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Annie Lennox, Nostalgia, 2014 on Blue Note

Annie Lennox is of course best well known as one half of the dynamic duo that recorded and performed as Eurythmics, but she’s also made a number of…

Various Artists, Something About Joy Division, 1990 on Vox Pop

Great compilation / tribute to Joy Division on Italian label Vox Pop. Tracklist: The second edition was not a gatefold (which makes sense since the inside of the…

Various Artists, The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake, 2023 on Chrysalis

Tribute album full of covers of Nick Drake songs, by modern artists including: Fontaines D.C., David Gray, John Parish & Aldous Harding, Ben Harper, Joe Henry & Meshell…

The Suburbs, Poets Party, 2021 on Suburbs Music (Self-Released)

Before there was The Tortured Poets Department, there was a Poets Party – the most recent release from reliable Minneapolis art-rock stalwarts The Suburbs. I’ve been a fan…

Jens Lekman, The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom, 2022 on Secretly Canadian

“This is a reconstruction / reimagining / excavation of the album ‘Oh You’re So Silent Jens’ that originally came out in 2005″ Jens Lekman is a very intriguing…

S. Carey, Break Me Open, 2022 on Jagjaguwar

S. Carey (aka Sean Carey) is the drummer and backing vocalist from Bon Iver – he put out a solo album All We Grow back in 2010. Break…

Superchunk, Wild Loneliness, 2022 on Merge

Twelfth studio album from Superchunk on Merge, the label founded by McCaughan and Ballance back in 1989. Superchunk came out of Chapel Hill in the late 80s and…

Shovels & Rope, Busted Jukebox Volume 3, 2021 on Dualtone

The third in a series of cover albums by Shovels & Rope, this one focuses on kids songs or songs in lullaby style, thus the “Juicebox” joke in…

Valerie June, Under Cover, 2022 on Fantasy

Valerie June’s a multi-instrumentalist and singer from Memphis and part of the Broken Strings Collective. She’s known broadly for her unique voice and range across Americana / Blues…

She & Him, Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson, 2022 on Fantasy

I love tribute albums and cover albums, and also both Brian Wilson and She & Him (the duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward), so this was right…

Various Artists, Tommy Boy’s Baddest Beats, 2022 on Tommy Boy

I don’t normally chase special releases put out for Record Store Day, but this was an “RSD First” release in 2022, limited to 3500 copies. Great collection of…

OMD, Universal, 1996 on Virgin / EMI

I always loved Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – the name, with it’s British spelling – and the music. This was their tenth full length album, released in…

Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Toast, 2022 on Reprise

Back in the early part of the new millennium, Neil Young and Crazy Horse recorded a bunch of songs at Toast, a recording studio at 1340 Mission St….

Justin Townes Earle, Single Mothers & Absent Fathers, 2022 on Vagrant Records

Combination of two previously released Justin Townes Earle LPs: 2014’s Single Mothers and 2015’s Absent Fathers, issued as a 2xLP release in celebration of Vagrant’s 25th Anniversary on…

Mose Allison, Live 1978, 2022 on Liberation Hall

Although this was recorded (at the Showboat Lounge in Silver Spring Maryland) in 1978, it was unreleased until 2022 when it was put out as a Record Store…

St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Angels in Science Fiction, 2023 on ATO Records

This is the fifth full length album from Alabama’s St. Paul & The Broken Bones, and their second on ATO. Beautiful packing with a lovely lyrics booklet. It’s…

Koerner Ray & Glover, The Return of Koerner Ray & Glover, 1965 on Elektra

“Spider” John Koerner, Dave “Snaker” Ray, and Tony “Little Sun” Glover were a Minneapolis blues/folk trio who met at the University of Minnesota and played frequently in Dinkytown…

Adele, 21, 2011 on XL Recordings

What can you say about Adele, so popular to be parodied in SNL as the one voice capable of uniting all Americans in adoration? This of course was…

The Waterboys, Modern Blues, 2015 on Harlequin and Clown

Underappreciated album from The Waterboys on the label Mike Scott created from 2015 – I believe this album (in all its formats) was the the label’s only release….

Chet Baker, Deep in a Dream, 2017 on Jazztwin

Places where record collectors hang out online are full of threads about “grey market” European pressings of Jazz from the 50s and early 60s. Many of these take…