Lou Barlow & Friends - Another Collection of Home Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Courtney Marie Andrews has long been celebrated as an artist who challenges herself, and who finds new interplays of Folk and Americana.. Also a vivid poet and accomplished painter, she brings a multidisciplinary richness to her work that shines throughout her 9th studio album, Valentine. Valentine is Andrews's most sonically explorative record - she plays flute, high strung guitars, myriad synths, and draws heavy inspiration from her art outside of music. Co-produced with Jerry Bernhardt and recorded almost entirely to tape, the album features complete in-studio performances that prize raw performance rather than perfection. Andrews's voice is gorgeous and acrobatic always, but on Valentine it finds a new depth, an assertiveness that brings new dimension to it's biggest anthems and it's softest moments.

Self-titled debut solo album from francophone singer-songwriter Philippe B.

In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record EMOH, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr.. and reissued three of Sebadoh's classic albums. But as the brilliant new GOODNIGHT UNKNOWN illustrates, he's hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr.. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on EMOH's full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs that Lou describes as, Incha cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh to my ears, anyway.Inch