Steep Canyon Rangers – Morning Shift (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:31 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Country, Alt. Country, Progressive Bluegrass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Steep Canyon Rangers, Asheville, North Carolina’s GRAMMY Award-winning bluegrass outfit, are back with their forthcoming album Morning Shift, produced by Darrell Scott (Robert Plant, Sam Bush, Emmylou Harris). The album marks the band’s first since the departure of lead vocalist and founding member Woody Platt. The Rangers have added acclaimed singer-songwriter Aaron Burdett as an official member of the band, bringing new ideas and harmonies to the sextet’s ever-evolving sound. The album was recorded over a weeklong period at the Inn Bat Cave, a legendary spot that used to be Lynyrd Skynyrd’s old hideout.
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Sparklehorse – Bird Machine (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:48 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph
ANTI- Records is honored to share a never-before-heard album by Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse titled Bird Machine. Originally recorded in 2010 and mixed by Mark Hamilton (who also worked on It’s A Wonderful Life), Mark’s brother Matt notes “great care has been taken to archive and preserve Mark’s music. We are very thankful for Mark and the beauty he brought to this world.”
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Spanish Love Songs – No Joy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:11 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Noise Records
Back with their first original music since since 2020, this is the start of a new era. Each single will be presented with an official music video and full global marketing campaign at the start of a brand-new cycle. The album is produced by Colin Pastore.
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Sons Of Kemet – Burn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:02 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Native Rebel
Includes bonus track “The Junglist” – recorded in the original sessions.
Seldom has a band on the British jazz scene created such a buzz before releasing an album, but through their live shows – and some delightfully unexpected airplay – Sons of Kemet did just that. A super-group of sorts led by clarinettist, saxophonist and composer Shabaka Hutchings with Oren Marshall on tuba and both Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford on drums.
A curiously addictive album that manages to appeal to both heart and mind, there is little to compare it with. Instead, Burn feels like that rare thing, an exciting new sound that somehow worms its way into your brain and won’t let go. Exceptionally assured for a debut album, Burn surely has to become one of the standout releases for 2013.
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Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (1956/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 32:35 minutes | 609 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vinyle Numérique
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 is a jazz album by Sonny Rollins, released in 1956 on Prestige Records. On this album Rollins plays with the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet. The album was the last recording including pianist Richie Powell and Brown, as both died in a car accident three months later.
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Sonic Youth – Live in Brooklyn, Ny. (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:25:07 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Goofin’
The final U.S. show, a triumphant and blistering bookend to the storied career of one of the most influential bands in rock music, featuring a unique and expansive eighty-five minute set list that spans Sonic Youth’s nearly three decade catalog. Mixed from multitrack by longtime live engineer Aaron Mullan and mastered and cut by Carl Saff. On August 12, 2011 Sonic Youth played their final US show on an outdoor stage overlooking the East River at the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn. Fitting that their storied career would bookend with a panoramic view of New York City where it all began 30 years before, having left in their wake one of one of the most powerfully influential careers in rock music. Following incredible sets from Kurt Vile and Wild Flag, the band took the stage. As the sun went down over the city, Sonic Youth ripped through a 17 song set that spanned from deep cuts off their first studio album and highlighting many other albums all the way through to their last, like a band with everything to prove. Or as Brooklyn Vegan’s Andrew Sacher said at the time: “While most bands who are thirty years into their career are either fading away or living off of the nostalgia of their older material, Sonic Youth continue to sound and perform as fresh as ever.”
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Soen – Memorial (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:02 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silver Lining Music
Never ones to take the restrained path, on their sixth studio album Memorial, Soen face down the ills and ways of current society with a crisp, wounded venom that betrays their pain, anger and frustrations. Each guitar carries a greater serrated edge, each melody a richer heart, each lyric a soul and spleen venting definitive proclamation. At the same time, Soen’s unique blend of progression, aggression, and beauty shows more maturity than ever before.
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Slowdive – everything is alive (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:42 minutes | 861 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans
everything is alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995’s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what’s come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for 2023 and beyond. For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here Slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is hopeful.
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Sloppy Heads – Sometimes Just One Second (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:47 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shrimper
Sometimes Just One Second by the Sloppy Heads goes against everything the Sloppy Heads have fought for as a band, which is the radical freedom to ignore the square world and spend their time at their practice space in Brooklyn, New York, slowly writing songs, being heads, refining their hipster jive talk, and accumulating a private sessionography of legendary jams. The gist of the truth is that the Sloppy Heads are three old friends who collaborate as fully as possible, switch instruments, and have a long secret history of which Sometimes Just One Second is the most un-secret manifestation to date.
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Silent Skies – Dormant (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Post Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Napalm Records
An aura of infinity permeates the tracks on the new Silent Skies album DORMANT. A spherical melancholy that seems to expand in all directions at the same time, encloses the listener and carries it with it like a river without an end, without a goal. This is not the first time that singer Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) and the American pianist Vikram Shankar are conjuring together. But after SATELLITES and NECTAR, the two are getting a lot closer to a perfect sound picture. The pieces are cinematic, expansive, nostalgic, automatically make you think about your own life, the decisions you have made and the steps you have taken.
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Sid Sriram – Sidharth (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:35 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Pop, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sid Sriram Music – Do What You Love Records LLC – Def Jam Recordings
Sidharth Sriram (born 19 May 1990) is an Indian Carnatic musician, music producer, playback singer, and songwriter raised in America. He is an R&B songwriter and has been working in the Tamil ,Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi and English music industry. He regularly collaborates with his sister Pallavi Sriram, a Bharatanatyam dancer, and music directors.
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Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner – Roots – Pieces in Folk Style (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:06 minutes | 967 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
The starting point for this album was a concert of Weinberg’s Sonata, in which Shirley Brill was deeply moved by the overwhelming emotional power. Being Jewish herself, she was deeply moved by the rich folkloric klezmer elements that are so intensely expressed in this sonata. This experience sparked her passion for exploring the integration of national feelings into classical music, with a particular focus on Germany and Poland.
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Shania Twain – Come On Over (Diamond Edition / Super Deluxe) (1997/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:39:31 minutes | 3,53 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Nashville
There is no overestimating the historical power and influence of Shania Twain’s Come on Over. You can hear it in the music of Taylor Swift (all the way up through 1989, easily), as well as Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Kelly Clarkson, Maren Morris, latter day The Chicks, even Harry Styles. Its success—40 million copies sold and counting—freed up boundaries (for better or worse) for countless country acts, from Rascal Flatts to Dan + Shay, to be unashamed of going pop. The album’s production, by Twain’s now-ex husband Mutt Lange (who was previously best known for his work with AC/DC and Def Leppard), is an epoch in the country music timeline—much the way Chet Atkins’ Nashville Sound was. While some of those production flourishes sound a bit dated on the three-disc remaster (including domestic and international versions plus a grab bag of collaborations and remixes) of Come on Over, these are still killer songs that would tear it up on country and/or pop radio today. “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” packs an even bigger dose of serotonin. Every aspect—guitar, fiddle, vocals—of “Love Gets Me Every Time” sounds so crisp and clear on both the US version and its international compatriot, famously stripped of the hollering fiddle at the front of the mix. Freshened-up “You’re Still the One” glistens, the pedal steel sharp as ever against the gooey cloud of backing vocals. But want something different? There’s also a fun 1999 live duet with Elton John turning his twang up to 11, as well as several thumping dancefloor remixes and a largely superfluous version from Twain’s 2022 Las Vegas residency, with Coldplay’s Chris Martin on piano. There’s both the spirited and clicky original of “I’m Holdin’ On to Love (To Save My Life)” and a more down-home take with Alison Krauss. The bluegrass queen makes a second appearance on a duet of “From This Moment On,” from the Up! Close and Personal live album, offering a warmer, rounder take on the pristine original with Bryan White. A 1999 Miami concert collab on the song with Backstreet Boys puts everyone’s vocal acrobatics on display. “Honey, I’m Home,” always one of the most countrified tracks on the album, is slick as a whistle, and cowbell positively vibrates on “That Don’t Impress Me Much” (and the line “OK, so you’re Brad Pitt/ That don’t impress me much” still holds up). And while remastering highlights how cheesy Lange’s Eurovision-style production is on “Come On Over,” Twain just sounds terrific. Viva Shania. – Shelly Ridenour
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Shamir – Homo Anxietatem (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:51 minutes | 818 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kill Rock Stars
Shamir’s art is a synthesis of the full spectrum of human emotion; sensual, furious, yearning, joyful and yet tethered together by a very distinct style (similarly to the greats such as Miss Nina Simone, Prince, and Taylor Swift). Shamir’s music is based almost entirely in a hyper-specific, fully autonomous, embodied expression of personhood. On his forthcoming album, Homo Anxietatem, Shamir takes the Latin translation of the title, “anxious man”, and transmutes his anxiety to pop songs. The creation process serves as a balm or elixir, converting internal anxieties to an 11-track sonic playground.
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Seinabo Sey – THE ONE AFTER ME (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:11 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music AB
Seinabo Sey’s The One After Me is out now via Capitol Records, her first album in five years. As she returns with new music, it is as an artist who has found her way back to herself and what drew her to music in the first place: R&B from her teens, the reggae music played in Gambia in the mornings, and the freedom to create on her own terms. “I have been working on this album for almost five years, and I am very pleased with the result. Musically, it has been one of the biggest challenges of my life to put it together, while at the same time, I have learned so much. I have worked with people who have changed my life even more than before,” Sey explains.
“I have love and therapy to thank for feeling freer to experience and explore things, both as a human being and as an artist. I have gone through a lot and rediscovered what music means to me.”
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