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Lights
Skin&earth Acoustic
FBY
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Skin & Earth Acoustic features acoustic versions of seven tracks taken from Light’s 2017's album, Skin & Earth, plus a trio of new tracks. It also marks a new era for Lights, who produced and mixed by the singer/songwriter/illustrator herself – recording it in settings corresponding to her comic book of the same name. |
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Lizzo Cuz
I Love You (Deluxe)
ATL
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Channeling boundless self-confidence through a downright earth-quaking voice, colorful persona, and undeniable star power, Lizzo steps up with a whole lot of sass, spirit, and soul with Cuz I Love You. Celebrating herself to the fullest, Lizzo speaks her mind, censors nothing, and delivers an enviable level of honesty, passion, and fire. And she plays a mean flute. Missy Elliott guests. |
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Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight'
Various Artists
ATL
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Recorded in 2018 to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the acclaimed Scottish band Frightened Rabbit's seminal album The Midnight Organ Fight, friends - including The National's Aaron Dessner & Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, Katie Harkin & Sarah Silverman, Manchester Orchestra, and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard, among others - contributed their own renditions of every track on the original 2008 release. |
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The Gotobeds
Debt Begins at 30
Sub Pop
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The Gotobeds reenter the fray with their third long-player, Debt Begins at 30. The octane is high, the engine still has knocks and pings and the battery is overcharged. Anthemic skronky post-punk of the highest order shouldn’t be enjoyed alone – so Protomartyr’s Joe Casey, Tracy Wilson of Positive NO!, and Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich are along for the ride. |
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Angie McMahon
Salt
Dualtone
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Angie McMahon is an Australian musician who loves romantic melodies and with songs that ruminate on life, love and takeaway food – shifting between gravelly intimacy and pounding rock. Her wide vocal range and emotional performances have been consistently turning heads and her hotly anticipated debut album Salt finds her drawing inspiration from artists like Bruce Springsteen, Lianne La Havas and Big Thief with captivating results. |
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Dude York
Falling Hardly
Art
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"There are two ways things can fall," says Dude York's Claire England. "They can fall and be ruined, or they can fall gently like a feather and be fine." On Falling, the Seattle trio explores that sentiment through impossibly catchy songs that investigate the ways you can fall in and out of relationships, and sometimes fall back together – all while paying tribute to old-school alternative radio (Shout-out to Third Eye Blind). |
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Kyle Craft
Showboat Honey
Sub Pop
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The universe must giveth. The universe must taketh. Kyle Craft, along with his now solidified backing band, Showboat Honey, knows this all too well – and the contemplative yet restless Showboat Honey reflects that sturm und drang. "This is basically an album centered around bad luck and good fortune hitting at the same time," Craft explains "Then… I find love.” Do you need a record that sounds like Electric Dylan fronting Slade? Yeah, you do. |
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Julia Shapiro
Perfect Version
Sub Pop
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When Julia Shapiro flew home from a cancelled Chastity Belt tour in 2018, everything felt out of control. Returning home to a newly empty apartment, Shapiro – who thought she may be done with music – found it pouring out of her. Shapiro recorded and played all of Perfect Version’s instruments herself – crafting a shimmering collection of songs that long for another life only to find the one she has is pretty special. Perfect Version is aptly-named. |
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Sugar Ray
Little Yachty
BMG
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Straight from the Big Brother house and into the studio, your frosted-tipped saviors of late 90’s alt.cheese (and a few undeniable hits), Sugar Ray, are back with their first album in a decade – Little Yachty – a modern-day yacht rock record. "We were like the yacht rock of the '90s – us [and] Smash Mouth,” says singer Mark McGrath. “So we just decided to make a record our fans wanted to hear.” And they did: “Make it Easy” is another instant classic. |
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DMA's
MTV Unplugged Live
BMG
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MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne) finds Sydney, Australia’s DMA'S stripping their songbook back to basics. Focusing on acoustic guitar, piano, violin and cello, these new arrangements make an immediate statement with "Feels Like 37," which substitutes its rush of spiky melody with a more reflective atmosphere. "Step Up The Morphine," "In The Air" and "Lay Down" resonate in their new form – as does their violin-driven take on the Madonna’s "Beautiful Stranger." |
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Marc Cohn & Blind Boys Of Alabama
Work To Do
BMG
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Critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Marc Cohn and gospel titans Blind Boys of Alabama join forces for the collaborative release, Work to Do. Falling on the heels of more than a year of live collaborative dates. Work to Do is comprised of three studio tracks by Cohn and the Blind Boys, seven intimate live performances, and – because you believe in miracles – a new version of Cohn’s signature jam, “Walking in Memphis”! |
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Mike Love
12 Sides of Summer
BMG
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“12 Sides of Summer was such a fun album to create. I loved bringing a fresh vision to some of my favorite artists’ songs and Beach Boys’ classics, while pairing them with a few of my new original tracks. This is an album for the whole family to listen to as they celebrate the summer season and warmer days in the sun. -- Mike Love |
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Red Gold Green & Blue
Various Artists
Trojan Jamaica
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Completing a circle, the classic American blues songs performed on Red Gold Green & Blue bring out an intriguing tonality in this record's top-notch selection of already flavorful voices, familiar and brand new. This modern anthology throws down a creative challenge: Get today's great Jamaican artists, themselves descendants of captured Africans, and reinterpret African-American blues songs written and sung by artists who are effectively their own long-lost family. The results are, unsurprisingly, transcendent. |
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The Teskey Brothers
Run Home Slow
Glassnote
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Over the 11 wide-ranging tracks on Run Home Slow, The Teskey Brothers more than deliver on the promise of their first record, Half Mile Harvest, with an album that not only pushes their music in new directions but, in the process, solidifies their sound into something truly their own. Produced by Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St Paul & The Broken Bones), it’s modern masterpiece of blue-eyed soul. |
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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Bandana
RCA
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Freddie Gibbs and Madlib first connected on their 2014 universally-acclaimed collaborative album Piñata. Bandana picks up right where Piñata left off, as Madlib chops up vintage samples into a complex soundscape that only a lyricist of Freddie's caliber could match in flow and tenacity. As a pair, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib exude a natural chemistry and craft an alchemical music – pure gold. Guests include Killer Mike, Pusha-T, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) and Black Thought |
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Thom Yorke
Anima
XL
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke follows up his 2018 score to Suspiria with his third full-length solo effort, Anima. Produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, Yorke notes that Anima was inspired by dystopia, anxiety, and reaching a crisis point in our social system. “If you suffer from anxiety it manifests itself in unpredictable ways,” says Yorke. “[For] some people the roots of reality can just get pulled out.” Though the subject matter shouldn’t surprise Radiohead fans, the music will. Fat synths swell around skittering rhythms with unexpected pacing – dynamics that suggest Yorke still had scoring films on the brain. “Dawn Chorus” is simply one of his most beautiful songs. In all, a very enveloping, undulating, and compelling album. |
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NF
The Search
CCMG
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Chart-topping Michigan rapper, singer, and songwriter NF returns with his fourth studio album, The Search. Powerful lead single – and title track – gives fans plenty to unpack as NF lays bare his psyche, shining light on some his darkest corners while mapping out the ambitious quest that lies ahead. By contrast, “Time,” the album’s final cut, indicates that NF’s journey is far from over. The Search follows the independently released Perception (2017), which took the music industry by surprise when fans propelled it to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, Billboard's Top Rap Albums, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Perception’s underdog story was chronicled by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Forbes – and The Search will undoubtedly inspired similar accolades. |
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Spoon
Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon
Matador
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Like Neil Young, Spoon have created an impressive catalog of songs out of deceptively simple bag of tricks. It’s a language of its own – but one that never seems to run out of melodies, hooks, and unexpected blasts of amp magic (Britt Daniel and Jim Eno’s approach to the studio has proven just as important to the development of the Spoon sound). Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon is a compilation of their best-known, best-loved tunes, featuring 12 fan-adored tracks alongside a bold new single, "No Bullets Spent." It’s a crowd-pleasing baker’s dozen – and one that surprises thanks both to what’s there and what isn’t – which, really, has long been the group’s operating principle. Pure Pop Deconstruction at its finest. |
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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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