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Ace Of Cups – Sing Your Dreams CD (High Moon)

“Born from the psychedelic San Francisco music scene of the 1960s, Ace Of Cups is a pioneering rock group of all-female talent. Mixing stories of female empowerment with the angst of everyday life, Ace Of Cups place a new meaning on rock and roll her-story with their newest LP, Sing Your Dreams. Featuring collaborations with Jackson Browne, Bakithi Kumalo (bassist on Paul Simon’s Graceland), Steve Kimock, David Freiberg (Jefferson Starship) and Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), this album packs a lot of music with one swift punch. ‘Dressed In Black’ marks the first track as a blues-rock interlude with sass. Lead guitarist, Mary Ellen Simpson, lays down the blues melodies of a previous era to push the song into this century. Similar in style is ‘Boy, What’ll You Do Then’, which combines the blues harmonica, courtesy of Denise Kaufman, with an upbeat rhythm circa the 1970s.” – Mxdwn [Vinyl edition due November 13.]

Herb Alpert – Herb Alpert Is… 3xCD/5xLP (Herb Alpert Presents)

A legendary trumpet player and co-founder of A&M Records (the most successful independent record company in history), Herb Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five No. 1 hits, nine Grammy Awards, fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and has sold over 72 million records. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling the Beatles two to one. This new collection is the definitive retrospective on the illustrious career of this unique musical voice. Containing 63 tracks culled from six decades of the trumpeter’s classic recordings, Herb Alpert Is… is the perfect companion piece to the new 2020 feature length documentary of the same name. [The 180gm vinyl edition is presented in a coffee table style LP record book containing 180-pages featuring vintage photos, extensive song credits, and a 7,500 word essay written by Bud Scoppa. The record book is housed in a custom slipcase with a screened printed smoked acrylic window.]

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Roger Eno and Brian Eno – Luminous 12” (Verve/Deutsche Grammophon)

The Mixing Colours story continues with the EP Luminous, adding to Roger Eno and Brian Eno’s first duo album on Deutsche Grammophon released last March. Includes “Pewter”, formerly a Japan-only bonus track, as well as six brand new tracks. As with the Mixing Colours album, the artist Dom Theobald has supplied the original cover artwork.

Dianna Krall – This Dream Of You CD/2xLP (Impulse/Verve)

Diana Krall’s new self-produced studio album This Dream Of You consists of sessions that took place in 2016 and 2017, with personally chosen gems from the American Songbook and more. The record features lead-off single “But Beautiful”, Krall’s last collaboration with friend and longtime creative partner Tommy LiPuma who died in 2017 at 80, as well as tracks like “Almost Like Being In Love” and “That’s All”. Krall heads a quartet line-up on some tracks that includes such long-standing collaborators as John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and Anthony Wilson, while other tracks feature a trio format spotlighting Christian McBride and Russell Malone.

Omar Rodriguez-López – The Cloud Hill Tapes Pts. I, II & III 3xLP (Clouds Hill)

During the 2000s Rodríguez-López released an astonishing variety of solo works. On these recordings the artist used pieces that had accumulated over the years. However, what has so far been missing is a release that brings together the pieces from that era. This wait now has come to an end. These recordings of three sessions dating from the years 2018 and 2019 and taken at the Clouds Hill Studio are now being gathered together as a triple-vinyl LP box set. Part I features eight pieces, and Parts II and III six pieces each, which have been entirely newly arranged, produced by Johann Scheerer, and performed by Omar Rodríguez-López and a range of guest musicians.

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Cults – Host CD/LP (Sinderlyn)

Cults’ utterly mesmerizing new album, Host, was written more collaboratively than ever before and recorded primarily with live instruments for the first time. The collection marks the start of a bold new chapter for the band, one fueled by an ever-deepening trust and a boundless appetite for growth and experimentation. The songs here are deceptively charming, with lush, airy arrangements that belie their dark, weighty lyrics, and the production is rich and multifaceted to match, blending retro and futuristic palettes into a spellbinding swirl of high-def indie rock and lo-fi bedroom pop. As its title suggests, Host is an exploration of the sinister dynamics at play in a parasitic relationship, but rather than dwell in the discomfort, the record charts a cathartic journey towards freedom and self-reliance, reveling in the power that comes from standing your ground and declaring independence in the face of exploitation and manipulation.

Various Artists – How The River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces Of Indian Violin, 1933-1952 CD/LP (Third Man)

How The River Ganges Flows is a transcendent collection of Carnatic violin performances captured on 78rpm disc between 1933 and 1952. Most of these sublime recordings have not been heard since they were first etched in shellac decades ago. These melodies are ethereal, transporting, and meditative. The rhythms undulate from despair to ecstasy, often within the same phrase. Remastered from the collection of Christopher King along with a set of deep notes, this music is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.

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L7 – Smell The Magic [Reissue/1990] CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)

This 30th-anniversary edition of the ‘90s underground rock classic Smell The Magic (which originally came out as a six-track 12″/nine-track CD) includes all nine songs from the album, remastered and available together on vinyl for the first time. A multitude of rock music scenes populated the expanse of Los Angeles in 1989: hardcore punk, industrial goth, roots rock, and Sunset Strip hair metal, to name a few. L7 fit into none of them, creating their own unique blend of punk and hard, hooky rock loaded with humor and cultural commentary. Originally released in 1990, Smell The Magic is a landmark of ’90s feminist rock.

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