain is The Moon. You read that right: the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is located on the same spot where The Eagle landed – and politicians, Jesus, and a very colorful lounge act are all here and have many a lurid tale to tell. A bold left-turn into fuzzy lounge psychedelia with hilarious lyrics that create an unlikely blend of Pulp and recent efforts by King Gizzard et.al, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is pleasant surprise – “4 stars out of 5!” |
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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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