Minor Alps - Get There - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On limited Transparent Ruby vinyl LP. We think we know what we want. The digital age has made it easier than ever for us to get it - we can search, skip, and customize to our hearts' content. But something is lost in this exchange - without an external perspective, how can we know what we're missing? Juan Wauters understands this. It's why he's such a big fan of radio - it takes some of the power out of our hands, opening us up to new sounds, new possibilities. This is the effect he sought to reproduce on his fifth album, ?Real Life Situations, ?a multifaceted ode to surrendering control and taking life as it comes. References to radio abound on it's 21 tracks, and with good reason - the album spans genres, narrators, languages, and perspectives with the ease of spinning a rotary knob. Until recently, Wauters had viewed his solo project as just that - a singular expression of his artistic vision. A trip through Latin America while recording his last album, however, laid the groundwork for a different approach. Inviting local musicians to contribute to the songs he was working on produced a collection unlike any of his previous work, infused with the musical traditions of each country he'd visited. As a result, 2018's ?La Onda de Juan Pablo? and it's follow-up, I? ntroducing Juan Pablo,? were Wauters' most expansive and sonically diverse records to date, tracing both his Uruguayan roots and his travellers' spirit. Newly eager to collaborate, he began reaching out to friends, travelling across North America to record with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more. The resulting tracks are united more so by ethos than genre or style Wauters lends his chameleonic songwriting to experiments in hip-hop (InchUnityInch), lo-fi R&B (InchMonsoonInch), and deft indie folk (InchLion DomeInch). After a few of these sessions, an im

CJ Ramone made his name as a member of (arguably) the greatest punk band of all time, and nearly 25 years after that experience, it'd be understandable if he now spent his days resting on his legacy and tsk-tsking the state of punk rock. Instead, The Holy Spell..., CJ's third full-length for Fat Wreck Chords, joyfully celebrates his undiminished love of music. It's right there in the title. InchI never lost that magical feeling that you get from music, and that's where the title came in,Inch he says. InchThe bands that I listened to when I was young that I really enjoyed, I can still put that music on now, and it still has the same magic for me.Inch

The Pink Mountaintops - The Pink Mountaintops [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/20/2004