Genevieve Stokes - Swimming Lessons - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Though Canadian born & bred, Gisele made a big splash in the USA during the 1950s; she became a star on both radio & television, not to mention record; on this 24 track compilation, she's backed by bands like Harry James & Jerry Gray, and she reveals her own pianistic skills on 9 tracks

After a decade of extraordinary success, Jess Glynne is back, with her long-awaited third studio album JESS. Her most personal work to date, this new collection of music adds to Jess' repertoire of over ten billion global streams.

Nearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs and Champagne picks up right where that record, Midnight Features Vol. 2 Made Flesh, left off. With bizarre excursions into pillowy, sentimental made-for-TV music - and children's choirs incanting the blackest dread-filled music the band has conjured to date - Fantasy World is both transcendent and traumatic. Despite sharing two founding members of Grails (multi-instrumentalists Emil Amos and Alex Hall) Fantasy World only peripherally resembles their core group. Lilacs & Champagne have exaggerated their early record's implications and accelerated their mercurial rearranging of music history by deftly incorporating live instrumentation and samples with equal amounts of deference and disregard. Previously existing primarily in a realm adjacent to instrumental hip-hop (J Dilla, Clams Casino, Madlib), Fantasy World exposes Lilacs & Champagne's deeper lineage as playful tape-collage culture jammers in the vein of legendary sound satirists, Negativland and Severed Heads. It embraces the effect of a child entering a dollar store the immediate euphoria felt upon discovering the seemingly endless aisles piled impossibly high with novelty toys, utensils, party decorations, and toiletries eventually gives way to the overwhelming realization that they're actually just a tourist in a perilous mountain of colorful garbage. From those mountains, Lilacs & Champagne mold monuments to curiosity and confusion.