First out the box this week is Masquerade, the much-anticipated debut album from Cork’s acclaimed Cardinals, at once grand and intimate: a set of emotionally expansive songs with influences from the brittle honesty of folk to the theatrical melodrama of goth-rock.
Charli xcx, whose innovative style and entrepreneurial drive have reshaped pop culture, has now written the score for Emerald Fennel’s highly anticipated film of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights.
We Mean It, Man! blends post-punk textures and aggro with Gogol Bordello’s free-wheeling gypsy-punk over twelve super-punchy and hook-laden songs. This is the album and political message the world needs now.
Live at Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall is a musically ambitious set from the unique musical trio Bill Nelson’s Orchestra Futura: hypnotic looped flutes, fretless bass grooves and experimental electronics, all topped with Nelson’s extraordinary guitar playing.
Grammy Award-winning bassist David Ellefson (Ex-Megadeth) and acclaimed metal vocalist Jeff Scott Soto have once again joined forces as Ellefson–Soto to release Unbreakable: a sonic assault packed with catchy riffs, melodic vocals and thoughtful lyrics.
Our release of the week is The Complete Live at Sin-e, which presents Jeff Buckley’s live performances in a cramped club on the lower east side of Manhattan in the early ’90s armed with only an electric guitar, stunning audiences with his mysterious, emotionally uncompromising playing.
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