Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening - VINYL LP

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Beaster is the second album by Sugar, the short-lived but brilliant trio featuring former Husker du singer / guitarist Bob Mould. Released in April 1993, and recorded and mixed during the same intense sessions that produced it's 1992 predecessor Copper Blue, this concise 6-song suite entered the UK album charts at no. 3, a remarkable achievement for such a noisy and uncompromising rock record. Although darker in tone than the widescreen power pop of Copper Blue, Beaster contains some of Bob Mould's most powerful songs, from the splenetic frenzies of Tilted and JC Auto, the religious torture chamber imagery of 'Judas Cradle', the transcendent Feeling Better, or the elegiac finale Walking Away.

Limited citrus colored vinyl LP pressing. Sugar was formed in 1992 by Bob Mould (H?sker D?) with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis. Their debut album, Copper Blue, was hailed as one of the best albums of the '90s, blending sharp melodic hooks with raw guitar power. Featuring the hit, InchHelpless,Inch the album is available on citrus color vinyl.

The seven works brought together on Vol. 4 of our complete recording of Kuhnau's cantatas offer a remarkable cross section featuring sacred works - and more. They have also been transmitted in all sorts of different ways. The spectrum ranges from extant autographs and original printed editions leaving no doubt about Kuhnau's authorship to copies from what was clearly a later time or sources from rather peripheral lines of transmission in which the materials themselves as well as the stylistic findings offer reasons for critical skepticism about the ascription of the works to Kuhnau. The most reliable sources as far as authenticity is concerned are those for the two burial songs InchGott hat uns nicht gesetzt zum ZornInch and InchAch, Gott, wie lässt du mich verstarren.Inch These two works are from Kuhnau's early period but nonetheless pieces of great artistic mastery and have to be regarded as model examples of the church style that exercised an absolutely enormous influence on the formation of the church styles of Bach, Handel, and Telemann.