Field Music - Tones of Town - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. If Only the Moon Were Up 2. Tell Me Keep Me 3. Pieces 4. Luck Is a Fine Thing 5. Shorter Shorter 6. It's Not the Only Way to Feel Happy 7. 17 8. Like When You Meet Someone Else 9. You Can Decide 10. Got to Get the Nerve 11. Got to Write a Letter 12. You're So Pretty 13. You're Not Supposed to 14. Trying to Sit Out 15. I'm Tired 16. You're Not Supposed to [CD-ROM Track]

Some albums are game-changers in a genre. Take OutKast's Speakerboxxx / The Love Below or Primal Scream's Screamadelica, they observe, study, and then flip what an album can mean to a genre or moment in time. From the very first listen of Rubel's Latin Grammy-nominated third album As Palavras, Vol. 1 & 2, you can feel it's transformative force for the MPB genre. Here we see one of Rio's brightest stars, fusing the contemporary with the classic, soaking up the richness of Brazil's musical heritage. The result is a marauding 20-track epic, incorporating traditional styles such as forró, MPB, pagode and samba with modern baile funk, rasteirinha and hip-hop. The album exudes a sense of freedom and creativity, playfully and provocatively juggling the familiar with the forward-thinking. The tracks are divided across two records, navigating feelings of love, heartbreak and discovery, whilst balancing themes of violence, passion, irony and affection. Collaborating with some of the country's most esteemed artists such as Gabriel do Borel, Liniker, Luedji Luna, Tim Bernardes and Ana Caetano, Rubel takes this fusion of styles, subjects and flavours to the global stage. The grand, forró-blending, choral opener, 'Forró Violento (Instrumental)' sets the tone for the album, with references and links between tradition and modernity everywhere to be seen. From the Ana Frango Elétrico produced, funk flexing, samba-soul brilliance of 'Não Vou Reclamar de Deus', to the album's title cut 'As Palavras', in collaboration with Tim Bernardes, that melds MPB influences with electronic elements and hip-hop touches. Across both sides of the album, Rubel's story-telling gift is given space to shine. 'Torto Arado' featuring Liniker and Luedji Luna, beautifully references the racial injustice, tragedy, hope and ambition found in one the most celebrated Brazilian novels of recent times by Itamar Vie

2012 , the fourth album from the British Indie Pop band. Plumb was recorded throughout 2011 at the band's new studio on the banks of the river Wear in Sunderland. Largely abandoning the classic songwriting conventions embraced on 2010's Measure, Peter and David Brewis remodel the modular, fragmented style of their first two albums, only now it's shot through with the surreal abstractions of 20th-century film music from Bernstein to Willy Wonka and the off-beam Funk and pristine Synth Rock developed on the brothers' School of Language and the Week That Was albums. Plumb digs into the age-old dichotomy between what is reflective or nostalgic and the disorienting immediacy of the outside world. Album Tracks 1. Start the Day Right 2. It's Okay to Change 3. Sorry Again, Mate 4. A New Town 5. Choosing Sides 6. A Prelude to Pilgrim Street 7. Guillotine 8. Who'll Pay the Bills? 9. So Long Then 10. Is This the Picture? 11. From Hide and Seek to Heartache 12. How Many More Times? 13. Ce Soir 14. Just Like Everyone Else 15. (I Keep Thinking About) a New Thing